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That he was able to amass even though he was painted as the other, the democratic party did not listen to the voices of the forgotten america. >> president-elect trump won rural america three to one. he got more african-american votes and latino votes than mitt romney did. its a political earthquake. i lived in california 27 years. i went through north ridge and big bear. people are jitter y after it. you dont want to be under an overpass. you dont want to be in a tall build building. i dont wan...

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Male vo: no one deserves a warmer welcome home. thats why were hiring 10,000 members of the military community by the end of 2017. im very proud of him. male vo: comcast. back now with the panel. donald trumps going to be presiding over a divided country. whats interesting is the same language that conservatives used during the obama years is long thats being borrowed by progressives. let me play for you something we put together. >> we will take our country back and you are either with us or ...

We are back. its data download time. did donald trump win the election or did hillary clinton lose it? the answer, yes and yes. lets really dive into the numbers. we will start with the state of florida where clinton hit the number we thought she needed. she got 248,000 more votes than president obama did in 2012. big surge in latino voters. but obama won florida, clinton did not. how did it happen? because trump was able to drive up turnout in parts of the state that many of us did not expect. ...

Communities. the dnc chair has to help them do that and have a vision for that and the energy for that. >> let me ask a question this way. if you decide not to run, why would that be? whats the reason not to do it, if you decide not to do it? >> because theres a lot of places that i can serve. im going to -- im going to fight to rebuild the democratic party no matter what. i will fight to make sure the democratic party is known among working people that we are their champion, no matter what. im ...

As campaign manager. that should not -- >> thrilled for the country. >> that should not get lost in all of this. thanks for coming on. joining me is a democrat who represents a part of the country that perhaps still cant believe they lost tuesday. senator cory booker of new jersey. welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you for having me on again. >> let me put the question to you this way. what did you learn from the voters on tuesday? what message did they send to you? >> look, i think t...

You because of the tradition of american protest. i have my rights, not because of washington suddenly deciding strom thur mman and others, let give people rights but because of the voice of protesters. when you have a president that in his campaign who ran saying things that not arent just contrary to fact but literally threatening to use presidential power in a way that would erode the rights and privileges and equality of large sections of americans, god bless the protesters. but i will tell ...

Message that they were trying to send. how did this happen? >> well, i think that people have been looking at 40 years of flat wages. you know, the reality is, you got folks in diners and hair shops and barber shops all over this country who look at their own lives and think, you know, my parents did better than im doing and my kids might not do as well as im doing. thats because wages have been flat for so long. they feel like theres two systems of justice. over there at wells fargo, you had al...

How hard do democrats fight this? >> i think this is part of this trying to understand which kind of a turn donald trump is taking. what kind of a country he envisions 57bd w s and who he p the supreme court as are key early appointments, those are indications we get about what kind of right turn america is on the verge of taking. is it more extreme than -- >> what do progressives expect from democrats? you heard cory booker saying if theres things we can work with, we can work with. he is not g...

Been a century of counter reaction to globalization. and a good century for 72 nations have gotten more authoritarian. we have had brexit. we have a lot of these types around the world. the people who will suffering from globalization are saying, no more. we get a voice. for those of us who believe in it, there has to be a movement that says, we still believe in trade, we still believe in international engagement for america. for those losers or those suffering, we have your back. to me the cruc...