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Handles emergency appeals. have to love the shout out. what do you make of this public positioning to defend the court and alitos response to your work? >> i mean, this is obviously a disgraceful way for a justice to behave. this is one of the most powerful people in the american government, unable to face criticism without throwing a tantrum. hes not even addressing the criticism of whats called the shadow docket, which is not that it exists but its used to make sweeping decisions outside of pu...

Are on board, and florida is clearly not, at least at the state level. the sunshine state has reported a record high number of new covid-19 cases this week. republican governor ron desantis is banning mask mandates in schools. hes depicted another shutdown as a greater threat than the virus itself. this week the governor also tried to downplay the outbreak by attacking the press. he accused reporters of creating hysteria. which brings us back to that number, 50. remember we said 57% of unvaccina...

Covid-19 cases this week. republican governor ron desantis is banning mask mandates in schools. hes depicted another shutdown as a greater threat than the virus itself. this week the governor also tried to downplay the outbreak by attacking the press. he accused reporters of creating hysteria. which brings us back to that number, 50. remember we said 57% of unvaccinated adults said the media was exaggerating this pandemic? well, another poll this week found that after fox news hosts shifted thei...

I am flailing, i can at least unite my base by attacking the press. >> right, so there are a couple things going on. first, hes the first president in american history that we know of who consciously only cares about supporting his base. normally, once you get elected, you try to govern for the whole country, you try to expand your coalition. instead, its vort of like the salesman who says, sure, i lose money on every sale, but im going to make it up in volume. he turns off more people than he a...

Im the one that put them together. under the obama plan. >> were talking about your plan. >> no, were not. i put people together. they separated. i put them together. under obama. >> under a court order, right. >> no, i put them together. i inherited separation and i changed the plan and i brought people together. >> a few things here. first, note that for all the complains and hype about attacking the press, donald trump now apparently does face some sort of pressure and feels the need to squar...

Joins me. we are here, which is news in and of itself this morning, and this building was evacuated overnight after a bomb threat was called in. one note on the timing. before the building was evacuated, the president put out a statement that read, fake news, the enemy of the people. he didnt seem to know about the threat but what is clear is that while this building was empty with law enforcement making sure it didnt blow up there was a statement out there from the president attacking the press...

Approach on the part of democrats which i want to talk about. but, if you look at the presidents tweet this morning, hes not -- hes not focused on this breaking news story and whats happening in lower manhattan on another suspicious device found at a trump critics property. he doesnt appear to be focused on what some would see as the monumental events of the past 24 hours. hes still focused on dividing, and on attacking the press. what do we need to hear from your republican counterparts at this...

Football, basketball, none of them have the time in between the action to savor the tension and the stress. >> is that what you call it? all right. i call it falling asleep. >> are you still going to auction off the score card you do every game? >> no, i understand why you all look like hell this morning. >> i have a lot of different reasons. so. >> yes, you do. president trump reacted to yesterdays nbc news exclusive report about what happened at the meeting at the pentagon last july by attacki...

Reform. rather than testing an idea on the whole country. weve learned to test ideas, good ideas or not good ideas, on the states. those interested in the single payor, that might be an approach we try in a couple of states. see how it works. maybe its a good idea. maybe we shouldnt do it at all. >> but youre not ready to experiment on the federal left yet is what youre saying? >> states right from our creation as a country. great laboratories in democracy. let use them. >> tom carper, a frequen...

Press. i get the worse press now. i get such dishonest reporting with the media. it happened during the primaries and i said, you know, when i won, the one good thing is now ill get good press, and it got worse. the president seems to take issue with reporters when they report facts. in the past few days, hes tweeted, dont let the fake media tell you i have changed my position on the wall. he went after whate called two fake news polls that showed him with low approval ratings. en he tried to pr...