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had democrats saying we're going to do this without democratic votes. do you look at it and say, what if we pursued something else like infrastructure that donald trump campaigned on, might be more of a natural interest for democrats, could that have changed the dynamic early on on capitol hill? >> you need a pay for, steve, on the infrastructure plan. as much as we all know we need infrastructure work in this country, there's got to be some kind of pay for, in some way tagging that along with tax reform might have been a vehicle, but as senator schumer said, if there's anything tax cuts for what he calls the wealthy, which in many cases are the job creators across america, the small businessowners, and let's remember, half of americans don't pay any federal income taxes. of course, it's going to benefit some of the higher earners because half the country at the lower income level don't even pay income taxes. i think the senator schumer is locked in on doing what he can to be an obstructionist. he's in minority. i understand that. i think it will become
had democrats saying we're going to do this without democratic votes. do you look at it and say, what if we pursued something else like infrastructure that donald trump campaigned on, might be more of a natural interest for democrats, could that have changed the dynamic early on on capitol hill? >> you need a pay for, steve, on the infrastructure plan. as much as we all know we need infrastructure work in this country, there's got to be some kind of pay for, in some way tagging that along...
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this is a democratic heavy class. 25 democrats are of work reelection. 8 republican seats.eff sessions, a special election was added. 10 democrats are running in reelection in districts where donald trump was victorious. nine of those are in districts where mitt romney and donald trump won. the math is skewed. host: let's talk about some of the states. missouri, north dakota, florida senator nelson, montana, and wisconsin. guest: when these senators are voting for the presidents cap or future -- cap or future -- legislation,ture party leaders are saying we have to oppose this president. on the other side, 69% of west virginians voted for donald trump. they have to balance this tension going into 2018. host: does senator feinstein seek reelection? guest: i think she's going to wait until later in the year. california has an earlier filing deadline than other states. i would not put a definitive finger on either side. host: so many races in the house and senate. races that couple of you think are going to be indicative? guest: i think looking at it in the aggregate, but one t
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for748-8920 is the line democrats. 2027 48 8921 is the line for democrats. a live look at the east front of the capital. the president on his 40th day in the white house delivering remarks to a joint session of congress outlining a broad agenda on tax reform, the economy, foreign-policy issues and the threats we face from terrorism and the challenge to move the front -- country forward again. in a moment, we will have the official democratic response from the former kentucky governor steve bashir. following the response, our phone lines are open, a chance to react. powerful speech is available on c-span.org. later tonight, prime and for the west coast a chance for the -- to see the president's speech in its entirety live on c-span. come in -- coming up in a mormon -- moment, the democratic response. >> i am steve bashir. i was governor of kentucky from -- 2007-2015.20's i am some 400 miles from washington at a diner with neighbors. democrats and republicans, where we just watched the president's address worried i am a proud democrat, but first and foremost,
for748-8920 is the line democrats. 2027 48 8921 is the line for democrats. a live look at the east front of the capital. the president on his 40th day in the white house delivering remarks to a joint session of congress outlining a broad agenda on tax reform, the economy, foreign-policy issues and the threats we face from terrorism and the challenge to move the front -- country forward again. in a moment, we will have the official democratic response from the former kentucky governor steve...
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president trump campaigned against both the democratic and republican establishments. when he came into office, he chose his appointments, including supreme court and governed from the hard right. even without democrats, he's having trouble doing that as trump care shows, he will have trouble constantly and less he moves to the middle. we are waiting for him to do it. >> thank you all. >> today in the senate, members debated the nomination of neil gorsuch to the supreme court. they also talked about senate rules on limiting debate and whether a 60 vote threshold should apply to supreme court nominations. we will hear first from majority leader mitch mcconnell and minority leader chuck schumer. >> let's go to another matterom since judge gorsuch was nominated to the supreme court, senate democrats have searched high and low for a reason to oppose him. they looked at his background, they found a columbia alum, a harvard law graduate and an oxford scholar. they looked at his reputation. they found an impartial and fair judge, and eloquent writer and a humble and even-temp
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the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: mr. president, i rise this morning on a few topics, but i first want to mention that last night, many of us spent some time at the white house where we were regaled by the wonderful marine and amendment chorus, where there was talk about renewing the spirit of bipartisanship in washington. i'm all for it. of course we democrats hope that the president and republicans in congress will sit down with us in a true spirit of bipartisanship, because so far this congress, the republican in this congress so far, the republican idea of bipartisanship has meant to both the president and the congress, republicans in congress. we come up with our plan, and you democrats should support it. that's not bipartisanship. the president, the republican leader, house speaker have come up with issue after issue, including the supreme court nominee. no democratic consultation and then said the only way you can achieve bipartisanship is just vote with us. you can't improve the health care system with only republ
the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: mr. president, i rise this morning on a few topics, but i first want to mention that last night, many of us spent some time at the white house where we were regaled by the wonderful marine and amendment chorus, where there was talk about renewing the spirit of bipartisanship in washington. i'm all for it. of course we democrats hope that the president and republicans in congress will sit down with us in a true spirit of bipartisanship,...
