WEBVTT 00:00.767 --> 00:01.301 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% - Joan, meet Joan. 00:02.702 --> 00:04.104 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% - How do you do? 00:04.104 --> 00:05.638 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% It's nice to have another named compatriot. 00:05.638 --> 00:06.573 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% - Yes, definitely. 00:07.941 --> 00:12.212 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - I'm thrilled that the pipeline seems to be building 00:13.580 --> 00:18.284 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% with local and state candidates coming forward. 00:19.719 --> 00:22.856 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% The frustration for me for the last number of years 00:22.856 --> 00:26.960 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% has been the fact that where you are lucky enough 00:26.960 --> 00:29.062 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% or unlucky enough to live 00:31.164 --> 00:33.833 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% makes it possible for you to have things 00:33.833 --> 00:36.936 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% like education and health care 00:36.936 --> 00:41.074 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% or less education and bad health care. 00:41.074 --> 00:46.012 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% So how, based on what you're seeing around the country, 00:46.012 --> 00:50.316 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% how do we make the powers that be understand 00:50.316 --> 00:53.420 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% that for our society the way we live in this country 00:53.420 --> 00:54.487 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% and how we govern. 00:55.889 --> 01:00.093 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% It's important for the citizenry to be well-educated 01:00.093 --> 01:03.363 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and healthy so that they can contribute 01:03.363 --> 01:05.098 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% to the success of this country 01:05.098 --> 01:07.333 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% through their taxes through their information, 01:07.333 --> 01:08.568 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% et cetera, et cetera. 01:08.568 --> 01:09.769 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - [Man] What do you do about that? 01:09.769 --> 01:12.772 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - You're right, it's state to state. 01:12.772 --> 01:15.542 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% It was a shame that the governors were given 01:15.542 --> 01:17.143 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% the states were given 01:17.143 --> 01:19.979 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% a choice on whether to expand Medicaid or not. 01:19.979 --> 01:22.148 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% And many didn't. 01:22.148 --> 01:24.017 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Many who needed it most as a matter of fact. 01:24.017 --> 01:25.552 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - Well Peg you're in a state that had then 01:25.552 --> 01:27.754 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and has now the most uninsured people in the country 01:27.754 --> 01:29.155 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% did not expand Medicaid. 01:29.155 --> 01:31.491 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Didn't even create a state exchange. 01:31.491 --> 01:34.494 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - Right, unconscionable, it's unconscionable. 01:34.494 --> 01:39.232 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% But most voters in Texas I hate to say it 01:40.834 --> 01:42.469 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% have higher priorities than that. 01:43.903 --> 01:45.205 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - Well the elections have consequences argument 01:45.205 --> 01:46.106 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% probably applies here. 01:46.106 --> 01:47.373 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% - Yeah. 01:47.373 --> 01:48.808 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - You know, you don't like that decision, 01:48.808 --> 01:50.043 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% you have to put different people in office. 01:50.043 --> 01:52.145 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - Right, and I think a lot of it is, 01:52.145 --> 01:54.180 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% it's not so much you know that we're gonna 01:54.180 --> 01:56.216 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% be able to persuade Trump voters 01:57.417 --> 01:59.452 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% or Greg Abbot voters but particularly focusing 01:59.452 --> 02:01.054 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% on Trump voters to change their mind. 02:01.054 --> 02:03.022 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Some of them will at the margins. 02:03.022 --> 02:04.924 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% It's really focusing on the numbers 02:04.924 --> 02:06.893 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% of people who don't vote. 02:06.893 --> 02:08.795 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% The people who sat out that election 02:08.795 --> 02:10.396 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% it just breaks my heart. 02:10.396 --> 02:14.000 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% And here in Texas, you know, there's a sizeable 02:14.000 --> 02:16.369 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Hispanic community that doesn't participate 02:16.369 --> 02:18.838 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% the way the same community participates 02:18.838 --> 02:21.040 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% in California where I'm from. 02:21.040 --> 02:25.178 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% It's gotta be turning people out to vote 02:25.178 --> 02:28.381 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% but also I'm really high on this strategy 02:28.381 --> 02:30.683 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% of focusing on state elections 02:30.683 --> 02:32.585 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% state assembly state senate 02:32.585 --> 02:34.988 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% because that's where you have a conversation 02:34.988 --> 02:37.757 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% at the more local level with your neighbors. 02:37.757 --> 02:40.426 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% You fly the flag of I'm a Democrat. 02:40.426 --> 02:42.929 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% You fly the flag of universal healthcare, 02:42.929 --> 02:45.398 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% better funding for our kids our schools. 02:45.398 --> 02:47.567 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% You have more direct conversations. 