deficits that is facing democrats. republicans can call (202)-748-8001. democrats, (202)-748-8000. independents, (202)-748-8002. for 538,ece you wrote that comes with a handy map that shows -- you were talking about clustering in the case of the 2016 election. compare the 1980 grace between reagan and carter in the distribution between which states with blue and red. it looks fairly even. when you get to 2016, you see a higher percentage of states that were run by donald trump them were run by hillary clinton -- than were run by hillary clinton. she got california and new york, whereas reagan won california. aside from that, is that the reason why? we see the shift in the map visit the clustering -- why we see the ship in the map? visit the clustering to republicans and is that a messaging problem for the democrats? guest: the math shows how many better forshows how either party, so that our great states. states. essentially what this shows is that republicans have an affinity -- have benefited in the senate from democ

across talking why democrats keep losing i'm joined by my guest david polk in new york he is a democratic strategist and former co-chair of the new york state democratic party in washington we have michael flanagan he is president of flanagan consulting and a former congressman and in montgomery we cross to deice he is president of mrs institute are gentlemen cross-talk rules and effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciated david i suppose on this panel you are the democrat so can you answer why democrats keep losing elections i mean we can look at the georgia election and we can look at the other special elections a lot of expectations are a lot of money being spent a lot of kollywood names and they still don't come through i know that you know like in georgia it's a red state and they the republican should win there but i think you know where i'm going there needs to be some soul searching i think now after the election after the inauguration he's in the white house ok deal with it go ahead david. well first of all i mean so you're absolutely right there needs

host: where you a democrat? why are you a democrat?aller: because i believe in equal rights for everybody. you know? governmentn the working for the people. without the people, there is no government. host: thank you for calling in. ted is in california. caller: can you hear me? i'm behind nancy pelosi. she is a hard-working politician and she is honest. drive theicans narrative but they say the same things over and over and over. they live in a dream world. they always find negative things to say about democrats and they harp on what democrats do. but democrats are trying to get health care for working. they are trying to get planned parenthood for single parents. welfare and all sorts of assistance for poor people. the republicans, all they want to do is have tax cuts for corporations and millionaires and cutting health care. didn't try to abolish obamacare because obamacare didn't work. they never worked with him. their whole goal was to defeat everything and block everything he tried to do. if they had to work with him then, we wou

louis were the democrats. and so i think about that "back and i'm forgetting the name now but what we know about liberalism and i think we really need to see bold action and have democrats have a back bone for people of color because we have seen through history like was said democrats have not been on our side and not -- but have impacted us through why don't means. we need to be really real about how that impacts and isolate the community from feeling like the arguments are being met. to be able to challenge democrats and the right is especially to really hold them accountable to say whether or not you are on our side and are you on the freedom side or are you not wax because i think for a lot of us this is an issue in political politics is an issue and for us in the last few years [inaudible] so in relationship to the movement and the reality of democratic representation of black people folks need to have a backbone and we need to be able to hold their feet to the fire. [applause] .. >> you can use that pri

you've got some inside the democratic party, some major democratic leaders from a senator in new yorkrs who think, the democratic party should not support democrats who are not pro-choice on abortion. but you have people like nancy pelosi and chuck schumer who say you know what, the democrats need to be a big ten, how do you tell the democratic base to compromise? >> well first of all, i don't know who the democratic base is. it's shifted. the democratic -- the segments of our party are highly differentiated. their environmentalists, they are gun owners, there are pro choice people, there are religious, fundamentalists, not many, but they're there. even on the abortion issue, it wasn't very long ago that a number of catholic democrats were opposed to abortion. so the fact that somebody believes today what most people believed 50 years ago should not be the basis for their exclusion. ideological. we're not like a marksist party in 1910. we are big ten by the very definition. we're not ideological in the european sense of what political parties used to be. even in europe now, they don't

and high democratic turnout is one of the factors in democratic over performance. so my concern is that that effect is larger win overall turnout is low. -- when overall turnout is low. i am wondering if you guys have looked at democratic over performance versus turnout? as you have been tallying these special elections and looking at how democrats are doing. david nir: so the question is we , have seen democratic over performance in the special elections, but how much of it has to do with turnout in general for the special elections is lower? have we been in analyzing it? that seems like something for dan. daniel donner: i have been looking at special elections going back to 2004, just trying to answer that question among others. i believe the answer is special elections in a midterm year or a presidential year are pretty good guides for what is going to happen during the general election. obviously that is a real concern. is it just low turnout when the other side is not bothering to come out? we do really well, but they will come out anyway and general election.

