the democratic party was in power. somehow president trump is better at communicating with these workers, working people in this country to vote against their economic interests. since recent history, 2010, four states in this country have gone right to work. by state legislatures that oppose workers rights, how were they able to communicate better with workers to get them to vote for them? maybe you know this. what was the union household vote in the 2016 election that one for trump? that would be good to know and i thank you for your time. guest: the declining power of labor unions is an extraordinary problem for the democratic party. the caller is right. there are some of the few the store the strong labor presence. republicans come in and make what is essentially a cultural appeal. they say democrats are either alien, elitist, they are these coastal elites who are different from you. don't share your values. they train a conversation away from economics and labor rights. at the same time once they get into power, t

democratic party. how do you reach out for those in the crowd said voted for president trump? guest: people want to feel like people care about what is going on in their daily lives and in the economy in their area, and they feel like democrats have been really focused on urban on the coast, and not places that have struggled in the new economy. they want to make sure that whoever they've vote for is focusing on jobs and their economic struggles and daily lives, and really making things better for them and not just concentrated on those other things. host: we will look at these areas across the country and what it means for democrats in my be interested in taking back the house. 202-748-8000 for democrats. for republicans, it is 202-748-8001. .ndependents, 202-748-8002 if you are a democrat who voted for president from and you want to tell us why, 202-748-8003. we saw the democrats last week go down to virginia and talk about this better way forward, and message of economics. thatis the kind of message

there were a lot of things of the democratic party -- there is a lot of things the democratic party will have to do if they want to win, and they are not doing that now, like picking kamala harris up in the hamptons as the chosen candidate. we need to work on our primaries, have fair primaries. our last primary was completely rigged, and you guys know that. you don't cover that, and you make sure to keep that out of the news. now i am in online groups with hundreds of thousands of sanders supporters, and you guys better listen to what -- this is basically their message -- we do not get our primaries together and allow the people to pick the candidate, instead of the candidates being picked in back rooms smoking cigars like they are arguing in the dnc lawsuit they have the right to do, then the democratic party will be destroyed. laid: i think the caller into something a lot of folks are concerned about right now, which is that our political system is broken and some way. when people say the system is rigged, when you dig deeper and you say, what do you mean by that, they say the politica

democrats do that? my comment, the lady who just called a few minutes ago that, on, a lot of fake news. for eople voted mostly hillary, not donald trump. ost: couple questions there, particularly on health care there in alabama. uest: i think the original question is very important question. way, e break it down this cuts trillion dollars in cuts in healthcare and 1 trillion dollars for tax cuts, most of -- what we should be tax cuts for on is middle class and poor. recognizing the fact there are nothing poverty in this country and we have a responsibility, nobody wants to anymore.t up no one talks about cities anymore, it is as if they don't irrelevant, and when you start treating parts of way, there ion that is help to bare later on. i agree with the gentleman, be fair in this. of soaking entality rich to help the poor, we could be fair and i think the act was going in the right direction, i recommend changes, many of my brothers and sisters in the we e and democratic party, through er get anybody thi

it's not doing the democrats any good i'm going to quote robert deniro from raging bull i'm disgusted with the two of you is. what's remarkable to me is ok i'm sixty one years old so i grew up. with a journalist father as well and i knew all the great newspaper men in new york city would call the newspaper men the news news people and here would be my advice to c.n.n. and them as n.b.c. report the news you really want to have some compelling shows report the news i don't want to hear a pundit just ramble on endlessly be a story to death there's nothing there anymore i'm now on what my grandmother. at the time. of the year he had but that's the point zach that but that's it that's exactly the point here is that it seems to me and i have some distance quite literally on this topic it seems to me it's all booming run a boomeranging back at the people that are at war with with donald trump and i don't get me wrong in my viewers and my guess here i'm not you know a dyed in the wool trump supporter i am not i've there's many things that infuriate me about him and many decisions he made i ma

even if they are democrat. i live in new york which is a pretty democratic state, but i still make sure to make my voice heard because they are supposed to represent all of us. >> all right, we'll take a break once again the bill has failed or the senate. it's a serious blow to the g.o.p. and present tromso agenda. we'll take a quick break and will be right back. >> nco dedicated to the health of providers. tonight, and where to go from here? >> to quote while ronald reagat i was getting late, and if it's getting to 1964, tonight it proved, it is like that as well. government agencies are one thing in for the sick to have eternal life for government programs. that is what my take away take away is. once something as big as obamacare is put in place, all of the different comments of the republicans for the last seven years, in the end, fell on deaf ears. trying to claw back what really was, people called obamacare, the affordable care act, but it was a massive expansion of a government entitlement program for me

