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Try to accrue power not for the presidency as some historians have suggested, this is the normal ebb and flow of the powers of the political branches, no, this is accruing power for himself and against the efforts by people who uphold and are dutybound to uphold the rule of law and the constitution against them and against the broader efforts of our democracy. >> again, another consequential night. and so our thanks tonight to chuck rosenberg, to mimi rocah, to jeremy bash, and before that to mi...

Make this go away. these are actual damages being -- the economys accruing because of a shutdown that he said he would take credit for, that he caused, that he created and that he sustains. >> what about the down-ballot damage, to your line of work, thats going to result from this? perhaps you saw the results of the last midterms and how many democrats came out. what about the damage this could be sowing? >> look, were going into a 2020 election season thats pretty much already under way, not on...

This, if chuck schumer holds firm, theres no out, theres nothing donald trump can do and shutting down the government, he cant tweet his way out of the economic damage it starts to do, he cant go on fox enough times and talk to sean enough times to make this go away. these are actual damages being -- the economys accruing because of a shutdown that he said he would take credit for, that he caused, that he created and that he sustains. >> what about the down-ballot damage to your line of work, yo...

Serve him very well if that happens because theres no question that were going to have a very different climate in this country if he loses. but, you know, i think underneath all this -- i spent the day at a conflens full of uber capitalists run by "the new york times," the conference was run by "the new york times". the last person i listened to was peter thiel who is a very right wing supporter of trump in silicon valley. >> facebook. >> facebook investor, on the board. it donned on me, whats ...

Mail from the white house and for former president barack obama does get sorted at the same facility. just outside the downtown area of washington, d.c. so, perhaps that was the reason for some confusion there. nothing addressed to the white house. two packages, went to president obama and one addressed to hillary clinton at the chappaqua address, as well. clearly the white house apartment of homeland security, all the federal agencies are hopefully involved, here. something like this is clearly...

>> change. >> what is at stake? how important is the midterm election? >> it is the election of our lifetime, i feel. with this current administration, i feel the policies and the agenda are utterly alarming for our environment, for our long-term financial health. i have two children and i do not, i am not comfortable with the amount of debt that we are accruing with this tax break, i just dont understand why you would jeopardize the long-term financial stability of our country for short-term ga...

Country and our entire government to deal with their debts. and if thats true, it would be bob mueller now probing just how many debts theyre accruing. im joined by a special guest. elizabeth spires worked directly for jared kushner and was editor-in-chief of the newspaper he once ran, the new york observer and also a philadelphia prosecutor joyce vance. elizabeth, i took a moment to lay it all out, because these are people that are widely perceived, even by their detractors as very rich. >> yea...

67% of the country doesnt have a thousand dollars in saving. so the dow jones industrial average can be 47,000, and it just doesnt touch huge portions of the country. we still havent seen any evidence that wages are rising in the middle class, in the middle income workers of the country. and that has been the fundamental problem economic delay cli that the country has been dealing with for a generation is the lack of real wage growth for working people. in the middle of the economy is fueling a ...

>> exactly. theres a political risk. in those high-tech states, people -- wealthy people make these tax increases. by and large, i think the political risk, this tax reform does the tax code. it touches everybody. unlike say, obamacare, for all the attention that was given to it, touched a minority of americans. this will affect everybody and i think the potential upside for the republicans is huge. once the benefits start accruing, showing up in their paychecks, companies start investing and so...

Sit down and take a look at this situation. >> let alone sleep or when they try to sleep. its impossible. i want to ask you about this girmfriend whos being interrogated, or questioned i should say, right now. but quickly on the reporting from kyung lah and the fact that we know the shooter accrued 33 firearms, mostly rifles, between september of 16 and october of 17. for people who just dont know guns, i mean, when youre accruing -- again, he had no criminal history, apparently passed the backg...