they know the democratic national campaign committee, keith ellison dnc vice chair have called on gianforte to quit the race. which he cannot do. there's not enough time to do na. >> any response from the republican candidate? >> no is, i've said briefly before he had a statement last night blaming this on the "aggressive contact of a liberal reporter." he's going to appear on fox news later today. i think at maybe 2:00 p.m. eastern time. those things can get moved around. what you have heard from vat gists in this race since the beginning is thatquist was kind of out camping doing public events, not with gigantic crowds but making himself pretty available. that changed only in the final stretch where he was doing less media. >> gianforte did not do a ton of media, did not have big rallies apart from when donald trump and mike pence campaigned for him. >> h. there was a protect defense of trying to keep this republican voter advantage by making it a race between a generic republican with some problems and a generic democrat with some problems. if he comes out today with a different message,

minnesota's keith ellison tweeting meanwhile, -- mr. schweikert: we have a whole order and may use the whole hour and walk through three

committee, keith ellison has called on the republican to quit the race.there is not enough time to do that. host: any response from the republican candidate? guest: no. he had a statement last night blaming this on the aggressive liberal reporter. he's going to appear on fox news later today, maybe 2:00 eastern time. he generally -- what you have heard from strategists from the beginning, quist was out campaigning and doing a lot of public events. he was making himself available. that happened in the final stretch. the republican did not do that. he did not have big rallies. i guess you could call it a protection, trying to keep this republican voter advantage by making it a race between a generic republican and a generic democrat. if he comes out today with a different hostage, we will know how they responded. the campaign has not said anything since last night. not been clear enough in describing the statement. it is false. the witnesses on the ground say it was not the active and aggressive reporter. it was somebody asking a question who was sideswiped

they're not going to get a plan out of keith ellison or tom perez. there's no-- >> dnc chair. >> and james comey didn't tell hillary clinton go use a server in your basement or call people deplorable or irredeemable. david: and tim ryan says we've got to get off the blaming game and focus on democrats getting back to representing the voting block that cost them the election. is that message spreading or is he still a small minority in the democratic party? >> well, i'm not sure yet, but i think that tim ryan is onto something and part of that is it that sort of democrats obsession with identity politics and i think that was another real problem for hillary clinton. she talked about issues like paid leave, for instance, as a women's issue. in fact, this is an issue that affects all voters, it's a massive economic issue and the real issue is of poverty, it's an issue of low paid workers who need more opportunity. so it could have been an issue where we address economic growth and there was a real conversation on the left and right how to stimulate the

minnesota's keith ellison tweeting meanwhile, -- mr. schweikert: we have a whole order and may use the whole hour and walk through three areas that i care about. i want to walk through something called math and math in regards to health care and this is to deal with -- and i don't want to be "meet the press" because i'm going to try to do this in a nonpartisan way as possible, but some of the things that we just heard moments ago, that lack basic roots in math and facts. so let me move this back just a little bit so we can get this and do a little bit of show-and-tell here. . rst off, a conceptal problem since 19 -- i believe it's 1986, we in the united states have had statutes that say a sick person walks into a hospital, they have cancer, they're bleeding, they are going to get health services. this is a really important concept for us to get our head's around. there is no such thing as not receiving care in this country. it may not be the care you want at the place you want, but it's the law and has been the law for 30 years. so if w

i think bobby scott and keith ellison, and in the senate, patty murray and bernie sanders have a new minimum wage proposal, $15 an hour phased in by 2024. so that's pretty bold, i think. talk about those ideas and how they fit into this picture. >> well, you know, i think the increase in the minimum wage and a couple of things which i think fit into the equation as well is increasing the minimum wage, and, you know, i'm signed on to the scott-ellison legislation of i think we have to move in that direction. i've always been a proponent of increasing the minimum wage. and with regard to women, we're looking at two-thirds of minimum wage workers are women. strong proponent, i believe that part of our equation is equal pay for equal work, men and women in the same job deserve the same pay. i think that is an effort. so i'm four square down that road. i think that program was seasoningful that came out of -- successful that came out of the recovery program. i'm not sure we used it to the fullest extent possible. >> sooner than many of us -- >> would have liked -- >> including some republ

