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CSPAN Washington Journal November 17, 2016

If you live in the mountains pacific you can send us a tweet if you like. Lets begin with the Washington Times take on this on the front page. Democrats ignore the votes and beer to the left. A Senate Minority leader valls to stay firm on court picks. Promoted twoats here is what the new york democrat had to say yesterday. A Silver Lining in the deep clouds of the selection isnt that on many economic issues, president elect trump and his campaign was closer to us than to Republican Leadership which always seem to wind up in the corner of special interests. Toas republicans return their majorities next year and get set to take over the white house, democrats are beginning to determine our way forward. Well take it issue by issue, casebycase, but i can tell the American People this, we are ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with republicans, working with soon to be President Trump on issues where we agree. We will go toe to toe against the president elect whenever our values or the progress we have made is under assault. Host on areas that the democrats say they can agree with President Trump. Promote rational democrats struggling for a path are constructing an agenda to align with many proposals of resident elect donald trump that put him at odds with his own party, on if perception spending, Child Tax Credit and dismantling trade agreements. Democrats are looking for ways to work with mr. Trump. Senator schumer elected wednesday. The new democratic minority leader has spoken to mr. Trump several times. Democrats plan to announce popular initiatives they think mr. Trump might like. Democrats, do you agree with this decision by democrats to try and move mr. Trump and move forward . Good morning to you. Caller good morning. A better question would be how many votes does a person need before they can overcome the Electoral College . This is the second time in the 20 years that i have voted in my vote did not count. I heard this morning that Hillary Clinton has 2 million more votes than donald trump. That tells me that the system is flawed. I am probably not going to participate in it again. Host i heard your point and Many Democrats are saying. What about the party itself and its appeal to voters . They knew the Electoral College existed. They knew what they had to do and had a strategy to win. The rules were. What can the party do to win both the popular vote and the Electoral College. Electoral college . Caller they have to compromise values and become racists and misogynists. I would say stick to your guns and continue the good work. We cannot become the enemy. Violate our principles. Many people who voted for mr. Obama also turned and voted for mr. Trump could look at this map. These are the former obama strongholds that filled of the elections for mr. Trump. The blue wall appeared in minnesota and wisconsin. Look at those counties that ed for obama and now the and now they voted for mr. Trump. What is your reaction . Caller mr. Trump lied to his constituents. Now he is turning around doing an aboutface, saying we can keep parts of obamacare. We are noto going to deport all of the immigrants. Walking around the country lying to people. Host you sound like the democrats dont need to change it all. Lets go to dave in new york. Caller i think the democrats need to change. Yesterday was good that senator whichs and his movement became dormant after the , his solution is to build a movement to fight back, to cooperate with trump, to call him to task for the promises he made that the caller before is correct are not going to be filled. He is an oligarch. He is the oligarch president. That is what happened to us. Thesey it is because democratic establishments that have let us down. It is too tied to bigmoney. Workingclass finally rebelled. A demagogue. A dangerous man. A racist, antisemi has come ng and really distorted really destroyed it. Our politics we need a big fight back. Senator sanders as far as i understand would like to really activate. President obama tried in 2008 to build a movement but was not able to do that. Now we need a movement to confront trump, to call him to task and to work with them when possible. Dave, Bernie Sanders was in washington last night. We showed you a little of that speech. He is going to sit down this morning at the cushion science monitor, one of their at the Christian Science monitor, one of their you can go to cspan. Org for schedule of when that will air. Lets listen to what the democratic candidate for president had to say last night. He outlined an agenda for democrats Going Forward. Will get your thoughts on the other side. I think mr. Trump and this speaks to what i believe we need major reforms of the Democratic Party. [applause] what mr. Trump said and talked about his something that the pundits here in washington and the Corporate Media has very little understanding about, and that is what he understood to be true, and it is true, is despite the fact that today we are far better off economically after eight years of obama than we were when bush left office, that is true. There is another reality. That is all across this country, there are millions and millions of decent, good people who are frightened about the world that they are living in. There are mothers out there, single moms was young couples who are making 30,000 dollars a year, mom and dad are working. They need childcare and orldcare costs 10,000 15,000. How do you afford 15,000 for childcare when youre making 40,000 a year . There are workers in my state who see an explosion in technology. They see the very wealthiest people in this country become phenomenally richer. They see large corporations enjoying recordbreaking profits , and yet they are working not at one job, they are working it to jobs. They are