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Diversity. saying we cant get over the south because the south is not over what their history is back to the civil war, the democrats did own the south. they lost the south and now the republicans are holding on to the south. through values and work ethic. its the bathroom situation, its jamming obamacare. its not because the south doesnt like black people. >> also barack obama and hillary clinton are not listening to someone important. bill clinton has been saying dont dismiss the southern whit...

Democratic party in this election. so he won counties like mccomb county in michigan that hillary clinton lost by quite a margin, luzerne county near your hometown up by scranton, where he -- she lost by 20 and he won by five. the reason he believes is that he communicated an economic message and a sense of connection to the concerns of those people that wasnt communicated there. he did take care, jake, to say that he thought very highly of hillary and the campaign he ran and felt she had been t...

Well, areas toward the eastern part of the states were seeing those advisories extend well into the afternoon. whats ahead for the northeast and into pennsylvania and great lakes, look at this. were watching out for freezing rain on top of all the snow in the plains. freezing rain for harrisburg, scranton, syracuse, western mass. then if you start heading into the mountains of vermont up towards maine, light snow. be careful if youre driving tonight. even just a little trace of ice can make a di...

Run. she thought she had no choice but to run, that as a first woman who had the opportunity to win the presidency. i think it was a real burden on her. vice president biden also says the democratic party was hurt by, quote, a bit of elitism that crept into their thinking. and he says he began to worry that donald trump could win when he saw how good the republican was doing among working class voters in bidens neck of the woods, scranton, pennsylvania. guy, we were talking during the break, i h...

To be two years from now when people really start looking seriously what they are going to do. >> hillary clinton lost in part because of how incredibly poorly she did with a voting group that is one of the groups that you speak for and have historically, people used to call you middle class joe, son of scranton, and got clobbered with white working class voters. you said you might be the only democrat in the senate that won white men. why do you think she did so poorly with white working class ...

Whomever is running. but look, as you know, jake, four years is a lifetime in american politics, and i think that nominees are determined by their parties based mostly on what skill set is most needed at that time. and who knows where were going to be two years from now when people really start looking seriously what they are going to do. >> hillary clinton lost in part because of how incredibly poorly she did with a voting group that is one of the groups that you speak for and have historically...

>> do you think you could have done a better job? >> i dont know, theyd probably have eaten me alive. who knows what would have happened. and i really mean that. i dont know. i learned how to become popular. not running for president, oh, man, youre the most popular guy out there. >> thats not entirely true. youre being a little -- i cant believe you didnt sit there at times during the campaign and think, oh, hillary, why dont you say -- or youre not connecting with my people. you and president ...

Out there. >> thats not entirely true. youre being a little -- i cant believe you didnt sit there at times during the campaign and think, oh, hillary, why dont you say -- or youre not connecting with my people. you and president obama won a county, home of scranton, by almost 30 points. hillary clinton almost -- she barely won it, three or four points. >> look, again, it was -- so easy to go back and monday morning quarterback. >> im talking about quarterbacking during the game. >> well, during ...

Obviously, nancy pelosi will. there will be governors that will emerge. so its a contest of ideas of which direction to take the party. after every single loss, the political party that loses, they go and do a retrospective what happened, where did we make a mistake, what did we do wrong? that debate is going to ensue and hopefully the party will grow from it. >> chuck schumer, liberal from new york city, brooklyn, nancy pelosi, liberal from san francisco, is there a voice that will represent sc...

Two things the vice president did not bring up when he was talking about the election. he did not blame the russians and he did not blame fbi director james comey. he talked about white working class voters. these are the voters for whom he has long had appeal. a group he identifies with. he was born in scranton, pennsylvania. thats in lackawanna county, pennsylvania, a county he and president obama won by 30 points and barely won this time around. he talked about how the democratic party explai...