he was not a democratic party insider. hillary clinton had the inside track to the nomination. t what he was able to do, like reverend jackson, was to expand the electorate, to bring new energy into the party, and to encourage young people to vote. he mobilized people that we had never witnessed in the american political process. but like reverend jackson, he was a game changer, and the rules that we transformed under jesse jackson's leadership enabled not just barack obama to succeed but also hillary clinton because we made proportional representation. we have equal division between men and women, and we ensure that every state that hold caucuses or primary that they're open to new people and that people, like bernie sanders, can come in and find their seats at the table. >> moving forward, i think some of the things that are most instructive about your tenure in 2016 in the democratic national committee's leadership structure, for that brief tenure, is what we've learned about it and how the democratic party and frankly the country is gonna move forward into 2020 with the less

there's a strong mood in the democratic party that, just as in 2016, the democratic party nominated athat the party should look for diversity in its presidential nominee next time around. is it really likely in the current democratic party that a white man such as yourself is going to get the nomination? >> well, i think that's part of what the primary campaign is going to examine, and we're going to go to each state and make our case. certainly, i've been a believer in the power of diversity long before i got into public life. you know, i never ran for student council or, you know, class president when i was a kid. i ran for mayor of denver 16 years ago was the first time, and yet since that time i've tried to always make sure that we had more african-americans, more latinos, more women in positions of power. is that -- >> you seem to be saying we want to promote diversity, but a lot of people are saying it shouldn't matter what the color of your skin or what your program is. which one are you saying? >> i'm saying that diversity matters, but your program matters maybe more. how you

he was ripping the south, the basis of the democratic party apart. kennedy and johnson were the center of the party. bobby kennedy had moved dramatically to the left and with gene mccarthy, george mcgovern, that wing of the party, and all three were going to be represented in chicago. >> very quickly, wasn't governor sp spiro agnew a rockefeller supporter -- >> he brought in reporters and said he was for rockefeller and got the governors for rockefeller and the citizens for rockefeller. headed it up and announced it for three weeks and calls in reporters when rockefeller is going to announce and have a major role in it. when rockefeller never called and went out and said i'm not running, agnew was left with egg all over his face. as someone wrote, we caught him on the first hop. nixon was right on the phone. come on up, governor, and talk to us. and he came up. you will get to it, i'm sure. he was regarded and ran against mahoney in '66. your home is your castle. he was basically a democrat who opposed open housing. agnew supported it, so agnew was se

>> he has missed his window in the democratic party. they have moved theologically. one thing he did when he was mayor that will come back to haunt him is for immigrants, he charged their sponsors if they went on benefits. that's legal. >> absolutely. >> that's like the public charge. >> i agreed to all that. >> that's the sort of thing that, to me, it seems perfectly reasonable. i'm not sure that the mainstream of the democratic party now would be in favor of things like that. >> so he would have to explain some of his identity politics? >> to the woke aspect of the democratic party. >> how woke is he on the ocasio cortez scandal?

party. labor didn't like him. southern democrats couldn't stand him. there was a lot -- there were serious, serious fault lines in the party. nothing like that today. you do see this debate between the bernie sanders wing of the party and establishment wing of the party and it's not -- they're not, i don't want to paper them over. there are some serious differences, but nothing on the scale of what we saw in '68. i think the differences then were sort of fundamental and there was a big wing of the party. i think mccarthy supported anti-war activists who viewed the democratic party and johnson as illegitimate in general. when the general election began, had anti-war activists that regularly picketed and interrupted hubert humphrey's speeches, refused to support him because of his views on the war in vaietnam. back last year, in 2016, i should say. people always ask me, is this like '68? it's nothing like '68. as divisive as the politics have become in our country, it could barely hold a candle to what we were seeing in '68 as far as the divisions that we

but that will be the face of the democratic party. h: when we talk about threats to the market, i think democrats are in fact a real threat. jay powell, we can handle a quarter point. don't get we wrong numbers not a ton of inflation and i don't think we need it. but he's respond together threant of a good economy. my fear is the democrats get in and dosing they to be destroy a good economy because it's worthwhile for them do so politically. >> fair enough. but to destroy it? they will reveal their intention is to destroy it. this is the same thing that happened saffron ald reagan first term. the democrats goin sane at the prosperity that the clownish president manages to pull off. they try their best to destroy it and they destroy themselves in the process. trish: our good friend doug wead who is an historian, he pointed out to me, i remember when i was a kid and reagan was painted in the public life as a dummy. he was just an actor. he just stood up there and delivered lines. >> an aimable dunce. trish: just like they don't understan

