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Tweeting at each other or tweeting critiques or giving interviews where they are not towing the line? >> one, it was probably inappropriate to tweet about individual members or for staff to do that. also, i dont think it was the best move for speaker pelosi frankly to call out those four by name. if you actually look at the final vote on border security, it was 95. it wasnt just the four who were opposed to that bill that came out of the senate. there is leverage there. i think that leadership i...

Leadership. their jobs and responsibilities are different. the progressivess responsibility is to push the envelope and leadership to maintain the caucus. they need each other. i think that for a progressive, they are asked all the time. take one for the team. give one for the team. every once in a while, they need the team to give one for them. >> thats interesting. i saw you tweeting about this. you have been a chronicler of the house republican majority that was a remarkable thing to watch. i...

Position. >> i guess the question is how do you -- overtime, leadership has gotten more and more power. chairs have gotten less and the house runs on a stricter party line vote than it used to than a generation ago. what do you think about the more public pronouncements and people tweeting at each other or tweeting critiques or giving interviews where they are not towing the line? >> one, it was probably inappropriate to tweet about individual members or for staff to do that. also, i dont think ...

Im not going to the united states until they abandon all of their legal appeals of the muslim ban. i mean, he really did take on, i thought, this idea america stops being america if donald trump gets his way out of some of his most extreme domestic policy proposals. >> thats right. the way vice president biden articulated it, it really is a foreign policy that is values based. donald trump has taken realism, real politic almost to a new extreme, to a mer can tillist extreme. everything is for sa...

Took place awhile ago but the real story here, anderson, is that you have a ratcheting up of tensions on almost every front since the trump administration has really tightened the noose on iran that is essentially made it impossible for iran to sell its oil on international markets. the iranians have been backed into a corner and are trying to explore how they can use the leverage they have access through the persian gulf, their interests in lebanon or yemen or close to saudi arabia and putting ...

The house republican majority that was a remarkable thing to watch. it had this freedom caucus. that was a third party. a junior partner in a coalition. 40 votes or 45? >> 35. >> because of that they had tremendous leverage over what john boehner and paul ryan can do. what do you think is developing? >> the same dynamics are playing out. pelosi is right that they are four votes, but shes wrong that its just four votes. outside of congress, its the heart and soul of the democratic party. what i t...

Said which is not that you would by suppressing, counting be able to draw better districts for republicans but thats hes suggesting and maybe im overreading it a potential earthquake in the entire way we does district. >> i smell law sues saying no, no, no, no challenging the apportionment say in florida and texas. >> hes a smart guy. he does not say that idly. >> the president referred to gerrymandering in thera, he made. he talked about the ruling that gave more leverage to these state map dra...

Tensions on almost every front since the trump administration has really tightened the noose on iran that is essentially made it impossible for iran to sell its oil on international markets. the iranians have been backed into a corner and are trying to explore how they can use the leverage they have access through the persian gulf, their interests in lebanon or yemen or close to saudi arabia and putting kind of turning up the heat as much as they can. the trump administration seems to want this,...

To see ourselves as that, we need to constantly look within and challenge ourselves to be better so everyone else can be better around us. >> do you -- i know youve been invited by i think congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez and nancy pelosi. >> shoutout aoc. >> is that an invitation youre taking up? nancy pelosi said you would be welcome to a bipartisan congressional thing. do you plan to go to washington in one way or another? >> definitely. i think even the conversations with teammates tha...

Of leverage this moment and be able to talk about the things that we want to talk about and celebrate like this with the leaders of our country is an incredible moment, so yes to aoc, nancy pelosi, yes you bipartisan congress, yes to chuck schumer, yes to anyone else who wants to invite us and have a real substantive conversation and believe in the same things that we believe in. >> sandra: rick leventhal is live, where the streets are filling up. >> good morning, sandra. right at the intersecti...