so who really is the democratic party today?” party. so who really is the democratic party today?e here in south carolina. i grew up in a very rural town, orange though, 15,000 people, iwas grew up in a very rural town, orange though, 15,000 people, i was the first person in my family to go to college, went to yale, worked —— went to george town. what myself from the bootstra ps. went to george town. what myself from the bootstraps. that is what the american dream is all about, being able to start from nothing and to actually rise up and do well in this country will stop and so i am proud of what i am and i am who i am because of the democratic party. the message of donald trump is that politics as usual isn't working in america any more. that is the message that the democrats had to ta ke message that the democrats had to take on board as well as the republicans. the message that the democratic party has to, and i have been very, very honest, let me back up, you mentioned that i worked for john podesta, i never worked for him,i john podesta, i never worked for him, i worked for h

so who really is the democratic party today? i think i embody the democratic party.w up in a very rural town, 0rangeburg, 15,000 people, i was the first person in my family to go to college, ever, went to yale, went to george town. worked myself up from the bootstra ps. helped my parents save to buy their home, bought a home for my grandparents. that is what the american dream is all about, being able to start from nothing and to actually rise up and do well in this country, and so i'm proud of what i am, and i am who i am because of the democratic party. the message of donald trump is that politics as usual isn't working in america anymore. and that's a message that the democrats have to take on board, as well as the republicans. the message that the democratic party has to — and i've been very, very honest, let me back up, you mentioned that i worked forjohn podesta, i never worked forjohn, i actually worked for his brother, tony, just to make sure that i was clear on that. in terms of the message for the democratic party, you know, yes, we are in this race and in

as you know i think it's a very good thing that we're in the democratic party ok i want to go back to why you think it is later in the program who you know basically the same thing to you because i mean i've been very very critical of the identity politics but it seems to me that since two thousand it did more to do thousand sixteen and it's not working now but they've doubled down on it i mean it just you know if that's the definition of stupidity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome ok i find it really breathtakingly stupid to be honest go ahead julio and west are exactly it's the definition of insanity and they're going to continue to do it because they have hope for and quite frankly are right on i mean they can't really criticize the results of the truck because for a traditional democratic governor graphics the last two you know those the blocked unemployment has been you know at historic lows or near historic lows the entire time and i think that people the of color and you know women and some of those other demographics right now or feel t

that's the utility of the democratic party. people once again. and so we are working on reforms and things that we can do so we become more grassroots—based, that we are actually in communities addressing issues that are so, so important for people in order that they can live the american dream and that their kids still have the hope of living the american dream as well. jaime harrison, i wish we could go on, but we're out of time. thank you very much forjoining me from south carolina. thank you, stephen. hello there. things are looking cooler and fresher now for the rest of this week, particularly across northern and western areas, with a mixture of sunshine and showers. some of the showers will continue to be quite heavy as well, maybe with the risk of thunder. the reason for the cooler air, area of low pressure has driven out the heat into the near continent, introducing something cooler and fresher off the atlantic, and we'll maintain a west or south—westerly airflow. now, early on thursday, we will see further showers retur

hello and welcome to cross talk were all things considered i'm peter lavelle the democratic party is in big trouble the party has not come to terms with the outcome of the two thousand and sixteen election they have a leadership out of touch with its base millennia old are fleeing so is their slogan now no party for white man. crosstalk in the trials and tribulations of the left i'm joined by my guest so i color in seattle he's a writer activist and progressive you tube or in west hartford we have julio rivera he is editorial director for reactionary times and a newsmax columnist and here in moscow we have don de bar he's an anti-war activist and host of a daily radio program or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate soccer let me go to you first in seattle because you get up there early as for this program and it's much appreciated i mean i suppose you came . came across this walkaway movement that it is taken in a bit of. a flash on the internet here i found that to be very curious because i think i instinctively ev

should love these democratic socialists because it's the fighting it's dividing the democratic party and you can tell from the very top they're scared of these people go ahead i would yeah i would say to the democrats that you know it's ok to have that wing of the party i mean the republicans had the tea party wing and but but it does make your candidate an electable in certain places now if they had the democratic party runs more conservative candidates in these places they may have a better chance of winning but i'm sure the party apparatus doesn't really care for a lot of this talk about. you know free college education for everybody medicare for all because these are very expensive programs and nobody is figured out in the democratic party or anywhere else how to pay for these but of course you know the republicans have done this with their tax cuts that's what they do to get a lack of good ok i mean well and i mean anything in fact let me jump in stead of the increase and i have to we have to go to a hard break after a short break we'll continue our discussion of the democratic s

