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Attention whatsoever to whatever the obama administration or secretary kerry has to say. substantively, kerry has made what i think is the most important speech of an american policy maker in decades but politically it clearly is now dead in the water. >> so on that note, aaron, why wasnt this speech given sooner? >> ah-ha. and thats a very interesting question. daniel kurtzer knows, together weve probably written a fair number of speeches by secretaries of state over the years and i think the f...

Of this administration. >> but ronald reagan was the one who perfected the use of television and john kennedy was the forerunner of that and before that fdr who mastered the use of the radio. what was he doing? he was going outside of the white house. he was going directly to the people. so every president tries to do it. whats important to remember is if youre covering the white house you have a group of reporters there, it helps our democracy, it helps public understanding of what the presiden...

Lobbyists. so the question here, the point of all this, substantively, is, is donald trump going to drain the swamp, change things in washington? always harder to do than to say on the campaign trail. donald trump in one tweet saying he is still intending to do it. newt gingrich backtracking today big time. >> its interesting, jeff. perhaps the twitter back and forth and sub tweeting between donald trump is more interesting than whether or not he is draining the swamp in washington, jackie kucin...

Thats one of the critiques. here was donald trump on the campaign trail, basically saying that goldman controls politicians too much. >> i know the guys at goldman sachs. they have total, total, total control over him. just like they have total control over hillary clinton. he talks about, hes going to be robin hood, hes protecting. then find out on his personal disclosure form, he didnt disclose hes borrowing a lot of money from goldman sachs. he obviously didnt want the voters to know that he ...

>> i think like sabrina said, mike pence is certainly going to try to be a bridge. hes not just being a bridge to the establishment republicans but he is trying to bridge to some degree to disgruntled democrats. there are mms of outraged democratic voters who are unhappy. theyre going to have to get at least some democratic votes in the senate in order to avoid filibusters in a 60 vote majority to get anything done. there has to be someone who reaches out to the other side. there has to be someb...

Substantively, what is the difference between having you as leader and nancy pelosi? give me a substantive reason? >> well, i think the focuses would be economics. we were not on an economic message at all. and let me say for the purposes of congressional elections, i dont hang this last election around nancy pelosis neck. we were running with a presidential election and we do get caught up in that wave in which i believe there was not enough of an economic message. but clearly we can go back to...

It to our consistencies to listen and bring order to the leadership. ryans district includes a lot of counties such as mahoning county, part of the counties that appealed to donald trump. he points out that mahoning won it in 2012, but hillary clinton barely won it, less than 3,000 votes. joining me, congressman tim ryan, who represents the 13th district. i get the sort of big picture, i think the idea of your candidacy you sort of represent the heart of the country that swung from the democrats...

And look -- >> weve done it. >> theres a black guy. hes the president. what else could be do? and on top of that, his oratory skills, his rhetoric, the way he campaigned contributed to that. his dnc speech, we dont have a white america and a black america. were not a collection of red states and blue states, were the united states. he spouted this transformational promise that we could be so much better, right? i think that one of the reasons black lives matter and these activists become so mobi...

>> weve done it. >> theres a black guy. hes the president. what else could be do? and on top of that, his oratory skills, his rhetoric, the way he campaigned contributed to that. his dnc speech, we dont have a white america and a black america. were not a collection of red states and blue states, were the united states. he spouted this transformational promise that we could be so much better, right? i think that one of the reasons black lives matter and these activists become so mobilized during...

County, part of the counties that appealed to donald trump. he points out that mahoning won it in 2012, but hillary clinton barely won it, less than 3,000 votes. joining me, congressman tim ryan, who represents the 13th district. i get the sort of big picture, i think the idea of your candidacy you sort of represent the heart of the country that swung from the democrats to donald trump. if anyone wants to ask what went wrong to the democrats, you could do worse than to look in congress. if democ...