arguably, she was the most moderate democrat who could still win in today's democratic party. we will always wonder, would bernie sanders have beaten donald trump if we were able to see that matchup and 2016. i think the one democrat who would have beaten donald trump joe biden but how could joe biden make it through a democratic primary when today's party has moved as far left as the republican party has moved right? host: good morning, new jersey. thank you for joining us. caller: i would like to make a statement and i have a question. i was listening to what was andg on in new york, syria, so on. i was born in spain during the civil war. i am sitting here wondering what is going on in this country between the republicans and the democrats. my way or the highway? losing. we have fake news and so on. long will its, how goings at the rate we are to reach what happened in turkey, what happened in need peninsula of korea? host: thank you. guest: we are looking at a couple of factors. the biggest one will be president trump's approval rating and to the extent there is a rally aro

for democrats. -- mine for democrats. caller: hi representative. guest: suozzi.aller: close enough. deal is the parties are so broke up and everybody is still in the same state we were eight years, 12 years ago. i live in upstate new york. downstate new york is totally different from upstate. i feel give guys are not even listening to us. even the governor in upstate new york. look at syracuse. it is crime-ridden. i'm afraid to go to syracuse to see my doctor. it is crime-ridden. they went to be a sanctuary city. it is ridiculous. the biggest problem is there is too much money in politics. host: guest: punishment? guest:i know syracuse -- host: congressman? guest: i know syracuse well. people in the country do not realize how diverse new york state is. off north of rockland just north of upstate new york, it would be the poorest state/ -- the poorest state. you have downstate suburbs that feed off of that mothership of new york city with some much money going through that region. it can survive a lot of depression that comes down from the state of new york. not b

yes, i am a democrat but i'm opposed to the democratic strategy. think they are not going to get a better judge than this one. i think the democrats ought to find it in their heart to so there's not such a big wrangle in washington. we need to put our energy into more important projects. host: what do you think about the last caller who said democrats need to demonstrate spine? caller: i think we have plenty of spine. i think that has been demonstrated already. -- our partyed opposing trump and the republicans, i don't think this is a thing you take your stand on. host: let's go to woodbridge, virginia. caller: thanks for taking my call. the republicans, they talk about democracy but they are the party of cheaters. most of the republicans come from gerrymandering districts where they pick the voters. obamaheated in the last nominee where they did not give him a hearing which was unconstitutional. i think the democrats -- if they go nuclear, they should boycott them, just like they boycotted obama's nominee. this judge gorsuch is anti-constitutional

democrats felt it was a very crass play to hold merrick garland like that, but democrats did not engage in the debate the way republicans did. host: terry on the line for democrats in missouri. caller: good morning. i find that your comments are extremely partisan. if this -- this would never have happened if they had not held up the lower court judges. mitch mcconnell even stated on the floor that he was going to do this. obama was not going to get anything done. the republicans have the majority the last six years. they had it in both the house and the senate. was veryharry reid did appropriate. it is evident in the health care bill that they could not even get past, because the republicans have not even the doing anything for the past six years. i understand the point. we have tried to walk through that history here where you had each side sort of doing one action which produced a counter action. that is what democrats believe -- that mcconnell through the first six years of obama's administration, that he was just holding up things which was unprecedented. that that triggered harry

the >> the democratic whip. democratic whip. >> mr. president my understanding i'd like to ask for clarification as the remaining 1718 minutes is deeply divided. that's what my unanimous consent request said. hymn i just wanted to get more specific senator braynon not question what you asked for. we so we have nine minutes each for eight minutes each? >> i will probably need more than nine minutes but i will put the resume statement in the record. i defer to the chairman of the committee. >> within the next hour or so we will learn whether the minority leader will come to their sensei and whether they will engage in the very first partisan filibuster of a supreme court nominee. all indications are that they are committed to their course. that's unfortunate, it truly is. the question you have to ask is this. what exactly is so objectionable about this nominee that he should be subjected to the first partisan filibuster in u.s. history? is he really not the well-qualified? columbia for bachelors, harvard for law school and oxford for a d

