i knew my democratic party would show up and show out. that's who democrats are. don't understand why people beat up on democrats. they should reach out and go beyond the call of duty to help this country. republicans, you need to take a lesson from democrats. no matter what party you are in, you are being voted in and paid for to look after this country, not your party. mr. trump, the only way you're going to get anything done in this country is with the help of democrats. host: do you think there are downsides for the democrats in terms of working with president trump? caller: it is good and it is bad. it is bad because they are going to sit up here and give donald trump on kinds of victories when they could not get the same kind of cooperation when president obama was in the white house. what is the difference between president obama and donald trump? they both were presidents and are supposed to be up to work with both parties. once you win an election, it is not supposed to be democrats or republicans. it is supposed to be one party to help the american peopl

with the democrats. they want to see change. >> we're going to talk hillary because the book "what happened" is out. she's on her book tour. she's giving these interviews and she's opening up as to why exactly she lost the election. i want to get to this one moment in a recent interview where she sat down talking about benghazi and how it turned into a political football game undermining her credibility. watch, this. >> take the benghazi tragedy. you know, i have one of the top republicans, kevin mccarthy, admitting, we're going to take that tragedy -- we lost people unfortunately going back to the reagan administration if you talk about recent times in diplomatic attacks. but boy, it was turned into a political football. it was aimed at undermining my credibility, my record, my accomplishments. >> i should point out, martha, that was a response to a question about her likability and the problem with her likability during the election. that's where she went with that. >> that answer is not going to help

kept tweeting to speaker ryan that he's a democrat and he is a democrat. thing he's given us is nominee.me court that's nothing. we lost one conservative, gained one. it's not like he was replaced with a conservative. has done nothing for the republicans. he's an embarrassment to the party can host: the "new york times" this and ng, trump makes a deal divide.a conservative the president of for america and a trump supporter says these are moments that can derail president trump's presidency and he said that the president's would be watching the next few months carefully. teflon.t he spent some of his own today.cal capital do you agree? >> absolutely. e ruined his political capital because special investigator bob mueller is going to impeach the president and he's going to need majority leader. he's truly lost the republican party and everybody who calls nto c-span and complains about the congressional people, we're all calling into "washington journal." don't you try to run for office anticipate see how difficult it is to run for office. the body complains

we'll see. >> do democrats buy it? democrats have loathed president trump since day one.ow they see their leadership working with the white house. >> they do not buy it. the base or lawmakers, when you -- when i talked to democrats this week and last week, i should say, they say, okay, this looks like this might be good for our party, that he might be listening to our leaders, but this is still the president that attacks a lot of the people that are our base, that are really important to our base. so we can't just say, okay, we're going to completely ignore the last, i would say, year and a half of not only his presidency but his campaign and say we now trust him. they also think if his own republican leadership can't trust him, if mitch mcconnell and paul ryan can't trust him, how in the world would democrats trust him? i think the base, it showed how wary they were, because a lot of the immigration groups came out and said, look, we want a clean d.r.e.a.m. act. we don't know who this person is in the white house. we know he is someone who has talked very offensively abo

the senate democratic leader chuck schumer, the house democratic leader nancy pelosi coming over to the white house at the president's invitation this evening for another dinner here. they are scheduled to talk about dreamers. dhaka legislation that the president hopes congress can act on. that is a new piece of the dynamic here in this long running immigration debate in this capital. the player is trying to get some type of bipartisan consensus. tax reform is the item of the day here in washington. i think we're appropriate to be a bit skeptical of any type of bipartisan tax reform. the reality is, the sides are too far apart here. they each have their own interests here. this is more than a oneoff as we talked about last week, the president working with democrats on that deal. he wants to, i am told by top advisers, actually to get something done in this town. it's important to point out and remember, john, as you know well, donald trump is a new republican. in fact, he was a democrat and independent much longer here so we are in a new chapter of at least discussion here with both sid

