will want it when democrats get senate back. while there is a whole lot more we should have done, i'm glad we have been able to take some of the steps forward in 2015 for workers and middle-class families in our country. you heard about a lot of them, but a lot of want to focus on -- and reiterate the the budget, democrats had a simple request this year, we knew what a bipartisan deal looks like. 2013, there was no need to wait until the last minute, no need for countdown clocks and the artificial crisis. we wanted to start right away and get it done. republican leaders insisted on waiting. they were so afraid of what the tea party would think, it took a short-term extension and the resignation of a speaker before they were finally willing to come to the table. in the end, the budget deal reflected what democrats had been asking for all year. we were stored investments in education, health care and research and other middle-class priorities. we rolled back the automatic budget cuts equally across defense and nondefense and we ke

josh: you are not the democrat -- the only democrat to say it was the last saturday before christmas, do you think that was intentional? sen. sanders: i do. and iowa, it was the night before a big football game. i think there' s a desire on the dnc to protect secretary clinton. >> this is the final chance that voters have a chance to see all three democratic candidates before they vote. you head into a night like this with big objectives, do you think you hit every one of yours? sen. sanders: as soon as you leave the floor, you say why didn' t i say that? here' s what the issues are, in terms of foreign policy, secretary clinton and i disagree in a pretty significant way. she voted for the war in iraq and i think that was the worst foreign-policy lender in modern history of america. i did not. she was involved in libya getting rid of qaddafi and failing. she believes in a no-fly zone in syria and i do not. in my view, the u.s. cannot do it alone. we need a broad coalition of major countries working with i do not believe we unilaterally can be asked to do it all. josh: if you are havin

it made me very proud to be a democrat.'m in favor of hillary, however, i would feel very good voting for bernie. they showed me that they are for the people. that is what the constitution says. the republicans, they really should have hung their head in shame last night. thank you. host: thank you for the call. carol says abc should have asked hillary clinton about the two newly discovered e-mails that were definitely highly classified at the time when she receives them. the headline from "the new york clinton's focus and third debate is on gop. assailed they republican field, led by donald torump, calling him a threat the nation safety, becoming isis' best recruiter. dyslexia repeated attacks from bernie sanders and martin o'malley over gun control, wall street and foreign military entailment. here is the moment last night on gun control. [video clip] against the brady bill. senator sanders voted against research dollars to look into this public health issue. secretary clinton changes her position on this every election y

angela on our democrats line. caller: good morning and thank you for c-span and happy holidays to everyone. mentioningheard you gerrymandering or limiting people's access to vote. it seems the majority now is really convinced the only way -- on the last turn out, there was one million more democrats than republicans. yet, we have a house of representatives that has a republican majority. can you explain this to me? guest: i will preface this by there's sobook is -- many things i could have talked about with respect to minority and party politics. i focus explicitly on the house of representatives. things like gerrymandering or district drawing is done by the states -- these things are outside their control or they are things they cannot control as readily as doing one minute for speeches. this is something political scientists have studied quite a bit. the evidence for gerrymandering influencing party control is not as strong as people might think. if you control district's creed, you can only get so much out of t

democrats want equality of outcomes. it is the point of view of the criminal underclass that this way of looking at american politics is complete and total nonsense. examining america and american politics in his newest book "stealing america." at seven: 30 p.m. eastern, former democratic president candidate and author lawrence lessig talks about his experience running for president and campaign finance. the central theme of his book, "republic lost." >> we are supposed to have a democracy where we as citizens but youl participants, have a system where members of congress spent 30% to 70% of with the interest of that tiny fractional 1%. that basicystem quality is denied. weekend book tv all every weekend on c-span2. during the civil war, an unprecedented number of american soldiers were killed in battle. conventional practices of body were notdy recovery able to keep up with the growing number of fallen soldiers. kirk savage gives an in-depth analysis of the practices adopted to identify fallen soldiers and the types of

