democrats can call .-democrats can call 202-748-8000. .epublicans, 202-748-8001 .ndependents, 202-748-8002 crystal from pennsylvania on our democratic line. caller: i want to say as an african american woman, i was offended by one of your callers calling you a little girl. i want to start off by saying that. i want to apologize on behalf of all americans when someone tries to belittle a woman this way. the first caller, the woman who said they did this fo to barack obama, i agree with h er 100%. to be honest with you, i'm getting a kick out of all this stuff with trump. i didn't care for what committed didillary clinton -- comey to her clinton, however, i still respected him as the chief fbi agent. comey is kicking trump's behind in getting a kick out of it. -- and i'm getting a kick out of it. listening to all of trump's supporters supporting this man when the hillary investigation went on for years and they spent millions and millions of dollars on that. thank you so much and have a good day. host: ron

not this democrat peer the better wisdom is to move on. obamacare is achieving the goals it was set up to achieve in helping millions of americans and to snatch away that health care coverage i think would be a catastrophic event in american political life. what i'm trying to do is basically worn my moderate republican friends, you are staring death in the face if you vote for this. you been talking to them and if that is the case, what was the response? i have talked to a lot of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. folks have caucus in embracingl-aid the idea of, we will make it a local option whether or not pre-existing conditions can be charged a much higher premium, frankly out of reach for most americans, effectively taking away that protection p the single most popular provision of obamacare. theirthat makes sense in direct -- their district spirit i cannot believe it. for moderate republicans in competitive -- competitive districts, you are setting yourself up for a very serious challenge. and giving us a great issue to run

then they would not need any democrats and they would block a democratic filibuster eliminating the 60 votes threshold but that would only come into play if they can get agreement amongst themselves on health care and they are not right now which i think it's valid. the rhetoric that mcconnell -- the rhetoric is what we all work together when in fact no one has officially sat down and work as a group. there is a very small working group having bipartisan discussions about a bill authored by bill cassidy of louisiana, a republican and susan collins of maine, another republican. they have some democrats in the room talking about health care reform. sometimes a deal can germinate from those small groups. that may happen if republicans cannot get to a deal themselves right now. they don't have the 50 votes they need and they are just now beginning to write legislation. things could shape up. they don't have a lot of time. >> the other point of the conversation was the president's budget. in your reporting on capitol hill, what is been the reaction to it and where does it go from here? >> t

there are pro-life democrats just as there are pro-choice democrats. there are pro-choice republicans just as there are pro-life republicans. as a chairman, if you do not recognize that, you will fail. just as i learned in those two and isations in florida, finally had at a cocktail gotption that evening members from each of those groups in the same room, so we are standing around having tricks, and it occurred to me as i was listening to their conversation -- here we go. so i sent to one who was all about the pro-life and the conservatives -- i said, "you don't like abortions, do you? "absolutely not." and a turn to the other gentleman and said, "and you don't watch a pay for them, do you," and he said, "absolutely not." what i needed them to agree, or what programs have instilled, is that you begin to find a thread where you have a different conversation than you begin to gave. moment where they looked , somethinger changed. it was not that important to talk about that anymore. are your kids? it was not always that simple, but in these times, this el

these are organized by democrat democrats. >> sandra: this was some welcome. the booze for becky devos did she deserve this? >> i'm honored to become a wildcat. and it's a real honor and privilege to be with that uses technology once only available in doctors' offices you. >> harris: betsy devos nearly drowned out by booing as she delivered a commencement speech at cookman university in florida. at one point, the president friend to stop the ceremony of the disrespect continued. >> i am honored to become a wildcat. >> if this behavior continues, your degrees will be mailed to you. >> harris: we will mail them to you. and we have this, many students raised their fists in the air and turn their backs to divorce who has come under fire for calling historically black colleges choice. they issued a statement saying i have respect for all those who attended and those who demonstrated their disagreement with me. one of the hall marks of higher education and democracy is the ability to converse with and learn from those with whom we disagree. >> mercedes: i greatly re