that is why they pretend like thomas jefferson started the democratic party, the democratic republican party. >> thank you. >> good morning. my name is ryan, and i am from the united kingdom. earlier this week, tommy robinson was released from prison. i am wondering if you see any parallel between? [applause] >> i was just wondering if you see any parallel between his case and yours? dinesh: i think so. without knowing that case very well, it does seem that here is a guy locked up essentially for free speech, for having views that they consider to be unpopular. the way that the left has now started locking up its opponents i think is very frightening. not just from the united kingdom, but here. let's look at manafort. i realized the case is complex, and i do not know if he did what they are accusing him of doing or not, but before manafort is tried, the judge approved in order that puts this guy in solitary confinement. you only have to step outside our comfortable world and imagine yourself in a very small fiddly ventilated cell -- thinly ventilated cell with no select coming in what

first is allegedly helping people who undermine the democratic party and inviting them as guests on r t the walkaway campaign reportedly an organic cum pain of lifelong democrats leaving the party has been amplified by russian social media accounts and featured on the russian propaganda outlet r t walk away founder brandon stracke did give an interview for r.t. in which he expressed his disillusion with the democratic party's identity politics and why his movements getting popularity among americans i myself was a lifelong liberal democratic voter i would say kind of a democrat by default because i'm a gay man and i think that the expectation for a lot of minority groups is that we are supposed to vote democrat and that we are supposed to be liberal so it's not identity politics hurting the party it's walkaway founder's appearance on our t.v. fuelling a russian plot if that's the case then there must be more russian influencers in america's midst because fox news had him on for a similar interview discussing the very same walkaway movement and with the attention mainstream newspapers

when slavery ended the democratic party was in panic. it had been organized around slavery and we have to figure out what could happen to us now. the democrats were worried they would go the way of the week and become a nonexistent political party. so they decided to do something new. and they came up with, if we can't organize around slavery, let's organize around supremacy. the whole point of showing that will be in the white house. from the democrats point of view america was beingborn anew. wiper automation . and my argument is that if that progressive philosophy, this destructive, bigoted exploitation philosophy was carried to its logical endpoint it will kill america. my movie "death of a nation". and how will kill america? it didn't kill america by making the land go away or by making evil disappear but you can kill country another way just like you can kill a person another way. you don't shoot them. if someone could say dinesh, strip away his personality and moral compass, by the way, this is actually what the judge was trying to

but i am a firm believer that the case of the democratic party should choose the candidate. are differences within the party, we have two major parties, they are both whichions, unlike europe has smaller parties which are much more ideologically homogenous. the democratic party is a big tent party, the republican party is a big but narrower tent party these days. the primary process is important, this is a way to about to party leaders where the rank-and-file of the party wants to go. it would be bad to lose that. policyd to have vigorous debates, but it should not be personal or overly negative. i have to say that in the middle of the process, everyone gets heated and upset. by and large, both clinton people and our campaign handled the public presentation of their candidates in a civil way. walter is an independent in florida. weaver,good morning mr. i would like you to consider the of the different groups. it seems to me that the andcrats are much younger the younger people who are turning voting age are not being inspired by the leadership. and the candidates and south, i

the democratic party has millions of members. parties in the united states are not the same as other parties. someday we would love to be a movement that is strong enough to actually become another party. we are so far from that now because of the way the two parties have worked together to set the system up, it is difficult for any other parties to become one of the main parties. there are many other parties, but the main parties maintain their power. there are structural battery or's -- there are structural barriers they set up to make it difficult to vote or for other parties to gain influence. it is mores is strategic to be independent and popularize this idea of democratic socialism and that there is an alternative to capitalism and we hope we grow big enough to become another party that becomes one of the dominant parties or totally change the political system itself. host: as you go about your work in 2018, what is your relationship like with the dnc? we are pretty frustrated with the dnc. we do not spend a lot of time conf

is the democratic party really being able to address that issue well i think we have to i think both parties. have noticed the income inequality even some conservatives have started talking about it but the problem is the parties differ on the cars of course the cars to the democrats or the democratic socialists are you know big corporations and. you know pry excessive profits for corporations and not giving it back to the worker for the conservatives it's that the the very very opposite it's that the system has become so bogged down with regulations and other things and big government that the market is not allowed. to you know all the regulations create essentially oligopolies and that sort of thing and that that causes incoming inequality so it just depends on which side of the fence you're on politically ok ok you know ron i mean one of the it was brought up to me here is that you know this mantra you know with free there's free education free welfare free. education for everyone and they still want to have an open borders i so i want to harp on the open borders thing is i mean th

