on top of the hilltop 205 fighting off the chinese arm, wounded in action, telling everyone to get off the hill, leave me here, and calling in fire, and thankfully his rangers disobeyed the honor and carried him off the hill. >> right now, i tell you, we need heroes. not necessarily doing that, but small things you can do. we need people, it's about us, not about me. >> we just showed the image there of president biden delivering the award. i was there for the white house there for that, barely a dry eye in the house. the important book, american heroes on sale now. thank you both very much. that's it for this hour. we will be back here tomorrow to kick off a brand new week of morning joe. until then, enjoy the rest of your weekend. of your weekend.

good morning. it is sunday, november 10th. i'm iowa pleasey menendez with symone sanders-townsend and michael steele. how matt ryan defended a tough swing seat in new york, plus, senate democrats set their sights on the judiciary, the fight to confirm as many democrats as possible before the republicans take over. settle in, and welcome to the weekend. nd welcome t o the weekend. >> well, it's official, four years after donald trump lost arizona and then tried to nullify the results, he has now won the state. last night nbc news projected trump will win the 11 electoral

votes, and as for the senate seat, the close is too close to call. pennsylvania is also too close to call. look at the numbers. we do know that republicans will control the chamber that is the u.s. senate. then there's still 19 uncalled races for the united states house of representatives. the republicans just need to win 6 of 19 seats to secure the majority. joining us now is amanda litman the cofounder and executive director of run for something. >> good morning to you. how are we looking at this part of the campaign resolving itself in terms of the house seats that are still out, the senate take over by republicans, and now the administration starting to take shape with trump getting his

chief of staff in place, susie wild, and the other pieces coming together. the point being, it's quiet out there. it's not a bumpy, noisy thing, but underlying that is an interesting and outside of the box policies coming from the administration once they get up and running. >> i think it does feel very eerie, kind of spooky sunday morning here. i am really excited to see how some of the house races shake out. the bigger conversation of how trump won the popular vote this which is surprising, it's why he didn't have the coat tails needed in the rightward swing we are seeing across the country. the republican party, we will see how the votes get counted, likely to have the smallest house majority in 100 years, ars. the fact there were trump's voters in michigan and baldwin

voters in wisconsin, and rosen voters in nevada, that's going to force us, among many things to evaluate what is going on here and what comes next for the party. >> the evaluation piece of it, amanda, and also the work you do, recruiting, supporting candidates down ballot, and always understanding the races were going to be absolutely critical. i think a lot of the action we will see in the next few years will come from the state legislatures. i mean state legislatures controlled by republicans and going to lurch to the right, and democrats will see themselves as the final line of defense against what is happening federally. elizabeth warren, senator warren writing in time magazine something that sounded like it could have come from you. whether it's stepping to run for office or supporting a neighbor's campaign or taking action, we all have to continue to make investments in our democracy, including in states that are passed over as too red. the political position we are in is not permanent, and we have the power to make change

if we fight for it. how does this complicate, amanda, or improve, your efforts to recruit down ballot. >> support city councils, school boards, state legislators. since election day this week, 2,000 people have raised their signs to say i want to get in and fight. part of that is seeing trump, and part of that is seeing we did win in down ballot in key places. flipping state seats in north carolina, breaking the gop super majority there, and also flipped in kentucky and iowa. red states, but we were able to make some end roads. i am deeply sad, but also incredibly hopeful that there are folks who see it as a moment to step up and run in red states and blue states where we really need to give

good governance. >> chuck todd said to me once any state with be competitive if people do the work. i believe that. i'm from nebraska. a lot of talk this year about dan osbourne the independent candidate in nebraska who didn't beat deb fisher, but gave her a run for her money. i think it breaks down the barriers so nebraska could be a competitive place with senate race tony vargas challenged bacon. lost in a narrow margin. 2.4 percentage points. the last time on the ballot, vargas lost by 2.6 percentage points. i believe that investment matters. have you been getting like an infusion of just energetic investment, amanda? it always seems to me after a presidential election where the focus has been the top of the

