i spoke with the chairman of the democratic party, tom perez. mr. chairman, welcome back to the program. nice to have you. >> great to be with you, michael. >> so the hill on friday reported that president obama will re-emerge in the fall, and i'm thinking i know somebody elated by that news, president donald trump. go ahead and react. >> well, you know what, i know someone elated by that news and his name is tom perez, because barack obama did so much to expand opportunity for so many people. whether it was the passage of the affordable care act, whether it was getting us out of the worst recession of our lifetime, helping workers in the auto industry through the courageous bailout that he did which helped save over a million jobs, that's what he did. >> truth be told, you need him for fund raising support, right? i've read an analysis that says in the first six months of the trump administration, the rnc has doubled that which the dnc has raised and that they're beating you among small donors. >> well, i don't know what the rnc has raised. here's

chairman of the democratic party tom perez. first bill karins has a quick look at the forecast. >> tropical storm gert formed over the weekend just off the east coast of florida. it's a weak storm, 45 mile-per-hour winds and these are the storms we like. safe for bermuda and stay just off the east coast. here's the official forecast. it goes north paralleling the coast and takes a big hook out to the open atlantic. no problems for folks in the outer banks. also worst drive this morning, i-35 oklahoma city down to dallas showers and thunderstorms are pretty widespread. these will continues over the next hour. so pretty early slow commute in dallas. the sun will come out. hot and humid. 98 degrees. san antonio feels like summer at 101. summer-like in the southeast but there's a taste of fall in the great lakes and new england. comfortable today in the 70s and into 80s and nene to tomorrow temperatures very nines chicago where we start to warm it up, st. louis and d.c. with showers, humidity and thunderstorms, 87 for your tuesday.

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tom perez, fine, made his point. she did, as well.ized the president directly, but she made her thoughts clear about white supremacy. >> that's becoming a distinction, though. it's easy fos white supremacy is ease -- to say white supremacy is bad. it's harder to crediticize the president. >>> the driver police say ran over and killed a woman during last weekend's protest had a history of military service. so did many other white supremacists at the rally. some were providing security for the white supremacists. part of the reason the nation's top military officials are breaking with the longstanding tradition of staying out of politics. overnight, the chairman of the joint chiefs, joseph dunford, told reuters there's absolutely and unambiguously no place for bigotry in the united states military. the chiefs who report to dunford also weighed in without directly commenting on the president. we get more from cnn's barbara starr at the pentagon. >> reporter: christine, dave, the joint chiefs are some of the most senior military advisers

ellison ran for democrat national committee chair, losing to tom perez. we will finish up our net roots nation coverage of the day as how movements are changing democratic principles. president trump commenting again on tensions with north korea. the president retweeted this message from the u.s. pacific command. standds, "bombers on guam ready to fulfill the fight tonight mission if called upon to do so." we will continue to monitor the situation and bring you the updates and latest tweets on the matter unwarranted. -- when warranted. >> every week in the clinton white house, there was something in gauge. it was a very tense environment. had a special prosecutor -- i don't know if you remember a guy named ken starr. he was like a bogeyman back then. i spent more time in that white house responding to foia requests the doing anything else. and going those through a three document trying to find that thing that ken starr wanted that week. now, i actually get to do my job. >> watch our interview with omarosa manigault on c-span, c-span radio, and c-span o.o

from 35 to 15-percent that drew swift criticism from d-n-c chairman tom perez, who says the proposalverwhelmingly benefit the super-rich. good morning washington. toss to eileen - seasonable today; much cooler tomorrow - rain from harvey late friday through saturday - drier sunday & labor day monday - irma could strengthen to a hurricane today today: partly sunny. seasonably warm and a touch humid. highs: 81-85 win or storm early. mostly cloudy. becoming breezy. lows: 53-59 winds: n 5-15+ mph friday: mostly cloudy. unseasonably cool. showers arrive late. highs: 65-69 winds: ne 5-10 mph we are following breaking news right washington. police say a shooting overnight has turned into a homicide investigation. police tell abc7 that a man was found shot, just before midnight in the 14 hundred block of harvard street. the victim was rushed to the hospital, where he later died. police have a very vague description of the shooter, but have released no information on a possible motive. we will bring you updates on this story as they come into the newsroom. right now. metro police are looking

