dnc chairman and former labor secretary, tom perez joins me. we heard from a few individual there is. what's the reaction of the democratic party to what we saw yesterday? >> i spoke to you, david, not as a proud democrat but someone who spent 12 1/2 years at the justice department. i started there when george herbert walker bush was president. our independence was always our currency. it's clear to me now that the rule of law has become the rule of trump. this is such a distraction. this is -- it's so transparent what they're trying to do, which is discredit bob mueller. what scares me as much as anything is that the american people witnessed in 2016 an unprecedented attack on our electoral system by the russians and we saw they were involved in the virginia election in 2017. they're involved in the dissem nation of this propaganda now. we've got electrics coming up in 2018, as your most previous panel noted and that's what we should be focused on. yet you see what's happening now. the reason they didn't release the democratic response is beca

joining us now, tom perez, former labor secretary under barack obama, current chairman of the democraticl committee. tom, i want to go back to something said a moment ago, that is you have a group of young people who survived a grieve yo grievous attack, doing and saying more than politicians are able to do. i wonder how you, one of the persons leading a political party reacts to what we've seen over the last week or so. >> well, i'm inspired by it. they have led in remarkable ways, and washington needs to listen, tallahassee needs to listen, other state governments need to listen. this debate shouldn't be about republicans and democrats. it shouldn't be about right versus left. it's about right versus wrong. it's the fact we're the gun violence capital of the world, and what youngsters are saying loudly and clearly is, we need to change that. and what the majority of the american people are saying is the same thing. common sense second amendment freedoms can coexist with common sense gun violence prevention measures. and that's what we have to do, david. we can do this, and this momentu

if they see themselves moving ahead, they will ignore tom perez.'m surprised he didn't use any swear words. people want to look to the future, not rhetoric from washington. david: the bottom line with the obama era, it was consistently slow. look at it year after year after year, there wasn't one year above 3%. most of the time it was in the 2 1/2% range. a couple of years it was 1 1/2%. so how can they claim suddenly it did something in 2017, the economy, that is, grew by such a much bigger percentage than it was used to growing in the obama administration, without something changing, and the only thing that really changed was the presidency? >> eight years after bad coach, suddenly get a new coach, the team does well, so the old coach takes credit for it. not going to sell. david: steve forbes, good to see you, my friend. happy super bowl. melissa. melissa: good analogy. all the major averages ending the week in the red. dow ending down more than 4%, the biggest weekly decline since october of 2008. for the s&p and nasdaq, it is the worst since 2

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. >>> plus dnc chief tom perez comes back to see if they can take back power in congress or if they'llch the wave go by. >>> we'll talk about whether the fiscal hawk is an endangered species in the age of trump. but first, monday begins the white house's second attempt at infrastructure week and the second time that no one cares. instead, everyone is focused on what will happen with two of the president's closest advisors. john kelly, venerated before he became chief of staff, is now said to have floated his resignation. hope hicks sometimes seen as another trump daughter is said to have irritated the president. and now it is back to the old ways of the trump white house. leaks from top meetings and reports of jockeying for position as top officials fall from favor with the president. still, aides went on tv to say the president has confidence in both kelly and hicks. joining me tonight, white house bureau chief of the washington post and msnbc political analyst philip rucker. politics editor for the daily beast and msnbc contributor sam stein. white house correspondent for the pbs new

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on tuesday, tom perez invested in down ballot races. that enabled us to victory after victory after victory. and by the r way, we are now 450 votes short of winning three more seats in january. so it's important that we invest down ballot, and we put resources across the country, that howard dean's prescription which is all 50 states matter. >> should they get rid of superdelegates? >> somebody has been a superdelegate for 20 years, can i just say no comment? i think we need of help debate anything to his wife we should have healthy debate, i don't want voters to think that my vote matters more than their vote. as long as you that, that i am somehow special, supra, that i've got power, i don't want that. so with that in mind i can understand that people, if i want to be the delicate to the convention i need to run. i don't know as a former chair, i still may have special status but i don't know. don't take away all my love. >> so the point of the book where you say why wasn't obama saying, time but the intelligence, where were the intel

