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>> you know, there is this idea that oh, the economy is so great and the top-line economic numbers are good. unemployment is low. we are starting to finally see some real wage growth, particularly at the bottom. but it was striking to me, this polling out of michigan, this is the detroit chamber of commerce. so not like -- this is not some sort of lefty group. only 36% of people say the economy is better in the past few years. a third. almost two-thirds say worse or unchanged. that suggests to m...

Trust and have become a party of enablers. they dont want to be part of a party of enablers. >> there is no excuse for it. and to their constituents, to their faces, the people who are actually seeing it day in and day out, there is no discussion for what donald trump is doing and they know it to be true. >> i think to double stress what you just said, which i think is such a great point, the guy who has the biggest border district, who is to donald trumps left on immigration and has been pretty...

Conversation and making it seem like the democrats are the ones with big ideas and are so different from the republican party, republicans are trying to take away your health care. were up here, as funny as it is, but were fighting for the best way to provide you with health care. gillibrand was the one that kind of lifted that up and said why are we digging into the minutia. >> also, the way they were structured, again, with having these more marginal candidates on both stages i think encourage...

Care for everyone. >> all right. congresswoman pramila jayapal, thank you very much. >> thank you. coming up, new evidence of the soft large underbelly of the trump campaign. the democrats so far really failing to take advantage. its the economy, stupid. econod its going ok? great. now im spending more time with the kids. im introducing them to crab. crab!? they love it. so, you mentioned that that money we set aside. yeah. the kids and i want to build our own crab shack. ♪ ♪ ahhh, youre f...

Hurd, one of only a few african-american members of the republican party in congress, is retiring. not just him, mike conaway is retiring, martha roby is in a safe seat in alabama. i do wonder, its not fun to be in the minority, but i also wonder how much of it is like i dont want to carry water for this guy anymore? >> oh, i think thats a lot of it. it becomes too much. it becomes a burden that eats at your very dignity. you find yourself out here standing in front of a bank of cameras trying t...

If its 1976 and its whether gerald ford is going to get elected or not, fine. you can have these sorts of arguments. we have a man who is a menace to our democracy. we cant be out there doing these things and arguing in ways that just hurt democrats. >> arguing on the other side of, that right, because people say there are these unpopular positions they back themselves into. and i dont know what the actual nominee is going to have them. i was looking at the polling on re. the most recent polling...

Really frustrated by how slow growing their wages have been for years. >> right. >> theyre frustrated. most americans have a net worth that is no longer back to its precrisis high. and so i think in terms of the long-term issues the democrats have a real opportunity here. thats why you see most voters favoring a wealth tax, higher minimum wage, right. >> bigger medicare. what i worry about, and i think you worry about it as well based on your last segment with the congresswoman, which is it is v...

Worse in the upper midwest which matters. >> yeah. >> they have been which matters for presidential politics. i still think the economy on net is short-term economy is a strength. long-term economy, people are really frustrated by how slow growing their wages have been for years. >> right. >> theyre frustrated. most americans have a net worth that is no longer back to its precrisis high. and so i think in terms of the long-term issues the democrats have a real opportunity here. thats why you see...

When the national archives originally released the tape of this conversation back in 2000, the racist portion was apparently withheld to protect reagans privacy. for almost 20 years we didnt have this pretty important piece of information about how ronald reagan thought about the world. ronald reagan the conservative hero whos largely responsible for popularizing the term and concept of the welfare queen. we have had tapes of nixon saying extremely racist things for years. he was also a notoriou...