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let s not kid ourselves. the concern for congress people going back to their district is not a question from. the question is why are you going to defund obama care? that s what they re afraid of because they created this frankenstein in their base. by voting to defund obama care, 40, 67 times, however you measure it. they have created an expectation and now they have to tap those expectations down because they re running into a train wreck. this is part of the same concept. same thing mitch mcconnell is trying to punt down the road. he is facing this in his own personal election in the same way that these republicans are afraid to get that out there. we ll pick this up in a second because i want to show another exchange that actually was a tearful exchange, again, involving john mccain. we ll show that when we come back. humans. even when we cross our t s and dot our i s, we still run into problems. ....
About that, that question would force the average member of congress to be at a least a little bit human. here s somebody who has been directly affected by sequestratisequestrat sequestration and talking about what shut down of the government can do and here s john mccain saying, hey, i don t wunt to shut down the government. i want to help you. if that sounds basic, it seems a sad commentary of congress. a lot of congressmen not want to be caught on tape saying even anything like that. i think we have generally seen the decline of the town hall. obama and romney did not have many town halls because they can become youtube moments. john mccain the master of the town hall. when he ran he was like looking forward to the town halls. kind of didn t go that well. in those campaigns. but, again, i think people are afraid. you have people who show up at the town halls who are from the far wings of the party, whether it s the left or the right. and they are there, not even so ....
Did you have a moment where you thought about it and said for reason x, i m not going to or come to the house and decide, no, i m going to climb the ladder in the house and get a chairmanship there. you would not believe that nobody has ever asked me that question. that is the problem. that is one of the problems but when the issue did come up, i have never said no. and the reason i haven t said no is because politicians like to be considered for higher office. but, quite frankly, being a judge or being a mayor of this senate has never been on my agenda because i enjoy being a big fish in a smaller pond. i really do. and the fact is that you have more opportunity to express yourself when your constituents are solidly behind you than if you have to deal with a diverse constituency. if you re talking about a state ....
Woman, being an immigrant or being black is a strike against you, so be it. because there are other things that like scott, bobby scott has, that would give him advantage or white guy or white gal. but the formula is based on who you think could win. we could do it around this table and your sex is going to be a consideration, well, it s not me, but the census shows or polls are showing and then you re black and pretty and, you know, by the time you get finished, wthought we sat down with friends. how helpful, representative rangel, do you think obama has been symbolically or has he been helpful at all? there s no question with young kids. i could never tell the american story. you read your books and you work hard and you could become president of the united states. ....
Dynamics. he ran in 2005 and was blown out. he won the democratic primary, but, again, bloomberg was an incumbent. this is an open seat. it is good to look at the history but the history doesn t tell us because what happened since the last four, five years of economic crisis the huge pressure in the city and the huge increase in housing costs. this is a different city and one of the things, all of us who have been in public life for a while, natural to fight yesterday s war. but let s talk about today in new york city where the issue is economic. where people are struggling to get by. a stunning new york city government report two months ago, 46% of new yorkers at or near the poverty level at 150% of the poverty level or below, 46%. you never would have imagined that ten years ago. that s new york city today and that s what has to be addressed in this mayoral election. that is equally true in the general election. bill, i wanted to ask you a personal question. by the way, i appre ....