Im socal there. Were very happy to have them. Are and those of you who joining us the axios event team off a bipartisan breakfast. Theres not a lot of meals in are bipartisan. We have french toast, rolls that cream cheese with raspberry dipping sauce. Take your pick. Overnight oats are layered with strawberries and blueberries just like i make at home. Rnight oats are layered with straw berries and blue burieea berries just like t home. Thats the bipartisan breakfast and we appreciate those who mated it possible. If you hop on axios. Com. Every story one iphone screen. We kale it smart brevty. J the big idea is to make people smarter faster. About the most important topics of the time so you can make better decisions and our events are a manifestation of that. Today we have a fantastic conversation about whats both practical and what we should be shooting for among the party wars in d. C. And we have a bunch of front line players who are going to take us behind the scenes of that. Im going to set the stage who has been such a great part of our first nine months who worked on the business side of cnn and excuse me worked on the business side of politico and New York Times. So has a very unusual perspective. 360 perspective on media trends. Does a great media trends news letter. Love to welcome our colleague, with any bigging story youll find out right away why it matters. And you popped upd a perfect post this morning. You looked at how democrats and republicans communicate differently. Totally differently. They looked at all the social media posts of members of congress, all the press releases. And republicans tend to go to social media first when they want to communicate with their constituenciys. Democrats on the other hand will go to a press release and i called someone last night whose rar veter a veteran hill member and she said one of the things you hear on capitol hill all the time is democrats will go for policy first, republicans will go for message first. Its a totally different way of communica communicating between the two parties on capitol hill. I think they wouldnt be accepted. The message itself, the policy in itself will be lost. Mr mr. How they deliver that message is an after thought. Ive talked to folks on capitol hill. This seems to be switching. I think about representative dingal. People taking the social heedia and breaking through. These are new changes and it doesnt necessarily mean that dynamic willby that way forever. News letters a super popular dissemination of media. My nephew, just graduated. Hes 22. How is the way he gets his information from his senator or member different from probably the way the senator is disseminating the information . Totally different. First of all that senator or member are going to put out a Traditional Press release. Theyll put out things on social media. Theyll have one on one groups with lobbying members on capitol hill. But evan might only get one tweet. Hes only going to be reached by his member from just one way which is why members have to use so many Different Communications meths. This is something very different. Just a few years ago members put out a press release and thats it. Thats why youre seeing so many folks beefing up social media. What can washington and that can include communicators of advocacy groups, senators, members, media organization. Include foundations. What can washington and Public Policy communicators learn and what should we know about snapchat. Snapchats a very visual and powerful medium. If you follow along youll notice theyre constantly calling and are ebranding themself a camera company. They want to make sure every message is a big, bright beautiful picture in media. But that is how we see the world, right . Totally. And i think snapchat is tapping into that in a way other social mediums did. Twitter didnt let you attach pictures without going against your character count. Now you studied political communication at George Washington university. How is political communication changed even since you, who are editor even since you graduated from gwu has changed . I think the biggest change is people on capitol hill and their surrounding power brokers are really engaged in social media. He wasnt prolific about it and now when we talk to some of our advertising partners, our sou e sources on the hill and washington, theyll tell you you have to engage with cap trrl hill members and social. Especially since the president has taken to twitter on an almost daily basis. Does the president tweet . People can tell right away whether its the official or the flak. Ib thing they can tell. With psychological studies about younger kids is they crave authenticity and this is why youtube stars, theyre not celebrities youy ies youve hea ever. Theyre young up andcomers who speak directly to the camera. Id say thats a huge difference in Communications Style is you can tell when a member is putting a lichk and saying i voted for x, y, and, z verses if they come back with a quip and do something really sharp. So as our ceo would say blow my mind. Whats something coming up . Dont give it away but whats something we should be watching about what actually gets done whether its a pr firm or a digital firm and for so long people relied on major firms but now these smaller, nimble groups who have different expertise in Campaign Communications are starting to pop up and be leveraged by some of the biggest agencies in the world and someof those are right here in d. C. Its a great opportunity for our city, for expolitical staffers trying to get inhad to the agency world. Thats what i have my eye on is how d. C. Is changing the media world. I like to be hopeful and i would say media always shines transparency, usually on things people should know about and tells them. And sarah fisher, when people always ask a fun fact. I have a fun fact about you. Sarah fisher, how many email contacts do you have . Oh, i have a lot of email contacts. Theyre not all in my contacts list. Many are in excel spread sheets. 