what she says democrats -- what she says motivates democrats.hat is from nancy pelosi's op-ed this morning. chuck schumer also with one nancy pelosi in the boston post. want to hear from you, the democrats another country. what the think the democratic party stands for? washington, go ahead. .aller: thank you very much in the past i always voted democratic because they have always been -- they need cooperation and unity. the last tell you election, i was disgusted with both. clinton and trump campaign with all of the slurs against each other. division, quit the the citizens of the u.s. and have a bipartisan go to. democrat,publican or we need unity globally. we all want clean water and sustainable food to eat. democrats and republicans want a safe, warm place to live and raise a family. all of us want something productive and purposeful to do. -- : on twitter today on the day that democrats are announcing their new agenda, the new better deal agenda. want to hear from democrats only . what do you think the democratic party stands for? ebony, geo

the democrats did not stop there. even after a unanimous consent cloture vote, they insisted on the full 30 hours of postcloture debate time provided for under senate rules. and to top it off, the vote to confirm the nomination was 100-0. i don't want anyone to miss this. democrats demanded a vote on ending the debate, none of them wanted and then they refused to end the debate they just voted to terminate. all of this on a nomination that every democrat supported. now that's changing the confirmation ground rules. only four of the previous 275 cloture votes on nominations had been unanimous. in every previous case, whatever the reason for the cloture vote in the first place, the senate proceeded promptly to a confirmation vote. in 2010, for example, the senate confirmed president obama's nomination of barbara keenan to the fourth circuit. two hours after unanimously voting to end debate. in 2006 the senate confirmed the nomination of ken jordan after three hours of unanimously ending debate. in 2002 the senate confir

in working with democrats. and the next daye john kasich said, we'd like to work with democrats, they're not like to work with us. so, you can have it both ways. the election is over, the republicans are in charge. they also need to stop blaming leaks.ent they like the leaks would help them, they don't like him when they hurt them. stop blaming the leaks.hi stop blaming president obama. he has nothing to do with this investigation. he did what he could us president to make sure the russians were not meddling in the genttion. >> guest: i would say i agree with the gentleman. bill. i would like to go back to regular order. say what you will about for example the health care billn, when it was initially passed. the fact of the matter is, it was an open process. there were hearings. not meetings and close doors behind the scenes. nobody knew what was going on, only six, seven or eight people then you try to rush her to the floor. there were hearings, questions, witnesses, amendments, votes on the floor. going back

i think we should bring the democrats in.he republicans should get the democrats and everybody together. and i think they can get it done. host: just take the time to fix it. caller: yes. because it could be to disastrous. headline more quick from the wall street journal. top court revises travel bantered supreme court reinstated the trump administration's plans to keep many refugees from entering the u.s. but blocked the white house from sweeping travel restrictions on families of american residents. court in a one-page order wednesday prohibiting the trump administration from banning travel by people from six muslim majority countries. did say the administration could move ahead for now to been a broad group of refugees with no u.s. family ties. a short break. when we come back, turn our attention to members of congress . first up, republican mark sanford of south carolina with his views on the need for more stability in congress and later california democrat jimmy panetta. cochair of the democratic caucus national security

no democrats at any point took it seriously. no, the famous remark obama said to mitt romney during the debate. come on, you know what that is. i'm saying the reason why putin and russia has any strength what so ever is because democrats completely ignored his expansion, the baltic states and everything globally for the past eight years. so, the fact that you're crying wolf now because it is politically, expedient give me a break. >> it is not politically expedient. >> it is politically expedient for you. >> i think at the moment you guys are running away for the from the news of day. >> we're doing it in the lead of the show. >> what you're doing is saying it is a bickering matter. the fact that charles grassley, a republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee said the man that was identified asci in the meeting today was a self-acknowledged russian spy. >> he's also an american citizen. >> he's also a spy, greg. >> aren't all russians spies, according to you. you assume everybody is a spy. >> when you had the box on yo

