joining us now, the chair of the democratic national committee, tom perez, mr.n, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> chairman perez: great to be with you, chris. >> chris: president trump is pretty clear about at least one way he intends to go after the democratic party and whoever you nominate in 2020, take a look. >> the democrat party has never been more outside of the mainstream. they are becoming the party of socialism, late-term abortion, open borders and crime. >> chris: whether it's the green new deal or medicare for all or suggestions about very high tax rates on the super wealthy, how do you defend against to portray the democratic party, your tax and spend policies as socialist? >> chairman perez: this is one of the oldest tricks in the playbook. you go back 75 years, when republicans don't want to discuss the issues that matter to real people they call it socialism. social security when it was being debated, you had republicans calling it socialism. the minimum wage in 1938, you had republicans calling it socialism. medicare, ronald reagan said, an

chris: we'll talk about that is tom perez in next segment.eek, that is president trump will be meeting with kim jong-un in vietnam starting wednesday for a second summit. here is what president said this week about that. >> we started off with a very good meeting, i think we'll continue that along. i don't think that it will be the last meeting by any chance, but i do think that the relationship is very strong. >> how confident are u.s. officials they are come out of this summit with something more than they came out of singapore with, which were bas basically e declaration of a intend to denuclear as a.ize. >> you hear two different things from the officials, there might be more talk, but idea they would come out with something signed specific with dates is probably pretty low. but you hear, that there is concern that the president, he knows that take away from first summit, it that it was vague. he could get in a room where kim and make some type of concession thatth his advisers want him to do. i think a that is a concern, if you look at i

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>> dnc chair tom perez on donald trump's state of the union visit to nancy pelosi's house. >> you are can't impeach somebody for doing the best job of any president. >> when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. at this hour, the democratic governor of virginia remains defiant. ralph northam is refusing to resign despite near unanimous calls from his fellow democrats to leave the office. after the discovery of this racist photo on his 1984 medical school yearbook page. now in his initial statement, northam apologized and said he was, in fact, one of the people in the photo. didn't say which one but then reversed course on saturday denying he was in the photo. he did not deny ever wearing black-face. he volunteered that he had put shoe polish on his face in 1984, the same year as the yearbook photo, while participating in a dance competition dressed as michael jackson. >> you danced the moon walk. >> that is right. >> are you still able to moon walk? >> um -- >> inappropriate circumstances. >> my wife said inappropriate circumstances. >> your wife

"outfront" now, democratic national committee chair, tom perez. eck of a lot of money, and i know, chairman perez, he's got the lists and the e-mail lists and, you know, kind of the built-in group of people, but $6 million is a lot of money. what do you make of it? >> well, that's a lot of money and that's great. what we're tryinging to do at the dnc is to encourage grassroots fund-raising. that's why for debate participation, we have encouraged all candidates to raise money at the grassroots. that's exactly what they're doing. we have a remarkably deep field. i welcome that. and with whhat our job is at th erin, make sure everybody gets a fair shake during the process and make sure we continue to build the infrastructure that enables our next nominee to take down donald trump because we have to win this election. that is our number-one objective, and that's exactly what we're working 24/7 to accomplish. >> so, the question is, of course, will the ideas that are being put forth by that very wide and diverse field appeal to enough americans to do th

rob: tom pÉrez defending his party after many rushed to judgment. >> there is no host today, there won'tbe a popular movie category and mÉxico is not paying for the wall. [cheers and applause] jillian: political jabs taking center stage at hollywood's biggest night. rob: "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ ♪ jillian: i say this every time we play this song. rob: i forget it every time you say it. jillian: i know i'm getting thumbs down from matt. you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning i'm jillian mele. rob: i'm rob schmitt, thanks for getting up with us. second summit with north korea's kim jong un. jillian: latest round of denuclearization talks begin wednesday. griff jenkins with the preview, another busy week, griff. >> it is, indeed, the president heads to hanoi in hopes of goal, there's no shortage of nay sayers, senate democrats expressing concern in letter and they are demanding saying we believe your next meeting with kim must demonstrate tangible verifiable progress of denuclearization in reducing tensions with the north. but the president shot bac

