why don't democrats? liberals act like it's a national process and, oh, we're a king canoe trying to hold back the ocean's tide. no, no, there's nothing natural about this. again, teddy kennedy's laws, immigration law was specifically designed to bring in immigrants from countries that had not supplied immigrants to this country for the first 300 years of its existence. consequently, since that law passed we've been taking the leap since it passed in '65 and starting around 1970 we've been taking in about a million legally, legal immigrants a year, 09% from the third world. of course that's going to change a cub. you know, it's just a little matter of who gets to live here and vote. we're told as if it's good news that immigrants take welfare at only 15% above the native rate. [laughter] wait, only? that's like saying, good news, only 15% of the food has rat feces in it. [laughter] no, we're thinking, no, no rat feces. we want no immigrants on welfare. if we're bringing in people who immediately need assi

why don't democrats? liberals act like it was a natural process and we are a canoe trying to hold back the tide. teddy kennedy's immigration law was specifically designed to bring in immigrants from countries that had not supplied immigrants to this country for the first 300 years of existence. since that passed in '65 and starting around 1970 we have been taking in a million legal immigrants a year 90% from the thirl third world. of course that is going to change a country. it is just a matter of who lives here and votes. we are told it is good news that immigrants take welfare at only 15% above the native rate. wait, only? that is like saying good news. only 15% of the food has rat feces in it. no, we are thinking no rat feces. no immigrants on welfare is what we want. if we are bringing in people that immediately needs assistance from the taxpayer isn't that immigrants we don't want? if -- it is madness. we cannot pay for our own poor people. whose money do we use to pay for the poor of the world? we o

there have been a lot of retirements of democrats in these safe democratic seats. i'm glad you brought up that pipeline idea. so much of the work we do is train women to run for the legislature. becomes our pipeline for exactly what you are talking about. that is what we have been trying to build. we have had some success this year in a moving women through primaries. this is a safe democratic district. she is going to be heading to congress in january. that is where a lot of our work is done, in adding new voices and women of color. this is important in that representative democracy that we believe in so strongly. that is a piece of the work that we're doing. we are hoping that we might end up with a net gain. i want to throughout the fact that there could be some pickups by democrats in the house. i understand the forecasters. they are saying loss or minus five. we have some really good women running in pickup opportunities. women like when graham in florida. tight race in a republican seat. she is running a fantastic race. a another one i want to bring up is sta

democrats are using a lot of hyperbole to raise money. house republicans are suing the president and guess what? they say they're suing it on principle but also trying to raise some political money off of it. here's a republican e-mail thanks for supporting the lawsuit. please send money so we can elect more republicans but the most surprising part of this is how much democrats love it. they love the republican talk of suing the president. now, they say speaker boehner says this opens the door to impeachment. it's a fund-raising e-mail. lot of hyperbole, boehner refuses to say impeachment is off the table. you heard the speaker say impeachment is off the table. why are democrats doing this? let me give you 10 million reasons. they say since the republicans said we'd sue the president they raised nearly $10 million for house democratic campaign. jonathan martin, prove to me as we talked a little bit about the policy in the last block that all the parties care about here is raising money and getting to november. there's not really a serious

it's the democrats. and if they can get their people to the polls, nancy pelosi said a couple of weeks ago, half of our supporters don't even know there's an election. so you've got to get those people engaged. some of these issues that we've talked about already could get those folks engaged. >> -- get out the vote-- >> the question is who these people who are being hurt-- >> exec amnesty will get us all engaged. [ overlapping speakers ] >> they look at the president always. >> the president is not on the ballot. >> he's not on the ballot, but he's the leader of the democratic party and that's why the democratic party-- >> he's not helping the democrats, but the republicans aren't representing the republicans. the republican congress has basement ratings. >> the 1000-point drop in the dow in the last couple of weeks i think is going to have an impact on the economy and on this election. >> oh, the 1%ers won't vote! >> 10% -- >>> exit question. please restrain from interfering with the progress of the sh