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the fact he got 48% in a district no democrat has won in 37 years has given democrats a lot of hope theyn win by winning conservative leaning districts like this one. they just need 24 seats to win back the house. that's something a lot of democrats feel a lot better about after seeing jon ossoff exceed expectations tonight. >> republicans should be feeling pretty good. they just wanted to get to a runoff. but is essentially fools gold now for democrats. trump won it by five points. does this have much implications beyond the sixth congressional district? >> we hear this a lot from dmps, national democrats and people who don't understand the state. oh, georgia's going to go purple. georgia's going to flip. and here's a guy without much of a portfolio but the democrat party is motivated. they're the minority party right now and behaveing i accordingly. 90% of his money came from out of state. most of his campaign apparatus was propped up buyout of state consultants. there's an old expression you can't beat somebody with nobody. he's 30 years old, has very little to show for his 30 years o

by the way at the time i don't recall the democratic leader or any other of our democratic colleagues repeating the refrain if there aren't 60 votes for a nominee, you don't change the rules. you change the nominee. they weren't saying that then. what did they do? they changed the rules. it was a power play, but it was also something else. it was an admission by our democratic colleagues take the senate tradition of up-or-down votes for judicial nominees, that they had first upset back in 2003 by starting the practice of filibustering judicial nominees, was a tradition they should have respected. unfortunately, it took them ten years to realize this and only after they captured the white house and only after republicans also used on a smaller scale to avail themselves inaugurated a decade earlier. so, mr. president, how do we treat president obama's supreme court nominees? did we try to filibuster them? like our democratic colleagues tried with justice alito? of course not. when president obama nominated sonia sotomayor and elena kagan, we treated each nominee fairly as they would lat

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

by the way at the time i don't recall the democratic leader or any other of our democratic colleagues repeating the refrain if there aren't 60 votes for a nominee, you don't change the rules. you change the nominee. they weren't saying that then. what did they do? they changed the rules. it was a power play, but it was also something else. it was an admission by our democratic colleagues take the senate tradition of up-or-down votes for judicial nominees, that they had first upset back in 2003 by starting the practice of filibustering judicial nominees, was a tradition they should have respected. unfortunately, it took them ten years to realize this and only after they captured the white house and only after republicans also used on a smaller scale to avail themselves inaugurated a decade earlier. so, mr. president, how do we treat president obama's supreme court nominees? did we try to filibuster them? like our democratic colleagues tried with justice alito? of course not. when president obama nominated sonia sotomayor and elena kagan, we treated each nominee fairly as they would lat

first of all, chuck schumer and the democrats have done something that even many democrats and even democrat leading pundits have said is inexcusable, which is to hold up one nominee after the next to fill secretary positions, wait a second -- >> no, no, no. these are nominated. you haven't nominated. you have slowed down. if you had 190 nominations -- >> let me finish. i know what the question is, let me finish. even on david shulkin who passed 100 to 0 in the senate, schumer still took up to 30 hours of debate. i'll get to that. we have hundreds of people in the queue. here is what happens when you slow down the nominations. when you slow down a nomination, you can't actually clearomeone for a nomination into the senate. so when you talk about who we have for assistant of secretary at hud or the state department, those people have been chosen. when you choose one of those people, the process is you have to send that person to og clearance, office of government ethics clearance and they have to get an fbi background check. you can't get the clearance for 30 or 40 days after you choose the p

it is a dilemma for democrats. are calling for privacy on one hand and on the other hand, you want to get to know who these voters are. you have the tools now you didn't have 10-15 years ago you can micro-target voters and figure out what their habits are and how they behave in these elections. you are right. there is certainly a dilemma and i am pretty confident that republicans will call democrats out and saying you are calling for privacy but on the other hand, look at the massive data you are collecting on the electorate. susan: one area we didn't talk is money. how are both parties doing at this stage in the cycle in replenishing their coffers after the election? >> i think democrats are -- is helping their recruitment of candidates. what really matters is next year how a super at pac's may come into play, how these campaign committees are going to be raising money. it is a little too early to figure out how much democrats are going to have at one point in the questioning earlier. eight months or 12 months fro

