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Past week, look, bottom line, i think there's a healthy debate happening with the democratic caucus, i think it's important that younger members have a seat at the table, 26 of the house members coming into this new congress in january are going to be younger -- younger millennial members and so that is, you know, that's an important conversation that's happening and i think that what you are seeing, sort of a natural internal negotiation among the different groups that compromised a big ten party the democratic party. she will be speaker -- sorry, rick. >> no problem, the president said that ...

Seen millennials starting businesses at greater rate than previous generations, this is where republicans really need to tap into that and part of that is communication. even beto o'rourke one of the things he does really well is he's a good communicator, barack obama who mobilized millennials, good communicator and this is something republicans have struggled with, they focus on policies and facts and not connecting to people at hand and so i always encourage republicans to say it's not just about the policies, you need to talk about the people its impacting, part of that is celebrating tax c...

Humanitarian crisis and all of these folks are hoping to apply for asylum, meanwhile dhs says that part of this caravan that there are hundreds of gang members and some folks who are violent and so 5900 u.s. troops have been sent to the border, they were deployed and they are unarmed and have so far mainly put up wire and barriers along the border. they are there to reinforce border patrol in case there is some kind of a rush to the border and already, rick, we can expect some legal backlash here, legal fight with this agreement if it were to go through, human rights activists are pointing out...

People try to find another way to get into the u.s. rather than applying for asylum. >> well, that's -- you have seen it firsthand, rick, you see what the people -- what -- you probably talked to them and find out what lives they were leaving, why they left and they risk their lives and -- >> half of them, half of them are claiming hardship, the other half according to border protection agents were criminalses, sneaking in. >> wow, that's -- that's why we do need -- if possible get people coming in legally through legal channels and getting them to come through those ports of entry and we have...

Makes good point in terms of how we are telling our story and how we are appealing to voters by really invoking narrative that resinates with them. i want to make one other observation, rick, i think we would be doing ourselves a service as country if we make it easier to vote and what i mean by that is having an actual national holiday for election day, if you think about a lot of the folks who didn't vote many of them make less than 50k a year, many of them are not college educated, it's not always easy to take time off from your job to go stand in line for 4 hours and so i think we need to ...