>> as i mentioned, tom perez is calling for his resignation. i am saying he would like to see the lieutenant governor justin fairfax become the governor, he wants ralph northam to step aside. that's just an added name to the list that continues to grow, that's filled with every high profile national democrat as well as local democrats here, his own party in the state of virginia have called on him to resign. anna? >> got you. sorry, i missed that earlier, there's so many reactions that we're all trying to keep track. thank you for keeping it straight. i appreciate it. >> let's discuss further now, with the director of the center for politics at the university of virginia, larry sabado. senior editor at the atlantic, ron brownstein. as well as cnn's ryan nobles who's back with us. i got to ask, why is today's statement not the statement northam gave last night. >> very good question. since he brought up michael jackson, a lot of people talk about him moonwalking. that certainly sounds like what occurred. look, here's what's important to remember

joining us now is tom perez, he's the chairman of the democratic national committee. rez, good morning. >> great to be with you. >> how do they qualify? what's the criteria forgetting on the stage now? >> this is unprecedented because in the past the only things that happened was polling to get on the stage. we also have a grassroots fundraising criteria. because we want to reward campaigns that are investing in the grassroots. so if you are -- and we came one this criteria by taking a look at the public financing laws that have been on the books for decades. we modernized them. we consulted with act blue, which is basically the grassroots democratic party fundraising epicenter and so if you have shown that you can raise money in the grassroots, 65,000 unique donors and you have to have 200 donors, a minimum of 200 donors in 20 states, then you can get on the stage. >> okay. >> and it's -- now, this won't be easy, it's not a lay-up, but it's not a full court shot. >> okay. >> and we're very excited about this. because, again there are is unprecedented. we want to make

tom perez is the dnc chairman and he's with me now. >> always great to be with you, chuck. >> you're obviously organizing the debates and explain what you view your role is. are you aef reeer? what is your role for the 2020 presidential primary? what do you see it as? >> our role is to make sure that every candidate who runs gets a fair shake. i welcome a large field because i've had the privilege of working with almost all of them and they are great candidates and so our job at the dnc is to make sure we give them that opportunity and the debate will do this to show who they are and that we also build an infrastructure that enables whoever wins to hit the ground running. that's why we've spent so much time focusing on rebuilding data infrastructure and this debate process, i'm excited about it because again, we're not going to be talking about hand size. we're going to be talking about health care. the debate will be focused on issues. >> i am curious, when you are trying to figure out when to step in -- reince priebus when he was cha

. >> now while that speech was underway, democratic national chairman tom perez released a statement and he said this in part -- it's time for ralph northam to step aside and let lieutenant governor justin fairfax serve virginians as the next governor. joining us from the virginia governor's mansion is mike viqueira. on the surface some calmness and outside of that a lot of commentary. you are there. you probably heard a lot of it right there in richmond, virginia. >> reporter: well, that is right. and there were protesters here gathering today and when the governor was speaking, none of them were impressed with governor northam had to say yesterday when he admitted he was the person in the photographs and today when he reversed course and said it was not him. upon further reflection talking to his family and friends, those who were his contemporaries at the time he is firmly denying it was him so he was trying to essentially bring ambiguity to what was a clear-cut statement yesterday when he said he was, in fact, the person in the yearbook. he tried to call it the content on his pag

that's what it's all about. >> democratic party chairman tom perez. thank you for your time this evening, mr. chairman. i know you're having to invent the wheel a little bit in order to do this. thanks for hop helping us understand how it's going to work. much appreciated. >> quite a pleasure to be with you. >> all right. chairman there referencing republicans talking about donald trump's hand size during the debate. you remember that? honestly at that moment the one thing nobody would have anticipated is that they were talking about the freaking hand size issue in the debates. and we would still be talking about it in the presidency of that candidate who ultimately made it to the presidency. because he's artificially augmenting his hand size in his photos as president because he's still stuck on that issue. all right. much more to get to tonight. stay with us. et to tonight. stay with us ain these feet raised a bouncing boy and climbed the ladder in the hardware business. but i couldn't bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. so i talked to my doctor