ticket and congress, sometimes people do tend to -- there's fatigue with how the process shakes out, and folks say what else can we do? how else can we support? they look to down ballot organizations like yours. i know you have seen people raise their hands to be candidates, but what about support for the candidates in terms of the moneys? >> well, we will see. it's so early. people are so tired, and i do think that you point to something really important here, run for something has been around for eight years. one of the biggest arguments i have had with the major democratic donors on the left and across the left, why are you working in all 50 states. we should only focus on the presidential battlegrounds. i remember this vividly someone saying, i don't care about the white nationalists running the state of idaho, and i said i think idaho cares if white nationalists are running the state of idaho, and we should state every state like a

battleground state. eventually as you just said, eventually if we do that, they will become battleground states. it's true in red and blue. we saw what happened in new york. if new york democrats had focused more on new york over the last four or five or ten years, maybe this wouldn't be the outcome we have seen. >> amanda, i agree with you 1,000% on that. one of the important aspects of campaigning is from the bottom up, not top down. that's where your energy is, and that's where a lot of the definitions for the campaign come from, and speaking of which, run for something is as a brand and an idea, an important one. the other side of that, what are you running for? so, you have got to connect that to voters, and in this election, the voters were clearly saying that the democrats didn't connect to them on one fundamental issue, the economy. there were other issues, abortion, and cultural issues for sure, but the economy

seemed to play more of a thread than most people realized. for the candidates looking to get n how do you make those connections so that, like you said, you're running in new york, you're running in nebraska, in maryland, and that you are making the case for your race, relative to the issues that those voters won? >> i think it's something that local candidates have a simpler task for. they are talking about things concrete like housing, primarily a localized issue, and talking about the economy and cost of living, housing is what they is cue for, along with childcare, groceries and gas. especially with the younger voters, especially younger voters of color and broadly working class voters who are maybe disproportionately renters, this is something that local governments can have a lot to do on. it's been the common thread for eight years now, housing.

>> i want to read you something from axios from leaders jeffries. nearly every democratic leader is getting swept up in the blame game, but hakeem jeffries is evading backlash. it gives jeffries a chance to emerge as a simple opposition figure in the trump administration. we talk about party leadership, and i wonder how much you have seen that coming from the folks like jeffries, and how much coming from folks outside of the party apparatus? >> i think it's going to be a combination of the two. i hope jeffries has a strong backbone against the president, and i'm also looking to state legislators, and people like mallory in michigan and donna in florida, and the harris county executive down in texas. megan hunt has been one of the leaders in the state senate in nebraska and others who are affiliated with the party, sometimes fighting the party, and along with, i think, hopefully, a new class of

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americans voted overwhelmingly in favor of abortion rights last week, voting to protect the procedure in seven of ten states where it was on the ballot. many of the same voters also supported donald trump, the man who repeatedly bragged about his role in overturning roe v. wade. with republicans on the verge of complete control of

washington, trump's presidency threatens to upend the rights americans voted to protect. can someone say national ban? joining us, reproductive freedom of all president. amanda litman is back with us. welcome, minnie. >> minnie, what did you think of the results of the election when it comes to -- [ laughter ] >> i'm like, sloane? ? >> that's what i'm saying. folks, just so you know, it wasn't just me. >> minnie is like what are y'all doing? >> it was really like the election? symone, that's a lotted question. i have so many feels about them all. i don't have time for therapy this morning, but i will come back. look, abortion won. clearly and unequivocally, but there was a disconnect for voters between voting for the

ballot measures and the issue, rachel sweet on yesterday, and she's brilliant. when voters went in to vote, they were able to talk about the need. they were able to identify the need to protect their own rights. they were not able to connect that to the candidate at the top. i will argue down ballot, particularly tight senate races, it was a winning issue for them and some of the supreme court races, and some of the legislatures and races that amanda works on. for kamala harris to beat donald trump, we knew all along we had to pin it on trump and did not succeed in doing that. i think they did a very good job, even though we mocked them a lot for lack of discipline, they were disciplined on abortion and states' rights. i don't think we did a good enough job, but we tried in breaking it down for the

