that it would be well the duty of the social democratic party. let's say a man to save american lives or would yes kind enough to save credit germany and see how many democratic projects we can now try to manage and make the lives of the people better i think it's a good thought but i think it's a it's a wrong way to take to say we make sense of again and hope to get some crumbs of the cake get some yeah yeah exactly the crumbs that are left on the floor for you what about new elections why does it seem that all of the political leaders are afraid of new elections i think many people just don't know in our past i think we need to be strong and we need to be faithful because this when the social democratic party now decides not to juggle america and we really pushes for social democratic ideas and values that we can also gain from the electorate i mean your party is so far away from that place where you would like to be right now don't you think your party reflects what we see in politics right now in germany where young people in particular are re

anika: we want a strong social democratic party. ant politics in germany that support social justice. brent: the last election, you had your historically bad, low turnout for your party. anika: exactly. we had the worst turnout after coming out of the grand coalition for four years which we had. we went into this grand coalition with the same debate. can we support our project and values in this coalition? after four years, we notice that we have the worst outcome ever out of the elections. so do we do a grand coalition again? brent: did you communicate this with martin schultz and the leaders of the party? are they listening to the young people? anika: of course we communicate that. what is strange is that right after the election, mart schulz and the entire board of the party voted unanimously against a grand coalition and forth opposition. they have turned around, 180%. brent: do you know why? have they communicated why they made that you turn? anika: the other coalition talks have failed. many social democrats think it would be t

in germany the leader of the social democrat party martin schultz is urging members of his party to back moves to form a new grand coalition with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives now the two sides hammered out an agreement last week that paves the way for negotiations on a new government delegates to a key party conference on sunday must now approve that deal but schultz faces a hard sell among the rank and file with many say that it betrays social democratic values so he has traveled to the party's heartland in an effort to win support for the agreement. welcome to dark historically a bastion of the social democrats but many have lost the appetite for a grand coalition saying the party's losing sight of its aims. these are the paths of social justice is over and i can see that it's now more about careers and clinging on to seats. while this diner is selling as the daily denmark's in short selling the exploratory talks as a success but it's not easy to convince party members to support a new coalition especially here in north rhine-westphalia. we've clarified many things there we

we need more immigrants the poorer the better to get them to vote for the democratic party in the next election there's no consideration there about the national interest only about the party interest and this is a trend existed at least since the one nine hundred sixty s. so it's also nothing new i think by trying to do to tie the fate of these would be immigrants to the united states to the political process is not only unfair to the existing american citizens it's also unfair to these would be new american citizens they should be treated according to the law and really not this way now understand that this has been tool that democrats might have been ready to fund the infamous wall in return for the getting a deal on illegal immigrants i mean that would allow donald trump to fulfill one of his campaign promises but he'd have to sacrifice another is it likely. i don't think we're going to see any quick commotion on the part of the democratic party to support the kind of wall that donald trump was speaking about that would severely restrict illegal immigration into the united

he's head of the main party in government the social democrats he's banned from becoming prime minister because of a conviction for vote rigging them his party has passed legislation to decriminalize some graft offenses it's also pushed through a judicial overhaul which critics say limits judicial independence the moves haven't just drawn the people's washington and the e.u. have also been sharply critical. of. another special victory in the bundesliga for cologne a club that looked doomed for the occasion just a few weeks ago new coach safad with him back pulled off a third straight win saturday this one against a struggling hamburg. sure togetherness from hamburg before the game surely they would finally get the win that's eluded them since november and the first chance of the game fell to the hosts andre hahn but cologne keeper team a horn was alert to the danger humbugs early pressing a load cologne chances on the break. a sock or two too long to make up his mind here though. the visitors grew in confidence and went ahead in the twenty seventh minute as he minds of order forcing hom

