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Fast as it should. wages still not growing at a pace in the country that are it should, and -- and this has led to a lot of frustration from some democratic members who believe that the white house should have discussed and messaged the economy in much more positive terms. pointing to the other factors that are doing well in the economy that could have helped their own political fortunes and 2010 mid-terms and 2014 mid-terms and neon this election where the economic message for the clinton campa...

Unforgettable, wherever you go the scents you cant forget... from herbal essences, blooming now! panel is back. sara fagen. and eugene robinson. sara, you heard tom cotton say cant repeal unless there is something concrete there. he said it can phase in, but you have to know what the plan is going to look like before you repeal. john kasich essentially saying the same thing. not with what mitch mcconnell seemed to say. where is this headed? >> the smart politics on this would be to have a plan...

Won. so if this is a campaign that weve seen before, hasnt republicans been winning this argument at the ballot box? >> i think whats key is theyve been winning it in the mid-terms and losing it in the general. what the republican argument for a mandate is complicated by is almost a 3 million vote popular margin. but the fact is they have unified control over washington. repealing obamacare, ripping it out root and branch, has been an article of faith for conservatives over the course of the oba...

Pool. youve seen that be floated around. we dont know what the new plan is but that could very well be part of it. the problem is, and this is to your question, what are people looking for, they should look to see do high risk pools work. we have evidence, its been tried before, we know its difficult to administer, they dont offer particularly good benefits and its expensive for the consumer. is that the same sort of patient protection? youll hear a lot of language, but taking a one step further...

These are gone and he changed the game. >> a word that got overused and its a pot word. this is where donald trump is. the disruptor of our political system. >> he defeated the republican establishment. >> he defeated the bushes and the clintons. both of them. i want to point out that barack obama didnt build that wall. obama held it up. in the mid-terms, they were going for republicans when obama was not on the ballot and the democrats said there is nothing you could do. thats not crew.

Will look like 10 and 14. i remember the 2006 mid-terms. it was not good to be a republican. there was a republican president. this was not always what you think it is. >> in 2002, w picks up senate seats. one of the rare times. >> ronald reagan had bad 82 and 66. most of the time there is a reason they call it an itch. >> on the national act, we built the red state democrats and they have to vote to rebuild the military. they cant stop. thank you, harry reid for the reed rule. they cant stop th...

Again, we have to be in those communities, implying, as steve pointed out, he was there but hillary was not, even though he didnt say that. he also did say, acknowledge, john that he was able to do that in his, in 2008, 2012, but not during the mid-terms, which gets to the point of my book as i pointed out. the president ignored the dnc, ignored the democratic party. it was not a high priority for him. he doesnt like that kind of campaigning. as a result, the democratic party lost big time in th...

Organization. and youre right, that -- i said this in my earlier remarks, that what i was able to do during my campaign, i one able to do during mid-terms. not that we didnt put in time and effort into. i spent time and effort in it. but the coalition i put together didnt always turn tout to be transferable. and the challenge is that -- some of that just has to do with the fact that when youre in the party in power and people are going through hard times like they were in 2010, theyre going too ...

In strengthening unions and raising the minimum wage and rebuilding our infrastructure and making sure that parents has decent child care and family leave, was because my own familys history wasnt that different from theirs, even if i look different. same thing in iowa. so the question is, how do we rebuild that party as a whole so that theres not a county in any state -- i dont care how red -- where we dont have a presence and not making the argument. i think we have the better argument. but th...

And that requires organization. i said this in my earlier remarks. what i was able to do in my campaigns, i was not able to do in the mid-terms. i spent time and effort in it, but the coalition i put together didnt always turn out to be transferrable. the challenge is that some of that when you are in the party in power and people are going through hard times like in 2010, they are going to punish to some degree the presidents party regardless of what organizational work is done. some of it has ...