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Lulu Garcia Navarro

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1862 total appearances

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The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

There's just not any big swings anymore.

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

I mean, people at the moment seem to be clamoring for these ideas that can solve their very real problems.

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

Does incrementalism...

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

Which can read as bipartisanship, actually get the job done at a moment like this.

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

I mean, there's this perception that those people who are fortunate enough in a closely divided Senate to wield a lot of power because they— I don't recommend that on anybody.

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

Fair.

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

But they sit in this position and they are obstructing—I'm giving you the counterargument—obstructing actual progress.

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

I mean, you've seen James Carville, the longtime Democratic strategist who is self-described as a centrist, obviously worked for Bill Clinton.

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

And he recently argued that, for example, Democrats need to run on and presumably eventually legislate on and I'm going to quote her a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage.

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

Mm hmm.

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

I mean, that's the other side of this coin.

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

You know, you certainly can't accuse the Trump administration of moving incrementally.

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

I mean, should the Democrats be emulating what the Trump administration is doing?

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

Because Republicans are really taking the ball and running with it.

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

I don't want to get too much on a tangent on immigration, but immigration, you're right, has been an enormous failure of Congress.

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

I mean, there has not been immigration reform for a very long time, and that has allowed both parties, actually, in different ways to make it into an issue that they campaign on, they use to sway people.

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

Obama used it with the DACA issue, and we're seeing President Trump use it

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

This is the issue.

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

There's always a reason why it doesn't go on the floor, and there's always a reason why it doesn't get resolved.

The Daily
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump

But that is the actual question here, again, coming back to this idea of