, the registration figures between republican party and democratic party in orange county are almost equal. 20 years ago orange county was considered the most republican >> >> that is true of orange county which is coastal it has to do with affluence and education and the blue wall was shattered in the middle of the country with a blue coast and the red interior. >> but i would say to some extent from my research african-american republicans and latino republicans often talk about the experience of the california republican party so i guess the shift and the tone of the party is about 2/7 cent we are all situated from our own perspective so to read what is happening to the california party. this could be a pathway to figure out to those coastal areas. >> ag rabin orange county and pyrite in my book. [laughter] but i did not know any democrats when i was growing up it was republican. in this interesting switch with the demographics we will see what trump does with that and also a willingness to speak their mind as uneducated republican woman i felt put in a box they told me how i shoul

c-span programs are available at www.c-span.org, announcer: now a discussion on the future of the republican party. from washington journal, visit 30 minutes. spencer, the dave founder of tactically -- practically republican, which is what? >> the best way to think of it is i am an endangered beasties, i'm an old-fashioned, rockefeller republican. i have always been interested in politics and the parties changed so much in the last 30 years. i am worried that we have gone away from a lot of our core values of what the party stands for in terms of being able to get things done, don't wear our social issues on our sleeves type of party. it is an uphill battle but i am up to the task. >> many would argue that the party is moving in the direction it should be moving. much more conservative and it lawson plays in the 70's and 80's 22 people like gerald nixon -- richard nixon and gerald ford. >> it is always been what should we get done and that is where it should be. part of that is compromised. i can give you a bunch of boring dentist about how much more moderate people were across the isle. now with

i think in some ways being outside of the republican party and the republican scene actually made people more willing to open up right that there was less risk because the network of black republicans are fairly small. as you might imagine especially black republican advocate so everybody knows everyone else and so to be able to come in and be someone that nobody knew -- right, while presenting some challenge of also created a lot of opportunity. so in the end i feel like it helped you know not being a republican people but like we can tell this guy what's going on and we with don't have to worry about him, you know, blabbing to someone else. >> where did you get the idea? >> it agree out grew out of on a interest and more broadly. i had done some other research on, you know, classified people doing stuff qonts expect people like them to do. and pursuing abstract of line of thought look what was the case of somebody doing something you qongt wouldn't expect someone like them to do like black people or republican, so with that the idea was born. so yeah -- it is interesting buzz again it

reagan's ideology in fact is still present in the republican party today. new war that's developed and it's -- or a new developed.at's it's -- the republican -- i in the showed up discussion and debate over obamacare. paul ryan and more establishment republicans were advocating one freedom caucus was advocating a more position.ue this tension inside the republican party has been going 1962 with taft representing more -- gold water and, you kefeller know, reagan and reagan bush. been going ion has on inside the republican party for over 50 years. this book is about the period from 76 to 80. it's not about the presidency i'm going to tackle that at some point and then i'll into the issues about aid to the contras and things like that. ut i just want to say when reagan left office, his overall pproval rating was something like 75% but among african-americans, his approval was 42% which was astonishingly high for a republican. ou would have to go back to dwight eisenhower to get that type of approval rating for african-americans. in fact, he had a high approval

too much talk about the republican party. if it is good for the country, it will be automatically good for your party. >> if someone believes trump is not a stable leader and could do things that might be dangerous, would you not want to see one of the two house of congress with the ability to keep him in check? [indiscernible] just in terms of having decent investigations. weise -- we see the financial conflicts of interest. the house committee, keeps complaining about it. i know you care about these issues -- >> public pressure ultimately. selectnally support a becausee in congress that attack is an attack on our democracy. i take great offense we seem to be dragging our feet on that. i'm not ready to turn the keys back to speaker pelosi. david: let me ask a big picture question and then we will go into questions so start thinking of questions now. the republican party and the conservative movement, they have to identify themselves above all with ronald reagan and reaganism. there was an optimism to reaganism, a shining city

