About drama. We also know that you can avoid drama by getting an annual checkup. So go, know, and take control of your health. It could save your life. Cigna. Together, all the way. States. Cant happen that way anymore. That was the president as he and the first lady walked into Easter Church services today. He had a tweet saying need wall. And this one concluding with no more daca deal. President spending the holiday at his club in palm beach. But according to the Washington Post the president s Chief Of Staff and supposed moderating force in the west wing john kelly did not travel with him and Senior Adviser Steven Miller did. Want to welcome in the panel. Here in new york, business and politics reporter for the Wall Street Journal shelby holiday. Editor at large for reason magazine, matt welch. In d. C. Writer for the Atlantic Molly and betsy woodruff. Thank you for being with us on this Easter Sunday night. Betsy, you and the news. I think the president were not clear what prompted
to say the most important thing you need to do is wip. people are working their districts. when we take over and i m certainly optimistic that will happen and it ll be a very large number. she has postponed the elections until december, the leadership elections. but to have the massive change, people are going to be trying to figure out how they go about becoming a new congress person, all of that. there have been lots of discussions about, you know, whether or not there s going to be leadership change. i m in my eight year and i will tell you those discussions are happened every single time we re in this cycle. here s the interesting thing, look at conor lamb. conor lamb ran and won in my congressional district saying he wasn t going to vote for nancy pelosi. now he says i m going to vote for whoever the democrats run. they can vote for all these ads, they come to washington, the whip gets cracked, people get in line. i am a nancy pelosi fan.
chair of the democratic national committee, congressman keith ellison of minnesota. one of those democrats leading the charge, they re trying to take back the house this year. congressman, thanks for joining us. let s talk about that effort. democrats haven t been there in 18 years. the new report we have on nbcnews.com, they think hillary clinton is going to be a weapon for them because of those comments in part, at least, she made a few weeks ago about trump areas of the country being backward looking, sort of tale of two countries there. let me ask you, the road to a house majority, the road to a senate majority for that matter, goes through some places donald trump won and some some cases won them big. those comments from hillary clinton, are they going to hurt you at all? hey, look, we re going to be focusing on working class kitchen table issues. i was in trenton, michigan, yesterday and in detroit, too. people want to talk about pensions, wages. they want to know, if i can get
goes through some places donald trump won and some some cases won them big. those comments from hillary clinton, are they going to hurt you at all? hey, look, we re going to be focusing on working class kitchen table issues. i was in trenton, michigan, yesterday and in detroit, too. people want to talk about pensions, wages. they want to know, if i can get a job, can i get one that s going to pay me a livable wage? right now they re fighting in michigan to get fair wages for servers and stuff like that. those are the issues. conor lamb ran and he talked about unions, the right to organize, he talked about pensions. and he talked about workers. and that s what we re going to hit. man, more than talking bad about anybody, we re talking in favor of the american people. we re talking about to folks in missouri, michigan, all over the country, we re going to wisconsin. we re going all over. we are engaging people on these kind of things. i take the point keeping the main thing the
quite different from the district i represent. but certainly conor lamb ran as a relatively conservative democrat saying he would not vote for nancy pelosi for leader or for speaker. and so i think each district is particular to itself. but obviously we have to campaign on our views and where we think the nation should move forward. a lot of republicans are trying to run on the tax law. the tax law is something you did not vote for. so what are you going to be running on in new jersey? i m going to be running on my record of fiscal responsibility, of ethical integrity and serving of the district to the best of my ability. and certainly i m going to indicate to the voters in the congressional district i serve not only where i may agree with the president but where i may disagree with him. a lot of the base in the republican party wants complete fealty to donald trump which makes it difficult to win in a general election for republicans. do you have that issue with your base in new