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Message that they were trying to send. how did this happen? >> well, i think that people have been looking at 40 years of flat wages. you know, the reality is, you got folks in diners and hair shops and barber shops all over this country who look at their own lives and think, you know, my parents did better than i'm doing and my kids might not do as well as i'm doing. that's because wages have been flat for so long. they feel like there's two systems of justice. over there at wells fargo, you had all this scandal going on there, the ceo leaves with a giant package. other folks get a lot of tro...

>> sorry to laugh. >> george, we had jesse ventura in minnesota win the governorship. nobody thought he was going to win. i'm telling you. stranger things have happened. >> the laughter of the elites at keith ellison when he made the most prescient peeves sound in 2015. let's play that same gentleman keith ellison, congressman from minnesota who is up for dnc chair potentially. let's play him on "meet the press" this morning. >> how did this happen? >> well, i think that people have been looking at 40 years of flat wages, you know, the reality is you got folks in diners and hair shops and barb...

>> well, chuck, let me tell you, i've been talking to a lot of people, people basic organizers of the democratic base level, also members of congress, labor leaders, all types of folks. and i'm telling you, i'm going do my good part. i will let my decision be known tomorrow or soon enough. the real question is not what one person is going to do. what are we all going to do? how are we going to pitch in to fix this party to make working america know that the democratic party is absolutely on their side? that's the real question. >> why do you think they -- let's talk to both your state in minne...

Fire. our national security is terrible. i think our economy needs to do a lot better and i don't think the president has brought us in the right direction. i think he's put us on a dangerous path and we need to get on the other path. so, yeah, i think the state of the economy and the state of our foreign affairs is terrible right now and people are really worried about national security. so, no, i don't think we're nearly as healthy as we can and should be. >> there has been -- i mean, you know the number it's something like 68 straight months of job growth and the obama administration saying...

Too difficult and demand to turn our backs and walk away. war on multiple fronts. a government grown unaccountable, out of touch, unconstitutional. persistent poverty, a sluggish economy, flat wages, a skyrocketing debt. but we cannot take on these challenges alone. now more than ever we must work together. all of us are representatives of the people. all people. we have been entrusted by them to lead. and yet, the people we serve they do not feel that we are delivering on the job that they hired us to do. we have become the problem. if my colleagues entrust me to be the speaker, i want us to ...