republicans wanted to lower rates. both parties got what they wanted. you could do that on of the other reissues as well. host: can a moderate republican exist these days without being called a rino? guest: what you have to do is focused on the issues that your constituents want but also have things that are really important to you and that you really stand for. justnk a lot of people are plain the polls and they don't really focus on their core beliefs. we all have those. if you sit down and say this is really important to me and there are some areas and it that or maybe more liberal than i would like, but it's a good bill that's really going to help us, and again it is so axiomatic that so must become a cliche. don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. there has to be more people working together. people don't have dinner together anymore. the senate dining room is a sad, deserted place. host: let's talk about something happening right now, which is the debate over health care. whate get your reaction of paul ryan told laura o'donnell on cbs thur

i think in some ways beingk outside of the republican party and the republicans seen actually made people more willing to open up. there is less risk. the networks of the republicans are fairly small as you might imagine, less republican activists. everybody knows everyone else. so to be able to come in and beo someone that nobody knew while presenting some challenges, also created opportunities. in the end i feel like it help not be in a republican people felt like we can tell this guy what's going on we do not have to worry about him blabbing to someone else. >> where did you get the idea to write the book? >> it grew out of an interest and unexpectedness more broadly. i had done some research on you classify people doing stuff you would not expect people like them to do. and pursuing that more abstract line of thought. i was looking at what is the case of somebody doing something you would not expect something like them to do.that like black people or republicans.h so with that, the idea was born. it is interesting because thet project itself did not necessarily grow out of my policy,

dealmaking together within the republican party. of president donald trump moving forward in congress outside the u.s. bye of his views including partisanship in washington. later this hour, we will hear from the head of the national committee who says the republican party will need to keep his from anthem and the health care bill will take some time plus, her view on president trump's egg's achievements in his first 100 days in ofce. ♪ they say politics make strain that -- strange bedfellows. it may lie in his ability to make nice with a democratic counterpart, nancy pelosi. to talk about just how important bipartisanship is for reform efforts. >> i hope we can find bipartisanship in washington so we can have appropriate test reform. we need it. david: we're joined now from our bureau in washington. ?hat is the relationship like >> the relationship is cordial and they get along but they are not friends. there are examples of them having worked together in the past, such as reaching a there has but so far, been very little overtures

there's too much talk about this is good for republican party. if it's good for the country that will automatically be good for your party. >> let me ask you if someone believes that trump is not a stable leader and could do things that might be dangerous, would you not want to see one of the two houses of congress have the ability to keep him in check? >> i don't have a lot of faith in nancy pelosi. [inaudible] >> just in terms of having a threat. >> he's talking people in his own party. >> these investigations, we see the financial conference -- conflict of interest. devin nunes on the house intelligence committee, he keeps complaining about the investigation that he supposed to be in charge of it. so i mean -- i know you care about these issues. >> i do. public pressure will cause them to do the right thing. i personally support a special prosecutor. i personally support a select committee and congress to look at this because the attack on our political party. the attack is an attack on our political party and there's nothing more divine than t

there is too much talk about the republican party. country?ood for the if it is good for the country, it should be good for your party. david: let me ask you, as believes trump is not a stable leader and could do things that might be dangerous, would you not want to see one of the two houses of congress with the ability to keep him in check? john: i don't really have a lot of faith in nancy pelosi. david: just in terms of having decent investigations. we see the financial conflicts of interest. jason chaffetz won't look into that. devin nunes on the house committee, he keeps complaining about the investigation he supposed to do. about theseare issues -- john: i do. but i think public pressure will cause them to do the right thing. i personally support a select committee in congress because an attack on any hardy is an attack on our democracy. there nothing more vital than the democracy, i don't care who you are. i take great offense we seem to be dragging our feet on that. having said that i'm not ready , to turn the keys back to speaker pelos