democrats did it -- democrats did it and democrats can do it again. we can build a future that deals with our deficit. remember this, that 50 years of progress under our principles never cost us what the last four years of stagnation have. and we can deal with the deficit intelligently, by shared sacrifice, with all parts of the nation's family contributing, building partnerships with the private sector, providing a sound defense without depriving ourselves of what we need to feed our children and care for our people. we can have a future that provides for all the young of the present, by marrying common sense and compassion. we know we can, because we did it for nearly 50 years before 1980. and we can do it again, if we do not forget -- if we do not forget that this entire nation has profited by these progressive principles; that they helped lift up generations to the middle class and higher; that they gave us a chance to work, to go to college, to raise a family, to own a house, to be secure in our old age and, before that, to reach heights that our

the democrats line.elcome and good morning. caller: hey, how are you. host: fine thanks. caller: religion does not impact my political views. i believe in separation of church and state. i have not seen statistics but i am guessing that most religious right people are republican. they accuse the democrats of corporate influence and buying politicians. i think they engage in organizations like the heritage foundation or heritage college, i cannot member what the name is. they try and influence and impact the political views of the country. i don't think it is right. i am a christian but i keep my views to myself. how religionis should stay out of the political arena and the united states. host: you heard the person from south carolina who could not understand how some christians, i think he said catholics, could reconcile their views and support of pro-choice with their catholicism or christian views? how do you feel about that? think the bible says those without sin can cast the first stone. i don't see

i want to begin with jeff zellny, you cover the democrats. jeff, your major take aways from this presidential debate? >> i think the biggest take away is hillary clinton had her eye on the general election. throughout the course of these two hours, she did not relent from attacking bernie sanders or martin o'malley on these distinctions, but she has her eye on the long game here. the but i think we have to start out with bernie sanders apologizing for this extraordinary situation that's been going on for the last 36 hours or so to let his campaign file suit against the democratic national committee. he said he apologized, she said she accepts his apology and it is time to move on from that. i think she was trying to look ahead to the general election. bernie sanders is saying, not so fast. he tried to question her judgment, her judgment specifically on the iraq war. he mentioned that at least two or three times, that she voted for the iraq war and, of course, he did not. martin o'malley, i think, was trying to simply stay in this conversation

if nothing else, from the democratic party, democratic process. i want to bring phyllis bennis back in for the last minute that we have. -- wee overall issues talked about what was raised, what wasn't other journalists and they did not raise climate change or talk about the issue of immigration, but where you feel the democratic party is going right now? >> you know, i think what we're seeing is that hillary clinton is not running in a democratic party primary, but running the general election with the assumption, the entitlement that she will be the candidate. and that is a huge problem. everything that bill curry just that i think is absolutely right. i think what we have to recognize is the so-called two-party system is not working. this is what we're seeing in spain and the victory of podemos over the weekend and the possibility of breaking the monopoly of a two-party system where there's just not enough differences on certain key issues. there are differences, i don't want to minimize the differences between the two parties, but they're not n

democrats lied. caller: good morning, gentlemen. -- democrats line. got inen speaker pelosi , i sent a document to influential people and it was all about institutional dissemination. the ceiling that has never been broken. -- that isn 1960 what happened there. it is people that make history. about the caller talked presidents. i want to read a comment from part of your book where you are talking about ronald reagan. and therety parties leaders are likely to dedicate a good amount of effort to helping their same party president or presidential candidate. if reagan were not president, hootsuld not be worth two as a minority." was this a new tactic? guest: to some extent, yes. the use of the floor for messaging purposes got its start in the late 70's, early 80's. it was republicans that initiated that. one thing that is important about the quote, everybody assumes the minority party cares about being in the majority. that is what matters most to them. but one of the important arguments i make in the book, presidential politics matter as well. while mich

