literally hundreds of veterans that have served in the armed forces of the united states, unlike mr. perezare decorated veterans. as to perez has never been a u.s. citizen. he is a green card holder. his mom and dad are citizens. all of his family are citizens with his exception. under the bush administration, he was supposed to be facilitated the process of american citizenship when he joined the armed forces. that did not happen. but he went on to serve not one tour of duty, but two. and i find it so reprehensible that an administration led by president of the united states that on multiple occasions for theto bear arms station when he was called upon, said he had a bone spur -- a bone spur that has not stopped him from playing on every golf course in every continent of the world -- would deport someone who did take up arms and was not even a citizen of the united states. not one tour, but two tours. we will continue to fight for mr. perez. to look atg senators this case and to file a private bill. what is that? here is mytor says, bill because of these extra ordinary circumstances, i wa

. >> mr. perez this is something out of west wing to give the guy a job. what role is the congressman going to play here? >> congressman ellison wrote the book on grass roots advocate. look at the turn out he was able to produce in his district. the reason one of the main reasons they are all democrats because keith ellison turns out voter. we lost the election in this past november no small measure because we did not turn out voters in michigan, wisconsin, or pennsylvania. frankly, over the last eight years, you look at what happened in state legislature, we have to turn out voters. between the two of us, it's definition of sinner gi. whenou bui strong party and define your mission, not just the president, that's the definition of success. i'm confident we can move forward. >> i'm always amazed to see how close the election was close in minnesota. it was close. you won, but it was trick whiy there. what could democrats have said that would turn the trick for wisconsin, michigan, ohio, what would turn the tide for democrats what message on economics, let's

. >> what was it like, mr. pÉrezn those four towers in miami with the president, before he was president, of course? >> he was a great partner. we always had great respect for each other. donald, or president trump, is a very bright marketing individual, always had great ideas, you know. i love to see luxury products built. we agreed on that. we became very good friends. our wives enjoyed each other. we had some fantastic times together. so, as a person, he was always a very good friend. where we always had a great time. the great thing about this country is you can be very much different when it comes to your political ideas or your political beliefs and still hopefully remain friends and be able to express those opinions in a constructive way. >> the skills that he possesses and the insights that he has, how do you think that translates to working with congress and in the context of not -- you know, he has been his own boss for a long time. let's face it. now he has to share power with congress and the supreme cour

perez. >> great to be with you. >> your democratic colleagues last night, when mr. trump was talking about repealing and replacing obamacare had interesting hand gestures. perhaps we could play those for our viewers. they're quite cheerful about it, but giving him the thumbs down. i'm no body language expert. it seems as though they are not willing to negotiate with him. why not? why is that their starting position, the thumbs down? >> let's start with the facts. i watched senator johnson. he's living in a parallel universe. the affordable care act has brought the rate of the uninsured to the lowest level ever, 20 million less people without insurance. you look at seniors, they're getting $2,000 in closing the so-called medicare doughnut hole. if you have a loved one who has diabetes, now you don't have to worry about whether they can get insurance. as chris pointed out in his interview, the rate of increase in health care cost has been at its lowest levels in decades. this is the reality that's driveing town hall meetings because the affordable care act has been a

making him most particular politicians in the country right now chairman of the dnc tom perez good to see you mr. >> thank you so much for joining us we have had many years talking about jobs when you were in -- the department congratulations on new job. >> thank you, tell me your priorities for the democratic party. >> we need to make sure we are building a strong party everywhere we have to redefine our mission from simply electing president of the united states can working to build strong parties so we can let people from the school board to the senate we got involved in a state senate race in delaware recently that hung in the balance we are able able to help that democrat win keep state senate in democratic hands you build strong apparents everywhere recruit good candidates, leading with values and actions, out there talking about, what democrats stands for building a strong middle class, making sure that everybody has that opportunity, to realize the american dream that is how we s we're gonna o do. >> there is a question right now, in terms of where the democratic party priorities are. yo

perez. tom, we've been looking at all of these issues this morning, mr.en the democrats and the republicans when it comes to something like infrastructure? for decades we've talked about that, as a bipartisan issue. but now that we're actually getting down to looking at some of the details it seems like there could be more differences than we thought between the two sides. >> well, infrastructure done right can be win-win. dwight eisenhower was the person who brought us the interstate highway system. but frankly, when i was labor secretary and we were working on this issue, it -- consensus was elusive because the republican plan, you know, simply didn't met the test that we felt was necessary. infrastructure needs to create good middle-class jobs. infrastructure bills that are frankly a tax break, that fund projects that are already going to take place, that's not infrastructure. infrastructure bills that contain policy riders that are going to gut prevailing wane and other protections for workers, those are not valid infrastructure bills. infrastructure