lauren: i want you to hear what the dnc chair, tom perez, had to say about that and we'll get your response5 years, wn republicans don't want to discuss the issues that matter to real people, they call it socialism. social security when it was being debated, you had republicans calling it socialism. the minimum wage in 1938, you had republicans calling it socialism. lauren: what do you make of that? and also that many democrats are refusing to put a price tag on how much this stuff is going to cost us, the taxpayer. >> that's certainly something they're going to have to a answer for, hopefully in a primary and also a general election. but to tom perez's point, it's not republicans who are exclusively calling progressive democrats socialists. in many cases, it is those testimonies themselves who are out there declaring themselves socialists. there were more than 40 democratic candidates who labeledded themselves democratic socialists who won office in 2018, the midterm elections. to say it's just republicans trying to tack on this label unfairly to democrats, just simply isn't true. lauren:

father of a parkland, florida, student killed by gun violence, democratic national committee chairman tom perez and several national labor union leaders.pelosi's husband, paul, and one of her five children, the filmmaker alexandra pelosi, will also join.the recruiting arm for senate republicans is poking at stacey abrams even before she delivers the formal rebuttal to president donald trump's state of the union message.the national republican senatorial committee released a brief video online tuesday stringing together snippets of past comments by abrams, including when the democrat says, "this is not a speech of concession" after her narrow loss to republican brian kemp in last year's race for georgia governor.other clips show abrams talking about impeachment, presumably for trump, and telling an interviewer that she tells folks she's met herself lawrence karnow: a beautiful snow karnow: a lawrence the media." the media."the senate win by more credit for "weren't given that republicans "weren't given more credit for the senate win by the media." (vicki) lawmakers in hawaii want to ban cigarett

. >> harris: dnc chair tom perez denying that democrats of the party of socialism.ers outraised his rivals by a long shot, bringing in nearly $6,000,000.24 hours after he launched his campaign. the power panel now. noelle nikpour, republican strategist. leslie marshall, syndicated radio host. so, bernie sanders -- tim craddick socialist running under the democratic banner. leslie? >> he's an independent running as a democratic socialist. he has certainly brought the democratic party to the left, because now some things he pioneered like the fight for $15 as minimum wage paid also, medicare for all, universal health care. they are being towed by everybody. but it's a large field, harris. it's not just the left. that it's sort of left of center, left of left, and more centrist and moderate democrats. >> harris: so a left lurch. but he still democratic socialist. noelle? >> yes, you know what caused mark when tom perez was on he was saying his party's not the party of socialism. they just want results. he was talking about all that. but i've got to tell you, whether he

that's what it's all about. >> democratic party chairman tom perez. thank you for your time. i know you're having to invent the wheel to do this but thanks for helping us understand. much appreciated. >> quite a pleasure to be with you. >> chairman there referencing that republicans talking about donald trump's hand size during the debate. honestly even at that nobody dissipated they were talking about the hand size issue and we would be talking about it in the presidency of that candidate that ultimately made it to the presidency because he's artificially augmenting hand size in his photos as president because he's still stuck on that issue. all right. much more to get to tonight. stay with us. t.l righ much more to get to tonight. stay with us she's watching too,g [indistinct conversation] [friend] i've never seen that before. ♪ ♪ i have... ♪ i have... if your moderate to severeor crohn's symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn't worked well enough it may be time for a change. ask your doctor about entyvio®, the only biologic developed and approved ju

we're also going to be talking to tom perez, the chairman of the democratic national committee.talk to him about as the president was discussing the democrats in the house are trying to block the emergency declaration of the wall. also, what seems to be a move, considerable move, to the left by the 2020 presidential candidates on issues like the green new deal and, you know, all sorts of issues. medicare for all, free college tuition, taxes on the wealthy. we'll talk about that that with tom perez. >> trace: chris wallace, thank you. >> always a pleasure. >> coming up on the other side of the break, more on this breaking news that the doj, the mueller probe, will not be released next week. state of the art technologyt makes it brilliant. the visionary lexus nx. lease the 2019 nx 300 for $359 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. this is moving day with the best in-home wifi experience and millions of wifi hotspots to help you stay connected. and this is moving day with reliable service appointments in a two-hour window so you're up and running in no tim

