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Pandemic. america has beaten the world in getting most of its people vaccinated, and were still a 50/50 nation, or as alex said a 53/47 nation. do you suspect that we will divided this way for quite some time? >> i think we will. you look back in history and we sure were divided. but when before have we had a situation where at a time of medical emergency there was this kind of a partisan division between those that wanted to get vaccinated and those that did not. polio started in 1955 and you d...

Electorate, i know were focused on california and texas on super tuesday but there are a lot of richly african-american states. >> two things. on the point, bernie sanders beat hillary clinton among latinos in 2016 in nevada. 53/45. now he lost 53/47. but worth noting. the other thing is, i think it is fascinating we went to ryan nobles earlier with the sanders campaign, and not to south carolina, but texas, and to marks point earlier, where you go next, i think he will compete and not, not go t...

Go, lets follow them. there may be a debate at the end. what the president did is bad. thats one responsible position. but whats not responsible is saying, i dont want to know. i dont want to hear from these people. >> the other thing that seems irresponsible is mcconnell invoking any sort of parallel to the clinton rule. it seems the clinton rules were able to garner the report of 100 senators. have you claires predicted and shes usually right about this stuff. party line votes on every amendme...

Says know more about why president trump withheld this aid to ukraine, he wants that agreement up front. so what we dont know yet is whether any witnesses will be called. any witnesses will cross that threshold, on their way to the senate floor. thats the big question. and of course, that determines how long the senate trial will last. >> youre talking about witnesses and you talk about leverage, there is new polling out overnight that shows a majority of americans, a slim majority, but a majori...

Senate. democrats only need to net three seats to take control, but those three may be very hard to get. to steve kornacki our national political correspondent, is here to break it down. steve, walk us through how hard these seats are to get. especially if democrats keep running for president. >> some of the candidates in the presidential race instead will be running for u.s. senate. bottom line republicans will go into the 2020 senate campaign with a 53/47 majority. democrats would need three t...

Budget. theyre going to remember that paul ryan basically behaved like a junior manager to trump golf course when it came to what donald trump wanted in the house of representatives for two years. and basically ended up, because of that decision, lost the majority. because of that decision to accommodate trump on every factor, and to pretend that he wasnt constitutionally obligated to be the leader of a co-equal branch of government, that he abdicated that responsibility and that position. thats...

Co-equal branch of government. so i think his legacy is going to be defined strictly as how he behaved towards trump. no one is going to remember paul ryan wanted to fix the gigantic problem of entitlement reform. no one is going to remember paul ryan wanted to balance the budget. theyre going to remember that paul ryan basically behaved like a junior manager to trump golf course when it came to what donald trump wanted in the house of representatives for two years. and basically ended up, becau...

>> a dollar. $1? yeah, $1. >> you said a dollar. you said a dollar. thats not your question. you said a dollar and im answering your question. the fact is a wall is an immorality. its not who we are as a nation. >> of course, it doesnt matter what the house passed tonight if its dead on arrival. in the new look republican senate where the gop now has a 53/47 majority, mitch mcconnell controls what is brought to that floor. he says this spending package will not be brought to the floor because th...

>> is there any situation in which you would accept even a dollar of wall funding for this president in order to reopen the government? >> a dollar? [ laughter ] >> a $1? yeah, $1. >> -- >> you said a dollar. thats not your question. you said a dollar and im answering your question. the fact is a wall is an immorality. its not who we are as a nation. >> of course, it doesnt matter what the house passed tonight if its dead on arrival. in the new look republican senate where the gop now has a 53/4...

Budget. theyre going to remember that paul ryan basically behaved like a junior manager to trump golf course when it came to what donald trump wanted in the house of representatives for two years. and basically ended up, because of that decision, lost the majority. because of that decision to accommodate trump on every factor, and to pretend that he wasnt constitutionally obligated to be the leader of a co-equal branch of government, that he abdicated that responsibility and that position. thats...