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. that's 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 man in new york city we called the newspaper men the news news people and here would be my advice to c.n.n. and m s n b c report the news you really want to have some compelling shows report the news i don't want to hear a part of it just ramble on endlessly be a story to death there's nothing there anymore i'm not what my grandmother. at the time. of the year yet 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 a boomeranging back at the people that are at war with with donald trump and don't get me wrong my viewers and my guests here i am not you know a dyed in the world trump supporter i am not i've there's many things that infuriate me about him and many decisions he made i make ver

we win every time democrats do that. have they brought democrats into the trap? alex: we will see if democrats can turn out voters, if it is an issued that gets new voters to turn out. if there are voters that look at what the president said about charlottesville and say i'm going to go register to vote. i have never voted in a midterm and that what mr. bannon said is wrong. if they don't, it can be difficult for them. it is interesting. alex pointed out that j.b.'s focus on the economy, it is difficult for democrats to make that argument right now because when we look at the indices, when he comes in the economy, unappointed numbers, stock market, these things are looking pretty good and trump is already taking credit for those things. taking credit for that. they will have a difficult time doing that if the economy continues to farewell. greta: what role do they play? alex: they have a lot of money. that is the short answer. there have been sleeper pacs -- super pacs that are able to raise money from big donors and able to spend millions of dollars in senate ra

her image, her unpopularity was among the reason why is democrats, some democrats believe they lost thatt was very high profile at the time, she is very high number. there are some house democrats that say, you know what, she is too much -- she's too much weight to carry for -- in order to win back the house of republicans will be able to successfully use her against democrats. what's your advice to nancy pelosi and how to deal with this? >> well, i'd say, you have to recruit better candidates. i always hold the candidate responsible. so if some candidate doesn't win, don't blame it all on somebody else. like nancy pelosi, she's -- i know her very well. she's really dedicated. she works very hard for this party. and the answer is, you've got to get good candidates. and as a candidate when you're running in a republican district, if you're a democrat, you better be extraordinary. and you have to relate to a very different kind of constituency that we have here in san francisco or in new york city. so, i don't put -- i think nancy pelosi has a lot of assets. is she perfect? no, am i perfec

and most democrats now are i don't know. if they're intractable or unsophisticated or or just don't care but they don't seem to understand that somebody has to pay for things and that's what i think we have to deal with first and foremost whenever we want to introduce a new bill ok well that's that's but see i think that's a really what i hope and i'm not going to media go ahead i think that's a really great interesting point to bring up and not about politics i'm so sick of the republican versus democrat we have a status quo in this country that has money influences politics money influences media and rob i'd be curious if you agree that the media has the same problem as the democratic party where they're listening to the donors and they're not listening to the voters the media strategy is to please people who are paying them not to provide information that's helpful to voters so for example when you were writing articles for the huffington post back in two thousand and fourteen and twenty fifteen telling us why hillary cli

actually requiring us to be able to challenge democrats especially democrats. to really hold them accountable for whether you are on our side .r the freedom side i think for a lot of us this is a life or death issue. when political parties, politics is a life or death issue. years i think it has gotten even higher. i think for the relationship to reality ofr the democratic representation of people they need to have a backbone. we need to be able to hold it higher. [applause] think of course as we all with the blood and sweat of color of people in this country. as well as all over the world. a white person to stand up and say they are going to support black and around lies , it gives us a enormous obligation to do something. not just to have it on a piece of paper, we need to use that privilege to amplify the voices and struggle of other people. for me that means not just and not just inviting people to the table. it is x-ray showing up for the struggle. life is it not starting on the right foot. and to to show up amplify those voices and use whatever power we h

something that is crazy in in 2006, we had democratic wave, the new hampshire legislature, the democrats took control of both houses first since 1870's. thatepublican incumbents night they were on vacation. you can't take your election for granted more than going on vacation on election night. should really try hard, some of these people win hard.ey don't try add.e other thing i would they get paid $100 a year. you get the quality of the for.lature that you pay i think that's something we've legislatures and beyond that, when officials are paid not like other officials you don't get quality people. you end up with people who are independently wealthy. can afford to take put in time and effort into winning and doing the legislative work. they're not getting any income for it. have 400 people in a small state and not paying them badhing, you'll end up with apples. only so much to be about that without changing how much statelue your legislature. it's not a popular stand to take. like the idea of elected officials going out making whole elected money being official. they need to -- if it's