nixon ignored the republican national committee, he ignored the republican party. he did not raise money for them. that was before he got elected. then in 72.and he did not think the republican national committee could do anything for him. that is why he had his committee to reelect ended it all himself. at the expense of the party. he sort of dictated to the party what he wanted and did not expect much out of them. so it is not really new what trump is doing. nominee byp came the the rest of the republican party splitting itself into so many bits and pieces that he could win these pluralities state to state and emerge at the end of the process as the last one even though he was the one that was explicitly disliked by the majority. wedge issues which drove them apart. >> in terms of the institutional thing, imagine the 1980's, or even gary hart as a counterexample. he dared the media to find out if he was monkeying around and then he was on the yacht, the monkey business with dr. rice. a giant scandal that seems postures today just because we have advanced so far be

the republican party was a revolutionary party.by 1850 they were antislavery and basically the philosophy three men -- it is a very traditional american party which is maximum freedom for all individuals. then of course teddy roosevelt and franklin roosevelt again was in many ways a popular performer because he had corruption in 1932. and then of course donald trump 20 something years later. so when you look at american history, i am mad at myself because i found that i think everybody else, everyone thought hillary was going to win. i held myself as a student of history to realize that donald trump was not foretold and it was not inevitable. but he was better than any of us realized only because of american history. >> what you think ronald reagan would think of donald trump? >> i think you would appreciate that donald trump is a unique politician. i think you would also appreciate the fact that donald trump and against and continues to go against the establishment. reagan was, his whole career was defined by antiestablishment. in

authority. >> that is not new, nixon ignored the republican national committee, ignored the republican party support for them, didn't raise money for them. >> that with after he got elected. how he got elected, first, 68 and 72, his own organization, the republican national committee could do anything for him, he could do it better, that is why he had his committee to reelect and did himself at the expense of the party and the party dictated to the party what he wanted and didn't expect much out of them. it is not new what trump is doing but it is nixonian. >> trump became the nominee. the rest of the republican party bleeding itself into so many bits and pieces that he could win the plurality state to state and emerge at the end of the process as the last one even though he was explicitly disliked by the majority. >> became known as wedge issues. >> i think again in terms of this institution imagine in a different time, the 80s or something like that, or gary hart as a counter example. gary hart dared the media to find out if he was monkeying around hands the monkey business with donna rice

stuart: as ainsidein the republican party, that's what you are. u're a republican congress woman. >> you were inside the white house. >> i clawed my way to get here. >> as an insider, you tell me, is the republican party ready to unite and govern? >> let's hope so. stuart: is it? >> you want me to talk for the freedom caucus and the tuesday group and the-- >> i want you to talk to the republican party. >> myself as a business owner and solid conservative from new york, we must get together and do tax reform. i haven't heard anyone against it, as you mentioned in reference to your prior segment, there are people concerned about the border adjustment. i'm manufacturer, it's relying on currency exchange rates and that happening, but i think that we need to get whatever we can get done through the house and go through the process in the senate. the senate is the issue. and from the house, i think we could get it resolved. stuart: could we get a focused deal through, you cut the corporate tax rate, you cut the rate of tax people bringing money back to a

then by nixon resignation and as he becomes president august 1964 but he has little hold on republican party because nobody has ever made a connection in gerald ford by actually casting vote for him outside of one congressional district in michigan so a hold on the part. but still he controls party a a apparatus and eventually gets nomination by hook or crook sometimes both also reagan thought, and high jinks in the hodel gigs and the the pennsylvania delegation and the knock new york delegation and in new jersey. you have a chance from rochester who people referred to as chancellor because he ran the republican party like -- like a person general, and he exacted revenge on anybody for reagan in new york delegation in 1976 an actually my stepfather's brother was state senator from rod rochester a reagan delegate 1967 state senator? new york and he made his life very, very uncomfortable for a long time because he was for ronald reagan that's where gerald ford. so we would go through 30 primaries and conventions and over that period of time it is a sea saw battle first head for the first five

