WEBVTT 00:00.100 --> 00:00.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: JOINING US NOW 00:00.800 --> 00:02.302 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FROM WASHINGTON, D.C., IS OSITA 00:02.302 --> 00:03.903 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NWANEVU, A REPORTER FOR THE "NEW 00:03.903 --> 00:05.438 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YORKER" WHO COVERS POLITICS AND 00:05.438 --> 00:07.140 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% POLICY AND WHO HAS BEEN COVERING 00:07.140 --> 00:08.341 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE EVENTS AT THE CONSERVATIVE 00:08.341 --> 00:09.843 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% POLITICAL ACTION CONFERENCE. 00:09.843 --> 00:10.877 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHAT WAS THE BIG THEME THIS 00:10.877 --> 00:11.678 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YEAR? 00:11.678 --> 00:13.013 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> WELL, THE BIG THEME THIS YEAR 00:13.013 --> 00:15.281 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I THINK WAS BASICALLY SOCIALISM. 00:15.281 --> 00:16.783 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT WAS A THROUGHLINE THROUGH 00:16.783 --> 00:19.152 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% EVERY MAJOR SPEECH THAT YOU 00:19.152 --> 00:20.620 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HEARD, NOT ONLY FROM PRESIDENT 00:20.620 --> 00:22.088 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TRUMP AND VICE PRESIDENT PENCE, 00:22.088 --> 00:23.890 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BUT ALL OF THE SORT OF "B-LIST" 00:23.890 --> 00:24.657 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SPEAKERS, AS WELL. 00:24.657 --> 00:26.126 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THERE WAS A BIG INTRO VIDEO THAT 00:26.126 --> 00:27.460 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEY SHOWED MULTIPLE TIMES 00:27.460 --> 00:28.962 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DURING THE CONVENTION THAT 00:28.962 --> 00:30.230 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FEATURED CLIPS OF BERNIE 00:30.230 --> 00:32.432 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SANDERS, ALEXANDRA OCASIO-CORTEZ 00:32.432 --> 00:33.767 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND OTHER DEMOCRATIC FIGURES WHO 00:33.767 --> 00:35.168 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEY THINK ARE EMBRACING 00:35.168 --> 00:37.070 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LEFT-WING POLICIES THAT ARE 00:37.070 --> 00:38.238 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GOING TO BE TOO FAR LEFT FOR THE 00:38.238 --> 00:38.738 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ELECTORATE. 00:38.738 --> 00:40.006 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHETHER THAT'S TRUE OBVIOUSLY 00:40.006 --> 00:41.207 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REMAINS TO BE SEEN. 00:41.207 --> 00:41.941 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: THE REPUBLICANS 00:41.941 --> 00:43.376 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HAVE BEEN DOING THAT AND USING 00:43.376 --> 00:45.378 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SOCIALISM AS A MEANS TO TAR THE 00:45.378 --> 00:46.880 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LEFT WITH FOR A LONG TIME. 00:46.880 --> 00:48.314 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NOW, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? 00:48.314 --> 00:49.883 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT THEY HAVE EVIDENCE? 00:49.883 --> 00:50.950 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT THEY HAVE MEMBERS OF THE 00:50.950 --> 00:53.319 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OTHER PARTY CLAIMING MEMBERSHIP? 00:53.319 --> 00:54.254 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> WELL, THEY DO HAVE SOME 00:54.254 --> 00:55.588 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CANDIDATES LIKE BERNIE SANDERS, 00:55.588 --> 00:57.123 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OBVIOUSLY, WHO ACTUALLY STARTED 00:57.123 --> 00:58.558 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HIS CAMPAIGN WITH AN EVENT IN 00:58.558 --> 01:00.326 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BROOKLYN TODAY, WHO'S GOING 01:00.326 --> 01:01.294 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AROUND CALLING HIMSELF A 01:01.294 --> 01:02.328 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST FOR A 01:02.328 --> 01:02.762 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LONG TIME. 01:02.762 --> 01:03.797 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PEOPLE LIKE ALEXANDRA OCASIO- 01:03.797 --> 01:05.131 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CORTEZ. 01:05.131 --> 01:06.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I PERSONALLY WOULD BE VERY 01:06.166 --> 01:07.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SKEPTICAL THAT THIS IS SOMETHING 01:07.233 --> 01:08.568 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT'S GOING TO SEEM NEW AND 01:08.568 --> 01:09.669 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FRESH TO THE ELECTORATE WHO 01:09.669 --> 01:11.304 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HEARD THESE KINDS OF CLAIMS. 01:11.304 --> 01:12.205 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT 01:12.205 --> 01:13.473 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE RECORD OF PRESIDENTIAL 01:13.473 --> 01:15.608 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ELECTIONS, THE PAST THREE, THEY 01:15.608 --> 01:17.243 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CALLED OBAMA "TOO FAR LEFT" IN 01:17.243 --> 01:18.411 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% 2008. 01:18.411 --> 01:19.579 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DIDN'T WIN. 01:19.579 --> 01:20.413 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEY CALLED HIM THE SAME IN 01:20.413 --> 01:21.548 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% 2012. 