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Resolution, without any additional funding for a wall. secondly, trump explicitly campaigned on there will be a wall and mexico will pay for it, not u.s. taxpayers. the idea that somehow we're in a situation where it is the burden of the new democrats coming into the majority status in the house to fund something called a wall, where did that idea come from? then there's a third problem. who do you negotiate with? remember president trump just last week or the white house said he would sign a clean continuing resolution and would accept the fact that there would be $1.3 billion of border secur...

The issue it seems to me sell democrats say they're willing to fund border security but the idea of giving trump a penny for anything that he can go around and call a wall is a line for you. is that correct? any penny for a wall is too much from a democratic standpoint? >> i think we need to back up a bit here, steve. remember all of the republicans in the u.s. senate voted for a clean continuing resolution without any additional funding for a wall. secondly, trump explicitly campaigned on there will be a wall and mexico will pay for it, not u.s. taxpayers. the idea that somehow we're in a sit...

Whites are in danger of losing their majority status. whites may no longer be in the majority. 67% of working class whites feel there is more discrimination against whites than minorities. at the same time, something else has happened, which is that class, a really education has split america's white majority, so what we might loosely call coastal elites or clooastal -- there was so much mutual antagonism and resentment and i have studied ethnicity for 20 years, it's almost like they're insular. the two groups don't intermarry.

Of losing their majority status. so by 2044 whites may no longer be a majority. this means everybody's threatened now. it's not just the minorities who feel threatened. whites feel threatened. 67% of working class whites feel that there's more discrimination against whites than minorities. at the same time, something else has happened which is that class or really education has split america's white majority. so what we might loosely call coastal elites or coastal whites, their resentment against the whites in trump's base basically in the middle of the country, there's so much mutual antagoni...

Democrats don't. once you are a committee chair, you can serve as long as you stay in the house. but not if you're a republican. >> i think when you look at the overall number, they are all in fear of the blue wave and they are leaving before it crashes. as look at the details, you see a lot of them coming to the end of the committee chairman. once you've done that in congress, it's not necessarily that much fun to go back to be a backbencher. i think in terms of the overall house, i would say maybe they do need to appreciate majority status. but i don't think it will come to that. i think the...