the democratic party did change during bill clinton's presidency. ll clinton made the party a bigger tent. and into that big democratic tent went the elites of america. its lawyers and doctors and stockbrokers. but let's remember, clinton essentially tied his republican opponents in the white working-class demographic in both 1992 and 1996. so why did the white working class vote for bill and not for hillary? >> what they've become over the last couple of decades is the party of the professional class, highly educated affluent while collar people. >> david brooks says hillary clinton fits into this category perfectly. >> went to a fancy school, married a guy from a fancy law school. lives in the sorts of places where those people would gather. >> if it sounds like he simply describing rich people here, brooks says there's a very important distinction between rich entrepreneurs, people who create companies and make things and employ people and professionals. >> people in the working class or people who voted for trump don't mind billionaires, but they

and a fight in the democrat party. democrat house minority whip denny hoyer says minority leader nancy pelosi made offensive comments when nancy pelosi said the immigration negotiations are being led by white guys, we'll break that down plus a brand new revelation on new nancy pelosi cheered on the tax benefits under president obama for the little guy that she now criticizes under trump as " pathetic" that's coming up, and a big setback in-store for former fbi director james comey. a federal judge now ordering the fbi to give him by next week all documents related to comey's memos detailing conversations comey had with president trump in the oval office. the documents could detail his behind the scenes push to bring down trump. we've got an all-star guest line up including retired lieutenant general thomas mcinerney, former utah congressman jason chaffetz, former trump 2016 campaign national spokesperson katrina pierson and the federal britt mc henry all here all tonight. politic, money we've got you covered i'm elizabe

the democratic party believes that everybody should have access to a good job. believe that everybody who is eligible to vote ought to be able to vote. the voter suppression that we've seen from the republican party is not new. it's unconscionable. these are the basic principles of voter empowerment, good jobs, health care for all and organizing everywhere. taking no one for granted, leading with our values. >> that's the other part. the message. is that the message that we're running for health care, for voter registration -- i mean for voter rights and for voter participation, not to be suppressed or impaired? is that the message? because clearly, you put a lot in alabama and virginia. the african-american vote came out in alabama even higher than it did for president obama. but it was clear that they were voting against someone that was ant thetical to what they believe. every one of the races this year, you will not have a guy like that on the other side, like moore. you got to have more than a message of the other guy is bad. why are your candidates good? w

be able to negotiate now and if they're going to have strong points for social for the social democratic party in the coalition papers and if they don't reach that i think it's going to be very tough for as a party leaders to get a positive result and it could thank you for being with us this morning on a closer. head of the youth wing of berlin social democrats thanks for coming in thank you think now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today rights groups say turkish air strikes have killed at least eleven civilians in the northern syria region of the brain this is on the second day of a turkish ground offensive into syria to oust u.s. backed kurdish militia from the area where operation was met with a hail of rockets on current turkish towns killing at least one refugee. fourteen foreigners and poor afghans have been confirmed killed in the attack on the internet continental hotel in kabul afghanistan officials say six gunman wearing army uniforms stormed the compound saturday evening sparking a thirteen hour gun battle with police the attackers were all killed th

without any real investment from the democratic party into those communities had. and that means actually going talking to voters prior to 60 days out or 90 days out from an election, button vesting in where voters are sitting in regards to issues and assuring that democratic party often enough ground or standing firm on issues that might impact minorities especially those that impact african-american women >> kimberly what is the move? we talked about being inclusive? what is the move when you got contrast that with the president that many minorities communities see as ignoring them or doing the exact opposite of things that would up lift or help the minority community >> if you look at it, i think we're kind of like on the same playing field as at democrats right now. just as ja mere said, they need to go out and before it's 90's day out, they need to go out and figure out what the minorities want and make those promises and come through with them. so many times, we'll see, oh, you know, they promised this, and that they don't really care, as far as president tru

how the policies of the democratic party is marginalized in communities of color. if people write this up, more and more people will be able to acknowledge and understand that they have to hold the democratic party's feet to the fire. at this time their policies are not benefitting the communities of colors. look at towns like chicago where violence is running rampant. unemployment is the highest in the country. there's real changes that need to be happening and needs to occur. the democratic party hasn't been a part of that positive change for the black community, neil. >> neil: thanks, gianno. we had calls out to andrew cuomo. hope springs eternal. thank you. remember, we had a guy in yesterday, a market giant, a legend, who accurately predicted the last housing meltdown years before it happened. he laid it out. now he's laying out another one. yeah, after this. liberty mutual stood with me when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. what?! you can leave worry behind when libert

