i don't think democrats could win that many. but i think the energy and enthusiasm is pretty intense. i will just say over the last year and half of the trump presidency, i have never in my career in washington seen this much level of political engagement and enthusiasm. the marches, the energy, and now that is really translating into voting. people are voting at higher levels. districts that are really republican districts are ones in which you have democrats voting at parity or at higher rates than republicans. jerry: you have a strange situation in the sense that on the one hand, the president's job approval is relatively low, by historical standards, but the economy is performing extraordinarily well. which should be good news for republicans. you have unemployment down, workforce participation up, worker productivity increasing. that is a good economic message for republicans. what is the democratic counter on checkbook issues, which tend to, at the end of the day, when you get to november, tend to rise to the top of the ag

host: democratic consultant mike lux on his book, "how to democrat in the age of trump." but before we talk about the present and future, i want to talk about how the democrats got here. you point out this statistic. in the decade since 2008 week when the future looks promising, seats, 63st senate u.s. house seats, 38 legislative chambers, 90 eight legislative seats. we also lost the present -- -- host: what were democrats doing wrong between 2008 and today? the demographics were moving in favor, the financial collapse had made americans convinced that republican trickle-down policies were not working. things seemed like they were going in our direction and they would have continued to have done that had we really the promises and really changed the country in a transformative kind of way. if we have restructured the financial system rather than just rehabilitated it. if we had really brought wages working-class folks. if we have really done immigration reform, something about climate change, i think those would be both broadly popular and would have fired up our base. in

i spent my days watching democrats not republicans. looking at the democrats, the paradigm is new. it is a new thing. to have such a wide field of candidates moving so ruggedly to the left. where the divisions are with the gop, although they are real. and they are there, they are not so much unexpected. the democratic party is breaking in waves. it is a little bit new to our ecosystem. >> i will ask you a quick question. who is the one democratic you up at night? if anyone does. if there is any when you guys are most concerned about, who would you say? >> i can't get their voices out of my head. i don't think i have one democrat yet that has really presented himself or herself as that viable of a contender. what keeps republicans up at night, is the unexpected. is there a nontraditional likely 2016he primary field, can come in and -- what thep and democrats are trying to accomplish. just as a pure policy matter. it does keep me up at night. this idea that we are marching so far to the left. someone will eventually be a standard there for the democratic party. they will be adopting

where should democrats be on free trade in 2018, because there is a moderate element of the democratic party that has been, and remains, in favor of the free trade agreement. but there is a certain amount of skepticism in your party as well. what is the consensus position, if any, on trade? neera: it is the democratic party, so asking for a consensus position on anything is a lot these days. you are going to have to forgive me for having a nuanced conversation for one minute. jerry: it is c-span. that is allowed. [laughter] neera: look, i think there has been a real challenge on what globalization has done to wages in the united states. that is not necessarily a product of individual trade agreements. in fact, the most pressure on wages has come from china. the united states does not have a bilateral trade deal with china. having said that, i do think that many things can be true. first, china does not play by the rules. right? it is a mercantilist economy. it has a variety of ways, currency is one option enterprise is another, using the power of the state, to achieve economic ends. it

she won in a democratic — in a very, very blue democratic district.onnell won in pennsylvania, in a district that is ruby, ruby red. doug jones, who i helped in alabama, in a state that is as conservative as south carolina. i don't think they label themselves as democratic socialists, but what i said, which i am going back to, is people are running in states and in districts and reflecting the values of the folks that they are claiming and wanting to represent. and that's what we're going to see in 435 districts and 50 states november. see ijust wonder... people are going to reflect the people on a local level. so in new york, in the bronx, you could win as a democratic socialist, that's fine, but in south carolina that probably is not going to work. i can guarantee you that. i hear what you're saying. but... again, in the end of the day... the democratic party is a big tent. ijust wonder have you learned the lessons of losing in 2016? in 2016, let us not forget, you, jaime harrison, were a supporter of hillary clinton. you, jaime harrison, were part

