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Democratic Transition
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| Democratic Party than you would have seen a year and a half ago. | ||
| You also saw former President Obama coming out on the campaign trail, and some people have commented that, you know, the Democrats don't have a leader, and they're having to reach all the way back to Obama to get some leadership. | ||
| What do you think of that? | ||
| I think we are in a period of transition. | ||
| I think we're moving into a new era in the Democratic Party. | ||
| And there is going to be, and what you've seen is new leaders are emerging. | ||
| Gavin Newsom and J.B. Pritzker and AOC and Chris Murphy and Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer. | ||
| I think it's an exciting time for us to be able to do that. | ||
| You would include Chuck Schumer in the future of the Democratic Party. | ||
| He's the Senate leader, and he's leading us in the Senate. | ||
| And so I think that we, listen, what I just laid out is a very diverse set of people, right? | ||
| Older people, younger people, people from different parts of the country, different ideologies. | ||
| I think that diversity is our strength and not a weakness for us. | ||
| All right, that's Simon Rosenberg, a Democratic strategist. | ||
| He has a substack at Simon WDC. | ||
| And thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
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In a few minutes, President Trump will host a dinner for Central Asian leaders. | |
| It's due to start at about 7 p.m. Eastern. | ||
| And we'll take you there live when it starts here on C-SPAN. | ||
| Start with CBS News and get an overview of what's happening with the shutdown. | ||
| It says this: President Trump pressured Republican senators to bring an end to the government shutdown following the Democratic sweep in key elections on Tuesday, saying at a breakfast at the White House, we must get the government back open soon and really immediately. | ||
| President renewed his calls for GOP senators to scrap the filibuster. | ||
| Doing so would allow Republicans to fund the government and pass other legislation without Democratic votes. | ||
| Majority Leader Thune said later in the morning that the votes aren't there to change the filibuster rule. | ||
| Federal officials announced plans to slash airline capacity by 10% in dozens of high-volume areas due to air traffic controller shortages. | ||
| Cuts are expected to be phased in starting tomorrow. | ||
| And the shutdown is now the longest in U.S. history. | ||
| The Senate is not currently scheduled to vote on a House-passed measure to reopen the government today after it failed to advance for the 14th time on Tuesday. | ||
| And the contours of a deal to end the stalemate began emerging Tuesday, and senators expressed cautious optimism that a resolution remains possible this week. | ||
| Let's take a look at what President Trump said at that breakfast with GOP senators yesterday. | ||
| I thought we'd have a discussion after the press leaves about what last night represented and what we should do about it, and also about the shutdown, how that relates to last night. | ||
| I think if you read the pollsters, the shutdown was a big factor, negative for the Republicans. | ||
| And that was a big factor. | ||
| And they say that I wasn't on the ballot, which is the biggest factor. | ||
| But I don't know about that, but I was honored that they said that. | ||
| It's time for Republicans to do what they have to do, and that's terminate the filibuster. | ||
| It's the only way you can do it. | ||
| And if you don't terminate the filibuster, you'll be in bad shape. | ||
| We won't pass any legislation. | ||
| There'll be no legislation passed for three and a quarter. | ||
| We have three and a quarter years, so it's a long time. | ||
| But when they can't do an extension, and John, I think they've done an extension every single time they've ever been asked forever. | ||
| This is the first time they haven't done an extension. | ||
| Extensions are supposed to be easy, but if they won't do an extension, they won't do any bill, even a simple bill. | ||
| And we should do our own bills. | ||
| We should get out. | ||
| We should do our own bills. | ||
| We should open up. | ||
| We should start tonight with the country's open congratulations. | ||
| Then we should pass the voter ID. | ||
| We should pass no mail-in voting. | ||
| We should pass all the things that we wanted to pass to make our election secure and safe because California is a disaster. | ||
| Many of the states are disasters. | ||
| And Axios says, the headline in Axios says, inside Trump's, quote, uncomfortable breakfast with Republican senators, it says the room was, quote, eerily silent and uncomfortable Wednesday morning as President Trump cajoled Republican senators to end the filibuster. | ||
| Multiple attendees told Axios Trump warned that the party would get killed and be viewed as do-nothing Republicans if they don't change the Senate rules. | ||
| He said, quote, if you don't terminate the filibuster, you'll be in bad shape. | ||
| And it says that he went even further after the press was instructed to leave. | ||
| Getting your calls on that, we'll start with Joe, New Orleans, Louisiana, Democrat. | ||
| Good morning, Joe. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| We all know that the president is following the agenda of Project 2025. | ||
| I have a suggestion in educating the electorate of what to expect and what the agenda is. | ||
| I'm suggesting that C-SAN have one of their segments to educate us as to what to expect in the future as far as the President's agenda in following Project 2025. | ||
| Is that a possibility? | ||
| Well, we definitely appreciate that suggestion, Joe. | ||
| And this is Arthur in Florida, Republican. | ||
| Good morning, Arthur. | ||
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Yes. | |
| This entire shutdown is a very tragic thing. | ||
| I'll agree on that. | ||