frankly, there used to be a big problem in the democratic party and now there's a big problem in the republican party. i think there is one thing worse than sincerely believing that people are not equal and that is cynically using that belief to gain power. i don't think it's accidental but every time trump is in trouble he tweets about black football players over muslim terrorists or whomever. there's a little bit of stockholm syndrome going on here that once trump took over the republican party and a lot of the people in the republican party are not afraid of trump. they are paid of trump voters-- afraid of trump voters and that's a paralyzed them. we need a sanity caucus in both parties and the numbers are very small, but it's really important for people who are republicans to stay republicans and to fight for the soul of their party because if we end up with this as a base of the republican party: not only do damage to that party, it will do horrible damage to the country. >> it is doing ongoing damage, i mean, donald trump right now is doing ongoing damage by calling on-- the peo

if anybody can tell me what the democratic party stands for i'm livabling. i used to you ask that about hillary. what exactly is her message? if your message is the opposition is terrible and we're not them. that's not a message. and you look at 2000 20, they are talking about all these hard left of center candidates coming to the fore. they are going to nominate somebody so far out of the mainstream who voted against middle class tax cuts. not funding the military the way it needs to be. and looking the other way and iran and pakistan. steve: speak of iran, the "wall street journal," kellyanne, as we all know, there is a wave of protest throughout iran, the biggest since 2009. the president has been doing some tweeting. the "wall street journal" is now quoting the state department as saying that they will threaten the country with new sanctions unless they allow the protest to happen, right? >> that's right. and this president, again, very transparently through his tweets, he says he stands with the iranian people and he knows that they are looking for free

the social democrats to sign up to that again and will that be interpreted amongst the social democrat party base shifting on principle even if they do reach an agreement on those issues the hardest work is still ahead isn't it absolutely and that work is not necessarily then in what will be set in stone because let's just bear in mind that the proper talks are still ahead if the social democrats party conference agrees to this but this is so much psychology in this i mean we're hearing this once you politician say well he believes there's a seventy percent chance of than actually being able to launch these formal talks at the same time we hear from the social democrat side the head of the youth organization of the social democrats basically calling on the whole party saying it's not to late to stop this and he will certainly be appealing to the delegates meeting on the twenty first of january who will have to give the green light for the talks to go ahead if they do give the green light and we see this continuation of this grand coalition will this new government have the power it needs to

in short, the next few weeks will tell us a lot about the democratic party and its long-term electoralaulty logic they put out there. unbelievable. stream of consciousness that democrats would never admit to. this memo that's now found is backing up everybody who says instead of your heart going out to those who came here as young kids and don't know what country they belong, to it's really politics and not their heart that's pushing democrats. faulty logic. if you have a republican president, work with democrats and minority, to find a pathway to citizenship for so-called dreamers, why would democrats get the credit for that? ainsley: it seems to me they are opportunists. if you look at the voting records in the past there are so many of these democrats in congress that voted for the fence or voted for immigration protection years ago. you have presidents in the past where democrats have voted for it now they are changing their narrative. they are opportunists because they want the vote. steve: they don't want this president and the republicans to get any wins. think about it, come no

packed with goodness. >> will the leader of the democratic party please stand up?ner and elizabeth warren about who is in charge right now i neither could give a clear answer. >> the democratic party has at this point a broad-based leaders the range from traditionally more pro-business -- >> where is the energy in the democratic party? i tell you where the energy is in the democratic party, at the grassroots, person by person, family by family. i got a steak in how this government works. >> the democratic party has no front runner for presidential challenger in 2020. >> plans for the lavish presidential center released this week facing mounting witticism. more than 100 university of chicago professors and faculty members writing a letter arguing the grandscale project will not help the southside prosper. one reason the parking lot writing poking lot is expensive in public lands are being given away, all the profits will go to the obama foundation. this is a socially regressive plan. rob: a cover-up it's been four us presidents pushed the first female newspaper publ

