Reassessment of where the Democratic Party is and where it intends to go. And confronting congress, town halls getting so hot, some republicans are backing out. As the former Republican House speaker suggests, obama care isnt going anywhere. I shouldnt have called it repeal and replace because thats not whats going to happen. Plus the best political minds will be here with insights on what happens next. Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is in flex. Former labor secretary tom perez won out over Bernie Sanders backed congressman Keith Ellison in what many saw as a proxy war between the clinton wing of the party and the sanders wing of the party. Ellison accepted sanders offer. Senator sanders will be live. Mr. Chairman, thank you for joining us. Please to be with you, jake. I know your voice is from vigorous campaigning, so nobody at home should sound any alarms. Yep. I want to ask you, President Trump told cpac on friday that the Republican Party will be the party of the american worker, and in november, President Trump carried workers without a college degree, working class voters by 37 . What is your plan to work these voters back into the fold. We lead with our values and our actions, we talk about how literally hours into the Trump Administration was a fraud, he made it harder for firsttime homeowners to buy a home. He made it harder to save for requirement. He nominate adjust for the Supreme Court who wants to evis rate collective bargaining. If you want good jobs, elect a democrat. Thats the message that we have to communicate, its a message that is true, it resonates in every zip code and thats what youre going to be doing all over the nation, the fact is that the democrats grow the middle class, democrats protect Economic Security and we need to do a better job of spreading that message everywhere. But Hillary Clinton did in the talk about those certainly we have to do a better job as a Democratic Party of messaging what we stand for, we have to make sure that were out there every wrote talking about how were the party of good job creation, were the party of middle class security, were the party of inclusion, we believe diversity is our greatest strength. Because when we lead with these values, thats where we get our strength. Because those are the values of the American People. You see people out there marching in the aftermath of january 20th, saying mr. Trump, you dont stand for our values. Yesterday in delaware, there was a big election for a state senate saecheat. And it was a seat that held the senate in the balance, it was a great example of what we have seen coming into the resolution, democratic activists came in to help Stephanie Johnson get elected. Coming together to make sure we help elect candidates from the state house to the senate to is school board. We have opportunities here in atlanta right now, congressional 6, which is cobb county, were going to take the filing there. And people ask me all the time, jake, how do you translate the energy out there, tom, into action and results . We did that exactly in washington yesterday, and were going to work like heck to do that in georgia and elsewhere. I want to ask you about a tweet. He wrote, quote, the race for dna chairman was of course totally rigged. Bernies guy never had a chance, clinton demanded perez, i want to give you an opportunity for you to respond. Donald trump up in the morning tweeting about us. Our unity as a party is our greatest strength and its his nightmare. We need to look at whether this election was rigged by donald trump and vladimir putin. Its really unclear to any foxes across america to say that would be the fox guarding the hen house. We need an independent investigation because that is a serious, serious issue, and the American People need to understand what the russians in cahoots with the trump folks and others rigged the elections, when sessions and flynn are out there campaigning, they clearly lacked the authority and the objecttivity to conduct that investigation. So lets turn now to former democratic president ial candidate, senator sanders, thank you for joining us this morning. My pleasure. Lets start with yesterday you issued a statement saying, quote, at a time when republican control the white house, the u. S. House, the u. S. Senate and 2 3 of all state houses, it is imperative that tom understands that the sameold, sameold is winning. He took on in essence, democratic insiders, and yet he came close to winning, that was a very impressive effort when you realize he was playing inside the establishments house. But tom perez, who was a very, very good secretary of labor has a real opportunity in his hands, and i hope he seizes it, and that is to understand the way the Democratic Party has been run for decades, has not worked. We need a total transformation, we have got to open up the party to young people, and the Democratic Party has to take on Corporate America that is shutting plants across the country and moving our jobs abroad. If trump thinks the Republican Party is going to be the party of working people, when he has appointed people to his m who want to cut Social Security ux want to cut medicare, who want to cut medicaid, want to provide a budget that gives huge tax breaks to billionaries like trump, if thats a party that stands for working people, god help us all. I think our job now is to rally the grass roots to take trump on and to fight for a progressive agenda. You saw President Trumps tweets suggesting that the system because rigged against Keith Ellison in the same way that the dnc was rigged against you in the primaries. Does he have a point . No, he doesnt have a point. Thats one of the things that tom is going have too change. But the bottom line here is that yesterday, among other things, there are 150 rallies all across this country, most of them in front of Republican Congressional offices, where citizens of this country are telling their members of congress, have the guts to come out and meet with us, explain to us while youre going to repeal the Affordable Care act, throw 20 Million People off of Health Insuran insurance, do away with preexisting conditions. Talk to your constituents, and you are seeing that movement, millions of people engaged, we are going to chang transform this country. You have a massive email list that helped your campaign raise 218 million online to 2. 