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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Right now, as we have friendship with us of Arkansas.

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Speaker 2: Later we have a Democrat, but he is a unique

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Speaker 2: indifferent Democrat. How many Democrats really started out is a

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Speaker 2: selectment on the finance committee of their given village in town.

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Speaker 2: His was in the advantage of Greenwich, Connecticut. Joining us

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Speaker 2: now the governor of the state of Connecticut, Ned Lamont, Democrat,

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Speaker 2: and that an honor to have you on with us today.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to suggest you are a wing of the

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Speaker 2: Democratic political experiment, more conservative. How do you drag your

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Speaker 2: brethren towards the Lamont politics in the next two and

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Speaker 2: four years?

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Speaker 3: Hey, well, good morning Tom.

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Speaker 1: Well. It was a wipeout last night, and I hope

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Speaker 1: it's a wake up call for the Democrats.

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Speaker 3: It was not a wipeout in Connecticut.

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Speaker 1: Not only did our congressional team go back, but we

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Speaker 1: actually picked up Democrats in the legislature of the House,

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Speaker 1: in the Senate.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to think we're sort of meeting potatoes Democrats.

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Speaker 1: We balanced the budget, we cut middle class taxes, we're

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Speaker 1: pretty tough on crime.

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Speaker 3: And you can't get away from your roots, Ned Lamont.

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Speaker 2: I saw last night over at cing Inn David Axelrod,

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Speaker 2: who some people would say invented Barack Obama. Mister Axelrod

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Speaker 2: was scathing about East Coast Democratic elites lecturing working class

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Speaker 2: America and saying to them, lecturing them and almost saying

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Speaker 2: to them, someday you can be like us. You fought

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Speaker 2: that your entire life coming from the advantages you had.

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Speaker 2: How do we get to where Axelrod wants the Democrats

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Speaker 2: to be, which is they don't lecture the working class

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Speaker 2: of America. They voted for Trump yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I think that final a couple of days, Kommish been

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Speaker 1: in a diner having a cup of coffee and apple

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Speaker 1: pie with a couple of the guys instead of Oprah

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Speaker 1: and Beyonce. But you know that said, Look, I'm an

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Speaker 1: Ivy League guy. I'm for granted, so I'm hardly the

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Speaker 1: person to say we are going to be the party

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Speaker 1: of the working families.

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Speaker 3: But you've got to reach out to BP got to

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Speaker 3: talk to people every day.

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Speaker 1: I go to the factory line and make sure people

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Speaker 1: have a sense that we're there for them. You know,

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Speaker 1: Washington under Biden, they worked very many business people at

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Speaker 1: all in that administration.

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Speaker 3: Can I have been led by a business guy. Ned.

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Speaker 4: How do you think Democrats should work with the Trump

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Speaker 4: administration over the next four years.

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Speaker 1: Well, the next two years is going to have the House,

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Speaker 1: the Senate, of the White House, and the Supreme Court.

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Speaker 3: My job, Paull is to I'm a governor. I've got

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Speaker 3: to work with the president.

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Speaker 1: I can't sit around on the sidelines just getting angry.

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Speaker 3: We work with the White House every day.

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Speaker 1: Everything from the infrastructure bills, if that gets continued, Healthcare

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Speaker 1: is going to be probably a risk right now. You

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Speaker 1: look at what happens to Obamacare at the exchanges. These

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Speaker 1: are all places I've got to work very closely with

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Speaker 1: the White House.

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Speaker 4: Governor, what are you telling your fellow Democrats this morning

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Speaker 4: as they wake up and they think about the future.

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Speaker 1: But away to Cyanaill the president won, he won big.

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Speaker 1: He won't be complaining about the outcome and complaining about

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Speaker 1: electoral fraud.

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure about that.

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Speaker 1: And we got to do We got to stand up

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Speaker 1: for our values every day, remind people why we were

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Speaker 1: voted back in, you know, in bigger numbers, and make

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Speaker 1: sure we also realize that we have to work with

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Speaker 1: the White House.

