democrat. whereas bill clinton was someone who's actually very ideological who believed fundamentally believed in these ideas and a lot of what the dlc was trying to do was actually to shape shape the electoral strategy at the democratic party, but also to shake reshape theology of the party to make it much more focused on those types, so for the very liberal members of the democratic party back, then what we would call progressives today. what was their critique of the dlc? well, they called it and jesse had many choice words. probably captured on c-span. um, but of really being really frustrated, i mean one of them was that there was an old it was a southern voice network because it was primarily white southern men. another critical one is that they're the democrat he called them the democrats of the leisure class and that it was this idea that it was sort of trying to promote more upper middle class and upper class corporate interests and not really standing for what the democratic parties t

d >> her book is left behind the democrats failed attempt to solve any quality. let's start in the present before we go back in the past. a lot of the news today is about the democratic party is the establishment versus bernie sanders. does that have a history to it? >> thank you so much for having me and talking about the book. there is a sense that this sort of came out of nowhere but they are deep-seated within the democratic party i would say since the 1970s that came into the 1980s as the party was at another kind of crossroads of where to go. so after mondale in that primary ofof the election one was represented by someone like jesse jackson but really stood for some of the kinds of versions of socialism the campaign has represented. the other side is gary hart for the democrats focusing on the new economy and that's what dominated and helped to shape the direction of the party going forward. >> before we talk about 1984 let's talk about 1974. what happened in 1974 and who got elected then that help to proceed this? >> 1974 is another critical year in polit

congress, democrats and republicans. politicians and party platforms, they have never been more different. they are totally distinct. when that is the case, the general public can sort more cleanly into being democrat or republican. it used to be there were people with a bunch of liberal views who voted republican at a time and vice versa, conservative folks voting democrat. but now that would be very strange to do. you have to make clear which team you should be assigned to. and has led to a bunch of other trends, including demographics being more associated with party, race and ethnicity highly associated with party. gender highly associated with party. whether you live in a rural or urban area is more associated with party than it has ever been. it has kind of turbocharged that party identity, and those animosities that rural people have for urban people, now feels partisan animosity. a very long answer to your question, but we now have a situation with distinct party identities that are really different, people don't

why don't democrats see this?oes anyone see that she was in violation and lied, destroyed subpoena evidence? why is that lost on democrats? i just don't understand it. please someone explain that to me. why isn't there a raid on her home? obama had documents that the national archives wanted back. we don't know exactly what they want and i think a lot of this is speculation. let's just wait and see exactly what they were looking for. the idea that they might have planted the something. maybe they did put forth a phony dossier in front of the fisa court to get a warrant. why is that lost on everybody? host: an earlier caller brought up the "lock her up" chant at rallies. that caller saying it is time to lock him up what did you make of those chance at the time? caller: it was kind of in good fun. we have no since of humor in this country. everybody is all, you did this in you did that. i could say on my side that things on the republican party i don't like. i would like to hear some democrats speak about some of th

the democratic party was looking to change >> the democratic party was looking to change. how did it change? >> one of the key ways that changed going forward the 1984 election and landslide is a wake-up call in the group of democrats come to them from a couple cases, one is a group of congress and another is moderate democraticic governors especialy from the south like in virginia who sees the party needs to shift in that direction and they form with the democratic leadership council. >> what did it stand for? >> the dlc was the idea that free markets as a market oriented approach was the best means to bring about opportunity for people so one of the things i argued in my book is the dlc believes in using private sector means to achieve the vocals so the democrats, traditional ideas that you need to help people and create quality they want new means to do that. they believe the democratic party is beholden to special interest groups especially the labor movement and move the economy away from manufacturing -based economy, union oriented economy but democrat party away fro

democrats have a strong candidate. we assume more broadly republican -- we see more broadly republican primaries in swing districts, there been some nominees with positions on abortion that are a little out of the mainstream. vega won virginia's for seventh district republican primary to face the democrat candidate, a gift to her because vega has been endorsed by the house freedom caucus and has expressed skepticism toward acceptance of abortion and they will pursue that against her and other candidates who fit that mold. host: for the rear viewer who has not seen one of david wasserman's 49 appearances, is what he can do. chapter and verse on any district in this country. let me invite viewers to join in the conversation. if there is ray she want to talk about, go ahead. republican's (202) 748-8001, democrats (202) 748-8000, independents (202) 748-8002. he will be with us until the house gavels in. they will be coming in early to work on the inflation reduction act. start calling in. other trends you saw for primary s

