Host in virginia, what happened there . Does that give you any sense of what might happen in 2018. Guest absolutely. A big sense but it seems that the democrats have the wind at their back going into the 2018 election. We are focusing on the candidates who want huge upsets in virginia. Campaign members donated t ig nearly 150,000. We are thrilled to see good authentic people who werent political hacks. Ic we inspire people to come out in the swing districts. One woman won a huge upset. No one expected her to win perch she had a healthcare issue in her family. She iran on medicaid i expansion and she defeated a longtime republican incumbent. She was one of many people who iran for office and one. Host on the independent newspaper out oft britain, this is taking a look at 2018, talking about a potential for weighing the victories in 2018. You see that potential. Guest we see the potential. Thats the key word. Our belief is progressive someone just ride the waves but help increase and cause the wave to begin with. Democrats do have a track record of addressing defeat from the jaws of victory all too often. The potential iss to have good inspiring people whose personal story as part of their message, whos running on Kitchen Table issues like Social Security and education and the safety of their communities that they will win. If we try to act like republicans, if we feel people who actively brag on various issues, republicans, voters are pretty discerning. Our hope is that we have genuine authentic candidates. Does that depend more on organizations like yours of the dnc, how do they factor in to making thatki happen. Ultimately its cliche. It depends on the voters and how they vote in primaries. Organizations like others move on. Working hard to get people the nomination and thats what we did in virginia. We had one 100 track record on our primary endorsements and those people went on to flip red seats blue in the virginia election. We see many across the country when theres some okay people running in the inspiring people running and then theres the people who want to be corporate democrats or act like republicans. Our hope is that our party chooses genuinely inspiring people. Adam green is with us and hurt a little bit about the role that his organizations play in 2018. If you want to ask him questions about 2018, the role of progressives during that time, 2,027,488,000 for democrats. 8001 for a publicans. Two 8002 for independence. If you want to send us a tweet and make your thoughts known that way, you can do that at cspanwj and you can also go to our facebook page. The wall street journal is taking a look at some democrats and what theyre doing in the lead up to that. I will reduce some of the story saying that he spent time friday on those trips to the district that the party must carry if it hopes to win back the House Majority in 2018. This is part, it says we have a lot in common but they may see in a different way or different perspective. They may not think you are talking about what they are nk about, but you really are. What you think about that . First i think its great if they actually go across the country listen to voters comes were very confident that if they listen they will find one key thing which is that voters want inspiring candidates willing to challenge power and fight for the little guy. Our definition of a big tent is not that everybody is saying the same thing across country but that we have lots of people from many areas ofe life at going core democratic values. In some places, maybe people want to challenge Drug Companies and have lower prescription drugs. Perhaps in other areas or pollution, maybe they want people to challenge big oil companies. Maybe nevada where there were high foreclosures you want people who will challenge wall street. Theres different issues fornt different localities but a willingness by democrats to challenge power is what we hope he is hearing because that would result in the to support the actual populace candidates who will fight for the little a guy. Host one more line from the story, such thing that went gop seats and retained seats stand the districts, the Democratic Leaders should talk more about breadandbutter activities. It wouldnt quite put it like that, but different issues include some of those issues. What do people think about when theyre sitting around the dinner table at night . Often times it is Economic Issues but its also will my kid be able to be safe . Will my daughter be safe . Will she have a tommy over her own body. It is inherently important for democrats to be on the record on all of these issues. There should be no Democratic Candidates that arent thing where they stand on issue of choice. Theres no democratic shouldnt say they support the black lives Matter Movement and decreasing police brutality. Whats essential in their campaign can be up to local areas but democrats need to show up for the fight and be on the record so people know where they stand. Does it follow an idea of a litmus test . Not in all cases, but in some cases. Increasingly, i think theres consensus that if youre not willing to support an issue like womens autonomy over her own body that youre not a democrat. Su i would say with that, with being willing to fight Structural Racism and being able to challenge corporate power, whatever that means locally, though should be poor democratic values. Core values. Sometimes litmus test is used, but itss would be smart for every democrat to support some version of medicare for all because what better brand is there in politics than medicare. Rrens student and appointed by Kamala Harris to be the top consumer watchdog for the state of california which she is now. She is running on issues that stand republican, democratic support. Republican voters dont want their homes taken away by big banks. Katie porter is the type of person that you win republican support the right way, not by pretending to be a republican. Going to be some races that are increasingly competitive. We were proud to endorse and d cam andy kim. He is a former