one of the things unique about the democratic party is that the base of ideological voters in the democratic party is smaller than it is in republican-winni ng coalitions. when republicans win president, around 70% or 35% of their voters are so described conservatives. for democrat, it is about half and half. half say they are moderates, and have say they are liberal. democrats cannot win an election the same way donald trump did. that is why i think they are the better suited party to have this big tent, which is what we hope to see and build on. host: port st. lucie, florida, democrat line. caller: thank you for taking my call. is democrats, they do a good job, but not together. , after the takeover of power, everything goes down. if you need information, you do not know where to get something true. pastthing you know -- the is lost. but when you are on the problem, you cannot find anyone to give you something true. i think that is a problem. right now, i have some people, yeaars.e in four and still 30years years, they are still working here. they will not deport them. host: thanks, caller

or the democratic party of michigan used to volunteer hackers to test its systems security while this was confirmed by the national committee the source also said that the state department did not notify the d.n.c. the national committee before hand let's take a look at what was said. we along with the partners who reports at the sites now believe it was built by a third party as part of a simulated fishing test the test which mimics several attributes of actual attacks on the democratic party's votes to follow was not authorized by the d.n.c. vote builder nor any other vendors now the timing of all of this is worth noting it's coming just as we're getting closer and closer to midterm elections and the media is going crazy frantically searching for external factors but they've turned a blind eye to domestic factors which could be where their answers are investigative reporter dave lindorff says election tampering claims a big sigh generated the meddling issue is. first of all i think has been overblown in the first case you know when they found evidence of. you know russian based

should love these democratic socialists because it's the fight it's the bite in the democratic party and you can tell from the very top they're scared of these people go ahead i would yeah i would say to the democrats that you know it's ok to have that wing of the party i mean the republicans had the tea party wing and but but it does make your candidate an electable in certain places now if they had the democratic party runs more conservative candidates in these places they may have a better chance of winning but i'm sure the party apparatus doesn't really care for a lot of this talk about. you know free college education for everybody medicare for all because these are very expensive programs and nobody is figured out in the democratic party or anywhere else how to pay for these but of course you know the republicans have done this with their tax cuts that's what they do to get a lack of good ok i mean well and i mean anything in fact let me jump in instead of the increase and i have to get in and we have to go to a hard break after a short break we'll continue our discussion of the

have all of their voter file the take away really is is this continues to be a major issue democratic party's voter database targeted with a sophisticated hacking attempt to target really was the voter database any attack on a political party or campaign is important for us all to take seriously but there is a twist here it wasn't meddling or hacking it was just a test according to a source the democratic party or the democratic party of michigan used to volunteer hackers to test its systems security while this was confirmed by the national committee the source also said that the state department did not notify the d.n.c. the national committee before hand let's take a look at what was said we along with the partners who reports at the sites now believe it was built by a third party as part of a simulated fishing test the test which mimics several attributes of actual attacks on the democratic party's votes to follow was not authorized by the d.n.c. vote builder nor any other vendors now the timing of all of this is worth noting it's coming just as we're getting closer and closer to midterm e

or the democratic party of michigan used volunteer hackers to test its systems security while this was confirmed by the national committee the source also said that the state department did not notify the d.n.c. the national committee before hand let's take a look at what was said we along with the partners who reports at the sites now believe it was built by a third party as part of a simulated fishing test the test which mimics several attributes of actual tax on the democratic party's votes to follow was not authorized by the d.n.c. vote builder nor any other vendors now the timing of all of this is worth noting it's coming just as we're getting closer and closer to midterm elections and the media is going crazy frantically searching for external factors but they've turned a blind eye to domestic factors which could be where their answers are investigative reporter steve lindorff says the election tampering claims are being exaggerated. the middling issue is. first of all i think has been overblown in the first case you know when they found evidence of. you know russian bas

attempted of their voter file and the takeaway really is is this continues to be a major issue democratic party's voter database targeted with a sophisticated hacking attempt to target really was the voter database any attack on a political party or campaign is important for us all to take seriously but there is a twist here it wasn't meddling or hacking it was just a test according to a source the democratic party or the democratic party of michigan used volunteer hackers to test its systems security while this was confirmed by the national committee the source also said that the state department did not notify the d.n.c. the national committee before hand let's take a look at what was said we along with the partners who reports at the sites now believe it was built by a third party as part of a simulated fishing test the test which mimics several attributes of an actual tax on the democratic party's votes to follow was not authorized by the d.n.c. vote builder nor any other. now the timing of all of this is worth noting it's coming just as we're getting closer and closer to midterm elections an