are the democrats in for another? >> i think they are going to lose the senate and i think the republicans might pick up a couple of seats in the house, because usually they win the house even when they have a lower electoral turnout? >> given the nature of the math, i think the republicans are not going to do as well as they anticipate and there are democratic surprises out there, michelle none none in georgia and kentucky. >>> it will be a healthy victory for the republicans. >> they'll win the senate and pick up seats in the house. >> that is a shell lacking. >> shell lacking will be picking up 40 seats in the house. they won't get the 60 votes they need. >> we may be a problem of nomenclature. >> ultimately this will be seen as a victory for the republicans. they will pick up seats in the senate and the house to do that. >> i predicted the republicans will pick up the senate. >> yours was right on the mark. >> insightful? >> insightful and when you think about how far in advance you predicted there. >> the wisdom

and texas republicans did this to democrats. the bottom line is as you create safer districts you get more party in each party. so you have very strong liberals running. and what al said -- i might vote for him. but what he is saying -- bush went out there and got slaughtered. let's not reinvent history here. and we can talk about charters but more african-american kids in washington, d.c. are far worse off because obama cut their vouchers. over the objection of the maryland state teacher's association screaming bloody murder. both parties are more i idealogical and you go back and because of the lines drawn you have a safe seat. and you hear go get them bob and joe on both sides. you go back in power with no motivation to compromise because you heard it from the town meeting. shut the government down. and raise taxes. and work till june to pay government as all levels. that is not freedom and the era of big government being over. that is the era of large government telling you what to do. >> i agree about what happened to the p

and conservative democrats and onto binaural democrats and montgomery county always have its own thingnd it was a healthy state. and a healthy country and john f. kennedy were still cutting taxes. and so i want to go home and watch the primary colors again but who said that? president clinton and i hope he meant it when he did it because he was actually wrong. that is another reason why i wrote in my book and there was a lot of editorials and comments in regard to the right and you just heard the narrative and the tea party came about because a bunch of working people in this country decided to go to washington and congress to balance the budget and to do exactly what they do everyday. no social issue and after the 2010 election they became dangerous. so the narrative began to be that we need to demonize that and we need to call them racist. and they did. and they had been successful. it is emotional, but it works. create a narrative and repeat the narrative and there's all this attention given. many cases the tea party and whatever you want to call it are often i disagree with the gov

safe democratic seats. i'm glad you brought that up. so much of what emily's list does is train women to run for the senate. that becomes our pipeline for what you are talking about. these house races, and those house races become our senators. so that's what we've been trying to build. we have had some success this year in moving women through primary. most recently brenda lawrence who is up in michigan. just won her primary. again this is a state democratic district. she is going to be heading to congress in january. that's where, you know, a lot of our work is done in adding new voices, and particularly not just women, but women of color. that is really important, we believe, not just in the work we do at emily's list, but in that representative democracy we believe in so strongly. that is a piece of the work we are doing. so we are hoping that we might end up with a net gain. i wouldn't throw out the fact that there could be some pickups by democrats in the house. i understand the forecasters when they

more than one out of every 4 democrats do, too. the partsans and the politicians they support come together to solve problems? the numbers point to why this is so tough. the majority of partisans believe their side should get the better end of the deal. it's the opposite of compromise. it's called gridlock. a country that's finding it tough to make a deal. polarization and purity, today on "inside story" joining us for that conversation, michael demmick, the lead author of the new pew study, political polarization in the republican republic. >> a professor at emmory university and author of "the polarized public" and morris fiorina at stanford university, author of "culture war: the myth of a polarized america." michael demmok let me start with you. we heard the president say and the quote is: our country is not as divided as our politics suggest. was he right? >> well, there is a truth to that, to be sure, as your lead-in pointed out. the majority of americans are not caught up in this kind of ideological streaight-line thinking.