10s of thousands. Sarah fisher, thank you for your great coverage. Thank you. Thank you very much, sarah fisher and welcome our cspan viewers and those of you joining us online. Please join the convrs aersatio with axios and nou its my honor to welcome to the stage a congressman weve been talking back stage a lot about whats possible in washington, how to make progress across the aisle, congressman carlos. Welcome back. Thank you for being here. So as we were back stage you said you referring High School Basketball and the parents were the worst. The kids were okay. But it built a lot of character and taught me that he always got to try to make the right call. Youre going to get heckled. You can walk quietly out of the gym. Thats what politics is like. And the referees want the game to be all about them these days and its not about us. It should be about the American People like its about the players. Youre an official millennial. Youre 37. Some as a an old gen xor, and kind of in between, like bipartisanship i guess. But you have been reaching out not only across the aisle but across generations. What is it like to be youngish, younger on capitol hill. I think we bring a different perspective. I think weir rar little more sober about politics. So i tell young people all it time i really think that its going to take new generations in the United States to have the political renaissance i think we sorely desperately need in this country, bring a more sober, thought f thoughtf thoughtful conciliatory. Thats three strikes for the current congress. Of those what would be your of those, what would you be most hopeful about actually making a change . So i think theres some issue s out there that cry out for obvious solutions. Weve been debating immigration in this country. First dream act was filed in 2001. Were still talking about dreamers. Broader Immigration Reform in 2005 2006. Nothing has happened. And the solution, at least to me, are fairly obvious and one of the things im optimistic about this congress, especially end of the year is that we may have the first meaningful, significant immigration compromise since nikara legislation in 1998. This would extend the dreamer fix by the owned of the year . Thats our hope. And thats accompany would reasonable Border Security measures. A lot of drug activity at the border and most americans want to stop that. When you Start Talking about a wall, thats where people start to get divided. But i dont think anyone actually believes were going to build a 2,000 mile wall but we should do everything we can to have reasonable, sensible Border Security. Dont tell the president. What is your sense of how much what he says is for effect and how much of it he really thinks, for instance with the wall. What do you think he would settle for or ultimately deliver . I think and i dont know him well. Ive only interacted with him a couple times but i think and you look back at his life and career in business, hes a very pr pragmatic person. I think hell take almost any reasonable, compromise. I tell people im not obsess would the president. Those are those for him and against him that are obsessed with him. Their day revolves round what the president says and does. I just cant do that. I dont think thats healthy about anyone and by the way i have a wife and kids. I think about them all day but my whole day doesnt revolve around them either. Thats not healthy. I dont let myself be defined by this president , just like i didnt to the last president. People ask me all the time how do you deal with donald trump . The same way i dealt with barack obama. When i agree, ill get behind their ideas. If i think their ideas are bad, ill oppose them and thats what every member of congress should do. This is about theyre from my party, i have to agree every time. This is about institutions and the balance of power and i think thats our constitutional duty to work with the executive when theyre working on something worth while and oppose him when theyre not. Whats practical as far as bipartisan action or action period and whats aspirational. Talk about what we should shoot for and what is realistic. Bipartisanship is not an end, its a means to achieving a good lasting policy. So im part of the Problem Solvers Caucus and youll have josh here in a few minutes. We work very closely together but this dialogue that were having its all wonderful. Its important because you cant have results without Good Relationships and but were hoping to play a role in an immigration compromise. Obviously there has to be a spending compromise. That will happen at the leadership level. There should be room for bipartisanship there, the tax reform. So the idea is that and i think our framers obviously, given the way they developed the constitution, the idea sfr people to come together, have rigorous debate and settle on something where they can all agree knowing not everyone is going to get everything they want. So congress can be conditioned into this kind of behavior and we can crowd out the forces that try to prevent that compromise for financial gain or political gain. Divide the country and make a profit. Who are you talking about when you say making a profit . There are a lot of Interest Groups out there on both sides and their Business Model is were going to make a lot of people angry, paranoid, scared and were going to ask them for contributions. Send 10 today to help me stop x from destroying your life and since theres a lot of economic insecurity in our country, people are susceptible to that. And in my view tax reform is one of the biggest things we can do for this country. Because greater growth is going to make people more confident. Theyre going to be less prone to blame trade deals for some of our challenges in this country and people are going to feel like they can thrive. What are the chances of getting democratic votes in the house for tax reform . I think theyre pretty good. A lot of our democratic colleagues are fixated on the 1 , the top 1 , which i understand we want a fair tax system. But i also understand and its a statistical fact that we have one of the most progressive tax systems in the world. The wealthy pay a lot to fund all of our government programs. I think we sld tax relief for all americans. But republicans are going to put in a fourth bracket. Theres a good chance that theres a 39. 