where is tom perez? where is the democratic national committee. jesse: you lose so much credibility when the leadership of the democratic party does not speak out when something like this happens on their side. i wanted to ask you. so you left cnn, now you are at the rnc. were they nice to you at cnn? was anderson cooper mean to you? >> he's a very nice guy. i love anderson. but there is no doubt about it that there is a different perspective there. jesse: . >> i believe we crossed paths when i was in the between -- wae trenches of d.c. jesse: my hometown is where the democrats nominated hillary clinton. last week in real news we told you about officer quincy smith, the south carolina cop shot four times and nearly killed while responding to a call on new year's day in 2016. the shooting captureed the knewley released video capturing smith's availant. >> stop! take your hands out of your pocket. if you don't stop, i'm going to tase you. take your hands out of your pockets. jesse: officer quincy smith is alive and well and he joins me for his first

combined company is fifteen percent owned by the french government a year ago our labor secretary tom perez and the labor secretary of france the largest shareholder of this combined company ask nissan to stop the union busting and of course they've nord it and went ahead. and this is all just about adding to shareholder value screw all the way they said and carlos ghosn the c.e.o. now gets three multimillion dollar salaries one from renault one from the sun and one from mitsubishi so obviously seriously that's the world we even heard it here so they run three brands and they call it that that's that's not what nothing too good for the working class i like to say how seriously. serious it's a big setback it's more than ten years of work great community support religious leaders civil rights leaders the plant is majority african-american it's a big setback i would say for the u.a.w. i'd say for working people in america that this is now the way we live when i grew up in north philadelphia it was exactly the opposite the one nine hundred sixty s. one out of three private sector workers had co

democratic national committee is having a fundraising crisis it's raising concerns about the new chairman tom perezere its lowest in a decade. joining me to talk about that and other things going on. blaze tv and radio host lawns jones and tammy bruce. why is the dnc having such trouble raising a couple bucks? is it perez is not up for the job? lawrence: it's not perez, it's a party with no strategy and can't connect with the voters or the issues. they have no message. they are not connecting with the issues facing americans which is their pocketbooks, education and immigration reform. gregg: because they engage in identity politics which is the title of your col number washington times. "the deadly impact of identity politics." can i put up a quote i plucked from the column? suddenly mr. trump was responsible for the carnage, even worse the nazis were his base, we are told, ergo all mr. trump's supporters are nazis, too. the intent was from the start to conflate the president and all concerned with the obscenity in charlottesville. tammy: trump's approval numbers were the low 40s. but as that paym

tom perez is a good friend of mine, but they're not getting it done.another indicator of where we are in confidence. people feel good about what's going on within the republican party. they see change happening. they see new job numbers. they see the stock market at an all-time high. they are getting some results that they desperately wanted. the proof is in the putting and in the dollars. >> angela, s.e., andre, thank you. >>> the search is underway for ten u.s. sailors after another u.s. navy ship is in a collision at sea. coming up, we'll ask a former secretary of the navy what needs to be done. ♪ walter? hmm? is that the rest of our food? what? no. how come you have cheese in your beard? because switching to geico could save you 15% or more on car insurance. oh! ok. geico. because saving 15% or more on car insurance is always a great answer. whoa! gross! new deep hydrating eye gel with hyaluronic acid born to outperform the #1... prestige eye cream for better hydration. and your best look yet. olay eyes collection. ageless. at holiday inn express,

democratic national committee chairman tom perez saying democrats believe that no one penny of tax cutshould go to the 1%. they should try to benefit themselves. trump and republicans should work with democrats to enact real, bipartisan tax reform for the middle-class paired workers, not the wealthy, deserve a break. special counsel robert mueller is working with noted trump foe, erica schneiderman who is a democrat, to look into financial affairs of paul manafort. he had dealings in ukrainian politics prior to joining the trump campaign. he previously told fox news there was nothing improper about his consulting work for the ukrainian president. on "fox & friends" this morning, for the said he's concerned that the investigation is straying into territory way outside the scope of whether russia tampered in the u.s. election. listen here. >> it concerns me because a lot of the manna fort stuff happen way before the campaign. maybe he did stuff two or three years ago, but you don't need a special counsel for that. the deputy attorney general and new york is an archenemy of the president.

