nancy pelosi to go and the entire leadership team as well. . representative i think you would be an idiot to think we could win the house with pell oes why i at the top, and tim ryan of ohio who gave pelosi a run for her leadership post last year said walk up the street and ask ten people what the democrats stand for. you ll get ten different answers. that s no way to build a national party. he also added, our brand is worse than trump. massachusetts representative seth molten simply stated think it s time for a new generation of leadership in the party. even unelected candidates jumped into the fray. mark sanford tweeted if elected, i will not vote for nancy pelosi for speaker. time to move forward and win again. a source tells nbc news that inside a closed door caucus meeting with colleagues yesterday, there was no challenge to the democratic leadership or any signs of disent within the party. in a letter to democratic pelosi cautioned her members to
time to stop rehashing 2016 and talk about the future. where is the future of democrats? who is going to win? yeah. look. i think seth molten is a great guy and great young leader in the democratic party. i m not sure that that s what this was about because ossoff i think was talking about the future. i don t think he was a particularly good candidate for this district, a 30-year-old unknown who didn t live in the district. i think his best chance was to win back in the first round when the republicans were fractionated and disorganized and you had a chance to take advantage of that. he got their attention in the runoff and they came with everything they had in a district that the republicans have held for 40 years. this was a big night for the republicans because they averted what would have been a disaster to lose that seat that newt
he has worked so hard. and i was joking. i said, you know, paul, for the last week i ve been hearing paul ryan doesn t have it. it s not working with paul ryan. he s going to get rid of paul ryan. then today a heard paul ryan s a genius. he has come a long right? welcome back to morning swroe. democratic congressman seth molten of massachusetts. good to see you. good to see you. y are obviously not happy with the passage of this health care bill. what specifically do you think would hurt members of your district, constituents of yours? it s terrible across the board. 24 million people losing coverage. 7 million veterans, some say 8 million veterans will lose health care coverage under this deal. so, trump said he was going to expand coverage. turns out that s a lie. trump said he was going to lower health care costs. turns out that s a lie. trump said he cares for the troops, veterans. turns out that s not true either.
governor of virginia, he s going to be out because of term limits at the end of the year. the new york times did reporting on this, they dug up other names nobody thought would be connected to the 2020 race. mitch landrieu, mayor of new orleans. the new york times says he might be interested. seth molten, second-term congressman from massachusetts, iraq war vet, she s gottgotten visibility as a trump critic. martin o malley ran in 2016. didn t get much support. he may be interested in 2020. what does this point to, though, in a vacuum like one i was describing when people think it is wide open? you see this. you see names all over the place say, hey, maybe i ll check this out. why not me? maybe there s an opening. take a look at this historically. what could we be looking at in 2020? this is the size of the democratic presidential field. by the time the first contest came around. you can see, single digits. you got to a high there of eight in 2004. 1298 1984.
vladimir putin will not meet with rex tillerson as you were saying. russia and iran are warning they will respond with force if this happens again. and russia blamed the rebels even though the democrats were dropped by the planes that are owned or managed by assad and his government. ed: it doesn t fit the narrative that the democrats have been pushing the last few months. steve: that s right that trump is in bed with the russians. that s why i said a cover story. tucker last night had on a democrat from massachusetts, a u.s. congressman by the name of seth molten. what he was suggesting is that it s just a hypothesis. an alternative high hoth sis. ainsley: conspiracy theory. steve: but because he wants to get out from underneath this cloud that trump is in bed with the russians, maybe trump attacked syria to throw them off. ed: say i m not really close to russia. ainsley: how irresponsible would that be? listen to what he said with tucker last night. one thing to say okay members of