i'm my dad was a democrat, 75, but my dad was a democrat. my whole family was democrats. disgrace.er such a andas for the poor people the working class. they do all their money from -- for the good of the people. i like what trump is doing but he is too much for the rich. he should be lowering people's taxes. he should be raising the rich people's taxes. host: we got your point. parenthood,planned there is a vote possibly in the health care debate but also how that plays out in the ongoing budget and appropriations going on now. set the stage for us there. have been-life groups involved in creating this replacement plan not only with the defunding of planned parenthood for a year but also there is a provision in their that i believe prevents people getting health care tax credit for buying insurance from buying insurance that covers abortions. this is republicans controlling all of congress and this will be put in their bills. we are here and they may re-craft some of the language. it has to have a budgetary effect in the bill. you cannot write policy through this repeal

no doubt that the to tion is over, we need stop blaming democrats, stop for ng democrats obstructing legislation. mcconnell, one day on t.v. said, we don't want to work with we don't at at all, have interest in working with the democrats. john kasich said, we'd like to work with the democrats, they are probably not with us, so you can't have it both ways. you can't blame the democrats. over.ection is the republicans are in charge. he republicans also need to stop blaming leaks. leaks, they like leaks when they them, don't like leak when is they hurt them. top blaming the leaks, stop blaming president obama, he has nothing to do with this investigation. while everything he could he was president to try to make weren't the russians meddling in the election. uest: i would say i agree with the gentleman. and, you know, i would like to do, i think we should go back to order. say what you will about, for example, the health care bill. when it was initially passed, the fact of the matter was there an open process and hearings. it wasn't meetings in closed nobodybehind the scenes, knew what

but i will say also the democratic process is a long process. and the next 24 hours, the next week, democrats will crow exaltedly. they'll claim total victory for a collapsing and failing law that is obamacare. and the media will write story after story about how obamacare will remain, even though it is failing and hurting millions of americans. but after all of the chest-beating, after all of the proud victory laps on the left, i believe this congress will come back and in time, we will honor our promises. you know, senators are going to go home the next few weeks. they're going to go home to their states. they're going to face their constituents. they're going to have hard questions of people who look them in the eyes and say, why did you lie to me? it's not just going to be the senators who voted "no." the senators who voted "yes" are going to be asked, why did you lie to me, because the voters are not going to distinguish. they're going to say, you guys promised to do this and you failed. i understand the frustration and anger of the america

guys talk about the old democratic party. i want to cleveland. they hated the jfk democrats. david they did. i did. i voted for jack kennedy. that was my left. the last time i voted. embarrassing vote in 1980. voted -- at the time i was not paying attention to politics. host: what did your friend say when you announced you are leaving the left. it was on the 700 club that you did the interview. david: i was on the 700 club. host: with pat robertson. roger le guin. that was fun. host: what did roger le guin say? somebody knows this. you did not do that one? what did your friends think? david: they were all former hippies who had become christians. i enjoyed that. we got very distracted. host: the sds, weather underground, that crew. david: we hated the democrats because we saw them as co-opting people. that is why we hated sullen ski nski, who said you do not -- you cannot burn the system down, you have to get power. if you tell people that they will not give you the power, they will reject you. it is stupid what you are doing. what you need to do is join the democratic party.

as democrats, we helped work on that. i believe democrats and republicans need to come together and work on this in a bipartisan way. i believe that is the only way to have long-lasting legislation where you can affect people's lives. the aca has sherman is the health people but at the same time, i've heard from people in my district on the central coast and they have said how it can be improved. we need to come together and stop talking about repeal and huge cats -- tax cuts for the rich. i we can comeways together. i look forward to working on it with republicans and democrats. host: welcome to the conversation. caller: good morning. i am concerned about health care. if it were not for my health care.", i would be dead today. i did not know i had a hernia. i look up three days later and i icu.ou -- in tennessee, no one is talking about this, people getting killed every day, even helping the people of in iraq and other countries, what about us? think that is some of that frustration your hearing with someone who may be f

democrats are good for business. i run into more wealthy people who have said they made more money out of -- under bill clinton than any other president . we know what it is this. republicans have proven themselves unable to govern. you can be progressive and still be for growth. do can be progressive ends -- you can be progressive and still be for opportunity, for a simplified tax code and making ane businesses have opportunity to innovate and grow and support entrepreneurs. one fear i have is that we do sometimes, a party, as hostile to business. it is one thing to be focused on the greedy wall street group, whatever percentage that may be, that led to the subprime mortgage crisis we had. greed, in all its forms, we should take on, and people should be punished for cheating the system. but when you look at the system, the small business person, he or she pays the full corporate tax rate. it is the big dogs who find their way and have the lawyers, they don't pay anything. we need to be advocating as democrats for th