-- democrats now have momentum? a few weeks ago the democrats were down in the dumps about their midterm elections, have the roles switched and are republicans a little bit nervous? carl: yes. i think that timing is everything, right? infrastructure, voters forget what happened. this is happening right now. where people are making up their minds about voting. i think it was palpable on capitol hill this week. the positions had shifted. yo heard the republicans including mitch mcconnell start to talk more about, well, if we do win the senate, it's going to be a very narrow majority, not this -- we're going to crush them. and democrats think they really have something to campaign on. at the same time, they also think republicans made some big mistakes including opposing that veterans benefits bill which seemed like a temper tantrum. and people responded to that. and the republicans took a lot of heat. and you saw them back off fast. but you're going to see that in ads. i think that there is a sense that -- i talked to

sinema wanted this change made, again, democrats need all 50 democrats in line to pass anything. so regardless of what senator manchin thinks about it, or other democrats, they need to make those two weeks to get her on board. what happened here, just real quickly, is that they took that provision out, which means that some large businesses, private equity, who have smaller investments who didn't want this part of the bill that is not going to be in there. they took the provision out. instead of adding state and local taxes as the pay for, democrats had another idea, which is extended a provision that is already in place since 2017. it was extended again in the american rescue plan that makes other changes to how some corporations can write off the losses when they're paying taxes. big picture, not many changes that the american people will see and feel as a result of what was made today to accommodate all 50 senate democrats on this bill. but as you can see, we are in final passage. vice president harris is there, she is presiding over this. fauci is expected to cast the tie bre

we saw with the democratic turnout people voted in the democratic gubernatorial primary was ul 80%.n side up a little less than 50%. more people choosing the democratic ballot this year versus four years ago compared to republicans. that's so different than what we've seen in other primaries so far this season where republicans were turning out much larger numbers compared to four years ago, but democrats were turning out less. all of a sudden you see this very different dynamic in kansas. i think the question going forward is whether or not abortion can, in fact, sort of be that thing that allows democratic enthusiasm to climb. midterms aren't just about persuasion, they're about turnout, too. >> you see democrats answering that question with how they're running ads. it's only been a few days. listen to what's on the airways now. >> tell us exactly who she is. >> are you for the exemptions of rape and incest? >> i am not. >> blake masters has made his dangerous ideas on abortion easy to understand. >> i think roe v. wade was wrong. i think it's always been wrong. >> blake wouldn't

democrats are in charge. democrats said we needed to pass this big rescue package.added to inflation or cost inflation, that's what they will say. the president said that inflation was gonna be transitory. it's not. vote republican. and i think that's gonna be a very challenging message for democrats to be able to overcome, because that's just not gonna change between now and november, the economic environment is just not gonna get much better. >> quickly, i want to ask you, amy because in the next segment we're gonna dive deep on the two senate races. we went through the battleground, whether senate battleground is shaping up to be. if there was one senate race but you could know the outcome of right now, that would be sort of a harbinger of how november 8th is gonna turn out for both parties, what would it be? >> i liked that you picked pennsylvania, because it is the one offensive opportunity that democrats have. on paper, well it is a quote unquote blue state, i would argue it's more of a purple blue state. and in this environment, republicans should win that di

a blue-collar --he is the sherrod brown democrat, a blue-collar democrat. the working-class people of ohio like him. i think he has a good shot against his opponent. which, he is famous, he's going to be a good candidate. no, he is not. you know, i might -- florida is the other one. what a rock star. i think --i would challenge anybody in florida to tell me anything that little marco has accomplished in 12 years in the u.s. senate. i think it is a tough race there. i think immigrants could win that one as well. i would say three out of the five democrats will win. we started with georgia. playing football, has to be a great candidate. no. it is an embarrassment. but he said about evolution, what he said about the climate change bill or the inflation reduction bill, i am paraphrasing a little bit, but they think they are helping us, but they are really not because a lot of that money goes to trees. don't we already have enough trees? i can tell you come first of all, he has no --no idea how important those trees are to the health of the planet. we would not