election -- [laughter] >> the aja state. >> he called very bad choice of words about why the republican party had lost last two elections. >> right. >> and, you know, it came down to what -- a lot of people concluded the autopsy, the party did not seem to be welcoming to american voters of latino heritage and that it was also because of, you know, social conservative issues but also the way that republicans spoke about these issues putting off women voters and talked about how the party had addressed these and otherwise it was dead in the long run. come 2016, donald trump, you know, donald trump threw those rules out and narrowed on white-working class, many who are older and who were having trouble, been having trouble economically not under obama per se but for the last 20, 30 years and talked about going back to -- he never gave a time when america was great. >> ronald reagan. >> he opposed ronald reagan, actually. >> he said many things that were offensive to latino voters, you know, it's amazing that we are offensive to women that were caught on tape about sexual assaulting women, what h

white republicans, local officeholders, teachers and party organizers were often victimized. in 1870, william luke, an irish-born teacher was lynched along with 2004 black men. female teachers were beaten along with male. although some northern republicans opposed further intervention in the south, most agreed with senator john sherman of ohio, who affirmed that the power of the nation must crush, as we once before have done, this organized civil war. in 1870 and 1871, three acts outlawing terrorist societies and allowing the president to use the army against them. these laws continued the expansion of national authority during reconstruction by defining certain crimes, those aimed at depriving citizens of their civil and political rights as federal offenses rather than merely violations of state law. federal grant authorized federal marshals backed up by troops to arrest hundreds of accused klans men after well-publicized trials in which many were jailed. peace reigned in the former confederacy, at least for a while. despite the grant administration's effective response to kl

neil cavuto cannot come through with the understand, the promise of the republican party. neil: i think i'm a realist. stuart: far too negative. tax cuts -- neil: fine interview with gary cohn and i read in between the lines there -- stuart: i was pressing him, can you tell us, sir -- no, he didn't say that. neil: no. stuart: we are moving heaven and earth to get it through. neil: it's getting pushed back. it's not all the president's fault, not his team. stuart: do you believe that at the owned it have day december 31, 2017 -- neil: we will not have a tax cut. [laughter] neil: all right. thank you, stuart vane. fantastic show on fox business, he's a rock star. i just totally disagree with him on this issue. but anyway, my opinion, his opinion, it's what makes the network so good. all right, we are getting more details about susan rice and history of leading the united nations. i willne stop there. to keep yo. it's your retirement. know where you stand. z286oz zwtz y286oy ywty if you have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture... i can tell you prolia® is

he is dealing with a very divided grand ol' party, republicans. rty, moderate republicans they're all over the place. seems like that at the moment. who is with us now, former house majority leader eric cantor. welcome back to the program. good to see you again. >> stuart, it's a pleasure. stuart: how do you feel now? no longer in congress, is my premise correct, that this is badly-divided republican party? >> listen i think as we look at the new administration, what president trump has done, it is agree entirely with your prior guest saying stuart, we have new, energized business community in america because finally there is a partner in the white house and the administration and not an adversary. i agree entirely. and that is the last eight years has been a real divisive message coming out of the white house. now it is up to president trump to unify republicans, focus them on what secretary mnuchin and gary cohn, director of the nec yesterday said in unveiling the tax plan. everyone needs to be focused on economic growth and that is a message tha

well, the freedom caucus -- stuart: i blame the republican party. >> yes. er. now, hold on a second. there's a special election today. it's in georgia's sixths congressional district, that's newt gingrich's old district. solid republican for decades but there's an election today and the democrat 30-year-old youngster is coming on strong. it just may be that voters send a message to the republican party get on with what you're supposed to be getting on with. what do you say? >> look, that guy needs 50% of the vote to win outright. if he doesn't get it, which he probably won't, it will go to a run off, where it will be one-on-one. it's a crowded field with nearly 20 candidates, 11 of them are republicans, they will consolidate around one candidate, he will probably lose. but the democrats think if they can switch this seat to the democrats, it will send the message to trump and humiliate trump, but i think it's the opposite. if they can't switch that seat, it's a massive humiliation for the democrats. i mean, look, if you can't win with $10 million, it's pathe