be to the democrats?eing sort of a coalition that's coming together. obviously, we just saw senator mccaskill join those who decided that they cannot vote, you know, for judge gorsuch, and there's still a few holdouts of democrats. there are only two right now who have said that they will vote for his confirmation. there's three out there that are sort of in between. but i think the larger picture is sort of this unfortunate position we're in in the polarization that we've seen in the house and the senate, this inability to sort of get things done. i mean, the goal originally behind having these 60 votes that are necessary or at least getting close to that is that you have a consensus because there isn't supposed to be a lot of politics involved, and by politics i mean the small p political aspects necessarily for a pick for the confirmation in the supreme court. and, you know, that's part of the job of the senate, is to reach this consensus. and things keep getting more and more and more polarized -- kel

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why are you in democratic heavily liberal new england? why are you going to parts of the new jersey shore in urban area that is you already have locked up with your own voters? why aren't you out in places that you lost? why aren't you, like hitting the heart land, places outside of the east areas we talked about. this democrat party may have a lot of excitement, but that excitement will temper if they don't address the fundamental foundation issues that lost them this race to begin with it >> before we dive into that, let's take a listen, they're calling eight unity tour between the democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders and tom perez take a listen. this is them in nevada. >> you know what, folks, you said heck no to that, and you elected the first latino to the united states senate. you know, when things didn't go -- and by the way, in 2018, you're not just going to say heck no, you're going to say hell no. because you know, the lesson of 2016 here in nevada is simple. the lesson was when organize, you elect good democrats, an

i'm the democratic leader. i can tell you myself that there are mainstream republican nominees who could earn adequate democratic support. and just look at recent history. and just look at recent history. and just look at recent history. justices roberts and alito, two conservative judges who many of us on the democratic side probably don't agree with, both learned over 60 votes.. they got democratic votes. while there was a cloture vote on justice alito, he was able to earn enough bipartisan support that cloture was invoked with over 70 votes. he got only 58. the key vote was the cloture vote. didn' let's have the president consult members of both parties. he didn't with gorsuch, and try to come up with a consensus nominee who could meet a 60 vote threshold. that's what president clinton did with my friend, the senator from utah, selecting justices ginsburg and breyer forgets what president obama did with merrick garland. of course we realize the nominee selected this way would not agree with the men of our vi

he is president of the democratic campaign to elect democrats to house of representatives.hank you for being with us. rep. lujan: thanks for having us. susan: the me introduce my reporters. -- simone pathe. and sean sullivan. sean: thanks for joining us. we are coming out of health care debate in the house that didn't end well for republicans. we heard members of your party express confidence. is the house and play early on in the trump administration? rep. lujan: the republican paull bill was pulled by ryan was a victory for the american people. it's all people that have been america were responsible for having that bill being pulled. before letting people may be thrown off of their health insurance, according to the congressional budget office. increased premiums and deductibles, stopping people -- slapping people 50 years old or older with an age tax. there is a reason the republicans were saying they didn't know which way to flip in which way to flop. taking that argument and debate to the american people is my responsibility. it is something we have been leaning into t

it democrats will come aboard. that will show that they can bring some unity to things. >> testing ground for chuck schumer, says he is all about the structure. >> going back to tom perez's point to that we were all shocked to listen to. saying that donald trump did not win meant the election. and to the g.o.p. does not care about people, are you still okay with him representing your party? >> he is doing his job as a party chair, he is rallying up the base. >> does he represent you and your party? >> i think he represents the interest flow of democrats. do i like that speech, absolutely not. they clearly don't care about americans because they were trying to push term care even though only 17 americans thought it was a good idea. that is what he is trying to make there. >> by the way, meghan mccain made that same argument. she was not for it either. >> i did not. i think that we have agreed on that. i still want it repealed and replaced. >> i think that this is a place where democrats and republicans can come toge