democrats, they been democrats for ever and urban mostly minority black democrats, voters of color in cities like atlanta and savannah and columbus . as that pattern of republicans picked up to the point now where rural counties that went 80 percent donald trump went 90 percent brian kept just two years later so republicans are basically trying to lean up every vote they can in rural parts of georgia knowing that , there's no guarantee. these are places where population is dwindling. they're going to struggle in the long-term to keep on relying on these rural counties but in the short term they feel like it's enough to keep them in power. and that's going to be a strategy of governor or david purdue or whoever ends up the republican nominee will be part of their strategy in november as wellin the suburbs of atlantahave gone not just , they bond decisively democrat . cobb county, when it counts, popular counties northeast and northwest and northeast of atlanta where many million people live combined. those are counties that used to be republican fortresses and as they've grown more div

the question of whether that would motivate, get democratic voters, democratic aligned voters off theat sidelines, motivated to vote as republicans already seem to be motivated to vote in this midterm election. there's some polling evidence, some indications in polling that might be the case. then earlier this summer, we had two other special elections. one was in minnesota. one was in nebraska. both were in republican districts. both were in districts that went for donald trump. both were won by republicans, but the democrats did better in each of those special elections than joe biden had done in those districts in 2020. so democrats looked at that and said, hey, maybe that is a sign that there is some increased enthusiasm for democrats in the wake of the overturning of roe. butin then that set up this election tonight as a real test, a bell weather district. what i'm showing you here is how this 19th district voted in recent presidential elections. it wept for donald trump in 2016. it flipped and went for biden narrowly in 2020 when biden won the presidency. if you went back to 2012,

we are talking about an increased democratic turnout which will help democrats. usually in a midterm, the out party has a better turnout because they are angry but i think democrats will have an equal turnout with republicans because of roe v. wade. the fact is that most independents are not motivated by abortion. most independents are motivated by the same issues they've been voting on and those are not the issues that animate democrats. it is the same thing with republicans. independents are not animated by what is happening on the border the way republicans are. there is a reason they are independents. they will be the ones who end up deciding the general election. host: let's talk to trent from louisiana on the independent line. good morning. caller: hi mr. olson. on c-span i talked to a guy from ethics and public policy. i was wondering if you guys -- here in the south, i sometimes think cs lewis is the 13th apostle to a lot of us down here and he is having tremendous influence around the world. i'm beginning to think that one of his lesser known works, his

the democrats hit >> good morning.ll of this as both parties ramp up campaign ads focusing on fighting crime. policing, crime, law and order are all back in the news this week. we want to get your thoughts. which party do you trust on these issues. we want to hear from you. democrats (202) 748-8000. republicans (202) 748-8001. independents (202) 748-8002. you can also text us at (202) 748-8003. we are on facebook. you can send us a tweet. we are also on instagram. we will get to your phone calls in just a minute. first, we want to show you a little bit of the rhetoric surrounding the fbi's search of donald trump's home in florida. here is the top republican on the house intelligence committee representative mike turner. he is with fellow republicans during the press conference on friday were he gave his take on that search. >> i want to begin by stating that all of our members of this committee are in full support of the men and women who every day work to keep our nation safe at the fbi and the department of justice.

together to beat the democrats." and in new hampshire, in particular, since you are still in the primary phase, we all have to work together right now, what you are doing teddy is making sure that all of our great candidates whether it's the nominee that beat maggie, for your state legislature, for your local races are going to be in a strong position to carry forward our banner in a month here in the granite state. which is once again the center of the universe. your senate election can make a difference, whether we are in the majority in the senate or not, the races can make the difference whether the house is in republican hands are not. whether we begun to hold the democrats accountable for some of the outrageous abuses that we have seen in recent years. a lot of you are deeply concerned about what happened last week with the rate at mar-a-lago. by the department of justice. that we had a lot more questions then we have answers right now. that what they have done so far has not justified the actions taken in our

the lying for the democrats is (202) 748-8000. -- lying for the democrat -- line for the democrats is202) 748-8000. caller: at this time, i would say the democrats, but i would say that i am not opposed to listening to the republicans. i voted for reagan and for bush. i keep an open mind. whoever is going to help our economy. i am open to listen, but they have to be willing to help the people, in general. but in the upcoming elections, i'm going with democrats. host: he said he voted for ronald reagan and george w. bush . if you look at their economy over -- under their terms, do you think that was the right the? looking back on those votes? caller: yes. i was 18 years old in the navy when i voted for ronald reagan and he did great for the military. when i voted for gw the first time around, i thought that he did well. i just thought that he did not handle the war, so that is why i did not vote for him the second time but i think he did well on his second term. host: next, on the republican line. go ahead. caller: i'm praying that trump may run again to get us back on the right road.