who used to be a democrat.n the new poll, roberts is leading with 32% of the vote with taylor at 25 and orman, the independent at 23. taylor has struggled to raise money so far and attract support from his own party. now there are even some suggesting he drop out of the race to give orman a clear shot at knocking off roberts. taylor is scoffing at that talk. look at this. in a two-way race, the same poll shows roberts, the republican would lose to orman by ten points, 43-33. like i said, this feels like a race you're going to want to keep an eye on. joining me to talk about it is the independent candidate from kansas, greg or man. let's understand where you're coming from here ideologically. six years ago when pat roberts was running for re-election, you were interested in running as a democrat. now you're an independent. >> i'm fiscally responsible and socially tolerant and never felt like i had a perfect home in either party. historically i've tried the republican party, i've tried the democratic party. i've

more than one out of four democrats do, too.an the partisans and the applications they support come together to solve problems? the numbers point to why this is so tough. the majority of partisans believe their side should get the better end of the deal. it's the opposite of compromise. it's called gridlock. >> a country that's making it tough for make a deal. joining us for that conversation michael dimmick, the lead author of the new pew study. alan bromow iwiz. author. and political science at stanford university and author of "culture war, the myth of a polarized america." we heard the president say, and the quote is our country is not as divided as our politics suggest. >> was i right? >> the majority of americans are not caught up in this kind of ideological, straight-line thinking. that's the view or the perspective of a minority of americans, but it is a growing minority, and a very vocal minority of the american public. when you layer on top of that the partisan antipathy, the us creates these logjams that become proble

democrats, not obama democrats. is that what you would be telling a client? >> well, i think in some respects we as democrats are in the same position republicans were six years ago. or eight years ago. look, i think that we said earlier this could be a base election. sure, president clinton is popular with democrats and independents. his support by the numbers goes a little broader than the president's. but barack obama is still a very strong surrogate and validater for base democratic constituencies, even though his numbers have dipped a little. still 80% with democrats and african-americans. if this is a base turnout election for democrats, he is still a very important marker for democratic candidates. >> interesting. could be maybe he's on the trail more than we thought come late october if this turnout is as low as we think it's going to be. anyway, fred, bill, a very important poll. i'm going to spend the entire show dipping into different parts of this. a real dive into the great recession and ongoing recover

and democrats had unfavorable views of republicans.o redder reds and bluer blues threaten the well-being of the country? the poll used that word "threatened." more than one out of three republicans think so, and one out of every four democrats do, too. can the partisans and those they support come together? they believe their side should get the enter end of a deal. it's the opposite end of compromise. it's called gridlock. >> polarization and purity today on "inside story." joining us, michael democrat mick, the lead author of the pew study, the polarization of the american public. morris, professor of political science at stanford university and author of "culture war" the myth of a polarized america. let me start with you. we heard the president say, and the quote is our country is not as divided as our politics suggest." is he right? >> there is a truth to be that to be sure. the majority of americans are not caught up in this ideological, straight-line thinking. that's the view or the perspective of the minority of americans. but

they only swipe that democrats. it is clear. we think it is the best thing to protect the privacy of donors. they will use the most feared regulatory agency in the year and go after people. they have shown that. we think it is a prudent thing to protect the identities of will absolutely become the media targets of a politicized irs and federal bureaucracy. you youglad that mentioned the shut down. you also mentioned the farm bill. it was divided. the republican party long had the strong alliance with the business community. you're starting to see that divide on a number of issues. talk about that? >> there is a lot more that binds the two groups together than separates. when you look at the gulf between the movement in the chamber or the business and what divides the two you have government cronyism. the same kind of wealth care programs for corporations. we think both are in effect. they just do not work beyond a basic safety net for folks. i think that is the biggest one. that is what the export/import thing is. if you look at

the new democrats were political resurgence in their own party. a number of vehicle was said to her credit leadership council that i founded in 1985 after we lost 49 states for the second time in four elections. as clinton wrote in the foreword to my book when we began we ran a very popular. that was an understatement but party leaders tried to shut us down but we were determined. re-read the details in my book in a few minutes but i do want to talk about the highlights. the new democrat movement was an idea and that is the second reason i wrote this book. i believe ideas in politics today with social media and cable news those ideas are just too underappreciated. we believed the intellectual resurgence of the democratic party had to proceed is political resurgence. you could start to run candidates all you want but if the party was on standing for things people wanted to support, people would not vote for it to. think about the 1988 election when democrats thought they would win and the party image helped to bring down mike dukakis. 2012 with the