02:47.567 --> 02:49.502 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% They're not mediated by people like me 02:50.637 --> 02:52.372 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% you know or other talking heads. 02:54.541 --> 02:56.376 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% I think it allows for the rebuilding 02:56.376 --> 03:00.146 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% of a community by community Democratic infrastructure. 03:00.146 --> 03:01.681 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - But gerrymandering you would acknowledge 03:01.681 --> 03:03.483 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% is an obstacle to what you're talking about. 03:03.483 --> 03:08.488 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - It's an obstacle but in many states, in the red states 03:09.923 --> 03:13.426 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Democrats are competing on a totally unfair playing field. 03:13.426 --> 03:16.863 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% In Virginia they got two thirds of the vote 03:16.863 --> 03:20.700 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% but they only got essentially half the seats. 03:20.700 --> 03:23.169 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% But they're gonna have to go back in 2019 03:23.169 --> 03:25.438 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% they have these tricky off-off-year elections. 03:25.438 --> 03:27.507 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% But the good thing about it is on the years 03:27.507 --> 03:30.076 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% that they have these state delegate elections 03:30.076 --> 03:32.879 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% they're the only game in town. 03:32.879 --> 03:37.116 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% There's also New Jersey but it's been a bluer state. 03:37.116 --> 03:39.752 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% So anyway, you gotta go into those red districts 03:39.752 --> 03:42.555 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% that are sliced against you. 03:42.555 --> 03:45.158 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% But as Ed and I were saying, people are doing that 03:45.158 --> 03:48.161 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and it's happening, those conversations are happening 03:48.161 --> 03:50.830 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and I don't think it's entirely anti-Trump. 03:50.830 --> 03:53.466 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% I think it's people, it's somewhat anti-Trump, 03:53.466 --> 03:54.968 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% it's pro these candidates. 03:54.968 --> 03:56.669 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% They've picked some really good candidates 03:56.669 --> 04:01.174 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% fit for the district and they're talking 04:01.174 --> 04:02.775 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% to people at the local level. 04:02.775 --> 04:03.610 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% I'll stop. 04:03.610 --> 04:04.877 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% - Great, Commish? 04:04.877 --> 04:08.281 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - Hi, I was volunteering for the Clinton campaign 04:08.281 --> 04:09.983 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% in North Carolina for the last 04:09.983 --> 04:11.751 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% month of the campaign. - Where were you? 04:11.751 --> 04:14.187 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - I was in Charlotte and I checked you in 04:14.187 --> 04:16.222 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% issued you your media credentials 04:16.222 --> 04:17.590 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (laughing) 04:17.590 --> 04:18.992 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% at the Davidson College 04:18.992 --> 04:21.060 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% event for Tim Kaine. - For Tim Kaine! 04:21.060 --> 04:22.495 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - And I went, oh my God, it is Joan Walsh! 04:22.495 --> 04:23.329 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% - [Joan] Oh my God! 04:23.329 --> 04:24.230 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% - Totally geeked out. 04:25.365 --> 04:27.100 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% But my question is this, kind of an offshoot 04:27.100 --> 04:28.534 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% of what Joan was asking. 04:29.469 --> 04:31.037 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Will we ever get past a place 04:31.904 --> 04:34.007 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% where you live decides how hard 04:34.007 --> 04:36.075 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% somebody really fights to get your vote 04:36.075 --> 04:37.844 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% to run for President? 04:37.844 --> 04:38.878 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% In the purple state - Oh. 04:38.878 --> 04:40.413 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% of North Carolina, 04:40.413 --> 04:42.348 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - the candidates were just - I just sat there because 04:42.348 --> 04:44.817 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - trippin' all over each other - I could see everybody. 04:44.817 --> 04:48.955 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% in terms of surrogates, West Wing cast and actors, 04:49.889 --> 04:52.258 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% the President, the First Lady. 04:52.258 --> 04:54.594 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - It was on both sides in terms of red and blue 04:54.594 --> 04:56.129 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% to try and win your vote. 04:56.129 --> 04:57.563 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% - [Joan] Yes. 04:57.563 --> 05:00.566 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - And blown off were anybody in a blue or red state 05:00.566 --> 05:02.268 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% if you didn't have money. - Right. 05:02.268 --> 05:03.736 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% - Have a nice day. 05:03.736 --> 05:06.706 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Do we envision a day that even if it's not a purple state 05:06.706 --> 05:10.209 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% that people will all be treated like they're a purple voter 05:10.209 --> 05:12.812 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and they will be wooed and asked for their vote. 05:12.812 --> 05:14.314 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - Well the only thing I would say 05:14.314 --> 05:15.615 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% to add to what Karen is saying. 05:15.615 --> 05:17.583 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% We have Democratic candidates come to Texas 05:17.583 --> 05:19.185 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and they drag a sack along the ground. 05:19.185 --> 05:20.420 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% - With money, for the money! 