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a lot of democrats are being too lenient.hat this guy is doing with his family, his conflict of interest is everywhere. host: tell me why the chairman needs to go. caller: he needs to go because he didn't do proper protocol when he received information and it looks like what he is doing is just trying to protect donald trump and i think he is trying to protect himself. host: one more call on this topic from ron in new hampshire on the democrats line. go ahead. caller: good morning. he really does need to recuse himself. there was classified evidence he received and instead of sharing it with his investigative team, he chose his side. he took it right directly to paul ryan and the president and republicans. he basically tainted the evidence. that would be just like any other investigation, if somebody is being investigated, you don't take your information to the people that you are investigating first before you share it with your team. there is something really fishy about that along with all the contacts with the russians th
a lot of democrats are being too lenient.hat this guy is doing with his family, his conflict of interest is everywhere. host: tell me why the chairman needs to go. caller: he needs to go because he didn't do proper protocol when he received information and it looks like what he is doing is just trying to protect donald trump and i think he is trying to protect himself. host: one more call on this topic from ron in new hampshire on the democrats line. go ahead. caller: good morning. he really...
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next call from kansas city, missouri, democrat. caller: i would like the democrats to make a deal that they will approve judge gorsuch if the republicans will give them a special prosecutor to look into the russian issue. host: thanks for the idea. .lice, california, democrat what is next for the president's agenda and for republicans in congress? that,: i want to say since the president has failed repeal and they becauseall together, the president is saying he wants to repeal it. to say repeal it. i am not on obamacare, but i saw the change in my doctor's office, which i changed my doctor so i could have more saw allcare, but then i the people coming in with children and everything else that it was afforded to under the obamacare. all i want him to do is stop focusing on obama and move on and work with the health care, because i can see where he is taking away a lot of the affordable things. i am one of the baby boomers that grew up in texas and louisiana. i was born in louisiana, raised in texas. the thing is, i have been through
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. >> we have no democrat support. we have no votes from the democrats. >> but how will the president respond to members of his own party who turned on him? >> we all learned a lot. we learned a lot about loyalty. >> plus, democrats take a victory lap. >> it's pretty exciting for us. >> energized by keeping obamacare on the books. are they in a stronger place to make a deal with the president? bernie sanders joins us with his take. and partisan investigation. how intelligence leaders split over the russia investigation with democrats pointing fingers at the republican committee head. >> i think the speaker has to decide just as well as our own chairman whether they want a credible investigation being done. >> is it time for a special prosecutor? plus, the best political minds will be here with insights on what happens next. hello. i'm dane erin bash in washington in for jake tapper and the "state of our union" is dysfunctional. president trump had a major fail to repeal obamacare crumbled. republican-controlled washing
. >> we have no democrat support. we have no votes from the democrats. >> but how will the president respond to members of his own party who turned on him? >> we all learned a lot. we learned a lot about loyalty. >> plus, democrats take a victory lap. >> it's pretty exciting for us. >> energized by keeping obamacare on the books. are they in a stronger place to make a deal with the president? bernie sanders joins us with his take. and partisan investigation....
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democrats line.aller: i agree with president the united to do for states but like you said before, we will have to save every dollar we have to be able to do it. why take away from the poor, the working man, the handicapped, the ones on social security? we need to go to the billionaires or millionaires and raise their taxes so we can have gettingey instead of every dollar from the social security and the medicare. i'm handicapped from working and i suffer a lot of pain everything will day. i need back surgery, i had an elbow operated on and my hands are going bad. why should we give up our medicare when we worked so hard to get it with low wages? we need to go to the rich man, the billionaires, the millionaires and the wall street. and was bush that put us in a war that he was responsible for the people getting murdered because of the war that he lied to congress to have been joint of dollars -- and spent trillions of dollars. >> president trump talked about protecting the american homeland last nigh
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so do democrats have a case to make those should be democratic voters?if they're not going to be reached by the democratic party because they're dug in with breitbart and fox news and propaganda, you can't reach them. let's face it a lot of these voters voted for a president and a party who is going to take away their health care, take away also addiction coverage, which had been added under the affordable care act in states where the epidemic of drugs is out of control. >> and there was actually a guy who that point was made of, this a guy traveling all over the country playing his guitar. he taechbtd 40 different realize and he's come to the conclusion he's been duped. >> do you play this guitar anymore? >> nope. >> why not? >> i'm not on the trump trail anymore, and live lost my heart to play the trump songs. >> moss, who believes his son might still be a live if who he had health insurance can't believe trump supports the republican health care plan. >> so that's craig moss. are you saying democrats should have no sympathy for that man? and not try t
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you talk to, again, democrats, republicans.here are still concerns over the state of americans' health care system. all americans are affected by health care insurance, and, you know, lindsey graham at his town hall earlier today who i'll remind you was the only u.s. senator to hold the town hall this weekend, and he said that potentially they could get bipartisan support and work with democrats on an effort to ultimately find a health care replacement bill that could help move the health care system forward and talking to democrats and republicans, i think they would tell you the same. >> vaughn, we talk and talk about the health care bill and what happened yesterday, but ultimately it's those people that are really going to be affected by what takes place and what changes are made. thank you for bringing that to us. nbc's vaughn hilliard. >>> women's health care advocates are -- many advocacy groups slammed the bill that would have stripped federal funding from planned parenthood and eliminated essential health benefits that
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democrats, (202) 748-8000.epublicans, (202) 748-8001. .ndependents, (202) 748-8002 you can also catch up with us on twitter and facebook. a very good morning to you. leading up to yesterday's hearings in the senate judiciary committee democrats had question of whether judge gorsuch could be sufficiently independent of the man who nominated him. chuck grassley used his first question to address that and he asked judge gorsuch if he could rule against president donald trump. >> i have no difficulty ruling against or for any party, other than based on what the law and the facts in the particular case require. i am heartened by the support have received from people who recognize that there is no such thing is a republican judge or a democratic judge. we just have judges in this country. i think of what judicial independence means, i think of byron white. that is who i think of. i think of his fierce, rugged independent. he said, i have a job. people asked what his judicial philosophy was and i will give the same an
democrats, (202) 748-8000.epublicans, (202) 748-8001. .ndependents, (202) 748-8002 you can also catch up with us on twitter and facebook. a very good morning to you. leading up to yesterday's hearings in the senate judiciary committee democrats had question of whether judge gorsuch could be sufficiently independent of the man who nominated him. chuck grassley used his first question to address that and he asked judge gorsuch if he could rule against president donald trump. >> i have no...
