you both were sitting here as i was talking to tom perez., what do you make of the democrats' effort now? you hear him saying we're trying to get back to business here, to appeal to voters where they are. >> yes. there was a struggle when i covered the clinton campaign that they had which he was sort of getting at a bit which is the thing that they would want to talk about issues, policy, they would want to have an affirmative message and then donald trump would do something and they would slip back into being the opposition to the other person who is running for president. and democrats, i think, struggle with that now in, you know, are they the resistance or for something. and today was an effort to sort of begin talking about what they are for. at the same time they're also talking about -- >> woodruff: and can they do this? >> yeah, i think that's very doable. the biggest challenge for democrats, i think we discussed this the last time, is that they're the out party so they don't set the agenda. the republicans set the agenda. they have

and, by the way, jeff, reporters have not heard back from tom perez at the dnc on why tom perez feels he would institutionalize without government assistance. what's your reaction? >> you know, the democrats always spend money we don't have and basically spend our children's money and make them pay for it is the emotional arguments using strawmen and fake figures. the bottom line right now is we should not be spending our children's money and grandchildren's money and making them pay for the bills of today. we have to be if i doily responsible. that's basically what tom perez is advocating. liz: they're not cutting medicaid, they're cutting the growth rate of medicaid. 29% higher medicaid spending under obama. able-bodied on it now. aworst fundraising month since 2003. and ten democrat senators running in states trump won. go ahead, jeff. >> well, tom perez is running the d nc nearest the way the democrats run the government. he came into office, he fired everybody off the pa bat, and now says he wants to double the budget of the d nc. but they're raising less money. and that's what t

earlier this week i spoke with democratic party chair tom perez. ouched on the dnc's efforts to reach out to women of color. perez responded to a recent open letter penned by activists and leaders raising concerns about the dnc's commitment to putting members of the party's most loyal base in leadership positions. take a look. >> first of all, the letter was really important. and i agree with the basic premise which is that the democratic party has to up our game. we have to do a better job of addressing and including and engaging the african-american women community. and we haven't done that in the past. and our goal is to win elections. and to win elections in ways that are consistent with our proud values of inclusion. so we had a very good conversation and it was the beginning, it's not the end. and what we need to do we're working together for instance there were a couple of ideas that were put forth, we've got elections coming up in virginia and new jersey, and we talked about how can we target opportunities there in some of the state races fo

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we will hear from tom perez, the head of the democratic national committee. he tells us how democrats can win back the hearts and minds of what democrats called the forgotten american's. ♪ -- americans. ♪ new sanctions imposed against individuals in venezuela. the venezuela bureau chief joins us from miami, florida. let the ask you what we are seeing here, a list of individuals hear from the treasury department. we are not looking at the wider sanctions. these are targeted on individuals. >> this list just came out minutes ago. --people on it that are in close circle of advisers. we have the interior minister -- minister. this is all coming up in the buildup to sunday's election for plandent nicolas maduro's to rewrite the constitution. david: he has been pushing for this assembly that would take place in august will stop what has the president -- in august. there have been reporting that something was coming for the past several weeks. the opposition which has been protesting this plan to hold had 7.5 million supporters in a unofficial ballot. president trum

tom perez, great to have you on. you. >> tavis, always a pleasure to be with you. >> thank you, my friend. awe calling up. the relationship between jfk and mlk. stay with us. ♪ ♪ >> welcome steven levingston, his book "kennedy and king, the president, the pastor and the battle over civil rights." in it he explores the relationship bewant it to atwee icons. thank you for writing it. >> thank you for reading it. thank you for having me. >> glad to have you on. from your research. we learned that king and kennedy, first meet, have sort of an awkward first, first dance. >> well, yeah, they had an awkward first dance. because they're two very different characters. as we know, kennedy is a -- sort of a guy who loves witty banter, loves to kind of joke around, have a good time. he comes from a, a white boston irish family. and, king, comes from quite a different background. as we know. and, the two of them when they got together, their characters sort of clashed in a way because king was a little bit contained, restricted,

in cheers] rob: typical tom perez there rnc chair woman rhona romney mcdaniel calling him out on nationalng profanity to condemn republicans. >> when tom says republicans don't give a blank about anyone that type of rhetoric doesn't bring people to our party. we have to have reasonable discussions, have a dialogue, be respectful of each other but share our opinions as to what the best path is to get to the same place we both want to go. rob: which challenged whether or not he regrets those comments, perez avoided the question and recited some talking points bashing republicans on healthcare: all right. some the mainstream media demand critics stop calling them snowflakes. one journalist even calling you one, too. >> i'm a snowflake and so are you. your children are snowflakes and so are mine. and those who protest the loudest about not being snowflakes, i can see your six fold ic ice crystals from here. rob: term used to express people with very thin skinned and campuses and communities where cultural sensitivity is a must. rob: oh, yeah. well, an honest mistake. that is the "new york tim

