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CNN political commentator Van Jones, who once served as Green Jobs Czar for the Obama administration, said Thursday that there’s never been “a big defund the police voting constituency” in the Democratic Party.

Structure? >> well, i think its changing very quickly. you know, look, the last years election, the republicans surprised everyone. by taking a lot more seats than anyone thought they would. so it looked like a lot of voters were saying im not with donald trump but i sort of agree with the republican principles. i think the situation has improved for them because the greatest union fire for republicans is joe biden. and he has gone down this progressive path with this huge spending and taxing an...

To appeal to the middle of the road voters, chart a more moderate path with buttigieg or klobuchar or try something new like yang or pursue a more progressive path trying to motivate the voters who dont nach naturally come out to vote like warren or sanders, and so now it is time for us the voters. >> and it is true, because the caucuses are so different from the primaries that we will see down the road. the people will come together in their communities and form groups to decide which of those ...

The argument that thats how we actually change things is find our voice. theres a lot of agreement on that stage tonight. a lot of that agreement is about cementing what that progressive path is. >> i do love that goldwater analogy that he lost in 64 and took until reagan for his ideology to be embodied within the oval office. i think there are large portion of americans right now who are so exhausted by this presidency that they dont want to wait, you know, 10, 15 years, however long it is, for...

Actually change things is find our voice. theres a lot of agreement on that stage tonight. a lot of that agreement is about cementing what that progressive path is. >> i do love that goldwater analogy that he lost in 64 and took until reagan for his ideology to be embodied within the oval office. i think there are large portion of americans right now who are so exhausted by this presidency that they dont want to wait, you know, 10, 15 years, however long it is, for the platonic ideal of progress...

What will be interesting and this relates to what mike said, how he continues to do it with tens or more of democratic candidates who will join her in this race. >> one of the things that make this moment so notable is what we are witnessing is this debate within the democratic party. what will the identity be? will they take a more progressive path to the nomination to the white house or will they choose a more establishment candidate? talk about the tension there. obviously, you have covered e...

Legislative seats that they picked up. they picked up seven legislative chambers. we had a graphic for all of that, but i will just lay it out for you. what do you think of that night? >> yeah. going in, it seems like it would be even higher. i think thats why democrats were feeling like the blue wave never really happened for them and i think a big key part of that was florida, particularly earlier in the night. there was a conversation earlier about matthew what democrats would do going forwar...

Are struggling to find a way to beat trump. >> theres a lot of recriminations right now. we saw statemnts from move on and from the progressive democrats of america saying you werent liberal enough. you cant just have an anti-trump message. you need a more aggressive agenda. as democrats figure out how to wage the battles in 2018, there will be a lot of debate do we go the sen crist path or more progressive path. >> one of the statements, i just want to read part of the statement from democracy ...

The party work across the nation to build up the party to make sure that were not just working at election time. but really creating an informed citizenry thats committed to a more progressive path nor great country. and certainly a path very distinct to the one that we see today. and you know im excited. i think both individuals are going to work together and were going to get behind a candidate. but theres a lot of work that we need to do in states and cities across the nation. >> i want to ta...

For hillary clinton. republicans are trying to, you know, work on that as well. and youre seeing him set up that site going into the new year. >> first time weve had girl power mentioned at the table, thats good. >> after i story -- i have a story in the paper about senator warren and what shes up to, obviously a lot on the left were hoping that she runs for president. this is not going to happen, but what is striking is how she is using her leverage in the senate to sort of keep the party on mo...