ways, anti-democratic. we will take the extraordinary step of canceling our meetings with judge kavanaugh. there are not many wolves on their sides, but there are not many procedures they can use. i do think judge kavanaugh is a extraordinarily unpopular nominee. i think democrats -- this is a moment where people are going to remember where they stood in these kinds of constitutional questions. >> you don't have to be too old to remember the days when supreme court nominees were confirmed with 90 plus votes in the senate. that? beyond is that never going to happen again? it seems the ultimate polarizing topic on supreme court nomination. neera: this is a great issue, and we should get to 90 votes. it -- what is not about where we are is judge kavanaugh is not a moderate nominee. if he had been a moderate nominee. , it would have been important for democrats to support them. who is not only supported by federals, but on case after case has taken almost the farthest right position. polarizinging a debate, not

no democrats wanted to say that. i think you will see a continuation of that as we head into the 2020 cycle. they started a long time ago, going back to last year, their 2020 operation is here to stay, and it is not going away anytime soon. james: it has really changed the dynamic on the campaign trail. politicians are more guarded on both sides, at political events -- if somebody's walking around with a camcorder in their face all the time. the reason america rising was started was that democrats were doing this first. they had footage of republicans saying embarrassing things in 2012 and cost republicans some senate seats. i think republicans played catch-up and are probably ahead of the game on this. it is not entirely all in the republican domain, it is not wrong, but they are out there at every event. it is illuminating as a reporter sometimes, because both the democratic and republican groups are posting videos on youtube that we wouldn't see otherwise. one of america rising's big wins in 2014, there was a big

the democrat is ahead in a district the democrat hasn't represented since the reagan presidency. just the fact that this race is in play tonight tells you republicans are in trouble this year. the question is is it a bad year or a horrible year? this is the district as a whole. let's look at it by county. you made a keep point about the suburbs. for danny o'connor to win this district, trump has to remain toxic in the suburbs like we saw in the alabama senate race, like we saw in new jersey and virginia, like we saw in pennsylvania 18. trump has been toxic among suburban women, among millennials as well. you find a lot of them in the suburbs. they're down here in franklin county where o'connor at the moment, in the piece of franklin county that is in this district, o'connor as 78% of the vote right now to 28%. if that number holds up and if this county gives you 34%, 35% of the vote, danny o'connor could have a stunning upset here. only 37% reporting. let's not jump to conclusions. this is the key part. you mentioned the suburbs. the darker shading is where the higher population

we will look at democratic targets, particularly our friends running in the trump states, the 10 democratic senators who are running in the candidates who are running in states that trump won in 2016, along with a host of other house and state candidates. america rising really covers it all. host: does opposition research include following candidates around with cameras, monitoring every statement they make, every media appearance they have? alex: it does. there is a caricature of opposition research, you can either go with the very sexy james bond type caricature, or you can think about it as dumpster diving, neither of which are true. really, the opposition research that we do is take all of the information that a public citizen -- an average citizen, could access and put together a narrative format. together in a narrative form. we use devices like the freedom of information requests, we follow candidates with cameras at public events to capture what they are saying, to see if it is different from what they have said on the record elsewhere. we are doing what any citizen could do, we are

one of the things unique about the democratic party is that the base of ideological voters in the democratic party is smaller than it is in republican-winni ng coalitions. when republicans win president, around 70% or 35% of their voters are so described conservatives. for democrat, it is about half and half. half say they are moderates, and have say they are liberal. democrats cannot win an election the same way donald trump did. that is why i think they are the better suited party to have this big tent, which is what we hope to see and build on. host: port st. lucie, florida, democrat line. caller: thank you for taking my call. is democrats, they do a good job, but not together. , after the takeover of power, everything goes down. if you need information, you do not know where to get something true. pastthing you know -- the is lost. but when you are on the problem, you cannot find anyone to give you something true. i think that is a problem. right now, i have some people, yeaars.e in four and still 30years years, they are still working here. they will not deport them. host: thanks, caller

