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Speaker 2: Right now, as we have friendship with us of Arkansas.
Speaker 2: Later we have a Democrat, but he is a unique
Speaker 2: indifferent Democrat. How many Democrats really started out is a
Speaker 2: selectment on the finance committee of their given village in town.
Speaker 2: His was in the advantage of Greenwich, Connecticut. Joining us
Speaker 2: now the governor of the state of Connecticut, Ned Lamont, Democrat,
Speaker 2: and that an honor to have you on with us today.
Speaker 2: I'm going to suggest you are a wing of the
Speaker 2: Democratic political experiment, more conservative. How do you drag your
Speaker 2: brethren towards the Lamont politics in the next two and
Speaker 2: four years?
Speaker 3: Hey, well, good morning Tom.
Speaker 1: Well. It was a wipeout last night, and I hope
Speaker 1: it's a wake up call for the Democrats.
Speaker 3: It was not a wipeout in Connecticut.
Speaker 1: Not only did our congressional team go back, but we
Speaker 1: actually picked up Democrats in the legislature of the House,
Speaker 1: in the Senate.
Speaker 3: I'd like to think we're sort of meeting potatoes Democrats.
Speaker 1: We balanced the budget, we cut middle class taxes, we're
Speaker 1: pretty tough on crime.
Speaker 3: And you can't get away from your roots, Ned Lamont.
Speaker 2: I saw last night over at cing Inn David Axelrod,
Speaker 2: who some people would say invented Barack Obama. Mister Axelrod
Speaker 2: was scathing about East Coast Democratic elites lecturing working class
Speaker 2: America and saying to them, lecturing them and almost saying
Speaker 2: to them, someday you can be like us. You fought
Speaker 2: that your entire life coming from the advantages you had.
Speaker 2: How do we get to where Axelrod wants the Democrats
Speaker 2: to be, which is they don't lecture the working class
Speaker 2: of America. They voted for Trump yesterday.
Speaker 1: I think that final a couple of days, Kommish been
Speaker 1: in a diner having a cup of coffee and apple
Speaker 1: pie with a couple of the guys instead of Oprah
Speaker 1: and Beyonce. But you know that said, Look, I'm an
Speaker 1: Ivy League guy. I'm for granted, so I'm hardly the
Speaker 1: person to say we are going to be the party
Speaker 1: of the working families.
Speaker 3: But you've got to reach out to BP got to
Speaker 3: talk to people every day.
Speaker 1: I go to the factory line and make sure people
Speaker 1: have a sense that we're there for them. You know,
Speaker 1: Washington under Biden, they worked very many business people at
Speaker 1: all in that administration.
Speaker 3: Can I have been led by a business guy. Ned.
Speaker 4: How do you think Democrats should work with the Trump
Speaker 4: administration over the next four years.
Speaker 1: Well, the next two years is going to have the House,
Speaker 1: the Senate, of the White House, and the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3: My job, Paull is to I'm a governor. I've got
Speaker 3: to work with the president.
Speaker 1: I can't sit around on the sidelines just getting angry.
Speaker 3: We work with the White House every day.
Speaker 1: Everything from the infrastructure bills, if that gets continued, Healthcare
Speaker 1: is going to be probably a risk right now. You
Speaker 1: look at what happens to Obamacare at the exchanges. These
Speaker 1: are all places I've got to work very closely with
Speaker 1: the White House.
Speaker 4: Governor, what are you telling your fellow Democrats this morning
Speaker 4: as they wake up and they think about the future.
Speaker 1: But away to Cyanaill the president won, he won big.
Speaker 1: He won't be complaining about the outcome and complaining about
Speaker 1: electoral fraud.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure about that.
Speaker 1: And we got to do We got to stand up
Speaker 1: for our values every day, remind people why we were
Speaker 1: voted back in, you know, in bigger numbers, and make
Speaker 1: sure we also realize that we have to work with
Speaker 1: the White House.
Speaker 2: That's what the deal is Net Lamont, you have been
Speaker 2: a businessman. I mean I love this Governor Lamont volunteering
Speaker 2: at the Warren Harding High School in Bridgeport. For those
Speaker 2: of you across the nation, Bridgeport is not Greenwich. To
Speaker 2: cut to the chase, Ned Lamont, how do you get
Speaker 2: the Democrats to understand that it's not just about billionaire taxes,
Speaker 2: it's not about unrealized capital gains. It's about endorsing entrepreneurship.
Speaker 2: Is mister Trump, in his own unique way has endorsed.
Speaker 1: I thought that Kamla was getting there when you talked
Speaker 1: about the opportunity society, less about handouts, more about ladders
Speaker 1: and allowing people to start their own.
Speaker 3: Business and maybe own their own home. That's what he
Speaker 3: tried to do it.
Speaker 1: Finetically, we've had more new business startups than ever before.
Speaker 1: We used to offer big incentives to see if we're
Speaker 1: going to attract big companies here. Now we're allowing a
Speaker 1: lot of small companies to get some of the capital
Speaker 1: they need to start up and it's working.
Speaker 4: So Ned, the future of the Democratic Party here. How
Speaker 4: quickly do you think that this party will pivot? And
Speaker 4: how much does it need to pivot? Do you think?
Speaker 1: Look I think it was a wake up call. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I hope there is some interest faction going on.
Speaker 1: And you know, we we ignored the border for too long.
Speaker 3: They say, what's the difference between you and Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: I would to shut down that border to you legal
Speaker 1: immigration on day one.
Speaker 3: I mean, that was an answer that I think was needed. Governor.
Speaker 2: One final question this morning. I know it's an incredibly
Speaker 2: busy day for you. There's going to be a national
Speaker 2: governor's meeting here coming up after this seismic shift to
Speaker 2: the right that we see in America. Give us the tone,
Speaker 2: the bipartisan tone of the governors of America is they
Speaker 2: address this new Washington.
Speaker 1: One when the White House calls you're there, we have
Speaker 1: the you know, holiday dinner, and we get together.
Speaker 3: I think it will be Joe Biden's finale, if I'm
Speaker 3: not mistaken. I got to check the dates.
Speaker 1: Sure, And Governors, you know, we fewed maybe publicly, privately.
Speaker 1: You're in the kitchen and you roll up your slaves
Speaker 1: and say, right hand on that Medicaid reimbursement issue, let
Speaker 1: me tell you what we're doing.
Speaker 3: So I'd like to think there's a.
Speaker 1: Little more of that collaboration going on at the governor level.
Speaker 3: I don't see it watching it.
Speaker 2: Governor, what are you gonna do about Amtrak between New
Speaker 2: York and Boston? How can we you know? What what
Speaker 2: can you do to help us with Amtrak between New
Speaker 2: York and Boston.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid we're the choke point on that time because
Speaker 1: it was built a long time ago.
Speaker 3: It winds around.
Speaker 1: But that said, when the infrastructure built a little credit
Speaker 1: there to Joe Biden, that's going to.
Speaker 3: Make an enormous difference. We're straightened at the tracks.
Speaker 1: We'll never be like Beijing to Shanghai, but we'll be
Speaker 1: able to get another forty miles an hour of both
Speaker 1: speed out of this.
Speaker 3: That helps.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Nick Burns is over, his ambassador to China. Folks
Speaker 2: are showing the trains, the perfect trains of China. What
Speaker 2: Paul and I are on the accelerage? Why have we
Speaker 2: stopped outside?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 2: Even Ned Lamont, the Democrat of Connecticut, Thank you so
Speaker 2: much