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streaming on peacock. alex wagner tonight starts right now with my friend, mehdi hassan, in four. alex >> good evening, and thank you, chris. and thanks to you at home for being with us. alex has the night off. here is a question for you, do you recognize this man. do you know who this guy is? >> the president bears responsibility from wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters, he should have immediately denounced the mob, when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediat...

do you recognize this man. do you know who this guy is? >> the president bears responsibility from wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters, he should have immediately denounced the mob, when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action, on president trump. >> now, i know that visibly its very clearly republican speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. but can you imagine which world which kevin mccarthy we need today, speaker mccarthy would openly blame donald trump...

Issues. it makes their base angry, outraged, and worked up. its always been a part of the conservative movement going back to reagan, nixon. when did become the only part? >> the life cycle of this seems to have become much tighter in recent years. trump turbocharge, this trump was, the staff -- windmills killing beers. when power is going to ruin our electric grids. hamburgers, dr. seuss, all these alleged huge threats to america, and this actually can be quite effective. donald trumps wall, wh...

Like abortion rights, voting rights, and protecting democracy. , voright now america only has e political party focused on issues that actually impact the lives of the voters. and another that has maybe inhaled a little too much gas. joining us now is mark leibovitz, staff writer at the atlantic and author of thank you for your servitude, donald trumps washington and the price of submission. mark, the republican party loves to seize on these issues, because it makes their base angry, outraged an...

That yet. >> sandra: chris, while this plan includes for those dreamers a solution for them, an opportunity for citizenship, it orders a study to figure out what border security measures are needed. thats not going to go over well with president trump. >> , no its not. the ordering a study is a scam that exists in washington you give me what i want and ill study what you want. this is dead on arrival. mccain and kuhns know that. john mccain, the most effective ad he ran is one where he was stand...

Fight. we have to shut the government down. sanders said it himself, he needs 60 votes. >> i dont think so. >> make the tax cuts permanent, we need 60 votes in the senate. the entire game is whether or not the democrats are going to throw their red state people over board to make their people happy. >> phil mattingly just said, 1112, 13, 14. >> you need 60 votes so you to have have the democrats in some way. you know they are going to make their base angry. >> we know there is a bipartisan bill,...

Comes out, even if they dont believe its true, even if they have reports from the fbi and have heard theres no evidence of any tie to russia or any collusion with russia, pounding that argument every day gets your base angry. and angry face turns out to vot vote. unfortunately thats something i think both sides do, and it is dividing our country further and further apart. >> eric: we are already hearing people say okay, we have this going on. were going to have to hold off on health care. when y...

National anthem. no democrat would say except for ruth bader ginsburg and she had to apologize. >> i have heard from other democrats who do not want to make quoted on record because theyre afraid it would make the base angry, that if bill clinton would figure out how to close this gap culturally. >> thats part of why particularly young people did not support his wife. right? you cannot -- we cannot just follow the conservative southern strategy to try to split working class people who are white ...