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To work with us to get this right. so right now im cautiously optimistic. >> cautiously optimistic but definitely not there yet. senator did emint, thank you so much. ron brownstein is here, and amanda carpenter. ron brownstein, they are not close. they are not close yet. >> i think i actually think the crunch point is going to be different than where it looks today. if you go back since the republicans took over in 1994, whether in the newt gingrich era or the tom delay area, the house republic...

Them to do. but i can use my own experience. i got elected in 1994 about balance budgets and bringing down the deficit and bringing down the national debt, reforming entitlement spending, and doing all of these things that took money, power, and authority out of washington, d.c. i just could not negotiate on that and it took tom delay and the whip operation. you know? if it increased the deficit i wasnt going to vote for it. there was nothing they could say or do because my whole career rested o...

Gone out -- a unified house republican government would not have gone to do that. you can see the clash of perspectives. the history is -- you can think back maybe the clearest analog for me to this is the medicare part d. the prescription drug under medicare when there was a similar revolt among house conservatives, and ethwell tom delay, leaving the vote open the longest ever, they were able to get there. the history is usually they can find a way to cobble this through the house by moving it ...

Democratic party that connect with the people we lost. >> they are not there. the leaders of the democratic party -- >> turn my phone upside down. >> ari -- >> not the leaders of the democratic supporter. >> im not a trump supporter, im a democrat, and i dont know where you guys are. i really dont. >> thats the process were going through right now is that change. weve got a guy 35 years old running for chair of the dnc right now. hes got a decent shot at winning. >> by the way, ari, saying the s...

Person. its true, trump is a different kind of candidates, but they would find a different way to demonize each person. for eight years, the democrats in the media have had their candidates. obama was there nero, reflected their dreams, aspirations, the y fat. i mean, he could take off his shirt. the shoe is on the other foot and it is eight baby booty because they are crying like babies. >> oh, my gosh. >> do you have any rejoinder to the baby bootie? >> i just wonder what would have happened i...

Process is not defeated by the procedure but having said that again, this is not what they want to be doing. they want to be draining the swamp. they want to come in and not only keeping that kind of office in place, but they have serious things the congress has to do to make some reform in washington and in fact to clean up the government. dont they realize what the election was about in november? americans are sick and tired of what goe in washington. president trump was exactly correct. >> ha...

But that this was not the thing that they should do first so he was really suggesting that you know, they got it wrong by making this their first play, but is it unfair? is that house ethics oversight unfair, that watchdog that was put in place after what happened with you and tom delay and a lot of others? >> right, first of all i wanted to correct, delay was not convicted in my case. it was the texas case. but separately from that, no, i dont think its necessarily unfair. i think what people a...

One. hundreds of other doctors were also told that year that they had just won physician of the year. and it was all part of the same scam. a scam run by republican congressman named tom delay. the scam targeted doctors, told them theyd won this prestigious award, told them because they were so famous and so well regarded that they were being invited to join something called the physicians advisory board which is a very prestigious thing in order to go to events for this fake prestigious advisor...

None of that was true. this was just the same con that tom delay used to use. all they were doing was raising money. theyre basically shaking down doctors for donations. in some instances this congressman even used the names of his marks, used the names of these physicians hes targeted on this fake press release, he would actually put those out, put the doctors names out publicly as if they were in support of this mission even though hed never gotten those doctors permissions to raise funds in t...

Thing in order to go to events for this fake prestigious advisory board theyd just been signed up to, though, they would have to shell out something like $5,000 and again that money would go to the national republican congressional committee. it was a scam. a fund-raising scam run by then house majority leader tom delay back in the early 2000s. tom delay eventually left congress in an ethics scandal that led to him being convicted and then his conviction being overturned. we do still have the la...