and clarence page. michelle, democrats need to find a way forward in trump era. they can t blame the minority vote that was there, but many women, whites, came and did not vote for mrs. clinton. how do they re-energize their base white vote, white working vote, and energize the minorities at the same time? well, just on that point exactly, white women usually don t vote for the democrat. white women usually break for the republican. even when it is a woman candidate that is going to break the glass ceiling? even a woman candidate, women don t vote with the block. and the republican party that had done things that many women consider offensive? even exactly. it is surprising what people will put up with from their team s standard bearer. so going forward, though, the problem was hillary clinton was
they plan to block all of his legislation and plan to make him a one-term president. they didn t have any period, they waited to become the party of no, they planned that the night of his inauguration. difference between one term president party of no, i don t think that democrats are going to go and declare that donald trump is going to be one term president. that s like declaring war which was something the imprudent republicans did. everybody can see what they re up against. let s take obamacare, for example. even donald trump just at a wall street journal interview that hasn t aired yet, has indicated there are some parts of obamacare he may keep. he seems to be back tracking a little michael jackson moon walking. that s right. michelle, let me ask you. you heard congresswoman schakowsky this morning. do you think because hillary clinton did get the majority of the popular vote that democrats
feel that they have to rally and stand on those issues that frankly most american voters did vote for in terms of the popular vote. well, look, i m sure that the democratic party is going to bring that up a lot. and i m sure the republican party is pretty much going to ignore it. you know, george w. bush didn t win the popular vote either. it happens. but republicans have finally got control of both the white house and both chambers of commerce and they re going to move full steam ahead to try to do exactly what they have been promising their voters to do. the question is, they don t know anything about the president elect. none of us know anything about what donald trump really cares about, what his ideology is, what his politics are. that s not what he was elected on. so not even republicans know what they re dealing with in the white house. clarence, the supreme court selection. we saw this week democratic
senator jeff murphy said there needs to be a vote on president obama s supreme court nominee. listen to this. we really have to pay attention to the supreme court seat. the seat that is sitting empty is being stolen. it is being stolen from the obama administration, and the construct of our constitution and it is being delivered to an administration that has no right to fill it. so if the republicans block president obama s choice of judge merrick garland, will the democrats then filibuster whoever the republicans nominate to fill that still open seat, clarence? well, that s their right and we may see a serious clash here because donald trump is determined to get not just any conservative, but to get another scalia conservative. that means a pretty hard core.
supposed to work. so if you didn t vote, vote next time. if you did vote, then get more involved. attend a rally. march in a protest. volunteer to help immigrants or the poor. it is time to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get busy. when i saw dr. king s bust, it reminded me had they given up, are they winning the parties, had they just said it is worthless we never would have had the right to vote, we never would have had a barack obama, we must protect it. many of us are mobilizing in many ways to do that, not to be against somebody, but to be for something. we re going to culminate king day in king s name so that bust will not just be a statue, but it will be the values that we continue to aspire in this country. that does it for me. thanks for watching.