and what the democrats are doing. they're not going to get a plan out of keith ellison or tom perez. there's no-- >> dnc chair. >> and james comey didn't tell hillary clinton go use a server in your basement or call people deplorable or irredeemable. david: and tim ryan says we've got to get off the blaming game and focus on democrats getting back to representing the voting block that cost them the election. is that message spreading or is he still a small minority in the democratic party? >> well, i'm not sure yet, but i think that tim ryan is onto something and part of that is it that sort of democrats obsession with identity politics and i think that was another real problem for hillary clinton. she talked about issues like paid leave, for instance, as a women's issue. in fact, this is an issue that affects all voters, it's a massive economic issue and the real issue is of poverty, it's an issue of low paid workers who need more opportunity. so it could have been an issue where we address economic growth and there

you are the top appropriate for the democrats and we have a few months until the next funding democrats -- on the next funding deadline. other any talks behind the a new spending agreement? are we headed toward a shutdown? only ones who the can shut it down as the republicans. they are in charge. i became vice chairman this year. committee.opriations i like appropriations and i like the mechanics of it and i like the fact that we often work in a bipartisan fashion. we got a bill through, as you know, just a month ago, to make sure we did not have a shutdown. it was entirely different than as wehe white house -- were negotiating, there were long negotiations, bipartisan negotiations. unlesste house said there are dramatic cuts and unless there is money to build ,he wall on the mexican border they would veto it. my response is let's have both the house of representatives come republican-controlled, and the senate, republican controlled, vote up or down on aether we will pay for a wall $40 billion wall along the mexican border. nobody is going to call that to a vote because it would not pa

the former vp help democrats seize the growing existential he angst. >> what made you a democrat in the first place? this is mtp daily and it starts right now. >> good evening. i'm in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." yes. it has been one of those days. the president's support orders congress said don't pay attentn to what he says. if you were seeking clarity on the president's positions on any number of major issues today, it was arguably not a very good day. let's start with health care. multiple congressional aides say that house republicans are preparing to hold a vote this week. but president trump just appeared to throw water on the plan. he said i wanted to be good for sick people. it's not in its final form right now. that come as white house officials feel confident that they had to votes the pass the plan. to make matters more couldn't fusing, they did little to clarify conflicting statements president made yesterday when he said the plan had changed for the better. >> this will is vex different. >> people want to know what kind of changes. >> we have now pre-existing co

democrats in the '94 election. democrats are saying they can do that. these are going to be the prime tart targets they look at. 9 here and 14 here. that's basically the total they would need to take back the house. that's a look at how that vote broke down in the house. again, we'll see what happens in the senate when it moves over there. for now, i want to bring in bill press, host of "the bill press show squt ", former chairman of the california democratic party. hugh hewitt, host of the "hugh hewitt show" on the salem radio network. and white house columnist at "the hill." let me start with you on the conservative side, on the politics, you got democrats, we got the reporting here, they're looking at the republicans who voted for this, saying the polls we've seen has been poisonous on this, the effect of this could be negative for some trump voters for some swing district voters. they say the politics of this are a sure loser for republicans. what do you say to that? >> i think that'semocratic spin, steven. i d

why are the democrats saying that? because it's what they told their base they would deliver and they failed to do that for their base. that is not in the bill. there's no new money for puerto rico. the democrats are crying out they got $295 million from puerto rico. not a penny of it is new money. all of that money was actually already spent and it was part of obamacare under a previous agreement. that money was sitting there unspent and all we agreed to do was agree to let them move it from one place to another. it did not cost the taxpayer a penny. they wanted new money and they wanted a bailout and we wouldn't give it to them and we gave them money that was appropriated and already spent. no renewable energy subsidies. they wanted at the last minute they threw in a demand for wind and solar and those types of things and we kept those out. what they really didn't get is this and this is what they wanted. >> they wanted a shutdown. we know that. they were desperate to make this administration look like we couldn't fu