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the criticism he is getting is from democrats, near universal from democrats. of thecain went on one cable shows and said this is an indication that congress has no credibility doing this investigation on its own. there are some republicans who have been critical of him. for the most part, he has the support of his colleagues on the republican side of the aisle. that being said, he was very quick to apologize on thursday morning. it was a remarkable press conference. it was on wednesday. it was called very hastily here at he read a statement and did not seem to know how to answer .he questions he contradicted himself numerous times taking questions from reporters. then to run to the white house and informed the president of information from the investigation of the president, essentially, without telling the other investigators was quite a remarkable step it i think there was a little bit of egg on his face and he was backtracking. host: will the democrats try to push that this week? guest: they want the information. part of the apology on thursday was, yes, i
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do you think it democrats will do that? >> he's the president of the united states of america for the next four years. we need to come to grips with that. liz: democrats are still saying impeach him. >> it's not the entire party that feels that way. we have a strong understanding you have to control the house to impeach someone. my issue saying these are trivial fights. i don't think the travel ban is a trivial fight. his stance only immigration is a trivial fight. and his job plan. i don't think it's a trivial fight. liz: the new executive order. iraq will be tonight. syrian refugees won't be singled out. even christian catholics and christian religions will be singled out for help. >> counter to jessica's point that there is a travel ban. if we look at videos of president clinton and senator barack obama who said we cannot have an open border. we can't allow people -- i'm literally quoting president obama. >> we don't have an open border. liz: we have 32,000 border crossers apprehended and some untold numbers coming into
do you think it democrats will do that? >> he's the president of the united states of america for the next four years. we need to come to grips with that. liz: democrats are still saying impeach him. >> it's not the entire party that feels that way. we have a strong understanding you have to control the house to impeach someone. my issue saying these are trivial fights. i don't think the travel ban is a trivial fight. his stance only immigration is a trivial fight. and his job plan....
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>> democrats better hope he is talking nonsense.lder is saying there is of the president is going to join him in a bid to push for redistricting on the state level to get democrats elected to state offices so they can effect redistricting maps, they can claw their way back to the majority in the house. if that is something that the former president really is going to take a public roll on and be a spokesman for it, this would be huge news for democrats. so far, republicans have been overstating the role that obama has played. obama looks like he has been chilling. he has been surfing with richard branson, signing $60 million book deals, going to broadway shows, he looks untroubled. >> martha: that is what he should be doing. a lot of stress for eight years. >> being president stinks. being not president and paying rich and famous is cool. he is a mad face. he hasn't been doing that stuff. republicans have been accusing him. of this is the truth, this is a disaster for democrats. they needed fire dominic forest fire, it clears out th
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remember this, we had no democrat support. so now we're going to do for tax reform, which i've always liked. >> reporter: now, he talked about we could have done this first. when you look at how does a white house decide its priorities, in this case, when you've got a republican white house and republican control of both the house and senate, they planned quite a while ago once the president was newly elected how would they go about their agenda of items. in some ways doing healthcare first set up some of the other plans like tax reform or tax cuts. why? because for the healthcare bill, had it moved forward and been successful, had it shown a reduction in the deficit, that would have been sort of some money in the bank, if you will, to then go on to tax reform. there was a reason they did it in this order even though it was a tougher task in a way. because tax reform, tax cuts is also very popular among republicans. not as many factions there. the question now, is one defeat going to weaken their position to do anything else?
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so did a few democrats as well. the policy divide in washington isn't going anywhere. >> president trump striking a more presidential and optimistic tone i'm here to deliver unity and strength. >> it is a message deeply delivered from my heart. >> off the top the president condemning the surge in hate crimes since he took office. >> recent threats targeting jewish community centers and vandalism of jewish cemeteries as well as last week's shooting in kansas city remind us while we may be a nation divided with policies we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of it's very ugly forms. >> spending much of the speech laying out an ambitious agenda. >> everything that is broken in our country can be fixed. >> his solution, an echo from his campaign, america first. >> buy american and hire american. >> and once again using national security as the basis for his proposed border wall with mexico. >> we want all americans to succeed but that can't happen in an environment of lawless chaos. we wi
so did a few democrats as well. the policy divide in washington isn't going anywhere. >> president trump striking a more presidential and optimistic tone i'm here to deliver unity and strength. >> it is a message deeply delivered from my heart. >> off the top the president condemning the surge in hate crimes since he took office. >> recent threats targeting jewish community centers and vandalism of jewish cemeteries as well as last week's shooting in kansas city remind...