his head of the main party in government the social democrats he's banned from becoming prime minister because of a conviction for vote rigging them his party has passed legislation to decriminalize some graft offenses and push through a judicial overhaul which critics say limits judicial independence the moves haven't just drawn the people's washington and the e.u. have also been sharply critical. in sports in the bundesliga leaders by a new nick had to come from behind to win four two at home to vera to braman the visitors took the lead end peg buying back to two two but robert levin dahl ski and thomas miller then both scored their second goals of the game to extend byron's lead at the top to sixteen points. well and another club hamburg fired coach marcus gets dole they that move came a day after the team lost at home to bottom place cologne to no defeat left hamburg in the delegation zone in seventeenth place because so took over the team back in twenty sixteen and narrowly avoided being sent down last season after saturday's defeat accused all told reporters he had given his all

successful coalition talks to his own party base which will get to decide so basically social democratic party members will decide whether there will be a continuation of a ground listen here and even if there is a deal there's a lot success at stake and he has to convince his own party eventually to actually . to go ahead with what she wants to to remain tonsil in a grand coalition the first step is that a self-imposed deadline today michel of following this story for us thank you very much. now to some other stories making news around the world the death toll from the devastating mudslides and flooding that hit southern california earlier this week has risen to seventeen authorities are continuing to search for over a dozen people who are still missing the mudslides destroyed around one hundred homes and damaged some three hundred more. armed robbers have smashed windows at paris's ritz hotel and made off with jewels and other luxury goods three suspects were arrested and two are believed to be on the run it's estimated that some five million dollars worth of jewels were taken. there's been

but border security means the end of the democrat party.hey realize it and the president realizes it. even 1.8 million voters is not enough to help them win elections. they lost 1,000 elections under obama because they moved so far away from the american heart. charles: the problem solvers, a bipartisan group have couple with a compromise. and it seems similar to the deal durbin and graham brought to the white house and they had a kerfuffle. is there a compromise that can be worked out here? katie: there is always compromise. it just depend on whether people are willing to come to the table and make it happy. if you refuse to clap and look unhappy the whole time, we won't get much done. but if they are willing to say here are four pillars, there are people who want to work with us. this is not set in stone. sit down with the president and republicans and help dreamers. keeping them in a perpetual limbo for political gain is not doing anyone any good. immigration need reform. no one is trying to argue the system is perfect the what it was. c

in germany social democratic party leader martin scholtz is looking to win over the party's grass roots to the idea of another grand coalition with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives the rank and file must grant their approval to enter talks around forming a new government at a party summit on sunday but schultz faces a hard sell with skeptics saying that it betrays social democratic values so he has travelled to the party's heartland in an effort to win their support. welcome to daughter historically a stand of the social democrats but many have lost the appetite for a grand coalition saying the party's losing sight of its aims. of these on the path of social justice is over and i can see that it's now more about careers and clinging on to seats. while this diner. as the daily denmark's in shorts is telling the exploratory talks is a success but it's not easy to convince party members to support a new coalition especially here in north rhine-westphalia. we've clarified many things there were lots of questions as our members really welcomed the discussion and i think there was a l

and how they're going to deal of course with that major strand of opposition from the social democrat party that we saw yesterday in that very tight vote to proceed so today it's strategic later on it'll be organizational just setting out really the timetable i think we're going to have to be a bit more patient because the social democrats in particular saying they need a little bit of time just to work out what they think they can get out of talks and they might not be ready to do that until wednesday or thursday of this week here social democrats but the party conference they're saying that mr schultz has to revisit some of the points of this framework negotiation of the leaders hammered out does that put more pressure on him or the chancellor. well you know to look at it in a certain positive way from the social democrats points of view all the opposition to a grand coalition and the demands for more concessions from the conservatives that we heard in that meeting yesterday they in a sense strengthen the hand of social democrat negotiate is they coming to anglo-american or say over and s

