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Party, they want to ostracize more moderate democrats who may have cost hillary clinton the election? absolutely. the republicans would prefer keith ellison, they think he is more an advocate on the left so they can paint the whole party on the left. one of the tells that recently occurred yesterday, the rnc put out an oppo hit against tom perez, one of the front runners for the dnc and ellison s opponent. they would rather it be ellison than perez. then again, i think trump sort of getting behind ellison, if you re a dnc member, that probably does not help ellison in the end. maybe he should you have said tom perez is the bomb or something, right? he has some labor roots, maybe that s someone donald trump doesn t want to be dealing with as well. david, molly, thank you so much, really appreciate it. and we do have a reminder that the democratic leadership debate is on tonight. that s going to be live at 10:00 eastern here on cnn. in just minutes, president ....
The last few weeks since this new administration has come in, the tone has not really been a good one that mexicans have taken in. you ve got trump that made some controversial remarks during the campaign. then you have the back and forth and twitter war with pena nieto as well as trump on the visit for theemperaturpresident to th. the tone, immigration as well as trade, nafta, that free trade deal between canada, mexico, and the u.s., are expected to be the crux of the conversation. we will wait along with you, leyla, and see. i m assuming they will touch on all of those things. it s been contentious to say the least here between the two nations. we have republican congressman from arizona, a member of the house freedom caucus, congressman trent francks. thank you so much for joining ....
Something you said at the beginning. you said you felt like most of the people there were your concerned constituents. we ve heard the president dismissing the outrage as being planned by liberal activists. that s not what you saw. well, unfortunately, the majority are great constituents, but we had 20 in the back row from the resist movement, and they self-identified that way on camera. right? the indivisible document. it had 15 million downloads as of yesterday. those folks are instigating the anger and starting the shouts, and then people will join in, says and then you can t have the democratic process breaks down, and you can t have a decent town hall. that we look going forward what s the best use of our time, and how do we really hear from as many constituents as possible, which is our goal? congressman, thank you so much for talking about what was really a brave move for you to hold that town hall. thank you. thank you so much. thank you. thanks for a great inte ....
What s been happening, including in the last week in europe, you have consistently cabinet officials saying things that are different than what the president has said, on nato, on israel, on russia, including russian sanctions. so i think if you re tillerson coming in, it s not that he has not found the right person. some of it may be that they don t have a cabinet process to ensure discipline in the message, and he doesn t want to be saying to himself, i don t want to say something different than what the president is saying, which is what happened this week with vice president mike pence. congressman? the number one thing we need to do is get all the cabinet members and key advisers that have to have senate approval, we need to get them in place as soon as possible. that will help establish the goals and the direction and the communication. and i think that the senate democrats could do their part and say, you know what, the republicans approved the obama cabinet and key advisers ....
I don t think the media is accurately portraying what the real situation is. no, but we are. congressman. congressman. you heard me describe it right there. you tell me if this is incorr t incorrect. dhs regulations that give expanded ability to local law enforcement on this issue. i mean, what is the being misrepresented about that description? well, for 50 years or more, federal law allowed people, it even required people to have documentation with them. for 50 years. so all of a sudden now, when we take a closer look and we have to have local officers, local law enforcement involved, otherwise we simply don t have the reach from the federal government. you re right, it is all of a sudden, because these new this is a new expansion of power, of immigration enforcement power that empowers states and empowers local law enforcement. you re saying this has always been in effect. but this is new. and this is additional to what was in effect. ....