the question here in d.c. is with the house up for grabs who will lead the democratic resistance on the federal level like we saw in 2017. likely to start sooner rather than later. >> bill: i think you are right about that. nice to see you in d.c. mark meredith. >> dana: before we go, fox is partnering with u.s. vets for a program called make camo your cause and you can donate at go.fox/u.s. vets and by t-shirts and a portion of the proceeds will go to you as vets. >> bill: they are doing it in the nfl. the coaches are wearing cool gear. >> dana: think tim walz will buy some? >> likely. they had the camo hat. it didn't work. >> bill: great to be with you. >> dana: harris faulkner will take you through the next hour. here she is. >> harris: fox news alert.

the trump white house is taking shape at this hour. he chose susie wiles to serve as his white house chief of staff and become the first woman in u.s. history to hold that role. she worked as trump's 2016 florida campaign director and senior advisor for this time around in 2024. she first worked for president reagan's 1980 campaign and also played a role in getting rick scott and ron desantis each elected governor for the state of florida. team trump is in the process of putting together the rest of his administration. as you know, the chief of staff goes first and is so important, pivotal in choosing everybody else in terms of staff and all of that. with that piece in place, he is now looking at some prominent names including lawmakers and past trump cabinet members being floated to fill out his cabinet. so some democrats are spending

their time and energy on something different and it is all about fear. >> we have to have a to do list of what we'll do to protect this country and not let donald trump turn the lights out on democracy. >> so we have to anticipate the worst. he could also significantly erode our democracy here at home in ways that could last for generations. so i worry that he will appoint people who are willing to do his worst bidding and willing to enforce his worst instincts. even worse than what we saw in the first presidency. >> harris: you didn't do that in his first term. i don't know what the fake fear is about. they are spewing it. president biden shifted his tone yesterday after years of harsh anti-trump rhetoric. >> i direct my entire administration to work with his team to insure a peaceful and orderly transition. that's what the american people deserve. we'll be okay but we need to

stay engaged. we need to keep going. and above all, we need to keep the faith. >> harris: senior white house correspondent jackui heinrich has more. jackui. >> i think we all know someone in our lives either at our work or online who was disappointed in the election results and they were scared because they listened to what the administration and democrats had been saying about the prospect of another trump presidency. and they believed them. so yesterday i gave karine jean-pierre the press secretary a chance to explain what the president meant when he said we'll be okay. this was her answer. >> this administration message to millions of americans that they will wake up day after the election if trump won and have their rights whipped away. democracy would crumble and the president said today we'll be okay. >> you are twisting everything around.

it is unfair. i've been standing here trying to be very respectful to what happened the last two nights -- two nights ago. being respectful. >> we weren't twisting her words around. here they are. >> you've heard from the former president himself saying he will be a dictator on day one. to be praising adolph hitler is dangerous and disgusting. that type of language is hateful, disgusting, inappropriate and has no place in our country. the president has always been very clear-eyed about this. about the threat of the former president represents to our democracy. when this president decided to run in 2019 and also in 2020 he was very clear he was very clear what he was seeing, right? seeing our democracy was under attack. >> the press secretary couldn't quays parse the difference

between what we had been hearing for so many months of this campaign and what the president said yesterday. some harris staffers are now able to do that themselves. here is what axios writes. the message didn't resonate with some harris staffers. detached from the reality of what happened. we're told the fate of democracy is at stake and then the message was we'll get them next time. and here is one harris surrogate who was a member of the democratic national finance committee, a major player in shaping this election. even she is starting to say that people if her party need to get used to acknowledging that that rhetoric was a problem. >> it was a defeat, catastrophe. it wasn't a squeaker or margin of error race. she resoundingly lost and we have to be introspective and realize we can't just call americans racist and bigots and say it's the reason why kamala harris lost. there were other reasons we can go into. you can't just vilify an entire

country. that's not conducive to a productive conversation and you will keep losing if you alienate the voters. >> the only reason we got in the briefing for potential cause of democrats' sweeping losses was the pandemic. press secretary said it had an impact on incumbent parties all over the world. >> harris: thank you. the voices of the voters not heard or being ignored by democrats, some of them. they already have been plotting to push back against a trump presidency. the "new york post" cover says blue ho with nancy pelosi looking like she is crying. >> people have often said i'm a happy warrior, to anyone who intends to come take away the freedom and opportunity and dignity of illinoisians i would remind you that a happy warrior is still a warrior. you come for my people, you come

through me. >> despite what has happened on the national stage, we'll continue to stand tall in the face of injustice, revenge, or retribution. that is my sworn duty and responsibility to lead that fight. >> harris: can you imagine being a criminal in her district and having any sort of conservative politics known about you? she just put out a threat for anybody she wants to go after trump. i wonder if she would go after his supporters. a fair question. a lot of them in new york. california governor gavin new some called for a special session to trump-proof the state. he said california is ready to fight. we refuse to turn back the clock and allow our values and laws to be attacked. senator rubio struggles to make sense of that reaction. >> first of all, resistance to what? resistance to what the american people just voted for?