and democrats in the senate. what does it look like when they have hearings on hunter biden and try to impeach joe biden. and mccarthy is looking over his shoulder, whatever trump is saying. if mccarthy's even speaker. all these other people who will have been elected or reelected, who are, you know, screaming and yelling that he has to advance this, what do they do? do they pass even nominally restriction on abortion? what does that do nationally? does that republican vote for that? i'm not so sure does the party start to fracture in all kinds of ways that it has in the past in the house? what does biden do biden ran for re election? what does trump do is he already does he announced in the next couple of weeks for reelection and there's so many variable and does trump get indicted. what's the popular reaction to that? it's not gonna be a normal, okay, we've been through this, you know, you lose the house or congress in your first off year and you cut a deal like obama did in 2011 with john boehner or clinton an

it was basically rural, white democrats who were, yellow dog democrats, been democrats forever and urbanmostly minority black democrats, voters of color in cities like atlanta and savannah and columbus. as that tattered, republicans picked up those rural voters to the point now where rural counties that went 80% donald trump went 90% brian kemp just two years later. so, republicans are basically are trying to wring out every vote they can in rural parts of georgia, knowing, hey, look, there's no guarantee, these are places where population is dwindling. they're going to struggle to keep relying on the rural counties. in storm, they feel it's enough to keep them in power and that's a strategy of governor kemp, or david perdue, whoever ends up the republican nominee and that's part of the strategy as well. the suburbs of atlanta have gone not just flipped, they've gone decisively. cobb county, and north eels of atlanta where more than a million people live combined, those are counties that used to be republican fortress, as they've grown more diverse, more out of state residents who moved

the democrats know this. way, we had amendments to say let's not have any of these taxes fall on people making under $400,000. the democrats all voted no. they are lying, and you know what they're counting on? they're counting on the corporate media just carrying their water for them and saying, oh, your taxes are not going up. maria: wow. >> it's not the truth, they know it's not the truth, but they expect the corporate media not to tell people. so unless they're watching your show or a handful of others, they're not hearing what's actually in this terrible bill. maria: that is absolutely extraordinary. i want to turn to the fbi and your committee's testimony with christopher wray testifying in front of your committee. -- in front of your committee. let's run clip, watch this. >> the fbi -- how many fbi agents were disciplined or reprimanded after that disastrous case and the misconduct that led to every defendant being acquitted or having a mistrial many -- on every charge? >> senator, i can't comment on an

that's one democrat, 50 republicans and one democrat.nt to keep that tax break for the stephen schwarzman billionaire class. that is unfortunate. i wish it weren't that way. i am thrilled we are going to -- we are finally going to go after stock buybacks which will, number one, bring in, as i said, four times the amount of money, maybe closer to five times the amount of money. at the same time, it will mean fewer companies do that if we raise a 2% instead of one. we could use that money to invest in housing, which we dearly need in this country, desperately need. it would discourage even more companies from doing it, so that's really the discussion we should be having, in my mind. that's what i will continue to fight for as democrats, almost every democrat, will continue to continue to work that loophole you are talking about. >> the bill, obviously, has been a product of a year of back and forth. i know, it's not through here, utah is, as manu said, imaginations and things happening all weekend. you have court things in here from the or

that is what democrats are trying to say. that is obviously the title of the bill, the inflation reduction act. so basically, once i have all those scores, once they have the tax, they can get going out a procedural vote. it could happen within the next few hours. and then republicans are vowing to make the amendment process held for democrats. we can be here for a very long time, overnight. potentially into the early hours of the morning where senators are hoping to pass the bill. >> all right julie tsirkin for us. once again, finding if you have. anything thank you, we'll be watching this process play out. with that, want to bring in. i think we just heard there senator -- democrat of why. and we heard you because your mic was open, that. she was saying, was he talking? about >> i'm glad i didn't. swear >> [laughs] so on. that elaborate on that if you will. >> i really don't know what my colleague is talking about, because this is paid for so it certainly doesn't add to the deficit. in fact, this bill is going to help famil