i am interested in the direction of the democratic party with trumps election. i am wondering will the democratic party perhaps revisit the message they were trying to deliver during the 2016 election or will they try other strategies to get the base they lost? >> that's a great question. it is a big debate. i don't know the answer. you have this in two sections. whichve the 2018 midterms is shaping up to beat the ballgame. thatu can flip the house, is really going to make a difference in terms of slowing him down. depending on what the mueller investigation finds, taking steps. the second basket is 2020. i think you have many people in the party now saying impeach, impeach, impeach. the minute we get control. because he is committing high crimes and misdemeanors. he has met the threshold of being impeached. not to mention, the 25th amendment which people who lose their minds should not be president of the united states. i don't know the answer to that. i do know, and here is a good example, history tells us 2018 will be ugly for him. , itas ugly for barack obam

how is the operation of the democratic party working now? what is running through the minds of centrist democrats? ,f you are senator joe manchin you are thinking about that midterm reelection fight. thinking about what that state of west virginia wants to see. it probably is not what bernie sanders wants to see. we are just around the corner from these midterm elections. in order for the republicans to get enough democrats on board, they got to focus in on centrist democrats. vonnie: it feels like it's been a trade-off. children's health insurance for immigration. threats are going out, you want to cut off relief to the dreamers as well. is it fair to pick one issue against another saying you have to wait on that one but we are fine with going ahead? tim: life is not fair and i think the floor of the congress is a place where you see that in action. -- they the democrats are thinking ahead to the midterms and they want to settle trump with this. i think it is interesting how silent the president has been since friday. he has not taken to twi

so, the democratic party in the south was the party of the civil war, and you don't forget that. it was as important as religion, maybe it was a religion. but this began to -- during the last time the south voted solid by democratic was 1944. 1948, 1952, 1956, every four years after that, the south was split, until more recently it became more solidly republican. the republicans knew exactly what they were doing. in 1980, ronald reagan began his presidential campaign in philadelphia and mississippi. if you wanted a symbolism, and a dog whys toll it should -- whistle to white supremacists, that's you standard the game. it wasn't philadelphia, mississippi, that four civil rights worker's brutally murdered in 1964 and the very name, philadelphia, mississippi, con -- cop -- connoted this tragedy. so we have two political parties. allegedly. but some political scientist say that clinton governed as a moderate republican, and i have a number of things clinton did which show -- in 1996 he said the era of big government is over. well herb was two decades too late. he played a hand in cutt

what is interesting to know from my perspective as someone who follows and covers the democratic party closely is the intense pressure the democratic base that there is a clean dream act. we have seen a lot of law makers including dick durbin being willing to make concessions on border control. but there base is not happy with that prospect. and they are under intense pressure to back away from those. david: what we heard from people in the know, people like ed rollins. he was hearing that the speed bump emily was talking about between tuesday and thursday and friday was put up by all of these lobbyists who were furious with the democrats for playing a cooperative roll tuesday when the president brought them in and had the cameras on. >> they don't want any form of working with the president. i will say to the president and the base, be careful of the democrats. they say they are negotiating in good faith but they are leaking alleged comments to the public. the democratic party's position is they are going to advocate for 800,000 non-citizens over the u.s. military. imagine putting 800

they support the democratic party. party. they were either supporters of barack obama or secretary clinton. he checked on me when i was al gore's campaign manager. he wanted to make sure i was ok, if i needed anything, if i needed him. now i get a chance to check on him, to call him. i am part of his family, part of the jackson family for life. i love him. he is a brother, and i will always love him. brian: what happened to his kid? donna: i know five of his kids. brian: i am talking about jesse jackson junior. donna: oh, i don't know what happened to jesse jr. i went to the house to visit them. he is doing really well. he had a rough time. i don't know what happened between him and his wife emma but i want to continue to be supportive of reverend jackson and his entire family. brian: 20 years ago, this is a quote clip from the article in "the washington post" about you. 20 years ago you said this. "if we don't change the culture of american politics, people are going to give up on democracy, and pretty soon the only people e

they support the democratic party.hey were either supporters of barack obama or secretary clinton. often i did advance, meaning i would go in advance of the candidates. they like to tell you how to run the campaign, how to run the country. what are the issues that are important to them. just recently, when my book come out, i had one say, why didn't you release your book after the election in virginia? i said, did you go down there and raise money and talk to the voters? i did. they want not just a seat at the table, but they want to control what is on the menu. because you want the money, and i needed the money because i need to remediate from the hacking, because the dnc had to raise its money, you just suck it up, listen to them, smile a lot, and try to give the very best answers and get home as soon as possible and wash your mouth out with chardonnay or something. brian: this is not a trick question, but i am not sure i will ask it the right way. how can you tell when a politician is speaking the truth? donna: i ha

