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>> the trades. >> the pipefitter, the sheet metal workers, and you didn't see a single union member there. those union members came out hugely enthusiastic from that meeting. if democrats don't remember that those are the people that they need to keep on board -- because part of the problem here, let's not forget, is the policies. why are they thrilled with donald trump? because he signed executive orders on the keystone pipeline and on the dakota pipeline. well, this is heretical to guys like howard dean. >> tom harkins, the old labor guys, they would have loved that stuff. >> i'm a big belie...

And yet, republicans have swept through state houses, governor's mansions, the u.s. congress, and now the white house. the republican party has been able to profit electorally on so many levels because it found a way to emotionally identify with working class whites as they watch the country get transformed. globalization, immigration. all generate enormous social change. republicans tsunami that at a gut level they are uncomfortable with this change. they like america the way it was. policy on gun safety, but mostly it's about identify and attachment conveyed through symbols and signals. joan...

Places and things. but no one held a gun to his head to make him do it. it's his problem, not everybody else's around him. and one of the things i had to learn to do was take ownership i call this on me. and because i've had all the other things in life happen, it's just the cards i have to play, i have to deal with. when you start doing drugs and alcohol, you end up in three places, you go to jail, institutions, and then you die. >> yeah. >> those are all three, unless you address it. and your only mental defense against the first tloo three is your spiritual condition. he's got to find somet...

Other people are innocent, and folks don't rally behind them like they did with this young man. >> well, all you have to do is look at him. he's a really good kid. obviously smart, wants to show people what he can do to impress them and proud of his work and proud of his inventions and his working with electronics and these kinds of things. so i think that struck a chord with people and just the clear understanding that this would not have happened to somebody who wasn't named ahmed mohamed who didn't have a brown skin, who wasn't of sudanese heritage. i mean, we just, at a gut level, understa...

Business bigge his biggest crowd was about 28,000 sunday in portland, oregon. he's packing venues and winning big endorsements. national friends united and friends of the earth both backed him this year. i'm joined now by my panel. michelle, what do these big crowds mean? is bernie sanders beyond a rock star a real political threat to the fortunes of the hillary clinton? >> i think he has definitely tapped into the nervousness that a lot of people feel with hillary clinton. you know, there is a question of "is clinton actually a move forward?" or is it taking us back to the nineties? and there...