this agrarian worldview as the culprit is pervasive throughout middle america it is defined by the belief in the south. apart from systems in government, and it's a worldview that redefined success not as an advancement and survival. the narrative then as one of making do. it isn't one marked by achievement, but staying alive making advances rather than financial ones. finding solid rather than drive. it is a discourse of loss and a language of survival has the capacity to care about climate change when you are barely holding on. the survival emotional and spiritual is a place of holding on. sometimes the biggest freedom is found in your greatest fear, letting go. it's a language that i am familiar with and that leaves together the conservative christianity and ideology that says the world is bad so i tend to my own garden and just have faith in jesus. it's an ideology that embraces the inevitable and looks out for those things that are believed to be in the individual control which sounds nice but that's jusit's justto love our neighbos ourselves. so many of those i need while researchin

are deplorable well anyway anybody from middle america who traveled to san francisco might say these conditions are deplorable here well remember in 2008 goldman sachs was caught bagging bags of feces remember in the testimony they admitted the fact that they were selling bags of feces as a multi-billion dollar collateralized feces bond. you know so they're used to it yet that was in the testimony to say the senate about the cd owes the collateralized debt obligations that they sold to pension funds and in their internal communication they knew that it was garbage essentially that they were selling to pension funds that then went broke but in terms of this dried feces in the streets of san francisco. it's important to know that this can lead to airborne diseases if you do get stuck with these disposed needles you can get hiv hepatitis c. hepatitis b. and a variety of other viral diseases said dr lee reilly an infectious disease expert at the university of california berkeley he war of that once fecal matter dries it can become airborne releasing potentially dangerous viruses such as

they are not reaching out to middle america. they need to go after middle america like kamala harris going after pot smokers. >> shannon: not anymore, though. it was part of the dust up between her and gabbard on the stage. do you think voter i.d. laws will you categorize that as a voter suppression? >> i would and standing in the way of reenfrancing felons in florida that's voter suppression. what happened in georgia where polling places were not given ballots in black areas and booths were sent without the cords to turn them on. >> yes, it's shocking to me the democrats need felons and illegal immigrants to win elections. >> shannon: i don't think you two are hanging out this weekend. we appreciate your viewpoints. former vice-president joe biden is reigniting the war on coal as miners in kentucky express frustration. >> my little boy, he needs more than what i do. >> he is among coal miners who have been laid-off are and demanding back pay after the company declared bankruptcy. democrats added to his dispair. >> any place for

unions built america's middle class, unions will rebuild america's middle class. way that we can do structural change in this economy. it is time for a wealth tax in america. you who may not be familiar with it, that me give you a quick explanation. million is free and clear. i see some folks going phew. but your 50 millionth and first dollar, you have to pitch in. cents. every dollar. does anyone here own a home? you have been paying wealth tax forever, they just call it a property tax. i'm just saying, for the bazillion errors, the top 1/10 of 1%, how about we include addition to the real estate the stock portfolio, the rembrandts, the yachts? but understand this. the point is not to be cranky. people say -- i have this great fortune but that's because i had a great idea and i worked my rear end off -- or i inherited it -- donald trump --but however it is, great. you built a fortune here in america. i guarantee you, you else it in part with workers that all of us helped pay to educate. part gettingin your goods to market on roads and bridges all of us helped pay

warren: unions built america's middle class. unions will rebuild america's middle class. [cheering] sen. warren: there is another way that we can do structural change in this economy. it is time for a wealth tax in america. [applause] sen. warren: for those of you who may not be familiar with it, let me give you a quick explanation. your first $50 million is free and clear. [laughter] sen. warren: i see folks going whew. you 50 millionth and first dollar, you have to pitch into sounds. two cents. pitch in two cents on every dollar after that. by the way, any one in here grew up in a home? you have been paying a wealth tax forever. they just call it a property tax. i'm just saying for the busily narrow scum of the top 1/10 of 1%, how about we include in addition to the real estate to stop -- the stock portfolios, the diamonds, and the outs? that's all. [cheering] sen. warren: but understand this, the point is not to be cranky. people say, i have this great fortune but that is because i had a great idea, i got out there, i worked my rear end off, or i inherited it -- donald