democrats line.aller: good morning and thank you for taking my call. i really appreciate it. i am thinking long-term about the midterms because we have some problems clouding over us, with the political issue with trump and his followers. but there are four questions i have in my mind. if anybody wants to comment, i would be pleased to hear. as far as handing back the documents, they had a long time to do this in trump world. they needed time, perhaps, to make photocopies of everything. but they don't have to have these actual documents in their possession. that's the number one question i have number two, what was going on when trump met putin privately and had nobody from his team in this meeting? it was one-on-one. nobody recorded what he said. we don't know what kind of conversations trump had with putin in private. those are secret conversations. as far as the deposition that he took, he has great lawyers. he could have really had that postponed it he wanted to be on the ground in mar-a-lago whi

there is so much pushback on the democratic side. so, i mean that's that's the third i have right and i'm as as an as an asian. there is a lord of ic on the democratic side this whole concept of are white adjacent and things like that, which is very hateful. so that that's just a perspective and i i think from my my perspective at least i would like to see the democrats move more to the moderate side than otherwise. so what what are your thoughts? well look as as we discussed. i think biden had an extraordinarily ambitious agenda and certainly the progressives in congress and across the country had an extraordinarily ambitious agenda and the hopes that you could realize things. that have been certain kind of progress that has been. very rare in our country periods that are rare. fdr lbj, you know you don't get these opportunities very often and i think the democrats felt that there was an opportunity. it collides with their narrow majority and that's why they've had to i think a judge but i don't i don't share the view that the probl

, i vote a democratic ticket.ote for those people i believe can make effective change in our community. >> a lot of things was pointed out that was very enlightening and kind of hopeful. and trying to get things back on track, you know. so i kind of have a little bit of faith. >> how do you feel about governor ron desantis? >> i don't want to really say what i really feel. >> reporter: democratic voters unencumbered by republican origins adding to tonight's big win. >> i think he moves with the times and the current, the current situation in this country. i kind of respect that. he has the guts and the courage to change if he thinks it's beneficial to the country. >> supporters of charlie crist, the main argument that i've heard from them is that he's battle tested that his messaging is very controlled. and that he really understands what it's going to take to beat ron desantis. >> reporter: while the last democrat who ran against desantis narrowly lost, by only 32,000 votes, there are huge doubts any democrat can

the chair of the house democrats campaign arm say democrats are just doing their job.ent hundreds of thousands of delays to promote far right candidates they think will be easier to beat in the big term. nicole malliotakis from the house, congresswoman, the moral imperative. so the democrats are morally just and right, and the republicans are what? >> well, to me it's unbelievable that first of all the democrats are wasting their campaign donors' funding money to fund republican candidates. at the end of the day in districts where president biden won two years ago republicans are actually leading in so many polls. we believe we'll take back many of those seats. they should spend the money defending their own incumdants. i think maloney will be defeated. in addition to that, it's very cynical to assume that someone is endorsed by president trump they can't win the general election. i think it's the opposite of that. i have president trump's endorsement and i just beat a democrat incumbent who voted to impeach trump two years ago. at the end of the day i believe people a

west virginia democratic senator joe manchin. first to griffin jenkins alive at the white house with the present is back in isolation after experiencing a rebound from covid, griffith. >> good morning brett. the president is here at the white house this morning after testing positive again yesterday, forcing him to cancel plans to be in wilmington today and sidelining his return to the road to sell his agenda, scrapping a trip to michigan on tuesday, his doctor, kevin o'connor said in a letter quote the president has experienced no reemergence of symptoms and continues to feel quite well. the president first tested positive on july 21 underwent treatment and tested negative on wednesday. he downplayed the rebound case in the video. >> of it working from home the next couple of days. [inaudible] >> new questions are being raised how strictly he adhered to cdc guide wasn't mine's in several appearances this week but photographed as he designed a declaration yesterday, white house say he has been careful as it again underway for the