under the democratic party, which is why i choose the democratic party. there's a lot of rhetoric out there about this went wrong under president obama and under the democratic party, and i am just wondering why the democrats don't speak up and tell all the many good things, all the benefits that came to us as americans, not democrats and republicans, under the democratic party. host: thanks, dorothy. michael bocian. guest: it's a great question. president obama came in under historically bad times. the economy was in terrible shape and through many of the policies he passed, things did improve. we were able to hold wall street accountable, changing the rules so that we don't have another crisis like we had leading up to the 2008 housing crisis. republicans are trying to roll that back and that's a big concern that's not getting as much news because russia and all these boy scout speeches are kind of drowning everything else out. i think it's a good point. under eight years of obama, millions of people were provided health insurance that they didn't have.

and this is something that the democrats, mainstream democrats i don't think we will to do. i think a lot of the democratic base wants it and i think there are politicians and segment in the democratic party that could be one this sort of bernie sanders agenda. i will wrap up by saying who's the most popular politician in the united states? bernie sanders do is look at the response that even his speeches all run the country get in town halls and whatnot, you would see it. the republicans know it. everybody in american society knows it except for the democratic party. they are concerned. this quote reason by dimmitt -- lead democrats said the economic populism of bernie sanders will hurt them in more conservative swing states that they about the how to actually be paying attention to of the rhetoric that has been succeeding in these states? it's not that bernie sanders one overages liberals and these levels have become more left wing. no, bernie sanders bowls very well among moderates and independents and others. people are fed up with politics or don't associate like in euro

what you democrats take from that? i wish we wouldn't do that. i wish we would take the position that any massive important piece of legislation should be done in a cooperative manner. ultimately i know we are polarized in unprecedented ways. i was part of the process in 2009 and 2010 and we actually reached out to republicans, that is one of the myths used in this debate currently that we never reached out. i remember meeting in which it was just the members there and are chairman of the time said to the republicans, is there anyway we can write a health care reform package that any of you can support. they just coldly said no. in the senate there were a lot of republican amendments accepted. a lot of concessions made in the attempt to get republican votes. none of them worked. it is not good for the country whether it is democrat or republican where you pass a bill that is only partisan votes. i would hope that would be the lesson. the other part of the lesson is don't be sure you can control your caucus or conference. in a narrowly divided bod

democrats are trying to figure out how to turn those numbers around. >> joining us now is senate democratic leader chuck schumer of new york. senator, thank you so much for joining us. you're huddling with democrats in barryville, virginia, trying to rebrand yourself going forward. i know you haven't been following along what's going on in politics, jared kushner and the president's tweets, so i won't ask you about that. let me ask you what you did say, when you lose an election with someone who has 40% popularity, you look at america and say, what did we do wrong? what do you think democrats did wrong in 2016? >> it's not just 2016, it's 2014 as well. the blame goes all around. and the bottom line is people didn't know what we stood for. they knew we were against donald trump in 2016, for instance, but they didn't know. my wages are going down, i'm worried about my pension, my costs are going up. i'm worried my kids won't have a future. so we democrats today, pelosi and i, going to elizabeth warren and mark warner, announced our better deal. a better deal simply put, it's a better deal for

the democrats stand for.how that most believe that democrats stand for just opposing trump. >> we'll raise people's wages. and create better paying jobs. we'll cut down on their every day expenses they have to pay. and we'll give them the tools they need to compete in the 20th century. liz: no details on how the delegates pl -- democrats plan to do that. they reject big tax, big government spending big government regulation, in 2010 through 2016. even chuck schumer said, a few years ago, obama should not have focused on big want spending on the stimulus plan. he should have focused on jobs and growth. and government data showing 863 thousand jobs have been added since president trump took office, u.s. labor market rebounds in june. let's go to west virginia coal miner who confronted hillary clinton about trying to get rid of coal jobs during the last elect, bo copley is joining me now, what do you think of what schumer is saying? >> thank you, for having us on. i think it is interesting that i guess they see