number of democratic primaries.have this litmus test, whether or not you're for socialized medicine, we have more democratic candidates emerging across the country and governors races. it all adds to the stakes of tax reform, defense spending, the budget and a possible revisiting of repeal and replacement of obamacare as a country waits to see whether the g.o.p. congress can get things done. >> melissa: doug, great breakdown, thank you. >> jon: still ahead, a star-studded fund-raiser now raises millions of dollars for victims of hurricane harvey and irma, but the event quickly turned political. which celebrities are saying -- what celebrities are saying it's causing a lot of controversy. plus, marilyn police trying to find a missing pregnant high school teacher. she has not been seen in more than weeks. her family is praying for her safe return, how you can help ahead. >> we pray that your safe and i'm asking to let us know that your safe. you always pay your insurance on time. tap one little bumper, and up go your

the democrats it's been what how many three four congressional elections in a row that have resulted in in the. where we are right now with the congress being overwhelmingly in the house republican in the senate of course i mean this is going on election cycle after election cycle and the democrats don't seem to get it now in the aftermath of the clinton wing of the democratic party notwithstanding the fact that hillary not only won't go away but now she won't rule out contesting the election if you can believe that one who is the leader they have no direction they have no but say have no leadership you've got bernie sanders he's a socialist you've got a little bit warren you've got the black congressional black caucus you've got you've got schumer you've got pelosi they're all over the place now as far as the republicans go with it but every very disheartening that the leadership hasn't learned a thing going. against did a great job and they're going to head in part going to go ahead though i do want to jump in again and but highlight the fact forget about the democrat party at the

louis was democrats. so i think about that quote, i'm forgetting the name now, about what we know about liberalism. and i think that we really need to see bold action and see a backbone in order to fight for black people and for other people of color. because we have seen through history that democrats have not been on our side, but not even in the case of it not being on our side, but also have impacted us through violent means. and so we need to be real about how those impacts isolate a community from actually feeling like our needs are being met. so it's quite a whiactually reqs and outside our movement to be able to challenge democrats and the right, but especially democrats so hold them accountable to say you are on our side and are you on the freedom side or are you not. because for a lot of us, this is our life or death issue. and political parties is a life or death issue. for us in the last few years, the crisis has even gotten higher. in relationship to the movement and agendas and the reality o

i hope there is democrats support. but if there is not, we will use reconciliation because it's too important for america to get this done. >> bret: repatriation. are you going to tie repatriation of money overseas coming back to investment and infrastructure? >> i don't think we will tied to infrastructure. people talk about whether we should do one bill or two bills. the president is very focused on infrastructure and wants to get it done. that's also a complicated issue. what we are going to do on repatriation is there will be a deemed tax, a one-time charge for the conversion. and that will create the incentive for companies to bring it back and invest here. >> bret: linking the two, you don't know yet. >> for now we are focused on taxes. we will leave it to congress if they want to add infrastructure to this. we've got both plans ready to go. >> bret: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell saying you have these extraordinary measures that will take it well into 2018 before they have to do with the debt ceiling rac

, that's compared to 62% of democrats looking forward to working with republicans, democratic strategist is here via skype. let's talk about the whole push for bipartisanship and we heard a little bit about this alliance between president trump and democrats working together. let's listen. >> it's less about him needing them but more about the president wanting to work with them and wanting to help move this country forward. as we've said many times, we got a very ambitious legislative agenda for this fall, and the president wants to work with anybody that wants to move america forward. >>> i realize you're a democrat, i'll ask you simply do you buy it? president -- i wish him welly it's a good idea to try to reach out to the other side of the aisle and work with democrats on passing legislation. it's important for our country. i'm a part san i want democrats to win next year's election but between now and the election i want the country to move forward, so far the president only worked or tried to cultivate his base and only done things to, you know, things that his base wants but not r

the democrats, the democrats cannot bring up a tax bill. they don't have any procedural rights in the senate to even bring up the bill. they cannot bring it through the senate finance committee. only orrin hatch can do that. they can't have a markup of the bill. not to mention the fact that the only parliamentary procedure in the united states constitution is that all tax legislation must begin in the house of representatives. and so there is no one from the real congressional tax world really sitting at that table tonight. >> that's exactly rite. and i think that gives sort of lie to this idea that there can be any sort of cooperation. i mean trump is facing a real problem in the sense that he should be getting his way on a lot of things. he has a unitary government. but the republicans can't deliver what he wants. so he is looking for other options. but i mean, like, i think that the hurdles are strong enough that it's not going to happen. >> ken, one of strategic problems is if you're donald trump and you're sitting there thinking hey, c