in the history of the republic no candidate for president has been clear he what they will do in the most simple language possible. secure the border, bring down prices for energy and other things in america and make us strong in the world so that we don't have a war. he has been very clear about this. no one has been more explicit. people voted for that overwhelmingly. >> harris: tammy bruce, fox news contributor is here. look, so there is anger, there is finger pointing, none of it is in the mirror, however. i'm wondering how bad is this going to get before it gets better? i have optimism it will get better. >> this is why the sweeping victory was important. you had to realize for a moment and younger people realizing maybe we're the ones out of step. maybe we're the problem. or as when i got out of the left it was a realization i had been lied to. when i first got on talk radio i had been lied to about the nature of conservatism, of

christians, what was happening in america and that's what helped me make the shift. if they are lying to me about that what else were they lying to me about? this is one of those moments. so many people realize that even with all this rhetoric. in the new york city area donald trump went ahead in every place gaining 94,000 more votes than he did in 2020 and kamala harris this is the real story, has received 573,000 over half a million fewer votes than joe biden in just the five areas of new york city. a wholesale rejection of all of their rhetoric of what they were saying. of the hate and violence and what james was saying. lady justice is supposed to have a blindfold on for a very good reason. you are not supposed to apply bias or hatred or partisanship to people that you are looking at regarding crimes. and she certainly does not want to let go.

i don't know what she is afraid of but she seems to be afraid of something. >> harris: they got to subvert the people's choice and replace biden with kamala harris. you could tell and see the jubilant is his step and talked about reaching out to trump and peaceful transfer. it is the subversion of people's . they want to do it again and again and again and this time they were caught. >> now hopefully this time -- imagine they were in the majority. that everyone else was a nazi or semi fascist and imagined it was a small group. now they can't deny. we've heard that in some of the clips that that in fact was wrong. this is a movement through every state, every county, ranging from london breed, the mayor of san francisco losing to a woman put in jail because she refused to close down her salon in

dallas during covid won a texas house seat. this is everywhere. it is beautiful. >> harris: you had a good point. they knew. let me get to this. former obama top advisor david axelrod for these worries for his party. >> i do have concerns about the way the democratic party has -- relates to working class voters in this country. i think biden has done some good things for working people but the party itself has increasingly become a smarty pants, suburban, college educated party and it lends itself to the kind of backlash that we've seen. >> harris: that's interesting. and he started calling it early on, david axelrod, of what could be down the pike. >> we didn't hear anything that blunt and everyone saw this happening. it didn't just happen this year. this has been going on for a decade. we've seen this. they say we've been held hostage by the far left.

so they have no free will. it's an astounding -- i think they believed they could bully themselves out of it. nobody likes a bully because bullies threaten you, pressure you, try to destroy your life. it wasn't just with trump. it happened to all of us. the daily threats. the inflation, the calling us names. this was while the trumps went through the most this was as everyone is wondering why do i feel so much lighter and just feel exhausted? because we've been under attack for a decade and americans finally said enough is enough. >> harris: 12 of the last 16 years in the white house have been democrat. i hear what you are saying. the transfer of wealth, though, the only gap that kamala harris gained voters in were those who made more than $1 hundred thousand a year. that's fascinating. they have become the party of the elite. david axelrod was talking about the disconnect with the american

people. they couldn't subvert the people's choice this time. >> it was too much and too wide. >> harris: thank you. it has been a big week. glad you were here. president-elect trump's victory could mean the end of his legal ca cases. republicans inching toward control of both the house, they already control the u.s. senate by majority. is that coming? >> if you look at president trump's performance in carrying senate candidates over the line there is no modern day candidate of either party who turns out voters more effectively than president trump. we feel very optimistic we'll pick up seats. >> harris: control of the u.s. house still hangs in the balance with some key races too close to be called. we're watching it. every hour or so we learn of another one being called. jason chaffetz is in "focus" next to break it down. if you're a veteran wife, homeowner,

