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Labels do either help or hurt you. but as i look down at your positions, you know, im not sure what they say. just shorthanding it, youre not a fan of tax cuts, you support a sing single-payor health care system, you support guns. how do you think you differ from your 23 other democratic opponents in this case? >> i differ because the last 45 years of my life i spent at the epicenter of deindustrialization. ive represented a congressional district that is the epicenter of infant mortality rate, ...

The ones who will feel the most pain. >> on one hand, im fighting to push these refineries to lower their emission levels, and theyre fighting and pushing back, saying we cant lower it anymore than what weve already done without shutting down and losing our business. and then i have some of the residents coming to me saying, well, you know, what youre doing, youre going to push these industries away, and we need these industries for our jobs, hilton. our livelihood depends on them. you know, wel...

These industries for our sdwraubs. our livelihood depends on it. well die quicker from starvation than pollution. so back off . >> reporter: he was it born where the working poor live with a carbon burning double whammy. toxic air that comes with processing millions of barrel of oil a week and the supercharge storms that increase in frequency and power with every barrel burned. >> were getting a storm like every three years. not just a little storm but storms that cost you to have to rebuild you...

We have already done without shutting down and losing our business. then i have some of the residents saying, you know, what youre doing, youre going to push these industries away and we need them for our jobs. our livelihood depends on them. well die quicker from starvation than pollution. so back off. >> reporter: hilton kelly was born amid the sprawling refineries of port arthur, texas, where the working poor live with a carbon-burning double whammy. toxic air from processing barrels of oil a...

For a smile thats a true force of nature. new burts bees® toothpaste. this is a big moment for cnn, the first ever comedy special is happening on message, and colin quinn "red state blue state" created by and starring comedian colin quinn and he takes a look at the sometimes nasty rhetoric creating so much division in america today and you wonder if the united states should actually stay united after all. here is a preview. >> and i understand its sad breaking up the united states. but were a...

Losses. also trump tower, his crown jewel, i think its down 20-some percent for sales. but his whole campaign was based on him being this brilliant businessman. do you think that changes things in 2020 or is that baked into the cake? >> yeah, i dont think that matters. people have to be careful. you dont want to start doing this to a man like this because his mind, if he keeps chipping away hes capable of anything. >> lets talk about "red state blue state." colin quinn, what are you doing here? ...

Sector approach to climate change? >> dagen: we were sitting here reading my mind come up morgan ortagus. [laughter] if i point at you it means i love you. that will ultimately be the approach, talking about how natural gas, which is plentiful in this country, has helped reduce emissions at power plants by 30% since 2005. focusing on the jobs that are created. again, more fuel-efficient cars in this country. what private industry is doing rather than this on-high, high and mighty idea that, by t...

>> we should note, youre here in mississippi and focussing on housing for people that are struggling. you have a plan to tackle that. you say its going to help lower rent. how does that work? >> so i have a proposal to build about 3 million new housing units across america. anybody in here worried about the rise price of housing? thats pretty much everybody, right? the idea is that we need to make a real investment in housing. in the same way that we think about health care as a basic human righ...

Yourself -- would you call yourself a proud capitalist? >> oh, i dont know. again, the labels, im not sure any of them fit. >> he was asked that three times and you were sitting on the panel. >> and my mouth dropped. he opened up his statement, the governor did, by saying america has an extreme case of divisiveness and i couldnt agree more. that we were in a crisis as a nation. and hes a democrat that i was looking to since im not a trump supporter that was looking to see what he to offer. but h...

Kind of people that the amy klobuchars of the world, michael bennetts hope to appeal to. weve been talking to people, as my producers and i roll around town, and a lot of the issues you hear talking about here have to do with being the working poor, not being able to afford child care, not being able to, you know, when you get off public assistance you lose pieces because you went to work so now you dont get food stamps and trying to figure out how to juggle. are those issues sizzling enough for...