party. george wallace was a populist southerner, pro-segregation. he was ripping the south, the basis of the democratic this is the part. bobby kennedy had moved dramatically to the left and gene mccarthy and george mcgovern, that wing of the party all three were going to be represented in chicago. host: the governor spiro agnew, was a rockefeller supporter. >> he brought in reporters, he he had theckefeller, governor, the citizens for headed it up,, he and announced it for three weeks and he is waiting and he calls in the reporters and he announced he would have a major role in it. fellow never called him scp he went up and said i'm not running. agnew was left with egg all over his face and we caught him on the first hop. nixon was on the phone, come on up, governor and talk to us, and he came up and we will get to it i am sure but regarded - he ran 1966. st m aho mey in your home is your castle. and a democrat who opposed housing. agnew spored it. i'd never seen something of a liberal governor where he was very hard line, except for the jots. >> rockefeller thought he still might have a chance and wa

and i think that's really important too, when you think about the democratic party at this time, is thatthe democratic national committee at this particular time. why? where is the strength of the democratic party at this time? why do they win elections? >> it would be, like, remnants from roosevelt's coalition from the 1930's. look back to 1931. they're like, look 20 years ago, when republicans did bad things. i mean, i feel like in the modern era, 20 years ago is a completely different environment than now. so it's really trying to hearken back to an argument they've been making for the last two decades. >> excellent. kayla? >> yeah. i was gonna say that you can see the contrast between the democratic party and they're trying to -- they're continually asking people to look back at what we've done. not even what stevenson has done necessarily but what other democrats have done and just linking the party together, because he's a democratic, he will be as successful as past democrats, whereas with ike's campaign it was very much looking towards the future and not -- well, because they did

the idea of the southern democratic party is changing. southerners and southern politicians into the republican party. prof. brownell: at the same time that he is forced to finally take a stand on the little rock crisis and sends troops in. he does feel it is his obligation as the executive to follow the law of the land. but at the same time, the republican national committee is undergoing a variety of studies they call operation dixie. they are thinking about capitalizing on the device growing in the democratic party between southern conservatives and more liberal northern democrats. move a really calculated in terms of how he frames that. excellent. >> i find it ironic that he chose andrew jackson of all people to talk about when talking about the enforcement of a supreme court decision. given that one of jackson's most famous decisions was not to listen to the supreme court in the case of the indian removal act. also, one thing he makes very clear -- to continue off the resulting government point, he makes it clear this is a last resort

so democratic party with a spine, but also democratic party with an agenda.rty that speaks to the various alliances, coalitions, and even fractures in the party. so how can you get a message across, be charismatic enough, and have enough money to push you to the finish line in the democratic primaries. >> ken, this is outside your beat, but you're in washington, so i'm going to ask you a zeitgeist question, the degree to which, this is something that's occupying democrats in washington. you mentioned andrew gillum, tom perez invited him to speak at a big event with 300 democratic donors, seemingly giving a nod to the influence that he had in florida and nationally as well, >> that's right. just broad sense, to the degree the democratic party in the face of its criticism is not into it. >> somewhat, but i still the thing that's right in front of them is oversight of the trump administration. taking power in congress and the subpoenas that are going to fly and what's going to happen with the mueller investigation. that is front and center and this is kind of in

don't know the democratic party. there's a lot of tension in the democratic party, like the republican party, because we have two major parties that represent the vast majority of the country, but we also have two minor parties that are infiltrating. the libertarians on the right , and on the left we have many of our socialist and green party types that get involved in the democratic party. that's part of our platform but can you get that through congress? i don't know. i don't know if he will allow that to be the first piece of legislation, but i know democrats want to look at lowering costs and making sure people with pre-existing conditions are protected. beyond that, i don't know what they can get through a democratic congress, let alone a republican senate. gerald: so when we were talking earlier, you said in reference to the suburban women that you are worried about republicans losing, i said what do they need to do? and you said, they need to talk to them about things like health care costs. from a republican

