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Very few people would like to see, but in talking to people in the crowd in harrisburg last night, quite a few of them unsolicited said what i love about him is he talks like me and my buddies do, and even those who were upset about his reversal on the wall or were worried about him going off in a different course on policy, they always came back to the way he talks. he sounds like us and we appreciate that. >> okay. marc fisher, thank you so much. good to speak with you. a day of marches as t...

The role of what some might describe as a permanent protest class. is this going to dog this president? >> i think its more intense than ive seen it since the late 1960s, early 1970s with vietnam and watergate. will it last? the anti-vietnam war movement lasted for many years. people felt very strongly about it. people feel very strongly about donald trump, for and against. i do want to mention one thing thats critical, alex. we found in this survey of trump voters that 20% of his support, 20%, ...

Part of his agenda with the muslim ban. we had people that served alongside our men and women in iraq and interpreters and protected them. that really unleashed a title wave of sentiment. theres no putting that genie back in the bottle. i dont know if you call it a permanent protest class, but people have really woken up and they realize they need to be vocal. they need to be in the faces of their representatives. bottom line, they have to vote. so, i see 2018 with a lot of energy and momentum o...

Weekend. there was the tax march, the travel ban, the science march and now the climate change march, so it does seem like the energy is sustaining. the question for democrats is whether they can keep this going through the midterm elections. >> betsy, people are identifying this as a new class, a protest class. weigh in. >> i think theres certainly truth to that. the reality is that given social media developments and just increasingly connected nature of the world we live in, its a lot easier ...

You will never see such a march and such a concentration of people before. and i know you say, well, he hasnt unified -- you know what, everybody keeps saying, well, can they sustain the resistance? its not about the democratic party of bernie sanders or anybody maintaining, the people must maintain the resistance. >> its interesting that you bring that up because we were speaking about how there is this new class, this protest class. no matter what side of the aisle that you sit on, it has -- p...

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