sdw was a vicious campaign and it took every piece of comedy i d ever done and put it through a $15 million machine called the dehumorizer built with israeli technology and robbed everything i d ever done of the context and made me sound like i wasn t like i was a terrible person and so i think i had to tell the people of minnesota i was serious about doing my job and i was. so i became a work horse and a show horse and now i m a work horse but with a sense of humor aagain. the sense of humor s back. really surprising stories in here for people who don t know anything about senate life. for example yourelationship with jeff sessions and your wife s relationship with jeff sessions wife. as you know in the senate there are only 100 senators and
a $15 million machine called the dehumorizer built with israeli technology and robbed everything i d ever done of the context and made me sound like i wasn t like i was a terrible person and so i think i had to tell the people of minnesota i was serious about doing my job and i was. so i became a work horse and a show horse and now i m a work horse but with a sense of humor aagain. the sense of humor s back. really surprising stories in here for people who don t know anything about senate life. for example your relationship with jeff sessions and your wife s relationship with jeff sessions wife. as you know in the senate there are only 100 senators and you need be culiegeal and that means forming friendships with people that you don t agree with
300 top appointees you put in office and those below them whoo are their lieutenants are essential to directing the career civil servants who fill out the government. i think they got behind in the transition, and for some reason they re lagging behind still further now that they ve taken office. these people, they re the ones who do stuff, they re the work horse, not the show horses. not like me when i m the show horse and this is the work horse here. deputy secretaries, number twos and threes, these are the people who get things done. the white house, craig, is trying to say it s the democrats holding things up. in some cases they don t have nominees to hold up. i don t think that charge really sticks. i ll give you a specific point. if the president actually is able to sign health care legislation, that s legislation. it s the regulations that the department of health and human services and the center for medicaid and medicare services, they re the ones that have to craft it. th
president, there s energy on the democratic side. if it were in the party rules to elect a flamethrower as chair would do it. you re backing jaime harrison, what are you looking for? what do you want in dnc chair? one of the things i love the most about jaime harrison is he s a former congressional staffer. obviously i m biased as hill staffer but you learn a unique form of hustle. he was floor director and in charge of whipping votes. gathering votes. same thing he has to do in this race. we ve run afoul of what the party needs to be with a face person. he s a work horse. that s what we need. there s perception there s not a deep bench for the democratic party and it s in disarray. that s certainly what the opponents of the democratic
party forward. how big impact does the dnc chair have? when you re out of power the chairman matters a lot. reince priebus got where he is because they were out of power. matters a lot for the democrats. has to do what angela talked about, be the work horse. put together 9 mechanics and put in position to win. for too long democrats looked for savior from the top and i loved president obama and voted for him and we lost nearly a thousand seats. weakest state level since the 20s, got to build from the grassroots up. good chairman, we should have a counter how many work from there. that s what i m looking for.