so who really is the democratic party today?” party. so who really is the democratic party today?e here in south carolina. i grew up in a very rural town, orange though, 15,000 people, iwas grew up in a very rural town, orange though, 15,000 people, i was the first person in my family to go to college, went to yale, worked —— went to george town. what myself from the bootstra ps. went to george town. what myself from the bootstraps. that is what the american dream is all about, being able to start from nothing and to actually rise up and do well in this country will stop and so i am proud of what i am and i am who i am because of the democratic party. the message of donald trump is that politics as usual isn't working in america any more. that is the message that the democrats had to ta ke message that the democrats had to take on board as well as the republicans. the message that the democratic party has to, and i have been very, very honest, let me back up, you mentioned that i worked for john podesta, i never worked for him,i john podesta, i never worked for him, i worked for h

the northern democrats were driving the proslavery debate in the democratic camps. is -- the secession debate was north-south but the slavery debate was between the proslavery democratic party and the anti-slavery democratic party. that's a fact. it's so crushing that sometimes when i speak on campus, this is a familiar thing that happens. inevitably some professor of romance languages will stand up and say you are being a tad simplistic here. you're pointing the finger of blame at the democratic party. but you have to realize there is a lot of blame to go around. when i hear this typical cloud of rhetoric i try to find a way to dissipated. in 1860, no republican owned a slave. owned aepublican leader slave, but no republican in the united states owned a slave. all the slaves of the entire country were owned by democrats. it is a scientific statement. all you have to do is give me the name of one republican who owns a slave. to this date no valid counterexample has been produced. a few months ago about an email from a guy. ulysses s grant inherited the slaves on his

democrats. our believe is our best use of our time is organize communities in all 50 states to build a base of organized politically aware people ready to fight back. you mentioned bernie sanders, do you think you will run in 2020? guest: i hope he does. i do not know where our members will be in 2020, but i think he has completely transformed the political system in this country. he recognized after the financial crash and occupy wall , the country was ready and articulated that in a language that was accessible to people and changed olitics. p we wanted to and building that and chapters everywhere help everyone go to the experience that i went through where eyes saw an event about andalis feminism then i realized, there were decisions being made by the very wealthy. we want to create an organization in communities across the country so we can create political change but also, support change in between elections. in the labore work movement and the political system and in communities working on

ok let's go back to seattle ok we've really beat up on the democrats the least the establishment democrats now let's see another angle that's going on i don't want to give the impression and i hope we have it is that people leave the democratic party or of our are pro term they're not all pro trump some of them have moved over to the g.o.p. actually a lot of the data says the g.o.p. is still more attractive than donald trump it's a topic of entirely different program which i think is quite fascinating because i'm a conservative and i really have contempt for the g.o.p. so i would be an interesting topic but i want to go back to alexandria. cortez zach i mean she's a very interesting phenomenon and she's the the reason the most recent eruption of the just ruction in the two political parties and i get the leadership of the democratic party just so blinded by all of these things here they were blindsided by her election i don't feel sorry for her opponent i mean because he's a swamp character i wish more of them would be thrown out but i mean listening to meet the press democratic socialism

host: veteran democratic consultant mike lux on his book, "how to democrat in the age of trump." but before we talk about the present and future i want to , talk about how democrats got here. you point out in your book this statistic. in the decade since 2008 peak when the future looks promising, we have lost senate seats, 63 , 903s. house seats legislative seats. we also lost the presidency in 2016 to the least prepared and most polarizing demagogue perhaps ever. what were democrats doing wrong in that decade between 2008 and today? guest: we broke our coalition, basically. in 2009, 2010, it was moving in our -- the demographics were moving in favor, the financial collapse had made americans convinced that republican trickle-down policies were not working. and so things seemed like they were going in our direction and i think they would have continued to have done that had we really delivered on the promises and really changed the country in a transformative kind of way. if we had restructured the financial system rather than just rehabilitated it. if we had really brought wages