is the mainstream democratic position but there's a reason you don't have all the democratic senators supporting them we're talking about a proposal that would eliminate an entire industry an entire industry would turn parasitic industry one that also provides you know almost eight hundred thousand jobs in the united states not to mention the subsidiary agents and dealers you know that's a part of another couple hundred thousand employees so democratic senators that want to win reelection in either moderate or really red states are not going to be keen to be putting people out of work so you're telling me that the person who when i when i called my insurance company and said you know you're not paying for all of my wife's chemo what's going on and she was like why haiti i time limit now i mean you know that that person is going to lose her job i'm horrified so there's you know she. i'm going to work for medicare so there's not only the jobs issue but there's also the innovation issue there's a lot of democrats believe fundamentally that the free market in expression for health care an

democrats would go along with some of them. if you are talking about billions of dollars in while funding, that is a nonstarter. robert: what is going to be the deal? if the president is going to be a dealmaker, he will have to cut a deal. if the democrats don't want a physical wall -- they don't. these proposals for the wall have come in. it is a fence more than a wall. the experts are saying a concrete wall is not feasible. we have seen the president's flexibility. he wants to cut a deal. there may be a piece of a wall. whatever. he will call little while and he will call it a victory. he could claim victory on something and move on. his base seems to follow along with him. we will see how far that goes. >> you could have a debate about building materials. how much concrete is ok. democrats say border security, fine. there is room to maneuver. they just will have to fight over whether they are calling it a wall. >> democrats have used the dream act to ask for comprehensive reform including other people. democrats say they sti

opponent konrad adenauer loog an hour or liar the christian democrats called the social democrats pied pipers the c.d.u. won the election by a slim margin adenauer became west germany's first chancellor and would serve until one thousand nine hundred sixty three. i swear so help me god. adenauer advocated closer ties with western europe and was fervently anti communist these themes came to dominate future christian democratic election campaigns. the social democrats on the other hand advocated the reunification of germany. western mini's economic miracle reflected well on the c.d.u. people enjoyed a level of prosperity that they could not have imagined just a few years before. the head of the one nine hundred fifty seven election chancer adda now as campaign strategists searched for just the right slogan. experiment and of which of them was one that kept coming up no experiments helmut kohl used a more positive variation of that in one thousand nine hundred seventy carry on germany there was a certain optimism and that slogans message. he's an optimist most often. will make sure that t

democrat.ou're 100% right. stuart: oh, lord, i'm in trouble. >> welcome to bipartisanship. i guess i ask you the question you asked me, still a republican? stuart: yes. i still hold those same principles. >> right. stuart: small government, low tax, i'm with it all the way, but if my side of the argument doesn't have the votings to get it through, you compromise. >> exactly!. we got debt ceiling extended. hurricane harvey aid. stuart: you had not to compromise. you did no compromise whatsoever. you got what you want. senator schumer got three months. >> i'm really pleased. i'm pleased with heidi heitkamp. this is exactly what we need. i agree on tax reform. if we get flexibility there, a revenue neutral plan cuts rates, eliminates deductions we'll all be better off. stuart: but we won't get much stimulus for the economy. >> the president, he doesn't want to cut rates perhaps as much as you and i do. stuart: how about this for a deal i'm hearing about. >> sure. stuart: given this new cooperation

to deal democrats are touting. right now the president is returning to washington after rallying his base in north dakota over tax reform. first up, a storm already called the strongest atlantic ocean hurricane ever recorded. correspondent phil keating is in miami-dade county. people getting ready and getting out. good evening, phil. >> good evening, bret. long lines of cars snaking around every gas station in south and central florida as the ball tried to get fuel, anticipating gas stations won't be working with a week's loss of power after the hurricane. widespread reports are many gas stations have run out. that happened here about an hour and half ago. a fuel truck showing up, lines are forming again. as anxiety and worry and legitimate panic grow, if irma slams into miami, that's 6 million people facing catastrophic impact. irma won't be eddie's first hurricane. are you scared question marks to go i am. you hope for the best. >> hopeful yet still fueling up. this resident is heeding warnings. >> the storm is b

