On the recordJanuary 8, 2017
We lost the House. Nobody noticed. We lost the Senate, nobody noticed. We lost 6,000 Democratic seats and nobody noticed it until November that the Democrats were in trouble.
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transcripts.cnn.comVan Jones: “We lost the House. Nobody noticed. We lost the Senate, nobody noticed. We lost 6,000 Democratic seats and nobody noticed…”
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Van Jones reflects on the Democratic Party's losses leading up to the election and the lack of awareness about these issues.
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