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Speaker 2: That's what the deal is Net Lamont, you have been

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Speaker 2: a businessman. I mean I love this Governor Lamont volunteering

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Speaker 2: at the Warren Harding High School in Bridgeport. For those

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Speaker 2: of you across the nation, Bridgeport is not Greenwich. To

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Speaker 2: cut to the chase, Ned Lamont, how do you get

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Speaker 2: the Democrats to understand that it's not just about billionaire taxes,

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Speaker 2: it's not about unrealized capital gains. It's about endorsing entrepreneurship.

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Speaker 2: Is mister Trump, in his own unique way has endorsed.

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Speaker 1: I thought that Kamla was getting there when you talked

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Speaker 1: about the opportunity society, less about handouts, more about ladders

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Speaker 1: and allowing people to start their own.

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Speaker 3: Business and maybe own their own home. That's what he

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Speaker 3: tried to do it.

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Speaker 1: Finetically, we've had more new business startups than ever before.

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Speaker 1: We used to offer big incentives to see if we're

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Speaker 1: going to attract big companies here. Now we're allowing a

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Speaker 1: lot of small companies to get some of the capital

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Speaker 1: they need to start up and it's working.

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Speaker 4: So Ned, the future of the Democratic Party here. How

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Speaker 4: quickly do you think that this party will pivot? And

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Speaker 4: how much does it need to pivot? Do you think?

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Speaker 1: Look I think it was a wake up call. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, I hope there is some interest faction going on.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we we ignored the border for too long.

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Speaker 3: They say, what's the difference between you and Joe Biden.

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Speaker 1: I would to shut down that border to you legal

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Speaker 1: immigration on day one.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that was an answer that I think was needed. Governor.

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Speaker 2: One final question this morning. I know it's an incredibly

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Speaker 2: busy day for you. There's going to be a national

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Speaker 2: governor's meeting here coming up after this seismic shift to

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Speaker 2: the right that we see in America. Give us the tone,

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Speaker 2: the bipartisan tone of the governors of America is they

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Speaker 2: address this new Washington.

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Speaker 1: One when the White House calls you're there, we have

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Speaker 1: the you know, holiday dinner, and we get together.

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Speaker 3: I think it will be Joe Biden's finale, if I'm

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Speaker 3: not mistaken. I got to check the dates.

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Speaker 1: Sure, And Governors, you know, we fewed maybe publicly, privately.

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Speaker 1: You're in the kitchen and you roll up your slaves

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Speaker 1: and say, right hand on that Medicaid reimbursement issue, let

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Speaker 1: me tell you what we're doing.

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Speaker 3: So I'd like to think there's a.

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Speaker 1: Little more of that collaboration going on at the governor level.

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Speaker 3: I don't see it watching it.

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Speaker 2: Governor, what are you gonna do about Amtrak between New

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Speaker 2: York and Boston? How can we you know? What what

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Speaker 2: can you do to help us with Amtrak between New

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Speaker 2: York and Boston.

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid we're the choke point on that time because

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Speaker 1: it was built a long time ago.

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Speaker 3: It winds around.

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Speaker 1: But that said, when the infrastructure built a little credit

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Speaker 1: there to Joe Biden, that's going to.

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Speaker 3: Make an enormous difference. We're straightened at the tracks.

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Speaker 1: We'll never be like Beijing to Shanghai, but we'll be

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Speaker 1: able to get another forty miles an hour of both

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Speaker 1: speed out of this.

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Speaker 3: That helps.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Nick Burns is over, his ambassador to China. Folks

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Speaker 2: are showing the trains, the perfect trains of China. What

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Speaker 2: Paul and I are on the accelerage? Why have we

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Speaker 2: stopped outside?

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Speaker 1: You?

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Speaker 2: Even Ned Lamont, the Democrat of Connecticut, Thank you so

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Speaker 2: much