It is my preference that the Democratic Party leads us forward in a way that is about standing up

to special interests in a way that advances campaign finance reform in a way that fights for

meaningful prescription drug reform in a way that champions our environment that recognizes the

importance of jobs that pay that will take on the banking system when they're trying to cheat

consumers. But if the Democratic Party won't do that, then I will stand up to the Democratic Party.

Hello, and welcome to Why is this happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

Well, if you know the freshman members of the Democratic Congress, you probably know

a handful. I mean, most likely, if you were to say, okay, name one, it would be Alexander

Ocaso-Cortez, who is, I think, the most famous. She won that sort of remarkable primary upset

over Joe Crowley. Then, of course, there is now the squad, which has been sort of rendered

iconic in large part two, the president's horrifying attacks on them, including Ilhan Omar and

Rashia Taleeb, who's in Detroit. And I, and I, and I, who is in Boston, Ilhan Omar is in Minneapolis.

So those are some members of Congress you may have heard of. There's a whole bunch of others.

We had Max Rose, who's a really fascinating guy on the program who flipped a Republican district

in Staten Island of Brooklyn, who you should check out our conversation with. And there's this

one woman who is not like, she's not part of the squad. And I don't think she's famous for

other reasons, except she's just really super good at grilling people and hearings. Now, you may

not even know her name or which district she represents. But I bet you, if you're listening,

that's like, you've probably seen the viral footage of some bank CEO, like the Wells Fargo CEO,

or Jamie Diamond getting up and being asked how much his tellers make, or the head of the consumer

financial protection bureau, which is supposed to be protecting consumers, but has been turned

into a kind of de-clod agency under Trump struggling to do like basic, the basic math of what a

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