tom perez, you have just hired an executive woman, who is a woman but a white woman, you have keith ellisonn the party and when you just have the dnc take its show on the roads, it was keith ellison and bernie sanders. lorna, johnson has been added to leadership on the fund-raising side, i saw lorna, but i only know she's on the senior leadership because i know her. you said it' sw a not tell. the show has been t pez, keith ellers and bernie sanders. >> this have been press releases -- lornena,e lorna,'s release was at the same time of mine. once tom perez got in the chair, he appointed three more african-americans to the leadership team. >> turnout among african-americans reached a high of 66.6% in 2012, it dropped to 59.6% in 2016. why do you think that happened? >> we're not talking to african-americans about the issues that are most important them. we're not doing the things to gin up the interest to get them to vote. people are just giving lip service to the issues that are important to us. we need to see them out in the community. that's why we've been trying to do things in south car

congress members maxine waters of california, tulsi gabbard of hawaii, keith ellison of minnesota, and other house democrats have also raised the possibility of impeachment. as has maine independent senator angus king, who spoke thursday evening with cnn''s wolf blitze. >> if these allegations, senator, are true, are we getting closer and closer to the possibility of yet another impeachment process? >> reluctantly, i have t to say yes, simply because instruction of justice is such a serious offense. amy: president trump welcomed turkish president recep tayyip erdogan to the white house tuesday, praising the authoritarian leader and promising to continue supplying turkey with u.s. weapons. erdogan praised trump's election victory as a legendary triumph, while objecting to t the administration's decision to arm syrian kurdish forces in thehe g militia. erdogan also repeated his demand that the u.s. extradite fethullah gulen, a turkish dissident living in the p pocons in pennsylvania whom erdogan , blames for leading a failed coup attempt in 2016. after tuesday's white house meeting, memb

they were running for the chairmanship of the democratic national committee, both tom perez and keith ellisonthey thought the obama presidency had sucked too many resources towards that presidency and starved the democratic grassroots, and that had to change. but consider barack obama and hillary clinton are media superstars, and it is unlikely that cnn or msnbc are going to start interviewing second-level democrats when they can interview these two superstars. they are siphoning the oxygen out of the political air for young democrats. paul: let me push back on that, joe, in this sense. the 2018 election is going to be in large part about mobilization and energy. are republicans fired up enough to deter democratics who are going to be fired up. so is obama and clinton coming out now to mobilize democrats against republicans maybe doesn't hurt the party, on dan's point. it could in 2020 if they basically dwarf anybody else and make it difficult for anybody else to emerge. >> i think that could be part of it. i mean, hillary clinton and obama, i think, are different. i mean, hillary spent a bil

the more you get of that kind of stuff, recently, you had keith ellison, a smart congressman from minneapolismade the speech that was just naughty. you look at this and wonder -- what is happening to them. why are they trapped into this? >> martha: it's interesting to hear you speak that way. i heard a very similar conversation this morning on my way to work that pointed that in the opposite direction, at president trump. i want to play this for you. i want to get your thoughts on it. watch. >> there is such a difference in clarity. in clarity and perhaps it's exhaustion. perhaps, it's the weight of the job. there is no doubt that there is something impacting his thought process. somebody needs to get in there. and say, especially as foreign policy leaders, say, you have got to stop talking. >> who would that be? reince priebus? >> james mattis. mcmasters. tillerson. >> martha: the argument was the president is unhinged. he is not -- he doesn't have mental clarity when he speaks about the issues that he is talking about with regard to north korea and they are posting that there needs to be an

joined by matthew dowd, democratic congressman keith ellison. the deputy chair of the dnc.ax ceo, and democratic strategist stephanie cutter. what a dizzying ten days it's been since the president fired james comey. where are we now in this presidency? >> a week like no other. coming from a presidency first 100 days like no other from an election like no other. my guess is, next sunday, we'll sit here and say, wow, can you believe what just happened this week? i think we're in a marathon phase. it's important for everyone to robert mueller, who will take this wherever he takes it. it's not about the tree of russia or collusion, he'll go for all the root systems. i don't think we should underestimate what the house committee and the senate excite te could do or reveal. during watergate, and i'm not comparing the two, it was a special counsel and the house committee and senate committee did extensive research. thae revealed much of what came out of water gate was revealed in the house and senate committees. >> it does appear this showdown with james comey will come sooner tha

they just went through this painful election between keith ellison and tom perez for dnc chair, and in order to make the dnc work now, perez has practically made ellison a partner in the organization. >> i was just picturing a joint commencement speech by senator bernie sanders and hillary clinton, what that would look like. >> the bernie-crats and the hillary-crats coming together. and this will be a friendly crowd, amazingly friendly. >> first time she spoke since she gave that address in 1969. have a good weekend. >> thank you. you, too. >>> coming up, after scolding nato while standing in front of the leaders of the nato countri countries, the president pow-wows with the world's most powerful leaders. will those words hurt talks today? >>> also, one last call. who the manchester bomber reached out to 15 minutes before the blast. we're live with the fast-moving developments. >>> and accused of pummelling a reporter. you heard it on audio, but he wins anyway. >> thank you! >> the republican winner in the montana special election. >> thank you, montana! new neutrogena® rapid wrinkle r

