Hey everyone. I'm Jonathan Kapart and welcome to Cape Up.

Congresswoman Debbie Dingell is a lifelong Democrat from what used to be the

Blue State of Michigan.

But unlike anyone else in her party,

she saw President Trump coming.

And while the nation tries to figure out how to deal with its new president,

Dingell is trying to figure out how to deal with her party.

But I don't know where I belong.

I've said that.

I sometimes feel like I have no home

even in the Democratic Caucus here.

Dingell diagnoses the party's problems

and talks about how to solve them, but we started off by talking about the shooting of congressional Republicans and staffers on a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia. Congresswoman Dingell, thank you very much for being on the podcast.

Oh, it's wonderful to be with you.

You are, your work is really so good and you always have good perspectives that we all need to be

thinking about so thank you for inviting me to be your guest.

Thank you. I wanted to start by asking you to talk about what happened to your Republican colleagues who were out on a

ball field in Alexandria, Virginia, practicing

for the bipartisan charity baseball game.

And a gunman decided to target them for murder.

I don't know how else to describe it.

You know, I was sitting in my office

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