those democrats. there is no collusion between trump and the russians, they all know this, they are just playing a political game. he's the victim. they will go after lynch. those two, they were playing with each other. clintonf that, hillary gave the russians uranium. clinton was with obama, in russia when obama put him in office to gain a position. this is going to backfire and i'm waiting for it to happen. harry.ot your point, david is up next. line for democrats. david, good morning. caller: good morning, how are you doing? host: doing well. caller: firing comey, that was very strange. comey was in california when he did that. when you do something like that, what they did, they went into his office, they cleaned it out, and casinghead any evidence on mr. trump. so, they it rid of all the evidence. you know? host: where did you read about cleaning out his office for evidence? caller: think about it. i didn't read it. i'm a corrections officer. when you fire somebody like that on the road? he had n

sue in california, a democrat. on the democratic line, i am an american first.f people have questions about hillary clinton, fact. russia, we know is in the middle of our election. there is questions about donald trump. now we need to stop thinking about it. we need leadership in our congress and our press, and the american people to stop saying they are democrats, republicans. we need to stand up for this country and say we want independent counsel. at the fact that we have russia at our door. host: who in congress should lead that? who are you looking to? caller: all of them. , i am lookingumer for them to get together and do what they need to do, not because they were elected but because they are americans. that is why. ,hey need to know when they die their children and grandchildren are still going to have a democracy to live in and it will still be a place where people want to, and live. that is not going to happen until they do the things they need to do and stop talking about the election. host: sheila is in reisterstown, maryland, republican. caller: goo

why are democrats saying that?zz i because it is what they told their base they would do, they failed in delivering that, it is not in the bill. liz: mulvaney really bad there . what is going on? >> well, i think what they -- what is in the bill is ongoing funding of obamacare. and that is something that conservatives and republicans don't want. which is why they have to get behind paul ryan's bill, to change the healthcare bill. and introduce a new one that gets rid of that. what is not in the big is the billions of dollars insurance companies are demanding to to make them whole. we know is that this is going to collapse, if the insurance companies continue to pull out of the exchanges, without these payments, they will do that look, i think, again, i thinky we have to keep our eye on the long ball, it is unfortunate that democrats can't contain themselves and create warfare at every turn. liz: the democrats cranked up the fog machine on that, making like obamacare is still going to be with us because of money. it

the democrats don't want this to let up. thank you very much. host: georgia, democrats line. hello. caller: good morning and good morning, c-span. caller, it is not that we're not giving him a hance, i mean, i've heard republicans just say so many times since president trump has office, give him a chance, when he's doing such a to, job, you know, we have as a country, speak up and say something about it. worst he is off to the start of any president in and i think that is across the planet in any country. a elieve right now he has lower approval rating than if you eah, it is like talk about give him a chance, he is messing things up right now. know, there is collusion investigation e that. thell lead to fact he asked comey about the investigation shows he tried to that the united states and relationship was at an all-time low, but yucking it the ambassador inside the oval office. these were pictures that the out.ians put it was something that the resident was trying to hide to show that he does have a cozy relationship with russia, but et, still goes out telling the american peep th

what can senate democrats actually do? i'm looking at the statement that dianne feinstein put out earlier. i'm going to read just a bit of it. the real question we face today is whether director comey was fired because of the clinton e-mail investigation, which could have happened in january, or whether he was fired because of the fbi's investigation of trump's connection to russia. boom. so we knew that we would hear this from democrats. but if people like dianne feinstein continue to say things like this, if we hear from more moderate republicans, ben sasse, bob corker, john mccain, lindsey graham who have stayed on this russia thing saying we need to focus on this, then how, how does somebody like mitch mcconnell and the majority say, nope, we're just going to move on here and follow behind the president. if you're mitch mcconnell, you're not tied to russia. why wouldn't you say let's focus on this to clear everyone's mind? >> reporter: well, first of all, they're not going to break -- mitch mcconnell is not going to br

be with their democratic party. >> so you think some democrats in the senate potentially could voteh the republicans? >> because the senate bill is going to look a lot different than the house bill, so it might be enough for them to actually vote for it. >> look at someone like joe manchin. >> of west virginia. >> yes, where trump won by double digits, who has supported donald trump on some initiatives so far. >> as you know, there are 52 republicans in the senate, 48 democrats. if three of those republicans, whether lisa marcowski, susan collins, one more, if they join the democrats and the democrats are opposed, the republicans are in trouble. >> right. so there's no room for error on this for republicans, wolf. the onus now falls to mitch mcconnell. is he going to be in the spotlight now. all of the talk has been about paul ryan and donald trump and their working relationship. now mitch mcconnell, who is a very shrewd political operator, is the one that has to thread this needle. he has his work laid out for him. >> we are getting new information on how democrats are pushing back

