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Sun Jun 4, 2017, 01:37 PM Jun 2017

Thank you, the Nation's Katrina vanden Heuval from ABC This Week

But I think Democrats are making a mistake going in Russia, Russia, Russia all the time. For two reasons. One, you're distracting from the Donald Trump and Republicans' mean-spirited, predatory agenda -- tax cuts for the richest, hurting the working class, building a military defense budget, squandering diplomacy, and deregulating the economy for the sake of the richest.

I think Democrats have to have a bold, inclusive, populist agenda. Get it out into the country, fight on health care, fight on jobs, fight on a different engagement with the world. And make sure that the climate issue is understood to be about economics but shafting working people.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So don't let this overtake everything.

VANDEN HEUVAL: Don't let this overtake it. And I think that that's about a party of one that needs to be about proposition, not simply opposition. Resistance is not enough. Building political power will demand some --

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-17-scott-pruitt-al-gore-susan/story?id=47811251 and scroll down

(Hey, I've been saying this all along..

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I agree. The Dems have the russia investigation underway chowder66 Jun 2017 #1

chowder66

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1. I agree. The Dems have the russia investigation underway
Sun Jun 4, 2017, 01:51 PM
Jun 2017

Any Dem who isn't directly involved needs to be out there messaging loudly about the devastation this administration is doing and what it is that we do or would do differently. We need to saturate.

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