vermont. good to see you. i want to start off the bat by asking you, what is the state of the democratic party as we head into this new year? the president taking heat from donald trump after saying he would have won if he could have ran for a third term. what does this say about the democratic party moving forward? well, the bad news is we re a bicoastal party and we got hammered in the rust belt and with working class americans. white working class folks. also, we didn t get the vote from the hispanic working class and black working class americans. that is a real challenge to the democratic party. president obama was able to hold that coalition together. obviously, secretary clinton didn t perform nearly as well as president obama did. so, frankly, we ve got some soul searching. on the other hand, the good news is the democrats did get about 3 million more votes. that s number one. number two, when you go and look at the tru policies, i think we re heading from a person who disrup