we went to a focus group in youngstown, ohio, where we heard a group of 11 swing voters who in 2012 had switched parties. some of them went from d to r, some of them went from r to d. we re talking with how they re feeling about the landscape. this is not a poll, but focus groups gives you insights into what s not in polls. and what we heard, as you suggested there, is real skepticism about impeachment. nine of the 11 people in this focus group raised their hand when they asked if impeachment was a distraction from other issues that they cared about, the day-to-day issues, pocketbook issues, kitchen table issues. this is something democrats have to watch. speaker pelosi was right in the is one of the reasons that she only plunged into impeachment when the facts impelled her. it was why she was reluctant do it before she felt it was necessary. because there is this swath of swing voters, apolitical voters
views. investigators were red flagged to a post where he appears in a video shooting a rifle, however, the caption in there, you actually have one of the jewish community centers in youngstown that was actually tagged there. plus that caption also suggests that that gun man would have been the shooter in this potential incident or attack on this jewish community in youngstown, ohio. so what happened is that one of these residents eventually flagged this to police who launched an investigation. they found various weapons in his mother s home, as well as other things that they re looking into. but then they also looked back at national geographic documentary. police in this small town of ohio saying that the man that they have in custody is the same individual who appears in a documentary about the charlottesville nazi rally. i want you to listen to the interview that he offered back then. i want a homeland for white people and i think every race should have a homeland for their
it is the lynch pin. it absolutely is the lynch pin. family, friends, peers, teachers, coworkers, bosses, those are the people who will see what happens. i know in this case you see three individuals who are all white males in their 20s and you say that is the profile of who we re looking for. there is no profile. we re not looking for a profile of a person. we re not looking for somebody who plays video games or is a loner or somebody who has got mental health problems. we re looking for behaviors and i think those tips show exactly that. those tips that came in showed somebody was concerned about the shooting with the tagging of the jcc in youngstown and the different situations where somebody sees a text message and they report it. we know there s been a tremendous amount of research in this area in the last few years by the fbi and the national college of behavioral health and
industrialization, epicenter of the opiate crisis, epicenter of infant mortality. you re talking about things that may not be sexy to people, emotional learning in school, a fascinating area to explore, creating the new economy. what s it like in youngstown when you go in and tell those men and women that the jobs that president trump told you are coming back are not coming back but here s something we can do. do they accept that? do they walk with you or do they say, no, i want the old job that donald trump promised me? they want a job. a lot of people don t care what it is but they want something that health insurance sustainability. they know the coal jobs are down, they want a plan. this is going to be a little bit more like 1992. you have to plane hexplain how
joining us now from youngstown, ohio, democratic presidential candidate congressman tim ryan of ohio. welcome back to the show, tim. thank you. thanks for having me. so, congressman, you can join the conversation we were having just last segment, as well as last week on this issue. we were talking about how the president will pick a fight with nancy, nancy pelosi or other people and send out an outrageous tweet so he doesn t have to talk to youngstown voters how he promised to a populist president and he cut taxes for his he promised he wassing if all of these issues that mattered most to people in youngstown. talk about that and talk about