the mainstream media only talk about things that service that democratic party agenda and it's an agenda that we saw in syria you know it's an agenda that will lead to war it's an agenda that risks nuclear conflict with the two great nuclear powers it's an agenda that needs to be stopped after the alabama case came to light facebook suspended five counseling to it says this was for engaging in coordinated in north and take behavior and one of those whose account was reportedly suspended earlier denied any involvement in any campaign to influence the public during the alabama election. from russia's economy and education to possible nuclear war and world domination president vladimir putin fielded a wide array of questions from journalists on thursday during his fourteenth annual q. and a with the media and we rounded up some of the key moments. or . as. the u.s. is now leaving the i.n.f. treaty what's going to happen it's hard to imagine what is the rockets are located in europe what should we do of course we will have to ensure our security with concrete steps that we will let

this is why the democratic party is the party that gave you slavery and the kkk, et cetera.hear mr. shelton and others begin to espouse these false narratives, if it's the current narrative that is going on. let's take a look at that. if 8 out of 10 black kids are not being raised by their fathers, guess what's going to happen? they're not going to get an education, end up in jail. those are facts. you're going to have kids not going to high school or college, therefore they can't debate and they cannot find themselves with any type of parity with their white counterparts, put the data in the home, there is no difference in the employment issue at that moment. it's a false narrative. >> laura: when we have you both back, we are doing an hour on this topic, just a racial topic in the new year. the rhetoric we are hearing from some, not all in the democratic party of the type of candidate, not on the basis of ideas but on the basis of skin color, i think that's a problem. i don't think it's good for democrats and is not good for republicans. it should be based on the content o

the mainstream media only talk about things that service that democratic party agenda and it's an agenda that we saw in syria you know it's an agenda that will lead to war it's an agenda that risks nuclear conflict with the two great nuclear powers it's an agenda that needs to be stopped. now after that obama case came to light facebook suspended five accounts linked to it it says miss holmes was reportedly suspended denied any involvement in the campaign to influence the public during the on a bomb election. a scandal that broke over the week surrounding a noun journalist working for german magazine der spiegel who routinely fabricated stories for years is now taking on a new dimension reports now say. called on readers to donate to the people featured in these stories like often syrian children with the donations themselves ending up in his personal bank account spiegel has since published an apology over the fabrications saying it's the worst thing that could happen to a news outlet and magazine also stressed that support the real oh she's managed to trick them for so long t

the mainstream media only talk about things that service that democratic party agenda and it's an agenda that we saw in syria you know it's an agenda that will lead to war it's an agenda that risks nuclear conflict with the two great nuclear powers it's an agenda that needs to be stopped. the trumpet ministration has taken another hit defense secretary james mattis has announced he's leaving his post pointing to differences of opinion with his commander in chief. because you have a right to have a secretary of defense whose views are best or aligned with us on these and other subjects i believe it's right for me to step down from my position james mattis has served in the military for over forty years now and has been defense secretary from the start of trump's term he supported the president's calls to strengthen the military but was known to disagree with from many points including this week's surprise decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria. well the announcement seems to have been the last straw for this it also appears to have driven a wedge between the us and uk large

the mainstream media only talk about things that service that democratic party agenda and it's an agenda that we saw in syria you know it's an agenda that will lead to war it's an agenda that risks nuclear conflict with the two great nuclear powers it's an agenda that needs to be stopped. after the alabama case came to light facebook suspended five accounts linked to it says this was for engaging in coordinated in authentic behavior and one of the people whose account was reportedly suspended earlier tonight any involvement in the campaign to influence the public during the obama election. and other news that readers so hard at work trying to figure out whether a heated top level bricks at the u.k. parliament should i'm socialistic comment and people are asking whether opposition leader jeremy corbyn stupid woman threw a moment with prime minister to resign may. have it for themself. it is would be the responsible position of any government to put in place contingency arrangements so no deal. would reduce zoster for our country and no responsible government would ever allow a k