>> i don't think the democratic party cares so much what she knows. the democratic party brought us slavery, the kkk and jim crow laws. they are saying it's a black woman. i'm not convinced. trump 2020 for me. jesse: when you nominate a female or minority, it insulates them from a lot of criticism. and the candidate whoever runs against that person has to be careful because if you say anything that could be construed as sexist or racist, they will get pounded. that has to be an advantage for miss winfrey. >> i just saw an election last year. she cannot attack oprah, so she gives us an historical perspective of democrats. we are not talking about that. we are talking about 2020. let me be as clear as we can. that tv show she had. that plays well in kansas and oklahoma. middle america loves oprah. donald trump didn't have any political experience and donald trump surrounded himself allegedly with good people. jesse: in terms of donald trump's political experience he had been writing and speaking about policy and politics for three decades in new york. i

well look the democrats in this country are this is a party the democratic present my my latest book by the way is called listen liberal and it's about the democrats and this is a party that is really uncomfortable with with with the idea of discontent really really really and come from the you look at the hillary clinton campaign where they sort of unofficial slogan was america is already great do you remember this i mean these are people she could not she had real trouble acknowledging the pain that there is out there in the country you know and this is a party that is constitutionally if you ask me incapable of acknowledging that i mean they party with their wall street friends on martha's vineyard and this kind of thing now on the other hand donald trump is spectacularly on popular right now and so the democrats may very well score a big victory this year in november but the thing is you know victories come in victories go in less the democratic party changes in a way so that it is able to speak to the aggrieved middle americans which i still can't believe that they can't do that

a kind of marriage contract a potential marriage contract between the two and then the social democrat party grassroots will get the final say on whether i'm going to work or can continue business and you saw i'd say with the social democrat so there's still many more steps to be completed in this process but tonight what do we think chancellor merkel is thinking do we think that she was relieved at this result. yeah i'm very sure there was a huge sigh of relief here actually amongst all of the conservative politicians we've heard that many of them congratulated the social democrats on their willingness to at least try to form a government and chancellor merkel has not been very outspoken in the process of finding a new government she has not been giving many press statements but she was actually very quick to react let's listen and. in the following to see to use conclusion of exploratory talks last week which cleared the way for formal coalition talks we welcome the news that the social democrats have followed suit at their party conference today. after intensive and sometimes controversia

coalition i am totally against a repeat of the grand also of all the young socialists in the social democratic parties are totally against the we fear that the future of our party is at stake but not only in. that that germany can take former members and what does that mean for the head of your party martin. that's what i'm feeling right now actually yes that there is a big disconnect and i really don't understand where the leaders of the social democratic party supports these results so much i understand that they have negotiated very hard was a c.d.u. but looking at those results there there's no social democratic handwriting and if my kids wants to connect himself and his faith in the party was these results in south christian of coalition on not maybe in this case he's not the right one for for leading the party at the moment because we don't fear new elections and we also don't fear changing majorities and the palm and i think i'm in a minority coalition can also be an option would be very good for a democracy and we need people who are up for that and we need people who really fight for the soci

as a democratic party is willing at least to discuss and debate those positions openly we're getting a sense that today's vote isn't only important for the s.t.d. but also for merkel what's at stake for her for the country you say. well for her is a lot at stake merkel has already tried to form one coalition with the greens and the liberals with didn't work the only remaining option that she has to form a coalition is with the social democrats if today the social democrats vote against that then merkel would be left with very little options one of those options a minority government is something that the certain doesn't favor and she also doesn't favor the idea of a fresh election so for merkel this is certainly a very difficult moment and a moment that she will be watching very carefully today thomas sparrow in bonn thank you very much kurdish why p.g. militia in syria says it was forced back turkish troops trying to enter the northwestern town of a free turkey's military announce it has so far struck one hundred fifty three kurdish militia targets in the region it's part of an offe

