it was made for me because all it takes is for me i was in the i is the you and it occurred and john dale and that's all it really takes for the average family is these giant bills begin to snowball, and because it's already a full time job to keep up with their health. if you have a chronic condition in the us. it's such a full time job that i wish that we had someone who is a manager in the middle to help location is just for myself. personally, i have a cleaning but then to see multiple different specialists through that. like outside of that, the clinic, they're not all housed within the clinic. and every single one of those specialist has a portal that i have to maintain. and remember the password for the difference and difficulties with reaching those places. different co pay is different, you know, amounts of tank of gas it takes to get there. and it just snowballed to a point where it's better to, you know, spend money on your electricity bill or the groceries. and you really feel like you don't have a choice and you're a smile while you talking to me about these challenges that s

like to introduce you, democratic strategist, former press secretary to ohio senator john glenn, ohio chief of staff, dale has tremendous understanding of most western politics not just in ohio but across the region which in recent years has become the central battleground of presidential campaigns. john is someone i have known since i met him when he was a junior in college in boston. he was looking to volunteer for campaign. i was in charge of the delegates of that campaign and this young smart guy came in to volunteer so i put him to work and he has been working on politics ever since as a pollster, director of polling, harvard institute of politics, author of a book, fight, how generation z is channeling their passion to save america. he has become in recent years one of the leading experts on youth voting in america. also a pollster and principal at grassroots lab, campaign management and lobbying firm in california. nationally recognized expert on latino voting trends and served as press secretary at the california as only republican leader and political director of the california republican party s

dale, as i mentioned, the midwest has become one of the key battlegrounds. you worked for john glenn years ago. not just in respect to ohio but to the midwest, how many counties to john glenn used to win by 20% and 30% -- how did counties john glenn used to win by 20 or 30 points go to trump? >> i would like to make a comment more broadly on a theme of this panel. i am not sure it's quite that clear. earlier today, we had a question from one of the students who was here, who asked something similar, because when donald trump wins the kind of overwhelming victory he did in the electoral college, where he sweeps all seven swing states, when the republicans now control both houses of congress, it's easy to think this was an unmitigated disaster for democrats in november and it's maybe even easy to buy into trump's claim that he and his maga allies have won a major mandate but i think that is a misreading of what happened in november. from for the first time in three tries for the presidency managed to win a plurality of the popular vote. he did not win a majority. to me, it's hard

working for ted kennedy and i was working for john glenn, it was not just ohio that was a quintessential swing state but west virginia was bright blue. dale: everybody was a democrat in west virginia. nows one of the restest states in the union. tad: by the way, mike dukakis won west virginia. dale: i think it started 30 years ago roughly when we embraced globalization and promised everybody there will be some short-term dislocations but in the long run everyone will be better off. in fact, the benefits from globalization came, but they were not evenly distributed. people who were college educated elite, highly trained, did very well, but everybody else didn't. let me say that -- i will tell you, in a country where only 36% of the population has a college degree, becoming a party of the college educated elite is not a recipe for winning a lot of elections. let me tell you how bad it has gotten. this last november, and the 20 states that had the highest median annual -- in the 20 states that had the highest median annual income, we won 18 of 20. in the 20 states with the lowest median family income we won three. in pennsylvania 15 years ag

thank you all and lets just begin i'm going to start with dale and as i mentioned, yu become one of the key battlegrounds that you work for john flynn years ago. background sounds i would like you to explain with respect to ohio but the i midwest, the counties when we 20 and 30 points become counties that terrace lost in the senate races well and loss and what is happening that essential battleground of american politics. >> with your permission or that,sion before i get to like to make w a comment broadly on the theme of this panel which is how the democrats lost it and i'm not sure it's quite that clear. earlier today to question, somebody else something similar because we don't trump wins the kind of overwhelming victory that he did the electoral college, and seven swing states when republicans had control both houses of congress andep is easy to think that this was an unmitigated disaster for the democrats. maybe even to my hand, to trump's claim that she's in la they have one major mandate. but i think this misleading of what happened in this remember, yes come for the first time, probably positive did not win the majorit

john, thank you that. so from that storm, we had an overnight rockslide. >> this is along southbound want to whatever dalepacting lanes this morning right there in sausalito. so we had a delay because of that. and just behind that, you get a little traffic collision. probably because folks are slowing down there. that's donahue along southbound 101. again. if you are going to be traveling this morning issues there. now, i just got the phone with chp and they're telling me they hope to maybe have this up by 08:00am they don't know for sure if that's the case. so we'll keep a close eye on things there. check out your bay bridge in those slick conditions. 13 minutes on the bay bridge. well, your san mateo bridge about 30 when we have a stalled out truck there for most of the morning was that they finally got that offer. the richmond drive times are still impacted. 15 on that richmond center fell on the golden gate bridge at 31 and northbound to 38. that connector ramp to northbound 8.80, a traffic collision there. lane is open so you can get through mission boulevard, a better option if you don't want to be

dale, are you with us? caller: yes, sir. how long have you been on the foreign affairs committee and why have you not found these payments to various places? number two, for the host, johnt your name? host: what's your question? caller: you sent today in "the new york times," they are receiving money from the government, you claim they are independent over objective. same with politico. same with the bbc and ap. will you no longer reference those articles? host: dale, we will continue to reference news organizations from across the country, we do it every day. congressman schneider? guest: great question. my fifth term within the foreign affairs committee, our job is to do oversight and pass laws and not waste money. we should be looking in broad strokes at what the goals are and what they should be for defense diplomacy and development. we should be able to empower the administration to do it within the law and on an ongoing basis. over the years i've been on the foreign affairs committee, we have looked at a broad number of programs, changed the emphasis over the years to see where the priorities are. when i first came to congress we talked about changes in the arab s