01:21.548 --> 01:22.315 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEY DIDN'T WIN. 01:22.315 --> 01:24.584 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BY CONTRAST, TRUMP, WHO DID 01:24.584 --> 01:25.552 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME 01:25.552 --> 01:27.554 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CALLING HILARY TOO FAR LEFT, 01:27.554 --> 01:28.621 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ACTUALLY FOCUSED MOST OF HIS 01:28.621 --> 01:30.323 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CAMPAIGN IN CALLING CLINTON 01:30.323 --> 01:32.525 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CORRUPT AND A MEMBER OF SORT OF 01:32.525 --> 01:34.027 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE POLITICAL ELITE-- IF 01:34.027 --> 01:36.362 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ANYTHING, TOO CLOSE TO THE RICH. 01:36.362 --> 01:37.230 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TODAY, HE TALKED ABOUT THE 01:37.230 --> 01:38.298 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RULING CLASS IN HIS SPEECH TO 01:38.298 --> 01:40.834 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CPAC, AND THAT KIND OF APPROACH 01:40.834 --> 01:41.901 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SET HIM APART FROM OTHER 01:41.901 --> 01:42.836 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. 01:42.836 --> 01:43.703 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND HE DID, OBVIOUSLY, WIN THE 01:43.703 --> 01:44.871 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ELECTION. 01:44.871 --> 01:46.239 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, IF I WERE TRUMP OR PEOPLE 01:46.239 --> 01:47.340 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ADVISING TRUMP, I'D BE VERY 01:47.340 --> 01:49.409 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SKEPTICAL OF DITCHING THAT KIND 01:49.409 --> 01:50.877 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE. 01:50.877 --> 01:51.411 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: THE 01:51.411 --> 01:52.846 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CONSERVATIVES HAVE A FAIR AMOUNT 01:52.846 --> 01:53.713 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO CELEBRATE. 01:53.713 --> 01:54.914 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I MEAN, THEY CAN LOOK AT THE 01:54.914 --> 01:56.082 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ADMINISTRATION'S RECORD ON 01:56.082 --> 01:57.517 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DEREGULATING THINGS. 01:57.517 --> 01:59.352 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEY CAN CERTAINLY LOOK AT THE 01:59.352 --> 02:00.620 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SUCCESSFUL NOMINATION OF TWO 02:00.620 --> 02:02.088 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SUPREME COURT JUSTICES NOW THAT 02:02.088 --> 02:04.090 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THINK A LOT MORE LIKE THEM THAN 02:04.090 --> 02:05.458 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE PREVIOUS APPOINTEES. 02:05.458 --> 02:06.126 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> I THINK THAT'S TRUE. 02:06.126 --> 02:07.127 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OBVIOUSLY, THE TAX CUTS, AS 02:07.127 --> 02:07.560 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WELL. 02:07.560 --> 02:08.628 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEY TALKED A LOT ABOUT THAT 02:08.628 --> 02:09.863 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DURING THE CONFERENCE. 02:09.863 --> 02:10.697 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THERE ARE THINGS THEY CAN TICK 02:10.697 --> 02:11.064 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OFF. 02:11.064 --> 02:12.298 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I THINK THE REAL QUESTION NOW 02:12.298 --> 02:13.867 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IS, WITH THE DEMOCRATS IN 02:13.867 --> 02:15.001 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CONTROL OF THE HOUSE, HOW MANY 02:15.001 --> 02:16.002 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MORE VICTORIES ARE THERE GOING 02:16.002 --> 02:17.537 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO BE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION? 02:17.537 --> 02:18.371 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, IT WILL BE REALLY 02:18.371 --> 02:19.539 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% INTERESTING TO SEE HOW TRUMP 02:19.539 --> 02:20.807 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CONTINUES TO TRY TO STOKE 02:20.807 --> 02:23.143 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HIS BASE AND THE ABSENCE OF REAL 02:23.143 --> 02:24.310 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% VICTORIES HE CAN DELIVER THEM. 02:24.310 --> 02:25.111 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OBVIOUSLY, HE'S TRYING TO DO 02:25.111 --> 02:25.979 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT WITH THE NATIONAL 02:25.979 --> 02:27.914 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% EMERGENCY HE DECLARED OVER THE 02:27.914 --> 02:28.414 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WALL. 02:28.414 --> 02:29.949 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WE'LL SEE IF THAT ACTUALLY PANS 02:29.949 --> 02:31.317 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OUT INTO ANYTHING THAT'S GOING 02:31.317 --> 02:32.719 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO GET SECTIONS OF THAT WALL 02:32.719 --> 02:34.053 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REALLY BUILT. 02:34.053 --> 02:34.921 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BUT HE'S REALLY GOING TO 02:34.921 --> 02:38.158 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% STRUGGLE TO DELIVER NOT ONLY 02:38.158 --> 02:39.993 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CAMPAIGN PROMISES BUT SORT OF ON 02:39.993 --> 02:41.928 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE MOOD THAT HE TRIED TO 02:41.928 --> 02:43.997 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CULTIVATE HERE AT CPAC. 02:43.997 --> 02:44.697 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I THINK THAT ONE OF THE THINGS 02:44.697 --> 02:45.498 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT'S GOING TO BE CENTRAL IS, 02:45.498 --> 02:46.