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>> harris: every hour we see numbers changing here but here is the makeup right now for u.s. control of the house. remember, republicans had it going into this election season. donald trump wins president elect. it helped some people. republicans are still in the lead. they flipped six seats. democrats have flipped four. two republican challengers in pennsylvania defeated democrat incumbents. so far the gop again six seats they flipped for a net gain of two. democrats again flipped four. they each had to do the same job. republicans are running faster because of the counts and they are running ahead.

we're still waiting for 25 house races to be called. so we can't look at this and say this is going to happen for republicans or it will be overtaken by democrats. we don't know. the voters know. several there with republican incumbents are still too close to call. you are looking at the races pending right now. watch this. >> there is a path for democrats to be in a very thin majority and if we're not in a thin majority it will be a thin majority for republicans. we know how that works. we were just in that. we would much rather be in a position where the house can fence in the worst instincts of donald trump through our oversight and accountability measures by being in the majority. we'll wait and see on it. >> harris: jason chaffetz, fox news contributor, former republican congressman of utah in "focus" with me now. jason, your first reaction to the 25 that are still have not been decided yet, too close to

call. >> shame on the states that take forever to count these votes. above and beyond that, a lot of the republican numbers, if not most of the republican numbers continue to get better. they get better because donald trump was at the top of the ticket. donald trump has these coattails that just really helped these house races and so many of the people voted on the day of the election. those numbers are much higher for donald trump than kamala harris. so you have races like in arizona, one who was behind but now is up and ahead. he represents scottsdale, arizona. so you have races like that where it keeps getting better and better for the republicans. >> harris: when you look at the difference that you pointed out, the big thinking was -- you heard the word cannibalized votes for donald trump. that people would vote early for donald trump but that there

wouldn't be enough of them left on election day to help him win. well, that wasn't even close to being right. >> that was totally wrong. you had a lot of people who decided day of donald trump just kept getting stronger and stronger, kamala harris got weaker and weaker. i love the graphic i saw that showed that kamala harris not even in one county, not one county in the united states of america did she out perform joe biden. that is playing itself out now in the house races. >> harris: voters around the nation rejected democrats' woke ideology as an example. some schools didn't get that memo. they were going to ignore the people's choice. there are reports that high schools and universities across the nation have canceled classes and provided safe spaces for students. the goal is to help them, a quote, recover from the presidential election. this prompted a wave of criticism that these schools

aren't preparing students for the real world. georgetown university invited students to a self-care suite on wednesday to recover from the stress of the 2024 presidential election. some harvard professors canceled classes because some students were sad over the election's outcome. some also encouraged students to process in the aftermath of the election. adjusting course requirements so they could do so. look, jason, this is why a lot of their bills are down at some of the most elite colleges. the balance sheets are about to be out of whack. parents are thinking look, my kid doesn't think like that. my kid is not as liberal as these schools. why would i spend all my cash putting them there? people are making decisions on this kind of behavior these schools are displaying today. >> it is so embarrassing. campus reform did good research there. a foxnews.com story about this. bringing in therapy goats. offering kids to assembly legos to distract them from the

grieving they had to go through. grow up. you are an adult. your life will be better under donald trump, not worse. if you are crying and grieving and you just can't handle it, take a deep breath. the united states of america is the greatest country on the face of the planet and the overwhelming majority of people voted for donald trump. maybe you are on the wrong side of the issue and maybe you should show optimism that this country will figure things out. we were on the wrong track and now we're get back on the right track. a glory glorious day. not having to get a goat and play legos. >> harris: the seriousness, you have to be resilient and we're seeing it modeled for kids on these college and university campuses and high schools where resilience is not the roll call of the day. the rally cry is be weak and let

us make you weaker by sewing the seeds of weakness already in you. your last word. >> you have a generation where everybody got a trophy and you know what? kids didn't learn how to win and to lose. and when you have that kind of attitude and that coddling bringing up, suddenly go to college and you can't cope. come on, parents, get a grip, grow up. teach people to be adults and deal with adversity if that's what they think adversity is. >> harris: a lot of wisdom from you on this fine friday after the election, jason chaffetz. always good to see you, thank you. >> harris: the white house says the president will not -- could president elect trump be hunter's best hope. trey gowdy next. plus the manslaughter trial of marine veteran daniel penny continues. >> in a nutshell, justification is the defense.

it is very simple in that sense. did daniel penny go too far? >> harris: jurors are back after a dramatic testimony about what happened inside that new york city subway car last year. a report from the courthouse when we come back.

