round table, michelle bernard, jonathan cakacapehart, and liz . how does it look? will this thing hold together when they vote tomorrow? here s the thing. until they vote, you ll never know. we have seen time and time again, speaker boehner come up with grand plans, or put bills on the floor to have to pull them back for a lack of support. so as much as i would like to be hopeful about this budget deal and hope that it s going to go through until they start voting, i m unwilling to say if this thing will actually pass. liz mair, i m surprised that we re talking about a deal that looks like it s going to be sold and delivered and packaged in the end by democrats. there s no guarantee the republican a vast majority of republican members, who are the 247 members of the 435 in the house are going to go along with this. it s going to depend on pelosi to hold it together.
billion more. this isn t really fiscally conservative. it s not really what we were sent here to do. you know, michelle, it s the same old thing to me, in a new twist. to get republicans to back more spending, throw in a lot of defense spending. their hawkish impulses are aroused. and they say they don t like government spending, except on defense, on the pentagon. so, isn t this the same old smarmy deal. more spending for the right wing, more spending for the left wing, covered up by some gimmick that you say raises revenues through so-called reform gadgetry, and in the end, down the road, it never actually happens. you re shaking your head, liz, because you ve been there too. is this something good or just the same old deal? your thoughts, michelle? i think, obviously, that is clearly one way of looking at it. when you talk to others and i talk to people who are working late at night on the hill, on this last night, and the way that they re looking at it is really, as a win-win,
becoming enormously influenced in the democratic party. i think well go ahead, heidi. they are a higher percentage of the voting population, period, full stop. anyone who gets a higher percentage of the women s vote wins. we all know that, she knows that. and might i also add today, this is all coinciding with a new ad campaign that she is launching in iowa and new hampshire. so it s all kind of rolled into one bundle. i think it s time that politicians recognize that the majority voter is a woman. thank you so much, hieidi prez bella. after bipartisan arguments bring about an agreement, believe it or not, the complaining has begun. even from paul ryan, future king. anyway, the hardball roundtable is back. yea. 50% more data for the same price. i like this metaphor. oh, it s even better with funnel cakes. but very sticky.
well, meanwhile, hillary clinton got an important endorsement today. senator sherrod brown of ohio, one of the most prominent progressives in the u.s. senate, he announced he was backing her. senator brown joins us now. thank you so much for joining us on this big news day. good to be with you, thank. what was in your thinking in making this decision between i don t know if you re in the middle of these two, but you re pretty close to probably senator sanders, but also, you re a pretty regular democrat, too. and he s not a democrat. he s a socialist. how did your thinking come to be today in this endorsement? well, first, i ve been really pleased, as progressives has been and democrats are. and i think the country is in many ways, too, to contrast the democratic debates with republican debates, in the year. and particularly bernie sanders and hillary clinton, when they sometimes disagree and they don t often, but when they disagree, they ve done it respectfully and done it wi
congress should concentrate on creating jobs. think that congress should concentrate on increasing wages, paying as the labor department is doing now in the obama administration, making sure supervisory people making 30,000, 40,000 a year should be eligible for overtime. all those issues are such a part of mainstream democratic politics, and frankly, mainstream america. and i don t see that much difference between the two of them. regardless of what bernie has called himself over the years, or what hillary has called herself. i think they both have speak to the great american tradition of democrat solid democratic policies of creating a middle class and lifting up working people. that s what i m all about with this endorsement and what drives me in politics, i started hanging out at the steelworkers hall in mansfield, ohio. thank you so much, senator sherrod brown, who endorsed hillary clinton today. well, hillary clinton took issue with something that bernie sanders said at the