host: congressman joe crowley, a democrat from new york, also serves as the democratic caucus chair. i want to start by getting your take on this five-month on the best budget deal -- omnibus budget deal. was this a good deal for democrats? guest: well, it's a deal, and overall a good deal that was struck. what it incorporates and maybe more importantly for what it doesn't have in the overall bill. look ourll in all -- colleagues on both sides of the aisle are still going through this, but i do think overall a pretty good bill. host: you are going to have a debt limit negotiation coming up later this year. this bill is only five months until the end of september. as a partyensure that does not hold the house or senate -- how do you ensure you get a good deal the next negotiation down the road? guest: we have to keep up the pressure. the outside groups were informative and helping to inform members as to what effect the cr of this budget would have on their ability to conduct and do what they would do was helpful. in terms of the debt ceiling and running up that, there is potential he

democrats lost 54 seats while bill clinton was in the white house and democrats lost 63 in the house when barack obama faced his first midterm election. 24 seats should be doable. there is now such a backlash to this president because of the health care act. suddenly obamacare is very popular and people are genuinely frightened about what congress could do in remaking health care. the democrats really have some issues out there that are legitimate issues to argue that they should be put back into power. host: eleanor clift with us for about 10 more minutes, taking your calls and comments. jerry has been waiting in huntington beach, california. good morning. caller: a big fan for years. as far as this president goes, the biggest problem i have with them -- i've several problems with him -- but the main thing is that he lies consistently. he is all over the place all the time. shouldn't the president set some sort of example for honesty and integrity? that aside, how does the rest of the world view this president and this country that we put somebody like that in office who has no inkl

the democrats, and i've been on this show many times debating democrats that admit obamacare is falling apart but say we need to move more towards a government-run system. what this is really about fundamentally is whether americans want a government-run health care system because if we stay with obamacare it will be a government-run system or whether we want more of a free enterprise system where the private-sector runs our health care. >> congressman israel the way the original bill, obamacare, the affordable health care act the way that was sold to the american people was in many ways mandatous. they were told if you like your plan you can keep your plan, if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. that's not true. insurance companies are leaving obamacare, leaving consumers with fewer options, not greater options. do you think the democrats in the way they sold this bill to the public really undermine their own credibility on the issue of health care? >> well, jake look. let's stipulate obamacare is far from perfect. there was some significant flaws in its execution including

wide open democratic race.nobody at the time from plains, georgia, emerges, wins the democratic nomination, wins the presidency. lot of people say 2020 is the next time you will have a field on the democratic side as large as the one you had in 1976. of course, what did jimmy carter do in 1976? started real early. announced his candidacy in 1974. joining us to take a closer look at why democrats lost, matt, democratic strategist, senior vice president of the global strategy group. interesting numbers to talk about. stephan stephanie, president of emily's list. stephanie, i'll start with you. you're active in this stuff every day. the conversations taking place in the democratic party right now, i know so much of it is focused on donald trump, the trump agenda, those sorts of things but it does seem like there are conversations going on right now about that other question who is going to lead this party going forward? >> well, i think the question's the wrong question. what's going on right now which i think is

can ask you, you said you're a trump democrat. democrats want? can the democratic party win back trump democrats? if so, how? caller: no. no. i don't want anything to do with the democrats. they are now the crazy constituency. they have lost their minds. they are globalists. the way i see it. they dangle the merckles, the greatest thing since sliced bread. --'s the liberal that caused the liberal ideology to be she's theacross -- last man stabbing is what i'm trying to say in europe. host: why not become a republican? caller: i'm going to be. i just haven't gotten around to doing it. i'm going to change my party affiliation. i'm regretting my vote for mark meadows. that right now. and i definitely want to get over there and change my party affiliation to republican so i can vote against whoever runs against him in the primar even if it's [indiscernible]. host: mark meadows, head of the caucus, somebody we've talked a lot about on this program. regret that vote? talk to me more about him. make a because he can't decision about anything unless it's

