'The Nation' editor Katrina vanden Heuvel urges Democrats to build a "bold, inclusive, populist agenda," adding that: "Democrats are making a mistake going in Russia, Russia, Russia all the time."



'The Nation' is one of the Left's leading publications. Vanden Heuvel continued: "Don't let this ]Russia ting] overtake everything. And I think that that's about a party of one that needs to be about proposition, not simply opposition. Resistance is not enough. Building political power will demand something more."





KATRINA VANDEN HEUVAL, "THE NATION": So, of course we need an independent investigation into alleged Russian hacking and collusion.



STEPHANOPOULOS: Alleged?



VANDEN HEUVAL: And we have a special counsel now, which is there. And any president can't be happy to have a special counsel four months into his presidency. But I think Democrats are making a mistake going in Russia, Russia, Russia all the time. For two reasons. One, you're distracting from the Donald Trump and Republicans' mean-spirited, predatory agenda -- tax cuts for the richest, hurting the working class, building a military defense budget, squandering diplomacy, and deregulating the economy for the sake of the richest.



I think Democrats have to have a bold, inclusive, populist agenda. Get it out into the country, fight on health care, fight on jobs, fight on a different engagement with the world. And make sure that the climate issue is understood to be about economics but shafting working people.



STEPHANOPOULOS: So don't let this overtake everything.



VANDEN HEUVAL: Don't let this overtake it. And I think that that's about a party of one that needs to be about proposition, not simply opposition. Resistance is not enough. Building political power will demand something more.