average voters. you're condemning people to die was our message. we didn't get through. we didn't breakthrough. our job for the next couple of months for the movement, dig in to what the disconnect was. the issue is not going away, and women are still dying. >> one followup. i do think that's important. i think often times for people who don't do electoral politics work who are just spectators in it, right? but not like -- this is what you do. like 24 hours, 365, 24/7. there's a tendency to say, oh my gosh, these people, people didn't vote for it, and they don't understand. i just really feel like it's maybe because i come from doing campaigns, and i think it's very important to ask people why. >> yeah. >> if you do not get an understanding of why people voted the way that they did, like when we were sitting here yesterday having the conversation with young men, we were like why? like what do they mean?

what are they saying? we have to understand why because that's meeting the voter where they are in order to move them to where you would like them to be. if you don't understand why, you can't communicate. >> we have the data showing where the gaps are. you're right, we don't entirely know why. what we were saying didn't land, but we don't know if quite frankly the data indicates abortion was top three issues, but in some cases, especially places like arizona where they voted for the ballot measure and ruben, but for trump, there were issues that was more important, the president, at that level, were priority. the border, the economy, and we know the exit polls in some of the races, but we don't know why that gap exists. a lot of tough conversations in

many states, examining why it's working in some places and not others. >> minnie, that's the post mortum thing of this? talk to me about that work. >> it's started. thank you for asking, alicia. we are campaigning with our friends across the progressive movement to support rapid usual confirmations, and we have to do everything we can with the remaining days of this administration with the narrow senate majority we have, and we are already building up our grass roots advocacy efforts. it's going to mean civil disobedience, but it will mean ramping up the resistance. we had an opportunity with republican and independent voters, maybe not as much with the legislators. we got a lot of folks to cross over to support abortion rights, and we had a lot of

members of congress run and say i'm against a national ban. >> uh-uh. >> now we can't let up. we have to continue to invest in voter education. >> right. >> and citizen action, including independents and soft conservatives with us on this issue, and we can't let the members of congress who ran and said i support birth control. i support ivf. i'm against the national ban. we have to hold them accountable. we are investing in grass roots advocacy. the old school tactics, we will flood the phones, do town hall meetings, and it's like -- >> retail politics. >> that's right. >> that's the retail side of it. i think that's where republicans had a very clear advantage because they utilized, amanda, a lot of spaces that democrats didn't take advantage of, one was the digital space for sure.

the communication, i want to call your attention to the op- ed in the new york times by jill filipovic who says there are women who may want to secure abortion rights for themselves and or men for their daughters, but will vote for trump to crack down on immigrants. he has courted bar stool conservatives, men who may not be religion or antiabortion, but seem to enjoy trump's sexism and vulgarity. it's that space where you have two things that coexist, someone who is down with the sexism and the vulgarity, at the same time, next to someone who would be supportive of women's reproductive health, but the guy who is also a little sexist and vulgar, yeah, he can be brought along in the

conversation as well. how do you begin to crack the various codes that seem to have emerged in the election cycle regarding voters who are now -- i guess a little more complex, and maybe because of what is on this little device here, that positions them to be everything, everywhere, all at once on all issues. >> i think to minnie's point, we have a lot of research to do. it's worth keeping in mind, the voters who showed up in 2020 and 2024, the denominator is not the same. it's worth asking ourselves, where are and why didn't the folks who voted against trump in 2020 come out? they changed their minds? they weren't excited about the top of the ticket? was it what is going on internationally? whatever the reason is, i think we have a lot of learning to do, and, i think the democratic party, as a network, of activists and elected officials