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AGAIN, THIS IDEA THAT THERE IS 02:46.866 --> 02:48.134 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% A RISING TIDE OF SOCIALISM ON 02:48.134 --> 02:49.536 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE LEFT THAT CONSERVATIVES HAVE 02:49.536 --> 02:51.037 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO SORT OF BAND TOGETHER AND 02:51.037 --> 02:51.504 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COMBAT. 02:51.504 --> 02:53.173 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEY'RE GOING TO BE IN A MORE 02:53.173 --> 02:54.607 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COMBATIVE MOOD, AND MAYBE THAT 02:54.607 --> 02:55.475 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SORT OF TAKES THE PRESSURE OFF 02:55.475 --> 02:56.476 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TRUMP TO ACTUALLY DELIVERS 02:56.476 --> 02:57.243 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THINGS. 02:57.243 --> 02:58.044 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: FINALLY, I 02:58.044 --> 02:59.412 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WANT TO ASK, YOU SPENT SEVERAL 02:59.412 --> 03:01.247 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DAYS THERE TALKING TO YOUNG 03:01.247 --> 03:02.982 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PEOPLE, YOUNG CONSERVATIVES. 03:02.982 --> 03:04.117 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHAT'S YOUR SENSE? 03:04.117 --> 03:06.719 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IS THERE A NEWFOUND ENERGY 03:06.719 --> 03:07.654 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BECAUSE OF TRUMP? 03:07.654 --> 03:08.488 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DO THEY... ARE THEY MORE 03:08.488 --> 03:11.124 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OPTIMISTIC OF THEIR OWN FUTURES? 03:11.124 --> 03:11.958 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> WELL, I THINK THERE IS A LOT 03:11.958 --> 03:12.892 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OF ENERGY BECAUSE OF TRUMP. 03:12.892 --> 03:14.027 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I THINK THAT HE SEEMS LIKE A 03:14.027 --> 03:15.195 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DIFFERENT KIND OF REPUBLICAN 03:15.195 --> 03:17.030 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% POLITICIAN TO YOUNGER 03:17.030 --> 03:17.864 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CONSERVATIVES, CAMPUS 03:17.864 --> 03:19.265 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CONSERVATIVES, SOMEBODY WHO'S 03:19.265 --> 03:20.867 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WILLING TO POKE LIBERALS IN THE 03:20.867 --> 03:21.868 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% EYE. 03:21.868 --> 03:23.002 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND THERE ARE A LOT OF YOUNG 03:23.002 --> 03:23.937 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CONSERVATIVES WHO REALLY ENJOY 03:23.937 --> 03:24.237 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT. 03:24.237 --> 03:25.471 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING 03:25.471 --> 03:27.040 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESENCES, I THINK, AT THE 03:27.040 --> 03:28.174 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CONFERENCE THIS YEAR WAS A GROUP 03:28.174 --> 03:29.842 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CALLED TURNING POINT U.S.A., 03:29.842 --> 03:31.511 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FOUNDED IN 2012, THAT'S EXPLODED 03:31.511 --> 03:33.580 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS. 03:33.580 --> 03:34.948 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND THEIR AGENDA IS BASICALLY 03:34.948 --> 03:36.416 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SORT OF RIBBING LIBERALS ON 03:36.416 --> 03:38.051 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CAMPUS IN A WAY THAT IS FRANKLY 03:38.051 --> 03:40.253 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% QUITE SIMILAR TO THE KIND OF 03:40.253 --> 03:41.788 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% JOUSTING THAT TRUMP DOES 03:41.788 --> 03:43.156 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RHETORICALLY ON THE NATIONAL 03:43.156 --> 03:44.357 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% POLITICAL STAGE. 03:44.357 --> 03:45.258 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CHARLIE KIRK IS THE GROUP'S 03:45.258 --> 03:45.825 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FOUNDER. 03:45.825 --> 03:48.228 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HE HAD A BIG, BIG SPEAKING SLOT 03:48.228 --> 03:49.662 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AT CPAC THIS YEAR, AS DID 03:49.662 --> 03:50.396 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CANDICE OWENS, THEIR 03:50.396 --> 03:52.432 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR. 03:52.432 --> 03:53.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND, YOU KNOW, THERE IS A LOT OF 03:53.733 --> 03:54.867 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% INTEREST IN THAT GROUP. 03:54.867 --> 03:56.803 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND IT, YOU KNOW... IT WAS GIVEN 03:56.803 --> 03:58.671 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% A LOT OF SPACE, AND CERTAINLY A 03:58.671 --> 03:59.439 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LOT OF PEOPLE ARE JOINING. 03:59.439 --> 04:00.073 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: ALL RIGHT, 04:00.073 --> 04:02.242 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OSITA NWANEVU, A REPORTER FOR 04:02.242 --> 04:02.809 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE "NEW YORKER." 04:02.809 --> 04:03.276 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THANKS SO MUCH. 04:03.276 --> 04:04.210 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THANK YOU.