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Who may not have felt that they had been reached out to by the democrats. >> and we look at that very issue that you bring up here, representative chu. it is something that is resonating, right? over this last year about, our voices being heard. representative meeks, as we look at leadership not only in the house for democrat, and by the way, representative pelosi still knows how to get a vote. does she not? plus or minus two or three. but to get over the dnc. that's also for you and representative chu a question. who should lead? who is hearing the voice? >> well, i think that that's where ou...

Policy experience will in deed be held to be true. that he wasn't really ready to deal with these foreign matters. and it leads me to wonder how he is going to be able to negotiate the delicate areas that he needs to as president. >> congressman meeks, as we look at the way he's dealt, at least with this latest interaction with taiwan, one of his tweets was saying, they called me. is that okay? and if this is the way that he proceeds with dealing with foreign powers, is this the way we're going to talk about foreign policy for the next four years? >> it's very dangerous. you know, sitting on t...

Historic gain for asian-americans. we went from 13 members of congress that are asian-pacific islander to 18 members, that are asian-pacific islander, and in the senate, there was a very historic gain of four women of color. >> all right. thank you both. congresswoman judy chu of california and also chair of comfortpac and thank you, also, freptive gregory meeks, also head of cbc and the its parqupa. breaking news out of california. look at some pictures here of that burnt out warehouse where nine people have died. dozens still unaccounted for. oakland's mayor is expect to hold a press confe...

Bring in gregory meeks who joins me in the studio here. thank you very much for being here, representative meeks. and i understand another angle is that the police are investigating this as being attributable to this gunman's reaction to the michael brown/eric garner situations. is it fair to connect the dots here? or is that -- is that assuming too much? >> yeah, i think it's not fair. clearly the brown family, the gardner family and everybody that was demonstrating, most individuals all have said they wanted no violence. nonviolence. it's a way to express yourselves and to try to create an a...

>> okay. representative meeks, we'll focus stateside here. the house is back in session next monday. the democrats will try to push for the senate's unemployment bill and the republicans say we're not going to vote on this bill until it includes some job creation measures. so how do you see this playing out? >> i see it playing out the republicans are playing games. every day, more and more americans, democrats, republicans, independents, are suffering because we have not extended unemployment insurance. the american people are going to see through it. the president had been trying to talk abo...