but for some progressive democrats, the numbers are a reflection of tom perez and proof that the democraticit done. republicans say that for all of the supposed anti-trump fervor there is a lack of enthusiasm for the party and their better deal messaging. for their part, the dnc says it's still and the rebuilding of the brand and the party's infrastructure is still ongoing. they also say they think they'll have the resources they need for the rest of the year in 2018. time will certainly tell. that's it for "inside politics." thanks for sharing your sunday morning with us. be sure to catch us weekdays at noon eastern. up next "state of the union with jake tapper." when you've been making delicious natural cheese for over 100 years like kraft has, you learn a lot about what people want. honey, do we have like a super creamy cheese with taco spice already in it? oh, thanks. bon appe-cheese! okay... i just want to find a used car without getting ripped off. you could start your search at the all-new carfax.com that might help. show me the carfax. now the car you want and the history you need a

. >> where's tom perez? where's the democratic national committee? there would be as much pressure on the rnc to denounce someone, and ms. romney would who called for the assassination of president obama, let's say. we don't have leadership here. jesse: and you lose so much credibility when the leadership of the democratic party does not speak out when something like this happens on their side. i wanted to ask you, so you left cnn, and now you're at the rnc. were they nice to you over there at n cnn? >> off set, yes. but system of those interactions speak for themselves. [laughter] jesse: was anderson cooper mean to you? was he ever -- >> he's a very nice guy. i love anderson. but, you know, there's no doubt about n it that there's a different perspective there. jesse: right. i just want to hang out with anderson, because i want to hang out with andy cohen. >> i believe we crossed paths when i was in the trenches of the dnc -- jesse: you and i. in the beautiful city of philadelphia, my hometown, the city of brotherly love, where the democrats nominat

most about this case, chris, is a deputy sheriff who said to our investigative team and this isn't tom perez speaking, this is the deputy sheriff speaking, joe arpaio constructed a wall of distrust between the sheriff's office and the community. that was the wall that he built. and it was a wall that was a terrible wall, unconstitutional wall. it wasn't safe for policing and it was terrible for the community. >> final question about the washington post reporting this weekend which i thought was remarkable. that the president asked jeff sessions can we just drop the case. eric holder tweeting a number of times over the six years president obama called me to ask me about dropping the case. zero. what does that say to you? >> again this president has no idea about the notion of the independence of the department of justice. remember, what he said to comey when he was fbi director. hey, can you go light on my buddy, flynn. then this situation, hey, mr. attorney general, you ought to drop this case. that is an abuse of power. that is unconscionable. as eric holder said earlier today, that never h

but we have a dnc chair, tom perez, he says the credit ought to go to obama.o you saysome. >> well, i find it funny when there was success in the obama administration early on, it was never long term from the bush administration, and now that we have the type of success that donald trump promised we would have, they want to come in and take credit for that as well. so, you know, you can't have it both ways. so i think, i think with his time being gone, he needs to move on, and i think they need to let go on of president obama's administration and let our current commander in chief take credit for the things he's actually doing. elizabeth: you know, the governor of your state is now becoming a republican. the approval ratings for the president still low, trending around 36% or 33% between gallup and quinnipiac. how do you have such low approval ratings when the jobs are coming in? >> well, i think it may have a lot to do with his brash nature. but again, as i've said many times before, donald trump was elected because of who donald trump is. he's not politicall

tom perez, disasterous first six months on the job.i doesn't have anything positive to say. better deal they released, what is better about it? where is the deal. they don't have a message. the democratic party -- trish: it is anti-trump. republicans are racist, kellyanne. i think that is perhaps one of the worst things you can say about someone. and that is what they are saying. >> one of the worst lies you can tell about an entire party and the president and everyone else. it will not work. how do we know that? it doesn't work in 2016. hillary had all the kings horses and all the king as men and phony polls and van jones said lit a billion dollars on fire. what is the message, trump is terrible and i'm not trump. that failed. he won states like wisconsin, a republican hadn't won since 1988. they have the same message. no money, moxie or momentum. no meaningful solutions. you can't beat somebody with nothing. they are bereft of ideas. when they have ideas they're pulled all the way to the far left. where are the blue dog democrats. wh