i talked about the democratic side of this. the republicans were conducting a fairly conventional contest for their party's nomination. there were three major contenders. governor nelson rockefeller of new york. an unlikely character he was. third-generation rockefeller, when he was born, his birth was announced on the front page of the "new york times." service.up in public in the 1950's, he decided he wanted to go out and ask people for their votes and ran for governor of new york and turned out to have a wonderful sort of civility. he ate a hotdog on a street corner in new york city and it was arresting if he was elected governor in 1954. in 1962 andlected 1966. and played a kind of hamlet role through the first few months of 1968, will he get in to the contest for republican nomination or will he stay out? initially, he threw his support by somebody's last name you may recognize about the first time maybe a new. george romney. rockefeller anointed romney to be the candidate for the republican nomination who represented his

there's really no such thing as a nixon republican or democratic democrat or jan son democrat but there such things as reagan republicans, even reagan democrats. are the and reagan big figures. host: doug brinkley is a native of northeast ohio, a graduate, and he's dr. brinkley because of georgetown university. currently he teaches at rice. brian in east massachusetts, republican. hi, brian. caller: hi. thank you for taking my call. i had two questions for you. i understand that nixon's mother was a father and that his father was failed in a lemon rafrpbl. i wonder how that afect the nation. also, what about nixon's participation with whitaker chambers and the pumpkin paper? do you think that had any effect on when nixon resigned? thank you very much for my que. caller: you're pointing out, who is this boy, richard nixon? you talk about his parents. it's going to a whole linebacker. now it's all sprawled for nixon. when it was learn, he was a where i grew up. but it was a lot of talking cowboys and there was something defeat about nixon. he became the nerd out of high school, and then h

such a bad year for democrats.he reality is when you talk to strategists out there, pollsters there's no wave. it's probably already happened. what's important to remember is republicans can still win control of the senate without a wave. what a wave gets them is eight to ten seats. what they need right now, we talked about surgically picking up seats, they need to win five of the closest nine races, including mitch mcconnell and others. that's 55% of the closest races. what we've come to find every election is that you don't see it coming until election day but one side or the other almost always the races break disproportionately their way, 55%, 65%. that's more of the question than waiting for a wave. >> don't need a wave to win. >> that's right. >> watch race by race. >> as the white house wrings its hands whether to do the executive order on the mid-terms after the mid-terms keep your eye on the republican 2016 candidates. rand paul was in guatemala. he brought his political staff crew. governor chris christie

do you expect any fights in the primary if she gets in you know where democrat. we like a good fight among ourselves you know i don't think that should be a coronation i think in democracy the person that gets the most votes of the one that wins but there should always be a contest for those votes so there are others who feel that she she's not the incumbent president of the united states if she was it would be a different look if there are others who feel they want to bring their credentials and put them forward to the democratic voters in primaries i think they should go. fully free to do that this is not a coronation a this is a democracy not a monarchy the united states of america louise thank you so much great push that you larry thank you so much we want to thank john is with louise areas for being with us i'm looking forward to more conversations with him up next sean spicer communications director for the republican national committee to talk more about immigration for egypt and the midterm elections right after the. rostock rules in effect that means you

we have been focused on the democrats. harry reid, nancy pelosi pelosi, barack obama, whoever might be at that time active in politics. that is all wrong access our number one opponent is the establishment big government republicans. this is a 102-year-old were literally. in 1912, teddy roosevelt former president sought the republican nomination for the president, failed to achieve it. then he left the republican party and started the bull moose party which led to splitting the republican vote in 1912. woodrow wilson's election was less than 42% of the vote and conservatives have have been battling at a party ever since. sometimes her opponent looks like teddy roosevelt, sometimes tom dewey or eisenhower or nixon or ford, more recently john mccain, mitt romney, bob dole. these are the big government republicans and a appear much more in common with democrats than they do conservative republicans. look to the extent that the establishment republicans went to just a few weeks ago in mississippi to hold on to power. he will d