until recently after this last election i am fed up with some of these democrats and i am a democrat. i wanted to state a republican view because i'm ashamed of every democrat who is going against this ruling. >> host: we go to burn in highland park michigan, an independent caller. vern, you are on the air. >> caller: i think judge gorsuch should take his nomination and with drive until the obama nominee can even go before the same committee. i think i would be a good thing because then gorsuch can stay back. that's my opinion and my point that the obama nomination should be first. >> host: thanks for calling. this tweet, actually a couple of tweets from folks that have been watching the debate in the senate today. allen says hey everyone don't miss the end of our democracy on friday and paco replying to that, the democrats created the nuclear option but hated being used against them. and again that debate will continue tomorrow. i think we have time for one more call from new york, lenny on the line for democrats. go ahead, lenny. >> caller: i've been watching this debate from the be

democrats haven't did that. i think democrats have to do that. but just to say it's enough to be the anti-trump party and that will bring us back, they whistling past the graveyard. >> all right. thanks for the time. >>> on the other sird of tether break, more assessment of the first 100 days. how do police accomplihis accomk up. mark halperin joining us next. plus amid the debate raging over on russia's potential influence on the election, a new book shedding light on the inner workings of the hillary clinton campaign including staff in-fighting and key errors that some believe may have led to a defeat very few if any saw coming. one of the authors of "shattered" joining me coming up. all finished. umm... you wouldn't want your painter to quit part way, i think you missed a spot. so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day? aleve, live whole not part. you want this color over the whole house? when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night. hold on dad... liberty did what? yeah, liberty mutual 24-hour roadside

what should make someone a democrat or not a democrat. there has been a lot of back and forth among abortion rights activists about supporting a democrat in omaha that happens to be pro life. at some point, the democratic national committee chairman actually had to put out the t l following statement, he said i fundamentally disagree with either mello's personal beliefs about women's reproduck tiff health, it is a promising step that the candidate now shares the party's position on fundamental rights. each candidate that runs as a democrat should do the same. every woman should be able to make her own health choices about that. can you be a democrat and the support of the democratic party if you're pro-life? >> of course. i have served for many years in congress with members who have not shared my very positive, my family would say, aggressive position on promoting a woman's right to choose. what you asked at the first part is about what unifies democrats. people say to me all of the time, you do such a good job june if iing the house dem

that's a democratic governor from colorado. the 2008 democratic national convention co-chair, steve fiber from denver, colorado. we all agree that judge gorsuch is exceptionally well-qualified to join the supreme court. he deserves an up or down vote. these aren't conservatives, these aren't republicans. these are colorado liberals, colorado democrats who believe judge gorsuch deserves an up or down vote. >> no questions? come back. whoa, whoa, whoa. >> and it may have seen like somewhat of an abrupt end to that news conference, that's because a vote has been called on the senate floor by the majority leader -- executive session for the nomination of neil gorsuch. so that motion to proceed that vote on that underway and that may have caused his other leadership members to end the news conference there, wraps things up and head back into the senate chamber for that vote. you can follow that vote over on our companion network c-span 2. this is the last week before the passover and easter recess. the majority leaders saying that w

democrats and progressives are having a really tough time. coming to grips with the puff presidency. >> i have thought an awful lot about pulling up the white house. >> show us your taxes, you emotional child. you like being a superficial bully, here's one for you. you are a three at best. >> donald trump, you did not win this election! >> i will fight every day until he is impeached. impeached 45. >> he needs to be taken out of office. he is a menace. >> this executive order was mean-spirited and un-american. >> there is a little bit of a hollow ballou around here. >> people were literally texting at me shut up. >> is he not as rich as he says and not as terrible as he says? >> he really is as rich as he says he is. >> i kind of understand where the trump haters are coming from. imagine investing 1-2 years of your emotional life into something and that something beats you. essentially what trump is is an ex that became the more successful than you. you are constantly looking him up and you actually pay more attention to trump than his fans d