. >> thank you, tom perez. >> good to be with you. >> what should the democrats' message be? >> they should go to our base and say this is our vision, this is how we equalize america and bring everyone to an equal opportunity and equal protection under the law. they need to stop running from their base, chasing people that never will be with them. >> all right, reverend sharpton, thank you. thank you all. that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up our coverage right now. >> thanks so much, willie. good morning. what a day we are facing. during a press conference with the president of colombia, vice president pence reacted to the violent rally in charlottesvi e charlottesville. e hi there. i'm rustephanie ruhle. this morning, what a weekend to unpack. an nbc news exclusive. vice president pence leaps to the defense of president trump's response, to the violence in charlottesville. >> i take issue with the fact that many in the media are spending more time criticizing how the president addressed the issue -- >> in just one hour, the man accused of intentionally

according to usa today, dnc chair tom perez sent a letter last night to rnc chair romney mcdaniel following conference tuesday. in his letter perez writes, in part, "there is no denying that these white supremacists, neo-nazis, and the ku klux klan have made their home in the president's republican party. as chairwoman, you bare a responsibility not just to reject hateful ideology generally, but to hold accountable the individuals in your party who have allowed that ideology to flourish." here's what mcdaniel said yesterday before that letter was sent. >> the president condemned the white supremacists and the kkk and the neo-nazis unekwifically. >> it took 48 hours. >> he should have, and he did. we have no place in our party at all for kkk, anti-semitism, racism, bigotry. it has no place in the republican party. there is no home here. we don't want your vote. we don't support you. we'll speak out against you. >> well, several of the members involved in the knee you nazi rally took their violence outside a synagogue as well. gabe gutierrez has more on this. >> this was the view from one of

calling tom perez in the dnc dictatorial. democrats united in opposing trump.ut in terms of their own house, it's a bit of a mess. >> sandra: i do want to bring in this piece from politico entitled the democratic party's looming fundraising crisis because it makes a good point. it's not too late it says for democrats to reclaim the mantle of the party that is powered by small donors donation from working people. but it won't be easy. instead of tricking people into donating, it should give something people to believe in. then show how they can only win together. it is in that part of the problem? democrats so haven't formulated a message since i last lost. >> i think the point was mom made at the beginning here. the republicans run the government. all three branches. they have a vast majority of governors, vast majority of legislators. the democratic party is the out party. big news is that's not represented, the house and senate committee where the next elections are in 2018 are at parity. that's good news for the democrats because we democrats fund our house

i think is one that, you know, right now, officially have tom perez is our dnc chair and a lot of peopleking for leadership. i think even though he doesn't identify as a democrat a lot of folks look to booker, corey booker >> i want to go back to bannon for a minute. the white board, the obsession with keeping the president's promises, other than president trump who does he have on his team now who will have that sort of laser like vision to things like the white board >> i think the one thing you can say about president trump have pretty much his entire cabinet. you have to kind of shift from the white house staff to a cabinet staff. folks like jim mattis, folks like in the state department and other places like that that are in place supposed to be carrying out the agenda, i think that is really who we need to look to at this point in terms of carrying out what's next in terms his presidency and he also needs to transfer from it's been 285 days since the election, so he really needs to go from kind of being in permanent campaign mode to government >> tuesday when he goes to his next ca

todd: we've heard nothing from tom perez at the dnc. heard nothing from the state so far. trish: what we've seen is a pile pile-on effect of sorts, not in terms of assassination but in terms of demonizing donald trump and all republicans. you look at what howard dean said recently, in effect that if you are voting for a republican, you are voting for a racist in the white house. we saw similar kinds of language from the dnc, from nancy pelosi, these are, as i said earlier, perhaps the worst things that you can say about anyone, and they're throwing this language around with no sense of consequence, michelle. >> yes. that's right. i think that's what exasperates people. whatever side they're on, they're sick of it. i don't want to have to turn the tv on every morning and hear the hatred from partisan, rabid partisan extremists on both sides of the aisle. and i think this is exactly what president trump was trying to get at last week. there were so many beltway chin- chin-pullers and all of the second-guessers. and, i'm sorry, but i was s

