saying, that wasn t the answer to meeting president trump. you also mention that today. you mentioned that. that got a lot of reaction there. that was very different. i want to play this moment for our viewers. socialism is not the answer. i you can hear the booing there. were you surprised be they reaction? yeah i was surprised. not too surprised. we anticipated in that room. it was one of the most liberal parts of america, we know the republicans are trying to label us as socialists. i think as democrats we got to recognize and draw a sharp line who will and who are not. we have to speak loudly we re not socialists. but those are democrats you were talking to. those weren t republicans being critical of you. that s part of your party. no but i think they re the
wrong track after eight years of barack obama, and those weren t republicans. for republicans, it was like 90%. but 62% of all voters said the country was on the wrong track after him. and now about 60% of people who were polled by the latest, i believe it was abc news, found that they had an unfavorable view of this president. well, it s going to be a tough election year. i spent a couple weeks on the hill lately and spoke to people like kevin mccarthy, democrats and republicans alike, as a matter of fact, including marcia fudge from the democrats side, but several others, and they re all out there working. they know that the wind is against them, particularly if you re the incumbent party who has the white house, but do you think this case i m sorry, because we ve got a limited amount of time do you think the president s case is effective, former president s argument will be effective? well, i really don t. when you look at the unemployment numbers being down at histor
here s what he said, listen. there are probably a small number of provisions we may not repeal, it certainly would mean drastic overhaul, aiming it at the middle class. would you support a repeal? absolutely. 60% of this bill, once it s fully implemented goes to the top .1% of income earners. some of those people live in my state of connecticut. but they don t need that big of a tax cut, so, yeah, i think we should repeal it, if democrats win back control of the senate and start over, i think that there s good reason to invest tax cuts in the middle class. folks thoor making 20 or $30,000 a year. i don t think this is a bill you re going to have to tinker with. you re going to have to start over. obamacare ended up being much more popular down the line than it was when it was first passed. republicans are thinking the same thing will happen for their
joining me is ken and tom. we heard your talk about house oversight. mueller is getting to the white house. what are they trying to get out of them today? republicans and democrats have different goals. republicans want to groom the investigation. they re questioning him about how the fbi handled that christopher steele dossier about donald trump. and democrats are looking to sort of defend him in a sense, and defend the fbi s handling of these matters. and also have him help them understand more information about contacts between donald trump s campaign and russia, although mccabe is not on the mueller investigation. he s been looped in from the beginning. just review them. how are they trying to use the dossier, how are republicans trying to use the dozen yeah to
the state senate in two years, too. i think they ll be reasonable about it. you have to think this was a message at the very least, work with the other side because partisan politics or politics are donald trump wasn t popular in virginia. how, for those who might be looking at virginia to tell them a tale for 2018, or tell them a tale for this administration, what would you say? when you put virginia together with the alabama senate race and the over 30 state legislative seats that democrats flipped during 2017, and every measure of democratic enthusiasm is way up, you put all that together. there s a wave coming. all we don t know, i think, at this point is, how high is the wave? you know, will it be high enough to get the u.s. senate, too, in addition to the house? but despite this tax bill, i think republicans are facing a very difficult year politically. look at this poll. nbc news wall street journal, plus 11. cnn politics, democrats plus 18.