the democratic party?al of all of this? >> all of the above. secretary clinton said she regrets saying deplorable. no question it did, and she understands that there was an anger among the electorate that donald trump personified and amplified and rode to victory. she's not taking away from that in the sense she's not respecting -- not disrespecting people who held those views, but when you get down to the numbers, you're talking about 70,000 people, spread across three states. it is hard to argue when you look at the numbers that what jim comey did, did not have a dispositive detect and we all kind of dumbed down all of this into the word "comey." it's a little broader than that. the original e-mail issue was, frankly, silly. and the scandal, quote/unquote, made of it was even sillier, and they came to the conclusion that there was no "there" there, and under doj rules, he should have just said, we're done. instead, he goes on and on that she's a terrible, terrible person. >> we're out of time. yes or no

the democrats hold just five despite the fact that there are more registered democrats in the state. many observers say that is because of gerrymandering and they used pennsylvania's oddly shaped 7th congressional district as an example. critics have said it looks like goofy kicking donald duck as some have described. and the league of women voters earlier this year filed a lawsuit so strike down the state's congressional map. so, what is your reaction to that? val: well, first off, keep in mind that 800,000 vote deficit that we saw from the republican party, that's been knocked down from about 900,000 earlier this year to about 800,000, so we're gaining ground there. a lot of those 800,000 are folks that are--have moved and they need to be purged from the voter role. so, we know that that's a much lower number. as far as why we do so well at a 13 to 5 advantage, we recruit great candidates, candidates who are not on the extremes in a lot of cases and who raise a lot of money. and we have a great organization in pennsylvania, a great ground game in the republican party. our message r

he's given democrats two bites at the apple. they get to spend what they want upfront, and then in december they're going to come back and exact more out of the next vote. it's just an incredibly bad deal. and another thing to say, again, i'm used to republican presidents poking it in the eye of the democratic senators i work for. and him to stick it to the republican leaders like this, again, it's just absolutely amazing. >> let me play delve's advocate or at least suggest an alternate interpretation. it's only a bad deal if the president cares about the outcomes. but i don't think he does. if the outcome he's thinking of is screwing mitch mcconnell and others, it's absolutely a good deal from that perspective. >> it's a classic move of his to just kick the can down the road. and yeah you can think at least in his mind it's not a bad deal. but inreality is given the way the political process works on capitol hill he's just thrown another gut wrench into the process. >> at this point you have to understand he's just never going

on working with democrats. on taxes. are we looking at a fundamental change or at a president who just wants to put points on the board? i'll ask republican senator tom cotton. >>> next, the democrats. bernie sanders' proposal for single payer health care. >> health care in america must be a right, not a privilege. >> thrills the base but not the democratic leadership. >> there are many different bills out there. we want to move the issue forward. we're looking at all of these. >> senator bernie sanders joins me this morning. >>> plus, where hurricane irma hit the hardest, the u.s. virgin islands. >> we lost one of the victims here, took him right out of the building. >> my trip to the virgin islands. >> there's your couch. there's your television. >> with former new york city mayor michael bloomberg who is raising awareness and money for the area. >> people have lost everything and don't have insurance. they've got to start again. >> joining me for insight and analysis are presidential historian doris kearns goodwin, al

bring democrats in the room.ybe you get a 150 republicans in the house and maybe you get, i don't know, 70 or 80 democrats in the house. maybe you figure out how -- but you can't do both at the same time. >> you can't do both at the same time. and as we have said, they are clearly headed down the road. big six have been meeting by themselves. only republicans to craft this plan. the plan that comes out is a republican plan. i think the gap between republicans and democrats on this issue is why. you have 44 senate democrats who signed a piece of paper saying i will not vote for anything increase the deficit. yesterday, mnuchin said they would probably increase the deficit by a couple of billion dollars. they said they would not vote for anything that cuts tax on the relat wealthy. that is almost certainly coming out of here. one of the conundrums they faced the requisiticogniz reconciliat. you really want to try to get 60 votes in the senate to pass corporate tax reform so it's permanent. like a rubik cube they ha