wrap up our prime time programming with journalist liz len's report on faith and religion in middle americaur program guides for more information. now, here is russell gold on alternative energy sources. >> today i'm pleased to introduce russell gold, politics and prose. in 2010 he was part of the award-winning wall street journal team that covered the deepwater horizon explosion and oil spill. his first book the boom was long listed for the financial times and mckenzie book of the year award in 2014 his newest book "superpower" examines michael scally, an infrastructure builder who began working on wind energy in

and i was asking that about my own life, and i was asking that about the heartland, about middle america. if all these churches were closing, what was filling the void. and so i wrote an article for a place called pacific standard in the beginning of 2016 right before the caucuses arguing that the loss of faith in america was changing us and and changing us politically. and this is like a very journalist-y town, so you all might understand what i say next when i say so many journalists who were there in 2016 have so many embarrassing takes in our past -- [laughter] we don't want to talk about it. i don't want to talk about my own bad takes, but this was actually my one good take. and so because i think i was on to something. and indiana press university reached out in the summer of 2016 and said you should make this a book k. and i'm like i'm not really smart like an academic. and they're like, we know. [laughter] we read your tweets, we're aware. so through those couple of months, we were working out an outline of what the book would look like. i had been doing a lot of research, and th

unions will rebuild america's middle class. at is one way to get some structural change in this economy. let's talk about a second way. it is time for a wealth tax in america. [cheers and applause] sen. warren: ok. so let's talk a little bit about how this would work. the basic idea is, for the big fortunes. ok? anyone who has more than $50 million in acute laded assets. your -- in accumulated assets. your first $50 million is free and clear. million and first dollar, you have to pitch into cents. cents.h in 2 cents for every dollar after that. that is the basic idea. just a you know for here in america, that will be the top 1/10 of 1% of the great fortunes in this country. ok? 2 cents. and just see you all know, i'm not proposing this because i'm cranky. [laughter] you do not want to see me cranky. [laughter] sen. warren: so here's the deal. the bazillion errors say hey, lit -- the bonilla billionaires bazillionaires say, i worked hard, i stayed up late, or inherited wealth. here's the thing. you built a great fortune in americ

here's what the leaders have said to the country and what they've said to middle america for too longow. they said if you want to go and start a tech company in silicon valley, we are all for you. if you want to become the lead like us can go to an elite university committed to the graduat, go to graduateschool ay point of view in the world if you want to put career achievement over community and you think change is more important than tradition and you are skeptical of things like faith and family, that's great if that is the view that you hold we are for you and our politics will help you get there and succeed, but what if your ambition is to start a tech company. but if it's to work in the family business, but if your ambition is to raise a family in the town where you grew up, but if it's too create something that you can pass on to your kids. buif one of your most prized values is the belief that we are a good and decent people whose work is worth celebrating. if that's you come up in this town and the leadership of the country for too long has said you are on your own and you ar

unions built america's middle class, unions will rebuild america's middle class. there is another way we can do structural change in this economy. it's time for a wealth tax in america. for those of you who may not be familiar with it, let me give you a quick explanation. your first $50 million is free and clear. but your 50 millionth and first --lar, you have to patient pitch into cents. and two cents on every dollar after that. anybody here own a home? you have been paying wealth tax forever. i'm seeing for the brazilian heirs, the top 10th of 1%, how about we include an addition to the real estate, the stock portfolio, the diamonds, the rembrandts. understand this. the point is not to be cranky. however it is, you build a fortune here in america. workers help pay to educate. you built it in part, getting to build roads and bridges. so what we are saying is if you the top 1/10y big, of 1%, fortunes above $50 ,illion, you make it that big everybody else in this country -- to senso everyone else in this country gets a chance to make. two cents. two cents. and what

america. i call them the great american middle, the great middle of our society. the people who wake up every day, go to work, work hard all day, , come home to the family, read to the kids at night, thankful for the blessings. kind of people who donate out of the gas money every month to help needy families live half the world away, people they will never meet. the kind of people who i suspect you know, in the kind of places where you grew up. these are the people who for too long have been neglected and overlooked, and whose interests have not been spoken for in this town or in our politics. in our clinical class in us drifted into the consensus that has several principles that i bet you will recognize. because i know it's at the conventional wisdom on most of our college campuses today. the reigning consensus, the conventional wisdom of the leadership elite in this country tells us things like patriotism are dangerous point too much emphasis on patriotism and nationalism and the good things about america, that that is narrowminded, that that's, that could even