and this is something that the democrats, main stream democrats i don't think will be able to do, i think a lot of the democratic base, though, wants it and i think there are politicians and segments of the party that want this bernie sanders agenda. so i'll just wrap up and say who's the most popular politician in the united states? bernie sanders. if you look at the response his speeches around the country get, and his town halls get, you can see it. the republicans know it. everybody in american society seems to know it except for the democratic party. their quotes recently by leading democrats saying they're concerned that the economic populism of bernie sanders will hurt them in more conservative swing states that they adopted. have they actually been paying attention to the rhetoric that's been succeeding in these states? it's not just bernie sanders has won over liberals, no, bernie sanders pulling very well among moderates and other people. there are people fed up with politics, like in europe, social democracy, with this old decrep decrepit -- they speak at the very group, the gu

other democrats said similar things. such acknowledgements of the obvious seemed to many of us like progress, but they turned out to be just rhetoric. in the last election, voters delivered congress the opportunity to finally address the obamacare status quo. and yet, democrats made clear early on that they did not want to work with us in a serious bipartisan way to actually do so. i wish they made a different choice. i wish the sudden calls for bipartisanship now were even somewhat serious, but this is the reality before us. we must accept it because that's where we are. and as my republicans know, this is the charge we must accept as well. the american people are looking to us for a better way. that's why despite the headwinds, i chose to keep working toward a better solution than obamacare. i've seen the pain in the eyes of too many of my constituents because of this law. i think they deserve better than what obamacare has given them. and i hope in the end that a majority of the senate will agree. we've been continuin

he is an old democrat, not a republican. he is an old democrat. for almost 200 years, it was the democrats who were preventing people from exercising their civil and constitutional rights. i'm not surprised. it is a shame we are at the level that we are at, we have dropped below ground level in the last six months. you could wiley, if speak to not only the remarks the president made but he was speaking to the culture of policing, rather than the rules and regulations, and the laws. as you will note from when you deal with a new york, the issue of reforming the culture of oficing is at the heart changing how communities and their police department relate to each other. right.bsolutely i absolutely agree, the comments were shameful and dangerous because he is actually espousing a positition that is encouraging police to violate the u.s. of he newon, the laws york state, and probably the patrol guide of the suffolk county police department, certainly of the new york city police department. it does speak to culture because it is absolutely right to sa

he wants to know there is a democratic party and republican party and folks are democrats. gingrich initiates -- defeatto defeats reagan's budget tax proposal. they are negotiating for republican leaders in the senate to raise taxes and gingrich opposes that and gets in enough votes to defeat it. it is a pretty bold move for a second term republican in the house of representatives to cope against her -- against ronald reagan. it's about party differentiation. also this would muddle the picture. so he tries to defeat them. for the remainder of the time i want to talk about gingrich's third congress in 1983 to 1984. this is a period when gingrich takes some initiatives to expand his resources or strength and resources in order to achieve his strategic objectives. in 1983 he forms the conservative opportunity society, which is a group of a dozen like-minded republicans who agreed that the party needs to take more assertive action to differentiate the parties and embarrass democrats in the coal of winning control. a few things to say, the first is a key strategic resource for g

simply put, what do democrats stand for? a better deal for working people -- higher wages, lower costs, and the tools for a 21st century economy. [applause] sen. schumer: over the next several months, democrats will lay out a series of policies that if enacted, will make these three things a reality. we have already proposed creating jobs with a trillion dollar infrastructure plan, raising wages by lifting the minimum wage to $15, and lowering household costs by providing paid family leave and sick leave. [applause] sen. schumer: today we announced three new policies to advance our goals, and in the coming weeks and months you will hear a lot more. right now, first, right now, there is nothing to stop venture -- vulture capitalists from egregiously raising the price of life-saving drugs without justification. we are going to fight for rules to stop prescription drug price gouging. and demand that drug companies justify price increases to the public. and we are going to push for empowering medicare to negotiate lower drug pri

here's the reality for democrats right now.'s list, an organization that is 32 years old has trained 9,000 women in this entire history. since november, 15,000 women have signed up to be trained, that is what is happening in the democratic party. the leadership of the party is in the streets, it's the women's march, it is the people marching for sirens. old school way of looking at leadership, where one person -- that does not jive with millennials. collaborative leadership is the new black. i think the only thing the american people care about is who is going to help them stop living paycheck to paycheck, they don't care about what the inside baseball question and prioritizing politics over purpose. that is what reporters are doing, that is what consultants are doing. just because a chicken has wings does not mean it can fly. >> molly: the collaborative idea of a group of leadership is interesting, but it seems you need the fire of something to grab onto which is what happened when president obama came into the field. what do