what did the democrats get? >> the new obamacare bailout money in the package, that favors a couple different times i've seen in the news, go find it for me. it is not there. the democrats are telling you about that. it's false. >> there's absolutely no language in this bill that requires us to make any bailout payments for csr payments in any way shape or form. as a result of this deal. why are the democrats saying that, because it's told what they told their base they would deliver and failed to do that. that is not in the bill. >> the new money for puerto rico, the democrats trying out got $295 million for puerto rico, not a penny of it is new money. all that money was already spent as far as obamacare under a previous agreement, that money sitting there on spent and all we agreed to do was let them move it from one place to another, it did not cross the taxpayer a penny. >> they want a new money, one of the bailouts, we wouldn't give it to them, we gave them money that was already appropriated and spent. no

they are in the democratic servers walking through democratic national headquarters and the fbi, that was an fbi moment. the fbi was thrown out. i mean how do you explain that? he doesn't even understand the history of the country and the number of times the soviet union was attacking our elections. for 50 years. >> there's a great television series in the reagan years. they have our military secrets now they are in tour party stuff lou: why doesn't anybody say the chinese are coming? because they are here to. >> i've a chinese dr. who is my pride and joy. lou: is she an american citizen? i was talking about chinese nationals. >> she is special though. lou: she's a delightful young lady. let's turn to one other element in that's mccabe. with all of his connection to podesta and the dnc to the democratic party, to his wife the democratic candidate and the fbi didn't find it necessary for him to recuse himself legs are you kidding me? >> he should not recuse himself. lou: they have to have an ig report to know what is common sense and a conflict of interest. >> once we get this thing mo

do democrats have a prayer in 2018? in order to be victorious, you have to have a good strategy and you have to have a good villain. is nancy pelosi the best villain to pick on? >> she is being challenged by the left. and that is tearing the party -- i think it many good to shake it up. we talked about tim ryan who challenged her for the speakership. i wasn't sure if i thought he was the right person to lead at that moment. but we'll have to look at the potential to shake up the party. kennedy: nancy pelosi is being challenged and attacked by a populist and a bernie sanders clone. it's being hang up like a snow globe. which party does a better job of demonizing someone to great effect. >> republicans do a bert job of demonizing form leaders. so i'm more scared about the north korean bogeyman and nancy pelosi. the republicans when they are out of power, they pretend to be for small government. so we need to blame something and in george bush's case it was like the war on terror. kennedy: president obama had no problem co

jim comey didn't say don't go to wisconsin once after the democratic convention. >> eric: democrats arenton for refusing to take the blame for election loss. has the left had it with hillary finally? my friend from the five bob beckel joins us next and later. butler university is under fire for anti-trump class being offered to students. anti-trump class being offered. charlie kirk, kristin and raymond will respond later. stay with us. ♪ ♪ again! so i can lift even the most demanding weight. take care of all your most important parts with centrum. now verified non gmo and gluten free. ♪ ♪ i'm dr. kelsey mcneely and some day you might be calling me an energy farmer. ♪ energy lives here. ♪ that's life. you diet. you exercise. and if you still need help lowering your blood sugar... ...this is jardiance. along with diet and exercise... jardiance lowers blood sugar and a1c in adults with type 2 diabetes. jardiance is also the only type 2 diabetes treatment with heart- proven to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death in adults with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. jardiance can ca

orchard park, new york on the democratic line.aller: yes, if i could have the ear of the senate, i would say you could create a national health care bill, one page, that everybody can understand, simply by saying medicare for all at all ages, eliminate medicaid, and medicare for low income people could be subsidized by the government. that, in itself, would save billions. but it's extremely difficult. let me make my point. it's extremely difficult, because the average american of there thinks the one payer system that they have in canada, britain, most of the developed country of the world, the people hate it. i have tried to get c-span for years, going back to brian lamb and susan swain when they were doing the shows to say, please, please, get a hook up through c-span with people in canada, britain, and so forth, to find out what they really think of their national health care system, but c-span, for some reason, i suppose it's because of the pressure of the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry, by unbelievable am