he ignored the republican national party.he didn't put up support for the he didn't raise money for them. >> but that was after got elected. >> no. this is how we got elected in the first in 68 and dedicate in 72. he got his own organization. he didn't think the republican national committee could do anything for him and he could do it better. that's why he had his so-called committee to reelect and did it all in separate at the expense of the party. he sort dictated to the party what he wanted a didn't really expect much out of them. so it's not running knew what trump is doing. >> and trump became the nominee by the rest of the republican party splitting itself into so many written pieces that he could win these plurality states and emerge at the end of the process at the last one standing, even though he was the one that was explicitly disliked by the majority. >> became known as wedge issues. drove them apart. >> but i think again in terms of this institutional thing, imagine in a different time, in the 1980s were somethi

] lou: my first guest here is discuss critical special election in georgia, latest effort of republican party to push forward president trump's agenda, joining us, republican national committee chairwoman, rona mcdaniel, we appreciate you joining us on this special election night. i guess shod begin with what you are expecting the results to be in georgia? >> well, i expect we'll go to a run off it is a very close race in georgia, the democrats have put all their effort and support behind ossoff, we have a great republican field, vying for that run off spot for the june general election. lou: latest polling shows that former secretary of state, karen handle leading amongst the republicans. all 11 of them. i mean, do you not have any control over how many folks are going to run in one of these elections. the republican party did what the democrats wanted you to do. >> party condition put the thumb on the scale -- can't put thumb on scale for primaries, with democrat party are ramifications of what they did in their presidential primary contest, favoring hillary clinton over bernie sanders, whe

the republicans, they talk about democracy but they are the party of cheaters. st of the republicans come from gerrymandering districts where they pick the voters. obamaheated in the last nominee where they did not give him a hearing which was unconstitutional. i think the democrats -- if they go nuclear, they should boycott them, just like they boycotted obama's nominee. this judge gorsuch is anti-constitutional because he believes in forced reproduction which is a religious tyranny, imperialistic value. 50%raceptives -- you have a higher failure rate so if someone's contraceptive fail then republicans think they right go the extreme value enforce a fetus to be born. host: what do you mean by boycott them? caller: like they did obama's nominee, they even boycotted having a hearing for him. host: republicans control the hearing. they had the hearing yesterday. caller: if it goes to the floor and they change it, and they changed the rules, and get the simple majority until it -- instead of a super majority just 51 votes, if they change the vote it isce they done,

the republican party. >> right. >> and he played on that. he made no effort whatsoever during the '72 campaign to try to win congress, because he was happy with where congress south enough to help him join the republican part yy, often losin progressives in the republican party but to get much of his legislative agenda enacted, he relied on the same protection to prevent him from being impeached. >> it's interesting to think about '72 and now. not to belabor this point but when you go back and read about the origins of watergate which was, of course, this burglary -- >> that's the other gyp of the name. >> right. but what i mean is that the originating factor that made these investigations possible and that initiated the specific coverup that opened the pandora's box of everything else that was going on, you look at it and you think that happened in june, 1972. in november of 1972 nixon won the second-largest landslide in american history. >> everything but massachusetts and the district of columbia. >> an