tom perez just goes around using vulgar language swearing at everybody.nding out it doesn't work too well with most of people, particularly the people they raise money from. matthew dowd said this, what is funny, trump folks say they demand loyalty. scaramucci raised money for obama in 2008, romney co-chair 12, support walker, then bush in 16. crystal maintains a constant monitor on the condition of the democracy. jonathon carl writing, more strange times. i went to ask sean spicer a question about scaramucci and he slammed the door in my face. what did he think would happen. joining me to discuss the massive shakeup at the white house, the executive editor of the weekly standard fred barnes. the dean himself, ed rollins. let's start tammy with you. the white house shakeup, it's a strange reaction as you heard in the twitter-verse. they don't seem to ever approve of anything president trump does. tammy: if people like bill kristol like the, i worry. you want to see these usual suspects upset. lou: kristol decide it's a third worldization. i don't quite ge

rob acosta, kristen welker, ronna mcdaniel and tom perez. welcome, all.nt trump made it clear this morning he wants to make sure we're all talking about russia and putin, and it always is a head scratcher to me. lindsey graham, a senator who is an on again-off again supporter and critic, but he was in full critic mode because of the president's tweets. >> i think what's going on here is the president believes, not unreasonably, that a lot of focus on the russian narrative is from people who want to undercut him and undermine legitimacy of his election. this is a guy that doesn't make concessions of interests so he's not going to give in. the problem is now he's in a position where that position has him accepting the bald-faced lies that president putin told him in this one on one meeting. >> marco rubio said partnering with putin is like partnering with putin is like partnering with assad on chemical weapons. when he does this, there is a whole slew of republicans that doesn't have the stomach for the putin stuff. >> nor should they. this is really outrag

earlier this week i spoke with democratic party chair tom perez.rts to reach out to women of color. he touched on a letter about activists raising concerns about the dnc's commitment to putting members of the party's most loyal base in leadership positions. take a look. >> first of all, the letter was really important. and i agree with the basic premise which is that the democratic party has to up our game. we have to do a better job of addressing and including and engaging the african-american women community. and we haven't done that in the past. and our goal is to win elections. and to win elections in ways that are consistent with our proud values of inclusion. so we had a very good conversation and it was the beginning, it's not the end. and what we need to do we're working together for instance there were a couple of ideas that were put forth, we've got elections coming up in virginia and new jersey, and we talked about how can we target opportunities there in some of the state races for state legislature where there may be african-american w

we will hear from tom perez, the head of the democratic national committee. how democrats can win back the hearts and minds of what democrats called the forgotten american's. ♪ -- americans. ♪ new sanctions imposed against individuals in venezuela. the venezuela bureau chief joins us from miami, florida. let the ask you what we are seeing here, a list of individuals hear from the treasury department. we are not looking at the wider sanctions. these are targeted on individuals. >> this list just came out minutes ago.

dnc chair tom perez on the set backs the party has seen >> when you look back at the last ten years, we've lost roughly 900 seats in state legislatures, we had 60 democrats in the senate with brooke took office. we have 48 now. we had 30 or so governors in 09. we're in the teens now. >> so not good times. even though democrats are trying to move forward, there's new headline involving the old dnc chair. 'r computer hard drives from the home of long time ita florida congress woman deb wasserman-schultz. is he worked for schultz. says the fbi and florida capitol police are calling the investigation serious, potential illegal involving violations of the house it network, it's alleged that juan and three relatives had access to files on more than two dozen house democrats. there's speculation the democrats could turn to a familiar face in 2020. bernie sanders. he spoke focuses on healthcare. he reportedly keeping the door open to a 2020 run. sanders will be 79 years old when the next new hampshire primary comes around. his age and fbi investigation as to whether or not his wife jane fals

let me take you back this is the dn see chair, tom perez. >> i don't care.y don't give a blank about people! >> trump care, ryan care, i'll tell you when i call it. i don't care, because of those republican leaders and president trump, don't give a blank about the people they were trying to help. >> bill: if you want to get on tv, mission accomplished, but that was the root of romney mcdaniel's comment. >> i think tom perez should be more concerned about getting booed his own dnc rallies then calling republicans names and using profanity to make a point. this is a lazy, old argument that the democrats have been making and why they have been losing elections across the board. not just one election, but thousands across the board. when it comes to why, across the board in terms of years of polling shows, they are interested in the economy, interested in jobs, republicans have come to the table and said, we are listening to you. we're trying to get the government off the necks of small business owners and american workers in places like wisconsin, ohio, and mic