6 bracket that exists today and i think if we do that, thats going to help a lot of our democratic colleagues consider supporting tax reform package that lowers the tax burden on at least most americans and leads to greater growth. Youre a republican in south florida. Depending on the issue that can be enemy territory. How have you navigated that . By being a good referee. Look, people in my district, for example on a lot of Foreign Policy issues are more conservative leaning. They believe in a hawkish activist American Foreign pallacies on issues of education, strong supporters of public education. I came from the schoolboard. I am too. So i really try to do whats best for my district and thats why sometimes im in agreement with the leaders in the house on the republican side and sometimes im not. And do they get it or do they punish you . I think on the democratic side this might be more the case but on the republican side theres almost not enough accountability. I think we have the opposite problem where every member is really kind of expected to act as an independent contractor for their district and you know thats caused us some challenges because weve struggled at times to get our majority to pass certain bills. So can you see your generation providing Stronger Leadership . I think our leadership is a product of our conference. I dont think our leaders are weak. I think our leaders lead a vaer Diverse Group of people who are very strong minded about their ideas. Some of who are not prone to compromise. So i do think that as younger members come in and i see this in our conference and i think in the democratic conference as well, it will be easy for our leaders to be effective because we just bring a different approach, attitude, tone, demeanor to the work. Congressman back stage, you strieed the overnight oats. How were they . They were very good. We were talking about two farktz most important in working across the aisle. You said first personal discipline. Yeah. You have to really fight the instinct to fall into the roles. I mean everyone knows what the roles are here, right . If yur republican, you have to kind of ignore, for example an issue like climate change. Now i dont do that, number one because i understand the science, number two because i represent a district where most people live near sea level and near the sea. So its a local issue for us. But thats the key. Dont fall. Its easy. Its expected of you to fall into these roles, into these silos and you have to fight that and on every issue say whats the right thing to do . What makes sense . And so yes, it requires discipline in that sense where you have to fight the inertia that is so strong in our politics. Your second one, you have a counterintuitive take on risk taking. Yeah. So a lot of people, especially i think people who cover politics view bipartisan conduct or compromise as something done by those seeking political cover or who are trying to play it safe. It is the opposite in most cases today in our country. Partisanship is whats expected offia, its whats safe. Its what republicans and d democrats do. Democratic members oppose the republican president , republican members oppose the democratic president. Thats what members do. So i think to break that takes more effort. I dont think anything we do on the hill is curages. People fighting for our country, theyre curages but it takes effort. It takes introspection and self reflection to break those habits and say no, im going to work with someone who im told im not supposed to work with because its the right thing to do and because i think we can come up with a good idea. Youre co chair of the congressional future caucus focussed on millennials. What is the biggest hope you have for millennials changing the tone or are you doing some of your own things to make things worse up there . Well, i really dont think were doing anything to make things worse. I think millennials have to stop waiting our turn and we have to start making demands of our leaders in the house on both sides and by the way there are a lot of wonderful millennial younger democrats who are challenging their leaders. We need to do the same and we need tell people we want to do this differently. We want to help restore the trust and confidence in this government. We want people in our generation, who by the way dont care for the government at all. Ask any millennial they think Social Security or medicare is going to be around for them. They laugh. They dont trust our institutions. We want to make our generation believe. And to do that we have to change how this Government Works oor doesnt work. Thats the approach i bling to this work. Its easy to tweet or send a message over Social Security and then go back to doing whatever you were doing. Get involved. Get involved. Vote but communicate directly with your representatives and let them know that you want things to change for the better. And congressman, as we get the hook here, one of the perks of your job, you met Peyton Manning in person. That was my last sports idle. Growing up in florida, i was a big dan merino fan. And when he retired i was still kind of young and i really felt dan merinos retirement and i saw Peyton Manning and i went wow thats a new version of dan merino. I went to a Peyton Manning game almost every game of his career and i think hes a stand up guy and hopefully hell run for Office One Day because you look at the way he tries to bring people together, i think thats exactly what we need. Thank you for joining axios. My pleasure. Thank you very much. Thank you, congressman and now were going to see a quick video from the Hewlitt Foundation. There has been shifts in the political