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Spectrum, you know, when anybody is saying the economy is going great, we are at record levels, there's a frustration that says, well, the economy is good for who? >> i >> unemployment is at record lows. >> i don't think that that tells the whole story. when you can't provide for your kids, working a full-time job, working two full-time jobs, when you can't have health care, that is not dignified. >> a group of bernie sanders supporters who now call themselves justice democrats encouraged ocasio-cortez to run for office and gave her training and support. she built a grassroots coalition that t...

Frustration that working people had across the political spectrum. when anybody is saying the economy is going great, we are at record levels, there's a frustration that says, well, the economy is good for who? >> unemployment is at record lows. >> i don't think that that tells the whole story. when you can't provide for your kids, working a full-time job, working two full-time jobs, when you can't have health care, that is not dignified. >> a group of bernie sanders supporters who now call themselves justice democrats encouraged ocasio-cortez to run for office and gave her training and suppor...

That took on the democratic machine by going door-to-door. >> hi, saudio. i'm alexandria. >> arguing she could represent the district better than a ten-term incumbent who spent most of his time in washington. >> have a good day. >> reporter: please welcome alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> her victory made national news and soon had a higher media profile than many veteran lawmakers. some saw in her primary victory a craving for change in the democratic party. nancy pelosi draw a limited conclusion. >> they made a choice in one district so let's not get carried away. >> president trump suggested th...

Begin with and it has been for years. when he was appointed in 2006, "the new york times" said it was a real disappointment and the "newark star ledger" just urged everyone to choke on it andis ve for him. people know that they should not be in there. this was a guy who came in from the hudson county democratic machine. this is where the meadowlands are, and the sea caucus. this is a guy who knows where the bodies are buried. metaphorically, metaphorically. he has a great deal of corruption in his whole story.y. he just was found -- there was a hung jury in his federal corruption t trial. for ...

He was regarded as a punk. frank was a -- >> he was? >> after trump tower, he was taken more seriously, but before he made his bones in manhattan, he couldn't get anything done without fred sponsoring him. fred knew the democratic machine, the banks. so the sort of notion that he's pulled himself up by his boot straps is silly he's a great self-promoter and marketer which fred really wasn't. and trump took that base and did things fred probably couldn't have. but all of it sprang from fred's resources. >> the idea, though, that this sort of political identity and the business identity as david...