i'll ask tom perez and republican ronna mcdaniel in their first "meet the press" appearance. nbc correspondent kristen welker, ed lowry, author of "the national review." welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: the longest running show in television history celebrating its 70th year. this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> friday's meeting between president trump and vladimir putin took place behind closed doors which is for the people present, including two translators. the question is how much did trump press vladimir putin on hacking russian elections? mr. lavrov and later mr. putin has done little to erase doubts about mr. trump's eagerness to pursue the issue, neither that they requested sanctions on putin's denial and instead insisted it's time to move on. president trump tweeted, i strongly pressed president putin twice about russian meddling in our election. he vehemently denied it. i've already given my opinion. we negotiated and now it's time to work with russia. it is president trump's ambiguous relationship with america's chief adversary that

with me is tom perez, chairman of the democratic national committee.ways good to be with you, ali. >> let's start with this donald j. trump meeting, the fact that we're up to five or six trump associates who have now been dishonest about the fact that there were contacts between trump associates and the russians. what's your first take on this? >> this culture of corruption is everywhere. you've got flynn, you've got manafort, you've got donald trump jr., you've got kushner. that's why we needed a special counsel. what we need to have happen in congress, ali, number one, the sanctions bill needs to be passed by the house. because that is very important to hold putin accountable. number two, we need to continue this investigation. because you see the lies permeating, and i'm often asked, why does this matter? this is an assault on our democracy, ali. russia is our -- one of our most fiercest adversaries. ronald reagan wouldn't be acting like this. barack obama certainly didn't act like this. and when you are so compromised as donald trump is, you end up

if the democratic party never gets around the party fight and even when they have it and i love tom perez comes out on top. if that fight never really had in earnest, what hope does the democratic party have. i am going to go on record and saying if people think that trump, if you think the answer is trump imploding, you are stuck on stupid. you are going to have a new messenger. and goes in search of that and trusted leader, i got bad news for you, come to the presidential election, i am not sure if this guy is going to be a one term president if you are not willing to have that fight and going a different way. >> it is incredible dangerous to go in on this one impeachment narrative. >> absolutely. >> and also, the two things are related because republicans are never going to turn on trump so long as he has his base. he will continue to have his base so long as this idea that he's standing up for workers and remaining intact. the only way that it gets eroded and it is not always about russia but about economic portrayal. it is not just the no. we have the real plan and you are not going

kevin: earlier this morning, i interviewed tom perez.ess will "hijack the debate if this goes to conference." your response? >> i do not know if i will even be a contrary, but tom perez, i appreciate the koppelman but he gives us far more credit than i actually have in terms of the debate. a force?e certainly. we know to get 218 votes in the house we have to bring them along, but i found most of our members are really willing to make concessions. this started out that we wanted 12 mandates repealed. we settled on four. hopefully in the end we still get those four, but maybe in a tangential way that we address this. it is all about premiums, and i'm sure tom perez would agree with me that we need to lower premiums. kevin: i want to make this clear that best any version -- that the skinny version does not have any support among the freedom caucus? ? it does not have any of the provisions in there that we want, it is not even close to a repeal. but we want to appreciate the senate hanging in there to find condo -- find common ground. >> and

. >> tom: perez who has been a good addition off the bench for the brewers the last few years bumps it foul. they have their rbi leader on deck in travis shaw. >> john: a lot of their hitters when they step out to take a practice swing is always with their top hand. perez just did it. thames does it all the time. >> tom: he fires it and thames it out! what a throw. that was a bb. you heard cameron rupp saying three, three, three. >> mike: that's big. he played that with some athleticism. a nice reverse pivot. right on target. >> john: they have to get into their throwing mechanics. i throw over the top so i have to throw this one over the top. what a great play by hector. how about pitchers with their throw. a force-out at second. that one right there is huge. >> tom: travis shaw has two extra-base hits tonight. take outside, travis shaw. one ball and one strike. >> john: that was dangerous right there. a little bit of a hanger. some fans here, let's go brewers. >> tom: when they were scoring the runs over the third base dugout there's a pretty good amount. >> mike: he tried to pull it

