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Terms or down ballot candidates. our party is old and we need this guy running this party. i had dinner with him last night. he is really, really capable and smart. he runs a city of a hundred thousand people and got a thousand people in his work fors and he is what we need. >> >> the mayor joined us earlier on "morning joe" and told us what democrats need to do differently to beat donald trump next time. >> you got to show up everywhere. i think a lot of communities an a lot of parts of my community that felt like nobody was talking to them. we got so caught up in the show and so busy talking...

Here by -- this is what we called in congress an 80/20 issue, compromise to find solutions. >> they do want compromise to find solutions, and this idea is you had people that supported bernie sanders and who supported donald trump who had some of the same grievances so there's overlap in the idea that everybody wants the economy to work and everybody wants the towns that have been devastated by trade deals or closed factories to find some way out of it, and everybody wants a health care system that has access for all people or that allows people to -- the capitol to have that. and i think of w...

Resting on the backs of patient clever, 20 or 30 year plan that was established conservative majorities in state houses, governship, secretaries of state around the country. >> what do democrats do now? given that the democratic party across the country, yourself as an exception is decimated, what would you like to see the democratic leadership do that would be helpful to you at a state level having more people your age run? >> we have to make sure the dnc is understood to be a resource for state and local parties, not the other way around. itis the state and local parties that know who the bt...

And this is, frankly, a public fight he should relish. if rahm emanuel is going to try to defend putting criminals back on the street in a city with 4,000 people shot last year, i think that is a totally hopeless position with the average person in america. and that's the kind of fight the president should start looking for. where can he get an 80/20 advantage. i think the idea at the border of blocking people trying to come in, returning them immediately, changing the obama policy back to what it historically has been, these kind of things could be done very quickly, they'd have overwhelming ...

Are criminals, i would think, would be pretty hard for mayor emanuel to oppose. maria: all right, let's drill down on that for a moment. what could president trump do to insure that mayors like mayor emanuel actually follow the law in it's extraordinary to me and many in our audience right now that there is law in place and, in fact, these sanctuary cities have completely blown off the law for so many years. >> you know, one of the lessons i learned from president ronald reagan is when you have a choice between an 80/20 fight on your side or an 80/20 fight on their side, pick the one that's to...