we know devin nunes is a partisan, we know tom perez is a partisans. we are all partisans.ech dude that's an unfair characterization of devin nunes. he was writing about unmasking. >> melissa: he testified that they wouldn't have had the surveillance for it. that is the steele dossier. >> jessica: the fbi is destined to get trump out. >> melissa: i'm not talking about republican versus democrat. i'm talking about law enforcement not following the law. space if you can look at democrats. >> melissa: it's pretty much that simple. >> jessica: there so much more information that isn't here. >> lisa: he's correct about the unmasking that the obama administration was unmasking trump officials name is. it was his work going after fusion gps that eventually lead or finding that it was the dnc and hillary. >> melissa: we have a lot of time to discuss this. in the future at length. howie, thank you so much for joining us. we really appreciate it. we are going to be back here at noon on monday. howard kurtz, you will see this sunday of course. but right now, want to hand it over to ha

however, tom perez is sitting over at the dnc.y the way, who do you have on your radar as the top two or three democrats you're worried about? >> i'm not worried about much of any of them. it's hard to tell. if vice president biden is going to run, he would be formidable. look -- >> harris? >> i don't find the bench to be incredibly strong. that's what they have. they have a bench that is sort of like a mile wide and an inch deep. you know, they're decimated in governors. there is no leadership in the u.s. senate. very difficult for a house member to come out of nowhere. >> so here's the problem. they have a mile wide bench and they all want to run for president. oprah, mark cuban, tim ryan. >> i would expect not so much joe biden. i would suspect someone we're not thinking about, someone in business. someone maybe from hollywood. i would think it going to be someone not yet discovered. >> perez is sitting over there. he's got no money. people are leaving. they are internally divided. it is not like when you took over from michael

. - well look, tom perez looks miserable. have you seen him recently? ever time i see him he looks like he wants to go home for the night. - yeah no, i saw him not long ago and you know he's doing tremendous, he's working tremendously hard-- - [evan] yeah. - in a job that is just structurally very difficult. - well there's a rebuild of a sort going on at the dnc isn't there? - there ought to be. i mean the party's gotta retool, look, we would'a been in trouble, a lot of people think democrats are in trouble 'cause we lost the white house, one of the things i was arguing when i was running for dnc chair is, we would be in big trouble as a party even had we won the white house. especially as a party that's finally beginning to realize that we can't treat the presidency like it's the only office that matters. look at what's going on in the state houses. our counterparts on the other side of the aisle patiently and cleverly, you know some of it started here in texas with school board races in the '80s. - right. the untold story, mr mayor of the obama years,

it was actually made by tom perez, chair of the dnc, quote, we can't let them undermine our justice systemo serve their partisan political interests. no one is above the law. dead right. but that includes the democrats and it includes the fbi. and the security services. our government is supposed to be accountable to us through our elected representatives. they have to be able to question every part and every action of the federal government at any time. but the democrats accuse republicans who are doing just that of playing politics while they're standing up for democracy, as if the democrats aren't playing politics. just look at the smug pompous adam schiff. for him the road to the democratic nomination, yes, he is really planning to run in 2020, leads through moscow and the russian conspiracy that he shamelessly used to build his profile. but trump hatred is turning democrats brains and value to mush by denouncing any efforts to reduce low wage immigration as white nationalism, they've become the stooges of big business. by building up russia and turning a blind eye to china, they're th

when we saw that play out on the issue of abortion where you had tom perez say that only candidates thatrtion the democratic party would support and the dccc head came in and said there's congressional districts where that won't play well, so they're quit split. >> harris: i wonder if dianne feinstein call that coming. an eye roll from michael. >> you never saw the spanish acquisition coming. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: the president's military parade seems to be floating full steam ahead. there's a potential date but still receiving push back over something that it might cost. staff sergeant johnny jones weighs in. first, commercial. to sleep and get up on time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid... ...plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. there are seven continents... seven seas... but at at celebrity cruises, we'

or later opposition research paid for by the dnc and clinton pain ohr's relationship -- the chair tom perezed back today calling it a sham memo aimed at discrediting special counsel robert mueller's probe. we can't let them undermine our justice system to serve their partisan political interest. no one is above the law. on that question of law, there is a lot more information we need to be digging for in the days ahead. democratic senator mark warner today suggested the dossier was only a small part of the information submitted to the fisa judge for the warrants, tweeting unlike almost every house member who voted in favor of this memo's release, i have actually read the underlying documents on which the nunes memo was based. they simply do not support its conclusions. but, in fact, the memo asserts deputy director andrew mccabe testified before the intel panel in 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the fisa court without the steele dossier information. that suggests it was central to the fisa warrant. after the current fbi director crist wray saw this republican m