nation on the democratic side. bernie sanders is trailing hillary clinton by a failly large margin. and everybody believed hillary clinton would be the democratic nominee. it's really kind of a waiting game on the democratic side. >> that will happen right here in philadelphia. the democratic national convention will be here. that will be very exciting. we are center stage. we had the pope. now we're going to have the convention. >> you guys are pros at that. is that the perfect transition to our next segment? eleanor, thank you so much. joe, thank you. i know if we continue this conversation, we could go for another hour. thank you for your time. i appreciate it. >>> coming up next on nbc10 "@ issue," you heard them say a push for tourists. we'll tell you about changes that are making it easier for foreign visitors to get here. plus, we'll talk about that democratic national convention. >>> this summer thousands of visitors will hit the streets of philadelphia when the city hosts the democratic national convention

you're a vice chair of the democratic national committee. you've heard this huge explosion, a full report coming up on it, an explosion between the bernie sanders campaign and the dnc and the chair debbie wasserman-schultz, accusations the bernie sanders campaign improperly interfered, took a look at some of hillary clinton's database. you've been briefed on this. how big of a deal is this? >> we had a preliminary call earlier today the officers of the dnc where we got kind of the information we know so far. i know that there's still a lot of questions that have gone unanswered. there's still a lot of information that's still being gathered. and a reason why i think this independent audit, which i know the sanders camp has agreed to, is important to find out exactly what happened there. and i think that once that occurs then we can figure out a path forward. but i think that there has to be a way for the sanders campaign to be able to access their own information, the data for the folks who they've been reaching out to and their supporters.

our democrats -- are democrats abandoning a lame-duck resident at this?tainly do not think the democrats are abandoning president obama. he has had an extraordinary record. when you look at the economic situation when he became the president of the united states, he has turned it around. i would say democrats were very helpful to him as majority leader in 2009 at 2000 10, worked closely with the president and leader pelosi and leader reid. has had a successful, anyway you look at the economy, whether the value of the stock market, it has really turned the economy around. we can do more, but on the hadrnational level, he has one of the most complex and difficult situations in the middle east and around the world that i have seen since i have been in congress in my 35th year. the middle east in particular is as complex and chaotic and difficult to manage as i have seen it. ourthere some members of caucus, including myself, who have indicated we need to have in many ways a more robust engagement in syria and iraq? are other differences of opinion? there are.

both were democrats born in western kentucky. both were accomplished athletes in their youth and fine coaches thereafter. both had a gift for remembering names and faces. and in true kentucky style, these two men carried on a feud that literally lasted f eed for decades. those two men are albert benjamin happy chandler and earle clements. despite their similarities, the two men in other ways could not have been more different. happy was colorful and extrov t extroverted. literally larger than life. he was elected in large part due to his charisma and absolute zest for campaigning. clements was the opposite. reserved, methodical, leaving nothing to chance. happy was a great speaker. clements was not. by and large, chandler was conservative and clements was liberal. the third man i'm going to talk about was a direct beneficiary of the chandler-clements feud, republican thruston morton. the chandler-clements divide was significant because for most of the 20th century kentucky has twice as many registered democrats as republicans. i

this is the second time in recent weeks that the democratic national committee has had a big democratic presidential debate on a saturday night. this time, of course, the saturday before christmas. people are either in church, shopping, or somewhere else. not necessarily watch thing debate. and i think the bottom line is, a key moment also on a domestic issue, obamacare. hillary clinton pressed by the moderator, a very good question about health care is helping millions of people who didn't have it, but those who already had health care are seeing their costs go through the roof. how are we going to fix it? hillary clinton said yeah, there are glitches. glitches on these massive increases in cost? that is something that might bite her. maybe it will bite her in the general election. >> ed henry live tonight. thank you, ed. some other folks who were watching, let's bring in our panel. matt lewis is a senior contributor at the daily caller. juan williams is a fox news political analyst. dave cananese is a political reporter. and casey mcfarland is a fox news national security analyst. wel

