movement on it. by the way, the fact of the suggestion that it s the most essential is obviously a subjective opinion. a lot of people think prescription drug reform is the most essential reform that we need right now. and the majority of house. we want to give the government the power to negotiate with big pharma for lower prescription drug prices for millions of americans who are being bankrupted by the fact that they can t afford their prescription drugs. it s a very dangerous situation. but we are moving forward on that. we are moving forward on gun safety and minimum wage. we are moving forward on environmental protection. we would love it if we had cooperation from the senate and the president. melissa: thank you, sir. we appreciate your time. thank you for having me. i really appreciate it. melissa: will bring it out to the couch. your thoughts? jason: thanks for having me. i served with congressman asking. i find them to be a nice guy. i just fundamentally disagree with
prescription drug reform, which is very important parody of hours. increasing the minimum wage to $15. we ve been doing this all along and we will continue to go ahead and legislate. remember, the president who got us involved in all the corruption of ukraine, it was the president who decided to shake down of foreign governments. we are involved in doing the people s business here. melissa: if i may come up before you run out of time, everybody who has had a majority, but they are doing the same thing. they do work and that dies and set it for you know we passed the house wait a second, don t take my word for it. senator mcconnell brags about it. senator mcconnell called himself the grim reaper. he said presiding over the legislative graveyard for all the legislation coming from the house. you don t have to take my word for it come he s bragging about it. melissa: one of the most important things is the usmca, and that is sitting right now. nancy pelosi is the one negotiating o
coming from. i ve always i ve said from the beginning of this, i favored impeachment investigation but where it leads we don t know because impeachment fundamentally in the final analysis is a question of law and politics. the legal part of it is, high character of deme democracy and our project and self-government. is it at that level. not low climbs and misdemeanors, but high crimes and misdemeanors. the political part, where is public sentiment and our leader nancy pelosi has been very emphatic and rightfully so about that. we ve got to see where people are because as politicians, we have we ve sworn an oath to uphold and defend the constitution and also sworn an oath to champion the public interests and see how this relates to everything we re doing with prescription drug reform and gun safety and the bills on mitch mcconnell s desk that he won t put to a vote in the senate. i watched this at home on maternity leave during mueller s testimony, did he do the democrats i guess
when we weren t thinking about check. let s see the republicans deliver for once. can they deliver on anything? divisions, we weren t thinking one final question, are you about which political party you re in. we were just thinking about the worried about what the these country and asking people on the street how are you doing, how is investigations, potential impeachment inquiry work do to your family? we ve lost that and have to get it back. we ve been in the longest war front line democrats who won by a small margin in 2018? i think all of the political signs are great for us that the in afghanistan since 2003. republicans are dropping off in droves every day another what lessons have we lerpd aarnd republican colleague said they ve seen enough and can t do you see a way out? certainly we ve learned that we can put al qaeda and global terrorist organizations on their heels. stand trying to defend the if you had said in the immediate inaction by the senate republicans and t
that s very serious business. the republicans impeached bill clinton for far less. they impeached him for tell willing one lie in order to cover up an affair. this president spent hundreds of thousands of dollars illegally in order to cover up these affairs. you seem to be running up against a political analysis amongst the house democrats that believes you re better focused on 2020 than these investigations. we re all very focused on 2020. we re up against the most dangerous, reckless, lawless presidency of our lifetime. we are completely unified as to that. there are those of us who are in committees that are charged with conducting constitutional oversight over the executive branch. we re going to do our job. at the same time, we re passing all the legislation, like prescription drug reform, the equality act and gun safety legislation that s sitting on mitch mcconnell s desk. 175 bills are sitting over there that he is suppressing and not doing anything about.