cheryl: not all democrats on board. three democrats did not sign the letter. joe manchin a west virginia, joe donnelly at indiana and heidi heitkamp are all up for reelection states that donald trump one. transfer the top administration to launch an investigation into china's trade practices and expected to focus on alleged violations of american intellectual property, treat secrets. accused of blocking access to promising industries by requiring foreign companies and handler technologies beyond to operate in china. the u.s. had a $347 billion trade deficit with china last year. all of this coming as washington becomes increasingly frustrated by beijing select a to confront north korea about its nuclear program. meanwhile, the u.s. conducting an intercontinental ballistic missile test of its own today in california. cheryl: well, discouraging news for people who have obamacare. the government says major health insurers are increasing premiums by 30% or more for next year. the favorite question is the uncertainty among insurance companies as they try to anticip

is there any way to accommodate democrats on this? >> one of the things that is interesting is, not long ago, i was asked to speak at a luncheon where there was a republican senator that spoke before me. as he concluded, he said they were interested in eliminating the state and local tax reduction. if that is the way that tax reform is to proceed, we will be right back to the polarized atmosphere that has existed for a long time. the idea that it only applies to blue states is a huge miscalculation. i have heard some of the best arguments on that from the congressional delegations from tennessee for example. that will be a difficult when. but it does highlight the fact that the border adjustment tax -- understand, that with it, the upblem was that it provided to $1 trillion of revenue. i was not moved by the argument that the dollar would appreciate by up to 25% over the course of the next five years in an effort to use dynamic scoring on their part. , this notion that it only applies to california, massachusetts, new york, and connec

special once the democrat is seated in the end, how democrats don't play by the rules. and the republicans are very effective on lots of tough words about the democratic majority. leaving democrats with a clear sense of where the republicans were going. and the whole issue came to a resolution, i'm looking for -- there's another great quote right here. he noted in his diary that day, it was a long ordeal for frank. surely it must have been a great strain on his nervous system. neither he nor trent lock can make a commitment of any faith of fulfillment, a thirst for erechg and retribution have now the republican leaders on their side. one mature republican told me we might as well install a sandbox for them to play in. and that kind of touches on something that i think comes out of this weird where the distance between the republic leadership and gingrich is not nearly as great as many people respect. and the reddership starting more and more to lose a lot of the themes. when this all over we're aware that the tenor of politics was fainting. and that's right at that poin

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it's not that democrats were pristine, and he kind of exploits a lot of areas where democrats didn't reform the institution after the '70s, including campaign finance, to pursue that theme. >> any other questions? well, great. thank you very much to the panelists, to matt. [ applause ] >> say a quick thank you to matt, to jeff, and to julian for your excellent presentations, and to laurel and mike for your discussions. this has been a pleasure to work with you this morning. >>> arizona senator jeff flake spoke to the local chamber of commerce in gilbert, arizona, last night, talking about his new book, "conscious of a conservative," in which he calls on republicans to stand up to president trump if he is damaging the gop. senator flake has been a vocal critic of some of president trump's actions. also, questions on policy and the current political climate, that's at 9:00 on c-span. >>> this week on c-span. tonight at 10:00, live coverage of president trump's rally in phoenix. coverage begins at 10:00 p.m. eastern or on the c-span radio app. there's more american history tv coming up

corporate democrats. firmly in their seats and we have to just knock that seat out from under them at every opportunity and i think what you guys do so brilliantly is kind of short circuit they the gatekeepers in the gape that have been put up to stop messages like yours to get put forward in in the mainstream media because you know those are corporate gatekeepers and they don't really want to talk about this stuff but you guys often manage to kind of break your way through it with your with your various media stunts you also have the yes lab where you got to help people culture jam on their own what's your advice for people who want to i'm for lack of a better terminology make make change create change the way you guys do. well one piece of advice would be. you know not to take what we do too seriously it's just one way of getting the message out i mean this was a joke this was a prank that had a lot of content and was totally on funny. and well you know my my opinion it's funny from a satirical sense be