i've not seen a lot from tom perez and chuck schumer.ld think something of this magnitude would have a party amification effort behind had. >> by all indications it was a spontaneous decision by nancy pelosi to take the floor and driven by pressure from her base. she's feeling from the house democratic -- >> as we heard from luis gut guiterrez. yesterday he said senate democrats melted like a candle in the heat, and now he's colluding from trump. they went from melting to collusion. >> right. so this is -- this is driven in part by the pressure she feels to hold firm and not to go forward with the caps deal without a commitment on a vote. chuck schumer got the commitment to move forward and he could bank that and move forward, if she doesn't get anything it is a tough situation for her. and as congressman guiterrez pointed out, the defense caps are the last major piece of leverage they have. it is something this republicans have been eagerly asking for more months, if they give that up and speaker ryan said no, i'm not going to put this

as i try with a lackluster fund-raiser like chairman tom perez to get out there and fill the coffers up, it's going to be a steep challenge. >> the rnc is flush with almost $39 million on hand and $0 of debt owed. democrats are doing fine at the congressional fund-raising level. democratic senatorial campaign committee has almost $4 million more than its republican counterpart. on the house side, they dccc is inching closer to the nrc see fund-raising totals. in the digital age, does that matter? at 2016 demonstrated anything, it's a tectonic shift in fund-raising. donald trump spent comparatively little while tapping into public restlessness and generating free tv time with she force of -- sheer force of personality. bernie sanders turned conventional thoughts about fund-raising on its head. >> able to tap this zeitgeist, energy, and bring new donors into the field. >> inside washington political types may not like it but the traditional mold is broken. >> the parties are fragile. they see themselves as fund-raisers. that's all they can do. they can't pick candidates anymore. they c

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my guess would be that tom perez, people at the dnc will come up with sufficient amounts of money to allow them to do what they need to do for the party to be successful. >> janet from los angeles times. i'm sorry. >> you talking about how interesting it is to fund raise. in particular i'm wondering democratic donors, big-money donors and to get the presidential races and big-time races. how hard is it for you to get people to focus on the importance of the low level races? >> it is a good question and one concern i had when we announced this back in january of last year.what i have seen is that within the democratic party, there has been a interest in focusing on these state legislative races, governors races. as we have explained over the course of this last year. the importance of these races and if you want to have a more representative congress, you have to make sure that at the state level, you have where these lines are drawn. for congressional districts. you have to make sure you have the lines drawn fairly but you have in place, people who are committed to doing so in a fair

or later opposition research paid for by the dnc and clinton pain ohr's relationship -- the chair tom perezed back today calling it a sham memo aimed at discrediting special counsel robert mueller's probe. we can't let them undermine our justice system to serve their partisan political interest. no one is above the law. on that question of law, there is a lot more information we need to be digging for in the days ahead. democratic senator mark warner today suggested the dossier was only a small part of the information submitted to the fisa judge for the warrants, tweeting unlike almost every house member who voted in favor of this memo's release, i have actually read the underlying documents on which the nunes memo was based. they simply do not support its conclusions. but, in fact, the memo asserts deputy director andrew mccabe testified before the intel panel in 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the fisa court without the steele dossier information. that suggests it was central to the fisa warrant. after the current fbi director crist wray saw this republican m

tom perez invested that enabled us to have victory after victory by the way we are 450 votes short ofwinning three marsh in virginia. we put resources across the country. >> so the dnc get rid of superdelegates. >> someone is but a superdelegate for several years can i just say no. >> the reason why can have a healthy debate i don't want voters to think my vote matters as long as you have that perception that i don't want that. so with that in mind i can understand the people in the future if i can be a delegate in the future need to what? as a former chair i still may have special status, but i don't know. so there's a point in the book why wasn't obama saying something? where were the intelligence agency or this was a national emergency. support heard a lot of republicans make if this is happening why wasn't obama talking about it. >> my understanding is that president obama went to the leadership in congress mitch mcconnell said he should not make a big deal out of this. you should not go public. so the president decided to to the scale. i know that flows he went to paul ryan and p