8 million voters. Are you going to give your list to the democrats so they can help you in your grass roots . We have started that progress to transform the democratic parts into a party that stands up for working families. And we will strongly support those who take on the issue of income wealth inequality. Those that want to make colleges and universities tuition free, who understand like President Trump that Climate Change ask real and we are going to support progressives who are running for the house and the president. For school board, for state legislature. I was in kansas, last night we had 5,000 people coming out in topeka, kansas, kansas is not a democratic state, but were seeing people who were prepared to take on trump, people are prepared to fight for progressive change. It sounds like youre going keep your mls to people who suppo support your where with reright now, we are going to support and have supported and will to support those candidates who have the guts to stand up for working families and take on the big money and trusts. But people around donald trump, you know, i got to jake, when you talk about President Trump being the party for the people, he has appointed people who are going do decimate the needs of the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor. So what we are going to do is support those candidates, who have the adults to stand up to the 1 and stand up for the 99 . President trump said at c prp ac on friday that he likes you because you are right on trade. And take a look at what steve bannon had to say about trade deals with Asian Countries that you vehemently opposed. I think money of the most pivotal moments in American History was his immediate withdrawal from tpp, got us out of a trade deal and let our sovereignty come back to ourselves. I know you disagree with many aspects of the donald trump agenda. But when the president talks about fair trade and economic nationalism, and steve bannon does as well, does that strike a cord with you . What strikes a cord with me, and i have been on this issue well before President Trump has. We have ladhad a series of trad agreements, nafta, and the tpp that were written bying my money interest to the debtment of the American People. We have lost on trade agreements that were written by Corporate America and benefit Corporate America. What we need is a fair trade policy, not an unfettered free trade policy. Senator Bernie Sanders joining us from kansas today, thank you, circumstances, we always appreciate it. Americas governors are having dinner with President Trump tonight. 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Can is Republican Congress be convinced that russia interfered with the election. The chairman of both the house and the senate committees. The top democrat on the Senate Intelligence committee now says he has, quote, grave concerns about the independence of this investigation. Meanwhile, Republican Congressman darrell issa is calling for a special prosecutor to investigate this potential trump tie to russia. I cannot have a friends of mine Jeff Sessions who was on my team and an appointee. Youre going to have to use a special prosecutor in office, not just to recuse, you cant just give it to your deputy, thats another political appointee. We asked the white house to discuss this with us, but the white house declined our office. But we have new Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Do you think a special prosecutor is needed . No, i dont. There are people there who have the ability to investigate these kinds of things. And this is with a republican or a democrat, when a special prosecutor gets involved, you think its completely out of control. That doesnt serve anybodys purposes, we have a lot of important things to deal with in this country, but i believe the Justice Department can handle it. Lets talk about the fact that Reince Priebus reached out to the fbi to knock down stories about the fact that the fbi was investigating these contacts was not true. As a former u. S. District done, that should be troubling, for those people reaching out to do the investigation, saying basically will you give a Public Relations station statement on our behalf. When the fbi says anything to you, and if the story is to be believed that was put forward. It was the fbi who first approached the chief of staff. And said something about the story not being true. So i think the assistant deputy of the fbi, if i was an attorney and i was an fbi leader in charge in the newark or camden office, i would have sat him down and said you cant have conversations with people who are in the orbit of the investigation. Because you never know where its going to do. If i was sitting in that position, talk to the White House Council about it. Out of an abundance of caution, i dont think reince thought he was doing anything wrong. I really dont. And i have absolute confidence in his integrity, but you need to have the sense of a prosecutor when youre dealing with these issues because perception matters. And thats true when it comes to the Deputy Director of the fbi, but what about the white house reaching out to the fbi that would and reaching out to the house and senate chairmans commission. I have a tough time with you saying, right, its a great idea, reach out to the fbi Intelligence Committees, get them to do part of your job for you. You saw the reaction from the democrats, saying that somehow, this takes these two really, i think, bright and distinguished people in the intelligence chairs that disqualifies them from doing an investigation. This is why the democrats lost the house and the senate, because they overreach all the time. What they should do here is take a deep breath and look into these matters in a way that the American Public will think has integrity to it. In my experience, the democrats are the ones with the problem of overreaching on this stuff. But these are all people who have never been in government before, so theyre going to need to learn these things, i dont think you get the learning curve just by winning the election. I can guarantee you this, i dont think the chief of staff will ever have a conversation with the fbi personnel again, nor should he. But Reince Priebus has great integrity, i dont think he did anything wrong, but its something that perception matters and we got to do it differently. Do you think that President Trump you have now run the state of new jersey for seven years, experience comes with those times, learning lessons, youre saying that Reince Priebus made a mistake and he will learn from that. Does President Trump need somebody around him whos run a government before . Listen, i think the president needs people hes comfortable with. Most importantly, i know this is a chief executive. If you have trust in the people that are sitting around the table advising you, no matter what experience they have, youre not going to listen. So i think its the president s call as to who will better serve him. I dont think its up to anybody who is on the outside saying you need this, you need that. Hes not going to take that kind of advice, what he wants is results. The people around him have to start producing results. If that happens, nobodys going to care about the issue of experience, if it doesnt, they will. I have heard from Trump Supporters in the last week or so who have expressed dismay to me because they see the president in thei