and party institutions like mine and minnie's have to think about what does it mean to be a democrat in this moment? how are we showing off in places we haven't historically? what kind of messengers are we putting in front of the voters? >> minnie and amanda, we thank you both for being with us this morning. up next, the former head of heritage action for america joins the table to talk about what trump's economy could look like right here on "the weekend." right here on "the weekend." to kee an and healthy. in the morning, he flies up the stairs and hops up on my bed. in the past, he would not have been able to do any of those things. ♪ ♪ have you always had trouble with your weight? same. discover the power of wegovy®. with wegovy®, i lost 35 pounds. and some lost over 46 pounds. and i'm keeping the weight off. i'm reducing my risk. wegovy® is the only weight-management medicine

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their top priority, facing the same economic pressures from the biden administration. joining us the chair of the american compass, a conservative think tank focused on the economy and the former chief of staff to marco rubio. >> we are going to talk about the economy, but do you think marco rubio will join the administration? are you going to with him? are you going back? >> i have no idea. that's a conversation for president trump and marco to have. i have not talked to marco. i'm sure president trump will make a great choice. >> all right. pivot and go. >> very pivot and go. welcome, glad to have you at the table. one of the things that your group has been focused on, american compass, is the economy, and sort of developing policy around that in the think tank space. out of the box, an important pivot for a lot of voters, as we were talking before, the voters aligned to vote for

reproductive health in their states on the ballot initiatives and then voting for trump on the economy. given all of that, and given what we have seen from biden's agenda, what should trump do differently to address inflation now 2.1% not 9.1 as it once was, gas prices, the cost of eggs, the things that voters said are so upsidedown for them. what is trump going to do to bring down the grocery prices and make housing costs, another big issue for a lot of americans cheaper? >> i think what you're actually seeing, an administration coming in and recognizing since the end of the cold war, we have had a failed economic consensus in the country. we bought into the idea that the only identity people have is the consumer. they are members of a community, workers, and their job matters. post war consensus has been

globalization is a complete good. we can ship jobs overseas, and as long as we get the cheap stuff back, people will be thriving. completely uncontrolled mass migration into the country is a good thing, with no regards to what it does to the social services in our communities and no regard to what it does for the wages of the american workers or the cohesion of the community. the only education that matters, four year education. going to college and sitting at a desk as opposed to the trades and apprenticeship, and that's what we have to question and roll back. donald trump had a realignment election. you can see the rich, the people who went to college, people over $100,000 voted for kamala harris. people under $30,000 in annual income voted for kamala harris. the middle class and the people most harmed by the failed economic policy consensus voted for donald trump. you will have a policy agenda fighting. >> a quick followup, but what does that look like? donald trump was not specific

about -- >> specific on a lot of things. he said he love tariffs. >> that will bring the grocery prices down? >> they may help you get a job that can help you afford those things. going back to 1984 -- >> imposing the tax on consumer goods will help me how? >> giving american producers the opportunity to have jobs to give american workers the jobs that allow it. 1984, the average worker could afford in 40 weeks of work out of 52, the basics of raising a household. it's 62 in the same 52 works. the american worker cannot afford -- >> how much time does that take? >> 62 weeks. >> no, i'm saying how much time to do that? that's going to take time for that to work through the system. >> of course. i think you saw a lot of progress in the first term with tariffs, so successful, biden expanded some of those. i think you will see trump come

in and use the tariff ageneral the most beautiful word in the language, maybe an overseat. >> go ahead. >> i guess, one i will note they think in the conversation about working class, it's so interesting because there's a number of surveys, goldman sachs doing one during the election, and asked black women, like middle managers, upper level managers, and they all felt they were living paycheck to paycheck, and since the election, i have been talking to people and asking people who are is working class? if you ask most -- a lot of people, many people view themselves as working class, but i feel like when we talk about it, we are not taking like additional people of color, like black people into account on that. when we go to the economy, i guess the thing about the tariffs, interesting. many of the things you said, i used to work in the biden administration, the first year, and it makes me think about the jobs that have been created in the four years when biden has been president. the number of manufacturing jobs coming back to the