the south, we missed opportunities for the last we 10 years, all these states and on two states, tom perez, the down ballot race enabling us to have victory after victory. we are now 450 votes short of winning three more streets in virginia. it is important we invest down ballots, put resources across the country, a prescription for all 50 states. the dnc got rid of superdelegates. >> somebody who has been a superdelegate for 20 years, no comment. we need a healthy debate. the reason we should have a healthy debate, i don't want voters to think my vote matters more than their vote. as long as you have the perception that i'm somehow special, i don't want that. i can understand, at the convention we need to run. i don't know, as a volunteer, i still may have something special. don't take away all my love. >> the point of the book where you say why wasn't obama talking about the intelligence, where were the intelligence agencies? this was a national emergency. >> that is a point i heard a lot of republicans make. if this was happening why wasn't resident obama talking about it? >> my underst

i'm guessing that tom perez will come up with efficients amounts of money to do what they need to do for the party to be successful. >> janet hook from the "los angeles times." >> i'm from the boston journal. >> i'm sorry. >> how hard is to for you to get people to focus on the lower level state legislative and governor's races? >> that's a good question. it's one of the concerns i had in january of last year. what i've seen is that within the democratic party there has been a keen interest in focussing on these state legislative races, governor's races and we have explained over the course of this last year, the importance of these races and the impact that these races have. if you want to have a more representative congress, you have to make sure that at the state level you have where the lines are drawn for congressional districts. you have to make sure that the lines are drawn fairly that you have in place. people who are committed to doing so in a fair way. and given the way in which the republican party made determinations after the 2010 census. that means elected more democrat

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you may recall dnc chair tom perez saying this friday on "the beat." an up or down vote and when we get an up or down vote, i'm confident that vote would pass. we've got to keep fighting as democrats. and the wheels of justice on this have spun way too slowly. they are -- it's unconscionable that dreamers are being used as pawns in a broader political game. that is what donald trump is doing. >> meanwhile, "washington post" reporting immigration officers are increasing arrest of immigrants even with no criminal conviction, stories like this from around the country. >> i.c.e. has deported lilliana cruz mendez to her native salvador. mendez had been making regular check-ins to immigration. but when she came in last month, i.c.e. arrested her. >> joelle has been deported to guatemala. joelle is married to a u.s. citizen, has no criminal history and has been employed and paid taxes for the last 14 years. >> a family torn apart after a man living here in michigan for nearly 30 years is deport. >> jorge has no criminal record, not even a traffic ticket. . th

tom. >> alex perez for us. >>> i want to go back to developing flood threat. i want to welcome back sam champion. who's in danger tonight? >> well a good part of to south all the way up the east coast. another push of arctic east, where alex was in chicago, more snow. let's talk about these strong storms going on right now. we got mardi grass going on in new orleans. we already had a tornado warning, also a severe storm warning on the coast of alabama. right around new orleans, overnight tonight, some very heavy rain. watch that rain as it starts to slide north, from asheville, into roanoke, new york, some street flooding. behind that, in that area where alex was, little light coating there. 1 to 3 inches of snow. through chicagoland, already seen -- tomorrow their ninth consecutive day of measurable snow. but the real problem, look at the pink there, from springfield, south of indianapolis, to canton, all the way into albany, that's ice and that will cause some real problems. >> sam, thanks so much. >>> let's turn now to deadly flu epidemic. startling new num

tom? >> alex perez for us tonight. wait to go back to that developing flood threat. i want to welcome back meteorologist sam champion. who is in danger tonight? >> reporter: it's a good part of the south all the way up the east coast. this is another push of arctic air. it's a messy saturday night and really bad sunday. in chicago, yes, there will be more snow. but let's stick with the strong storms that are going on right now. mardi gras going on in new orleans. already had a tornado warning and a severe thunderstorm warning on the coast of alabama. right around new orleans, overnight tonight, some very heavy rain. watch that rain as it starts to slide north. you can see from asheville, all the way into roanoke, washington, d.c., new york. where that rain gets in tonight, it stays. all night. and a good part of the day tomorrow. so, there will be street flooding. then look just behind that. in that area where alex was, there will be a little light coating of snow there, about one to three inches of snow through chicagoland, tomorrow will be their ninth consecutive d

