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>> there is no question about it. donald trump and all of this criminal activity has sucked all the air out of the room. i dont think theres any doubt about that. and democrats will continue to pass legislation that is significant for the american people. well continue to do that. but, you know, this scintillating impeachment talk is doing what donald trump wants it to do, get the focus off the economy, 75% of americans are still living paycheck to paycheck. taxes have gone up in the last year b...

I called it a race in arkansas. i know its kansas. i have relatives in kansas. sorry about that. >> its all good, jon. >> we love you, jon. >> something is happening in kansas. >> jon: something like that. >> dorothy is there. >> jon: my apologies kansas and arkansas. does this mean that the trump effect is still, you know, living on among the electorate? >> we won the race. yes. donald trump, candidate at the time won by 27 points in kansas. ron estes, two-term treasurer dialed it in. he was pa...

Gap last month, and we are seeing both of the candidates stepping up the attacks against each other, and is there a time, and you are the chair of the dnc, to approve more debates between the two candidates? >> our candidates with our debate schedule, and the schedule of the other candidate forums have had a large variety of opportunities to be seen by the voters. you see that from the whether it is secretary clinton or senator sa sanders, to some degree martin omalley, and their expose sure are...

Have had this year compared to 58 of 61 debates in 2008 and 2012. in fact, our candidate with the least amount of time on our debate stage has actually had as much time as the frontrunner on the republican side has had. so i am con fident, and satisfid with the amount of time that our candidates have had on the debate stage, and candidate forums, and impersonally -- importa importantly, to be heard. >> and are you going schedule more debates? >> we have six scheduled, and the forums. >> thank yo...

Hold republicans feet to the fire in a similar way because, geez not coincidentally their broadcast network debates are also on a saturday and that is simply because broadcast networks have less flexible programming. i did not say to abc, hey, lets schedule this on a saturday night. i didnt say to any of those networks that they should do that. that is how the programming worked out. we have six debates. three are during the week. three are on the weekends. there are other candidate forums and m...

National republican committee. >> no, i didnt. >> he keeps saying that you as the chair of the dnc and he said not you by name, but you try to bury the presidential debates on a saturday night when people are not home watching television, because they dont want hillary clinton to have much of a challenge. what is your response to that assertion? >> i will point out that the rnc has all of the broadcast network debates on a saturday night as well. so, you nknow, the bottom line s that these netwo...

And the republicans all of whom want to take it away and take us back to policies that got us into the worst economic cries is since the great depression, and roll up the ability for anyone to come to the country, shut the united states down as a refuge that we have been traditionally to people fleeing persecution. and the xenophobia and the un-american policies that have come out of the republican field, i am sure will continue, and as a result in large part from their extremism, the democratic...

Were a big ten party. she is entitled to her opinion that we should have more than six debates. there are others that feel that way as well. yesterday leader reed was asked about his opinion on the number of debates. he said six is plenty. we have a wide variety of opinions. lets set process aside. well have six debates, a number of candidate forums, coupled with the state pears and other media outlets. well have many different opportunities to see our candidates. its my job to make sure we maxi...

I think there are six debates this time around versus 25. some people are clamoring 25 in 20308. some people are clamminger, we want more. six, is that enough? >> we have not only the six debates that are sanctioned by the dnc, but we have a number of candidate forums. we have four of the five candidates coming to our womens leadership forum to talk about issues important to women. so there are going to be a variety of opportunities all while allowing our candidates to be able to make sure that ...

Contacted -- >> i am the head of a national party and i have to get our party ready to launch our nominee from philadelphia and whoever that is, because that person is going to be the 45th president of the united states, and there is a lot of work to do and we have to be rowing in the same drirection and working together to do it. and she is entitled to her opinion and people who disagree with e her, but tonight, the focus has to be about the candidates and their opinion, and the republican cand...