you got some inside the democratic party and major leaders and others who think the democratic partyort democrats who are not pro-choice on abortion. you have people like nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, you know, democrats have to be a 10. you got to learn how to compromise. >> i don't know who the democratic basis. it shifted. the segments of our party are highly differentiated and environmentalists and they're pro-choice people and religious fundamentals, they're there. it was not long ago that the neighbor of catholic democrats were opposed to abortions. the fact that some believes today of what most people believed 50 years ago, should not be the basis for the exclusion. and america, we are not ideology cal. we are not like a marxist party. we are not ideological. you cannot let hot button issues that work great one way or the other to be the guiding light for a national party that covers a very wide spectrum of belief. >> you don't believe there should be a litmus test, is there an issue or should be one for the democrats? >> it should be intelligence and has harry truman and ro

this is an effort to convince conservative democrat, particularly in democrats that district won, to vote with republicans for an alternative candidates. there's some potential -- there's reference to folks like sonny montgomery of mississippi as a possible candidate. and this appears to be from the archival research we've done a pretty serious effort by gingrich to the point that there's even a list that is put together of current or expected chairman of committees and then it's not here in this slide but a list of possible alternatives who would be given the positions of being chair committees if this plan would succeed. needless to say, this does not work. now, one could argue this is gingrich not so much interested in any of his goals because if it work, well, the republicans have a procedural majority and they don't need to take over the house. but one of the things that he writes in one of his memos is this is win-win for us because if it doesn't work, then people will at least know that the democrats are the majority in the house. and that theme of party differentiation is ver

i was a democrat and switched i r to independent because didn't like the way the democrats were doing and i think we have a great president. he's trying to do a lot for the country if the democrats would just let him. host: scottsdale, arizona. line for republicans. go ahead. caller: thanks for taking my call. just a few comments. this whole thing with the russian probe. we have to look at the whole emocratic thing with -- hello? host: i'm listening, jack. go ahead. caller: the whole democratic things where wassermann got kicked out of the -- if we remember, the election, where one black woman on cnn feeding hillary questions. i mean, come on. this whole thing has been tainted with the democrats from the very beginning as soon as trump got the nomination, they decided right then and there, they're going to find a way to kink the deal. they did everything they can. and they even had plans, we've got to kink more deals. look at it, they didn't expect it. right up until midnight, man, they didn't expect, you look at the map on the thing of america, it was all them people in america in th

i come from a long line of democrats in my family, reagan-- my mother was a reagan democrat, which the democrats have failed to realize right now, they've gone off the deep end, by the way. 90% of all businesses in this country, according to irs data are regular personal income tax rate. david: that includes a lot of small businesses. >> so that's businesses will get slammed by the likes of bernie sanders and the you didn't build that crowd. why did those numbers go up under reagan? because jobs were created. david: and bill, my dad also has a reagan democrat and he was convinced in the end that the democratic formula didn't work, but reagan's formula did. >> i'm pretty sympathetic to john tamny of shrinking the government, but the democrats on important tax issues. i don't think that millionaires need tax cuts in order to get motivated to get out of the bed in the morning. if you want to stimulate the economy, give targeted tax breaks to the working poor and to their employers. david: and we haven't convinced that all groups rise with across the board tax cuts. there is a vacuum. what

if you are a democrat, your job is to elect democrats. wealthy people are able to exert on both sides. no one has mentioned the situation in france. you had to parties, left-wing and right-wing. come out ofon nowhere. the majority of their version of congress, do you see something like that happening here in the next 10 years? is that possible to happen here? are we too much of a two-party system? i think institutionally, it is very difficult. you are at a breaking point. you are starting to see the look nuts come off. uts come off. you are seeing it very clearly. -- know think it will if it will go to a european model. we do not know. strongly convicted. what we see right now is not what we are going to be seeing in the medium to short-term future. >> that is all the time we have. i'de he and -- we end, like to think the museum for hosting us. i would also like to thank all of you for joining us and invite all of you to stick around for this reception. not get a chance to ask a chance to ask the question tonight, please continue the conv

we are not a wing of today's democratic party. we are the heart and soul of the democratic party. [cheers] [applause] sen. warren: but, boy, we have inherited a hell of a challenge, haven't we? we are gathering here in atlanta in a moment of crisis for our country. and i am not just talking about donald trump and his twitter account. more and more families today are hanging on by their fingernails in a country with an economy and a government that works for those at the very top. this crisis did not start when donald trump walked into the oval office, and it will not just magically disappear when he walks out of it. it is true. me, i have been shouting about this crisis from every rooftop i could find for years. talking about how our middle-class is squeezed to the breaking point. how chances to move up in this economy are disappearing. and warning that, if we were not careful, the very promise of this nation, the commitment to expand opportunity, would be lost. that is the fight that got me into politics. that is the fight that brought to me to my very first netroots all those ye