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it was had signal from democrats with john kerry or president obama to their fellow democrats to saye will not go further into it and democrats were concerned about airstrikes in iraq and right before they left they didn't get a lot of attention but there was legislation into the house that passed overwhelminging that sought to restrict the money the instruction could use in iraq and that is going to be a bone of contention of what money are you using. >> host: u.s. airstrikes won't weaken isis headline. there is a limit to this approach and experts are saying don't underestimate isis. did isis catch the administration by surprise? >> guest: it seems that way. i think they caught the intelligence community a little bit by surprised as well. they were deemed too radical for al-qaeda and now we are seeing al-qaeda recruits are leaving their affiliates to join isis. isis is interested in governing and we have not seen that in a while. isis is gaining a stronger foothold but overall, yes, i don't think three months ago, american policy makers ranging from the cia to obama saw this. >> ho

why don't democrats?liberals act like it's a natural process and we are trying to hold back the oceans tides. no, no, no there's nothing natural about this. the immigration laws specifically designed to bring in immigrants from countries that had not supplied immigrants to this country for the first 300 years of its existence. consequently since the law passed we have been taking in 65 and starting around 1970, we have been taking legal immigrants a year 90% from the third world. of course that's going

i think the democratic crisis requires a democratic solution. i think what we have in egypt is a system that is as close to fascism as you can now find. it really is. in the technical sense of the term logistic and so many ways. tunisia benefited, tunisia had a islamist -- there's no doubt about it but they didn't have the military to appeal to to resolve the collective action problem. so they either to talk or they fight. they fought a lot and i am sure they will still fight a lot but at the end of the day they appealed to their own sense of self-interest but also to the arbitrating role to other institutions in resolve the political pact for creating the constitution. there i remained optimistic. i think it's much more difficult for countries such as bahrain and syria for you at this relatively small minority that sees democratization as an existential threat. an election could mean that they are overwhelmed by the majority. alawites had a piece in the times about this. alawites do not see -- bahrain sunni government so structurally there are

democrats are very frustrated. looking for an answer. >> cruz coming over is like shooting the tires out of a car that's dead. it seems to me it isn't a question of the president having one plan on it. there is no other plan. we are going to stop everything and we're not doing nothing. >> exactly. here is the other thing. the boehner lawsuit is a frivolous lawsuitment the idea of the president suing congress right back, i have to say -- >> maybe on the level of frivolity. fair enough. >> but the reaction that you got last night is the same reaction i have been getting writing about the boehner lawsuit. these people do absolutely nothing. >> the lawsuit is a nothing. >> right. >> it won't happen for two, three years, won't get standing. >> here's the thing and why nothing is going to continue to not happen on capitol hill. the people who are on capitol hill right now who are causing all of the gridlock and dysfunction and no, no, no come from districts that voted them in to do nothing and less than nothing. to cut,

. >> a democrat. >> a democrat in california. he supports doing things for protecting americanser er iere americans near erbil. that's it. we're at an impasse where both the president and congress don't want to go further than we have so far. isis isn't going to wait for us to make up our minds. >> as i hear republicans talking with the exception of rand paul. the senator from kentucky who doesn't want to do anything. i think i hear a lot of republicans telling the president to go further. you have to be more aggressive. this is a real threat to the homeland, and you have to do something about it. is that how you see the dynamics with the gop? >> with great relief i think the republicans are coming back around to their traditional foreign policy seriousness. their hawkish instingtss. i think they understand that a ruterless world where america is sort of going into a isolation shell a very dangerous world. >> what about the democrats, brett? because they're the one who is have restrained the president going back to the beginning

we have a democratic senate, a republican house, and a democratic president. it is axiomatic you have to compromise to achieve results. and every compromise involves people of firm views and strong views like former congressman paul who would be disappointed. but let's take immigration as an issue. i think there's a clear consensus in the american people, we have to do something about border security. i think there's an equally strong consensus that we have to provide a pathway of citizenship -- or to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country. but that being said, if you try to get republicans and democrats in a room to agree to that, it is almost impossible, yet the outlines of a solution, to me, seem fairly clear and obvious and i dare say to the american people as well. so congressman paul might call it dangerous, i would call it essential, necessary, and in the broad national interests. host: doug shoen, what role has redistricting played in the splitting of the american political body? >> you know, it's a very good question, peter.