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. >> now, democratic national committee chair tom perez speaks at the dnc's annual winter meeting in washington, d.c. he talks about the need to address gun violence, health care, and climate change. this is 30 minutes. all right. we are just getting started, my friends, and we've got a long way to go and we are going to get there. good afternoon, everyone. it's an honor to be here with you. that video, i want to start off by thanking all the women across america who stepped up on january 21, 2017. they said, this is not just a moment, this is a movement. and we know now that we have a movement moment.

. >> now, democratic national committee chair tom perez speaks at the dnc's annual winter meeting in washington, d.c. he talks about the need to address gun violence, health care, and climate change. this is 30 minutes. all right. we are just getting started, my friends, and we've got a long way to go and we are going to get there. good afternoon, everyone. it's an honor to be here with you. that video, i want to start off by thanking all the women across america who stepped up on january 21, 2017. they said, this is not just a moment, this is a movement. and we know now that we have a movement moment. 100 years after getting the right to vote, we have the largest female representation in the history of the house of representatives, thanks to the democrats. [applause] and we have at the helm of that house a person who will go down in my humble opinion as the most impactful speaker in the history of the united states house of representatives, nancy pelosi. [applause] and a former dnc member, i might add. thank you, speaker pelosi. you know what, folks? i start with speaker pelosi beca

today, tom perez gave a speech at the annual winter meeting in washington, d.c.. he talks about the party agenda, the 2020 election, and the response to the president 's national emergency declaration. his remarks are half an hour.

advancing their agenda by distracting those committed to equality and social justice and recently tom perezffered only the mildest of rebukes of omar. >> the democratic party platform has been very clear about his real, about dignity for israel and the palestinian people. >> reporter: she added this, quote, at the same time i reaffirm the problem of lobbyists in politics whether it is apack, national rifle association of the fossil fuel industry. it has gone on too long and we must be willing to address it. shannon: let's stick to washington, family and friends will say goodbye to the longest-serving congressman in history, john dingell. his funeral is this morning in his hometown of dearborn, michigan. his wife, debbie dingell getting emotional as she greeted hundreds of people paying respect in their community. on thursday a funeral mass will be held in washington dc before dingell is laid to rest at arlington national cemetery. the michigan democrat died last week at the age of 92. a story you need to know about, powerful winter storm slamming the us from the northwest to the northeast.

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released statement that despite the explanation he still wants to see governor northam step down, tom pÉrezsaid, i spoke with governor northam this morning, virginians and people across the country deserve better from their leader and it is clear that ralph northam lost trust and his ability to govern. now, ralph northam was asked about that through press conference about numerous statements being released while he was speaking saying that folks were not convinced and they still want to see him step down, here is how he responded. >> i will continue to reach out and talk to them about this issue. again, i want to reinforce as i was saying earlier in the question, i have made mistakes in my life but what caused the stir-up yesterday i'm not responsible for. that's not me in the photo. >> governor asking folks for patience as this investigation unfolds and asking him to believe explanation that he was simply accepting responsibility for being in those pictures because he wanted to apologize for those who were offended and only after realized it wasn't him, eric. eric: as he was speaking durin