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we had no democrat support. we had no votes from the democrats. they weren't going to give us a single vote, it's a difficult thing to do. i've been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode, it is exploding right now. it's -- many states have big problems, almost all states have big problems. i was in tennessee the other day and they've lost half of their state in terms of an insurer. have no insurer. it was mostly because of secretary price, and phase three which i think we would have gotten, premiums would have kwon down, would have been very stable, very strong. but we're very, very close and i think what will happen is obamacare will explode. it's going to be a very bad year. last year you had over 100% increases in various places, arizona, i understand, it's going up very rapidly again. like it did last year. last year was 116%. many places, 50%, 60%, 70%. i guess it averaged, whatever the average was, very, very high. this year should be much worse for obamacare. what wou
we had no democrat support. we had no votes from the democrats. they weren't going to give us a single vote, it's a difficult thing to do. i've been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode, it is exploding right now. it's -- many states have big problems, almost all states have big problems. i was in tennessee the other day and they've lost half of their state in terms of an insurer. have no insurer. it was mostly because...
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we had no democrat support. we had no votes from the democrats. they weren't going to give us a single vote, it's a difficult thing to do. i've been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode, it is exploding right now. it's -- many states have big problems. almost all states have big problems. i was in tennessee the other day and they've lost half of their state in terms of an insurer. they have no insurer. that is happening to many other places. i was in kentucky the other day, and similar things are happening. so obamacare is exploding. with no democrat support, we could not get there. we were a couple of votes short of getting our bill passed. a lot of people do not realize how good our bill was. they were looking at phase one, but when we at phase two, which was mostly because of secretary price, and phase three, which i think we would have gotten, it would have been a great bill. premiums would have gone down, would have been very stable, very strong. that's ok. but we're v
we had no democrat support. we had no votes from the democrats. they weren't going to give us a single vote, it's a difficult thing to do. i've been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode, it is exploding right now. it's -- many states have big problems. almost all states have big problems. i was in tennessee the other day and they've lost half of their state in terms of an insurer. they have no insurer. that is happening...
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but what the democratic leader but what the democratic leader but what the democratic leader has suggested that he would dent the senate the opportunity to get to that second up-or-down vote and that simply unprecedented. and it's unprecedented for a very good reason, because iner order to believe that 60 votes would be required to confirm a nominee to the united statese supreme court would be to suggest that the founding a fathers when the constitution was written and when it was ratified somehow believe that the senate rules were incorporated in the constitution when that's clearly not the case. it's clearly not the case. the constitution is a separate d document and the center rules are different thing but again never have it they suggested that somehow in order to confirm a nominee to the supreme court if you need 60 votes. while i understand the pressure that our friend the democratic leader because after this last election he has now had toamps scramble to competing camps within the democratic party. traditional democrats verses the democrats led by the wing of bernie sanders and eli
but what the democratic leader but what the democratic leader but what the democratic leader has suggested that he would dent the senate the opportunity to get to that second up-or-down vote and that simply unprecedented. and it's unprecedented for a very good reason, because iner order to believe that 60 votes would be required to confirm a nominee to the united statese supreme court would be to suggest that the founding a fathers when the constitution was written and when it was ratified...
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his -- democrats who supported him in michigan, democrats who supported him in pennsylvania, democrats who supported him in ohio and florida are so sbu enthusiastic about him that now is the moment that he has the room with his own base of voters to do that. >> so it's fifth avenue. like shoot somebody on fifth avenue? >> yes, that was the truest thing he said. >> but would republicans in congress go along with him? >> the gang of eight already -- what's interesting is if he says this, if he's -- if he's been briefed by enough people to understand that the only way to fix immigration is comprehensive, that's where george w. bush arrived with the late ted kennedy and john mccain. he couldn't get it done because of his own party''s resistance, that's where president obama arrived with the bipartisan gang of eight. if donald trump has already arrive at the place where he understands that comprehensive is -- it's impossible to deport -- someone would have done it already. >> the republicans will be against it even if he's for it. >> we'll see, i think his base of support will give him the
his -- democrats who supported him in michigan, democrats who supported him in pennsylvania, democrats who supported him in ohio and florida are so sbu enthusiastic about him that now is the moment that he has the room with his own base of voters to do that. >> so it's fifth avenue. like shoot somebody on fifth avenue? >> yes, that was the truest thing he said. >> but would republicans in congress go along with him? >> the gang of eight already -- what's interesting is...
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are democrats overplaying their hand? to voice your opinions, grab your phone or your laptop and log on where you can participate by selecting your responses. you can vote as often as you like throughout today's show. the white house today asking congress to widen its probe in a russian interference in the 2016 election to include the potential abuse of executive branch powers. the move comes after president trump accused president obama of wiretapping trump tower during the election. former director of national intelligence, james clapper also refuting the president's claim in an exclusive interview on nbc's "meet the press." >> for the part of the national security apparatus that i oversaw as dni there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president -- the president-elect at the time as a candidate or against his campaign. >> if the fbi had a court order for some type of surveillance, would that be information you would know or would not know? >> yes. >> you would be told this? >> i would know that. >> you ca
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usuallyour state is democratic.t is not going to matter how a vote because it is going to be democrat almost 100% of the time. but i agree with john kasich from what he just said. know, republicans make up about 30%-40%. democrats make up about 30%-40%, and the rest are independent. i am republican because i believe in house rights. the house with legislation they're going through right now, honestly? that is not a conservative view. it should go back to the states. i think mitt romney had it right in the massachusetts legislation he helped an act in that state. it worked for that state. host: george, we appreciate your input. pretty much right. gallup does a regular paul on party affiliation. they ask the question, and politics as of today do you consider's upper republican, a democrat, or in independent and the latest from february 2017, 30% republicans, independents 37%, democrats 31%. we go back monthly to look at the column. six months, eight months or so. right around 40%. the affiliation, the expressed affili
usuallyour state is democratic.t is not going to matter how a vote because it is going to be democrat almost 100% of the time. but i agree with john kasich from what he just said. know, republicans make up about 30%-40%. democrats make up about 30%-40%, and the rest are independent. i am republican because i believe in house rights. the house with legislation they're going through right now, honestly? that is not a conservative view. it should go back to the states. i think mitt romney had it...
