seems to remember who authorized, then you have obama for america, about 20% of their expenditure, $972,000 goes to this law firm, then somebody in the communications team at the obama white house whose husband happens to just work for fusion gps. i m sure that s all just a terrible coincidence, but suddenly now nobody can remember anything about whatever. i don t remember that big expenditure. martha: matt, what do you think you might the obama campaign uses the firm, as does virtually every campaign and politics because they are the words with leading experts in election law. if they were paying them to finish the work they were doing on the obama campaign. it takes about ten years to wind down a presidential campaign. the idea that there were this law firm or is involved in this is nuts. that s why you have to follow up with what paul ryan said was going to happen this week, which
bias. i think the democrats are high alert, looking for every opportunity to trash a member of the trump administration. jeff sessions, i have known him personally and a man of great integrity and did right by recusing himself. he would have done that anyway. what they are attacking him for is a nothing burger. does president obama have is a role in this? i don t know. maybe he s doing a book deal. he has an organization obama for america and hor beganinize it. i get the truth team e-mails which they send out and it is all designed to stir people up. here s one. trump administration sets stage for mass deportations they say. i read the story from cnn and it doesn t say that but that is the
their stories. i do think the democrats are on high alert, looking for every opportunity to trash a member of the trump administration. jeff sessions, i have known him personally, i have known him for years. he is a man of great integrity. he did the right thing by recusing himself. he would have done that anyway, but what they are attacking him for is a nothing burger. does president obama have a role in this? i don t know. maybe he is busy with that $60 million book deal. but he has an organization, organizing for america, used to be obama for america, and i get there truth team emails which they send out on a regular it is all designed to stir people up. here s one. trumpio administration set stae for mass deportations. i read the email, that is the
the point is, she has president obama s most trusted confidant for decades. clearly this will be a home base, ground zero for the resistance, but if your resistance didn t work against hillary clinton, why is going to work now? harris: it s an interesting question about what their goals are, because it is a resistant totally or they also trying to redefine themselves as so many who was of the people, for the people? i think when you have obama for america as her group and then you lose a thousand feet since you took president across state houses and the congress and the presidency, it gets to the point where i need some redefinition here. it could be resistance, it could also be that. juan: remember, he is most prominent democrat in the country at this moment. he was behind comprises entry last weekend. i don t think there s any question that he is going to
basics, we need to organize, organize, organize, and we need it to be a 12 month strategy. and be in the dnc. iaw that you were critical, you thought that the obama for america or organizing for action or organizing for america, whatever name they came up with. none of it was democratic national committee. and that was the problem. ended up hurting the party. we need to organize and develop that capacity with our state partners. i can get you to react to something? i can former democratic senator jim webb on meet the press last sunday, he had tough words for where he thinks the democratic party is today. i want you to listen and respond to it. the democrats have not done the kind of self-reflection that they should have starting in 2010. and i was talking about this in the ten elections. you ve lost white working people. you ve lost flyover land. and you saw in this election what happens when people get frustrated enough that they say, i m not going to take this. it s got to be