he has a lot of problems but he has a republican party which is not the trump party. republicans for 30 years have been too polite to mention the oppression of blacks in inare city by the democratic party and by progressives generally. and they've been scared to confront democrats. why hasn't anybody ever asked debbie wasserman shout how can you be a member of a racist a mm party? why hasn't anybody done that? >> host: let's hear what the viewers have to say -- >> guest: let me thank c-span for having me on. i'm not going to be on msnbc, cnn has already said they would never have me, told my publisher. we have a media which is not a media anymore. it's just a political weapon for the ideological left. >> host: have you are been here to "los angeles times" festival of books. >> guest: i have but i was banned for ten years by the editor of the paper, janet clayton. i complained that there are 500 authors at these festivals and i only count one that i -- i said this on c-span -- if said it was as much a disgrace as ucla because there are no conservatives on the faculty of

but gradually something one-third of the republican party was made up of evangelicals. in this inevitably publicized. and the tried to get out of that. and then they simply disappeared. with the air of the press. what happened on monday is there was a lot of people or liberals that were discussed in by this and forgot day existed and then to know nothing about that. >> coded abortion become the central organizing issue of? soared you agree that became the central organizing issue price. >> i do. it is a fascinating story because evangelicals in the '60s and '70s for therapeutic abortions. and that is finding cases of incest or rape or harm to the mother that meant not only physical harm but psychological harm as well. mattis enormous with a gap of possibilities to say i am too depressed for words evangelicals north and south that abortion was a catholic issue and even at that time into the '60s evangelicals with that medieval terni that dictated those ways of thinking in those policies. it took a long time for the christian right to convince their peers in and of laypeo

when they say the republican party is doing well, look at what i passed around on the table that shows republicans have 69 chambers of 99. those are state legislative chambers across the country. 99, not a hundred because of nebraska. you can drive from key west florida to the border of canada and not leave a republican trifecta state. that means governor, senate's and house in the state, and that -- that is all of the moving parts that we have to think about in terms of what is, how things are going to play out and what is going to happen. redistricting will become a huge issue on all sides and the fact been drawnmaps have every 10 years, they will be drawn again. if this map that i headed out stays the same by mostly republican membership and/or legislature. legislaturesate are the teams for national office and right now, the aging partye an that elects a farm team which is an ongoing problem that they will have to solve. question, the the coasting question and the way the maps are drawn. i do not think anyone is looking for the democrats to retake 2018 because the map is so prohibit

in the republican party but to get much of his legislative agenda enacted. relied on the same protection to prevent him from being impeached. >> it's interesting to think about 72 and now not to belabor this point but when you go back and read about the origins of watergate which was this burglary -- >> that's the origin of the name. >> right. but what i mean is that the originating factor that made these investigations possible and that initiated the specific coverup that opened the pandora's box of everything else that was going on, you look and think that happened in in june 1972, in november of 1972 nixon won the second largest landslide in american history, won 62% of the votes. >> everything but massachusetts and the district of columbia. >> right. you think why on earth would you be so paranoid as to think you needed to -- you know, to listen in on the democratic national committee? >> there was no white house direction for that stupid act. >> right. >> so the whole world of politics then still breathed and lived in that kind of paranoia but it was al

so it's sad to have the republican party in congress become a banana republic party to the fossil fuel industry. with this executive order the executive branch of government becomes a banana republic executive branch prancing and capering for their friends in the fossil fuel industry. it is ultimately probably not going to make much difference. there are lawyers and there are lawsuits. there is an administrative procedures act that means administrative procedures have to be on the up and up. there's a supreme court decision , massachusetts versus epa that is the law of the land. there is not that much room to maneuver, but we will lose two things. one, we will lose time while the lawyers and lawsuits go forward and that is not a commodity without risk. the second thing that we will lose is we will lose our reputation. go to any state university in this country, go to all of the other countries and look to america around the world. everybody understands perfectly well what's going on. this executive order only demeans donald trump himself, his administration and ultimately our country.