what are three key talking to the leadership is oing to come up with and tom perez and other people going to votes -- re host: sherry, quick question, on the independent line. vote for -- did you vote for hillary clinton in the 2016 election? you previously supported bernie sanders? actually voted my vote for the past presidential moving to ince virginia, i did vote for a democratic candidate in the primary. host: we'll let you go there. guest: well, there is no my mind that the next election next year will be about jobs and the economy. is no two ways about it. be to dissect the republican budge sxet show how hurtful it is. 62 in the budget presented to us and in america by the when they party, claim they were not cutting and social is example, ecurity, there is 62 to 64 billion dollar on the cut, when go in and ough and community that to folks, around our economy. got to get the economy 12,000 -- weeople need to train people in those obs, it is not a magic bullet here. we need to understand that people need to be trained for jobs. out loud, we ying should have started this 12 years ago

then, i sit down with democratic national committee chair, tom perez, to talk the party's new agenda, while our politics monday team take on that, health care and the president's new communications director. plus, living in limbo-- on an isolated coast off bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of myanmar's rohingya people have relocated to escape persecution, only to face new cll

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to me like all of this parsing that i'm seeing in the better deal is is you know schumer palosi tom perez is their way of saying you know we want to keep joe manchin in the party and. i want to keep a list of warren in the party who want to keep it a big tent party with with a broad diversity of opinions and perspectives even if part of that diversity is people who are basically corporate sellouts. i personally if i was running the democratic party are you know i would be i would do it more like the republicans have and say these are our goals this is our ideology this is where we want to end up in ten years and and say to some of the some of the blue dogs you know frankly you know good luck but you're on your own what do you think well look i think the underlying issue is really important first of all the republican leadership didn't do that the republican base did that and because of gerrymandering so many republican at this seats in congress are safe seats that it became a race between the ultra conservative and the hyper ultra conservative tea party freedom caucus right so it was real

charles: it feels like to me when they picked tom perez to be the leader of the party, the dnc at least notion of failure at least -- it really cemented the fact that they were not listening to the american voters in november. >> you look at those special elections, charles, and it shows you the difficulty the democrats have in finding their own identity. they need to be able to compete in suburban atlanta. they need to be able to compete in south carolina in these districts, otherwise they're never going to take back the house in those numbers. charles: bret, thank you very much. always appreciated. >> see you, charles. charles: our next guest is not only a rising star in professional golf, but also in politics and happens to be a friend of president trump. lpga natalie gulbis. natalie joins us now. here's the big news all across the headlines, you are actually considering running for congress. >> that is very i true. i am considering running for the third district of nevada, somewhere where i've lived since i was 18 years old. i opened up a boys and girls club there in 2010, and that'

juan: the other alternative would have been to say obama who i think put tom perez as the head of the over keith ellison. then i have eric holder the former attorney general fighting against the jerry man during and the trump effort on the voter registration. so you have got different people there. and you have the congress, you have pelosi in the house and schumer in the senate. that's another kind of leadership, they have been effective so far on healthcare. dagen: let's talk about nancy pelosi. how hard is it to be effective on healthcare where you don't have to do anything except come up with cute catch phrases about what did hillary clinton say the death party was what she tweeted about. but that's what pelosi and schumer have done. they coined phrases to describe how awful the republican plan is. juan: schumer maintained a unified opposition to the house and senate plan coming from republicans, forcing republicans to demonstrate they are split. dagen: in terms of the people in the leadership in the house and senate, pelosi brings to the table fundraising ability. but again she d

been meeting with house and senate leaders and multiple meetings and phone calls with dnc chair tom pÉrez new leadership after a stunning some say 2016 election loss. meanwhile brand-new proof the supreme court selection may have been motivated. the obama administration thought republicans would not be able to deny judge merrick garland, the emails showing that the democrats we wanted to sell garland as a meticulous jurist, that won him bipartisan praise. the vacant seat left by scalia filled by president trump's nominee neil gorsuch. todd: blue lines matter bills. the group telling the daily caller they approach police protections federal and state levels. the law makes attacking officers a hate crime but aclu claim police are the most protected class and don't need to increase their legal protection. this all comes as some states look to introduce mandatory minimum sentences for crimes against cops. heather: lots of people took a long one spending time with friends and family. todd: beaches and parks. adam is here in the weather center. >> for the most part, things are looking good. the

my point is, you talk about party division, you have the tom perez of the party, bernie sanders, and got elizabeth warren who is her own brand. they still don't have an identity. there depending on barack obama. >> meghan: if you go by fundraising, i would point to kemal harris that clinton backers. she is the person -- that seems to be -- i don't think she has a message at all, but she underestimates the power of the resistance movement. we were the party of no. >> sandra: i don't know what kind of message still have if they don't even have a bench. >> gillian: the one thing that strikes me, it's equally important or more important is who is delivering the message? they don't have the next generation of leadership lined up. >> meghan: i live for a bumper sticker. more "outnumbered" in just a moment. people would stare. psoriasis does that. it was tough getting out there on stage. i wanted to be clear. i wanted it to last. so i kept on fighting. i found something that worked. and keeps on working. now? they see me. see me. see if cosentyx could make a difference for you- cosentyx is