democratic congressman keith ellison. the deputy chair of the dnc. ceo, a friend of the president's is joining us now as an abc contributor. and democratic strategist stephanie cutter. matthew, let me begin with you. what a dizzying ten days it's been since the president fired james comey. a headline every single day. usually right around 5:00. try to put everything in context. where are we now in this presidency? >> a week like no other. coming from a presidency first 100 days like no other from an election like no other. i mean, i think we're now in a phase. it's bombshell after bombshell, after bombshell. my guess is, next sunday, we'll sit here and say, wow, can you believe what just happened this week? i think we're in a marathon phase. it's important for everyone to understand that. i know we all focus on the one little bit. now, we have a special counsel, robert mueller, who will take this wherever he takes it. and i don't think people fully understand. it's not about the tree of russia or collusion, he'll go for all the root systems. througho

keith ellison is telling everybody to run on a single-payer tax system for 2018.o they have already pounced on these crazy cbo score numbers and they're telling their people that are going to be running for office to run on a single-payer position. neil: all right. guys, thank you very much. we have more breaking news on nato dust-up with our allies. some are getting their nose out of joint or french view, le nose out of joint. some are saying, we pay more than our fair sharover the years. actually, if you are paying under 2% for every year that you choose to do so, you're paying less and less of by liken to this. someone treating you out to dinner, say i hit the whole staff here, i don't because i'm pretty cheap and i take the whole staff out, can i have you leave the tip and they're outraged. that would be, that would be case this much staff, leave 2-dollars tip and thousands of dollars on the bill. then they are lecturing me, neil, could you give a big are tip? these countries forking over the bills paying minimum 2%. this is the latest military budget united s

to my right, for once, is keith ellison, the vice chair -- vice chair or deputy chair?eputy chair of the dnc and six-term member of congress in minnesota's fifth congressional district. to my left, for the first time, jason kander who was secretary of state from missouri from 2013 to 2017 and is now president of latin america vote. [ applause ] let's get right into it. i'm going to start with you, congressman ellison. so the 2016 election was the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protections of the voting rights act. we just got some new data this week from the pew research center that found that african-american voter turnout declined by 7% from 2012 to 2016. the hispanic vote did not increase as many people expected that it might have. there was no magical increase among white voters. it was that black and latino voters either did not turn out or they were not able to turn out. can you talk about what happened? how much of this drop-off in turnout was a lack of entheusiam and how much was voter suppression? >> in wisconsin, voter i.d. has led to

but our friend representative keith ellison, democrat from minnesota, november 6, 2016, from twitter, said i'm not surprised at all. comey says latest emails don't change decision. representative elijah cummings from maryland, our friend, a democrat, january 13, of this willing to give comey -- talking about comey, him, the benefit of the doubt. today i must tell you when i left the hearing, i felt a great sense of disappointment. our friend reuben gallego, congressman from arizona, democrat, said, quote, what i heard in the briefing made me not trust him, talking about comey, that's all. our representative hank johnson, democrat from georgia, said, quote, my confidence in f.b.i. director's act to lead this gency has been shaken. let's see. january 13, also he said, he should pack his things and go, talking about comey. said, i don't have confidence in this man to lead the f.b.i. in the coming weeks and months ahead. with all the work that must be done to get to the bottom of the russian hacking into our electoral process. then our friend, jerry nadler, democrat from new york, novembe

and will feature dnc deputy chairman keith ellison and some surprise guests we're told. pence is also hitting the road this summer helping g.o.p. members in swing states get elected. those are your headlines. clayton: bring the onion dip. >> should i play sam hunt right now house party? i love that song. clayton: is she outside in the pouring down rain? janice: depressing. when is spring going to arrive? i guess you guys are going to be asking me that question. clayton: isn't spring always like cold showers? janice: raining across the northeast. been really unsettled the last couple of weeks. a peek ahead to june looks like it's going to remain cooler than average but let's get to the forecast in a second. i want to show you a very cool video. satellite imagery from nsa. you can see this is volcanic eruption that we can see and pick up on satellite and actually noaa helps to forecast how far this ash plume gets into the atmosphere and how far the wind will carry that ash plume. if we have a big volcanic eruption that can change weather patterns. this is the kind of image