Have thrown their hats into the ring. Chuck schumer and Bernie Sanders have thrown support behind ellison. We have idea to hear of hispanic or lateen owes signal their interest for the job. Bottom line, the party was not prepared for any of this at all. They need a game plan and need one fast. Joining me now is likely going to be one of the people. Its Congressman Javier Basera from the House Democratic caucus. Great to see you. Great to be with you. Let me start with the protests of the streets. Is this plenty of Democratic Leaders said understand the protest, but dont do the violence. Is this the time to protest or not . What is your message to the protesters . Civic participation and
restrictions for those who try to manipulate currency to get an advantage against the u. S. . Those are things if he works on it, you want to work with him . We were talking about it way before donald trump. He will find democratic support in that direction, but if he wants to tell an Immigrant Family y
something. we didn t get a chance to sort of debrief after talking with chris clayton. there was one other point. chris clayton makes on my podcast, 1947, ding ding, be sure to download it. and subscribe. there you go. he said, the way we in the media analyzed the policies and talked about the split between college-educated whites and noncollege-educated whites. get what america heard when we did that? dumb. the smart people and the dumb people. just because you didn t go to college doesn t make you dumb. and clinically, when we would describe it, when i would describe it, it was an academic, clinical but that s not how it was taken. i ve been guilty of this. i said, i think it was on a different network, i described uneducated voters you know what, they re plenty educated. that was wrong. and i wanted to take this to a responsibility that the president-elect has. he has said a lot of things that were hurtful to people.