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why do republicans have such a hard time beating democratic incumbents when democrats haven't had the same problem with republican incumbents in democratic years? >> paul, it is tough to beat an incumbent. you have in places like arkansas mark pryor or louisiana with mary landrieu, candidates who have demonstrated in the past their ability to win as democrats in red states. not just them but members of their family won as democrats in red states. they know how to run campaigns. it is a tough thing to beat them. i still think we've got a very good shot in both of those states as well as many of the other red states. but this could be very close. we could be going into december before we know who controls the senate, and we won't know until december 6th when we have the runoff in louisiana who actually has control of the senate. >> the other thing i hear from democrats is that they are spend gd a lot of money, investing a lot of money not just on the air waves and advertising but in turnout, in their affinity voter program they used so well in 2012 with social media. five e-mails on ele

the democrats are not unhappy about this fight. this may be their big chance. >> the democrats are relishing this moment because they're dealing with an unpopular president. most democratic senate candidates are not inviting president obama to hit the campaign trail with them. they have to get president obama's popularity up. if not with voters at large at least with the democratic base. when president obama seems like he's the victim of house republicans who are going over the top with this impeachment talk, that gets democrats and places like georgia excited. places where there are other key senate races that's important to democrats. >> i thought one thing was interesting last night. gwen: go ahead. finish your thault. >> one interesting thing last night that the senate was able to confirm the russian -- the u.s. ambassador to russia but not the ambassador to guatemala where this whole crisis is stirring. gwen: exactly. we're -- that's a nice segue because we will move to foreign policy because world conflict has gone from conce

democrats are willing to do that.licans can't even get out of their own way. >> do you have any qualms about raising money off impeachment when speaker boehner says it is off the table. do you feel like you're overtalking about it. the only people talking about impeachment this week are democrats, not republicans? >> that isn't true, chuck. the only reason impeachment isn't off the table is because republicans won't take it off the table. speaker boehner has made it very clear that he isn't able to control his conference. he really isn't speaker. ted cruz is speaker. so when you have the third highest ranking republican, steve scalise, refuse to take impeachment off the table on fox news when asked a direct question, it's the republicans that haven't taken it off the table. so we know that the lawsuit is either a prelude to impeachment or was passed off the house floor just to appease his very large number of members who really want us to pursue impeachment. that's why it's out there. they should all take it off the t

democratic caller. >> i don't believe there's a cold war, but i think the president should put sanctions on this do-nothing congress. host: all right, we'll keep getting your thoughts on this. in other news, the front page of the atlanta journal constitution. second ebola case on way to georgia. the ebola outbreak touched american shores on monday as atlanta waited for the arrival of a second ebola patient. a hospital announced it had isolated a man with possible symptoms who walked into the emergency room. and then this front page of the boston globe this morning. their piece, few preparations in event of ebola in the united states, unclear how to allot drugs and equipment. the death toll nears 900 in west africa, there are warnings that hospitals in sates have few plans in place such as ventilators if such a deadly outbreak were to occur here. the financial times, the world bank is joining with the ebola fight with urgent funds. they have allocated 200 million in emergency funding as the death toll ne

one week after robinson's death, all 75 democrats, one of them was an independent, all 75 democrats in addition to barkley met in the caucus to vote. they voted by dropping their ballots in an old panama hat of virginia senator carter glass. this prompted a quip about trying to ensure the secret ballot by using a glass hat. senator barkley won by one vote. one vote. 37 to 36. but he lost much more with his colleagues. because many senators took offense at the president's influence in barkley's election. and barkley finally paid something of a price for it. his colleagues granted him the title of majority leader but not the accompanying authority and respect, viewing him as f.d.r.'s man rather than the senate leader. and that's how he began his tenure as majority leader. now the job of majority leader is a tough job. i'd like to try it out, by the way. [laughter] but it's a tough job. if your party controls the white house the majority leader usually tries to enact the president's programs and protect his priorities. that's much hardener a second presidential term than a first one in wh

by and large laugh along with us right democrats believe in the theory of evolution democrats would never say something most democrats i'm sure there are some but don't but most democrats wouldn't say something silly like what you just showed mike huckabee saying you know and you can go down the list all the sort of and it's to let them off the hook if that's the if that's the crime if that's the if that's the mistake that republicans making that we need to get at the poll because they they say stupid things then. democrats yeah are by you know the there is no nothing wrong there you know they don't say dumb things like that do they are not as many well and you see different dumb things this is this is the thing there's that they're still responsible they're still the other political party in this system you know and so they have they have to be you know they have to be held responsible as well i mean even more so than the president as a democrat you know this is obvious well and you do it all the time from a republican is really very much love to divert it seems our attention away