in 1931 he was elected lieutenant governor are you served alongside fellow democrat -- a fellow democrat. they differed on a number of issues, including implementation of a sales tax, which chandler believed harm to the poor. they differed on the need for primaries as opposed to conventions, which would typically be controlled by the party bosses. chandler favored primaries. what happened next displays one of chandler's signature traits, audacity. audacity. under kentucky's constitution, if the governor left the state, the lieutenant governor was acting governor. in 1935, the governor made a big mistake. he departed kentucky to go to washington, leaving happy, temporarily, in charge. happy sees the moment, called a special session of the legislature, and required candidates to be elected through primaries. this enraged the governor. while he was later able to plot some of the impact, he could do nothing to dim the political stardom that happy had gained them this bold maneuver. acclaim wave of popular happy ran for governor in 1935. governor picked a candidate he hoped could defeat happy

let's go to the democratic debate in new hampshire. three contenders, martin o'malley and hillary clinton and bernie sanders debating last night. much of the attention was not on the issues. instead, accusations flying that the democratic national committee is favoring clinton's campaign. ed henry continues our team coverage. >> bottom line, after this third democratic presidential debate is hillary clinton is very much in command. a 22-point lead over socialist bernie sanders in the latest fox poll. but the question remains whether or not there's been cod delling of clinton, whether the democratic party has been protecting their front-runner, especially after last night when bernie sanders amid all of this pre-game hype, he would take the gloves off and hit clinton over his charge that she and the democratic national committee overreacted amid allegations that sanders' aides had dipped into private collection data, voter data that was part of the clinton playbook. he apologized. clinton accepted. and everyone seemed to want to move on

so i invited one democrat after another democrat after another democrat after another democrat. we invited roughly a dozen democrats and not a single democrat was willing to stan on the stage discuss the iranian nuclear deal. i will tell you it was truly humbling and powerful to be on that stage with a man who has seen the face of evil and can speak truth, with a moral gravity that when elly said, as he did, that never again must mean never again, and the one threat of that happening is a nuclear iran. [applause] we need a president who will stand unapologetically, with the nation of israel. when hamas murdered three israeli teenagers, i joined with number democrat bob menendez to introduce legislation providing a 5 million decide reward for information lead ago to the capture of the terrorists who had kidnapped and murdered one of the three. neftali was a dual sailory citizen. that legislation passed the senate unanimously, thankfully they captured the terrorists before the house could take it up. just in the past couple of weeks i put together a bipartisan coalition of some 30

votes does it pick up for democrats? if it is acceptable to us and there are not writer -- riders that are not redlines then you will get significant numbers of votes for the omnibus as we have in the past. the question is how many republicans will vote the matter re.t is in thei >> republicans are pushing to lift the ban on oil exports. is that summing democrats will go for it to get some of the other things in their? >> as you know, on the senate side as well this is an issue which we would prefer were not in the bill. the billll that passed of representatives with a large majority of democrats putting against it but if in fact we can't resolve some of the other issues we feel strongly about including the alternative energy of taxand the extension credits for alternative energy i think this is not something that could not be resolved with republicans getting something they want and we want some -- we get something that we want. that is the process of negotiations. i think there's certainly been a lot of robust discussi

meanwhile the data breach is sending tremors through the democratic party. hillary clinton's campaign bristled at a fundraising email sent to sanders' supporters on friday. clinton's campaign manager says -- quote -- "we are particularly disturbed right now that they are using the fact that they stole data as a reason to raise money for their campaign." 3 now at tonight's democratic debate, bernie sanders directly apologized to directly sanders debate, bernie tonight's now at 3 now at tonight's democratic debate, bernie sanders directly apologized to both clinton and to his supporters'. in response, clinton said "it's time to move on." 3 3 republican presidential candidate jeb bush took the stage in new hampshire this morning.during the rally, the florida governor took a handful of question sfrom younger voters...and even landed an attack against trump, this time involving some name calling on the billionaire businessman. 3 "just one other thing, i've got to get this off my chest, donald trump is a jerk. (clapping) you cannot insult your way to the presidenc