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tam, what do you make of the democrats' effort now? hear him saying we're trying to get back to business here, to appeal to voters where they are. >> yes. there was a struggle when i covered the clinton campaign that they had which he was sort of getting at a bit which is the thing that they would want to talk about issues, policy, they would want to have an affirmative message and then donald trump would do something and they would slip back into being the opposition to the other person who is running for president. and democrats, i think, struggle with that now in, you know, are they the resistance or for something. and today was an effort to sort of begin talking about what they are for. at the same time they're also talking about -- >> woodruff: and can they do this? >> yeah, i think that's very doable. the biggest challenge for democrats, i think we discussed this the last time, is that they're the out party so they don't set the agenda. the republicans set the agenda. they have to respond to an agenda that's being set by the repu

as far as why the democratic party does not use this rhetoric, the democratic party is concerned with being a governing party. they are concerned with maintaining this kind of broad difficult coalition they have. it has often been put by others that the democratic party is a part of american capital, therefore electoral reasons, they have to return like it's not. that's a difficult balance and i think they constrain the rhetoric of the democrats. republicans can say whatever they want. i think at the end of the day when their elected, at least for the perceivable future. markets will boom and confidence will be there. >> one more question. right here. >> thank you so much for being here and to the center for organizing this. i am christine jacobson, and i work in the library here at an -- and i'm happy to report we now subscribe to jacobin. [laughter] >> i was wondering if you could respond to a criticism that is a stroke limit of thesocialist party in america. in fact, made a bernie sanders a few weeks early when he was here. and that is that the socialistparty doesn't offer anything

you think democrats are willing to work together.heard chuck schumer saying now we will, do you believe him? >> i do. the republicans are not working with democrats and releasing these bills in the dark of night. when it came to what took place this week these votes were coming to the senate without having any idea what was in the bill, no idea what was happening with skinny replace until 10:00 pm last night. democrats not willing to work with republicans, republicans are coming at the last minute with these bills, democrats are not having time to review or put forth amendments and make substantive changes. a more transparent process, democrats would be much more able to work together with republicans, republicans are not allowing that. >> do you think they were willing to work with republicans, if there was something to read and go through? >> let's talk about what really happened. first democrats sit on their hands, now raising their hands to help. the normal washington two step which is why a lot of americans are down on the way w

new jersey, county, line for democrats, you are up first. go ahead. much.r: thank you so i was calling regarding the civil forfeiture. i just want to make a comment or everyone to think about, that mitch mcconnell, the the ity leader who is richest senator, i believe while in the past couple father-in-law, hipping vessel company, i'm not -- i can't remember off the top of my head, the details of was actually seized and found cargo of coal, over cocaine and now federal agents to seize any drugs in the international borders. seeing he's a -- where did you get this news story? news : it was breaking story, within the month. intercept -- okay. aller: did pick it up and so his father-in-law owns this company and is large mitch n donor to mcconnell's campaign, obviously, father-in-law. when mitch mcconnell was asked for seizing -- aking sure our u.s. dea laws are enacted and our federal laws seize that assets from that and also put sanctions bank accounts, due to that and also, you know, with -- agents normally do such a large drug bust ssentially, and actu

maybe as a democrat myself on a bold person. that's what the democrats need to do. i'm not paying attention to trump. i pay attention to the house of representatives and senators. because i'm a politic junkie and i love this and i know the democrats know how to write legislation. guest: i think you are right. our platform, what we stand for is progressive democrats, i -- kenexa could next with the majority of the country. sometimes we aren't as bold or aggressive in saying this is what we stand for and here is why. we tend to do that on social issues, which is altogether appropriate, but we tend to back wishy-washy on economic issues. democrats are good for business. i run into more wealthy people who said they made more money under bill clinton than any other president. yeah, we know how to do this. the republicans have proven themselves unable to govern. you can be progressive and still be for growth, for opportunity, you can be progressive and be for a simplified tax code and making sure businesses has opera -- have opportunity. one fear i have is that we do come