when bob says the republican party is doing well, all you have to do is look at the map that i passed around on the table that shows that the republicans right now have 69 chambers of 99. is our state legislative chambers across the country. is 99 because nebraska's unicameral. you can drive from key west, florida to the border of canada and not leave a republican trifecta state. that means governor, senate, and house in the state. that is a pretty amazing statistic. i think this is probably a high water mark for state legislative control. that, for what the democrats may need to be focused on, is something i know they are looking at, and i know they are thinking about it. it seems to me that as you look 2020, the redistricting year, but that becomes a whole other element of all of the moving parts we have to think about in terms of how things are going to play out and what is going to happen. redistricting is going to become a huge issue on all sides. the fact that those maps get drawn every 10 years and will be drawn again, if this map i headed out stays the same by a mostly republi

>> on the georgia six congressional district, they call this a wake-up call to the republican party. a lot of moderates beginning to emerge in the south to a greater degree that the republican party needs to pay attention to? i don't imagine that the outcome of the run out -- runoff was much in question, but the senator graham have something there? that they need to pay attention to the changing demographics? >> you know, based on my former position, we talked about changing demographics in the country, making significant headway in doing that and in large part that is why we won. we were talking about how the republican party one in so many levels of the country, but this presidency -- but the presidency eluded us. now i think we did pretty well in november and we have continued to pick up seats around the country at different levels, feel confident about the state of the party. >> the fact that he came so close to 50%? candidate onone the democratic side that spent $8 million and i think it when you look at the total republican vote, it was always that this was a district that was

parties just under the r. heading? >> well, it's not just the the republicans that have that problem. the democrats have the problem as well. there are divisions within their own parties that prevent them -- both parties -- from finding government. look, donald trump is a phenomenon. he caught a wave of anger and frustration in the country. people had him in their living rooms for ten years being a strong man on one of the most popular shows on television, and they thought, ok, if i want to really shake things up in washington, here's the the guy. but he doesn't have much in the way of partisan loyalty. and i don't think in the end he will govern very much as a partisan. he will govern in ways that advantage the trump administration. and if that means unifying the republicans heel try that. if it means -- he'll try that. if the it means seeking help from democrats and putting together a coalition that's very different from one that the republicans would be comfortable with, he'll do that. >> you don't even have to go to the governors or the white house for that question. i mean, i spen

it is time for the republican party. not just the president who leads the party. but the republican party who showed the voters who put their faith in this president and it matters who is running the country and better respect this president and follow his lead. is that a fair statement. >> it is fair statement that he is is the man leading. and this is his pacge and idea and obviously need to work with the congress. look george bush got tax reform in june 2001 and he relied on 10-12 senators to do that many of whom were up for reelection. and we hope the republicans see this as a good plan. go bold or go home has resonance. if you are going bold you are able to go home and face your voters and look them and went from seven brackets to three. and got rid of the loop hole and did it for the middle class. >> lou: you are to be commended and we commend you for doing so. don't go home, it is too much work to do. >> i am here for a long haul. >> lou: we can't explain the republican party let alone the democratic party. thank you, kelly. >> thank you, lou. >> lou: we ar

but now it's a dooisagreement i the republican party.middle ground when it comes to the philosophy on the role of government and that's your problem. >>> when we come back, the supreme court fight over neil gorsuch. will the s >>> back now with the panel. let's talk supreme court, guys. put up a quick poll here. a majority say allow a vote, 54%. but guess what? among democrats, 64% say prevent a vote. therein lies the box. >> yeah, that's the box. i just -- just anecdotally and from the poll, there is no appetite in the democratic base for being nicy nicy to neil gorsuch. there's a lot of appetite for filibuster and fight. go down in flames i think for a lot of senate democrats better than sort of backing off. >> how disgraceful though. you know, i like a lot -- obviously a lot of the members of the senate, but i think both republicans and democrats have been so disgraceful, both to judge garland and to judge gorsuch. these are two men who have devoted their lives to the court. and all -- they're being soiled and dirtied by really by the