activists on the democratic side seem to be insisting there be no compromise by democrats of the trump administration. what do you see as the power of these activists going forward for your party, and what will be successful for 2018? rep. yarmuth: i think this is an incredible opportunity for democrats, but more importantly it is an incredible opportunity for the reassertion of the act of democracy. when a healthcare proposal from the republicans was beaten back a few weeks ago, it wasn't because of us and the congress . that was because the people rose up and made their opinions known and their passion known. we are seeing that everywhere. the thing that is assuring to me about the energy out there now is that while many people involved in the individual movements and others have particular issues their current -- they are concerned about, whether it's gun safety or immigration reform or lgbtq rights or voting rights or can't -- campaign finance or other issues, the administration -- the universally understand that unless we win control of legislative bodies in the country nobody get

all the democrats -- i used to be a democrat. did not leave the democrat party, the democrat party left me. i thank god that donald trump came to rectify the situation that the muslim, obama, put us in. obama was not -- i do not know why blacks want to associate with him because obama is not really one of us. obama is really a white african muslim. south plainfield, new jersey, an independent. good morning. good morning, how are you? caller: barack obama bought -- brought this country back from the brink and the money he gives her a good morning, how are you run was frozen and along to our ron. was frozen and belongs to iran. donald trump has these rallies when he needs accolades. not time for rallies, we need to do what this country needs and this country needs people to work together. donald trump has no intention of working with people. that donaldealize aump has the mentality of street urgent and the diction of a four-year-old. and he has to learn. god help us. i hope this country stays and goes forward, instead of going back

house democrats and senate democrats have to make that decision on their.mpletely in synch as it relates to being concerned with the absence of transparency and the fact that donald trump promised to drain the swamp, but turned into a living breathing conflict of interest with a host of interests. >> congressman, why not focus on trying to find a better tax reform policy or better legislation rather than force an issue that you are not going to get anywhere with with the republicans if they are not on board. >> members of congress should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. we can demand transparency and have the democrats like others on the house ways and means who are working through the nuts and bolts of trying to progress a progressive meaningful tax system that benefits middle class folks and seniors. you can do both. >> thank you, congressman jeffries. appreciate your time. coming up, jeff sessions on the trump era quarter policies. stay tuned. >>> welcome back. a win this week for voting rights activists as a federal judge rules a texas vot

the american people decided to give the democrats -- not to give the democrats the house or to restore filibuster proof to the senate back in 2009. and our democratic colleagues don't like that one bit. the american people are getting in the way. of what they would like to do. so they try to change the rules of the game to get their way anyway. they said so themselves. earlier this year they said they want to fill up the d.c. circuit one way or the other. philip the d.c. circuit one way or the other. and the reason is clear. obama's agenda runs through the d.c. circuit. can get what you want through the congress because the in 2010 people know they said they had enough, they issued a national restraining order after watching two years of this administration on restraint. run through the bureaucracy and d.c. circuit. as i said, among the first two years of the obama administration there is now legislative check on the president. and the administration doesn't much like checks and balances. our democratic colleagues want to facilitate that by filling up a court that will rule on his agen

don't believe the democrats.s the senate's leading republican. >> have you gotten any intelligence information that indicates the obama administration somehow applied, asked for surveillance of the trump transition, the trump team, any trump associates? >> no. not even a hint of this? not anything? >> not yet. >> do you believe that these allegations are worthy of investigation that the president made, or that they are side track? >> i don't know how many times i have to say it. the committee is going to conduct this investigation. you asked me if i knew anything about alleged wire tapping by the previous president. the answer is no. >> i think the answer is no. >> i wish his answers would be longer. >> but bleeding republicans are annoyed and they keep getting them because the president keeps tweeting stuff. >> when u.s. citizens get caught up in surveillance, are there identities being protected? is their privacy being protected? all of that has gotten lost because the president fired off an early morning tweet

you heard a lot of democrats talk about it. hear even more of them and a lot of republicans as well kind of to -- want current way things are moving. nobody is happy about the direction. one quote, it is very clear it is not a healthy institution, but republicans have made the judgment that this is their supreme court nominee. they're going to do whatever it takes to get him through. democrats have basically tried to call their bluff. they are saying together on this for the most part minus the three that have come out in favor of the nomination. what that means is the senate is headed down a path that frankly a couple years ago they think they would never go to. >> this will mean that from now on a u.s. supreme court justice nominee will only need a simple majority. will not need 60 votes. so if there are more openings on the u.s. supreme court down the radioed and president trump nominates someone, that person will only need 50 votes because the president of the senate is the republican vice president to break that tie or a s