it may be manipulating democratic procedures but it is not democrat. -- democratic.sounds similar to what is going on in russia. guest: it is. orban takes a lot of his cues from putin and other autocrats. he cozies up to china. it is strange the marriage between parts of the american right and viktor orban when orban has been so close to china over the years. obviously, china is anathema to that segment. host: is there an economic connection? guest: there is an economic connection. it is not unique to hungary. all over the world, china is using leverage to buy support in countries like hungary. host: julie on the republican line. caller: good morning. i have to say that the caller before me ask the question i wanted to ask. my point right now is this. why is it not ok to be conservative? why is it not ok to think a man and woman should be able to create a child? why is it ok for this country's catholics to think abortion should be in the law forever? codify it, codify it. why is it long for we to have our opinion, and the left, their opinion whether wrong or right, i

two democratic counties. last night those same two counties made up 42% of all the votes that were cast in new york. so what that means is the two key core democratic areas relative to the rest of the district disproportionately high turnout. i think it's the strongest piece of evidence we have seen since that roe v. wade overturning, there's a surge of energy translating into participation among democratic voters. just as noably, you see a lot of red areas in the district. a lot of republican counties where he did just as well as donald trump did. what he didn't get was a comparable level of turnout. so more turnout on the democratic side here. and as we say, this is not just a one off. we have seen a draw line right here. this is when the stream court ruling came down. there have been four special elections since the supreme court ruling. and you see them here. it's a district in nebraska that trump won by 15. the republicans won it, but only by 5. minnesota trump won the district by 10. republicans win, bu

voters, particularly if you have a democratic house, a democratic senate and a democratic white houselt overnight, broadband isn't put in place overnight, but i think looking at how low president biden's approval ratings have been among members of his own party, i think the white house is really focused on at least trying to get the approval for his own party back up. touting their accomplishments and reminding voters what they can do when democrats are in charge is part of that. >> a rising tide lifts all boats. this could be a fertile moment for the white house to try again. a new nbc poll shows a really important factor here going into the midterms. the enthusiasm gap is narrowing by a lot. going back to march and looking at it today, it is almost even. that makes a big difference for democrats going into the fall. >> huge difference. when i was saying earlier that democrats are looking at this moment at a slightly better midterm environment than they thought they had inherited, it's largely that finding there. the fact that democrats are nearly tied now with republicans in this en

when democrats ruled the state. and he flipped the d seat. maybe that was the first flip i'd covered his way back in 2002 when brian kampe one since thenr it's covered the rise of a son he produced republican governor since reconstruction. and documented two terms as governor of georgia. and got into the transformation of georgia in 2017. he prove the suburbs of atlanta were very competitive. almost flipped u.s. house seat right where i live. cover the 2018 gubernatorial race between brian kampe and stacy abrams relentlessly. and 2028 which was a most epic election cycle i've ever covered in my two decades of covering georgia politics. culminate in the senate ross sleeps eating republican incumbents were. >> of got quite a few more elections go gloating when this year. that 2020 election could be swamped to use a popular overuse term right now. i want to get back to your history of political journalist. when you were a student did you know this was the path he wanted to be in? >> you know, as a young student in elem

vote democratic.ost: we are going to get to some more collars, but susan -- callers, but the party in power usually loses seats at the midterms. do you think the -- susan: there -- democratic candidates are running well ahead of biden. there are numbers for some reason do not seem to be quite aligned with president biden. the generic ballot, which is really vague, it is " would you rather have republicans or democrats in congress?" we should not get too excited about it. the interesting thing here is the swing. monmouth university polls showed the democrats up. it was a 14 point swing. it does not mean that will translate into every congressional districts, or enough congressional districts, but democrats are not suffering as they historically would be at this point. the other thing is that again, republicans should be in a better position their. -- position there but, they did a bad job recruiting. they have candidates in pennsylvania, georgia, and ohio who have not been terribly strong candidates. j