i am a strong democrat. i've believe strongly in the values that people across the state of for white believe in. ranking hadar, that me at 36, bernie sanders at 37, i think those rankings get a little goofy sometimes. i believe in democratic values. some times you have to lay down your partisan arms and work across the aisle. i've been able to do that on the defense bill, native american veterans act, which was passed into law. that i havedoubt used that are left of center. i can work with republicans. reflect yourhat constituency? do you think you are more or less liberal? sounds like a poll question. i am not sure how to answer that. i think that hawaii believes in progressive values, clean energy, social security, shall so safety net -- social safety net. i don't always agree with our president. we are proud of him. we agree with him on many issues. i take those values to the united states senate. youepresentative hanabusa have one minute. >> do you have a ranking for me? one of the things that i have do

he is a western democrat. he might have been a potential pick but now i am not so sure he is on the list. >> host: from michigan this is logan on the democratic line. >> caller: hi, richard, i was wondering what you think about bernie sanders running and if the fact he identifies as a socialist would hurt him? >> guest: that is a good question. he is proud to be a socialist. i think he is proud to be seen as a member of the progressive left. if you asked him he would like that label to not be known as something that was a dirty word. there is no question it limits his appeal and it is among the many reasons he would probably never be the nomninee but his presence on the stage could push hillary to the left particularly on the economy and working class. sanders has this interesting theory he is passionate about and that is democrats need to focus left on social issues and focus on the economy and that is a way to bring in voters. i don't know if that theory holds water but there is no question sanders could hav

when you drill down, democrats are solidly democratic.cans are solidly voting or tending to vote for the republicans, but democrats, about one in ten are unsure. so you have unlike republicans who are much more solid behind the gop candidates. that becomes somewhat problematic for the democrats in terms of a national perspective. they need to rally their base more at this point. >> it's interesting. there's an issue in terms of democrats motivating their base that does not exist for republicans. >> that's correct. that's not unusual in the six-term incumbent administration. in fact, the incumbent, only bill clinton picked up seats in his sixth year election and only that was five in the house. as you say democrats need to pick up 17 and the senate is also very problematic for the democrats because they're having seats in seven states they have to defend that mitt romney carried last time and, as you say, the republicans are picking up six. there's other states that obama carried. there's a whole lot of things going on. look, i think there

democrats. problems, but overall if you look at the democratic consensus it's a pretty common sense, mainstream consensus. it's not a lot of wacky, ideological nonsense and by the way, is generally fact based and reason based. >> the president went on to say that he thinks the republican party will free itself of extremist ideology, but is that a reason-based claim snz do you see signs that the two parties will work toward the middle on any issue right now? >> not right now. not in an election year and when we've got these serious divisions over immigration and, in fact, frankly, i think the divisions on immigration on the democratic side are somewhat profound, at least in the context of the context of the current humanitarian crisis, but no, in a sense there's no real logic in terms of political calculus for them to move together until after the election. >> now to a piece out yesterday from our own joan walsh. the rights impeachment trap how pundits blame obama for gop extremism. even you writ

for democrats, 202-585-3800. for republicans -- and for independents, 202-585-3882.t on twitter, it's @c-spanwj. mr. klein, you talk about president obama, the promises made before the re-election, prd what was kept afterward, but yos also bring in valerie jarrett, the president's adviseadviser. what's her role in alls of this? >> i say in "blood feud," this book, excuse me, that valerie jarrett is the single most important behind the scenes adviser in the white house since harry hopkins more than 70 years ago in the franklin roosevelt administration. hopkins was a friend of both ck franklin roosevelt and eleanor. valerie jarrett is best friendss with both michelle obama and barack obama.has a she s lives in the white house. i mean, by that, she literally t has a suite of rooms that she occupies t permanently in the y white house. she has a secret service detail, she eats with the president and first lady every night that they are in the white house.atever she goes on vacations with thems she goes to whatever mee