at least 15 other democrats by our count, 15 other democrats are now backing it.suspepport a single paye health care system in this country? >> i do. i actually support universal health insurance. and we're going to get there. when you look at it right now, the majority of americans are either in an employer-supported health insurance or medicare or medicaid. the affordable care act were getting the last component who were uninsured or individuals in the individual market. at some point that's where we have to go, to a universal coverage. >> how do you pay for it? >> you pay for it much like we pay for everything else. it's a process whereby this becomes a huge tax cut for employers who are no longer paying for their employees. we take that money and put it into a system where it's medicare. everyone loves medicare. people in their 50 to 65 age group want to get into medicare. they would pay to get into medicare. you would argue youngers could seamlessly pay for health care by buying into medicare other than having purveyors of various policies where there's a lot

. >>> next the democrats. bernie sanders proposal for single payer healthcare. >> healthcare in america must be a right not a privilege. >> but not the democratic leadership. >> we want to move the issue ford we're looking at all of it. >> senator bernie sanders joins me this morning. plus where hurricane irma hit the hardest. the u.s. virgin islands. my trip to the virgin islands. with former new york city mayor michael bloomburg who's raising awareness and money for the area. >> people who lost everything and don't have insurance, they have to start again. >> joining me for insight and analysis are --. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." ♪ >>> good sunday morning. it was hard not to get the sense this week that both political parties were itching for a fight, with themselves. senator sanders of vermont managed to drive a wedge into a party he doesn't even belong to. the left loves it. the democratic leaders and vulnerable senators in red states aren't quite so sure. senator sanders will join me in a in

i'm interested to see what he can help do to help elect democrats. he is not a democrat. clear. >> she is right. the vermont senator is an independent. as clinton offers her take, sanders is shaping his agenda for the next election. >> i have no doubt. none whatsoever, that this nation, sooner than people believe, will, in fact, pass a medicare for all single payer testimony and finally, finally, health care will be a right for all in the united states of america. >> at the moment he is overly optimistic of passing that medicare for all. but it is fascinating to see. a, will 2016 ever send? >> never. >> will the 2016 election ever end? in this tug of war, bernie sanders is an independent. i think he called himself a democratic socialist in the campaign. he is having more of an impact on the future of the democratic party than hillary clinton at the moment. >> sure. look. bernie sanders phenomenon and donald trump phenomenon are not all that different. the idea of people that wanted to break the mold of what was going on the two parties it wasn't working and a lot of peopl

and the social democrats nor between the christian democrats the free democrats and the greens so if the choice of the coalition partner is so important can we say that this election has become about a third place party not the actual winner but the strength of the third party is important. if there is a grand coalition because the search party this lead strongest party will be the leader of the opposition in the future buddhist thought and if that should be the tentative for germany which is the right wing opponent which is really against any of the existing parties in the buddhist if they would be the spokesman for the opposition in the future period of the buddhist until twenty twenty nine twenty one. then people would be rather upset that the first one to speak for the government has spoken would be this outright rightist party and that is why the run for place number three is important for the small right party alternative for germany is being branded as racist and demagogue a financial times poll shows a of to support standing at ten percent now in this case that would mean a i

we are working with democrats. i spoke with paul ryan and everybody is on board. >> not everybody is on board. >> if you cast a ballot for hillary clinton and stayed home, here it is straight from the source. you are not forgiven. >> do you give ab solution to those who didn't vote? >> no,i don't. look, when it first started happening, it was so soon after the election and the election was so bizarre and close. it was hard for me to comfort somebody who was coming to you and say i wish i had done more or i'm sorry i didn't vote. because i think this was one of the most consequential elections that we have faced in a long time. no ab solution. >> no ab solution. a lot happening this hour. paul ryan any moment will begin his weekly news conference. the big question is how does he feel about the latest deal with top democrat, this one designed to protect the dreamers. the president said the speaker is on board. the speaker is less than thrilled and for the third time, president trump is getting a 50 hand look at damag