democrats have picked up seats and places have never won before. democratic u.s. sherry represents northwestern 17th congressional district, there it is on the border in 2016, which she won by 20 points and donald trump won by a point. they voted heavily for president obama and you and voted narrowly by a squeaker for trump. you're interested because people want to know, you know, i'm trying to buy a lot of progressives, not just in this industry, but socially. they seem to think in this, resist all. that's going to do it. i'm also looking at the latest numbers that the trump voters have fallen. they're 96% where they are. the republicans are heavily for trump, four out of five. that resistance is not going to change history. what will change the history back in the democrats. >> you have to talk about what you're going to do. i talked about jobs and the economy nonstop. i've done that from the day i announced in 2011 and i did that for all three of my elections, as well, that's what people want to know you're going to be fighting for. >> what's the plan. >> goes

, he has no interest in being a democrat, but yet he's on tour with the democrats. have you been able to divide what it is that bernie sanders wants out of this? >> yeah, i've been thinking about tom perez's wild ride on bernie sanders' coat tails. bernie sanders is the most popular politician in the country. he won a huge portion of the democratic primary electorate. and tom perez recognizes that. he was not bernie sanders' favorite candidate and he wants to go out and talk to sanders people, be in front of santders people even if he gets booed. i had a chance to speak with him last night on our way to las vegas here and he said this is what he's done in every job he's come in to. he's let people vent a little bit and express their frustrations and try to show he's listening. and he says, you know, take this with a grain of salt, that for every one person who boos at him there are 400 people who want to work with him who come up to him afterwards and say he's changed their mind. for bernie sanders, i mean, he still has a very large platform. i saw somberny 2020 t-s

first of all, chuck schumer and the democrats have done something that many democrats and democratic leading pundants said is inexcusable. they're holding up nominees -- >> these are not nominated. if you had 190 nominated and -- >> let me finish. look. even on david schilken who passed 100-0 in the senate, schumer still took up three hours of debate. you can't clear someone for nomination into the senate. so when you talk about who we have for assistant as secretary of hud or the state department, they have been chosen. however when you choose have to send that person to the office of government clearance. you can't get the clearance for 30 or 40 days after you choose the person. they're in que. >> so you acknowledge you're behind. >> but but because of historical unbelievable obstruction from senato senators acting -- >> i president said, you look at rex tillerson, the secretary of state has direct authority over the people he chooses to fill the positions within the department of state. if he gets picked, he gets submitted in december, he doesn't get confirmed until later in the y

republicans, democrats.he president yesterday blaming the democrats for this in tweets saying "i promised to rebuild our military and secure our border. democrats want to shut down the government. politics." and then he also said his family is prepared for summer vacations in our national parks. democrats threaten to close them and shut down the government. terrible. i am in -- ian in seattle, good morning. what do you think about what's happening in washington? caller: really? host: you're on the air. caller: i don't understand why they need to shut down the government. just doesn't make sense. host: no one said they're going to do it quite yet. they have until midnight to reach a deal. according to the "wall street journal," their headline is "deal to avert shutdown advances. they seem that still seems to be the case." they can get this one-week extension. caller: so they're going to shut down government over border wall? host: seems the president has backed down of that. that is not part of any larger pac

democrats retake the house. >> mm-hmm. >> how does a democratic house and you as a democratic speaker work with this president? i mean, you've been resistance. you look a lot like the party of no right now. >> i don't think that at all. what is he proposing? a bill that had 17% support in the public in his health care bill? he hasn't really proposed anything. we're looking for the infrastructure bill. we welcome them with here to work with the president on. we welcome some of his ideas about he said in the campaign about work and home balance in terms of child care, affordable child care. we look forward to working with him. we said we would work on a tax reform for fairness and transparency. but, what did he put out but a wish list for billionaires. i see everything as an opportunity. and, i never have seen so much willingness to help win. and winning means winning for the american people. that either we win or whoever wins understands the priorities of the american people. and they are not what president bush -- excuse me. i'm so sorry, president bush. i never thought i would pray f

