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Right to choose. >> watching oscad and his daughter melania and it is heartbreaking and should piss us off. >> the immigrants didnt do that to you. >> we can do the things that are sensible. we can do the universal background checks. we can ban the weapons of war, but we can also double down on the research and find out what really works. >> the mental health counselor in every single school in the united states, we need to start playing offense. >> if you need a license to drive a car, you shou...

Really works. >> the mental health counselor in every single school in the united states. we need to start playing offense. >> if you need a license to drive a car, you should need a license to buy and own a firearm. >> democratic party would stop acting like the party of the elites and be the party of the working people again and go in to states, including red states, to convince people were on their side -- >> we are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we are the last...

School. these kids are traumatized. i support the gun reform here. we need to start dealing with the trama that the kids have. we have trama based care in every school. social and emotional learning. and 90% of the shooters who do school shootings come from the school theyre in. 73% feel shame, traumatized or bullied. make sure the kids feel connected to the school. that means a mental health counsellor in every school in the united states. we need to start playing offense. our kids are so traum...

Our party can start competing in places like kentucky for senate seats so we can send mitch mcconnell home it means we can build a long term sustainable majority by winning senate seats in north carolina by making them play defense. im so tired as a democrat of playing defense, im an old quarterback, i want to start playing offense. all of us are going to start playing offense. i want us to play offense in the senate races. i want to go to iowa and win that senate seat. i want to go to missouri ...

Steve patterson is at tarkanian headquarters. steve, good speaking with you. tell us whats happening. >> reporter: richard, its a very busy day for getting out to vote here. this is tarkanians headquarters. you can see people working the phones. in a few minutes theyll be out hitting the street. this is a very interesting race, because its kind of an inverse from what weve seen in the senate race weve been telling you about where democrats think they have a huge opportunity to pick up a seat the...

Trump won in 2016. in fact, that top row, those five senators, those democrats are from a states where donald trump won by double digits. so there is a lot of defense for democrats to play. >> and there are some playing offense? >> that is certainly true. namely in arizona jeff flake retiring, so democrats see potential optimistic outlook in that state. and senator heller the republican from nevada is the only republican running for re-election in a state that hillary clinton won. so hes clearly...

Democrats have to defend 25 seats, republicans only have to defend ten seats. the republicans are going to be playing offense, democrats are going to be playing defense and i find it hard to think that somebody is going to lose in a state a republican candidate whos got no charges of sexual harassment against him or frankly anything to do with the russian collusion because of peoples feelings about trump, that may be on the issues they might vote against him, but if you are running as a republic...

Trat ji is working. >> there is a g-20 next week and weve heard angela merkel tay to the effect, paraphrasing, we no longer count on america, which is stunning because she is someone who uses words very carefully. >> the other thing angela merkel came out this morning and gave a blistering speech about is the fact that she is calling out donald trump about protectionism. and there is rising concern in europe about this protectionist impulses coming out of the white house. weve already had flashp...

Issue at hand with russia collusion and interference in the election to and you were very good and the senator i thought was very good in terms of talking about the remaining fundamental issue. from the point of view from the trump white house which has not had good days, this was a better day than most. >> thats why we compared it to getting temporary relief. they made the pain go away today. susan rice is a subpoenaed witness in front of the senate intel committee can talk about whats in those...

Does not mean playing defense. it means playing offense." democrats blast of the health care legislation. >> this is not a health care bill. its an ideological document, fantasy about freedom and choice in a market that doesnt exist. what israel is painfully real. >> this plan is a scam being perpetrated on an against the american people. if you are 50 to 64, you get clobbered. >> ryan a top administration officials try to find adjustments, what ryan calls the sweet spot to pass the bill in the ...