there's not a strategy to go after the democrats on this. i think frankly this saddest thing is that the democrats are trying to politicize and take away from something the president should be doing. >> if president trump was considering firing comey right after the election, it must have also been on his mind when he praised him for reopening the clinton email investigation in late october. >> it took guts for director comey to make the move that he made. >> what changed? being elected president, according to the white house. >> once you take over leading the department of justice, it's very different than being a candidate. there's a very clear distention between those two things. i think also having a letter like the one that he received and having that conversation, the outline of the basic atrocities in circumventing the chain of command of the department of justice. >> late today the president again ripped his democratic opponents, tweeting " "dems have been complaining for months and months about director comey. now that he has been f

it had no support from the democratic side.it was an unusual bill because it went out of the regular order of business. the regular order of business suggests that when you're going to do something that might have an impact, a large impact on america, you should go to an agency that is nonpartisan, expert in the field that will analyze your bill and tell you what impact it will have. most of us think we have pretty good ideas for making america a better place to live and good ideas for legislation, but luckily we have something called the congressional budget office which sometimes brings us back down to earth and says it might not work exactly as you thought it would work. and so traditionally, bills, significant bills that affect a lot of americans and families and things important like health care are submitted to the congressional budget office so congressional budget office so .he >> and three weeks ago that speaker ryan the republicans in the house says something i have not heard before, we will not wait. we will vote on

democrats. and rand paul and i are a lot different philosophically and we have legislation to try to change this. >> we have one minute left. a very different top. you sent a letter to the trump foundation asking for more detailed information about the trust and your concern about the emoluments act in the constitution. if you do not hear back, what leverage do you have with your concerns? sen. leahy: i would hope they would respond. could take it to hearings and elsewhere. but i would hope the trump organization would realize this is important to the country and one to know that if stuffs have -- and we want to know steps have been taken to or his company. the monuments clauses always been there, the president cannot use the office to enrich themselves. there are so many deals that appear to be conflicts of interest. let's find out if they are really like that or not. that? if you do not hear sen. leahy: well let's find out if we hear back. if not, there are steps that can be taken. thank you f

republican and democrat had lost him. in republicans thought that he should have -- when someone has that is classified and is on private server, they with be charged something. emocrats feel that he ruined the election for senator hillary we could call secretary hillary clinton that these people criticize trump were two days ago criticized comey. he did the right thing, the country lost faith in him. obama ough the administrations, there were scandals, he was not a administration. you had the fast and furious. have died in e mexico from guns that were fast and hrough the furious, where they gave machine dealers.drug these people never called for special prosecutor. people on the -- in the i.r.s. nvestigated and stopped conservative groups from getting the same things that other gotten, ad already getting tax breaks or setting up. obody cared about a special prosecutor now. there is no reason why they can't appoint another person to and look in. i don't believe russia could with the fered election when during candidate wa

we're going to meet to talk about our options as a democratic caucus. i think any constituents in connecticut aren't going to ultimately believe the argument that the trump administration is making, that this was all about trying to protect the honor of hillary clinton. >> you clearly don't believe that, senator? >> i don't believe that. senator schumer asked moments ago for a closed door meeting with attorney general session and his deputy attorney general so that we could probe as to what the actual reason is. there's reporting clearly this morning that suggests that this really was about trump's growing frustration with the direction of the russia investigation, is it coincidence that we found out yesterday that grand juries have been empowered? it certainly feels that this is in response or in connection to a growing scope of the russia investigation but we need to ask those questions ourselves. >> so i understand that you guys are heading into the caucus meeting and you don't know what the plans are abo obstructing legislation. but what do you want

wisconsin, democrat's line. caller: sorry, not the democrat line, independent. agree with the shutdown. i heard a gentleman talking about, let's look at the details of what they shut down. take the priorities, things we don't need, and look at the details in the bill. i heard there were portions that want to fund $100 million for a counter russian influence in europe, and funding for puerto rico's medicaid program. what are we funding those things for? let's get to basics. cut what should be cut, shut them down so we can force these special interest groups from spending my taxpayer money on their crap. host: from tennessee, on the line for democrats. hi, patsy. caller: i'm calling to speak of a shutdown of the country. we don't need a shutdown. we just need people to be vote forature, and we you to take care of business, not be ignorant. we we don't need a president like trump. shut harriet caldwell said down, shut down, shut down. one more event with the lead up to the french presidential election. the debate that will take place between the two leading the pen