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>> harris: it is day 12 in the manslaughter trial of marine veteran danny penny. jurors heard emotional testimony and watched dramatic video of the struggle inside the subway car last year. prosecutors claim penny's recklessness caused the death of a homeless man jordan neely. the defense attorney says they have a different argument in all of this and that he was protecting people. they have witnesses. daniel penny faces up to 19 years in prison if convicted. retired nypd inspector and attorney paul mauro with this. >> one of the things that's at

play here is the state of mind of the people in that car. that's crucial here because in a nutshell here is what's going on. justification is the defense. it is simple in that sense. did daniel penny go too far? was he justified in doing what he did? were his actions commensurate with the threat that was posed by neely? all right? that's a tough balancing act to establish. >> harris: cb cotton is outside the courthouse. cb. >> hi, jurors just heard testimony from a woman who said she used her stroller to shield her 5-year-old son as jordan neely made threats on the subway and said neely never lunged at her but felt relieved when penny stepped in. the testimony comes on the heels of penny's defense team asking the judge to declare a mistrial yesterday taking issue with witness testimony from a

formerly homeless man who said when he saw penny release neely from the choke hold he was worried. jurors were shown this photo as he described neely's body as limp. he said he tried to check on penny by pouring water on -- check on neely by pouring water on his head but he says he was told to stop by penny. he compared the marine veteran to an abuser, penny's defense team telling the judge between this testimony and prosecutors' opening statements no way for his client to get a fair trial. the judge denied the motion and the judge reminded the courtroom to try and hide their emotions following one woman's testimony yesterday where she said in part quote, in that moment when mr. penny took him down i did feel a sense of relief that the threat was under control and the situation was still not under control. we heard this dramatic 911 call.

>> there is a guy on the day saying he was going to go to jail and harming people and now holding him down. >> obviously as you can see some of this witness testimony appears that could help daniel penny's case. other witness testimony could hurt him during the deliberation process. prosecutors argue with penny's military training and background he should have known the choke hold could have hurt or killed neely whereas penny's defense team said their client had no time to de-escalate the situation and acted to protect others. a lot more to watch here at the courthouse. back to you. >> harris: great reporting. thank you. >> it is also up for being sentenced next month. does the president have any intention of pardoning his son? >> we've been asked that question multiple time. our answers stands, which is no.

>> is a commutation still on the table? >> no, we're not -- that's not what we're going to do. >> harris: the white house insists president biden will not pardon his son, hunter, or commute his sentence. the first son faces sentences next month on federal gun and tax convictions. those felony gun convictions make prison time a reality. a real possibility. if his father will not pardon hunter before he leaves office, maybe the president-elect would? >> will you pardon hunter biden? >> i wouldn't take it off the books. despite what they've done to me and went after me so viciously. >> harris: mixed reviews on that idea. piers morgan says president trump should pardon hunter biden setting the right tone to bring a divided america back to

together again. ron johnson said no way. >> i don't think he should pardon hunter. we need to be careful about having a dual system of justice where the powerful or the sons and daughters of the powerful get off scot-free. i can see possibly commuting the sentence, reducing it. it wouldn't surprise me if president trump would do that. >> harris: trey gowdy, host of sunday night in america and former congressman. i want to start right there with what the senator was talking about in terms of you are sending the wrong message if the off spring of a really powerful man, his dad the current president, gets a break from the next president. >> i have a lot of respect for senator johnson but i was a state and federal prosecutor. i never would have brought this case. you're right. the sons and daughters of famous people should not be treated better. they also should not be treated worse. i have yet to talk to a federal

prosecutor that would have brought this gun charge. we would have put him in drug court. we would have put him in a diversion program but we would not have prosecuted. there are so many convicted felons out there committing violent acts with guns that are prohibited persons. we would not have taken this drug case. >> harris: what about the tax charges? and the conviction there? that is something where he took taxpayer money and n certain places because he didn't pay millions of dollars that he owed to the i.r.s. what message does it send with president-elect trump addresses that with a commutation or pardon of that? >> well, those are two very different things. a pardon wipes it clean like it never happened. a commutation. think about it. despite what donald trump has been through, people that know him know he actually is a compassionate person. what did he say about hillary clinton after he beat her in 2016? she has been through enough. joe biden through a whole lot more than she ever went to.