05:20.420 --> 05:22.455 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - And then they take it out of state to elect 05:22.455 --> 05:23.656 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% people in other states - Exactly! 05:23.656 --> 05:25.024 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% because they've given up on electing 05:25.024 --> 05:26.259 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Democrats in Texas. - Right, right. 05:26.259 --> 05:27.760 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - But there are wealthy people and that's been 05:27.760 --> 05:30.830 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% a complaint forever and you know I'm gonna be honest, 05:30.830 --> 05:32.532 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% I don't see it changing anytime soon. 05:32.532 --> 05:35.568 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% As long as states you know are deep deep red 05:35.568 --> 05:40.473 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and deep deep blue there's not going to be a whole lot 05:40.473 --> 05:43.776 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% of conversation here unless there's the perception 05:43.776 --> 05:47.847 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% of the possibility to tilt that state 05:47.847 --> 05:52.852 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% or to have really important Congressional candidates 05:54.053 --> 05:55.288 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% who maybe somebody would come in for 05:55.288 --> 05:59.726 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% but the way it's set up now it's so expensive. 05:59.726 --> 06:02.495 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% It's so time-consuming you know they spent 06:02.495 --> 06:04.397 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% a lot of time in North Carolina that they 06:04.397 --> 06:06.899 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% maybe should have spent in Wisconsin and Michigan 06:06.899 --> 06:09.302 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% but my daughter was the regional in Greensboro 06:09.302 --> 06:11.604 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% so I was happy they were there 06:11.604 --> 06:13.906 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% but yeah it's tough. 06:14.974 --> 06:16.876 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% - Okay, Dan. 06:18.211 --> 06:19.779 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - [Man] Are you gonna predict what the Supreme Court 06:19.779 --> 06:21.314 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% might do on the gerrymandering? 06:22.415 --> 06:23.516 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% - I don't know. 06:23.516 --> 06:25.385 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% I really can't tell. 06:25.385 --> 06:27.553 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% - [Man] Are you optimistic? 06:27.553 --> 06:29.455 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - I'm never optimistic with this Court. 06:29.455 --> 06:30.990 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (laughing) 06:30.990 --> 06:34.460 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% This Court finds ways to do things you know that I think 06:34.460 --> 06:38.798 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% are undoable or that legal scholars that I respect 06:38.798 --> 06:41.868 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% think the law won't allow that. 06:41.868 --> 06:43.569 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - It's interesting when people talk about what 06:43.569 --> 06:45.738 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Trump has accomplished in the first year plus 06:45.738 --> 06:47.740 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and before the tax bill it was basically 06:47.740 --> 06:50.009 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Neil Gorsuch and then an empty piece of paper. 06:50.009 --> 06:51.511 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% - Right. 06:51.511 --> 06:54.280 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - But in a lot of ways getting Gorsuch on the Court will be 06:54.280 --> 06:56.449 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% the ball game for 30 years. - Yes. 06:56.449 --> 06:57.550 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% - Right, don't you think? 06:57.550 --> 07:00.753 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I mean it affects so many things 07:00.753 --> 07:02.522 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% we don't think about or don't see, and you may 07:02.522 --> 07:04.757 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% like that or you may not like - Right. 07:04.757 --> 07:06.459 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% that but you can't argue with the impact of it. 07:06.459 --> 07:09.495 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - No, I mean it's terrible what Mitch McConnell did 07:09.495 --> 07:11.397 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% keeping Merrick Garland from a vote. 07:11.397 --> 07:13.499 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% It will go down in history as one of the most 07:13.499 --> 07:14.901 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60% corrupt acts - Right. 07:14.901 --> 07:17.637 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% of a Majority Leader it just was wrong. 07:17.637 --> 07:20.640 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% - He basically took Barack Obama 07:20.640 --> 07:22.542 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% he cut his term by a quarter. - Right. 07:22.542 --> 07:24.911 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - He said you're only President for three years. 07:24.911 --> 07:26.312 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - Your fourth year you can't appoint 07:26.312 --> 07:27.880 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% a Supreme Court nominee. - Right. 07:27.880 --> 07:29.248 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% - My favorite part of last year 07:29.248 --> 07:30.917 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% was the Republicans complaining that the Democrats 07:30.917 --> 07:33.286 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% weren't giving Neil Gorsuch a hearing quickly enough. 07:33.286 --> 07:34.454 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% - Yeah. 07:34.454 --> 07:35.888 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - It was like really, dude, seriously? 07:35.888 --> 07:38.791 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% I found that like weapons-grade chutzpah to be complaining 07:38.791 --> 07:40.860 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% about what. - They got it they got it. 07:40.860 --> 07:42.061 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% - It was five minutes ago. 07:42.061 --> 07:44.864 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% We have to stop and give Joan a big old hand. 07:44.864 --> 07:46.265 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% We'll get her off to the airport. 07:46.265 --> 07:47.733 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% So good to have her with us. 07:47.733 --> 07:49.769 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (applauding)