you have middle america paying for subsidized choices of rich folks. not what we want to see out of competition and choice, those policies subsidizing the choices of the wealthy and resulting a lot of corporate welfare. commentards to the beef , it's certainly true that with methane emissions, the cattle industry is contributing to climate change and you see industries innovating with plant waste innovations, with lab grown meat. things are happening at the market level. people are making choices. the market is driving decisions at the production and consumption level and that is ultimately policy. confident the market will drive innovations fast enough to avert the cost of climate change in the future? guest: putting it in perspective is important. i am less worried about catastrophic costs as was mentioned the previous panel. we need to look at the international community. the future of greenhouse gas emissions will overwhelmingly come from the developing world. innovationd is more to allow people to adapt to climate change in the near term by buildi

he appeals to a middle people in america. people on the coast, in washington and l.a., they're the enemy and they're cheering for him. >> what do democrats trying to beat him need to know? how do you beat a phenomena like the donald trump you're talking about here? >> one thing you have to recognize where his votes are coming from and try not to fall for -- last time i made the mistakes all reporters did, we all looked at the polls and said it's illim possible he could win because his aunfavorability ratings are too high, and trump did well with voters who disapproved of both candidates. he's not just running to get attention for himself but also running against other candidates. if they're doing poorly and people don't approve of the other side, he tends to win that battle who don't like either candidate. the first is recognizing the extent of his popularity in small town rural america, if you go outside cities in this country, you will not find democratic signs during an election. you know, not paying attention to that i th

her left-wing agenda is pretty much done on arrival of middle america.is targeting, zeroing in on their biggest vulnerability. we want what can they do? it seems like they can't figure it out. they are kind of in a pickle. >> they are in a pickle. that's a good way of putting it. i think one of the great things that trump did was destroy the fakeness of american presidential campaigning. i hate this business where they try to demonstrate their authenticity by, we know he doesn't change tires. in a vehicle that it had its tires done by beto o'rourke anyway. we want why a german auto way, mark? >> mark: i'm in new york. it's a crazy state in many ways. >> greg: it is. >> katie: one of the things about trump is, it's a bipartisan thing. i live in new hampshire. we don't get the mypillow adds. we just get these political ads all the time. i'm proud to say i was born the son of a mailman. he was a lehman brothers. he is the brother of a lehman. he says "i'm proud to say i was the son of a --" i'm proud to say i grew up the son of a president. we had it tough

. >> if you look at per capita in west virginia, we are here, think of middle america, completely devastated, that's not quite true for the entirety of it. but most distressed areas are those lacking big business. a lot of the regions will never come back, i don't think there's an answer. west germany never solved the east germany problem, migration does work. i'm all for better policy to encourage migration. so i think people -- if they can, they want to move to areas where there's a lot more business and that's the case for big business for them. >> what would you say to those that are running main street, not just people but people who ran them, they may have cost a bit more. wal-mart and now amazon and is there another issue of what makes a community. >> keep in mind, most society face choices, they can do things and we see many countries that stay put. lower prices for all consumers, as time passes, probably politically more secure country. transition costs, the shina shop, there's recent studies, overstated. some of it is automation, of course. some of it is regional rebalancing. calif

and so many different areas, donald trump taking stage in middle america with ohio rally tonight.at up specifically in ohio, the jobs created under donald trump in that state. >> exactly, no magic was required. it is amazing to see the progress in states like ohio, an appointment down to 4%, 186,000 people from ohio often foods themselves the economy is booming. and a much faster rate than we thought was the highest. all that goes away. the president said it very clearly last night in his tweets about the debate. this progress, this prosperity, this revitalization of the american dream, say goodbye to that of these democrats get in charge, big government means low growth, high taxes, kick you off your healthcare and give it to illegal immigrants. a lot of free stuff without a way to pay for it. uma: swing state and independent voters. >> the president will keep those dates because he has an agenda and record of results that is winning for americans. >> >> the time is 10 minutes until the top of the hour, elijah cummings losing ground in the battle over baltimore thanks to his own