the democratic base is fired up. having trouble building accomplish ams to sell to their own base. they need two things. the first is retirements of republicans like ross and if democrats can gets en similar members to retire, that would be good news for them. and the election is a year away, democrats will have more candidates than they know what to do with. >> what are the chances that they will be able to retake the house? >> they thi have 23 republicans in districts that voted for hillary clinton. they need to reach into trump country. i would put the odds somewhere between 40 and 50% because in these kinds of situations when you have a president that is this unpopular and republican base that is this demoralized, but not only that, a lot of trump voters don't hold the republicans in high hard. will they show up in 2018 even if they showed up in 2016. that's a question that is making a lot of republicans nervous. >> what are you keeping an eye on? >> we are looking at upscale districts that trump only won by narr

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or not be a democrat. when we start putting these labels on people's livelihood, it becomes very difficult for parties to grow and be successful. i learned that the area early on. going into the republican party leadership for me was about making it relevant to people. inheriting a party that had a real sake namebrand and is struggling internally with factions and your progressive wing that has emerged is no different than the conservative right wing that emerged on the republican side. the challenge is how do you get everybody to play on this field that you advance the ultimate cause of empowering people politically, to engage and be a part of a process. it's all about winning elections. we did a very good job in 2010. i got 763 of those 900 in 2010. as i look back on that, the question then becomes what do we do with that, what did we learn from it, and that's the space we find ourselves in and the challenge of both parties have to realize. >> has things have developed more recently, you have chosen to d

but the democratic took a blow yesterday when house republicans passed trumpcare, though democrats nowve something to fight for of course. slate's jeremy stall argued that the party is rudderless right now. he wrote the party was essentially allowed to play possum by democratic leaders like warren. cheering the defeat of the first effort rather than realizing a new opposition needed to be fought for. well, as democrats work on presenting a united front ahead of the 2018 primaries, they've sent 2016 contender bernie sanders out with dnc chair tom perez to shore up enthusiasm for the party around the country, but it's a party sanders insists -- well, he's not even a part of. let's watch him. >> do you consider yourself a democrat? >> no. i'm an independent, and i think if the democratic party is going to succeed -- and i want to see it succeed -- it's going to have to open its doors to independents, who there are probably more independents in this country than either democrats or republicans. >> i'm joined by the "hardball" roundtable, ginger gibson, of reuters, daily beast michael tomas

is that what the democrats wanted? is fair to say we scored a vic trincht i don't think the democrats wanted a shutdown. it's never great when folks and the government can't function. that's obviously not the case. in regards of it being a wirve, it was. you have to get 60 votes in the senate. that means they needed ate democrats, two republicans on the senate side let alone a majority in the house to get it passed. ryan had to do deals with both schumer and pelosi, boat sides of the house. they had to keep funding for planned funding for planned paint hood. they get to plan funding for a wall going in. those are things that democrats wanted. they got out of it and were able to prevent some dangerous stuff from getting cut. you mentioned the wall. we're going to get to that after this wall where you're going to hear nick muscle mulvaney saying we have the money. >> nick mulvaney had been in washington for a while, why do they seem surprised that the obstruction tis here. >> i think we're surprised at the aggressiveness

democrat. caller: good morning. thanks for the excellent programming c-span has always provided. you had a guest on discussing constitutional law. , theestion for c-span folks that work there, the wouldics, perhaps c-span have a guest on, a mr. klein, who had been involved in a lawsuit against the telecommute asians industry for having spied on americans for quite some time to 9/11, i am pretty sure. my point is when barack obama came into office, his first signing statement as our president was to squash the lawsuit that had been pending, a class action lawsuit. mr. klein has been part of it. he worked for at&t, i believe. he sat at the table with you. and then, barack obama had basically dismissed it. somehow, the law he signed stop the lawsuit from -- stopped the lawsuit from going forward. i wonder if c-span could discuss that topic and ask mr. klein what transpired, how he was treated, and what connection it has to be snowden whistleblowing? and this is constitutional law. i had hoped to ask the guest if it was