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. the establishment wing of the party. they're not, i don't want to paper them over, there's some serious differences, but nothing on the scale we saw in '68. the differences then were fundamental. in a way, there was a big wing of the party, mccarthy support, anti-war activists who viewed the democratic party and johnson as illegitimate in general. when the demolition began, you had anti-war activists that regularly picketted and interrupted hubert humphrey's speeches, refused to support him because of his views on vietnam. last year, in 2016, i should say, people would ask, 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 1968. >> the book is called "american maelstrom" with our guest michael cohen here in washington, a

african-american they became overwhelmingly democrat second with a wave of immigration there is a democratic party that since reagan for one they distributed evenly so in stark contrast democrats and republicans are culturally very different of course they are a rainbow coalition with that diversity republicans by contrast remained openly white and christian and that is important. and even more importantly a challenge of the political hierarchy. there were pillars of communities. movie stars in college professors. it was the state and those were long gone. losing one dominant social status many republican voters, not all, seal the country they grew up in is taken away from them and in fact that is what is driving polarization in this country. that can kill democracy in europe in the 1930s with politics being so deeply polarized it is seen as intolerable beyond the pale. then you start to justify using extraordinary means with election fraud. but we have reached a point one out of four trump voters believed he was unfit for the presidency of the united states but yet was still preferable to a democ

party. labor did not like him. southern democrats could not stand him. there were serious fault lines in the party. nothing like that today. you see this debate between the bernie sanders wing of the party. nothing on the scale of what we saw in 1968. the differences that were fundamental. there was a big link of the -- wing of the party, antiwar activists, who viewed lyndon johnson as illegitimate. when the war began, you had antiwar activists who regularly picketed and interrupted hubert humphrey's speeches because of his support of the war in vietnam. this is nothing like 1968. --divisive as the politics have become today, it holds not a candle to 1968, not just between the two parties, but within the parties. host: we are talking about the politics of division with our guest michael cohen. virginia is where our next calle r is coming from. caller: my name is susan. i am calling with a comment. i wanted to say hi to kathleen. ece. richard mackey's ni guest: thank you. caller: so good to see you, kathleen. my husband was a high school inior in oakland,

as you know i think it's a very good thing that the democratic party ok i want to go back to why you think it is later in the program who you know basically the same thing to you because i mean i've been very very critical of the identity politics but it seems to me that since two thousand it did more to do thousand sixteen and it's not working now but they've doubled down on it i mean it just you know if that's the definition of stupidity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome ok i find it really breathtakingly stupid to be honest go ahead julio and wes hardy exactly it's a definition of insanity and they're going to continue to do it because they have hope for and quite frankly are right on i mean they can't really criticize the results of the truck because for the traditional democratic governor graphics the last two you know those the blocked unemployment has been you know at historic lows or near historic lows the entire time and i think that people the of color and you know women and some of those other demographics right now or feel that the

he was ripping the basis of the democratic party apart. humphrey and johnson were by then the center of the party. bobby kennedy moved dramatically to the left. eugene mccarthy, humphrey, all three were going to be represented in chicago. governor agnew brought in reporters and said he was for rockefeller, the citizens for rockefeller, he headed it up, announced it. he calls in reporters when rockefeller is going to announce and he's going to have a major role in it. and when rockefeller never called him and went out and said i'm not running, agnew was left with egg all over his face. and as someone wrote, we caught him on the first hop. nixon was right on the phone, come on up, governor, talk to us. he came on up. you'll get to it i'm sure, but agnew was recorded -- he ran against mahoney in '66. you know, your home is your castle, a democrat who opposed open housing. agnew supported it. so agnew was seen as something of a liberal governor, except for the riots where he was very, very hard line. that's one of the reasons he wound up on the