need grow and become a lawyer teacher perhaps even a minute it never dawned on the degenerate middle class america that this is truly a stand against all reason that it is from no meds to train a bomb have $8.00 to $1.00 believes one has made a lawyer of. this book was written 20 years ago. the plan which it foreshadowed. every out. by 944 the defeat of the german army. was merely a question of time. the book that had served as the nazi final became a liability. to avoid being branded as nazis many germans now parted company with the book. he was an acceptable form of the most copies i ever saw was on april 23rd 1905 is in your office a river was right next to our house and i saw this mass of copies floating in the water. so. all of it was poison. it had to be disposed of. there were these trenches and people freely in all manner of things. and whatever other kinds of weapons they had. written and undesirable books like mine come frank which was like a red beacon. hoard and. then they buried it all with earth and that helped to protect them. you know. your verdict not true as does the year now tha

do you think middle america will appreciate you mocking their rural life in the electoral college?e only thing protecting them from being controlled by you and if you far left megacities who can't keep draft of their streets. >> aoc is a little off on this. the concept of the electoral college was designed to ensure that those few select major cities couldn't control it all but having just the electoral votes of small areas in iowa or utah won't when you the presidency. you have to when the major states. you have to in california, texas, something like that in order to succeed but it ensures they have a voice. doesn't make it a massive voice but they have a voice in choosing the next president and that is all it allows. >> it will be a heated discussion next year this time i have a feeling. thanks for giving us your legal expertise. using the word conflict no longer okay for san francisco leaders, better to use justice involved person. are you going to change your vocabulary? we will talk about it next? ♪ >> shannon: san francisco leader >> san francisco leaders voting to sanitize

you look at the benefits that we've moved away from, you took kits from the inner city, from middle america l.a., you name it. they were hot taught how to le, how to follow, how to work together in teams. they went back into society after learning to serve a bigger cause for their country and for their community. that's not a draft. that could be tutoring, that could be elderly care. >> martha: we've been talking about that a lot over the last couple days here. i just want to clarify that i mischaracterized your take on the assault weapons ban. i apologize for that. but mike turner has a 97 paren % approval rating. he is now calling for an assault weapons ban. he had voted against the background checks. his personal experience with his own family has changed his mind completely on this issue. what you say to your colleagues? >> look, there is a fundamental difference that we will see debated over the next months and years in congress. there is a difference between keeping firearms out of the hands of people who absolutely should not have them and then just outright ban. so i do not support

so i'm not just representing kentucky, i'm representing middle america. it's a different type of rural politics. so most of us here in kentucky still have mitch mcconnell as the favorite. the kentucky democratic party has noted they have raised about $135,000 off those nyet t shirts. they are seeing a lot of engagement from their party base which could be an early indicator of the importance of the race for the kentucky democrats. i think if anything mcconnell may be worried about that being the early narrative which may explain why he is going up against radio attack ads. >> anita, republicans just aren't going to like this. tonight i note linen grad lindsay has started up towards senator graham because of his performance in committee today. that will probably get under his skin back home in south carolina. but anita, i don't mean to call for a judgment on your part, what are the chances of what i laid out at the top of this segment being true that this could at the end of the day and at the end of the recess actually result because of the trouble this c

this major technological economic threat around the world so there's been a kind of awakening in middle americathreat. that gives me some reasons for constance because what made america accessible in the first cold war was that a fundamental commitment to individual liberty which meant that americans wanted their presidents strength against the soviet union. when jimmy carter failed to do that he was gone. he was a one term president. i think there's a similar moment where the american people, even if the political elites have been slowed, they worry there's been a fundamental challenge and we have to win this cold war. you asked are we going to win it pressure and will we work for sure gonna win the first cold war. we could've lost the cold war against the soviet union on more than one occasion. i'm not sure the united states would necessarily have prevailed. they certainly had as many if not more in the 1970s and they probably could have withstood the cost of a world war iii. i don't think we should assume we have a guaranteed to win the first cold war. >> you also make the point that all his

party has in some cases had a history of offending in making why generalizations about people in middle americaelt states and frankly i think joe biden is wise to reject that path and i think he is wise to take on some of the rhetoric. >> dana: you know vice president biden. he worked for him. i would imagine he was frustrated during the 2016 campaign when hillary clinton said the word deplorable. it was something that he would not have said initially. >> i think she expressed regret. i think for joe biden it's personal because he is from scranton, pennsylvania, and so when you grow up in a place where they voted for president obama and they voted for president trump you know that tromp voters are not deplorable, they are not racist and bad people, but they were misled and so now this is the reason we have elections every four years. voters get to see if indeed president trump has delivered on his promises and i think absolutely, ashley is right that i was a time for the democrats to be talking to all voters. no one should be off the table. >> dana: not if they want to win. thank you. a new pol