what is shifting in the democrats favor? is it the energy we have seen over the year now, frustrated with the president? are there individual races that you are thinking about? sen. van hollen: we have seen this growing momentum. if you look at the results from the minnesota primary elections the michigan, big turnouts among democratic voters. a lot of energy there. and we are seeing more and more independent voters looking for a senator who is going to stand up for the people in their state. that means holding the trump administration accountable. i don't think people want a trump rubberstamp. in many of these states that trump won, what they want is somebody that if trump proposes something that is good for their state, they will work with the president. but when the trump administration proposes something that hurts their state, they want someone who will stand up. they are not looking for rubberstamps. host: can i follow up on your comment where you said anything can happen? other applicable lessons from 2016 or is the e

among democrats, is there a concern -- classically, until, you know, the last year or two, no democrat in washington would have said you could be anywhere near that label and have a chance of winning. has the thinking changed there at all among democrats? >> steve, i think it has changed in part, and it's a generational thing. i think older american voters, when they think of socialism, they think of the soviet union, maybe think of venezuela. younger people think of scandinavia, norway, and sweden. so i don't think the word has the same impact on younger americans and clearly it shows, i think we see this from yesterday's primary, bernie sanders' support of gillum, as well as alexandra ocasoi cortez' victory that there is a section of the democratic party that are open to scandinavian socialist ideals and the second dynamic that is critical for the democrats is the demographic one. voters who lean democrat want representatives who are culturally relevant to them, who look like them, who are not, you know, predominantly older and white voters in a party that is increasingly, you know,

democrats."i like nancy pelosi, i wonder if she will stand up for the american public when needed to defend america." david is a democrat in phoenix. good morning. caller: good morning. i just have to to remind everyone that on her vote for , she said, if you want to know what is in the bill, you have to vote for it. aat is a fascist value, not democratic value. i have to agree with the earlier caller that hypocrisy and a double standard is her standard operating procedures. i would be happy with almost any other speaker because let's be woman, she was the first that high in the line of succession and we need to be proud of that and thank her for that, but that was a decade ago and now we need to do something different. thank you. host: in missouri, a democrat. good morning. caller: hello. thank you for taking my call. think, first of all, as i have said before, we will not solve any of these problems until the money is taken out of politics in this country. i also want to suggest -- i know the c

democrats likeead every pelosi are really trying to tamp down this idea that democratic socialism is ascrenledent within the democratic party. this house majority will be won on districts that are much closer, that are swing districts so democrats have to learn how to talk to trump voter what jake said was absolutely right. democrats are kind of letting donald trump talk for himself. when we're not seeing really a unified mental. we're not seeing allemocrats talk about medicine care for all or -- medicare for all or all democrats talk about other issues. robert: the trump white house seems too want to try to talk to moderate voters. we've seen the president do rallies but ivanka trump, the president's daughter and senior dwitesor went toy, a blue statement. are we going to see different >> i think that's right. i vanca works in the white house as a senior advisor to some of those suburban areas where the president is not welcome. she was talk aboutom's empowerment and some of the the s she champions inside white house even though she sometimes doesn't have a lot of policy influence w

guest: i want to say that many are democrats, the majority are registered democrats. vast majoritye would have preferred hillary clinton presidency and many voted, especially in swing states. that hillarys clinton was not able to inspire the kind of people and turn out that that we needed in that election and we have to ask ourselves why. many people in this country have not been listened to, have been by peopleidiculed inside the beltway including clinton and everyone who was running her campaign. that is what we are fighting against. the democratic party might have a better platform now but we also see right now, bernie sanders is introducing a medicare for all bill in the senate and there is a medicare for all bill in congress for lots of sponsors. we also see other democrats half measures and claiming it is medicare for all and muddying the water. and saying that medicare extra is the same thing is medicare for all. that is simply not true. policy,rganizing around we want everybody and for health care system and we want nobody out. we have seen what happened with

