host: jeff weaver?: i'm not going to disagree that lobbyists have an ornament amount of influence -- an inordinate amount of influence, i think what the caller should understand is that every other major industrialized western country has some form of national health program which guarantees health care to all of their people. at halfiver health care the cost per capita that we do. i find it amazing, republicans often talk about american exceptionalism, but somehow other countries can do things we cannot. i believe the opposite, it is a problem with lobbyist, the insurance company lobbyists, service lobbyists who work with industries that charges the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, in canada you can buy the same medication with the same regulatory process for a fraction of the prize, -- the price. a medicare for all system would ,elp squeeze out the waste abuse, and fraud that happens in the current system. and all of the administrative paperwork and urography that people don't under

left candidate may not be out of the question according to bernie sanders' 2016 campaign manager jeff weavere only way to turn. >> i think if we are going to be successful defeating trump and being this -- beating this abysmal administration, we need to nominate progressive. the party needs to move in a bolder and more progressive direction. >> marie: i think i still have a 2016 hangover with the bernie sanders team and it's hard to listen to jeff weaver give my party advice on anything but i'll set it aside. i think what he says is interesting. what do you think? >> melissa: he might be right in the sense that you look at the candidates that are picking up momentum. i'm jealous. martha maccallum tonight on "the story" -- i saw an ad for it, so i hope i'm right -- sarah smith. she in the ninth district in washington state and somebody who is in the mold of ocasio-cortez in new york. young, millennial, dynamic. somebody who came up in the shadow of bernie sanders and backed by the same national organization that gave money here in new york. i just, i really think that going broad in anything

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let's keep going with florida because we talked to jeff weaver, bernie sanders' adviser. he does think this is a sign, a bellwether, harry, of what is to come in the midterms and beyond in 2020. how remarkable is it, the upset we've seen? >> gillum came from behind. none of the polls had him winning and even the last-minute polls that showed him coming up didn't have close to keep winning. so to say this is definitely a sign of what's going on in the democratic party i think is a stretch too far. we'll see someone in the bernie sanders wing of the party and someone who embraces donald trump and only won because of donald trump. >> i think both sides are owning their positions in a way you don't normally see. i was reading gillum a statement from ron desantis going after him. ron desantis says andrew gillum is for abolishing i.c.e. and he says yeah, i want to see it replaced with something else. he says ron desantis is for single payer health care and gillum says, yeah, guilty. that's something the people of florida need. you see that split very clearly. >> as i was watchi

also author and former bernie sanders campaign manager jeff weaver talks about the future of the democratic party. be sure to watch washington journal life at 7:00 eastern. join the discussion. >> the cato institute hosted an event comparing the 50 states on economic regulations and freedoms. it includes the authors of a newly released report. this is an hour. >> we appreciate you being here briefing the cato institute is holding. we will be talking about freedom and the 50 states. i will be moderating today's briefing on the fifth addition of "freedom in the 50 states" a publication that ranks states based on personal freedom, regulatory policy and fiscal policies. you can find the complete list of rankings and a ton of information on the website freedomand50 states.org. joining us today on our panel are john samples, vice president at the cato institute and the two authors of "freedom in the 50 states" bill ruger and jason sorens. we'll have time for q&a at the end so please hold your questions. with that, i will turn it over to john samples will introduce our authors. [applause] >> thank

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weaver doing something different tonight. president trump is telling the attorney general to shut down the mueller probe. he's stating it in public and in writing that jeff sessions "should stop the probe now." to be clear, if donald trump made that order in a private meeting with jeff sessions, or on a phone call to the doj or held a big press conference on the white house lawn and demanded it, if any president did that it would be huge news, it would be potential evidence of obstruction. so here we do begin with this part of the story, donald trump, this is how he made the basic order. writing that sessions who is, of course, recused from the russia investigation under the guidance from the doj should "stop it right now," the top house democrat investigating responded by saying this is an attempt to obstruct justice in plain sight. days after bob mueller was looking at whether these other things that trump does and says, whether they occur on twitter or wherever they occur, are part of the elements of the case of obstruction of justice, which according to at least past congresses, is something that, again, i don't usually refer to out loud on this show