says new sanctions against venezuela want to cut off financing for president of the middle america has friends and all venezuelan government assets blocking u.s. companies and individuals from doing business with other one of the ministration president trump has taken a very strong move here imposing these sweeping sanctions putting a full block a full freeze on all assets of all parts of the government of venezuela in the u.s. and also imposing sanctions or setting up the. situation to impose sanctions on any person or business that goes significant business with the government of venezuela so this goes well beyond anything we've done before and it really is a very strong move by the president u.s. president to doff fears of a partridge to trade will china washington accuse china of being a currency manipulator off to the u.n. fell to its lowest value and more than a decade. a police chief has apologized to the u.s. state of texas after to watch officers on horseback led a black handcuffed man down the street by a rope galveston's police chief says his offices showed poor judgment hea

he told me he thinks the progressive policies will not play well here in iowa or the rest of middle america. he says his edge is because he's in a state where everyday americans want solutions, not progressive promises. >> get out of the twitter-verse and talk to people. i'm not sure some of the folks out there have spoken to the obama-trump voters. people don't want free everything. they just won a fair shot in this economy. >> we are going to be hearing from a roster of candidates over the next several days making their pitch to caucus goers here in iowa. >> neil: thank you very much, hillary vaughn and iowa. then there's the new york city mayor bill de blasio, sparring with sean hannity on how high he thinks taxes should go for the wealthy. >> folks who make over 2 million. >> that means they get to keep 30%. $0.70 out of every dollar. >> how long we have this? for decades. john f. kennedy. that was the tax rate then. >> $0.70 of every dollar. >> neil: john kennedy lower that percentage. let's get the reader from caitlin owens, jeannie, and former white house press secretary ari fleische

thanks so much deirdre bosa following wework for us >> a new report shows middle america is dealing with a major working age population decline, as younger workers head to the ulach. cod a new immigration policy stop the demographic drain that's next. >>> welcome back 80% of counties in america saw working age adults disappear in the last decade. as population growth slows, the american work force is shrinking and this reality is hitting the middle of the country particularly hard. my next guest says a heartland visa for skilled immigrants can change that. jen is the ceo and president of the economic innovation group. jo john, what is a skilled immigrant, exactly >> a skilled immigrant is really anybody with a college degree or some equivalent skill or above so it's pretty broad-based >> you're talking about immigrants to this country who are probably thwarted by the current immigration policy this would be a fast track to get them here, but to get them to places like uute taw, new york, or south bend, indiana >> it would be a bathway for skilled immigrants to connect with welcoming comm

now it's middle america and dayton. now it's, you know, the church in south carolina, you know, mother emanuel. it's -- >> just when you think it can't happen where you live, it does. >> if i heard that once i've heard it a thousand times in the last day i've been here. we never thought this would happen in dayton, ohio. >> congressman, thank you for your time. we again here in dayton, we're going to take you back to chris in el paso where the death toll has now risen today. i'm brooke baldwin and you're watching cnn's special live coverage. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate actually helps you drive safely... with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually lower your cost. unfortunately, it can't do anything about that. now that you know the truth... are you in good hands? today's senior living communities have never been better, with amazing amenities like movie theaters, exercise

wrap up our prime time programming with journalist liz len's report on faith and religion in middle america. check your program guides for more information. now, here is russell gold on alternative energy sources. >> today i'm pleased to introduce russell gold, politics and prose. in 2010 he was part of the award-winning wall street journal team that covered the deepwater horizon explosion and oil spill. his first book the boom was long listed for the financial times and mckenzie book of the year award in 2014 his newest book "superpower" examines michael scally, an infrastructure builder who began working on wind energy in 2000 and help create the second largest wind power company in the united states. beginning at a time and many consider the wind industry a joke. alongside scally a cast of characters who helped and tried to sabotage him. ryan borough author of public enemies writes "with repulsive storytelling russell gold presents one of the most ambitious groundbreaking products for renewable energy. following larger-than-life men and women seeking to reshape the current energy landsca

