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america. they spend millions of dollars in iowa trying to sell what they were selling in florida, this entire woke agenda. they are causing attacks on the lgbtq community. i make it clear that if governor desantis went across florida with this agenda, it will not work. i knew floridians would want to rejected. they rejected donald trump and theyre going to do it again. they rejected ron desantis. i know that this was going to happen. i will tell you this, people are not buying what the...

committee, defending his justice depend and to the probes, and allegations that hes weaponized the doj. paula reid is in washington. how has the hearing gone so far? >> he clearly wants to highlight the work of the rank-and-file employees who are not working on the special investigation, but as well at another high-profile investigation into hunter biden. the attorney general was grilled about why a special counsel is not overseeing the huchblter binden investigation. lets listen to ho...

2016, and the po templeal that ron desantis could unify the forces in the parties opposed to trump more effectively. >> ana, they did worry if he could win in 2016 as well. i wonder, when youre listening to them and listening to the dynamics, is this like 2016 all over again, or do you see differences here? >> look, its eerily similar to 2016. frankly, i think donald trump did well in 2016 as the underdog and as the anti-establishment candidate. it was an amazing role for him. he had been elite ...

The squad in the house taking your party too far left? >> i think were having a healthy debate of the future not only of our party but the country right now. i think it is striking that biden is consistently at the top of the ticket right now in terms of where folks are. brad can make the point that folks have him as their, you know, their second first choice, so yeah you will see some attrition once folks get out of the race and see those numbers switch around. think the real head-to-head match...

Top of the hour -- >> bill: weve got a lot more questions for you. 10:00 east coast time here in eric city. the breaking news, michael cohen surprise appearance in lower court in manhattan. the southern district moments ago within the past hour. apparently pleading guilty to making false statements back in 2017. this with regards to the u.s. senate select committee until about a plan to build a trump tower in moscow during the election, campaign of 2016. frankly, there is not a lot more informat...

To win and never called out the russian interference. we knew in 2016 in the final stretch what was going on and candidate trump basically was a cheerleader for it, right? he called on the russianss to hack hillary clinton. we know that evening they tried to hack into new serve issers that hillary clinton had after trump made that call. so there was this kind of out in the open cheer leading for it all through 2016. frankly, it it was out in the openclusion. whether there were actually people ar...

November 2016. frankly, what xi said is exactly what is happening now, because what he was referring to was actually trade. obama had been saying, trump may actually take trade actions. xi said, look, were fine with that because the world will blame trump. frankly, whats happened is even worse because trump has targeted not just china but hes targeted our closest allies. what youre watching at the g7 is literally before our eyes kind of the unraveling of the post world war ii order, the alliance...

Republicans have been able to do at least some of what they promised that they were going to do. lets face it, trump isnt going to be on the ballot when people go to the polls next year for republicans to turn out voters. theyre going to need to be able to show something. thats when we saw mcconnell willing to make his own members take hard votes in an attempt to really force them to deliver on their promises. >> chris, final thoughts? >> if you look at 2018. 2018 is going to be about turning ou...

Its helped fuel the investigation on capitol hill and by a special counsel. meeting with the president of ukraine in the oval office mr. trump had strong words for north korea about the death of otto warmbier, the university of virginia student who died machined. he had been in a coma after 17 months in north korean cap activity. >> its a total disgrace what happened to otto that should never be allowed to happen. >> mr. trump implied president obama was to blame since warmbier had been detained...

Religious individuals, any individual -- coming from these war-torn countries. ive used the analogy, and by the way, it was a little bit more specified in february of 2016. frankly, i think we ought to add saudi arabia and a couple others to that list. abby: right. ed: tony, its interesting how the medias framing this, quote: transgender iraqi woman describes how her dreams were shattered when the president signed immigration executive order. since when has an american president, democrat or rep...