parliamentarian elections despite being in power during the previous government the party eked out less than six percent of the vote our reporter met with a young socialist in lille who believes he knows where the party s problems lie and is determined to help resolve them. lille in northern france has traditionally been a stronghold for france s socialist party maybe shylock grew up here he says as around the suburb of water a lot where his parents still live like many older residents here they came from algeria his mother s a cleaning lady his father a factory worker became interested in politics when he was just fifteen it s what one of my first political act was to tear down a post a featuring former president nicolas sarkozy that i detested sarkozy that he called people here trash that needed to be swept away so i tore down that. he s always opposed making concessions to the conservatives not goes for his fellow left wing
a young socialist in leo who believes he knows where the party s problems lie and is determined to help resolve them. lille in northern france has traditionally been a stronghold for france s socialist party maybe shylock grew up here he shows as around the suburb of water a lot where his parents still live like many older residents here they came from algeria his mother s a cleaning lady his father a factory worker became interested in politics when he was just fifteen it s what one of my first political acts was to tear down opposed to featuring former president nicolas sarkozy that i detested. that he called people here trash that needed to be swept away so i tore down that. he s always opposed making concessions to the conservatives not goes for his fellow left wing as in germany two. hundred in germany the social democrats say they need to govern with the conservatives for
we choose both. joe kennedy iii of massachusetts joins me now. by the way, i thought that was a good argument. i ve been making it a long time from your grandfather s lips about both. don t choose between the factory worker out of work in erie and the kid in north philly who never had a chance, the regular kid. no, look, we don t. you don t want our country s at our best, that s not who we are. the fact is the challenges that we confront as a nation and they are real and they are entrenched and they are complicated, they are no match for a country that is united in trying to tackle them but what we ve seen out of this administration is one ta continues to divide america up and offer a series of solutions that comes only for part of america at the expense of another. how do you convince people in pennsylvania, wisconsin, ohio, those kind of states that decided the election that the interests of the factory workers out of work, the 5 an-year-old factor worker are the same as the
he said we don t have to choose between the factory worker out of work and the inner city youth. we have to be for both of them. it was not an anti-trump speech but a hopeful message that ran in stark contrast to the president s. let s watch a bit more. politicians can be cheered for the promises they make. our country will be judged by the promises we keep. [ applause ] that is a measure of our character. that is who we are. out of many, one. ladies and gentlemen, have faith, have faith. the state of our union is hopeful, resilient and enduring.
i think the message was very much the message of his grandfather. he said we don t have to choose between the factory worker out of work and the inner city youth. we have to be for both of them. it was not an anti-trump speech but a hopeful message that ran in stark contrast to the president s. let s watch a bit more. politicians can be cheered for the promises they make. our country will be judged by the promises we keep. [ applause ] that is a measure of our character. that is who we are. out of many, one. ladies and gentlemen, have faith, have faith. the state of our union is