country, and some of these, many of the effects will not be felt until next year when now president-elect trump then president trump will be in office. how is what you're saying much different from the specific things the biden administration has done? they had a focus on the trades. that's one of the things the president felt, too much focus on the four-year colleges and not enough of additional jobs like electricians and plumbers, and you can make great money. you are always going to need an electrician. how is what you're saying different from large pieces of what joe biden has done? >> i think the biden administration got a lot of that stuff caught up in to unrelated cultural issues. the chips act, something they think was successful broadly, is an idea that senator corden introduced many years before biden was president. that's good industrial policy. we can't afford to lose the industry to china. when implemented they ran around torturing companies saying if you don't have on-

site childcare at your semiconductor manufacturing -- >> i didn't know it was a cultural issue. i think people need to have somewhere to take their children while at work. >> it has nothing to do with the industrial policy around semiconductors. the biden administration inserting that was a draw back. we need industrial policy. i'm glad the chips act was introduced. we need to find a way for middle class americans, the backbone of the industrial strength of the country, and make sure they have opportunities to succeed in a global marketplace that right now is being dominated by an adversary china. >> you talked about mass migration, and i want to talk about the president's mass deportation plan. i came art the human toll, and i understand not everyone does. i think there's a lot of folks worried about what it will mean for the economy. both in terms of the price tag,

what it is going to cost. you have heard president trump say that there is no price tag on mass deportation, but also the cost of the labor that would be lost. i have read your paper and how you talk about the desire to make a job that americans don't want to do a job that americans do want to do by increasing the wages. a lot of your answer comes down to automating some of the jobs. for the jobs that cannot be automated in dairy, meat packing, construction, ag, how are you going to explain to american workers, how do you take the additional cost? is that the profits are cut into by industry or do you pass that additional cost on to the consumer? >> well, many of the industries are very profitable, and if there's a cut into some of the profits in favor of american workers being able to have a wage that supports a family, i would support that. i would challenge the premise

of the question, the jobs in ag that can't be automated in the state of florida, we have strawberry and cherry tomatoes, allegedly things that machines can not pick. over the last four years, nearly 10 million people have flood the country, the idea it's a status quo that has to be lived with and president trump is not correct to say we should not have let the people come n it's too many people for our country to be able to absorb too quickly. the highest level of foreign- born people in the united states in the history of the country, but asking them to leave is not allowed is kind of silly. it's not a one-way ratchet when democrats are in control, people flood our country, and republicans in control, we sit on our hands. many came in through temporary protected status. i don't think it's cruel to enforce the temporary part of the protected status. >> i would like to shift from the economy. you worked for marco rubio and

the senator's very well known position on ukraine. and what is happening there, i would like to play very quickly for you some sound from donald trump talking about settling the ukrainian war. >> would you give ukraine weapons and funding? >> i would sit down -- let me just put it a nicer way. if i'm president, i will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. >> how would you settle the war in one day? >> i will meet with putin. i will meet with zelenskyy. they both have weaknesses and strengths, and within 24 hours, the war will be settled and over. >> do you want ukraine -- >> okay. i will set aside the idea that it's going to be settled in 24 hours, but there's a lot of republicans in the house and senate who are not aligned with

the president on ukraine. how do you see narratively and geo politically navigating the republicans like marco rubio on the record strongly supporting ukraine in the face of the reality, that you know, trump has much more of an alignment with putin than u.s. senators. >> that's a ridiculous way to frame the issue. >> why? >> president trump has more alignment with putin? >> yes, i think he says that because donald trump said some of the things putin has said about letting russia keep some of ukraine, so that's why he said that. >> the number one challenge that the united states faces, the world faces right now, the country of china a cancer on the world system. everybody going back to the obama administration said pivot to asia. the trump administration, the biden administration says we