democrats had the tax credits on wind and solar. to mummify those on the left. those environmentally concerned members of congress. planned parenthood. republicans came up empty, on syria refugees, bringing them into the country, there were several democrats in the senate that wanted gun control restrictions stuck into the bill, the 1.1 trillion bill. it was never realistic hope it was something of a barring -- bargaining work. all of this major legs larks the stuff that is viscerale to voters, gun control, planned parenthood, abortion is stuck in a huge spending bill at the end of the year. no one wants to bring it up and put it on the floor itself. >> that's how it works. i guess the spending bill is the most important thing that washington needs to do. >> that's correct. >> what does it say about paul ryan, this is something that previous leaders in congress had difficulty doing, the basic business of spending bill and budget. paul ryan walked in, and achieved something that his pred des cessor was not a -- do. >> compromise - that has been going on for 20 ye

this is the second time in recent weeks that the democratic national committee has had a big democratic presidential debate on a saturday night. this time, of course, the saturday before christmas. people are either in church, shopping, or somewhere else. not necessarily watch thing debate. and i think the bottom line is, a key moment also on a domestic issue, obamacare. hillary clinton pressed by the moderator, a very good question about health care is helping millions of people who didn't have it, but those who already had health care are seeing their costs go through the roof. how are we going to fix it? hillary clinton said yeah, there are glitches. glitches on these massive increases in cost? that is something that might bite her. maybe it will bite her in the general election. >> ed henry live tonight. thank you, ed. some other folks who were watching, let's bring in our panel. matt lewis is a senior contributor at the daily caller. juan williams is a fox news political analyst. dave cananese is a political reporter. and casey mcfarland is a fox news national security analyst. wel

democrats want equality of outcomes. it is the point of view of the criminal underclass that this way of looking at american politics is complete and total nonsense. announcer: he examines america and american politics in his newest book, "stealing america." and sunday night at 7:30 p.m. eastern, former democratic presidential candidate and author lawrence lessig talks about his experience running for office and campaign finance. the central theme of his book, "republic lost." >> we are supposed to have a democracy where we as citizens are equal participants. but members of congress spend 70% of their time raising money from the wealthiest 1%. they can't help but be more focused and concerned of the interests of that tiny 1%. so that is a system where this basic equality is denied. announcer: watch booktv all weekend every weekend on c-span 2. announcer: "washington journal" continues. host: joining us now to talk about the omnibus spending bill congress is working on, we have niels lesniewski, a staff writer at "roll ca

let me give at least a follow-up on the democratic side credit. give you the highway bill as an example. senator boxer and i found that we actually agreed on what ought to be done here. the democratic leadership, schumer, reid, and the white house tried to torpedo the way we were doing the highway bill, but senator boxer, with her skillful knowledge and leadership on the issue, was able to put together a core of democrats who simply didn't follow the leadership, and it allowed us to move the highway bill across the floor. so i think the way you get the senate working again is for members outside of the leadership level to have confidence to work on bills together, think they are worth passing, and help make it passing. by any objective standard, it has been a year of significant accomplishment. i want to think the democrats who did cooperate. senator murray was spectacular and education. was unbelievably good on highways. senator feinstein was good on cyber security. having the cooperation of the other side in a body that require 60 to do most thi

against the democratic party. why the battle against frontrunner hillary clinton - is now going far beyond typical campaign issues. and - why there could soon be a ban - on the use of tanning beds for kids. you're watching fox5 news at 5. local. las vegas democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders takes the democratic national committee to court. fox's mike emanuel shows us why the vermont senator claims the party is showing favoritism to rival hillary clinton. vermont senator bernie sanders' campaign is fighting back threatening to take the democratic national committee to court. the d-n-c accused the sanders campaign of improperly accessing confidential voter information gathered by rival hillary clinton's campaign. campaign manager jeff weaver came out swinging claiming party leadership is actively favoring clinton. weaver says: "the individual leaders of dnc can support hillary clinton in any way they want if the dnc continues to hold our data hostage and attack the heart and soul of our grassroots campaig