democrats. that statement crushing as it is his is a scientific statement. is open to empirical reputation. all you have to do is give me the name of one who owned a slave. i would have to take it. but to this date, no valid counterexample has been produced. a few months ago i got an email guy, i monitor for the university of michigan said i got you dinesh, ulysses s grant inherited a slave on his wife's, a solitary slave and i don't what i call an almost. ulysses s grant did in fact inherit asleep on his wife's side but at the time this happened ulysses s grant is a democrat. only later did he move over into the republican camp. now, here's the point. when slavery ended the democratic party was in panic. it had been organized around slavery and we have to figure out what could happen to us now. the democrats were worried they would go the way of the week and become a nonexistent political party. so they decided to do something new. and they came up with, if we can't organize around slavery, let

democratic consultants. then we're going to talk about the cost of -- a new report about the cost of incarcerating consultants. then we're going to talk about the cost of -- a new report about the cost of incarcerating immigrants. so make sure you join us tomorrow morning for another "washington journal." have a democratic consultants. then we're going to talk about thanks for joining us. >> here on c-span this morning, "newsmakers" is next with neera followed by vice president pence talking about the nomination of brett kavanaugh to republican lawyers in washington, d.c. after that susan collins and dick durbin discuss their one-on-one meetings with judge kavanaugh on capitol hill. r, opponents of the nomination hold a rally outside the supreme court. "newsmakers" welcomes neera tanden president and ceo of the center for american progress. c-span viewers are familiar with the progressive think tank based n washington, d.c. let me introduce you to our reporters. darlene superville covers the white house for

you had this huge divide between seven democrats in northern democrats.n civil rights, mcgovern was liberal than southern democrats. if humphrey wins in 1968, those divisions are not as severe. i think humphrey was better positioned to navigate both sides of the party that someone like george mcgovern. from west palms beach, florida, kathleen kennedy townsend. our guest michael:. -- michael cohen. caller: i was interested, in what way were your father's views similar to his brother john toward richard nixon, and it always with a different? guest: that is a good question. when richard nixon and my uncle john kennedy work in the senate together, they got along. republican andas democrat. there is not the same animosity that we had between parties in the 1950's as we do now. that is in large part because they both fought in world war ii. there was a respect for people who work in the trenches together, who put their lives on the line. you may disagree on policy, but when you shared was the threat of death. that always created a kind of bond. my father ran th

democrats line. go ahead, please. >> caller: yes, good morning, c-span, and good morning to you, mrs. townsend. >> how are you? >> caller: how are you, ma'am? i was wondering if your father had in mind anyone that he wanted to be his running mate during that campaign. >> i don't think at that point, as you, as you can see, for instance, when his brother was running for president, they didn't really make up their mind until the last 24 hours as to that lyndon johnson would be john kennedy's running mate. so the running mate question often depends on what's going on in the rest of the country and who will be most helpful to win the general election. and he had a very, my father as you know had a very tough fight. because he had gene mccarthy and then hubert humphrey. he was focused on winning the primaries. and then he had a couple of months to figure out who would be his running mate. thank you for asking, though. >> frank from corning, new york, good morning. >> caller: good morning. in 1968, i forme

democrats are running conservatives conservative democrats who are antipolo c. and to appoint pro trump on issues to win districts and you're talking about nationalizing democratic socialism if it doesn't make any sense well cayman how do you explain bernie sanders then gudrun how do you explain bernie sanders and i mean peter you even said yourself bernie sanders is the biggest story here yeah how do you guys if you think that it can't win and i mean we don't disagree on the corruption of the democratic establishment that's one thing where all of us will be in agreement but how do you explain bernie sanders a guy who was an open socialist who came out of nowhere and almost pretty much caused a grassroots revolution probably would of had the establishment not cheated him is applauded in the heartland with a true populist message how do you explain bernie sanders if you entertain the the democratic socialism can't win steve if you want to play. because bernie sanders yeah because bernie sanders is a polished socialist he doesn't talk about any of the other issues