the south, we missed opportunities for the last we 10 years, all these states and on two states, tom perez, the down ballot race enabling us to have victory after victory. we are now 450 votes short of winning three more streets in virginia. it is important we invest down ballots, put resources across the country, a prescription for all 50 states. the dnc got rid of superdelegates. >> somebody who has been a superdelegate for 20 years, no comment. we need a healthy debate. the reason we should have a healthy debate, i don't want voters to think my vote matters more than their vote. as long as you have the perception that i'm somehow special, i don't want that. i can understand, at the convention we need to run. i don't know, as a volunteer, i still may have something special. don't take away all my love. >> the point of the book where you say why wasn't obama talking about the intelligence, where were the intelligence agencies? this was a national emergency. >> that is a point i heard a lot of republicans make. if this was happening why wasn't resident obama talking about it? >> my underst

. >> reporter: the head of the dnc, tom perez, moments ago called this a sham memo saying the only reasont is being produced is to try to discredit the robert mueller investigation. the head democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, says this memo is solely meant to target the department of justice and the fbi. >> this is designed to impugn the credibility of the fbi, to undermine the investigation, to give the president additional fodder to attack the investigation, and it's a tremendous disservice to the american people who are going to be misled by this, by the selective use of classified information. >> reporter: hearing as well now from carter page as well, the one who this really all centers around at least at the onset. page called it a brave and assiduous oversight by congressional leaders in discovering this unprecedented abuse of process representings a giant -- represents a giant historic leap in the repair of america's democracy. neil? neil: all right. thank you, blake, very, very much. john mccain has weighed in on all of this, that the latest attacks on the

you saw chairman tom perez basically say i'm not necessarily agreed with nancy pelosi's comments.hey see that paycheck going up saying this is not what you're talking about. it doesn't help other democrats around the country. let's listen to what nancy pelosi most recently said about the tax plan as well. >> in terms of the bonus that corporate america receives ever since the crumbs they are giving to workers to put the schmooze on is so pathetic. this is a multimillionaire from san francisco who is sneering at one or $2,000 bonuses for people. for a lot of people that's a lot of money. if he is calling for the repeal of tax cuts that are actively helping 80 to 90% of taxpayers i think they should be asked constantly do you support the repeal plan or not. they lied when it was a bill and now the realities of that law aren't leaning in are leaning in people's paychecks and so the lies are disintegrated. i don't think they will be united on this idea that we should now get rid of something that is now helping people. i do have concerns about deficits especially long-term debt. we do

. >> i think tom pÉrez is a complete joke.nothing and incapable of raising money and tried to put a litmus test on democratic candidates regarding abortion when democrats are trying to win back some of the red states and congressional districts where that stance is not going to fly. i think he's a pleat joke and, i hope the democrats keep him around, keep him around, he's great. stuart: lisa boothe, thanks for being with us today. thank you, lisa. the polls as we just heard the polls are shifting in president trump's favor, his approval rate asking on the rise, by the way, the latest polls on approval were taken before the increase in your paycheck, we will be back with that in a moment. with fidelity's real-time analytics, you'll get clear, actionable alerts about potential investment opportunities in real time. fidelity. open an account today. . . . . building a website in under an hour is easy with gocentral... ...from godaddy! in fact, 68% of people who have built their... ...website using gocentral, did it in under an hou

tom fuentes, evan perez, our justice correspondent says law enforcement sources say it's a ar-15 style firearm used in this mass shooting, at least 16 people now dead according to our sources. the atf is tracing the firearm. talk a little more about this. >> a standard ar-15 has normally a 20-inch barrel. the cost is between $800 and $2500. the 223 round which has a speed of over 2,000 feet per second when it's shot, so it's a horrific round, is the same caliber bullet that the military has in an m-16. a standard capacity would be about a 30-round magazine. some are longer and more compact but standard is 30 rounds, single fire. so as quick as you can pull the trigger you can be shooting. with a 20-inch barrel you're going to have a fair amount of accuracy. that's why you'll see not just sprayed bullets like from a pistol but pretty accurate fire into the individual victims. that's what makes this weapon so dangerous. it's a military assault-type rifle. >> how many rounds can you shoot before you need to reload? >> if you have a standard magazine, it's 30 at a time. you fire 30 rounds,