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Its not disastrous. its not where an incumbent wants to be. if youre a democrat in a tough district, thats his national number. in your district, the number is lower. >> the bottom line is the democrats have to prove they can be a governing majority. not just a majority, but that they can govern. and that they can make washington work again for you. and that, the jury on that is still out right now. >> they could have done that two months ago when the senate overwhelmingly bipartisan passed a $1...

The democratic party would allow the hard infrastructure bill and the reconciliation to sink? >> thats an excellent question. it would be a bad time for the democrats to implode. look. the bottom line, this would be a disaster if the bills got nothing out of it because if democrats really believe that democracy faces a challenge and in the midst of this rolling assault on the democracy then the democrats need to act like it as opposed to playing a game of political chicken that could result in p...

Up? >> well, look, all polls in italy show that this law enjoys broad support. depending on which poll you look at and how the question is ready worked, somewhere between half and two-thirds of italians say that they are in favor of it. italys current governing majority supports it. it is reasonable to think i suppose that at some point some form of this law made be adopted. were that to be the case, the 1929 bilateral agreement between the vatican and italy say that the vatican would have the r...

Actual rule change. sentiment is not enough. it doesnt actually change lived conditions. but racial justice became a majority issue and now we have to work to make it a governing majority. not just in terms of our policies but the practices of the practices of media, the practices of so many areas of society where the rules and the systems are constantly set up to put black people in harms way. we constantly say that the system is not broken. its operating exactly the way it was designed and tha...

Is. >> "washington post" summed it up for the prime minister this way. after just six weeks on the job johnson lost his governing majority. exiled the members and slapped down by lawmakers three times in 24 hours. the shortest honeymoon in british political history. who said johnson is essentially in government but not in power. johnson is in a terrible mess. no prime minister has lost the first vote in office since 1783. lot alone the first three. president trump said hes following the developm...

After just six weeks on the job, job son has lost his governing majority, compiled some of his partys most honored members, including winston churchills grandson and slapped down by lawmakers three times in 24 hours. even with all of that, johnson is still pressing for an early election so he can deliver on brexit by october. how does this play out? >> its the $6 million question. there is no one with a good answer about how this is going to play out. what we do know is this loop is going to hav...

Presidents party did not lose seats in the house. great depression, and monica lewinsky scandal. nobody is suggesting they are not going to use some seats, and i think its more likely than not because a number of seats are already too far gone, and a lot of these republican open seats, some republican incumbents cant be saved. the issue is how big those gains are, and a two-seat majority for democrats or republicans in the house, you think things have been bad thus far in terms of not getting a ...

Republican fears of so-called democratic blue wave of growing. according to fresh polling, democrats show a double digit lead when voters are asked which party they want to control congress. one potential democratic presidential contender traveling to 2020 primary states says his party has a lot of work to do. >> if we cant speak the language of iowa, michigan, or wisconsin and others, even if you can get electoral majority, youre never going to have a governing majority. >> smack dab between tr...

Democrats take over narrowly or will they get what could be a governing majority in the house? >> look, this environment is reminding many of us, and i would assume linda as well, of the 2010 environment that republicans had, they had a strong wind at their backs. the 2006 environment that democrats had. it looks like its going to be one of those environments, with one exception, and you alluded to it before, andrea, and that is the republicans really fortified many of their districts because th...

The judge born in indiana,ible, calling him a mexican. just thats beyond the pale. when you look at where our party needs to go in the future, if we want to be a governing majority, we cant do these things. we shouldnt do these things. >> you mentioned senator kmain. i know you are close. he is a senior senator from your state. >> yes. >> at c-pac last week the president went after him. >> remember, one person walked into a room when he was supposed to go this way. and he said he was going this ...