i think the democratic voters who may turn out. in the republican voters who may or may not turn out. i think it is true that you could see some problems with some republican turnout. because if they don't end up with the republicans. and given the trump popularity. you could see problems with that but it's also something that's really outside of our control. and so if that happens okay. and if it's not i think we need to be in general focus on getting our turnout as best as we can be it's probably not can be all the way to presidential level but the closer we can get to that is better. the republican vote will be what it will be. it's outside of our control. there is a question from online. in the question is what are your models telling you about 2018 for the house and senate. so last year we ran the polling based models to try to forecast the outcome of the elections on the presidential side they were incorrect in our predictions. they turned out to be quite accurate. there weren't really any upsets. there is not enough data on

we are in a moment where democratic enthusiasm is high. democratic turnout is high. my concern is that that effect is larger when overall turnout is low. i am wondering if you guys have looked at democratic over performance versus turnout? as you have been telling the special elections and looking at it? >> the question is we have seen democratic over performance in the special elections, but how much of it has to do with turnout in general for the special elections is lower? have we been analyzing it? >> i have taken a look at special elections going back to 2004. just trying to answer that question among others. i believe the answer is the special elections in a midterm year or a presidential year are pretty good guides for what is going to happen during the general election. it is a row concern. -- real concern. is it just low turnout when the other side is not bothering to come out? we do well, but they will all, anyways. the answer is they may all come out anyways in the general election, but even more democratic leaders, out. for instance, democrats had really

we definitely need to have legitimate criticism of tribe but sadly be democratic party and the liberal elites are blocking us from doing that with their analysts russia hysteria. you know the kind of reflect upon that because you know i. because it's my job i have to watch m s n b c i have to watch c.n.n. and you know it's almost for me it's fun watchable i'm not learning anything oh i'm like oh i get is this diatribes you know i think we're adults here and i think we need to deal with facts and we have to deal with other stories because we don't have a whole lot of facts to grab on except for well he had a meeting and then they had a meeting and and that embassy and you know over and over and over again it's rehashing it here i mean how is this doing to your party being a democrat any good go ahead. 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 we call

it's a very wealthy 1% that controls the democratic party.nton, it's hollywood, it's silicon valley, it's the wealthy people and people who they enslaved to be democratic voters because they are dependent on the government for their very livelihood. when you realize that, you won't get the people who work for the them. >> dagen: nancy pelosi still has that job because she raised half a billion dollars for democratic races. i was watching and there is nancy pelosi with chuck schumer talking about we need a $15 minimum wage and we need to go after big businesses. i don't know how far back they had to get those ideas. >> harris: if you look at the messaging and the man that we know who created that pizza, papa john's, it wasn't built on $15 an hour, it was built on the young people who wanted jobs and were hungry, not just for the pizza, but to get something bigger and better. >> marie: all of us agree that the current democratic leadership isn't working. i am encouraging my party to look at people like joe crowley from queens who could be nancy

democrats feel now.ome of his controversial past supreme court justice there, that will be a fascinating race, because the democrats have all of this energy. turnout is way up, but they haven't been able to get over top any special elections. greta: how do they know their ized and they will turn up? i think they didn't necessarily zero in on -- he talked about health care, he didn't seem to think that would be the thing that puts an over-the-top. we talked about single-payer and where there is some level of dispute within the party. it doesn't feel that democrats have found the one thing that they can go to their voters and guarantee that they turn out, because democrats have not been good at turning out voters and midterm elections. listening to him, it sounds like they are still searching for that thing. greta: couldn't that one thing be the president? alex: you know, he said it. the midterms are a referendum on the president. i think there is still some caution because a lot of those candidates focuse