working at three jobs. There are people all over this country who are 55, 60 years of age. They have worked their entire life and now they are going to be retiring soon, and you know what . Half of those Older Workers do not have a nickel in the bank for retirement. There are young people who went 30,000 in debt, debt, in order to go to college, but when they leave school, they find the only jobs they can get our jobs which pay them 12, 40 hour, not enough to repay 14 an hour, not enough to repay their debt. That is the reality for millions of people in this country. That is the reality of a middleclass which has been in decline for the last 40 years. That is the reality of 43 million fellow americans who today are living in poverty, something we do not talk about at all. Poverty. Ire we are living in a nation which has a grotesque level of income and wealth and equality wealth inequality in which the top 1 owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 . That is the reality that mr. Trump perceived to be true. He said i hear youre hurting and understand you are worried about the future for your kids. I alone can do something about it, and people voted for him. Host senator Bernie Sanders laying out what he says is a reality for many americans, and why the Democratic Party needs to pave a new path forward. Do you agree . Were talking to democrats only. What direction should that be . The Washington Post notes this dennis in columbus, ohio. Good morning to you. Caller my name is kenny. Host do you agree with what you just heard from senator sanders . [crowd noise] absent senator sanders . Aller absolutely we are going to have to build a bridge with mr. Trump. Becausegot to watch him him and don king and mike tyson went over to china and had that fight. You, if the New York Times is right and democrats want to work with trump on infrastructure spending, paid Maternity Leave and dismantling trade agreements, you think democrats that would be a good move . Caller no i dont. I think if we think not only , the republicans that voted for donald trump, if they think that he is going to do anything to help people of color , people of any other country in this world, they are mistaken. He is only trying to get in there to line his pockets. He is trying to put all of his family members in his cabinet. What kind of president is that . This man is a clown. He is a jack s of the year. Host st. Paul minnesota. Welcome to the conversation. Caller i think that them appointing Chuck Schumer as the new leader is garbage. Movenk it was a calculated by those establishment democrats to remain in power, when they ought to be handing it over to Bernie Sanders. They need a larger role. Bernie sanders and Elizabeth Warren. And other progressives need to be at the forefront if they want to hold on to the Democratic Party. I voted green because i could not vote for clinton. I wasnt going to vote for trump. Now i am try to figure out if i have any faith left in the party to fight for the next four years. It is very frustrating. I am at my inns which with this. I dont think they realize it im 36 years old. I dont think they realize, the people that have been allowing them to hold onto power are older than me. They are getting older. The voting block in which i belong to is larger. So they need to be thinking about us. Host how old are you . Caller i am 35. Host you want to see younger leadership. Does that include nancy pelosi . Until 2002. Had that is how long she held the position. It is time for her to go. Partyy claim to love the the way they do, they will step aside. It has taken flight and it is time for it to launch its wings and fly. Host let me just update you on what is going to happen. Democrats plan to meet behind closed doors to talk about their leadership. They were supposed to be voting today, but some democrats insisted that the vote be delayed until they can come together and decide who should be the next leader of their party. Nancy pelosi saying she does have enough commitment to stay on as minority leader. Who do you think should replace her . Caller Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren. Anybody on the progressive wing that has been there long enough, i think that is the direction that they need to be moving in. By keeping the same people in place, you are sending a message to the constituents that you dont care. You are going to continue on just like you have. The thing that is amazing to me is that these people know whether it was the russians or whoever it was, those dnc leaks were damming to the credit party. I have yet to hear anybody address them. We are going to sweep that under the rug . We are going to continue on like we have been . It is time for a shakeup. Ist politico reports this that joe crowley is being urged by House Democrats to challenge nancy pelosi for minority leader , but he has not made any decision to do that. If he formally ran against her, it would be able to her in face serious dissension in democrat ranks. Policy is not faced any look at paul kanes writing and it was supposed. He says this to that callers point about the age of the democratic leadership, talking also says this, lawmakers are expected that close he never persuaded the caucus lets move on to dave in florida. Democrats only. Good morning. Caller i think that they should leave nancy pelosi a loan. Everybody was really happy with her when she ran roughshod and pushed through the Affordable Care act. I think if the actions that she took was a man doing it, there would be a lot less discussion about her, because she is so good at the job. She is aggressive. A lot of people dont like her, but the election is over. Get over it. I think basically they need to step back and just watch what the republicans do. Im confident they will shoot themselves in the foot. If most democrats dont like what happened when reagan was in