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we heard from tom perez, the chair of the dnc, who called for northam's resignation, asked him to step aside and let lieutenant governor justin fairfax become the governor and move forward here in virginia. have you the head of the democratic party asking him to resign, addition ali, we heard from lieutenant governor justin fairfax today, a lot of people waiting to hear what he had to say about all of this, i want to read you a part of what he wrote today. i cannot condone the actions from his past. that at the very least suggests a comfort with virginia's darker history of white supremacy, racial stereotyping and intimidation at this critical and defining moment in the history of virginia and this nation. we need leaders with the ability to unite and help us rise to the better angels of our nature. that was from the lieutenant governor today who said, the governor had personally reached out and apologized to him. the lieutenant governor also saying because he had ancestors who were enslaved here in virginia, this episode hits close to home for him. we did not hear for the lieutenant g

it includes the dnc chair tom perez. it's really a tidal wave. to what you attribute in your reporting northam still hanging on when it's just overwhelming, the calls for him to resign. >> it's got to be arrogance. i had the opportunity, a 30-minute conversation with justin fairfax off and on the record. like a lot of other democrats in virginia, he's disappointed. no one is happy about this. there is no shanything about th. their general belief having had the conversation is it's very difficult for governor northam to continue to run the state when his own party wants him to go. another important thing to remember is, yes, he doesn't want to resign. he wants to fight. there is no one who can save northam at this point. the press conference was his own fault. there is no group of black pastors who can put a hand on his shoulder and say we forgive him. lieutenant governor fairfax can't cradle him like steven in jang "django" and say i'll protect you. >> perez came out with a statement. he doesn't normally jump into the state level political fights

tom perez.had a great line in 2009, when "newsweek" had this banner headline that said, are we all socialists now? and katty said, being from britains said you americans make the worst socialists i have ever seen. you define yourselves and your existence by your work. tom, i'm curious, what was your first take from the president's state of the union speech? >> what did he accomplish, if anything? >> he fed red meat to his base. that was job one for him and he did it. we talked about this. enough of that. what was notable, three things, what was unsaid and undersaid, and then his use of d-day heroes, which i'm baffled by. what was unsaid, we didn't talk about climate. we didn't talk about the government shutdown. i sat next to fred guttenberg, father of one of the victims in parkland, who watched him ask for support, understandable support for people who had lost their loved ones. fred is saying, when are we going to talk about gun violence? when are we going to talk about jamie? when are we goin

tom perez said, there are other ways to do it. we're not giving him money for that. are you sure that's not a mistake, you're not handing him an issue to go back to his base and say, they won't give any a dollar for any more physical barriers. they don't want to keep you safe. are you handing him a hammer to hit you with? >> the president is off the path here. although he uses this to incite his base, democrats talk about smart security, smart power being leveraged here in the country. the president is attempting to rile up his base. but i have to tell you, didn't the president just have to lay off, what, 15 employees who were undocumented? >> 18 at 5 different golf clubs. he was one of the people hiring undocumented workers. he's part of the problem. >> he's talked about the biggest threat to american businesses and to small businesses, being undocumented people crossing the border in droves. yet, you see that the president is quite frankly only out for himself in this, and has no real enforceable solutions as to how to get the border under control. the truth is, th

a few months after inauguration he was sitting next to the chair tom perez was asked, are you a democratt you to hear the back and for with bernie sanders and the democratic party. >> sure. >> if, pacific, you want to be the democratic nominee, you should be a democrat. if you are fought a democrat, you should not run. you should runs an independent. he is not a democrat so to me i wouldn't allow a republican to run as a democrat. >> shouldn't he be allowed? >> let me reiterate the question. the president calls himself an independent. you are telling me he is not a independent, he is a democrat? >> well, he wins the democratic nomination. he caucuses with the democrats. >> that's a different question. shouldn't the democratic primary process be reserved for democrats? >> the democratic mooim primary prosture should be for the democratic voters that ultimately want open process and the voters he got over 40% of their votes in 2016 don't seem to have the same problem as representative meeks. representative meeks is entimed to his own opinion, i don't think he would want sanders running eit