a blue-collar --he is the sherrod brown democrat, a blue-collar democrat.king-class people of ohio like him. i think he has a good shot against his opponent. which, he is famous, he's going to be a good candidate. no, he is not. you know, i might -- florida is the other one. what a rock star. i think --i would challenge anybody in florida to tell me anything that little marco has accomplished in 12 years in the u.s. senate. i think it is a tough race there. i think immigrants could win that one as well. i would say three out of the five democrats will win. we started with georgia. playing football, has to be a great candidate. no. it is an embarrassment. but he said about evolution, what he said about the climate change bill or the inflation reduction bill, i am paraphrasing a little bit, but they think they are helping us, but they are really not because a lot of that money goes to trees. don't we already have enough trees? i can tell you come first of all, he has no --no idea how important those trees are to the health of the planet. we would not even be

but democrats are gaining momentum.ly, our estimate was that republicans stood to win 230 seats. 12 more than the 218 needed for a majority. a slimmer one, after d stand22, democrats narrowed tnth. we turn to cbs news elections and surveys director anthony os thought of, of a big red wave election appear to have dimmed, is that true? >> yeah, there are some break waters in here to continue your metaphor against that wave. we learn when we talk to people across all the districts, because remember, this is a contest for 435 seats, is that they are abortion. it is a little bit of improvement in the economy in prospects, so a little improvement for joe biden. and three, the trump factor. let me take those in order and start with abortion because that really stands out. democrats now say that is very important to their vote, even more so than the economy. and then we see gains for the democrats among this key voting bloc, college educated women. they live in swing districts. democrats have rebounded with them and always coun

guest: any democrat, senator kelly is a first-term democrat, is going to have a challenging reelectionn a swing state. his hope is that some of the more -- if masters is the nominee, some of the more moderate suburban swing voters might vote democratic because they don't want to vote for the more far right trump candidate. arizona is a good example of trump aligned candidates doing well in the primary, but democrats will have a renewed opportunity to win tough races because republican nominees may be too extreme. host: let's talk about the missouri primary. guest: trump likes eric. he was deciding between eric schmitt and eric greitens, the disgraced former governor who is leading in the polls for quite some time. it looks like schmidt, the attorney general, is the favorite. trump had a lot of close family members who were promoting eric reitan's. he decided not to make a decision. he said he was supporting and eric. it is his way of getting out of a jam, not having to pick between two different groups of supporters. host: if you are in missouri, we want to hear from you. what to do? a

democrats exceeding expectations. here, more ads about abortion rights after an election in which they democrat made abortion rights his primary issue. let's see of student debt becomes an issue in the next 75 days. yamiche: eva, you have been on the campaign trail. how are people viewing student loans and this action by president biden? eva: this is an issue that does not fall neatly along partisan lines. i think the argument we have heard from republicans is that this is really a deal for the wealthy and that working-class people in middle -- in middle america are going to be paying for the elites. but that does not really pass muster, because you have woing-class folks in middle america who are saddled with student loan debt too. i am interested to see how this rolls out. i will say something that often happens is when these different programs are targeted, and this one very much is, is that it takes a longer time to implement. let's see if the federal government can actually work with some effectiveness on this an

democrats dial (202) 748-8000. republicans can call us at (202) 748-8001, independence is (202) 748-8002. you can text us at (202) 748-8003. you can find us on twitter at c-spanwj and on instagram at c-spanwj, let us get to some of your calls. on the democratic line, dale in birmingham, alabama. good morning. caller: good morning. i was just calling to say, i am very much supporting the way the world is going today. i do trust the democrats more than the republicans on the law & order, i really do appreciate democrats. but they did in florida was in the interest of matter -- national security. i do not care if it was barack obama. if they do wrong, they do wrong. let us step back and look at the issue, rather than us being a republican or democrat. we need to show love for each one. i have white neighbors that i truly love. i would go to bat for them if they were right. the same way i would do if it was the black people. if they were doing right, i would be at that for them. i am a person that wants to do with what

the history does not look good for democrats. biden's numbers don't look good for democrats.ombination of biden's numbers over history, don't look good for democrats. but as we come on air tonight, we have seen in the last few hours the president announced the killing of an al-qaeda leader. we had news last week of a potential breakthrough, negotiations in the senate on this climate bill democrats have been trying to get through. maybe, they have a deal with joe manchin now. and there's been some press coverage, and we are seeing, things are actually turning around in democrats. i wanna show you of these things. this is politico, a story they won just a couple of days ago. the headline, biden enters the always be closing face of his forced first term. and this is in response to a deal he struck with joe manchin. somehow, some way they write, joe biden is back in the game, after enduring abuse brutal here dominated by economic annexed, legislative setbacks, and sinking approval ratings, the president is certainly on the verge of a turnaround that the white house believes could