office, i think they got some bad things going to be happening to them right now. Host let me move on to carroll. Good morning. Caller good morning. See no major leader at this time. I think president obama, he was really great. I have issues with the popular vote and i feel like we have been robbed to elections with gore and now with Hillary Clinton. Also the Supreme Court seat has been stolen. That is the way i feel because it has been locked down. It is between the house, they block editing down. They block everything down. I feel like we will never see another democrat or independent in the white house because i feel like it has all been fixed. Millennial. He is a it took me everything to get them out to vote. He is so mad. He is like, mom, the millennials do not want to vote because it is rigged. Vote,t is not part of the they dont want to vote anymore. Point i have been voting since 1980, and i dont want to vote anymore. Host has it always been democrat since 1980 . Caller yes, most of the time i have lost. Between clinton and president obama. I just feel like my whole adult life, i was 20 years old in 1980. I have watched my paycheck walked down. Im 56. People my age group, we are just not succeeding. Where on the tail end of baby boomers. The millennials feel like they are not going to see anything. They are mad at the older people. They feel like they are taking care of them but the older people are not taking care of the millennials. Host when you say up there, are you talking about washington . Caller that is what i mean, washington. There is no diversity in trump. They are all white men. There is no diversity to represent our country. Host you say your paycheck has gone down. Can you tell much desk he tells how much . What. i tell you when i started working as an in 1978, i wasck making six dollars an hour. Then i started working on the powerhouse in 1983, i was making 13 an hour. Point,watched since that it has gone down. The wages have not gone up. Host are you still making about the same . Close to it . Caller when you travel, it is not as much. Being a woman, i do not get paid as much. They dont pay me the equal amount as they do a man. It has always been that way. Not right. I have to go out and do 110 . It is still not enough. I am just frustrated with the whole misogynistic attitude, the bigotry. I did not realize it was this bad. I thought things were getting better. When dr. Martens the king died i was eight years old. Please kids, pay attention, they take it in but they might not understand it until they get older. These children are watching and they are going to remember this. Host to your point about the , you mayourt vacancy be interested in watching today. , theederalist Society Legal eagles have landed. A lawyer group, conservatives will assemble with much of their mind and the next 72 hours. Ted cruz ing about ben sasse. Representative we are going to cover a couple of them this morning. We are covering tonight, Justice Clarence thomas will be speaking around 9 00 p. M. Eastern time. You can watch that on cspan or cspan. Org listen on your cspan radio at. Texas, good morning. Go ahead with your thoughts. I have been waiting to comment on this about the Bernie Sanders iwatch bernie and i am pretty angry with him. I watched him take his voters up to the top of the mountain all the way to the top and fighting clinton and eating her bloody through this convention and fighting for a platform which Means Nothing right now. He pushed his people over the cliff to the point of no return. Our hearts were broken. They couldnt go to clinton because she was an evil, terrible person. It sickens me because that was the first problem that went wrong. He wasnt a democrat. He wasnt loyal to the democrats. [indiscernible] there were millions of people voting at the time, but a lot of things went wrong. I dont think democrats need to be changing all that much. Donald trump was phenomenal. Was Bernie Sanders heard from Hillary Clinton the First Time Since she gave the concession speech last week. She was in to receive award from the National Childrens defense fund. Here is what she had to say. I will admit coming here tonight was not the easiest thing for me. There have been a few times when all i wanted to do is curl up with a good book or our dogs and never leave the house again. But, if there is anyone who knows how to pick yourself up and get back on your feet and get to work, it is marion. [applause] she has been doing it all her life, and she has been helping the rest of us do it too. Host if you want to watch the entire speech, you can go to our website and watch it there. Tim in ohio. Good morning to you. What is the name of your town . Caller thank you for taking my call. Think we need to get rid of these old people and washington, dc, that are pay for play. I heard several callers say nancy pelosi raised so much money for the democrats. Yup, stuff the pockets so they can keep going up there. You have old republicans they need to get the heck out. They have old ideas. They cannot see the future. This tim ryan guide, ive not heard a lot of about them. We need some younger people up to take andew ideas reach out to the people that voted for donald trump. We did not reach out to the people that voted for donald trump. We told the coal miners that you are out of a job. We are going to shut down the coal plants. Guess what . You cannot put windmills anywhere in the world to supply coal supply the supply the electric the coal produces. You are going to put the people out of the work . You are for the children, the middle class . Down and west virginia, you talk to the people down there. Year. T lost 4000 they lost a bunch of teachers. They lost their dental care, optical care to cut the make all of these cuts in order to keep the schools open, because can be the

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