Obama Administration diplomat raising good money for one of the most viable candidates in that district for a long time. And randy rice running against paul ryan. We were proud to be supporting che. Iron stash sta who is part of the message. Now saying this guy, paul ryan wants take a will your health care. I will fight for workers. Pickett text on workers every day. I will fight for workers. First call,. Caller how you doing. E i would like to follow up and saywe when you put a progressive and you get more government intrusion, you get higher taxes, you get morens regulations, you get more of everything that the clinton support. I think if you do put progressives y in, you will be going backwards. You want progress. You willss digress. Therefore i dont think progressives have a good agenda for the American Economy or the american way of life because they are just not willing to also youll have more abortions and governments applying abortions. I guarantee you you will be taking more god out of the schools and Public Places also. Host okay. You put a lot out there weag will allow our guest to respond. Guest obviously people are not going to agree on this. Et whether its you or tim who is voiceless before, progressives, at theiv core value want to fight for thes little guy. Sometimest there are people whr masquerade as progressives who are in the pocket of big corporations. I think there is somewhat of a divide in the party right now, trying to push the party to be more in line with its own values on some of these issues. Your taxes are going up but the a corporations are sharing its amazing howal many giveaways are given theom corporations in the nominal suppose it attempt to create jobs. Meanwhile you have corporations paying zero taxes while you pay more. You have privatization of our roads and our parking meters. He basically sold off the right to parking meters in chicago. Surprise surprise they jacked upin the price of parking and ticketing. We cante have that. We need someone who will fight for the little guy. Host independent line, vivian, go ahead. E caller i think the biggest problem we have in America Today is term limits. Look at g this guy. He is here already. We just had an election one year ago and youre already talking about elections again. I cant understand this at all. Why arewhg you talking about elections when weve just elected our president one year ago. This is ath ridiculous. Totally ridiculous. We need term limits. Get all the old guys out of their and get some new flesh in their and lets not be talking about reelecting people when weve only had elections one year ago. Its ridiculous. What were talking about elections, there is an important election in virginia and washington and other states across countryry and it was indicative of a trend. Good people opting to run for office and numbers we havent seen before. Voters coming out in record numbers to say we want change. Pretty much tear point. Wee also have an election less than one year way in 2018. Its not president ial but many will be on the ballot. We hope that we can have an inspiring candidate theyre to pick up that seat but also wave of not just democratsad but great progressive fighters who will be advocating for people like you, 2019. Host will you be putting a candidate out there for Diane Feinsteins race in california . We are still looking at that one. If wewe get involved, it wouldle not be on behalf of diane feinstein. She is not, she made some good votes but she did not represent the future of california. Her saying that we still need t to give President Trump more time to prove he can be a good president , being one of then Top Democrats in the senate out there on the gun safety issue, being asked on meet the press whate laws could have been in place that wouldve prevented some of these tragedies and not being able or willing to name those laws was weird. It sent a signal that shes a little bit too inside the beltway right now and somebodytu who is actually out there andin willing to talk about banning high capacity clips. It should of been easy and authentic. Ve california is a little. Daunting because its so expensive to win a race there. A its really s cool that we have people running against her. For us its a matter of priorities and whether we w prioritize that race. Host from san antonioas texas, louise, democrats line. Mr. Green, i feel like using the term progressive actually hurts the democrats. I think a lot of people relate that to socialism. The comments i want to make our about medicare. Part if they would make medicare available for anyone over 65 and if theyre still working, give them the option ift their Company Provides healthcare, let them keep that, let them have that choice or they could buy into medicare for 200. Month or whatever would seem applicable. I think that would put a big burden off of the Insurance Companies and therefore make the rates a lot lower for other people. I am big on education. I feel like that doesnt get pushed enough. In texas, we have a big problem with education. Our kids graduate from high school and then they dont qualify once they get in college. They have to take all these refresher courses. Anyway, i will leaveer it there. Thank you. Guest i agree with both of your initial points. Honestly, we ared not wedded to the label of progressive. If a candidate wants to run on big ideas like expanding medicare and Social Security benefits, debtfree college and call themselves a democrat or populist or just a fighter for regular people, thats fine with us. The ideas are what matter. I constantly notice, in various polls, the only 20 or 25 of people will call themselves liberal or progressive or some variation. A huge majority, 70 or morene will support ideas that are progressive like expandingin Social Security benefits. So point wellll taken on the label. Let me Say Something about medicare. One of thee central issues of the 2018 election. The fact thataw we just saw every single successful delegate canada in virginia talk about and make central toai the campaign the idea of expanding