anyone and everyone thinking of running for president as a democrat said democratic leaders have notendorsed the idea and it was not included in a better deal, a general outfit you are a part of. where does the party go on health care? is this a litmus test for you next year? how do frontrunners run with this bill that it might be hard to sell in their districts and might be hard to support? rep. jeffries: a better deal economic agenda for the american people focused on better jobs and better future. dealing with higher pay and lower cost tools for the 21st century economy. under the lower-cost umbrella, we do have to address health care and bringing down the cost of health care and prescription drugs for everyday americans. the initial economic agenda lays out ways that we can deal with the lowering the cost of prescription drugs. we have to tackle the broader health care dynamic moving forward. it was always understood that the first step we need to take is to kill the reckless effort to repeal and replace the affordable care act. that is not where the american people were at. that

caller: i gave up on the democratic party.his,illary was thrust on i supported bernie sanders, i disagree with you because and set up centrists, we need aggressive policies, free colleges, marijuana legalization, most people support these. if we are going to try and to find a middle ground, we have to either try to get the progressives like bernie sanders , get them to replace the corporate democrats, or we tried to start a third party would jill stein. evilemocratic party has with superdelegates, which is unfair. the democratic party is corrupt and corporate owned like the republicans. i do not think we can work within the party. we have to start a third party would joe stein and the green party -- jill stein and the green party or get progressives in the like bernie sanders. i would like your guest to comment, how can we work within the two parties that a corporate owned with their media and expect to make changes unless we do one or the other two things i said? host: thank you. nick troiano? guest: i agree with you, ted, we

he need democrats. he is going to states where he won by double digits in november that have democrats up for re-election. heidi heitkamp says this trip with president trump is not an endorsement of his tax plan but she does say she is ready to work with the white house and ready to listen. some critics of the decision to extend the debt hint to december 15th aren't happy wit. the others say the reason why because president trump is trying to clear the agenda for tax reform and set the table for both republicans and democrats to come together to come up with bipartisan reforms. this refinery in particular produces over 74,000 barrels of oil a day and they have been ramping up, they went from the fifth largest refinery to the fourth largest. expansion is definitely something they're pursuing. senator heitkamp says one of her criticisms of trump's tax policy she didn't think corporate tax cuts will benefit this community. we talked to a lot of people here that own small businesses, that would actually do

the last government consisting of a coalition between christian democrats and social democrats has been clearly outvoted by the electorate or declared is no longer worth to be repeated because the apparently from the point of view of many voters or too many voters there was too much fracturing between these two partners another reason was probably the refugee crisis. the. men the people who suddenly came from neighboring countries to germany in the german government they had no possibility of reform fusing them without creating. the stabilizing effects neighborhood the european if you will now be a challenge to cope with that on the other hand uncle america bill have to form a government not this time but the social democrats but with greens. it will be different if the problem and we will have the government and before we get to the most likely coalition let's look at the the big when in this election the a.f.d. . just why do you think we are seeing the most support for a far right party that we've seen you know since the end of the second world war is it only down to. integration poli

stop thinking republicans will run over democrats are democrats are going to do that.ting. if it's bipartisan that will last a lot longer. neil: the bipartisan initiatives, the historic ones deemed successful, whether people flipped over them or not have agreed to support on the left and right. we will see what happens. can happens. thank you very, very much. republican congressmen speaking here. the record territory of about 44 points. one is a disproportionate reason why i'm indicating contract players are coming past the dreamland that would increase those now. a lot of that has to do with the same week we learned malaysia will be scooping up quite a few of those claims over the next five years or more. we will have more after this. who's he? he's green money, for spending today. makes it easy to tell you apart. that, and i am better looking. i heard that. when it's time to get organized for retirement, it's time to get voya. is everything ok?adt, i could hear crackling in the walls, and my mind went totally blank. all i remember saying was, "my boyfriend's beating

things that democrats abhor.before and it is the first time in history a citizen has been president. he is learning the ropes. his instinct to bring people in. the tweets he said after the temporary revision 0rde hear the order is more indicative of where his heart lies. he wants to bring people together. is this a lwa ys bring people together. is this always an indication that chuck schumer is a new yorker and donald trump is too, they have known each other for donkeys trump is too, they have known each otherfor donkeys years. trump is too, they have known each other for donkeys years. paul ryan, and mitch mcconnell the republicans not so obvious as natural soul mates with donald trump. he may be sending a message to the republicans by having this meeting. but it is not unusual. even says it is so unusual, george bush did it. eight years of gridlock with president obama he didn't have members of democratic party to the white house. he is like bring everyone in. he has started doing what at the oval office and he