and tonight the country is finally one step closer to forming a stable government the social democratic party has and has voted to enter formal coalition talks but chancellor angela merkel's conservatives an initial show of hands was too close to call so every vote of the more than six hundred delegates at the party conference had to be counted individually the outcome was a clear majority in favor of moving forward with negotiations it was a nail biting finish to a long debate. understood three hundred sixty two voted yes with two hundred seventy nine zero and one abstention with that the s.p.d. will enter into coalition talks thad in the end the social democrats top brass have the majority they needed to start coalition talks with ongoing americans conservatives. earlier party leader martin short made an emotional appeal to delegates stressing the role of the center left party could play in strengthening europe. you know you couldn't feel we can improve many things in germany and we have a great opportunity to rebuild europe and thus bring about more social justice not just in our country b

democrat all this time. i told you, i don't think currently the labour party is a social democratic party. that's why i have notjoined it. but i am of the left. i am a passionate believer in the national health service. i believe that the creation of that in 19118 was a great thing. he rejoiced in the fact that he didn't have to ask his patients to pay. so, on social policy, i've always been on the left. but i was, when i was leader of the sdp, and even before — i believe that we did have to change trade union laws. i believe that we did have to change the economy. and above all, i wanted strong defence. all of those were challenged by michael foot in 1981 to 1983. and it took ‘81 — from the time we left till 1997 before labour won. corbyn is getting closer to it, and as i said to you, he's attracted young people. he's got an increased membership. you can't take this away from him. if you had your time over again, would you now think differently about leaving the labour party? would you have stayed in?

we're independent of the democratic party. we don't coordinate with the party.atic we exist outside of that structure. we think that's important. is ensuring attle that things aren't just rubber stamped by trump. a lot of our members with maybe one or two senators who democrats. sometimes they are cheering them on and sometimes they are saying, i want to fight harder agenda. the trump >> one of those progressive values on immigration, we're seeing headlines like this after shutdown was resolved last washington examiner, democrats cave to end the shutdown. project's view of the shutdown last week and how it was resolved? > i think when we're thinking about the shutdown you've got to start with how we got to this place to begin with. get to last week? the answer is, that trump nilaterally chose to end the daca program. he rescinded it back in eptember and then congress had a chance back in september whether or not to push back. to. chose not republicans have been staunchly nline with trump on not reinstating the daca program. it

very constructive that she's feeling very energetic on the other hand we saw yesterday a social democrat party leader martin short's coming in a bit earlier he spoke for four minutes she spoke for one clearly there is a sense also amongst the c.d.u. and under the macro herself who needs the limelight here who needs to be able to show that some of those hurdles that need to be overcome will be overcome in a way that the social democrats can also potentially claim successes in a potential upcoming so-called grand coalition here so we're all prepared that this could become a long night both because there are tough issues like migration that still need to be talked about but also because they need that sense of drama that there was a tough struggle ahead of an eventual agreement what are the biggest hurdles at this point. well they are on taxation on such bread and butter issues also on health care how much money could go into it at the end of the day it is always about redistributing money there's talk that up to one hundred billion euros might be on the table there certainly forty five million a

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when you are for your father who was in the social democrat party took you to the lower saxony parliament. to being boring for another four year old it's not for you. because even us pregnant the hardest thing for me to get had a real impact on me as a minority within a minority as a religious minority and because of my nationality i understood quickly that what we had here was special freedom democracy a parliament. my father was passionate when he explained to me that this was where german laws were made and that people could express their opinion freely that's why this had such an emotional impact on me. and of our closet and i'm very sickly want politicized you wiped out in two thousand and fourteen you decided to go to iraq to report about the use e.t.s. being massacres either so i asked or so but if. you gave up a permanent job at r.t. how to do this first stop was a big decision was what was behind it if you could talk. to give us that universe. basic decision and it had little to do with nationality or background it was basically about the question is am i living my life right. ma