medicaid is a hardener of things come in 2018 when you talk about extending medicare on the federalha level. Medicare for all andus singlepayer are not synonymous. To compare is one version of expanding medicare to all,e basically seeing everyone will have medicare mlb the only system. I think even bernie sandersll said that. The longterm vision in his mind and he calls itr medicare for all, singlepayer because there are variations. Our campaign has been working closely with senators on thel hill to put another version of medicare for all on the table inme the near future which is a medicare option for all. Any individual or any employer who wants to can voluntarily decide toth get their insurance through medicare as a opposed to a forprofit insurer that profits by denying people care. This is a popular issue. But have more options in the marketplace. Even republican supporte. Free market. They should be intimidated by the fact that medicare has lower administered of cost and everything a private insurer or that the popularity of medicare is higher than every private insurer. Lets have some fair competition, and that would be one version of medicare for all. All advice to democrats would be to support some version of medicare for all going into the election because its a political goal backom home and it will positively impact the lives of millions people. Adam green is the cofounder of the change committee and we will hear next from wisconsin, republican line. Good morning cspan. Adam, couple quick questions. The first one, the takeoff of the last caller, im wondering about the evolution of theou term progressive used in politics in the United States. Why is it no longer cool to be called liberal, now youre progressive. In my opinion, s from what ive seen, the Progressive Movement is rather stifling if you dont agree with everything they say. My second question is, why is george so involved with all these liberal causes. I knowg hes a big funder for many people including yourself. What is his involvement in todays politics . Thank you. Interesting questions. So the first one, i get pretty much every time im on the show and my first thought is always my cofounder who is now achieved her doctorate and knows the actual history of the word progressive so i am a current copy of that. As i think you are actually asking about the word liberal versus progressives which i can answer a little bit more. There is actually an attempt in 1988 and around their to demonize the word liberal associated with various things. I think theres was an attempt to switch language a little bit and honestly im not sure its that big of the deal for voters. Most people dont really care about the labels, they more care about the issues and we are perfectly comfortable with that. To beon continued on that front. So is he a big funder of us . Not a huge funder. He is welcome to write larger text to us if you would like too. He isam somebody whos family was very much impacted by the holocaust. He escaped these authoritarianie cultures and is seeing what a non open society looks like, and his selfdescribed mission would be described as open society, meaning allowing regular people to have a voice, not having authoritarian regimes, the foundation is called the open Society Foundation and its stuff that are in line with that. S whether its making it so there isnt police brutality, sof people can work walk around openly and not fear for their lives are making sure that we have people in office or institutions thinking about ideas that will allow regular people to live their ownin lives, i think thats where hes coming from. But he can always email. Willie organization or organization like yours have any direct impact on the senate race in alabama, particularly supporting doug jones . Our members have alreadys. Checked in about 40000 to doug jones. My guess is that others across thean country, organically, and through groups will be putting money into that race. Doug jones has made it pretty clear he wants to run his own race and not have a repeat oft the john assads situation. We respect that a lot of people will respect that. That will be interesting to watch. Ck either pockets around the world . Is not trying to act like a republican. He has p his own brand of justice as a u. S. Attorney and prosecuted some hate t crimes back in the day that were really important for him to prosecute. He stood up f w for justice. He will likely come to d. C. And not vote to give away the farm to rich people. He willth not vote to lower the tax rate which no one wants. He is a good example of someone with a version of National Values that he is a messenger for. Host on larger issues, your thoughts on al franken and does the Current Issue concerning him. Last week was very tough for a lot of people. Many people carry very muc care very much about the issues happening right now. At its core this is about abuse of power. As i mentioned before what unites people as progressives is a willingness to challenge power. Whether its fighting racism or the use of power. On that ground today differentiate. To the actively use that power to call the principle of a O High School and have someone pulled out of class to the office to get on the phonehe when he asked her for a date. That is such a disturbing example of the abuse of power, and if t there are more things that come out with al franken during his time in the senate, i think that would change a lot of opinions. Right now, i think this is acknowledged by him and many others is a horrible mistake. Fortunately. [inaudible] i dont think he will resign, but we will see what happens. Host sheila, from virginia, independent line. Caller i do consider myself an independent part i wanted to go back to whatever but he was talking about with term limits. The only way we really truly get people to think about it is like you we had in virginia this wonderful election was so many different people running. It wasnt the same people. So, i think, if we were running different peopleth against the establishment that has been here for 20 or 30