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Progressive wing. who controls the assets controls the direction of the party. do you go for a 50 state strategy or let people experiment. >> shannon: chris, we think about under president barack obama and candidate barack obama. this is looking back on this. this is from a democratic strategist. >> we as democrats thought we had a significant advantage in digital and targeting data and that stuff ahead of the 2015 election. we were lapped by the trump operation on this. >> shannon: how did that happen? >> it's over my head. i am in the generation that doesn't know that much about data. part w...

Freshmen and women today? >> as a veteran of capitol hill, as a staffer, as somebody who spent my early years as an intern, first of all, i was f t gratified to see so many people who look like me. we have a historic congress. the most diverse in the history of our country. it comes from one of the largest midterm turn outs. for democrats, we almost drop a decade in terms of the age of those elected. it was a good night. a good week, a good election season for democrat. howard dean knows this. we had a 50 state strategy. we ran everywhere. we had candidates who understood they had to go back t...

Educating americans and help people understand what they're voting for and what the issues are. but, yeah, as the dynamics continue to change, we have wor. particularly for millennials who opt-out because they can't get their heads around of mailing in a voter registration page through the snail mail. in a lot of states they try to make voting easier. we need more and more women to step up. >> when those women's mars happened democrats didn't know if they were really going to be able to harness those people because they were angry at the system. they weren't necessarily all democrats, they wer...

Democrats and how to get people to go out and vote and get that message out. but why are women scared, not scared, but they seem to hesitate more to run because maybe of personal issues or the ugliness of it. so i guess, governor, how do you do a 50 state strategy. >> is the second part of your question is more interesting. this is what's happening that most people don't understand in the democratic party. all these people coming in the party are not necessarily democrats. they don't trust the system. they don't trust anybody. they have democratic ideas. they want diversity. they believe immig...

Particularly in the summer of the 2007, when his summer was near dead and he had no money, the 50 state strategy became survive new hampshire, so he always had a great affection for the state. i juiused to say, you should ha been johnny carson's sidekick. he loved the jokes. they were old and tired, but people loved them. >> steve, i appreciate you sharing some of your memories of the senator with us here. we want to mention what you're seeing now. we saw harry kisi singer and roberta mccain, mccain's mother. the senator wrote about her and his childhood growing up. it was like a mobile classr...