it was signed by every single democratic senator.hey expressed their strong support for the medicaid per capita cap structure. now, i want to be very specific about this because as they develop the particulars, they decided that the caps should not grow at an index that was tied to health care spending here they wanted it to be tied to an index that would grow with the rate of the economy overall. as a proposal going to affect the very next you.ti they didn't want to wait, they didn't want to have a transition. they wanted it to go into effect the next you. a proposed implement the changes for the very next fiscal year. so, mr. president you can imagine some of us a little bitr surprised by the shrill over the top attacks we have been hearing from the other side. we republicans have been accused of launching a war on medicaid. we've been accused of draconian cuts. we've been accused of wanting to decimate health care for the most vulnerable. we could go on and as you and i both are all across the countryo on this floor in every form

there is this kind of tension between the democratic grass roots and the democratic establishment in washington. and this win tonight for them, i think will do something to soften that tension and i think that the democratic establishment in washington understands the grass roots are the important parts in victories and they will see that their senator is delivered. chuck schumer got every single democrat, all of them to vote in line. that is a rare achievement. so i don't think necessarily the movement needs a face. it has a lot of people just real people, i mean, that was the most amazing thing about this. it was all the men and women who have never been involved in politics and got out of their homes, went to town halls, that is what made such a difference here. >> let me ask you about leadership on the republican side. what does it look like? do these three, collins, murckowski and john mccain, obviously john mccain has to deal with his health care issues now. and he has been sort of a splinter in the side of others. mcconnell took a blow like he never took before. >> trump often

and event today and very bill virginia democratic leadership unveiled a set of policies that they're collectively calling a better deal as minority leader chuck schumer went out of his way to point out the goal of this new agenda is to show every day working americans that the democratic party. he's actually looking out for. american families deserve a better deal so this country works for everyone again not just the elites not just the special interests to date democrats start presenting that better deal to the american people so it looks like democrats have finally found their message but is it a winning one and do the actual policies of this better deal go far enough to reverse our slide into oligarchy employed takhar see joining me now is richard s. co-host of the zero hour and senior fellow at the campaign for america's future richard welcome welcome back to the program great to be parents great to have you and thanks for being with us through the whole half hour here first things first it really does seem like the democrats at least understand that just being the party of not t

>> i would say democrats. they're -- >> but they're in the minority. >> they're responsible for passing obamacare. they're responsible for creating the mess we're n they're responsible for being unwilling to work with republicans in any capacity to help fishgs a system that they know is completely flawed and publicly said so. i think that it's pretty clear, i think the responsibility lies on their shoulders. >> just a quick followup, bipartisan group of governors including the republican john kasich, brian sandoval and others are calling for a bipartisan healthcare reform. is the president open to that, specifically sort of starting woefer a by partisan look at this, bringing governors to the table? >> the president has met with a large number of governors, talked to them regularly, that certainly won't stop at this point in the process, not just on healthcare but on a wide variety of issues. in terms of bipartisan, i think the president laid out clearly from the beginning of the process, he was more than will

she said the democrats.ake a listen. >> who's primarily responsible for what appears to be the failure of this health care legislation? >> i would say democrats. they're responsible. >> can you explain to me how. >> sure. >> they're the minority. >> they're responsible for passing obamacare. they're responsible for creating the mess that we're in. they're responsible for being unwilling to work with republicans in any capacity to help fix a system that they know is completely flawed and have publicly said so. i think that it's pretty clear, and i think the responsibility lies on their shoulders. >> so, here's the issue with that. there's a republican in the white house. there are republicans running both houses of congress. and the reality is a lot of people who voted for president trump are the people who are seeing their premiumeds go up. they're the people who are losing insurers in these pivotal health care markets. they voted for this president to fix the problem, not to point his finger at democrats an

governors both republican and democrat alike. over the weekend, top health care officials and vice president mike pence lobbied over at the national governance association meeting up in rhode island. the administration trying to convince gov governors changes in federal funding would not translate to cuts at the state level. bringing in asa hutchinson joining us. thanks for joining us. >> great to be with you, wolf. >> you expressed, governor, deep concerns over the senate republican health care bill, but your opposition based on possible cuts to medicaid and how that would impact folks in arkansas? >> well, it was based upon a shift of cost to the states. we can do reform. we can have cost saving measures that help the federal government and state government, but what the last plan was, was a, too heavy of a shift of cost to the states we could not absorb without having significant changes and cutbacks. so, you know, i met with the vice president. our senators. they really accomplished some very substantive changes in the last v