need to pivot to asia. right now the war in ukraine is a gigantic use of resources and weapons. we are running low on weapons that are critical to be able to actively deter china from going across the taiwan strait. we need to find a way to end the war in ukraine. president trump is correct about that. it will be negotiated settlement. >> you will give donbas and the territories -- >> do you think ukraine should retake the crimea? >> since it was taken from them, yes. >> we should be supporting the ukrainians? >> we should be supporting an ally. >> until they retake the crimea? even if it keeps us distracted from china? >> mike, mike. >> we can't. that's what the -- >> that's not washington. >> we can walk and chew gum at the same time. >> they say we are out of time. >> i think real things are happening in ukraine and russia as we speak right now. 50,000 troops, russia has amassed 50,000 troops without having to take troops out of

ukraine. these are north korean troops now training to take back parts of russia that ukraine has captured because they made end roads into the region. you say should ukraine be able to take back crimea? i guess to bring it home for the american people, if mexico said we want texas back. texas is america. if the government took parts of texas, would you react to one of our allies saying you need to keep it? >> we do not live in the 1990s. if america doesn't choose, if america doesn't prioritize, a dangerous world will end up with the united states -- >> you would let mexico keep part of texas? >> we could handle mexico. >> texas, watch out.

>> mike is going to let the ground go. >> let the ground go in pursuit of china. mike needham, thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. >> later, we will look at the trump agenda on the hill with swalwell and ryan. you're watching the weekend. r. you're watching the weekend. have you ever considered getting a walk-in tub? well, look no further. proudly made in tennessee, a safe step walk-in tub is the best in it's class. the ultra-low easy step helps keep you safe from having to climb over those high walled tubs, allowing you to age gracefully

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swalwell so, i think somebody should make a phone call to texas. >> as someone who spends thousands of dollars of my income a year on childcare, i would like to understand -- >> it's a cultural issue. >> my childcare allows me to come to work as one of the two income providers in my household, so to me it's an economic issue and it's a failed state as we know that needs serious reform, especially for americans who go to those very working class

jobs that he was referencing, in an economy -- you need two folks to go to work. you don't have the luxury of someone staying home. that's not the reality of most americans. >> i thought -- there were many clarifying moments. folks are like why are you having the conversation? because the trump administration -- donald trump is the president-elect. people need to understand what the plans actually are and the kind of people that will go in to the government or be or have influence within the government. i think mike needham will have influence. he aligns with old kanye, not the new j.d. vance. a lot of his ideology and thinking. the idea that childcare is a cultural issue, and the chips act implementation was problematic because businesses should not have childcare, that's telling. >> and strawberries will be picked by a machine.

>> i think that to the bigger point -- please, michael. please. >> i think what we need to get our heads reoriented to really quickly, there is a new conversation that is going to emerge. it's important that we have it at the table like this so people understand exactly what the thinking is as the policies start to get rolled out. when we dissect them, we have a better understanding of the mind set behind them. if you think childcare and those things are problematic cultural, you have an understanding of why the policy looks the way it looks. >> i guess, i know we have to go, but childcare is not a cultural issue. >> but that's the thinking. you need to understand that's the thinking on that side of the table. >> did somebody ask any women that disproportionately bear the burden of childcare? >> understand. i'm just saying we all need to understand now with think tanks and other support mechanisms

around an idealology and idea of policy, it's best for us to understand what the thinking is so you can have the conversation. coming up next, and we will have it here. i'm glad that mike came to be with us. up next, congressman-elect figures on his newly drawn district. our handle is @theweekend. di strict. our handle is @theweekend. ou'rer you may be at risk for developing geographic atrophy, or ga. ga can be unpredictable—and progress rapidly—leading to irreversible vision loss. now there's something you can do to... ♪ ( slow. it. down.) ♪ ♪ ( get it goin' slower.)♪ ask your doctor about izervay. ♪ (i. zer. vay.) ♪ ♪ ( gets ga goin' slower.) ♪ izervay is an eye injection.