. >> that was tom perez addressing concerns around some democrats perceived embrace of socialism andoters in 2020. as the "new york times" reports, it's a label republicans hope will sway voters. the panel is back to discuss this. they took it to heart the criticism in 2016 that they weren't for anything, and now they're being very clear. we're for things. we're for a lot of things. and so far the things they are for are popular with voters when you do just one-line testing in polls. but republicans are really excited about it as well. >> this is true. there is a poll that came out last week actually that asked this question, how do you feel about socialism as a broad concept, which is different than democratic socialism. democrats are even on socialism and capitalism. part that of is when we present these things that are being presented by the democratic party right now in the terms of being presented, medicare for all, addressing climate change, addressing gun violence, those aren't necessarily things, even if they have aspects to them that might overlap with socialism theoreticall

i asked the dnc chair tom perez on fox news sunday this weekend about president trump going after democratsor spending a lot of money, high taxes, but socialism. here's how he pushed back. >> social security, when it was being debated, you had republicans calling in socialism. the minimum wage in 1938, you have republicans calling it socialism. medicare, ronald reagan said and i quote that medicare will lead to socialized medicine. why did they do that? they are wrong on the issues. >> chris: is that an effective pushback on the socialist or miss if you? >> it may be accurate history but it won't affect choices you make. i agree because it's astonishing, really how easily and quickly and likely these leading democratic contenders have signed up the positions that are going to become a real liability company general election. they may say at this point, well, we are just signing up to the big ideas. it's all about the details. over time the, they can put the details in and claim that it's not as threatening to people. but it seems to me that already they've given the president enough ammunit

here is a mass email from tom perez. what are your thoughts?ill exploit the crisis open our border. they totally politicized this crisis. years ago you had democrats who voted for the border wall. now you have democrat senators like kirsten gillibrand from new york saying she has no problem removing parts of the wall. this has been politicized. but what it comes down to is the safety and security all our citizens. liz: the democrats are saying this is not a crisis and the declaration of emergency is a political stunt. what's your take on that? >> you mad chuck schumer and nancy pelosi issue a joint statement saying there is no crisis on the border. what they need to recognize is what these politicians are saying and doing. this is about keeping illegal drugs out our country. human traffickers, gang members, and to protect americans and our property. so democrats continue to politicize this, but this is a serious issue what's going on on our southern border. liz: have any other democrats looked into the eyes of angel families who lost family mem

recently, dnc chairman tom perez only offered the mildest of rebukes of omar. >> the democratic party, or platform has been clear about israel, very clear about dignity for both israel and the palestinian people. >> in a recent talk at the center of american progress, omar said power works both ways. >> you cannot stand for freedom while use of a tentatively threatened to people from an entire religion from entering this country. >> after omar's apology, she added this, and i quote. at the same time, i reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyist in our politics, whether it be a aipac, the national rifle association, or the falls of your injury fossil fuel industry. >> bret: let's talk more about the situation. good evening, brit. what do you of all this today? >> i think it's interesting that the congress jumped on her with both feet, really, and got her to issue what you called an unequivocal apology. the question remains now is any further action will ensue. you may recall when congressman steve king of iowa, a hard-core conservative, had been accused of racial insensitivity and worse

. >> katie: after being criticized for rushing to judgment on smollett, dnc chair tom perez is defendingthat have come out in recent days are true, it's unconscionable because hate crimes, the fact of the matter, they are on the rise. we acted on the facts as we knew at the time. here are the facts that we know today. hate crimes are on the rise. >> katie: i'm going to ask for a gutfeld fact-check. >> greg: we have talked about this a lot. what's important is you need to look at the increase in the rate of incidence, not in in the increase in number because increasing numbers due to more reporting and they added 1,000 agencies. to validate their work, they say it's an increase in number but it's not been increasing the rate. if you look at the rate, the rate is in decline. the rate of incidents was higher i think 14, 15 years ago than today. the good news is they are in decline. this smollett thing that nobody has talked about is if this smollett thing had not been debunked last week, could you have imagined the oscars last night? do you know how -- he would've had an opening speech. the

saturday, democratic national committee chair tom perez gave a speech at the group's annual winter meeting in washington. he talks about the party agenda, the 2020 election, and response to the president's national emergency declaration. his remarks or half an hour. >> all right. we are just getting started, my friends, and we've got a long way to go and we are going to get there. good afternoon, everyone. it's an honor to be here with you. that video, i want to start off by thanking all the women across america who stepped up on january 21, 2017.

