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I helped to include things like methane fee, and border adjustment tax, but went beyond where president biden and even bernie sanders were, and then on the climate, people will be happy with the product. >> all right. democrat senator mark warner, appreciate your time as always. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. and now, joining us is secretary of labor marty walsh, and i wanted to ask you, because the president is always talking about how he wants the u.s. economy to work for working...

Were back speaking with chris matthews out today with a new book "bobby kennedy, a raging spirit". what can the modern democratic party learn from bobby kennedy 50 years after his death. having lost more than 1,000 seats under barack obama. >> the democratic party in our country began with irish italian, working class people. it started with black people too. they were all together with economic interest. unions, working wages. good job. democrats focussed on social issues. they divided the coal...

What is the next iteration of the party? wed better start thinking about it and aligning our policies. within this tragedy that happened on tuesday, it is opportunity. great leaders and great organizations find opportunity in tough times like this. >> maybe we need fewer hyphenated democrats and more unhyphenated democrats. regular democrats. that could be the solution. wraed and butter, working wages. the heart of the party. you have a tough road to hoe. >> i love nancy pelosi. she cant get bla...

Stance. which plays well with people who are already going to vote republican. it does nothing to expand the brand at all. and it plays -- >> the republican party growth has been among white working people who didnt go to college. they like trump because hes a nationalist. he voices their indignation why would he stick it in their faces saying you wont get any money from me, and wages are too high? >> it makes no sense for him politically when you look at the base. theyre these disenfranchised w...

Compete against the world. >> you do not raise the minimum wage. >> i would not raise the minimum. >> every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people increases. you know, and thats because of those high wages. >> if i thought that raising the minimum wage was the best way to help people increase their pay, i would be all for it, but it isnt. in the 21st century its a disaster. >> and heidi, this is an odd thing. lets start with trump. he has a great appeal of economic national...

Rejection of raising the minimum wa wage. the curious statement that wages in this country. rents too high. wages are too high. lets watch. >> wages too high. were not going to be able to compete against the world. >> you do not raise the minimum wage. >> i would not raise the minimum. >> every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people increases. you know, and thats because of those high wages. >> if i thought that raising the minimum wage was the best way to help people incre...

They like trump because hes a nationalist. he voices their indignation why would he stick it in their faces saying you wont get any money from me, and wages are too high? >> it makes no sense for him politically when you look at the base. theyre these disenfranchised white working class voters. >> what the do you think of trump, i dont know about the thing with raises. >> 51% is the percentage of u.s. kids today who quality for free lunches because theyre parents dont earn enough money. thats wh...

Dots. i hear a gut nationalist in there that a lot of people feel betrayed by the big shots at the top. on all the fronts. >> i agree with you. my guess donald trump will not believe he will not deport 11 million people. even donald trump does not think he can do that. it speaks to the people in the country who like katey said are disaffected. people feel like their wages are going down because of the immigrants. >> what is everybody else going to do? nothing. >> trump is right. >> people are go...

Welcome back to hard ball. wages in this country are too high. thats what trump said. its time to bring back a 1950s era mass deportation program. lets invade iraq again. and for get the situation room. the real foreign policy experience comes from the green room. last nights republican debate was full of moments like that that republican critics and certainly democratic ads makers will like to exploit. theyve begun the assault already. we have the national correspondent with "the washington pos...

It was almost hard to watch. we have talked about his remarks about defeating isis in iraq and how its easy. carly fear reno went over her time consistently. ben carson didnt even use his time. to get back to trump for a second, i thought it was amazing that he led off this debate by telling us that he thinks american wages are too high. we are living through a crisis of wage stagnation and even wage decline. especially for those white working-class voters who we have all identified as part of h...