he ll be the democrats new chair of outpalm beach the democratic leadership team in the senate. you can see him doing his thing today in new york in supporting the new york governor s plan to make a college education way, way, way more accessible. watch this. in a time when we have a president-elect who thinks it s great idea to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the top two-tenths of one percent, we have a better idea and that idea [ cheers and applause ] and this idea is to make public colleges and universities tuition-free for every person in new york state, in vermont, and in america. [ cheers and applause ] if new york state does it this year, mark my words, state after state will follow. [ cheers and applause ]
strategy and that s in a sense what my job is as part of the democratic leadership. what does that mean? that means on january 15 for the first time in the modern history of the democratic party democrats are going to be organizing rallies all acros this country in opposition to the republican budgewhh calls for throwing 30 million people off of health care, throwing their insurance away. privatizing medicare, making massive cuts in medicaid and at the same time giving huge tax breaks to the wealthy. so what i think chuck understands and what democrats increasingly understand, is you can t just go to fund-raisers with wealthy people. you have to get out in the real world, mobilize people, educate people, listen to people and that s the transformation they need which, by the way, is why i am strongly supporting keith ellison to be the new chair of the dnc. you feel like he has that same organizing model? absolutely. absolutely. this day of sort of resistance, this january 15
senator chuck schumer. great to see you. great to be here. a little this is your life. i remember that well. one interesting thought. so d amato came out and it was reported he called me this name, putz-head. he said i never would, i don t lie. and his slogan against me too liberal for too long. we came back at one with him which we used the whole campaign too many lies for too long. and he denies it and guess who pulls out the rug from under him? ed koch who was totally on d amato s side. he was mad at me because when he ran against dinkins i didn t support him because i thought new york was a racial tinderbox. yet ed koch can said i cannot tell a lie. he said it. and that was that. so i think a lot of people don t know your back story about how you first of all that you started getting elected to office when you were so young, that you never lost an election, you upset this incumbent to get there but should we are there extrapolatable things that you learned fro
won t, i think we should close the carried interest loophole. there are a few examples here and i m not going to rule them out but most of the things we ll be talking about whether it s health care or education or transportation or helping the poor or voting rights or guns or choice or planned parenthood we ll oppose them tooth and nail. there s no way for compromise on any of those. let me ask you a hard-line edge on that which is the supreme court. the republicans took this unprecedented step. they didn t let president obama make a supreme court appointment for almost a year now. very moderate, mainstream nominee. a nominee who a lot of progressives would have been very disappointed in. but that was an incredibly radical thing the republicans did. senator jeff merkley of oregon says they stole a supreme court seat. that s a fair statement. didn t they just get away with it? they did. there are no consequences for
there are so many contradictions in this administration. one, we re going after their nominees. mcconnell wanted to let all of them get through in these quick little two-hour hearings. get all of them done in two weeks. we re saying no way, price, the guy from hhs, donald trump said when he campaigned he wouldn t cut medicare and social security, but he turns around nominates as his hhs secretary, guy made his career on cutting medicare and medicaid. we re going to slam him on these things. he said he s going to clean the swamp. who s his cabinet? billionaires. people who own huge businesses. people who have been part of that swamp for a very long time. in other words, there was a certain populism. i worked really hard donald trump but he had a certain populism to him, a false populism but a populism. he now has sold out to the hard right. the pro-business, pro-corporate, pro-elite group.