the democrats have destroyed black america. we no longer have her neighborhood, we have been overrun by other groups, illegal immigrants, black unemployment has always been in the double digits. so i can tell a black man college to the show as you can recognize them by their voice. all they do is character. >> how do you recognize someone's by their voice? >> i can recognize a black man's voice, black woman. it's deeper, the tone is steeper, and you can tell by the content of what they're saying. they are attacking trump. the biggest lie is that the democrats have benefited black america. the democrats have destroyed black america. >> thank you. >> first, i agree. i think i was reading a book about slavery, the book about the slave plantation and the historian describes the features and he says they are ramshackle dwellings, broken families, a great deal of violence that is characteristic of the plantation and he talks about the fact that nobody can get ahead. you're stuck in life. ironically when i was reading this it struck m

that pressure will weigh on democrats and democrats will be pumping the brakes as much as they possibly can to try and prevent republicans from getting a win. the second big take away from health care, and we saw this in the senate, is that the health care bill repealed some taxes and had cuts in future medicaid spending. and for republicans -- you look at what the congressman calls the distribution table that is washington speak for who wins and who loses and who pays more and who pays less. who gets more and who gets less. mattertribution tables in the senate. senator say i don't like the idea -- republican senators -- i don't like the idea of tax cuts of thehe se position where they can only lose two senators and then a handful of house members and can they really strike that balance that they can get moderates and conservatives on board with an idea to push it through? the white house clearly is not ruling out bipartisan tax reform. the congressman talked about the difference that he has sensed between the white house's outreach with hill democrats and what is he hearing from leader

that's all good news for democrats.bout next year's election, a quote dave wasserman, even if democrats were to win, every single 2018 house and senate race for seats representing places that hillary clinton won or that trump won by less than 3 percentage points, they could still full short of house majority and lose five senate seats. how on earth that math is possible. next. >>> while donald trump's low approval ratings could hurt republicans in 2018, there are more than a few factors working against the democrats. in the senate, 23 democratic seats as well as two belong to independents who caucus with democrats will be up for grabs. ten of the seats come from states that voted for the president last year. only eight republicans total will be on the ballot. and only deen from nevada represents a state won by hillary clinton. the senate favors sparsely populated rural states. every state gets two senators regardless of the population. wyoming's not even 600 people have the same weight as california's 39 million people.

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i often say that was not republicans that elected donald trump commit was democrats, blue-collar democrats>> ed: the president claimed these russia probes are a total fabrication. that doesn't reflect reality either though on a day when we learned robert mueller has impaneled this grand jury. surely your party can't claim this is a total fabrication. >> well, it's important to discuss that tonight was a good night for the president. you have the democratic governor of west virginia saying he's switching parties to the republican party, making him the 34th republican governor. >> ed: that's not going to repeal and replace obamacare. >> what it shows you is how the people in real america are thinking. folks in the beltway want to talk about russia, these other things but the folks in real america. i am from part of the country that went strongly for trump, the outskirts of pittsburgh. focus on the things the president is doing, rolling back epa regulations. >> ed: you didn't answer my question. the president claimed rush is a total fabrication. special counsel has a grand jury. there is some

and out of that comes a democratic nominee. hubert humphrey believed he was cursed coming out of this convention because it was such a disaster. and he was. and he had no money -- [audio difficulty] the campaign because everyone thought he was going to lose. he was way behind in the polls the nixon. and eventually humphrey decided i've really got to say something about what this campaign is about. i've got to say something about vietnam, and i'm going to do it whether lyndon johnson wants me to or not. and finally, humphrey delivers a speech that feels as though he's declared his independence from lyndon johnson's war policy, and he starts to go up. and he starts to attract campaign money as he starts to bo up. and frank -- to go up. and frank sinatra does a tv commercial for hubert humphrey where he simply says, please, send him money. there's nothing even subtle about it. [laughter] and here's the p.o. box. and he goes up. and so that's why, in the end, all the momentum was on the humphrey side, and that's where the whole, yo

the first caller that you had today was a democrat.he immediately came out with the race side trying to bait mr. d'souza into saying something about his eastern indian heritage, not being in the military, and so forth. a typical tactic. mr. d'souza, this has to do with the media. the first will always focus on tosia and trump, at least 15 20 minutes. you mentioned that you would never be invited on msnbc or cnn because they know your political background. the media in america has so much power and influence. how will you break it? i know you said you would try to get your own movies, but how can america take back the most states, thef the media, and make it unbiased and straightforward presentation of information? host: the last minute. guest: the nazis had a term that meant coordination. what they try to do was bring the cultural institutions of society, the universities, the media, the filmmaking industry, into harmony with the nazi ideology. i think we have political correctness. it is enforced with ruthless intensity. there is a gr