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but you need so many democrats.his new moderate democrats we need you to make is coming from president trump but also members of congress talk about being sick and tired of having to deal with the freedom caucus and say no to everything alyssa get this. build on whatever the matter is. they want to see if they can get something down and peel off moderate democrats. we can do it in the saint senate , why not in the house. >> harris: we saw senator chuck schumer of new york say, well maybe we would come to the table and get consensus where we can. you think he's sincere? >> i do. he also said he be willing to compromise on healthcare. it's not as if democrats don't understand there's problems with obama care. i think there is great opportunity and chuck schumer wants infrastructure spending too. something donald trump is a fan of. there is a lot of wiggle room here. with trump having blown up the normal business as usual on the republican side there's a lot of opportunity. >> harris: we shared a little this with the c
but you need so many democrats.his new moderate democrats we need you to make is coming from president trump but also members of congress talk about being sick and tired of having to deal with the freedom caucus and say no to everything alyssa get this. build on whatever the matter is. they want to see if they can get something down and peel off moderate democrats. we can do it in the saint senate , why not in the house. >> harris: we saw senator chuck schumer of new york say, well maybe...
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anne, greensboro, north carolina, democrats line. i just find it interesting this question is eing asked and a question like this was not asked for the past eight years and people coming up of how republicans and democrats can work together hen for the previous administration, the republicans decided they would do nothing to president obama and so feel like the democrats need to follow the republican lead and do not cooperate with the necessary any way. it was very successful for as they ns to behave did, they have three branches of the government by not working democrats and president bama, so i think the democrats need to the same. for the health plan that the democrats can get together and some ideas of their own and present to the american the affordable care act can be improved. i think they need to do that on own because republicans were not assist them. on ink just what has gone for the past two months, i think they have us that no -- republicans have no intention of working with the democrats. very much. host: next to tom in
anne, greensboro, north carolina, democrats line. i just find it interesting this question is eing asked and a question like this was not asked for the past eight years and people coming up of how republicans and democrats can work together hen for the previous administration, the republicans decided they would do nothing to president obama and so feel like the democrats need to follow the republican lead and do not cooperate with the necessary any way. it was very successful for as they ns to...
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i'm a proud democrat, but first and foremost i'm a proud republican and democrat and mostly american. like many of you, i am worried about the future of this nation. look, i grew up in kentucky in a small town called dawson springs. my dad and granddad were baptist preachers. my family owned a funeral home, and my wife jane and i have been married for almost 50 years. i became governor at the start of the global recession, and after eight years we left things a lot better than we found them. by being fiscally responsible, i even cut my own pay, we balanced ore budget and turned deficits into surpluses without raising taxes. we cut our unemployment rate in half. we made huge gains in high school graduation rates, and we found health coverage for over half a million kentuckyans. we did that through trust and mutual respect. i listened and i built partnerships with business leaders and with republicans in our legislature. we put people first and politics second. the america i love allowed a small town preacher's kid to be elected governor, and it taught me to embrace people who are diffe
i'm a proud democrat, but first and foremost i'm a proud republican and democrat and mostly american. like many of you, i am worried about the future of this nation. look, i grew up in kentucky in a small town called dawson springs. my dad and granddad were baptist preachers. my family owned a funeral home, and my wife jane and i have been married for almost 50 years. i became governor at the start of the global recession, and after eight years we left things a lot better than we found them. by...
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democrats have little faith in what he says. they would have to see everything in black and white before they would agree to have any discussions. i don't think they want to get caught in a trap by trump. they would be wary on this. >> the president said he did know how complicated the debate was with a lot of ideas being floated about to repeal, replace the affordable care act. we heard from senate democratic that theaying president mother republicans have not picked up a single democratic vote to move on the affordable care act, and republicans say this is their number one agenda item domestically. >> i think they are in a bad spot now on the affordable care act. the key on repealing it and replacing it, they can't get a deal right now. i don't see a clear path. there is a meeting called by the majority leader, with the top two house republicans on this issue, they are going to have a discussion. there is a lot of time left. we are talking the beginning of march. you need a lot of time on these issues. they would still need le
democrats have little faith in what he says. they would have to see everything in black and white before they would agree to have any discussions. i don't think they want to get caught in a trap by trump. they would be wary on this. >> the president said he did know how complicated the debate was with a lot of ideas being floated about to repeal, replace the affordable care act. we heard from senate democratic that theaying president mother republicans have not picked up a single...
