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Want to ask you. you were talking about there being two types of democrats here in alabama. what did you mean by that? >> those that are really outgoing and really want to make some good things happen, parts of grassroots groups and then there's those that almost just don't want to acknowledge the fact that they're democrats. we want to change that. we have a golden opportunity today to get a senate and to capture that senate seat that really belonged to howell heflin. we want to capture the old senate seat. that's a powerful seat and we want it back. >> reporter: there we go. jacob, you heard...

I'm going to leave the democratic party and i'm going to encourage to if they elect keith ellison. >> having the progressive is saying they are going to leave if pérez gets elected. they are dealing with on going turmoil and i don't think this is going to settle it. inside that building as well you are seeing from a lot of grassroots groups who are trying to mount challengers to quote, unquote, candidates. >> you could have democrats in congress come 2018, fascinating, history doesn't repeat itself it rimes is what mark twain said. >> exactly. >> one of the first look at how the elect reat is...

In texas. it does depend on the region, which really speaks to how grassroots this is. >> is part of the motivation here to embarrass members of congress or do they just really want their voices heard? >> it depends again, because when you speak to each one of these grassroots groups, and i've spoken to a lot of them, a couple of them say yes, it is absolutely to embarrass people, they want a piece of fuzzy video they can put out on twitter, they want to shut these town halls down, they want to try to stop that member of congress. but then others say no, that's not their intent at all, they wa...

Back to the panel. grassroots groups coming together. saw that happening day after this president was elected and continue to see it going on. reminiscent of the tea party. what should folks in washington be looking for? should they be concerned about this? >> if you're republican no doubt. go back eight or nine years ago with barack obama trying to get the health care bill through and democrats went home that summer and couldn't show up at town halls. very similar to what we saw right there. proved to be effective for republicans and those against obamacare, having said that, able to get it t...

Alternative to hillary clinton and, c, they think warren might be coy and bieding her time. ready for warren is organizing in states and this beak they got a big boost. two major grassroots groups have joined the warren bandwagon, moveon.org. has 8 million members and is donating a million bucks to move on warren. it has to gall clinton. now, the other group is democracy for america, which with the ready for warren group, it's a group that is created by howard dean who has said he's going to vote for -- support hillary clinton. so it just shows you where the divisions are in the democratic par...