the democrats today are blowing this up.perbolic language out there, given the fact that senator schumer said he had no confidence a few months ago in comey as well. so this is being politicized at the moment by the democrats. but i hope when things settle down, we'll be able to focus again on the agenda because a lot of work that the american people want us to do to try to grow the economy, create better-paying jobs, raise wages in this country, reform health care, which is originally what we're here to talk about. but this news obviously has disrupted that and the democrats are having their day in trying to draw attention to this. but in the long run, i think that's going to be a failing strategy. >> so in your view, do you think that his firing, donald trump's firing of james comey had anything to do with james comey getting too close to something on the russians? >> i have no idea about that. all i know is what the administration has said and the person who recommended this, the deputy attorney general is somebody who wa

accusing outraged democrats of a double standard from the start of the term, democrats have repeatedlyticized mr. trump's policies even when they mirrored those of former president obama. they slammed the obamacare replacement bill despite rising premiums and limited selections in some states. they also criticize the temporary travel ban for citizens from several majority muslim nations. despite the fact that the obama administration had identified those same countries as dangerous and may travel somewhat harder for their citizens. democrats even attacked president trump's crackdown on illegal immigration despite the fact that president obama reportedly deported more illegals than any of the president. he can do do not write it whent mirrors president obama. >> abby: this is what i was thinking when you're talking about russia earlier >> kennedy: to compare these two administrations and the involvement that various lawmakers have had with russian diplomats. what if rex tillerson had overseen signing away of a quarter of the privates uranium. what with the reaction be by the press? as h

if there are religious a democrat will be committed to the democrats. but there scratching their heads over that one. we had had one debate on health care. they have already been indicting them morally. you will not win that argument politically. the problem with obama care is it was an assault on individual freedom. you can choose your dr. and you can't choose your plan. it was so constructive with the lid -- individual liberties. very difficult to replace. they are calling from west lake villas. you have knowledge thus faru hak that you are brought up a communist in the 1950s and 60s. you acknowledge that you are a radical leftist. you are a close associate of the lack party and a close friend of hugh newton. and you seem to not be able to get along with people very long. even married four times you have now become at some point you became a right winger. so my my question is how can we trust your judgment about any issue. civic you attacked me but you're totally ignorant of my life story. and another book. first of all, i was married for 20 years to

democrat. good morning. caller: good morning.hy is there some much interest in the president who first brought this to light, this thing with general flynn? are they so interested in the person shouldat be a national hero. he reported something that turned out to be true. thatalready been proven there wasn't something going on and there is something going on. but, they want to hunt him down. host: jake is up next in new york. republican. morning. caller: people have to listen to clapper -- this has been going on since the 1960's. my personal view, i am military veteran -- i a have watched these hearings day in and day out. what i see is nothing more than ba pay back by the democrats. most important security breach was the issue of hillary dealon involved with this uranium canadian -- the one deal, giving 20% of our nation's nuclear stockpile to the soviet union is far more flynns than what general was doing. i don't condone what general flynn was doing, either. there again, general flynn is experienced -- we don't know what he wa

the democrats need a hero. steve, who is the democratic care? >> i want to know who edited that video, that was awesome. >> who is the rising star in their side? corey booker? >> actually and playing corey booker's golf tournament in newark. i support everything he does in the city of newark. he has change the culture there. if there is a democratic, it is without a doubt, corey booker. >> what about you steve? >> i don't think we have identified that person you. i'm looking forward for some young kid with fresh, bright ideas in the democratic party to step forward and try to findry ways to reach over the aisle and with common sense stop this nonsense, businesses usual. this is why president trump on. >> it's great to see you alwaysw >> it meanwhile, coming up we uncover interesting details about the judge parked the century city's order. is it time to break up the circuit court? n plus, do you remember these guys? >> welcome, we're back. all right. >> we just want to pump you up. >> the real-life hans and franz and they're in trouble. >> it's t