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theyve uncovered new avenues of investigation, most recently those missing secret service text messages from january 6th. the d.a. inspector general is now launching a criminal investigation into what happened. as a former dhs official quote "almost nothing about this makes sense. at best the loss of these texts is evidence of astonishing incompetence. it is indicative of darker motivations." i want to bring in ali vitali, barbara mcquade is a professor at the university of michigan la...

Out front winning issue broadly for democrats going into the midterms, and i sort of have been arguing i think thats problematic. if you look at the new "usa today" polling out shows that over 80% of americans are actually worried about democracy. senator warnock is right that democracys in peril, and americans overwhelmingly feel worried about democracy. so i think there is now some political traction there broadly. but also when you talk about sort of base mobilization, and looks, weve talked ...

And distill them down to very basic messages centering around jobs and affordability and just repeat them over and over again. we are not going to win with republican tactics of division and hatred and disgusting rhetoric. we will win, though, with the barack obama script that barack obama strategy of addition rather than subtraction, which leads me to my second point which is that after losses with the democratic party does too often is says well, we have to choose between base mobilization and...

Will somehow be curtailed in a real, real way and democrats, they feel as though this seems like the thing that could galvanize people on the midterms when they badly need to win the midterms. and gain seats. >> terry mcauliffe and gavin newsom, they grabbed on to this immediately in the virginia race. glenn youngkin was like, can we talk about something else? >> lets talk about base mobilization. what will gin up republicans, this is a party that lost women by 15 points, independents by nine, t...

I think frankly they, a lot of people in the trump camp see this as an opportunity to drive, continue to drive base enthusiasm and make sure those people are getting out to vote to create that energy because the worst thing in the world would be for that base to be somehow lethargic when it comes to the 2020 election. it clearly is not a strategy driven at independent voters but driven at continuing to animate that base and by the way, its tied to the immigration dialogue. its tied to other thin...

Recent weeks. so, no, i dont think its a strategy for independent voters. i think its a strategy for base mobilization. >> phil rucker, in the category of uncomfortable smiles, no one has mcconnell and mccarthy beat. i raise this because we note on the white house schedule there is a 4:00 republican congressional leadership meeting with the president. whats that going to be like? >> to be a fly on that wall. well see what that meeting is like. i mean, look, the president is, is going to have to ...

Strategy for independent voters but for base mobilization. >> phil, no one has mcconnell and mccarthy beat. i raise this because we note on the white house schedule, there is a 4:00 republican congressional leadership meeting with the president. whats that going to be like? >> to be a fly on that wall. well see what that meeting is like. i mean, look, the president is going to have to explain himself i think and explain these comments. weve notably not heard from mitch mcconnell, the highest ran...

Though. which party do you think benefits most?>> i will cop out and say both but i have an explanation. it would be interesting if you differentiated how the parties view them. republican voters would put immigration at the top. democratic voters would put healthcare where the top. a lot of messaging all of the country on this issue of pre-existing conditions. you had that discussion with martha mcsally. - - understand they favor protection of pre-existing condition. they are pushing that hard ...

Though. which party do you think benefits most?>> i will cop out and say both but i have an explanation. it would be interesting if you differentiated how the parties view them. republican voters would put immigration at the top. democratic voters would put healthcare where the top. a lot of messaging all of the country on this issue of pre-existing conditions. you had that discussion with martha mcsally. - - understand they favor protection of pre-existing condition. they are pushing that hard ...

Since the base likes trump much more than his congressional allies, it makes sense for the purposes of base mobilization to emphasize their role as trumps legal bodyguards. here is a devils advocate question for you, cornell. in 1998 republicans held all sorts of congressional investigations into bill clinton and it backfired on them. is there a risk for democrats if they come into power in november that if they end up sending subpoena after subpoena after subpoena to the white house and overflo...