this as a positive, but bobby kennedy ticked a lot of people off, a lot of people within the democratic partybor did not like him. the southern democrats, not a fan. of course, lyndon johnson didn't like him at all. i actually think it would have been very hard for him to win the nomination in large part because of johnson. i think johnson would have done everything he possibly would have done to keep kennedy from being the nominee. i do think that the threat of kennedy being the nominee would have been enough to convince johnson to have given humphrey more sri lay to distance himself from the white house and the war on vietnam. this ended up being i think the reason why -- the level that humphrey lost. he couldn't distance himself from johnson on the war. only in late september when he sort of distanced himself from johnson and the war did the liberals come home. i think had kennedy lived just the mere presence of him as a possible nominee would have been enough for johnson to do everything he possibly could do to help humphrey be the nominee which would have been saying to humphrey if you w

and take the place of to facebook and twitter which have become essentially pawns of the state democrat party thanks for speaking to this evening of in my guest alvin bora twenty twenty presidential candidate for the libertarian party. and one of the most popular online alternative news channels info was to seen a major crackdown with facebook. and spotify blocking its accounts and taking down its content on the same day it's our facebook explain the move we've taken it down for glorifying violence and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender muslims and immigrants which violates our hate speech policies in for wars was launched by alex jones in the late ninety's his you tube videos we watch more than one point six billion times some of deemed him a publisher of conspiracy theories and twenty fifteen donald trump appeared on the channel and praised jones work the more people on social media have clashed over the bout i don't support alex jones or what in four was produces he's not a conservative however banning him in his outlets is wrong it's not just a slippery slo

he was ripping the south, the basis of the democratic party apart. humphrey and johnson were by then the center of the party. bobby kennedy has moved dramatically to the left, with gene mccarthy and george mcgovern, that wing of the party. and thaall three were going to represented in chicago. >> and very quickly, wasn't governor spiro agnew a rockefeller supporter and was stunned -- >> he brought in reporters and said, he was for rockefeller. he's got the governors for rockefeller -- or the citizens for rockefeller. he headed it up, announced it for three weeks. and he's waiting and calls in reporters when rockefeller's going to announce and he's going to have a major role in it. and when rockefeller never called him and went out and said, i'm not running. agnew was left with egg all over his face. and 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, and you know, well, you'll get to it, i'm sure, but agnew was regarded -- he ran against mahoney in '66. you know, you

. >> a member of the democratic socialists of america talks about the parties political goals and its potential impact on the 2 2018 midterm elections. >> host: area joins us from new york as the national director of the democratic socialists of america. she will be with us taking your calls until the bottom of the hour. but as a protest of the conversation what does it mean to be a democratic socialist? >> we believe we should live a life of dignity and comfort. working people make this economy work and make the society worked at the currenworkbut the currenm and political system that we have in place because of our economic system aren't working for the 99% so we believe we need a society that we've run democratically and it's our belief that there is an elite minority of people who have rigged the economy into the political system for their own benefitbenefit so we need to wok together to take back our economy and politics and create a transform society. we are working towards that with everything from direct action to legislative clerk to electing democratic candidates. >> how did

the democrats were a party that was just incredibly fractured. it raised questions in people's minds, reasonable questions, can democrats run the country? they can't even run a convention. it's worth pointing out that people who protested in chicago did not represent the core of the antiwar left. many of mccarthy's forces stayed home for fear of violence. the groups that were there, the hippies and abby hoffman and jay ruben, they had a more nile listic view of the violence. they wanted it. they wanted to see police overreact which, of course, they did. the police overreacted. they acted in a way that was cruel and incredibly homicide -- i done want to say homicidal. that's too strong. it's-- he initially criticized the chicago police which ended up creating a backlash because people thought that police acted appropriately. they were fine with the violence against protesters. then he back tracked which, of course, upset liberals. it did create problems. he was running in the high 20s, low 30s in the polls when the race started and was double digit

guest: i think we were seeing it back -- to democratic -- a backlash to democratic party and democratic politics. republicans swept the senate and chambers so that both of congress where republican and we had a republican executive. some of that is. partisan politics. there are less women in the republican party that are running. the republican party has a dirth of women candidates. they don't have the same backbench to choose from that democrats have. some is just a numbers game. if you don't have elected officials that -- or candidates at lower-level officials to choose from, when it reaches higher levels of office they won't be there to put their names in the hat. host: we have susan. susan is on the line rum -- line from california. caller: yes. you said you were -- you wanted women, all women. you did not mention one conservative woman here it you mentioned all democrats. there is a woman by the name of candace allen and someone by the name of harris faulkner. they are conservative women, but they have very different views from you. why wouldn't you put them on your list also? host

