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That big office. this is an agency that's been embattled, highly partisan. created as watchdog agency to keep an eye on big banks, pay day lenders, and former head of it was put there in part because republicans wouldn't agree to confirm elizabeth warren to it. you have nick mulvaney who said many times he doesn't think this agency should exist. putting him there is an attempt to reorient the agency, change its direction, and outgoing director appointment was attempt to protect what he saw as the prerogatives of the agency, keep it going in a more progressive direction, and the direction richa...

Decent living for regular americans and it's not neo-liberal economics. it's not the economics that have defined the kind of portion of the party that we don't support. >> and so i would say -- i actually agree with jonathan, in fact not just the party but the country has moved in a more progressive direction to make sure that the playing field for anybody who wants a shot at the american dream is level and tom perlez takes a back seat to nobody in fighting for those policies that will help, you know, the immigrant mother who is scared that i.c.e. is going to knock on her door, even though she...

So what will they lead to? joining me now is jeff weaver, former campaign manager for bernie sanders and president of our revolution, a political organization that evolved out of that campaign. good evening. i put the question to you as someone who is a part of a campaign that punched above its weight, that had a large grassroots effort, that arguably impacted the democratic party while not winning the nomination. where does this go? >> well, i think you've seen, as you pointed out an unprecedented groundswell of people across this country who are not only offended by what trump is doing in th...

Across this country. that wants to make sure that women's rights are protected harkes the lgbt community is protected, that immigrant communities are protected, african american communities are protected. people are coming together in sort of spontaneous outpours of protest and pport. and it really bodes well for the future of this country in terms of moving news a much more progressive direction going forward. the challenge now is to coalesce this energy, to organize as well as mobilize. we've seen a lot of mobilization. but now we have to organize so that we can turn out the forces of reacti...

By the way, those union members came out hugely enthusiastic from that meeting, and if democrats don't remember that those are the people that they need to keep onboard 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. line. okay, well, this was -- this is heretical to guys like howard dean. >> the ted kennedy and tom harkin they would have loved this. >> you connect with them in the gut level and they're not interested in the details. to doris' point democr...