check your privilege, middle america.g addicts in san francisco are now called "people with a history of substance use." rather, "use," not abuse.al get it?th heroin addicts are now the same as insulin-dependent diabetics. both use substances. you can't call one better than the other. they are both exactly the same.h now you can laugh this off. it's san francisco after all, the place where the crazy things happen but think of the implications. language makes thought possible. when the words disappear, so does our ability to think about the ideas the words were present. when they prevent you from saying the obvious, over time, it becomes impossible to see the obvious. and that's exactly, of course, why they do it. those who control your words control your mind. a we are joined now by mark steyn. there are no more drug abusers. there are no more juvenile delinquents. there are no more felons. does this improve the life ofe the average person in san francisco? what is the point? >> the point, as you say, is to actually disar

on how to debate the political left and journalist liz lynn's reports on faith and religion in middle america. all begins at 6:30 p.m. eastern . your program guide for more information . >> dd attended an event where joshua rocket offered a history andcritique of socialism . here's a portion. >> the term socialism was coined in 1820s or 30s by the followers of a small group of thinkers, the british and french who were not out to overthrow governments but have ideas of a better society of sharing and also had a quite good idea that the way to get there was to demonstrate the validity of their ideas. and they created, their followers created over through the mid-1800s, some 40 to 50 of these experimental communities. mostly in the unitedstates . even though these visionaries were european. why in the united states -mark it easy to get land and because the social mores were much more fluid. and in fact, their ideas were taken tremendously seriously . the perhaps the most important was robert owen and he announced he was coming to the united states to try out, to create a community that would dem

so i'm not just representing kentucky, i'm representing middle america. it's a different kind of rural identity politics that senator mcconnell plays quite effectively. so most of us here in kentucky still have mitch mcconnell at the favorite, however, the kentucky democratic party has noted they've raised about $135,000 off those niet t-shirts that you mentioned within 24 hours and they're also seeing a lot of engagement from their party base here, which could be an early indicator of the importance of that debate for kentucky democrats. so there is a lot of energy around the race. i think if anything mcconnell may be worried about that being the early narrative which may explain why he is going up against radio attack ads. and senate democrats -- excuse me, state democrats. >> anita, republicans just aren't going to like this. tonight i note lenningrad lindsay has started up towards senator graham because of his performance in committee today. that will probably get under his skin back home in south carolina. but anita, i don't mean to call for a judgme

is posing this major technological economic threat around the world so kind of a wakening in middle america threat. and that gives me some reason of confidence because what made america successful in the first cold war was that. ace fundamental commitment to individual that meant thaten americans wanted their presidents project strength against the soviet union when jimmy carter failed to do that, he was gone he was a one-term president ronald reagan took over and most successful of all of the coldle war presidents. i think we're similar moment where the american people even if the political elites have been slow the american people realize that there's a fundamental challenge here and we've got to win this cold war mark you asked are we going to win it for sure we weren't for sure going to win first cold war we could have lost against the soviet union more than one occasion. if it had become a hot war maybe over cuba, or later on, i'm not sure that the united states qowld necessarily have prevailed. they certainly had as many for a1970s and could you withstood a cost of a world war 3 but g

why is america's middle-class being hollowed out?s it that for people who work every bit as hard as my mother worked two generations ago the path today is so much rockier and steeper? and for people of color even rockier and even steeper? [cheers and applause] sen. warren: why? and the answer is like the answer around minimum wage. it is about who the government in washington works for. think of it this way. we have a government that works fabulously, wonderfully -- for giant drug companies. just not for people trying to get a prescription filled. right? [applause] a government that works wonderfully, terrifically for people who want to invest in private prisons and private detention centers. just not for the people whose lives are torn apart by those institutions. [cheers and applause] sen. warren: we have a government that works great for giant oil companies that want to drill everywhere. just not for the rest of us who see climate change bearing down upon us. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] sen. warren: yep. and here's