the us democratic party over another suspect but. much closer to home also this hour. video of a british policeman slapping a teenage girl during an iran. triggers debate over what constitutes reasonable force. grown place can find a way of restraining a fourteen year old go back to. tell us. just like anybody else. just. eleven pm in hanoi and seven in the room right here in moscow this thursday august the twenty third welcome to our to international top story the u.s. national security adviser on his russian counterpart have held more than five hours of talks in geneva but john bolton didn't give much detail away to reporters a short news briefing afterwards. i think we made a lot of progress we identified certain areas where lines of communication could be restored there were some where the areas of disagreement remain we didn't see. much utility in resuming discussions there are going to be some things where we're going to consider inside the united states government consider more fully what our position is and then decide to proceed from there well this meeting of

serious business social democrat party by the way nobody about their money has had any kind of prime minister he's on vacation here meaning. they are not the leader of the democratic party the people want the resignation of the government the people want the protesters wants early elections and they are hoping for a new political force that might lurch from the center right there's a center right party a new center right party established by former prime minister dutch on cellos was the e.u. commissioner so. they are expecting top of the government. well among the protesters if we as we've been reporting are tens of thousands of ex-pats romanians who live abroad. but just how much pressure can ex-pats put on the romanian government well actually there is a lot of pressure first of all as well if it does because it was the vote so. between for me and six million people working to be in abroad that has brought to pollard the last super fast two presidents we too were sent to rights not not from the social democratic party and we remain that we have presidential elections next year and

he was ripping the democratic party apart. hum free and johnson were the center of the party. kennedy had moved dramatically to the left. and gene back car think and george mcgovern, the new left wing of the party. all three were going to be represented in chicago. >> wasn't governor agnew a johnson supporter. >> he was sitting. he brought in reporters saying, citizens for rockefeller. he headed it up. announced for three weeks. he brought in the reporters when rockefeller announced. when rockefeller -- rockefeller never called him and said he was not running. agnew was left with egg all his face. and nixon said, come on up and talk to us. and he came up. agnew was regarded. he is a democrat that opposed open housing. he was very, very hard line on the riots. that's one of the recent he wound up on the ticket. >> i was going to say, rockefeller's buddies thought he still had a chance. and he went to agnew and he said he would not do that. >> one governor, governor schaefer of pennsylvania. there was a beer commercial in those days that if schaefer is the one beer to have, if y

our job as the democratic party is to get democrats elected so let's start that right now. the total package of reforms and then we have to push it and support it. and it must leave chicago. and we do what we do best. mobilizerganize and all of our communities across this country. if not now when, let's get the job done. [applause] >> thank you for your remarks and thank you for your leadership in the labor movement and thank you for your service on the rules and bylaws committee. the tireless efforts of that committee are some critically important. i want to thank our friend randi onngarten for her service the rules and bylaws committee as well. while we are thinking people, can we think you and i hear here local- unite one for the great work they have done at this hotel. thank you very much. in a tough stretch right now, negotiation. we are going to make sure that we are working with them. ok. ok. ok. thank you for what you have been doing. we have had a productive week here. we have been doing great work. we have an talking about the fact that there are 73 days until the

choosing the democratic party's presidential nominee. the new rules, voted on at the the national committee's summer meeting, will prohibit superdelegates from voting on the first ballot of the presidential nominating process at the party's convention. the change comes after the highly contentious role of superdelegates during the 2016 democratic primary between former secretary of state hillary clinton and vermont senator bernie sanders. we'll have more on the democratic party vote and superdelegates later in the broadcast. pope francis traveled to ireland where he met with survivors of sexual abuse by catholic priests and acknowledged the grave scandal of church sexual abuse. it was the first papal visit to ireland since 1979. this is paul redmond, one of the abuse survivors who met with pope francis. >> we are looking for wholehearted apologies. certainly, we got one today from the pope. but whether or not that will translate into huge official apology from the church is another matter. but it is whether that translates into actual act

the democratic party became much more anti-war in that sense. the issue of race i think is central to this discussion. the republican party became the party of white working-class americans, much more so than the democrats, really disrupting or exploding the roosevelt-lyndon johnson national electoral coalition. and became the party essentially opposed to civil rights in most instances. i think on those two central fronts and the party of law and order, at least for a while, and i think in those areas domestically and overseas, the republican party was able to gain a kind of, for several decades, a lock on more or less on the electoral college and national politics. steve: matthew dallek from george washington university, graduate school of political management, serving as associate professor and robery merry, the editor of the american conservative. thank you to both of you. >> c-span's "washington journal" live every day. anday morning, paul waldman jim and told discuss the political news of the day. we will discuss the proposed changes to the