tell us what happens at the democratic convention. >> guest: in the run-up to the democratic convention you have the state conventions of the silver democrats decide will not settle on a candidate. will actively does discourage anyone from being a candidate. will focus on two things, one it in each state to go on record in favor the free and unlimited coin is silver and refute -- so that when we get to the national convention the democratic rules are it takes a majority to write the platform, two thirds thirds to dominate the kind of it. the silverman say we want to get a silver platform and force the candidate, whoever he he is to agree to that platform. we will never get to two thirds at the convention. will not be able to nominate a true silverman about we want to bind it to a silver platform. they succeed beyond their expectation. within the time the democratic commits and opens up they are within a whisper of getting two thirds. what stands in the way is an extraordinary pair of victories in michigan and minnesota. at the last minute, cleveland prevails upon political friends and h

look, democrats won some things too. that's the name of bipartisan compromises. >> with his leadership we've come a long way. it is a monumental improvement over the special interest bills republicans were offering this year. gwen: even the president was praising the deal. we've never seen such camaraderie around budget time before. >> i think we found a sweet spot between a lame duck speaker and 100 moon speaker. speaker boehner was the one who crafted the budget deal that set the overall spending levels, which took some of the pressure off the new house speaker, paul ryan. he comes in, everybody wanted him to be speaker. he comes in and listens to a lot of the mention a little bit more than some said they were listened to under the boehner term and then you have this deal. i think it's a combination of the honeymoon phase that you often see and the lame duck period where boehner was able to get the spending numbers down and that brought on some of the democrats and because he needed the democrats to pass the spending b

gwen: and tonight, the democrats got in the action as the d.n.c. and the clinton capable accused bernie sanders of political dirty tricks. >> the leadership of the d.n.c. has used this incident to shut down our ability to access our own information, information which is the lifeblood of this campaign. gwen: what a way to go through the holiday season. that is not holiday spirits. explain what that fueled was about. >> i'll try to explain it as simply as i can but it's complicated. the democratic national committee maintains a voter file, a large data base that the campaigns are allowed to use and then add their own propriorityry information to it based on the work they're doing out in the field. the calls and contacts they're making, their ratings of different voters. a vendor for the d.n.c. had a glitch and the firewall that's supposed to keep propriorityry data separate from the other camps opened up for a 40-minute period. bernie sanders' campaign noticed it and went in and accessed some of the data of the clinton campaign. they took propriority

i think that democratic nominee will win. i think i will have a democratic successor. >> but he also took time to praise new house speaker paul ryan for shepherding a massive $1 million spending bill through congress without any major threats of a government shutdown, proof the president said both parties can work together. >> i also want to give speaker ryan credit, so kudos to him as well as all the leaders and appropriators who were involved in this process. overwhelming majority of people who are -- >> on his last scheduled day in washington of 2015, the president commuted the sentences of nearly 100 mostly nonviolent drug offenders, all a part of the president's bipartisan push for criminal justice reform. >> there has been sincere serious negotiations and efforts by democrats and republicans to create a criminal justice system that is more fair, more even handed, more proportionate. >> the president could conceivably make one more public statement before the end of the day en route to his family vacation in hawaii. he's

and democratics are more focused on economics. >> democratics?yeah. >> i think the democrats have the people's interest at heart. >> why is obamacare, amnesty, and the iranian deal so unpopular? do you vote? >> no. >> probably a good thing. >> do you think democrats have been good for the country? >> yeah. >> in what ways have democrats helped the country? >> hmm. >> can you name one thing? >> one thing? hmm. off the top. >> take your time. >> i don't know. that's sad. >> maybe you should switch parties. >> republican, huh? >> yeah. >> i do like donald trump. >> you guys both have the blond hair. >> yeah. >> that's about the only thing you have in common. >> about it. >> are you a republican or democrat? >> republican. >> i didn't see that coming. >> i hate republicans? >> i do, too. they're so greedy. >> they need to be regulated. >> do you think we should put some republicans in congress in gitmo for a little bit? >> yeah, they should see how it feels. >> obama should tear up the constitution and run for a third term. >> bloomberg did it. >> a