of democrat called him a racist. it's just unconscionable. >> host: how do you come from campus radical to supporter of donald trump? >> guest: that's a long one. i left the left when the black panther party murdered a mother of three whom i had recruited to do the book for a school that i had raises the money to buy. and when the left what victorious in its fight against america's involvement in vietnam, and when the left was victorious, the united states withdrew and left the vietnamese without protection. the communist proceeded to slaughter 2.3 million peasants in china and there was not a single protest from the left, and i realized the left was never an antiwar moment. it was an anti-american movement and reminds that to this to. >> host: brought up race a couple of times. racial issues in your new book, big agenda. you write republicans need to direct their errors they akellth lease heel of the democratic party. the monopoly control hoff the inner cities of america and it's responsible for the middy suffering

i'm the democratic leader. i can tell you myself that there are mainstream republican nominees who could earn adequate democratic support. and just look at recent history. justices roberts and alito, two conservative judges who many of us on the democratic side probably don't agree with, both earned over 60 votes. they got democratic votes. while there was a cloture vote on justice alito, he was able to earn enough bipartisan support that cloture was invoked with over 70 votes. he got only 58 when they voted for him but the key vote was the cloture vote. let's have the president consult members of both parties. he didn't. he didn't with gorsuch. and try to come up with a consensus nominee who could meet a 60-vote threshold. that's what president clinton did. with my friend, the senator from utah, in selecting justices ginsburg and breyer. it's what president obama did with merrick garland. of course, we realize a nominee selected this way would not agree with many of our views. that's true. but president trump

-- needs democrats to sign onto these bills, giving democrats an awful lot of leverage. democrats, even though they are the minority here in both chambers and don't have the white house, their sole power of obstruction is really through the senate and ability to use a filibuster to deny passage of bills. still are able to leverage that in a way that i've never seen before. it's incredible how much power they have in the minority there . it's all because republicans went through the first of the 2013 shutdown and then sort of offered a couple different chances where we looked like we were on the brink of a shutdown over immigration and over obamacare in the past. republicans are over a barrel here. host: bottom line, once they get through these negotiations, the next round of budget talks will begin almost immediately. so based on what you're hearing, what do you think will happen this week? what's your best estimate? reporter: oh, gosh. i guess i sort of think we probably do end up with a couple of short-term bills to get us into -- into next week. what the details of th

will support, if you democrats saying they will support, majority of democrats, 40 plus democrats are saying they will not support gorsuch because of last year's battles. i don't think it is a good strategy for them. i think it will be really rough on them, and it probably will be next time around there is another opening, and there probably will be in the next coming years, republicans only have to get 50 votes, 51 votes. that will probably be a nominee that is more to the right. >> jon: hang on one second. we will be back in a moment. aleve with direct therapy tens device, a relief from lower back pain. i put it on my back. i feel this electrical pulse grabbing at my muscles. it was more powerful than i was expecting it to be. it worked. i believe aleve. learn more and read reviews at aleve.com. >> jon: back now with ron meyer, editor of "red alert politics" and aaron blake, senior politics reporter for "the washington post" ." you suggested the filibuster may be going the way of the dinosaur anyway. if they were to change the precedent here and vote a supreme court justice into off

the prospect concerns almost every democrat here in this body. enough to prevent cloture on just judge gorsuch's nomination tomorrow. this leaves the majority leader and my republican friends with a choice. break the rules of the senate or sit down with we democrats and the president to come up with a mainstream nominee who can earn bipartisan support to pass the senate. enough bipartisan support to pass the senate. we democrats believe the answer isn't to change the rules. it's to change the nominee. as presidents of both parties have done when a nominee fails to earn confirmation. instead, my republican friends seem intent on breaking the rules for judge gorsuch and are trying to find reasons to justify it. the truth is each side can blame the other. we believe they're more in the wrong. they believe we're more in the wrong. the game of pointing fingers -- and they started it -- can go back and back and back to the very founding of the republic. if my republican parentheses think they have to -- republican friends think they have to change the

