perez, their dnc chair and republicans and the message is get together, come up with some sort of plan that people are e allowed to keep what they ve got under the affordable care act and this is part of the rallies taking place across the country today in many places when senators chuck schumer and bernie sanders called for an action today on february 25th today before lawmakers head back to washington and this obamacare debate kicks up in earnest on capitol hill. trying to put a human face on this amidst of all of the politics and make their voices heard, brianna. they re walking over to where we learned the new chairperson of the dnc has been nominated. are they aware of this? what is the reaction to this? reporter: they have been in the march but eagerly awaiting the announcement. they knew it was narrowed down to tom perez and keith ellison and watching it carefully but the message that they want to get across to democrats is
the map. redistricting got to be one of the top priorities of the dnc from the very beginning. dnc chairman needs to engage state parties and win state legislatures all over the country to positioned and ready. but that means winning in 2018 and 2017 in new jersey and virginia. it is a simple matter of turning on in the off year. campaigning everywhere. that s why in the 100 day plan i m releasing tonight, i call for one, immediate listening session right after the election on february 25th, ask dnc members to talk to democrats all over the country and listen to them and engage them. and then a summer canvas to knock doors all over the country, powered by volunteers, many of the people at marches and rallies and win state legislatures and focus on the
terms of trump s movement toward authoritarianism, when one man ruled, his appointments of wall street billionaires to be running the financial direction of this country, a lot of people and by the way, not just democrats and not just progressives are getting very nervous about this president. and i think what people all over the country want to do is talk to their members of congress. yeah. and say, if you re going to repeal the aca, what happens to 20 million people who lose their insurance? what happens to me if i have a pre-existing condition? what happens to me if i can t afford higher prescription drug prices? so i think it s absolutely appropriate. by the way, on february 25th, i think you re going to see meetings all over this country where the citizens of the united states of america are going to look, demand to see their republican representatives ask some hard questions about what they proposed to do if they repeal the aca.
once, again, every saturday of this presidency so far we ve seen symptom protests. there s a lot of energy in the progressive movement. there s a lot of debate about what democrats should do about it. first of all, do you believe this is a tea party for the left, and what, if so, what lessons did you learn in 2009 that you think can be learned by the democrats now? no. it s not a tea party because the tea party was essentially funded by the billionaire coch brothers family. this is a spontaneous and grassroots uprising of the american people. let me mention, chuck, you may be the first to hear this, on february 25th, two weeks from yesterday, there is, in fact, going to be rallies all over this country. i think you re going to see people in conservative areas, in progressive areas, asking the republicans, what are you going to do when you through 20 million people off of health insurance?
seen some protests. there s a lot of energy in the progressive movement. but there is a lot of debate about what democrats should do about it. first of all, do you believe this is a tea party for the left and if so, what lessons did you learn in 09 that you think can be learned by the democrats now? no, it s not a tea party because the tea party was essentially defunded by the bill air koch brothers families. this is a grassroots uprising of the american people. you may be the first to hear this, on february 25th, two weeks from yesterday there is, in fact, going to be rallies all over this country and i think you ll see people in conservative areas and progressive areas asking the republicans what are you going to do when you throw 20 million people off of health insurance? how many of them are going to die? what s your plan? what are you going do when you