the democratic party.me back a professor of political management at george washington university. we certainly seen -- heard some of the excerpts from the book, we know she's been bernie sanders, of joe biden and the former head of the fbi. what do you think? is this -- we've heard from democrats saying enough. >> i'm kind of with the democrats and with your opening statement, i think it's, you know, a classic case of clinton fatigue, i don't know very many people personally that are going to rush out and buy the book. >> i think we heard the criticism of bernie sanders. neck, bernie sanders was on steven colbert talking about it. kind of speaks to the democrats were building up to what was inevitable and bernie sanders was the one who challenged that. as we go to 2020 and the democrats are looking for new face and leader and hillary is sticking around, does that bode well for the party as a whole >> that's the fascinating thing, donald trump ran against 17 republics for the nomination. many of which were

policies and so trump stole the democratic trade policy he stole the trump the democratic i'm going to protect your medicare social security and medicaid policy he stole the democrats up forty your opposition to free trade deals he stole the democrats opposition to bush's stupid wars he took all these democratic positions and now maybe he's going to start working with democrats. what you think from what i heard the news i was i was just that was what what happened what i did i you know he's been pretty good about maintaining a republican persona. for so far his term but this is one of those times and i'm just like really donald trump is over time been a republican but it democratic and republican a democrat i think you saw opportunity to become president and jump on the republican bad wagon to to do that this was just one of those questionable times that i'm just what i'm still not sure that but he's saying that he wanted to finally just get something done now he couched it he framed it as you know for the american people but it seems to me that after six months in office seven mont

how did he get democrats on board? henry olsen: at the time, democrats were reacting to reagan's theft if you will of their voter base. millions of people who said they were democrats actually at that time voted for ronald reagan and he was somebody who held a lot of sway among their constituents. they moved in a way to try and neutralize the tax issue so that was no longer a thing that could cause their voters to leave. they also recognized that the united states suffered from some real competitiveness issues because of the tax, particularly at a time where there were tax shelters that did not provide economic benefit but allowed wealthy people and corporations to hide income. they wanted to get rid of that from the populist economic days. they found a way for republicans to get on board. >> he said he would take some or most. he realized he would never get the analgy of a loaf of bread. how did that play along conservatives during his presidency? henry olsen: conservatives often wrestled with that. they were so in lo

he went with democrats.nt with tip o'neil and a whole bunch of democrats and that sort a mediocre, what was described as a mediocre tax cut through 1981. look what happened. the gdp exploded after what was not the perfect tax could deal. we grew by 4.6% in 1983 when the cuts kicked in. we grew by 7.3%. neil: five years later for tax reform. >> exactly. neil: i'm glad you mentioned it. kerry, my big worry is in order to secure a deal with democrats and again guys, i've got a stress i could be totally misreading this. he's giving -- the president must be getting something the democrats to make at least a few of them get on board. maybe yesterday with this talk of an infrastructure plan and daca. maybe that's the appeal. what you see happening next? >> well, what i see happening next, the big question is which way president trump goes. does he go for real taxcutter does he wanted your posts and schumer? another thing and schumer will never go for coming neocon is a policy which president trump wanted to do. the

you sought many democratic sign on. -- you so many democrats sign on. i have spoken to a number of them and they are trying to figure this out in the same way republicans are trying to figure it out. how hard do they run on universal health care? , dohey take credit for it try to govern or keep quiet about it? host: yesterday on abc this week, congressman adam schiff, key democratic member from florida asked how real he thought the outreach was from president trump and here's what he had to say. [video clip] -- >> it is purely something that will come up from time to time when the president decides it it is his best interest. he has no ideology. he is not conservative or liberal. he is pro-trump. will align and we should not cut off our nose to spite our face. when it comes to the american people, we should take care of that opportunity. host: last week, i heard a podcast in you saying president trump isn't looking to be a centrist or a moderate, he is looking to be popular. guest: that is so true. i have covered president trump for a few years. one of