how did the democrats get their message out. can they do that truthfully when they're behind goldman sachs. i hear your point. i think you are right about that. how do you with a straight face advance that agenda now when the person you were behind taking the same money? >> this is about what the next step is. >> right. >> getting ready and this is why i called it no, it is not enough. it is not enough to expose trump as a fraud or a hypocrite, whatever it is. that's part of it. the other part is making an offer that this is the real thing and this is how we address the urgent need that trump was tapping into for jobs. >> they rejected. >> they did. >> that's my question. how about now, you see what i am getting to? >> luckily, it is not just up to them. there are voters and i came back in the uk, and spent some time with jeremy corbin and people around him came out of the election cycle where they did not win the election but they won historic number of defeat and they did much better than expected. the whole idea of calling th

democrats and republicans need to listen. there is a growing frustration with the building that stands behind you with both political parties. number seeing a growing decline. i believe that is why we have president trump. he was the effect of dissatisfaction. we need to talk to roughly two people in here with exactly what is said. our job isunderstand to get things done and do it together. we will continue to push back on president trump especially when it comes to his dealings with russia, making sure that is appropriate and fully investigated. could never just stand up in court and say someone is guilty in and sit down. you prove your case. you present evidence, clear and concise evidence, that people can [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] we're going take you now to a discussion on russia's vladimir putin. his geopolitical goals and interests. it's being held by the

democrats in the half blood by democratic leader pelosi will be holding their own meeting, their own briefing on health care legislation. we aim to take you live to that in about 10 minutes or so. the reporters regularly seen on our "washington journal" program and others on c-span covering health care for years. julie rosner tweeting this morning, i have covered every health bill in congress since 1986. there has never been anything this nuts before in terms of process. never. we will get back to your calls momentarily. next i will share the comments of chuck schumer, a democratic leader as the senate gavel then. >> mr. chairman come in the senate will vote to proceed on the republican health care bill. i will have more say on the matter prior to the vote. at the moment, no one knows the plan being cooked up in the republican leader's office. it seems to be his intention to do whatever it takes to pass anything, no matter how small, to get the house in the republicans into a conference on health care. surprisingly, i have heard my friend, the junior senator from kentucky will vote y

democrat of kentucky. the only democrat in kentucky's delegation. he represents louisville in the house of representatives and he is the top democrat in the house budget committee. we have lots to talk to him about on this busy week. our two reporters, alan reppeport, economic policy reporter for the new york times and david wiegel who covers politics for the washington post. i should tell our audience on this friday morning as we are taking this, it was a really make light in washington, d.c. or early morning, we are watching what happened in the senate. that's where i want to start with you congressman yarmouth. , john mccain cast the deciding last night -- deciding vote that seemed to put an end to the republican plan for health care reform. the system still has big problems it has to deal with your how you see this playing out? rep. yarmouth: it is great to be with you. i did not watch the whole thing but i happened to wake up when they were about ready to declare the bill dead. and watch the speech is afterwards. i think it is going to depend o

i am supporting republican candidates and some democrats, more reagan type democrats. this whole story shows exactly what is going on, and how heavily infringed democrats are in immediate, because sir huckabee said you do not hear sort -- sarah huckabee said you do not hear stories about the democratic party working with the ukrainian government. they keep bringing up things about trump, because they know people like to hear about russia. so, they keep talking about trump and russia, but they never talk about the democrats and ukraine. that is because the media wants , and theyump's agenda would like to see him impeached. jim, what you think is the best way for the white house to comment or respond to these issues? probably just tell it like i said it. they want him out of office, and they want to keep his agenda from going forward. .ell, he was elected president there were other presidents we did not like, and that is the way it goes. on the program yesterday, we did a segment looking at a commission that was established by the president looking at election integrity.

and who is the progressive democrat. gas tax, health care, single-payer, you know. and infrastructure. other issues that are out there. >> and real quickly, what are some of the other issues dividing california democrats? >> i would say singer payer. the bill that got through the senate was sort of a shell of a bill, they didn't have a funding mechanism for a $400 billion plan. and essentially, after the assembly speaker killed that, he has gotten death threats. there has been a lot of consternation on the left that sort of democrats are abandoning their base. and i think this is an issue that will keep going, especially if health care gets through the senate. >> okay. so much to discuss. and clearly, not enough time for the three of you. carla with politico. and joe garea foli with the chronicle. >>> medical cannabis has been legal for use in california for 20 years. last november, voters approved it for recreational use. state officials have less than six months to finalize the rules for medical and recreational pot an