paul: can a democrat, democratic party win election in 2020 against, say donald trump if he runs forngle-payer health care, guarantied income, guarantied job and tax rates well above 50%? >> and debt forgiveness for all college students? >> the answer is no. that would be repeat of 1970 to richard nixon, they will get wiped out. paul: you really believe that? >> do i believe that. if you move that party joe biden who has moved towards the center, i wouldn't say it. paul: do you really think that donald trump can make a sound case against the left on these issues? he doesn't really make free-market arguments very often. >> produced a free market. paul: he has. >> tremendously strong economy and he's got the bragging rights on where the economy is right now. paul: all right, thank you, when we come back a currency crisis in turkey and what it means to other emerging markets and the world and u.s. economies when we come back. g people geico could help them save money on car insurance? yea,that and homeowners, renters, motorcycle and boat insurance. huh.that's nice. what happens when you

democrat.r: money in politics, in theory, is not necessarily a bad if you are running at the local level, it may not matter as much, but when you are running on the national level, you want to be able to take your message to larger people. that does mean advertising and it can mean travel instances. era,lso, the modern politicians can use twitter, they can use -- finisher comment because you are going in and out. caller: i am sorry. i think that might be better, but basically, congress needs to speak to make sure money is not misused. politics asoney and may a necessary evil, but they definitely need to weigh in. host: got your point. guest: congress absolutely needs to weigh in. the issue here is not to take all money out of politics. the question is, what should the role of money be? how do we ensure that constituents have a voice and feel like they have a voice? the biggest issue for members of congress as they have approval ratings hovering in the single-digit or very low teens. there an in

democrats. go ahead. >> caller: yes, hello. i wanted to ask basically we all blamed the federal government for the social security claims specialists i've seen firsthand how the government especially social security has helped not just retirees also disabled people and i wonder as a socialist what is your take on the government itself government as a tool to help for the progressive thoughts when we consider all the programs you would like to commit the government will always be there. can you comment on that? >> guest: absolutely. the government is incredibly important because of the scale we are talking about them and there's no way if we don't have control over the government that we can to improve the lives of millions of people. so, i understand the impulse for folks foop for example and occuy wall street to be against government because i was born the first year of the millennial set generation. i understand people my age or younger have never really seen government respond when people at the grassroots demand things and

even if democrat danny o'connor ends up falling short there there may be something for democrats to lookentially in that district. but maybe elsewhere too as the cook political reports david wasserman tweeted tonight, there are 6 republican held house seats less republican than ohio 12 according to the cook political partisan voting index. and there are also 119 less republican districts than that pa1 seat that democrats won back in march. the magic number for democrats to win the house, they need 23 to do that. we thought we would take a look at some of those districts that may be top tier target for democrats. why don't we look at this. this was the last one, the last special election it started all the way back in april 2017. since the 2016 election heading into 2018, these are all the special elections for the house. so many great memories. how many nights did we stay up like this. some of these were very suspenseful. clearly a pattern emerged. this is around wichita. this was mike pompeo's district. trump won by 27. the republicans did win the seat in the special election but that w

if all the democrats voted no.ht now no sign of that because lisa murkowski and susan collins, two moderate republicans, have essentially been positive about the process so far. they have not yet met with him and we'll see what happens after the meetings with red state democratic senators because they're in a difficult spot back home having to court moderate voters but also worried about infuriating those liberal voters they need also. so that's why they're keeping it -- they're not allowing cameras to take their pictures alongside the nominee. it shows you the difficult road they're walking on right now. >> keep an eye on that one. the congress has been gone. the senate now back. we're waiting on the house. in your conversations welcoming the senators back, i understand a senior republican you spoke with had some concerns about the president using the term dog to describe his former white house staffer omarosa. tell me about that. >> orrin hatch, the president pro tem of the senate. someone who is a close ally of