second a few months ago moderate and obama-backed tom perez won a row victory for the democratic chairmanshipers' backed candidate. more bad blood. third after the party election, sanders refused to give his donor e-mail list to democratic national convention saying he wanted to use the list to raise funds for his candidates alone. most recently we've seen the obama clinton faction and the sanders faction backing different candidates in democratic primaries ranging from city council races to congressional races. you put all these things together and they have robbed the democratic party of so much of its energy. so more over they've suggested not so quite war between democrats and a lot of people are witnessing. >> so much energy focussed on -- not so much on the electorate, perhaps. somehow it likely to impact the congressional elections moving forward in 2018? >> fair question. we're still 16 months away from the 2018 election. but in politics we know that's practically tomorrow. you know, the democrats are unlikely to win back senate because most of the races for the senate are already det

i'll ask tom perez and republican ronna mcdaniel in their first "meet the press" appearance.ker, ed lowry, author of "the national review." welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: the longest running show in television history celebrating its 70th year. this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> friday's meeting between president trump and vladimir putin took place behind closed doors which is for the people present, including two translators. the question is how much did trump press vladimir putin on hacking russian elections? mr. lavrov and later mr. putin has done little to erase doubts about mr. trump's eagerness to pursue the issue, neither that they requested sanctions on putin's denial and instead insisted it's time to move on. president trump tweeted, i strongly pressed president putin twice about russian meddling in our election. he vehemently denied it. i've already given my opinion. we negotiated and now it's time to work with ss

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behind-the-scenes role in rebuilding the democratic party, including an extended conversation with tom perez, saying the future of the world is on your shoulders, saying half jokingly, and what he's doing to help the democratic party. the former president in indonesia. this is the piece from "the washington post," pushing for respect for people' differences, taking aim at donald trump without mentioning him specifically. ead the essay online at washingtonpost.com. frank from virginia. good morning, republican line. caller: hello. this is about miss haley. i think he's doing a very good job. she seems to be very intelligent. got a couple of other things. the deal about the russians. i don't want to be on anybody's side in the election. it would have been hillary's, because she had everything she could. don't make any sense. he would have have been pulling for anybody but her. host: thank for the call. another tweet, we met him in arizona on our book tv coverage, saying maureen dowd occasionally stumbles into the truth, per piece from the "new york times." this from roy, who says i've had enou

and we'll be back, right here, on monday, with a look at the road ahead for democrats, with tom perezad of the d.n.c. that's the newshour for tonight. i'm hari sreenivasan. have a great weekend. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's most pressing problems-- skollfoundation.org. >> and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: welcome to the program. we begin this evening with politics and a controversial interview that the president had with the "new york times." he talked about attorney general jeff sessions and we talked to robert costa of "the washington pos

joining me now in their first joint appearance since starting their new jobs, tom perez, ronna mcdanielirst time meeting each other. >> i want to start with this. it goes to this issue of why people are so angry. pugh research in the spring of last year said, in the question of does the other political party make me afraid, 55% of democrats said that about republicans and 49% of republicans said that about democrats. i don't think things have gotten better since this poll was done. why do you think republicans are afraid of democrats, and same question to you? ronna, i'll let you start. >> i'm not afraid of democrats. and particularly in this election, we had a lot of democrat crossover for trump, people who had not traditionally voted republican. i think we do need more dialogue, talk about our differences in our respectful way. we have democrats in our family, i hope you have republicans in your family. but i think they need to tone down the rhetoric and have a discussion about ideas. >> why do you think we got to this point? >> health care is a right for all and not a privilege for a

tom perez at the democratic national committee. >> woodruff: so it's a group of people. >> yeah, a grouppeople, but we also have young, emerging leaders who, in time l take different roles. i'm proud of the fact i sit at the leadership table now. the fact that i'm the only midwesterner, i would like a little more company sitting around the table. i think we're practical in the midwest and i would like to see more of us sitting at the leadership table. >> woodruff: you were just named as democratic chairwoman of the heartland engagement committee. congresswoman cheri bustos, thank you very much. >> thank you, judy. >> woodruff: we appreciated it. >> woodruff: now it's time for "politics monday" with amy walter of the "cook political report," and tamara keith of npr. so, amy, tam, you've just been hearing what congressman bustos said, in fact she's still here at the table. amy, what do you make of that? are you hearing from the democrats where they want to take this country? >> well, i will say this, every party that's the out party always struggles with this, who are we now that we're not