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Seat. quist focused his campaign on health care and economic issues but he ultimately lost. the dnc is facing pressure from another voting bloc it's come to rely on african-american women. group of black women write "organizing without the engage. of black women will prove to be a losing strategy and there's much too much at stake to ignore black women." joining me political strategist l. joy williams and crystal ball author of "reversing the apocalypse." l. joy, i start with you and talk to you about the letter you wrote. i want to read one more clip of that letter written by you and dozens, ...

White working class voters that they are forgetting that black voters really are the core of the base and are the people who will turn out if you reach out to them? >> well, anything that the party does given where we are right now, and not just our loss in the presidential election, but as we've talked about before, our massive losses across the country, in governors mansions and at the state legislative level, everything we do has to be yes, and. we have to absolutely do exactly what l. joy is saying and make sure that we are paying attention to the people who have gotten us as far as they h...

Order to have unity, you have to have all sides at the table. and right now, who is missing at that table is the democratic base. mainly people of color and specifically black women. i don't remember getting in the mail -- a no, thank you, card for the 94% of black women who tried to save this country in the first place. so there are no tour of going to black womennd going to communities of color and asking us how do we want to reform the party and how can we come together along with the bernie wing of the party, along with others, who have consistently voted democratic and consistently put in...

And nebraska, et cetera, let's be realistic, if we want to be a coastal party, a regional party, we've got to say you have to be with us 100% on everything. but if we want to govern and pass things like health care reform and get things like supreme court nominees who will be pro-choice and support row v. wade, we have to be a big tent and allow for flexibility -- >> joy -- >> we've allowed so much flexibility on the economics and allowed people to be total tools of wall street. that's where we've allowed the flexibility and i think that's been a disaster for the country and for the party. and...

People and multiculturalism, pluralism, civil rights, quality. those are the bedrock pieces of this party. if you're there, i think you are a democrat. i think we back you. but you've got to have some flexibility in places like east kentucky, nebraska, et cetera. let's just be realistic here. if we want to be a coastal party, if we want to be a regional party, we can say you've got to be with us 100% on everything. but if we actually want to govern and pass things like health care reform, and get things like supreme court nominees who will be pro choice and support roe v. wade, we do have to b...