he lost his family in a car wreck, lost a son to cancer. you want him to spend the last years of his life going to visit his remaining child in federal prison? is that what you want? commute the sentence. leave the consequences in place. he is a convicted felon. never have another gun. what is prison going to do for a non-violent -- prison is for violent offenders to me not non-violent offenders. >> harris: the two cases are different. the gun and tax charges. the president elect has a big choice to make. trump's victory likely means the end of his legal battles for himself and a win for many of the critics who said it was all democratic lawfare. in the georgia election case, the state court of appeals is considering whether to

disqualify fulton county district attorney fani willis, remember her and her ex-boyfriend, extramarital affair for him nathan wade and that fiasco and drama and trying the case against trump? yeah. a judge already eliminated some charges from the indictment. one headline fani willis rico case has bleak future after trump election. trump may not be sentenced for his 34 criminal convictions also. merchan will rule on presidential immunity by tuesday. chief legal correspondent shannon bream was with me yesterday. >> those federal cases are likely to go away. but new york has these very powerful cases against president trump that they may want to milk those for all they're worth. you and i covered that trial in new york with judge merchan. he did not decide in favor of the trump team on almost

anything. it is possible he decides to move ahead with the sentencing. that could come before january 20th. they may want to press as much as they can before january. >> harris: trey, i had forgotten how much they had thrown at him until just this moment. i hadn't been focused on that in the last ten days or so. when you look at a stack like that and onto that the attorney general of new york who said just this week she plans to go after him. she campaigned on trying to get trump, what do you make of all of it? >> keep talking. keep doing it. that's exactly why you got hammered on tuesday night. keep doing that. keep using our justice system as a political weapon and he may -- who knows? they may amend the constitution and let him serve a third term. we may get a super majority in house and senate in the coast ali let liberals continue their thought process when it comes to our justice system.

the georgia case really ought to be a lifetime channel movie. there is so much drama there. there is almost no legal substance. new york i was in the courtroom with shannon, juan merchan didn't give a single jump ball to donald trump. he isn't stupid enough to sentence him to a prison sentence. i think he will let it go. move on and get past this notion of using the state or federal justice systems to go after your political enemies. >> harris: if they did make a movie out of that thing with georgia with fani willis and nathan wade they would have to put a caution sticker on it warning for substance. could be tough to watch. >> it would be nc17 and you know i wouldn't go see it. >> harris: i live with a 17-year-old. constitutional law attorney writes trump's victory will stop

democrats from packing the u.s. supreme court and he believes trump could have the chance to choose two more justices if clarence thomas or samuel alito were to require. some democrats are calling for justice sotomayor to step down. that could give biden time to nominate a liberal justice before leaving office. here is turley. >> that would be remarkably stupid decision in my view. it is really disgraceful to see the left turning on her as they did previously with justice breyer. but what happens if you miss the mark? that's what's the problem with these short sellers is that they make these demands. what happens if you don't get it? then you have a vacant seat on the supreme court and trump could have three nominees. >> harris: "politico" lays out democrats' agony over the issue. two months from now, republicans will be in control of the u.s.

senate and as soon as donald trump is sworn in they will be revving up the old conveyor belt of conservative judicial nominees tilting the courts further in their favor for decades. for democrats this is a hair on fire moment. your reaction. >> there is nothing they can do about it. they lost the senate. they've been begging these -- sonia sotomayor by judicial standards is not old. clarence thomas, samuel alito, i would not be surprised if they allowed him to fill the slot. what you don't want is a david souter who can't remember who put him on the bench. you don't want other federal judges who republicans put on the bench but have amnesia. so i think trump will get two but i don't think they will get -- sonia sotomayor has a job for life and she knows that. i don't think she is going anywhere. they can't get it done before the inauguration. they don't have the time to vet and nominate and confirm a supreme court justice.

so it is wishful thinking. >> harris: trey gowdy, great to have you break it down for us. the harris and biden camps are trading blame for the vice president's devastating election loss and the white house is under pressure now to answer for any role joe biden may have played to her demise. >> does the president feel any responsibility for the outcome? >> does the president have any regrets? does he have any regrets? >> if you can or want to address the criticism that's being directed at him for this loss. >> harris: look, a lot of people say it is time to stop blaming and figure out what led so many voters to ditch democrats. will they do that? will they do that necessary introspection? power panel next. car payments are getting out of control. get a newday 100 va cash out loan at lower mortgage rates to pay off those high rate car loans.