democrats like hillary clinton. they like the idea of a bill clinton-hillary clinton team in the white house. younger voters don't have that memory. he's supporting sanders because he doesn't find hillary clinton to be authentic. >> i don't trust her. she's very strict she's going to -- she's you know with obama right now and i'm not really supporting what he's doing. so that's just not going to fly with me. >> now, mike's mother a hillary clinton supporter so you sees that generational gap there john. >> all right libby thank you very much. al jazeera, jason johnson is al jazeera's political contributor. he's in cleveland tonight. jason an extreme move by the democratic national committee? >> i think it's an extreme move, i think it's terrible, it presents the party in a bad way, it empowers the bernie sanders campaign which we know the dnc doesn't want and it reflects a lack of trust and a lack of integrity on the part of how this campaign is being run on the democratic side. >> you don't think bernie sanders did

and democratics are more focused on economics. >> democratics?yeah. >> i think the democrats actually have the people's interest at heart. >> why is obamacare, amnesty, and the iranian deal so unpopular? do you vote? >> no. >> probably a good thing. >> do you think democrats have been good for the country? >> yeah. >> in what ways have democrats helped the country? >> hmm. >> can you name one thing? >> one thing? hmm. off the top. >> take your time. >> i don't know. that's sad. >> maybe you should switch parties. >> republican, huh? >> yeah. >> i do like donald trump. >> you guys both have the blond hair. >> yeah. >> that's about the only thing you have in common. >> about it. >> are you a republican or democrat? >> republican. >> i didn't see that coming. >> i hate republicans? >> i do, too. they're so greedy. >> they need to be regulated. >> do you think we should put some republicans in congress in gitmo for a little bit? >> yeah, they should see how it feels. >> i think obama should tear up the constitution and run for a third term. >> bloomb

this is the second time in recent weeks that the democratic national committee has had a big democratic presidential debate on a saturday night. this time, of course, the saturday before christmas. people are either in church, shopping, or somewhere else. not necessarily watch thing debate. and i think the bottom line is, a key moment also on a domestic issue, obamacare. hillary clinton pressed by the moderator, a very good question about health care is helping millions of people who didn't have it, but those who already had health care are seeing their costs go through the roof. how are we going to fix it? hillary clinton said yeah, there are glitches. glitches on these massive increases in cost? that is something that might bite her. maybe it will bite her in the general election. >> ed henry live tonight. thank you, ed. some other folks who were watching, let's bring in our panel. matt lewis is a senior contributor at the daily caller. juan williams is a fox news political analyst. dave cananese is a political reporter. and casey mcfarland is a fox news national security analyst. wel

so i invited one democrat after another democrat after another democrat after another democrat, we invited roughly a dozen democrats and not a single democrat was willing to stand on a stage with elie weisel and discuss the iranian nuclear deal. i will tell you it was truly humbling and powerful to be on that stage with a man who has seen the face of evil and can speak with a moral gravity that when he said, as he did, that never again must mean never again and the one threat of that happening is a nuclear iran. [applause] we need a president who will stand unapologetically with the nation of israel. when hamas murdered three israeli teenagers, i joined with new jersey democrat bob me then december to introdution -- to introduce legislation providing a $500,000 reward for the terrorist who kidnapped naftali fran tell. that passed the senate and thankfully they captured the terrorist before the house could take it up. just in the past couple of weeks, i put together a bipartisan coalition soft some 30 senators to write to the e.u. to pose their plan to require -- to oppose their plan to req

only votes that matter in a safe democratic seat are democratic votes. if you're in the minority of those districts which means those votes don't matter. in, 89 million americas have no representation inside of congress because they're in the minority. >> it doesn't push the competition to the primary where the primary becomes hotly-contested? >> when it pushes to the primary, it amplifies the polarized nature of congress even more. when you're a republican only afraid of the primary challenge, that means you're only afraid of the far right primary challenge. when you're a democrat, only afraid of the primary challenge, you're only afraid of the far left primary challenge. those are the people that show up to primary votes. what this system does it amplify ies the polarization of america. it makes it a more polarized institution that actually america itself is. >> just somewhat technical question on this. given that we have a little bit of a-b testing, we have two chambers of congress and one isn't elected by district, would you expect to see differences

