could work, and then we looked at the infrastructure bill. we re fixing roads and bridges and trying to clean up water. we re getting broadband. we re getting it done. we need to talk about it more. there s more work to be done. got to roll up our sleeves and get it done and tell the american people what he did. a lot of our democratic colleagues are either not seeking reelection or they re retiring. some say it s a sign of how they think things could go, that democrats could lose the majority come november. but what do you think the chances are the democrats can hold or even expand that majority, and what needs to happen over the next few months to help your case? well, first of all, i think we re going to hold the majority. a lot of people talked about how things are going republican ways but if you noticed, there are articles. people aren t paying attention to the details that democrats are keeping that they re competitiveness in the seats. people are going to have to work har
sinema and manchin are catering to people who wouldn t necessarily vote for them. but you say they re popular, but people don t know what s in the bill. you go out and say do you like so that s one problem. it hasn t been written. people aren t paying attention. they haven t been selling it. cnn, we i am sure you two have been doing this. i know i have. i m sure you guys have, too. but we ve been describing what s in the bill. people aren t that engaged. they re not really paying attention, i don t think. we haven t even gotten into where there is go to be further divisions in the democratic party. once you have to start removing some of these programs, that are popular among progressives, among the american people, what do you remove? child care, medicare? bernie sanders says we re not going to do that. if the whole thing went down and the administration had just focused on getting the virus under control and passing a big infrastructure bill, they would be in good shape
patients. in the rooms outside of the icu, these are people who could use an icu, that but at this point, the bar so high, to get into the icu. you really need to be on a ventilator. and that is a very stressful situation for families, for nurses who are taking care of these patients, on the floors, and in the ers. and for everybody who s involved in that care. not to mention the patient. i think about what it must mean for health care staff, working with patients on ventilators. who are that. sick who are that close to the end. and working in an environment that is not by design as resource intensive, as it could be. i want to put something to you that you actually said here on this show, back in june of last year. in last summer. you told us, people aren t paying attention, that much, i think excuse, me i think people aren t paying attention that the health care workforce is not an exhaustive supply. the people who are working hard
is usmca being passed, a budget deal, and some positive signs, at least they re seeing internally, in their own polls, chris. the raw politics of this, whatever happens, if this takes a couple of weeks, if it takes a couple of months, ultimately we have such short attention spans and so many things happen on a given day in the course of this administration, assuming the president isn t removed from office, does any of this play significantly into 2020? no. it really doesn t play at all into it. i m down in charlotte, on holiday, and people aren t even focused now. that s why i wish the president would stop tweeting about this. nancy pelosi is obviously getting under his skin. he needs to put his phone down and then just let everything play out, because really, people aren t paying attention to what s happening in washington right now. they are paying attention to, they have more money in their pockets, mother money to spend at christmastime, and they have
just about this original sin, as they like to say, that from the start everything was just dirty. and there is a good audience out there as long asecially t house of representatives stays republican, for that to be enough and to stave off at a minimum conviction in the senate. probably even impeachment unless there is a change. real quick. i think the democrats have been pretty disciplined in avoiding the i question. i think they know that they re in the cat bird seat now with the mid terms. and the last thing that they need is to draw attention to themselves by overplaying the impeachment hand i think they re staying million miles away from it. issues.lly focusing on the you go out there and you talk to voters, they want to talk about health care, they want to talk about the economy. i agree with jonathan, people aren t paying attention to the mueller investigation. i think it all is going to depend on what mueller shows at the end of the day when the