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Moment. but youre not out of the state forever. thi >> they say for three weeks theyre going to be out of the state. twl is a unique situation. we havent seen that in the awareness of politics. the escalating special sessions. this is a unique year. in the fall because of the delayed census, they have to pick up redistricting. they have to do a special session. when they do a special session, they can bring in other topics. so this will likely come to a head in october when redistricting has to ...

If we allow more housing and buy down unpaid Covid related rent balances, we’ll need fewer benefits in the first place.

>> this is not about free stuff. public good. [applause] [inaudible] >> the terms free stuff ever again. charles: she has spoken, new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez wants people to stop calling progressive social programs free stuff, instead call them public goods. this as new poll shows majority of americans think medicare for all is a bad idea, now thats a complete flip from 2 years ago, back joining us dierdre bolton and nathan reuben, dierdre let me start with you. >> i think it...

How can you govern the country if you live in a place like this? doesnt it distort you? >> i met old-line democrat. i think their work -- there were some great democratic mayors who helped run around cities. bob lanier in houston being a prime example. its not the politics, its something thats happening. you even look at, lets say, and representative cortezs district. there is such low voter turnout, very small groups of militant people can actually win elections by being organized. she got abou...

Singled out really made this personal and elevated it in a remarkable way, and pelosi said, look, i dont want to talk more about this. i said what i said. i say my pieces privately. the problem is she didnt keep it all in private. she talked to maureen dowd about it. you showed that quote. and that sort of is part of what kickstarted all off this animosity. ocasio-cortez told "the new yorker" last year she doesnt really have a relationship with pelosi. they had had this calm de taunte. when you ...

Personifies where we expected things to go down the line. >> shes the kennedy of the future. shes got this down pat and she has also nailed it. and as a woman in a male-dominated fields. woman in male dominated fields we have to work like this all the time. shes the candidate of the nowture. shes coming. >> they came alive through aoc. they came alive to talk about aoc. >> whats so interesting to here democratic voters say that representative cortez is the candidate of the future is not only per...

There is some political danger in the short term i think for democrats that these proposals seem too radical and utopian and even threatening to ordinary people. but what democrats like cortez are trying to do is to shift the entire structure of the debate to make thinkable policies that in the past, say, in the clinton and obama era could not even be discussed. >> former maryland congressman john delaney i guess running a year and a half now got in in july of 2017, he was asked here on cnn last...

Bernie sanders when he talks about socialism is talking about norway and denmark but talking venezuela more frightening and suggesting to americans this would not be america as we know it any more. . given donald trump is in a relative weak position, i think this is a good play for him to make. >> in the same vein, the green new deal which was released a couple of weeks ago, representative cortez was out this weekend with her inaugural address. do you think this is for some of the democratic can...

Pass any smell test. it doesnt provide any value to the american people or to any citizen -- no any citizen anywhere in the world of even their nation. so there is a real moral deficit here going on from representative cortez and i think she needs to go back and take a look at that and question her own morality. ed: i was talking to one of republican colleagues who privately told me he represents congresswoman cortez she is honest and direct about what she wants to do with the country unlike oth...

Song. >> i support a new deal. >> when one of the founders came back instead of calling police gave her a ticket to the state of the union. and he is drafting a green new deal resolution with representative cortez. >> how specific are we getting. >> it does set a high goal of greenhouse gas emitting sources into the atmosphere. >> we are going to announce at the right time what it is. >> this nation is asking for action and action now. >> the original new deal helped pull america out of the grea...