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let's turn to alabama where democrats celebrated a rare bright spot on election night. shomari figures winning the new district flipping the seat blue. last year the supreme court ruled the congressional map likely discriminated against black voters, mandating it be redrawn. figures will be the first black person to represent alabama's second congressional district since 1832. congressman-elect figures joining us now. >> congressman-elect, good to see you. when had you when you were just shomari figures, and now a fancy title to go with it. what did you do that worked and connected with voters? and the broader landscape, what lessons do you think there are to learn from alabama? >> good morning. good to be here again and good

to see you guys. i'm still just shomari figures, by the way. i -- look, we kept the race local, focused on things that matter in the community here that make up the second district, and we think that resinated. health care, childcare is unique in terms of its more than just about health insurance here, and expansion as part of it. we had a handful of hospitals close since we have been in the race. we don't have pediatricians in half of the district, and we have a health care crisis here in the district. we kept the race focused on that and local issues and not playing in to national, more national issues. >> you know, i was really struck by -- and forbes wrote about the diverse crypto- friendly candidates who won. key races across the nation,

candidates stomping on the block chain technology and digital assets, and you were one of the folks along with other democratic members of congress, and other candidates, i believe 13 others who penned a letter to the democratic national committee asking folks to take the forward-looking approach, and how did that play itself out in real life? what are the real life implications of the policy you're talking about for alabama's second congressional district? >> look, i think it's about leveraging innovation in general. here in alabama, look, we often lag behind in technological aspects. we just got amtrak back for the first time in two decades. we consistently find ourselves behind the curve. we can't even have conversations about the next it ration of technological advancement. we can't talk about high-speed rails, we just got regular passenger rail back here.

we have a lot of issues throughout the community where technological innovation could help. one of them being health care. one of them being broadband expansion. many rural areas. the majority of the district, 11 out of 13 counties, rural counties, and we need to leverage the future technologies that make us a hub to create jobs across this district and create opportunities across the district, and i think being a younger generation, certainly helped that, and also, it gives us the insight into how technology can actually benefit the leveraging of technology, benefited to -- or used for the benefit of people throughout the district. >> congressman-elect, we just had mike needham from american compass, who is the head of the think tank, the economic think tank shaping the economic policy or helping to shape the policy of the trump administration as it comes in

the door. given the state of where we are right now, in the house, with such a thin margin and line that could be republican, democrat, either way, it's going to be a very narrow majority for whichever party has control. from your experience, and i like the way you started the conversation about talking to the local. you made your campaign about the local issues, the issues that resinated, and a big part i suspect was the economic side of that equation. we had a spirited conversation around childcare, for example, as a form of public policy, and if that's a cultural issue or if it's part of the economic policy for future job creating opportunities. how do you see making the case from the house position, in a trump -- a new trump era for economic empowerment and

opportunity that we heard from the vice president in her campaign? >> look, i think it starts with -- one of the benefits of keeping up with the local issues, it gives you the ability, and i think the necessity of focusing on local culture, history, knowledge, and understanding what happens in your communities. the fact is the economy in alabama has been tough on too many people for far too long. this is not new. the district we represent includes 7 of 15 of the poorest counties in the state or in the united states of america. economic opportunity or lack of focus on developing them, that ship has long sailed, and so, we have, you know, we were fortunate enough to live in, you know, in this district now, where, you know that sort of national piece about the economy, and i won't say we were fortunate enough to live in, unfortunate to live in the district where that national conversation about the economy

and creating economic opportunities, look, it's been here a long time ago. people felt they have been left out of the conversation for far too long. that's what we have -- you know, that's part of the message, creating the opportunities, and the workforce development programs, and creating partnerships with the two-year institutions and high schools and looking at getting trades back into the high school curriculum to have people to go in to the workforce. workers in alabama have the fourth lowest income in america. unfortunately under the leadership of the state over the last two decades, that's something that has not happened. >> all right, congressman-elect shomari figures, i like the sound of that. stand up and shout good news, we have two more hours of the weekend coming up.

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