i want to remind you that tom perez this year has made it very clear that he wants to make sure we haveis part of that primary process. we want to make sure voters are able to talk about the idea that with these candidates. we have scheduled debates that will start in june to give our candidates -- >> harris: you know he calls himself a democratic socialist, red question are nobody's making it a bigger issue than he is already. my question is, when new york democrat representative gregory meeks says that bernie sanders should not be allowed to run in a democratic primary, what do you say when people in your own party don't support this? >> that is up to senator sanders whether or not he wants to run as a democrat. as he stated, he does want to run as a democrat. >> harris: will have the support of democrats you don't agree with that? >> be up to the voters to decide on who they want the democratic nominee to be. i just want to be clear that we are giving voters that ability to make that decision. while the republican party right now doesn't even want to have a primary when it comes the

. >> neil: we did call your democratic counter part, tom perez.ay hope springs eternal and sometimes they do come. ronna, happy to have you. we heard from a number of democrats that said, there might be more middle ground here than you think. nancy pelosi might find a wall immoral or might find the idea of walls period, not funding a dollar for them. steny hoyer has indicated that. others have told me. are you getting a sense from a lot of your republican colleagues that there is ample room to deal with this without declaring an emergency? >> i do think so. what the president has proposed is common sense. many of his proposals have been supported by democrats in the party. cluck schumer supported the security fence act. a lot of these things are something we should come together. we know we have drugs coming across the southern border and human trafficking. these are issues that we have to address. democrats, especially democrats like congressman ryan from ohio, recognize that the middle of this country and americans want to see republicans and de

right now tom perez as head of the dnc and other democratic congressional members have said, they arey are saying that the investigation has to play out. >> pete: they didn't say that about cavanaugh. >> melissa: as allegations of sexual assault have to be taken very seriously, but a person who is a claim has to be given the complete space to bring the claim forward when and however he or she wants. they have not yet done that until the person comes forward i'm not going to have a comment on that. >> katie: bernie sanders was asked about this and he pretended he was on the phone. that's a double standard. you can't say we believe all women no matter what the circumstances are. i look at the facts of what christine blasey ford. her's testimony was extremely out of touch with what she actually said to "the washington post," what she was telling her lawyers. >> leslie: do you believe this woman? a >> katie: i don't know enough about the case. >> leslie: you can't know! >> katie: that's my point. i judge the situations based on evidence, not gender. i don't know if he's guilty. >> pete: o

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control in the bank because they want to use it and more of a social settings, if you will remember, tom perez is head of the dnc. when he was secretary of labor in 2014, he tried to use disparated impact studies to get banks to make loans they shouldn't make which is at the heart of the credit crisis. a lot of blame to go around but it made banks lower the bar to get around that's at the center of this in both chambers. and i think it's a disturbing trend because its end game is the federal reserve. >> as far as what steve alluded to, why do you think the share prices aren't moving more in reaction to that if you are an investor in these banks, wouldn't you be concerned about things headed in that direction? they seem to be sdlhrugging tha off. >> the country can move any way it wants, as long as it follows the rules. it's movement that has little potential for actually making relevant change in the here and now. maybe in the grander picture it will but that's why i don't think -- >> the reason may be that trump officials, trump-appointed officials will approve or disapprove this merger it's

. >> i want to get your thought on this basil because you've been part of this before, tom perez camend the head of dnc said these are the rules we don't want to repeat what didn't work well with the republicans the year before moving into the debate season because it is right in front of us. msnbc and nbc news being the first one to have one out there. >> yeah, i think that is important. because we've seen some changes in the dnc sort of operations earlier -- >> you're welcome by the way. >> right. with the superdelegates so this is a direct result of the bernie and hillary debated in that cycle so i think it is a good thing and i think -- >> tonight's not an upper class and lower class, none of that sort of division. >> i hope we don't have the happy hour debates, i don't want that. but it goes back to something sha susan said, bill weld being in the race is good for us because it keeps donald trump occupied and what i don't want to see if the two or 20 people in the race is donald trump due to the democrats what he did to the republicans on the debate stage, use his platform to cre