i'm pleased to introduce "washington post" reporter greg sargent, leather of the plumbline who will be interviewing ceo of on exactly what is at stake for working families and the trump administration were progressives go for care. >> good morning, everybody. hey, great. >> how are you doing? >> ready to get thank you, melissa for that great intro. >> so now what? >> is that your first question? >> yes. >> now i think we have told donald trump accountable for the premise to be made to working-class families and hold them accountable for the agenda that he's putting forward so far. he's made a lot of promises to be the spokes person in the advocate for families struggling and at least so far we have seen this promises to have been false. if it's an agenda and if that agenda includes medicaid, massive taxes to the wealthy, then it is our job to advocate for those families and make sure they do better and not worse. >> is sort of interesting. you have to distinguish between the promises he actually did make and the ones he did make. he told everyone pretty clearly that he was going to rep

stephanie, we heard a little bit from her conversation with greg sargent about the comments trump madehen he was campaigning to many of those workers and steve, i want to start with you by asking, do you think he is going to keep those promises to save jobs and make life better for working families? >> no. the thing about mr. trump is we probably shouldn't listen as much to him as watch him. they spoke about his cabinet appointees and the direction that process has taken us but i think we can step back a little bit from trump. of a actually much more theuct, or consistent with modern republican party more generally. mean, the republicans have a vision of government which is that they believe the purpose of government is to facilitate commerce and the making of money with the believe that the more money -- the more money we make, the more will trickle down. i believe that is a fair characterization. the democratic party is a much more muddled message. what it ought to be is that government ought to be used to deal with what economists call externalities. we ought to mitigate the adverse

from stephanie we also heard a bit from neera and her conversation with greg sargent about the promises that trump made when he was campaigning too many of those workers. steve, i want to start with you by asking, do you think trump keep those elaborate? ve: what concerns me about mr. trump, we probably should not listen to him as much as we should watch him. neera spoke about some of his cabinet keep those promises to e jobs and make life better for working families at the head of a workers' party? would you care to appointees, ae direction that process has taken us. i think we can step back a bit from trump. much more's actually of a product or consistent with the modern republican party more generally. he's really not a radical actor other than his rhetoric. by that i mean the republicans right now have a vision of governance which is that they believe the purpose of government is to facilitate commerce and the making of money, with the believe that the more when it -- money we make in society, the more that will trickle down. they may reject that characterization. the democratic par

we heard from neera and her conversation with greg sargent about the promises that trump made when he was campaigning, too many to many of those workers. steve, i want to start with you by asking, do you think trump is going to keep those promises to save jobs and make life better for working families, as the head of a workers party? >> no. [ laughter ] >> would you care to elaborate? >> sure i would. i think we learned about mr. trump is that we probably shouldn't listen as much to him as watch him. you know, neera spoke a little bit about some of his cabinet appointee appointees and the direction that process has taken us but we can step back a bit from trump and i think he's much more of a product or consistent with the modern republican party more generally. he's really not a radical actor other than his rhetoric and by that i mean the republicans have a vision of governance which is that they believe the purpose of government is to facilitate commerce and the making of money with the belief the more money we make in society the more will trickle down. they may reject that charact

i'm pleased to stand by greg sargent introducing neera tanden and where the progressives go from here >> good morning, everybody. >> how are you doing? >> pretty good. >> thanks for that. >> so, now what. >> is that your first question? no i think we have to hold them accountable for the promises he made to the working class families and hold them accountable for the agenda that he's putting forward so far. there is the massive taxes for the wealthy and it's our job to actually try to advocate for the families and make sure they do better. they then proceeded in every congress. we are now hearing about the granting or privatizing medicare. they campaigned as a person that would support the safety net. while he did mention block granting medicaid, i have to say that there was not a robust policy debate on what that would mean for people. he did talk about repealing, but one of the challenges is that a lot of people who voted for him to do and take his policies particularly seriously. you even highlighted some that would lose health care under the affordable care act that are now saying