well, if the democrats are successful in passing this bill with purely democratic votes, there will be abe accounting -- there will be an accounting, and there will be a comparison by voters in november with, okay, they told us if we pass this bill it would reduce inflation, and let's see what inflation looks like in november of 2022. i'm not wishing for higher inflation. i hope inflation will go down. but this is exactly the opposite of what you ought to do if you want to reduce inflation, to restore people's purchasing power. well, again, several years ago, and more recently, our colleague from west virginia said he didn't think it waswise to -- it was wise to raise taxes during a recession. he and the majority leader have tried to convince anyone who will irsen, who is -- who will listen, who is gullible enough, to believe this bill will not raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 a year. as i said, the joint committee on taxation explodes that myth. next year, more than 60% of taxpayers who earn between $40,000 and $50,000 a year will be hit with a higher tax bill. that's w

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it means democrats should win this district.or the dccc, and no matter who wins the republican primary on tuesday, i'm sure they're going to be all in it to it elect the democratic candidate in this district no matter who wins on the republican side. >> let me switch gears if i can, and talk to you about a new report from bloomberg, which found that because of redistricting, the 22 majority black congressional districts that currently exists could be whittled down to as few as nine after the midterms. your reaction to that? >> i mean, look, it's a real concern overall. the thing to know and to really dig in on when you are looking at these numbers is that is largely driven by an intentional strategy by the republicans to go after black elected officials, to go after black majority and black influenced district in the map. the reason for the decline is largely because of the way that the republicans drew their maps, and in states like florida, georgia, and ohio, and texas were 95% of the -- came from people of color, but the repu

democrats say it's going to eventually bring them out to vote democratic in november. this is around reform and random on abortion, not a democratic, republican race per se, we are seeing these early numbers, the kind of energy that democrats were predicting the supreme court ruling would set off. and if that energy is visible in other counties like johnson across the country, big suburban counties, places like the suburbs of philadelphia, the suburbs of atlanta, suburbs and states in phoenix that a crucial elections this november. if that can attach itself to the democrats this november, that's what democrats have been saying the supreme court ruling would do. we are certainly seeing in these numbers that the voting numbers, seeing the kind of energy around this issue the democrats said would be there. >> steve, that is such anime zinc piece of the story that i think we should keep an eye on as these results continue to come in. this was the first time since the roe decision that abortion was on a ballot, so it's so interesting to see that uptick and we will be back w

the democratic caucus believes it has the 50. and of course the vice president there as the tiebreaker. tell us how significant this is for the president, and perhaps the president very confidently left the white house after being confined to the white house in isolation because of covid because of what 17, 18 days. and he very confidently perhapsed embarked on his trip to delaware. did he feel that no matter what he would have all the votes today? >> well, the president expressed that confidence as he was leaving the white house, telling reporters that he believed that this bill would be passing. but certainly, this is a vote that both the president and his top aides are watching incredibly closely as it would get them one step closer to achieving some of the president's signature items that he's tried to accomplish when it comes to his domestic agenda. but of course, this has been an incredibly long process. this bill is far more -- is very pared back compared to what the president had been promoting last year with build back b

that is the message that democrats need to stay on. because this message, on the economy, the democrats will still face headwinds. if it's about the contrast of the values within the parties, democrats will keep winning. >> okay, very interesting. david, susan and on. stick around, we will have you back later on in this hour. we appreciate our panel. in a moment, the plot twist nobody saw coming, what it could mean for the january six committee? the new legal implications of alex jones's text message records. records. allow monitoring of productivity at remote job sites, enable ai cameras that spot factory issues in real time, using next-generation speed. and deliver ultra-capacity 5g coverage that's years ahead of the competition. t-mobile for business has 5g that's ready right now. ♪♪♪ my name is austin james. as a musician living with diabetes, fingersticks can be a real challenge. that's why i use the freestyle libre 2 system. with a painless, one-second scan i know my glucose numbers without fingersticks. now i'm managing my diabe

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