they could throw in all of branch to the democrats -- olive branch to the democrats. i thought gorsuch was suspicious and how he would not answer the questions he was asked. do nott see what people understand why democrats would not be comfortable with his suspicious question evasion. the last point of what to make is the russian connection with this administration. it is really bad. the russians figured this out. we love big money, and we hate minorities. they are feeding that. the terrorist thing that just happened in russia could be very suspicious that putin would want to get closer to trump, because trump always wanted to say he wanted him to fight alongside putin over terrorism. i think we should pay attention to this kind of thing. host: on that attacks in russia, president who didn't has -- putin has emphasized that terrorist were likely responsible for the attack. they believed the attack may have been carried out by a suicide bomber from a militant islamic group. speculation has turned to militants from southern russia. in that attack, 11 people were killed,

democrats do disagree.y're pretty united. >> dana: i want to ask you about one of the things president trump talked about today. which is this very fight -- farmers up in the northern statesme are having with canada. he says that the canadians are being unreasonable. they need to get too the table. would g you agree? >> not really. this is the fifth of our five biggest trading partners that he's threatening to trade war esth. if ewant to sit down with canada and mexico we can do that. the tpp actually was a renegotiation of nafta. we could agree on a bunch of the best parts of tpp. just going out and declaring -- >> dana: how about the infrastructure plan? >> infrastructure fine. >> dana: we can agree on that. i'm 1-9. >> that would be a good one. >> dana: thank you so much. next, mainstream media goes gaga for the democratic candidate in georgia's special election. bernie goldberg next on that. >> dana: the mainstream media obsession with this week's special election in georgia. john ossoff won the first r

>> he ran as a democrat for the the presidency. we would call him an nt democrat.e should leave his party label as long as he supports the democrat agenda. democrats and bernie sanders don't share all interests. they've political alliance. they need one another. they have a common enemy in the republicans and donald trump. it's fine to have a unity tour, those who backed bernie sanders are in the democrat party. they are not big enough to got it alone. they have to work together in moving forward against this common enemy. >> there was some noise made i just mentioned he didn't fully endorse john ossoff in the georgia six. >> he said de. >> he said he's not progressive enough. if you're trying to flip a seat that's been candy apple red it may be good to get those leaning towards the republican party. >> senator sanders noted he was very much in on soft. he didn't think he was progressive. i don't think it's helpful across the board for us to apply purity tests to folks and judge folks on a scale of progressivism. what's more important are the issues people are advo

would he really work with democrats? >> the other way was he threatened to work with democrats. the thing is he couldn't work with democrats under the present sort of bill. any bill that begins with obamacare is repealed is a non-starter among democrats. if on the other hand, and trump did suggest this in his interview if he tried to fix the current system it's possible he could work with democrats. >> bill: on neil gorsuch -- you're about 55 yet votes do you think chuck schumer finds more vote and breaks what's been long standing in the senate? >> remember, there's two votes here. the first vote is the 60-vote barrier which is to end debate and move on to a final vote which is an up or down majority vote. we know gorsuch already has 55 votes. all 52 republicans plus the three democrats earlier. what responds need is five more democrats who will simply allow a final vote to take place. they can vote against him in the final vote if they want and so i think either you're going to see the filibuster hold and senator schumer is right it will stop gorsuch and mitch mcconnel will cha

>> from democrats' standpoint it was a major rate through. two weeks ago democrats said we need to see cost-sharing payments, obamacare cost-sharing payments, money for that needs to be included. that was a new demand. it has been percolating. there is litigation house republicans filed on this issue. it has been hanging out there for years but democrats said we need to see that money practically put into the spending bill. a new offer. you could look at the wall at -- as the white house's retaliation. if you are going to ask for obamacare payments we will ask for a long time had not been pushing the wall. last week they said the wall is an important ingredient, we need to see money for that. they have backed off of that. the next thing to watch for is whether democrats back off of the obamacare insistence. we have seen a little bit of that with several lawmakers including senator chuck schumer, the top democrat in the senate refusing to draw a line and say they would not accept a bill without that cost-sharing money in there and it believe s