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>> harris: oh, the game over -- one campaign staffer said joe biden is the reason kamala harris and democrats lost tonight, tuesday. obama campaign manager david plouffe posted we dug out of a deep hole but not enough. devastating loss. reports he shut down his x account. former democratic presidential

candidate andrew yang, the biggest onus of this loss is on president biden. white house press secretary karine jean-pierre faced tough questions. >> president biden believes that he made the right decision when he decided to step aside and immediately endorsed the vice president and you saw the party support her and he believed it was the right thing for the american people. he put himself aside. >> does he have any regrets? >> the president understands he will respect the will of the people. he believes he made the right decision when he stepped aside, decided he wasn't going to run. we can't -- we can't rewrite history. >> harris: 50 years president biden was there for democrats, on their side, ran into his 80s and then all this. biden officials are hitting back. one aide says there is no singular reason why we lost.

a big reason is because the obama advisors publicly encouraged democratic infighting to push joe biden out. didn't want kamala harris as the nominee. oh boy, get your tea and some popcorn. power panel now, cassie smutly, vice president of coin and former rnc deputy communications director and brad howard, president of the corcoran street group. i want to go to you first on what it looks like behind the scenes now. you are tied in. losing with grace is an option. >> i think the vice president certainly lost with grace. the speech was an incredible speech and reminded folks that even though she is conceding this fight, she conceded, the appropriate thing to do we won't concede the fight. i think the fight is for our vision for america that we believe. >> harris: we don't need her talking points brad but i would love an answer to the question.

she took the high road is what you are saying. they didn't follow her. what's going on inside your party? >> i agree. a lot of soul searching and everyone looking to blame. now is the time to figure out what went wrong. it is not voters' responsibility to come to us but our responsibility to go to them. voters don't like where we are and where we're going. we have to fix that. no singular problem while we lost. when you lose every demographic possible that's a major problem. not tweak around the edges or blame one president or the nominee or the liberals or conservatives. it is just across the board problem and we have to fix it. >> harris: it looks like in some cases in your party blaming the voters is on the table and as you pointed out don't blame them. interview them. axios says it requires honest self-reflection and party insiders tell us entire new leadership. peggy noonan with an op-ed. triumph for trump's republicans.

that party needs an intellectual autopsy, audit of its belief. a harris campaign finance committee member reiterated that yesterday. >> there will be a lot of soul searching. i hope we can do an honest assessment and not criticize the people who have ideas and solutions who you to move forward. if we don't acknowledge the right ward turn of america we'll keep losing. >> harris: cassie. >> what brad said, that sound bite you played there is the right prescription for what democrats should be doing. any party when you lose. i've been on the losing side of election nights as well. where did the voters disagree with our message? that is what needs to be happening on the democrat side. instead the finger pointing or just frankly saying the person, the person should have won it. that is where they're getting it wrong. the american people as brad said. any demographic in the country shifted towards republicans and

donald trump but down the ballot republicans on tuesday night because there was a fundamental disagreement with the message democrats have been putting forth for years now. the policies that have been coming out of this white house and democrats controlled congresss and needed to be a reckoning against that and that's what the american people delivered. the democrats if they want to win again would be wise to take note of that and not point fingers at people. >> harris: i talk to voters all the time and i make it my business to know their business. what works and what doesn't in their lives. i have to tell you there were a lot of relieved democrats and republicans and independents who i have been talking with this week because they can now talk about their politics openly. to see one side still want to punish voters is really a tough spot to be in. i'm hoping that the left will take brad's lead on this. former democratic national committee chair howard dean offered this advice. >> the problem is we haven't

done a damn thing since 2008 about getting out into the grassroots. i always call washington middle school on steroids. they work hard and smart and all about them all the time. >> harris: brad. >> first of all you do a fantastic job of tapping into what voters are concerned about. that's the reason i love coming on your show. again, this is not one problem. not a grassroots problem. not a messaging problem. not a -- it is just we have a massive problem here and i suspect a large part of this our party is dominated. i'm from rural arkansas. first person in any family to go to college. when you have people that are very well off situations trying to tell blue collar voters what they need to fix their lives is a problem. >> harris: donald trump has reached american dreams and he can reach those people. the left needs to take a note. always great to have you. thank you for your kind words about the show, brad.

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