controlled by powerful democrats party power ratic brokers.even though kennedy and hubert humphrey had not participated in the primaries who was hard to the ign against him so campaign against hubert humphrey would have to be with the insiders of tt because he refus cknowledge that it was going badly and shift course, refused o seek an alternative strategy and tried to seek a middle green and und between escalation withdrawal and ended up worse so i reject the architect november of 1967 to challenge a president in his own party. that announcement was made november 30 of 1967. president johnson flairly defeats eugene mccarthy in the 12 hampshire primary march and that is key, michael cohen. he didn't lose it. margin of cally his victory. mr. cohen: he won by four days robert f. can't enters the race. that you on march 16, 1968. he son announces march 31 will not seek re-election. hubert humphrey enters the race which is til april 27 a key thing to keep in mind. senator canada won the the ornia primary on evening of june 4 and then after midnigh

the democratic party is not this monolithic entity. ou get a leader when you have a presidential nominee, after that -- the analogy i use is the republicans are like are a pack of dogs and the democrats are a herd of cats. atublicans are much better following the leader and sticking to script and using the same 100 words. democrats are all over the place, i don't know which is better. i prefer the individualistic mentality as opposed to their group mentality. everybody is different. my hope is that the democrats embrace the breadth of voices i hope we encourage. if not encourage, accept it. i hope that does not change. steve: why is it that you wonder whether your party has that? rep. capuano: there are people in the party who think if you are not like me or don't agree with me then you can't be a good democrat. i am as pro-choice as anybody but i think we should welcome pro-life democrats. if we don't agree on 10% of items, i don't want you to be the determining vote. a very good friend of mine several years ago, he was the most conser

the mainstream media only talk about things that service that democratic party agenda and it's an agenda that we saw in syria you know it's an agenda that will lead to war it's an agenda that risks nuclear conflict with the two great nuclear powers it's an agenda that needs to be stopped. and after the alabama case came to life facebook suspended five accounts linked to it says that this was for engaging in coordinated in authentic behavior of the people whose account will support at least suspended denied involvement in any campaign to influence the public during the alabama election. russian president vladimir putin held a wide ranging press conference this week number of questions from journalists we'll show you the highlights after this break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. it's sad to say that it wouldn't be the first time that there are hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions of

taking on a democratic party was very useful in that moment and still is because the democratic party is the black voter and has historically really not been on our side and have been some of the biggest proponents so it is very important to intervene on this idea we will have our lives saved by hillary clinton and at the same time donald trump and the republican party as we start to see as he may when the republican party see many of us started to go to those protest. they were extremely dangerous if you remember those were not fak fake. it was much more how do we save our energy we do not to show up and interrupt them all the time although many of us did but for those across the country including the democratic party they did not believe they would win and that is the factor so the time that people spend the time that the democratic party i don't want to blame our movement but some people may see it as such they could've done a much better job at who they decided to run for president. i personally think we have to have an honest conversation how much the democratic party does not re

midwest, in the northeast, and the party was hetero genius, as i'd yo logically, as was the democratic party, by 1968. even though it's three short years. that was probably no longer viable in the national republican party. which is why it said earlier, it was hard to see a path for romney or rockefeller, given their pro civil rights view. and given the southern strategy, the idea that the republican electoral future was going to be through the south. in 1966, his acen dense in the party, we see a party that on the issue of race, even though there were some voices of pro civil rights voices left, they were really in the minority within the party, and nixon's -- whether or not you want to call him concessions or not, his stance against what he would describe as mandatory or forced bussing. just as one example, that was consistent with the party's view that the federal government has overreached in its efforts to enforce desegregation and integration and ensure the voting rights of all african-americans. >> i think it needs to be noted. that that legislation, those pieces of legislation, they

the mainstream media only talk about things that service that democratic party agenda and it's an agenda that we saw in syria you know it's an agenda that will lead to war it's an agenda that risks nuclear conflict with the two great nuclear powers it's an agenda that needs to be stopped. president trump has left the international community stunned following his sudden decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria our. over the move has it been backed by a number of leaders including one major nato ally. of the us the trump told us during our conversation will you clear the direst from him weekly of them before and after this. as long as you give us the support in terms of logistics and how they started to withdraw all they have. not all of those party to the conflict in syria are on board with the decision there is anger among the kurdish forces in the region with family members of the fighters appealing to washington to reverse their withdrawal mothers and wives of soldiers in the so-called syrian democratic forces have been gathering near an alleged american military base in a