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we had no democrat support. we had no votes from the democrats. they weren't going to give us a single vote, so it's a very difficult thing to do. i've been saying for the last year and a half, that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode and it's exploding right now. so many states have big problems, almost all states have big problems. i was in tennessee the other day and there was problem in terms of the state and many other places. i was in connecticut the other day and similar things are happening. so obamacare is exploding with no democrats support. we couldn't quite get there. we were a small number of votes short in terms of getting our bill passed. a lot of people don't realize how good our bill was because they were viewing phase one, but when you add phase two, which was mostly the signs of secretary price who is behind them, and you add phase three, which i think we would have gotten, it became a great bill. premiums would have gone down and been very stable and very strong. but that's okay. we are very,
we had no democrat support. we had no votes from the democrats. they weren't going to give us a single vote, so it's a very difficult thing to do. i've been saying for the last year and a half, that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode and it's exploding right now. so many states have big problems, almost all states have big problems. i was in tennessee the other day and there was problem in terms of the state and many other places. i was in connecticut the...
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we will realize the enormous pressure that our democratic colleagues are under. it's why we're hearing talks of some mythical 60-vote standard that doesn't exist. just ask the fact checkers that have repeatedly debunked that idea. a 60-vote threshold has never been the standard for a supreme court confirmation, not for president clinton's supreme court nominees in his first term, not for the supreme court nominees of the newly elected president obama either. as "the washington post" fact checker reminded us again just this very morning, once again there is no traditional 60-vote standard or rule for supreme court nominations, no matter how much or how often democrats claim otherwise. so i would ask our democratic friends, do they really want to launch the first wholly partisan filibuster of a supreme court nominee in american history? do they really think history books or the american people will look kindly on them for filibustering this amazingly well qualified and widely respected nominee? judge gorsuch has earned an enormous amount of praise from across the p
we will realize the enormous pressure that our democratic colleagues are under. it's why we're hearing talks of some mythical 60-vote standard that doesn't exist. just ask the fact checkers that have repeatedly debunked that idea. a 60-vote threshold has never been the standard for a supreme court confirmation, not for president clinton's supreme court nominees in his first term, not for the supreme court nominees of the newly elected president obama either. as "the washington post"...
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thus, there are signs that democratic law may be weakening as to democrats say they plan to support the president's nomination of neil gorsuch. but that may not stop efforts to filibuster him anyway try alka seltzer heartburn relief chews. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmmmm...amazing. i have heartburn. alka seltzer heartburn relief chews. enjoy the relief. >> ed: two democratic senators now say they will cross the aisle to vote for supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. but judge gorsuch you may still face a hurdle in his path to the high court. as democratic leadership remains devoted to derailing that nomination. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel of course is live on this story on whether they may be going nuclear. >> good afternoon. it is setting up to be quite a showdown in the senate next week with republican saying judge neil gorsuch's will be confirmed to the supreme court one way or another. judge gorsuch's received very high marks for his responses to questions during the confirmation process and the senate, republicans say he has highly qualified to sit on
thus, there are signs that democratic law may be weakening as to democrats say they plan to support the president's nomination of neil gorsuch. but that may not stop efforts to filibuster him anyway try alka seltzer heartburn relief chews. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmmmm...amazing. i have heartburn. alka seltzer heartburn relief chews. enjoy the relief. >> ed: two democratic senators now say they will cross the aisle to vote for supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. but judge...
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he had voted for democrats in the past. the way to govern on the big issues would be to go on a completely didn't path, a different direction, and work with democrats. it doesn't sound like you're ready to be a real partner there. >> no, it's not me. it's him. he ran as a populist. against the democratic and republican establishments. he ran as a defender of the middle class. the minute he got into office, maybe led by vice president pence and some of the others, he moved so far to the hard right that it's virtually impossible for us to work with him. if he changes, he'll have a different presidency. he has to tell the freedom caucus and the hard right special interests who are dominating his presidency. he didn't campaign for them. he campaigned on the opposite. he's going to have to tell them he can't work with them. it will be guided on our values. we're not going to oppose things because the name trump is on it. we're not going to compromise our values away and help the well to do and hurt the middle class and the poore
he had voted for democrats in the past. the way to govern on the big issues would be to go on a completely didn't path, a different direction, and work with democrats. it doesn't sound like you're ready to be a real partner there. >> no, it's not me. it's him. he ran as a populist. against the democratic and republican establishments. he ran as a defender of the middle class. the minute he got into office, maybe led by vice president pence and some of the others, he moved so far to the...
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housethat from the democratic leader nancy pelosi on the democratic agenda moving ahead.hat impact friday's delete only health care bill by republicans will have on what the president is trying to accomplish.another tweet . this is on our facebook page. holly is joining us on the democrats line. good morning. caller: good morning.how are you ? host: we are fine. how are you? caller: fine. i am from pennsylvania. host: who did you vote for in 2016? caller: i voted for hillary because i thought he was the better candidate. also, even though i do not vote for president trump, i wish him well, but whenever you start a relationship based on lies and alonempaign was just "i can take this, i will fix this," and then when you get in office, everything is based on lies, you cannot have -- people will not believe you. you will not be credible to the american people. the health care act that did not pass is proof of that. i wish him well, and i hope he turns it around for everyone in america. that is all i have to say. i just wish everyone well so we can get this country back on tra
housethat from the democratic leader nancy pelosi on the democratic agenda moving ahead.hat impact friday's delete only health care bill by republicans will have on what the president is trying to accomplish.another tweet . this is on our facebook page. holly is joining us on the democrats line. good morning. caller: good morning.how are you ? host: we are fine. how are you? caller: fine. i am from pennsylvania. host: who did you vote for in 2016? caller: i voted for hillary because i thought...