on the democrat site, what linda says is accurate about the democratic leadership. nancy pelosi and minority whip steny hoyer are very capable people, but when i start thinking that i covered their initial elections, in special collections, i might add, that in the day when i had old black hair -- all black hair. time has marched on. it is not about their age or anything against them personally. but in the television age, you need a new star on tv and that is why i believe congressman tim making ahio, who is concerted effort to bring blue-collar democrats into the party, will rise up as a leader in the house. ryan was supposed to be one of the next leaders in congress, but he is retiring. who is going to take his spot? linda: i'm going to defer to john on this. john: i don't know if republicans will hold the senate or the house. said, great philosopher never make predictions, especially about the future. what it seems very likely will turn to the next in line, kevin mccarthy, the majority leader. might and up speaker or minority leader, believe me, he'll take either

candidate and an independent who is better known to democrats splitting that democratic vote, which could be good for the republican nominee. david: as we look towards november, maybe the most interesting, challenging, important story is whether the democrats take act the house. they have already seen some challenges, so many are stepping down. news broke just day about a congressman in new york who has been indicted on insider trading action. you tweeted that it's got to move from safe to likely and collins has some issues. how big of an effect might this have a congressional race? -- on that congressional race? arrested, you got to take that into account, but this is western new york, suburban buffalo, a district that trump n by 25 points. although when collins was first the winner over the now lieutenant governor, that wound up being a two or three point race in 2012. the district has been competitive in the past and you at least have to consider the possibility that a very damaged collins could be in danger in november. even if -- i don't think you would call that a tossup or an

they were always in democrat control, they were loyal democrats. and donald trump introduced middle class republicans to this forgotten blue-collar class. you get the middle class with the working class, it's unbeatable. what are the solutions, how about the best economy since clinton and reagan. the lowest unemployment in the black community. >> why don't republicans campaign on this? >> the best economy in your life. >> why did republicans switch the message halfway, about a month or so, into the campaign, if the economy is great, why was the message changed to attack o'connor? >> they can't run on their record. that's why. >> quickly. >> both sides turned to a vicious attack against each other. our side wanted to win more than the democrats did, and the democrats lost. cnn viewers, despite the fact that it says not decided, it's decided. >> with that, we'll take a short break. when we come back, donald trump also had his choice for the kansas governor's race. we'll see if the president's endorsement paid off in that race. and a rough day of ques

i'm a democrat.ut i still offer my and for those people that think the democrats cannot without some all too rare motive i want to pick the difference. i want to refer back to the flag that was not flying at half mast. at the white house earlier today that you had shown. it's unfortunate but at least it shows us the measure of the man who lives in the white house. wasmember when barack obama elected president of the united states. he kept the secretary of defense. he was a republican as a cabinet member. fbi whothe head of the was a republican. he appointed three other republicans to his cabinet at various times and offered another seat to the senator from new hampshire who is a republican. the point. refused to accept the appointment. oft was done in the spirit cooperation in an effort to reach across the aisle. and show some concern for the other party at the time. and show that he was willing to work with the republicans. as american citizens. this president has not reached across the aisle. he ha

i'm terrified about the democrats. my parents were democrats.n i asked them why they said it's because they got jobs from roosevelt. when welfare came in, they stopped. they do not believe in giving stuff away. they believed in helping people but not giving things away to people who did not deserve it. guest: a lot of people agreed with you about not liking hillary clinton. i want to tie that into the campaign. it was not just the personality. she also was taken to represent the new class i described, the elite class making out by virtue of its contacts with government. a decision in the campaign early on, we are opposed to hillary clinton, we don't want to take on bernie sanders. there is a wing of the democratic party that gets it, that realizes that it's not all about elite causes like transgender bathrooms. that is concerned with meat and potato issues and standards lost . even if he had won then you would have a clean contest for the benefit of american workers with different ways of approaching it. one vaguely socialistic, one vaguely cons