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you. >> a lot more coming up on last night's democratic debate and checking on everything the democrats said on guns and wall street, the war on terror. we will be sharing those with you throughout the morning. so be with us for that. >>> in the meantime, they are back! overnight, tina fey and amy poehler revived their characters on "saturday night live." >> can we focus? because i'm running for president again and i'm getting advice from the smartest woman i know. >> geez! >> geez, i should be giving you advice because in 2008 i got closer to the white house than this gal did. here is my advice. you got to do what you believe in your spirit, but also, america. but not teachers and their fat liberal books, but also, an even why worry about fast food wages with their status kquo, which i another latin word, status quo. meanwhile, americans are being taken for a ride and only the man can only ride you when your back is bent, so! >> she is so spot-on. we will have more funny moments from "snl" later in the show. >> yeah. i'm glad that -- they got a new movie out together. tina fey and amy

nearly 357- thousand voters are registered as democrat. that's about 100- thousand more number, nearly 170-thousand people don't affiliate themselves with any party.... and nearly 49- thousand are in the 'other' category. we wanted to see how these numbers may have changed over the past six months... as the caucus process requires you to be a member of the party you caucus for. the numbers only changed slightly, and that may be for a variety of reasons. the democrats have gained a few thousand registrants, and so have republicans. but the same can be said for nonpartisan voters... which has also increased by more than 5- thousand. these numbers, again, for a variety of reasons, including active voters becoming inactive and the reverse. the total number of active voters in clark county is more than 832- thousand people. when it comes to active voters, make primary voting even more challenging. caucuses are scheduled for february.. the democratic february 20th, a saturday, followed by the on tuesday, february 23rd. so what is a caucus? at th

democrat captures it perfectly. obamacare allows workers to escape their jobs, to escape their jobs. well, the american people took a different view. a constituent from somerset wrote to tell me that obamacare's mandates were causing her to lose up to 11 hours -- up to 11 hours per week at work, which meant about $440 less in her pocket every month. obamacare, she said, is causing us to lose hours and lose wages, yet expecting us to spend more. now, americans were promised that obamacare wouldn't touch medicare. americans were promised that taxes wouldn't increase. americans were promised that shopping for obamacare would be as simple as shopping for a tv on amazon. three more promises, three more betrails. and on and on and on it has gone. for more than five long years. democrats need to understand that it's time to face up to the pain and the failure their law has caused. they can keep trying to talk past the middle class. they can keep trying to deny reality, but they have to realize that no one is buying the spi

debates -- scheduled by the democratic national committee -- for saturday nights, haven't gotten ash attention. c-n-n's jake taper asked candidate martin o'malley for his take on the scheduling. >>: "i want to ask you about the role that the dnc is playing in this election, which senator sanders is focused on. do you think the reason two of the three democratic debates have been scheduled on saturday nights is because the dnc wants to limit the audience and thereby under the theory help hillary clinton?" >>: presidential candidate "yes, in fact, that's also why for the first time ever they limited the number of debates." >> reporter: indeed, at this stage in 2007, democratic presidential hopefuls had debated 17 times. the last televised democratic debate on c-b-s, also aired on a saturday and averaged 8.5 million viewers. a significant drop to from the cnn democratic debate, which aired on a *tuesday a month earlier and averaged *15.3 million viewers. more complete ratings from saturday night's debate will be available monday. meanwhile, the next democratic presidential primary deba