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can he pick up democratic support for any legislation and which democrats, if any, do you think woulde with him? >> yeah. it's a great question. i think the interest in working across the aisle is not mutual for a lot of these democrats. they're looking at a president with a very low approval rating. a president that was just burned bywn party. and they're not seeing a lot of incentive at this point to really work with this president, particularly since the mid terms are coming up next year. now, there is a group that the president could target. of course there are ten senators up for re-election next year in states that the president won. but about half of them are not really showing signs of being concerned. and then on the house side, have you about a dozen or so democrats from districts that trump won. so if you are looking for a starting point, that might be a place to kind of target and that certainly is where republicans on the campaign committees are targeting. but there is a big question about whether there is incentive for these democrats to actually work with this president
can he pick up democratic support for any legislation and which democrats, if any, do you think woulde with him? >> yeah. it's a great question. i think the interest in working across the aisle is not mutual for a lot of these democrats. they're looking at a president with a very low approval rating. a president that was just burned bywn party. and they're not seeing a lot of incentive at this point to really work with this president, particularly since the mid terms are coming up next...
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democrats don't hold the white house. nevertheless it feels like you are operating from a position of strength on a day like this. >> exactly. if you would have told me on january 3, the day i was sworn in as minority leader that on issue after issue democrats would be on offense and united and republicans would be on defense and divided i'd say forget about it. that's what's happened. >> do you get stronger when you win fights like this and what do you take away in terms of what's the next best fight, what's the way to fight in this incredible out side the democratic party pressure movement that's sprung up that's been such an impressive thing to watch. >> i cut my eyeteeth in the vietnam war movement. i was cut from a basketball team, a guy knocks on my door and says "how would you like to join the young democrats, we're working against the vietnam war." i was against the vietnam war. i've never seen so much energy until now. we toppled the most powerful man in the world. so this energy among the public is huge. on the
democrats don't hold the white house. nevertheless it feels like you are operating from a position of strength on a day like this. >> exactly. if you would have told me on january 3, the day i was sworn in as minority leader that on issue after issue democrats would be on offense and united and republicans would be on defense and divided i'd say forget about it. that's what's happened. >> do you get stronger when you win fights like this and what do you take away in terms of what's...
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traditional democrats versus the democrats led by the wing of bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. and i understand the pressures that he must feel and the reason why he would do something that is unprecedented and suggest that we filibuster this nomination. well, we already know that some members of his conference have said they will agree to an up-or-down vote. our friend from west virginia, senator manchin, has said he opposes the filibuster. senator leahy, the former chairman of the senate judiciary committee, has said he's not inclined to go along with it either. senator cardin, our colleague and friend from maryland, has stopped short of agreeing with the minority leader's strategy. and senator heitkamp from north dakota has said that she believes the nominee deserves an up-or-down vote. if the democratic leader follows through, as i said, it would be unprecedented. never before has there been a successful partisan filibuster of a supreme court nominee. i would just say to our friends across the aisle, time and time again democrats have accelerated the arms race on judges, an
traditional democrats versus the democrats led by the wing of bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. and i understand the pressures that he must feel and the reason why he would do something that is unprecedented and suggest that we filibuster this nomination. well, we already know that some members of his conference have said they will agree to an up-or-down vote. our friend from west virginia, senator manchin, has said he opposes the filibuster. senator leahy, the former chairman of the senate...
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, but about one in five democrats, little bit more than one in five democrats here say, yeah actually he was talking about on tuesday night, they support. remember, he sort of mixed up the party lines there on issues like trade and infrastructure and meanwhile, republicans obviously not a shock here, 91% say they supported 6% opposing. again, that's the most important number of the day. in that speech tuesday night, donald trump helped himself in terms of how people feel about him as president. now the stuff that happened the rest of the week, maybe that changed it again. that's something we will talk about ahead. >>> and also next, another scandal for uber. the "new york times" now reporting that the company developed a tool to deceive authorities. we'll talk to the reporter who broke that story. that's next. look closely. hidden in every swing, every chip, and every putt, is data that can make the difference between winning and losing. the microsoft cloud helps the pga tour turn countless points of data into insights that transform their business and will enhance the game for player
, but about one in five democrats, little bit more than one in five democrats here say, yeah actually he was talking about on tuesday night, they support. remember, he sort of mixed up the party lines there on issues like trade and infrastructure and meanwhile, republicans obviously not a shock here, 91% say they supported 6% opposing. again, that's the most important number of the day. in that speech tuesday night, donald trump helped himself in terms of how people feel about him as president....
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democrat. good morning. caller: hello there, greta, i job.k you do a fabulous host: appreciate that. aller: i very much appreciate walking the journal in the morning, you guys are very fair. was hing i wanted to say that the reality is that trump and company are the worst choice americans i feel have ever made and i think most people even for him agree ed with this. i just think the right-minded for trump, they suffer from lack of education and they basically have a way of thinking, but the current times, like i said, you. c-span, thank i wish people would get back to get educated and then actually admit what trump and damage are doing, the they are doing to the country. thank you. in : that was jennifer california. a democrat. scott in fairmont, indiana, a republican. there, good morning. caller: hi, how are you? host: doing well, sir. your mind this morning? caller: i live in rearville, and no global d warming for 18 years. facts that are in there are what the scientists, o-called scientists put in the com
democrat. good morning. caller: hello there, greta, i job.k you do a fabulous host: appreciate that. aller: i very much appreciate walking the journal in the morning, you guys are very fair. was hing i wanted to say that the reality is that trump and company are the worst choice americans i feel have ever made and i think most people even for him agree ed with this. i just think the right-minded for trump, they suffer from lack of education and they basically have a way of thinking, but the...