the republican party has been far more aggressive in deploying new tactics and escalating old ones to fight the nominees of the president of the opposing party. the republican party has been far more aggressive in their selection of judicial candidates, picking judges who have an ideology closer to the extremes of american politics while democrats tended to pick candidates closer to the center. keep this in mind, the last time a republican-controlled senate confirmed the supreme court nomination of a democratic president was 1895. let me repeat. that amazing fact. the last time a republican-controlled senate confirmed the supreme court nomination of a democratic president was 1895. so, mr. president, we can argue endlessly about where and with whom this all started. was it the bork nomination which received a vote in the democratic senate, by the way? or was it the obstruction of judges under president clinton? was it when democrats blocked a few judges under president bush? or when republicans forced democrats to file more cloture petitions in five years of president obama's presiden

with a unified house senate, and white house, there is still remarkable division within the republican party that seems to have hampered the economic agenda that both the president and the republican leadership had hoped to push through by this time. it's sort of strikes me that we had this debate just before we walked up. was donald trump elected for his policies or was he really elected because he was giving voice to frustration that was workerslt by so many who have felt left behind by globalization perhaps? case, thener is the perhaps we can be considered successful simply by continuing to be that mouthpiece, continuing to identify with that worker. but if he was elected truly on a when you lookhen at the record so far, it doesn't seem like it has truly panned out. donald trump doesn't have a prior policy record or prior governmental record or prior voting record to contend with. he is someone interested clearly in making a deal. however when you look at paul ryan and republican leadership, they operate from a sort of comprehensive policy framework that limits their ability to make the c

i see according to polling a republican party that overwhelmingly is happy with the performance thus far. >> i think republicans in general are happy. at the same time you look at trump's voters. only 2% even regret voting for him. 96% think he's doing a fantastic job. the president has been going out, pitching himself and saying i'm doing a good job though he may not have facts to back it up. he's saying no one has done anything like we have in the first hundred days. that's false. he hasn't tried to bring in new voters and constituents in the republican party. we are not really targeting urban areas. we're talking to michael waldman and a clinton official. to do that he says i will try to talk to president trump about serious issues. he changes the subject. i told him i want to work on an infrastructure bill. i haven't gotten anywhere with him. he listens to what i have to say on the important suggest of the day, talks about what he wants to talk about. >> i think michael waldman was saying this before. if he wants to get stuff done he does have the margins but the republican party

the republican party voted -- the democrats were nowhere to be find. t the republicans voted overwhelmingly to get rid of slavery, to make them join the united states, to give blacks a vote, to also have voting right. so that was the republican party that i could identify. the same with roosevelt who put more land aside for conservat n conservation, who was a great environmentalist, inspired by john muir. nixon, who was trying to do health care reform, universal health care in 1974. he derailed that because he couldn't handle health care reform. reagan created the resources board as a republican to clean the environment. those are the kind of republicans that i could identify with. >> you named lincoln. you named reagan. are you a trump republican? >> that's why i didn't vote for him. [ applause ] >> we got some young people here. i want to give alec a chance. >> in light of some mixed signaling over the last few months with president trump in regards to his allies backing off from some allies and also the return of protectionism, how can the united sta

jeff. >> strange bedfellows -- could the republicans and the green party actually be coming together ing on the same side? just this past week, republicans decided to join a lawsuit by cheri honkala and the green party contesting the results of the house district 197, the special election, where it had about 5% turnout, and the write-in candidate for the democrats, emilio vasquez, won. story's not over yet. they would've won anyway if they didn't have any shenanigans, which allegedly occurred. is this philadelphia getting another bad rap? deservingly so it appears to be. >> we shall see. thanks for watching "inside story." have a great sunday, everyone. we'll see you next week. i'll see you monday morning at 4:30 a.m. set your alarm clocks. [ laughter ] >>> drive ar driver shot and killed in his car in philadelphia feltonville second, police are looking for a motive and suspects >>> drama on the ice michael neuvirth collapsed at last night's game >>> financial statements show just how much money trump administration leaders have, this is the after the forecast and more next on action