this is just one example of democratic leaders not following the kagan standard. the motive behind the unreasonable demands for documents is obvious. democratic leaders want to stall judge kavanaugh's confirmation anyway possible. they hope to bury the senate and mountains of irrelevant documents to delay his confirmation hearing and perhaps deny him a vote during this current congress. the ranking members hometown newspaper reported this game over the weekend and the headline read something using the words stall. the san francisco chronicle called it holding, a tactic that could postpone a decision until after the midterm elections. the article explained that, and i quote again, the democratic strategy is to demand to see every document that crossed cavanaugh's desk while he served as part president george w. bush is -- secretary from 2003-2006. in other words the democratic leaders are demanding these documents in order to needlessly delay the process rather than for legitimate purposes. but these tactics aren't going to work. let me address some of the minority

democrats, there is an effort after that election for democrats to figure out what happened. today we have a broad understanding of the economy was doing extremely well under ronald reagan, he was able to capitalize on that, hard to beat someone in those circumstances. at that time that wasn't the widely accepted narrative. there were lots of competing ideas including maybe mondale shouldn't have promised to raise taxes. or maybe reagan was more charming and witty and handsome. a lot of ideas floated around. one of the ideas was mondale wasn't a left-wing extremist but he was on the liberal end of the party. they should go with someone more pragmatic and centrist. four years later they come up with mike dukakis who is more pragmatic, centrist and loses by bit less but still loses. they made an improvement. still trying to learn those lessons they come up with a southern governor, bill clinton in 1992. again they trim their ideological tales a little more, promising to end welfare as we know it, rebuked jesse jackson a little bit and come up with a win. those are not necessari

should love these democratic socialists because it's the fighting it's dividing the democratic party and you can tell from the very top they're scared of these people go ahead i would yeah i would say to the democrats that you know it's ok to have that wing of the party i mean the republicans had the tea party wing and but but it does make your candidate an electable in certain places now if they had the democratic party runs more conservative candidates in these places they may have a better chance of winning but i'm sure the party apparatus doesn't really care for a lot of this talk about. you know free college education for everybody medicare for all because these are very expensive programs and nobody is figured out in the democratic party or anywhere else how to pay for these but of course you know the republicans have done this with their tax cuts that's what they do to get a lack of good ok i mean well and i mean anything in fact let me jump in stead of the increase and i have to we have to go to a hard break after a short break we'll continue our discussion of the democratic

now, democratic u.s. congressman michael capuano and ayanna prssley meet ahead of the september for primary. care,iscuss health criminal justice, the role of social justice movements, and race.

even if democrat danny o'connor ends up falling short there there may be something for democrats to look forward to in november. potentially in that district. but maybe elsewhere too as the cook political reports david wasserman tweeted tonight, there are 6 republican held house seats less republican than ohio 12 according to the cook political partisan voting index. and there are also 119 less republican districts than that pa1 seat that democrats won back in march. the magic number for democrats to win the house, they need 23 to do that. we thought we would take a look at some of those districts that may be top tier target for democrats. why don't we look at this. this was the last one, the last special election it started all the way back in april 2017. since the 2016 election heading into 2018, these are all the special elections for the house. so many great memories. how many nights did we stay up like this. some of these were very suspenseful. clearly a pattern emerged. this is around wichita. this was mike pompeo's district. trump won by 27. the republicans did win the seat in the

democrats are running conservatives conservative democrats who are antipolo c. and to appoint pro trump on issues so when districts and you're talking about nationalizing democratic socialism it doesn't make any sense ok mn how do you explain bernie sanders then gudrun how do you explain bernie sanders and i mean peter you even said yourself bernie sanders is the biggest story here yeah do you guys if you think that it can't win and i mean we don't disagree on the corruption of the democratic establishment that's one thing where all of us will be in agreement but how do you explain bernie sanders a guy who was an open socialist who came out of nowhere and almost pretty much constant grassroots revolution probably would of had the establishment not cheated him. applauded in the heartland with a true populist message how do you explain bernie sanders if you entertain the good he says the democratic socialism can't win steve if you want to play. because bernie sanders yeah because bernie sanders is a polished socialist he doesn't talk about any of the other issues