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it just shows how much influence the alt left has over the democratic party and that the democrats have zero interest in working with president trump even though he is trying to clean up the mess that they made with their failed leftist policies. the responsibility now to fix the country falls squarely on the republicans in the house and senate. now is the time they have to lead. look at the reaction to last night's speech from the american public, cnn had a pole. at 78% of people had a positive reaction to the president's speech. 69% of the policies he had laid out it would move the country in the right direction. cbs poll found the same thing. at 76% of the people who watched approved of the speech. the address and made them feel more optimistic. take a look how the very tough well respected colleague chris wallace -- listen to what he said. >> i thought it was by far the best speech i'd ever heard donald trump give. it was one of the best speeches in that setting i had ever heard any president give. i feel like tonight, donald trump became the president of the united states. that yes
it just shows how much influence the alt left has over the democratic party and that the democrats have zero interest in working with president trump even though he is trying to clean up the mess that they made with their failed leftist policies. the responsibility now to fix the country falls squarely on the republicans in the house and senate. now is the time they have to lead. look at the reaction to last night's speech from the american public, cnn had a pole. at 78% of people had a...
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the democratic ranks. want to exacerbate splits or rifts that occur inside the democratic party. huffington post is going great reporting on what appears to have been a coordinated russian effort to flood bernie sanders supporters and bernie sanders facebook groups with anti-hillary clinton spam and fake news during the election, stories about hillary clinton murdering her opponents and using body doubles and all this crazy stuff. one sanders facebook page administrator started tracking down where these nuts stories were coming from and found that at least 40% of the domain registrations were in places like macedonia and albania and elsewhere in eastern europe. another facebook group administrator told the huffington post "it came in like a wave, like a tsunami. it was a flood of misinformation." now, a lot of the people posting these things from foreign countries claimed to be bernie sanders fans who had decided to vote for trump or had decided to vote for jill stein because hillary clinton was a murderin
the democratic ranks. want to exacerbate splits or rifts that occur inside the democratic party. huffington post is going great reporting on what appears to have been a coordinated russian effort to flood bernie sanders supporters and bernie sanders facebook groups with anti-hillary clinton spam and fake news during the election, stories about hillary clinton murdering her opponents and using body doubles and all this crazy stuff. one sanders facebook page administrator started tracking down...
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we had no democrats support. we had no votes from the democrats. they weren't going to give us a single vote so it's a very difficult thing to do. i've been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode. it is exploding right now. we couldn't quite there. we're just a very small number of votes short. in terms of getting our bill passed. a lot of people don't realize how good our bill was because they were viewing phase one, but when you add phase two, which was mostly the signings of secretary price, who's behind me, and you add phase three, which i think we would have gotten, it became a great bill. premiums would have gone down and it would have been very stable, very strong. what would be really good with no democrats support if the democrats, when it explode, which it will soon, if they got together with us, and got a real health care bill, i'd be totally open to it and i think that's going to happen. i think the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer because now they own oba
we had no democrats support. we had no votes from the democrats. they weren't going to give us a single vote so it's a very difficult thing to do. i've been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode. it is exploding right now. we couldn't quite there. we're just a very small number of votes short. in terms of getting our bill passed. a lot of people don't realize how good our bill was because they were viewing phase one, but...
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you talk to democrats.s still a desire, still a need, but when you look at what the congressional budget office said about that last bill, it leads -- led these people that i have talked to towards that skepticism saying, hey, 24 million people potentially would go without health care as a result of the bill passing. in terms of actual -- the premiums would cost, the cbo said it will only go down by 10% to number of years from now, which was among the major concerns among trump voters here was affordability. that exact very point. when you go around talking to these people, they said let's go and take it through that process and air this out and get a little bit better understanding of what potential bill would do. you know, donald trump only had one public event, and that was in kentucky in which he actually touted the health care bill. here in kansas their two u.s. senators haven't had a town hall. their congressman hasn't had a to hal you go across the united states. not my people outside. a few congress
you talk to democrats.s still a desire, still a need, but when you look at what the congressional budget office said about that last bill, it leads -- led these people that i have talked to towards that skepticism saying, hey, 24 million people potentially would go without health care as a result of the bill passing. in terms of actual -- the premiums would cost, the cbo said it will only go down by 10% to number of years from now, which was among the major concerns among trump voters here was...
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democrats, no, not so much. but setting that aside, if you are a voter who cared about the supreme court and you see neil gorsuch is going to get confirmed, i think that reinforces support for donald trump while they try to get some other policy things through, like obamacare, etc. if this is the thing they really cared about, do you think republicans will stick with donald trump and try to push through the rest of the agenda? >> i think arguably this is the reason. you look at the response from republicans to the gorsuch nomination. it's been acclimation. people are thrilled, including many of the never trumpers who said what we really care about is that conservative majority on the court. now, i don't want to say that too loudly because people say, this shouldn't be a political issue. we can't ask neil gorsuch about political issues, political views or, as we heard earlier, his position, how he will vote on future cases. but we have a very political supreme court. let's not play fools here. so what you have is
democrats, no, not so much. but setting that aside, if you are a voter who cared about the supreme court and you see neil gorsuch is going to get confirmed, i think that reinforces support for donald trump while they try to get some other policy things through, like obamacare, etc. if this is the thing they really cared about, do you think republicans will stick with donald trump and try to push through the rest of the agenda? >> i think arguably this is the reason. you look at the...