running the dnc, but we don't know who's going to run for -- >> he's a quasi-socialist -- connell: tom perez is. >> he's running the democratic party. connell: finish this off for us, so who do the democrats have? we've been talking about the sitting president being primaried, so who do the democrats have, and do you think that there's a serious primary challenge at hand as a possibility? i know it's a long way off for this president because even though his base support has gone down, it's still fairly strong, right? >> yeah. and i think trump will be primaried if he runs again, and that'll be the first time since buchanan took on bush and weakened him, honestly. on the democratic side, i think it's going to be extremely nasty. sanders runs again, warren runses, biden runs, kamala harris. the democrats have to worry about getting younger. i think they might need a fresh face because the party, whether it's in congress or these people who are considering running, it's old. and that usually doesn't work. >> but getting back to -- [inaudible conversations] >> their base is going to be one place

democrats the gulf coast faces disaster we haven't heard much from senator schumer or nancy pelosi or tom perezry clinton. president trump is dominating the news in a positive way he focused on helping texas he recognized the in inspiring navy. today he is off to missouri. he is out front leading the charge for his growth agenda. he goes back to texas as we can. he is leading. the media is reduced to that about the first ladies shoes. that is pathetic. donald trump is a live action take charge those qualities are valuable and at times like this our president should get the full support of all americans. the third hour of bernie and company is about to begin. the first images coming from as from outside port arthur texas. it received 26 inches of rain in just the last 24 hours. the video you are seeing is from about 10 miles out of that city. we are trying to get a reporter into that city. you can expect with the road surface like that 10 miles out we are can have its underwater. in houston where it's home to thousands of people i think you are correct. they had registered as of last night. they

the problem is the leadership with tom perez, with keith ellison, debbie wasserman shultz is still aothers. they're in the leftist camp. they are no longer in the democrat party camp. brian: can't believe guys show up with masks. >> they use the energy. because what does it do? it keeps an enemy. in politics, brian, we have seen this over the years. you create an enemy. you point them at someone. and you keep them coalescing around that issue. it doesn't do the discourse in this country any good. steve: when the president last week said there were people on both sides to blame, he was largely talking about antifa. >> there were many sides. the difference between other people reporting on this one i know charlottesville. i have family that go to school there. i actually ate close to where this all played out a year ago. and i talked to the people who were there about who really was there i looked at the videos. there were groups there to cause problems. there are many questions to be asked about the history between jason kessler and west bell me. i would ask america to just google wes

. >> that was dnc chairman tom perez last week on "morning joe." about it and see if we can blame all the democrats 'problems on him, congressman from pennsylvania, you're wearing a tan suit. >> i thought being with a southern gentleman i would -- >> i appreciate the tan. >> i'm a big matlock fan. >> i remember when barack obama wore a tan suit republicans tried to impeach him. things have changed. >> those were nice days when that was the biggest thing to worry about with the president. >> let's talk about the democratic party. how could they not be ahead in fund raising? why does charlie cook have races breaking the republicans' way when republicans have just failed by just about every measure over the past seven months? >> first on the fund-raising you're looking at the dnc and rnc numbers. the dcc skrshgs outrising our republican counterparts and there are outside superpacs as well. so i feel like that part of the story has been a bit exaggerated. i feel good about the polling from yesterday from my home state of pennsylvania, which i think is

walter perez is live at the gas station. upper darby where the abduction tom corbett place. what is the story. >> investigators are piecing together exactly what happened in this case. and here is what we do know. a 31-year-old woman went missing this morning and back with her family tonight and that family is very relieved. >> i can breathe again and my whole family can breathe again. >> bill law says that is the only way he can describe finding his daughter britney after he went missing this morning. she was out celebrating her sister's 21st birthday and they ordered a ride from lyft the ride share service. there is no confirmation that a lyft driver picked them up and they climbed into the vehicle and started to take them home. and they stopped in upper darby and asked the younger sister to buy them a bottle of water to take the medication, she goes and gets a bottle of water three or four minutes and comes back out and the vehicle is gone the driver is gone and her sister is gone. >> the 21-year-old sister called 911 and a frantic search ensues. it was britney herself th