this is paul wellstone stomping ground, senator paul wellstone was from minnesota but his base support came from my district and it's also where vice president walter mondale who recently learned he lost his beloved wife joan. we prayed with them and keep them in our prayers but walter mondale so it really is a remarkable place in many ways. >> host: in your role on capitol hill you are a coleader of the progressive caucus. >> guest: i'm the cochair of the progressive caucus and one of the five clips that with oiler -- minority whip hoyer relies on to help count the vote and i'm also on the steering and policy committee and i'm on the financial services committee and a proud member of the democratic caucus. >> host: you are relatively new congressman and he talked about some of your colleagues serving in decades. why write this book now? >> guest: you know cory after peter king my colleague from new york decided that he was going to use his prerogative to the chair of the homeland security committee to focus on muslim violent radicalization and i went to chairman king and i said look,

go on law school and was working as a public defender and actually probably lawyer when i met paul wellstone who really kind of offered an example of somebody who could do electoral politics in a way harmonize with his values in an authentic way and he actually got to change my mind on the possibility of electoral politics delivering good outcomes for regular people i think he changed a lot of people's lives and and i think one of the yeah and i think you're following that tradition i mean you're welcome only now i can tell you i'm in a number of people who i've encountered in my life and what we're both short. i mean he's. also. i've never met him i. could like. you're a member of the congressional progressive caucus you know what is what does that mean to you well you know you can't do anything in politics myself just can't and if you play along the best you could do in politics alone is sort of play a kind of a paul revere figure you can sort of cry out loud about injustice. there's something going on but if you actually want to move a policy agenda you have to have help so you know part

former senator ted kennedy and paul wellstone. i thing they would have injected themselves into it to fight for the workers. that's something the democrats need to figure out. corker has written the book on how to beat unions. go as low as you can. say whatever you can. get people to believe it. even after the company said stay out of it and signed an agreement with the uaw that nobody is going to say negative stuff in the media, they didn't have to if these guys are doing it. there has been a media campaign to get people to vote against their own special interests. the democrats are going to have to come up with some kind of a strategy. they're going to have to put together a worker labor team. whenever there's a vote like this, when politicians on the other side decide to support the corporate interests, somebody, i don't care if you're from that state or not, you're going to have to pull a kennedy or a wellstone and inject yourself into the policy and into the process. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. to

paul wellstone stomping ground. wellstone was in northfield, minnesota, but his support came from that district. it's also walter mondale recently learned that he lost his loving wife, joan. >> cap the hill, you're a coleader of the progressive caucus. >> guest: i am cochair of the progressive caucus. i'm also one of the five words that speaker for your blood run to help counter though. i assume on the steering and policy committee and the financial services committee and a proud number of the democratic caucus. i served with everybody else. >> okay. you are relatively new congressman when you talk about your colleague serving decades. why write this book now? >> guest: you know, after peter king, my colleague from new york decided that he was going to use his prerogative as the chair of the homeland security committee to focus on violent radicalization. i went to chairman king and i said, look, i don't mind you talking about muslims who are bred up radicals. violent radicals of any kind. but i ask you to not only f

standing up against the war, no where it is the senator wellstone stomping ground his base of support really caver from my district in that is also paulondale is from. as we recently learned as he lost his wife, we would pray with them and keeps them in there were prayers but even walter mondale. >> host: on capitol hill, you are a:leader for the progressive caucus? >> guest: yes. also one of the five that the speaker relies on to count the votes. also a history and policy committee invited to services committee and a proud river of the democratic caucus honor to serve with everybody else. >> host: you are relatively new. g you talk about your colleagues why'd you write this book now? >> guest: you know, , after my colleague from york king decided he would use his prerogative of the homeland security committee to focus on muslim radicalization, i went to chairman king. i know my age you talk about muslims who are radicals or violent radicals of the kind. but i ask you to not only focused on the muslims we have people like to receive mcvay and others in the homeland. he said no. i will do it that way but i will let you testify. this wa