. >> unions build america's middle-class and unions will rebuild america's middle-class. >> one is groundedy bad weather, bill diblasio sent a video message instead and technical difficulty gained i want to taste of what he would sell like an alien. >> plenty of money in this world and plenty of money in this country, it is just in the wrong hands. >> it was unique because candidates criticism of donald trump fell flat. for example when bernie sanders was at a campaign rally and says he wants to defeat the most dangerous president in history people cheered but when he recycled that line and used it today, labor leaders stayed seated and mostly silence. >> tonight the 2020 democratic field is smaller by one. washington state governor jay kinsley is dropping out of the race. he was supposed to be at the big labor convention in iowa where peter doocy was reporting but because of travel issues he didn't make it. fox news exclusive, the nation's new defense secretary in his first ever interview taking over the pentagon next. >> shannon: fox news exclusive, national security correspondent jennife

of democrats want to do, but i think they're going to sorely disappointed with the results in middle americarection they choose to go. >> tara, you're a strategist as well. you a lot of experience here on this issue. i want to ask you, donald trump jr. was addressing a cincinnati rally, and he said that using racism has become the easy go-to button of left wing politics. essentially, what scott is talking about, the notion of this is your go to, you're not going to go very far. what's your response to that? >> well, you know, in the past, the progressive left would throw the word racism out, and a lot of times that it wasn't necessarily appropriate. it was kind of a way to shut down the argument. as a republican over the years, depending on the issue, i used to be come on, you guys are really overusing the race card. sitting here today, i don't agree with that anymore. the fact that we're dealing with someone like donald trump who has clearly demonstrated blatant racism. former speaker of the house paul ryan said that donald trump textbook racism when he went after judge curiel. and the list

i wish we were spending more of our time focusing on the argument we have to make to middle america. why should you give us back the keys? why should you trust a democrat to run the country through the white house and give us a majority in the senate again? we have to speak to them, tell them about our positive record and tell them about how we're going to move forward. i thought joe did a strong job of that last night. >> why wouldn't former secretary julian castro, yes, a former obama administration official, but he's also the former mayor of san antonio, and he hears from people certainly in texas and around the country democrats who share his views that the obama administration was not where they should have been on immigration and deportations. why shouldn't he take issue with that even as a former secretary? it's very possible that his opinion on these things -- you know, he wasn't in charge certainly, that was in his portfolio. why couldn't he have this attack? >> it is part of laying out our policy agenda as a party to reconsider, relitigation where we've been in the past and

that doubly hits his base in middle america, if you think about it, because we know farming is beingdversely affected. that's why all the billions of dollars we're collecting in tariffs are being socialized, are being pushed back to farmers right now. what comes next? this is what you have to think about. if we do have these consumer tariffs are there going to be tax cuts for individuals? do they need a bailout? does that come next? i think these are important issues to focus on as we go into the election. >> the reason why they haven't seen a consumer issue yet is because china is devaluing its currency. that has brought prices down. that has spared the consumer. >> rufus, put your chinese hat on. let's say your china's trade rep. how did you see the president's decision yesterday? it should have been a very vulnerable day for china when you look at hong kong and how volatile it is, yet it's the president who was blamed. >> this whole strategy is looking chaotic and incoherent, pretty directionless. the only americans that i can think of that could have been happy with this sort of

that's not what i was hearing out especially on the ground in middle america. >> do you fare there ares pushing or pulling the party too far left? >> i think that's my point. this is how this debate is playing out. and if we're going to be in the majority party, we need the majority of views. i don't have any problem with people who want to advocate for medicare for all and make that case. but if we choose a nominee who's focused on these kinds of programs, i think it's going to be very hard to win in the swing districts, the swing dates. >> using your own logic, a three-candidate race between biden, warren, and sanders. two of those candidates warren and sanders support what you just told me was a health care plan you feel is too far left. >> i can see where you're going. >> this is your own words. of those three candidates, who then do you see yourself more in line with? >> i'm not going to make an endorsement right now. joe biden has always been a mentor and a friend of mine. i think he'd make a fantastic president. you know, there are other great candidates in this as well. i don't

so -- our visitors did, you know, visit both the coasts and the middle america, if you will, right? so chesterton himself, during his second visit, went all the way to california, went up and down the west coast. and qutb, the last leg of his journey was in california. and the fallows in their work do cover 29 cities in total. and they were very intentional about making sure the majority were in the flyover states. because part of their argument or part of their conclusion was that that part of america gets ignored. and in fact, we just pay attention to national politics and we just pay attention to new york, washington, san francisco, los angeles, right? so they were very intentional about visiting smaller places and not focusing on the coasts. and again, i think the most hopeful thing about the fallows' conclusion is that in visiting these other places, they found that national politics didn't define the way in which individuals related to one another. they didn't talk about it that much. they were really much more interested in taking care of their own local needs and interests,