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How they handle hot button issues like security many people in germany feeling that their streets their cities are no longer as safe as they should be also hot button issues like integrating migrants how what are they doing about that at local level and then other bread and butter topics pensions jobs all of that will really count in terms of how these parties and the government at federal and local level try to work to keep a lid on the right you know i said earlier in the program that this ger...

Dissatisfied are many of the issues that will be important in those states are local issues and so one of the big points that was made at the christian democratic party conference in december when they chose the new leader of the party is that it will be very important for the local chapters to tackle the issues that worry people those are issues like security the sense that the streets of many german cities are not adequately safe also issues that include migration but simple bread and butter i...

Do in this moment? what should the party be doing in this moment? >> i think we need to push a real robust economic agenda that will appeal to everybody in the country. i mean, you talk about infrastructure, we have people losing their pensions, we still have people who cant retire properly. the american people, most of them, are barely keeping their nose above water. so even if we cant pass things, eddie, i think we need to push an agenda that lets these working class people, as ive said a mill...

The issues at the top of the democratic agenda as i am hearing it focuses on things like voting rights, focuses on gun control and climate change. i want to talk a little bit about the unity within your caucus, how confident are you that the issues you just addressed are going to take center stage as opposed to the other things that the more progressive members of your caucus are talking about? >> well, we can walk and chew gum at the same time. those are all really important issues. the immigra...

Like in 2000 -- right after 9/11, the fed massively lowered interest rates, which in turn, all the pension funds run the united states. they have a basic model. 6% return, theyll be able to pay the pensions in the end. but now they cant get yield, so they started chasing yield, and thats when these collateralized debt obligations, crazy things started happening. if they didnt get the yield, the entire model would collapse. mark: didnt get their 6%. >> average 6% and so they had the chase yield a...

Agenda is not simply being a check and balance against the president but really pushing i think an agenda that focused on the key issues that everyday americans are concerned about as to why democrats won back the house in such a significant majority. health care, the economy, jobs, retirement, pensions. those bread and butter issues are the key focus that democrats should be centered on. there will be other obviously political issues that are going to come up that will be critical, but thats ho...

Not unionized, they generally hire, a lot of these firms hire a lot of part-time workers, they hire a lot of people from overseas, and silicon valley, such as 40% of the tech workforce. what they dont want to do is pay the benefits and the pensions that the evil companies, like oil companies and manufacturing companies do, to their employees. so what is the solution? well, if i want to be in the democratic party, what i do is i talk all the good talk on gender and race and climate and all that, ...

And their business models are not unionized, they generally hire a lot of these firms hire a lot of part-time workers, they hire a lot of people from overseas, and silicon valley, such as 40% of the tech workforce. with a dont want to do is pay the benefits and the pensions that the evil companies, like oil companies and manufacturing companies do, to their employees. so what is the solution? well, if i want to be in the democratic party, what i do is i talk all the good talk on gender and race ...

Commission, unless we have deeper oversight from congress, unless investors, many of the cities around the country, progressive cities that care about civil rights that have, you know, pensions in facebook, new york city is an example where the new york city pensions has $4.7 million of facebook shares, you know, unless we have forces that connect with this boycott, we wont actually see change. part of it is having a very clear theory of change. tiffany said facebook has 2.3 billion followers. t...

Variables, its likely well have a slower economy. and the fact that we have any instance in which the president is playing with peoples pensions by all the gyrations of this week, it seems i think more and more people will be annoyed. >> for right now, for what its worth, the president is tweeting out pictures of the steel slat barrier on twitter, because apparently according to reporting, he says the wall is no longer good, so do steel slats. jeremy bash, i want to ask you a simple proposition....