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Were going to start with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuban missile crisis was 1962. It took place over 13 very, very stressful days in october 1962. The United States at that point had long been flying High Altitude surveillance flights over the nation of cuba, but on october 14th, 1962 a u2 surveillance flight picked up imagery in cuba of something that started that whole crisis, started that whole standoff. Its interesting. The Cuban Missile Crisis is very precisely identified in all the history...

Our message of, one, making sure everybody has the same kind of opportunity that i know i had from this community, and two, making sure that people knew what we were fighting for. our campaign tried really, really hard to talk to as many people as possible about wanting to make sure that everybody had access to affordable quality health care, making sure that we sent somebody to washington, d.c. who really cared about public education, about campaign finance reform. and that was really the focus...

Wasnt able to do. but i think its also obvious that youre going to have a big national spotlight on you because of how big a win this was, because you flipped this district, because of who you are, because of how you won. what are your goals for washington for your first term? youre going to get a lot of attention, and youre going to have probably your pick of the litter in terms of what you want to tackle first. >> well, certainly i want to be able to work on -- health care was the biggest issu...

Our campaign tried really, really hard to talk to as many people as possible about wanting to make sure that everybody had access to affordable quality health care, making sure that we sent somebody to washington, d.c. who really cared about public education, about campaign finance reform, and that was really the focus of what we were doing. >> obviously, coming from the district and having grown up there and knowing what its like, i can tell from the way that youre talking about it that youre f...

At the "daily kos" today there was a little bit of chest pounding over how big a win this was in democrats direction. if democrats everywhere do as well as they did in pennsylvania, theyre now howling at the moon about how many congressional districts would flip from red to blue if democrats did as well as connor lamb did last night. if every congressional election in november had a swing toward the democrats as big as what connor lamb did in pennsylvania, there are 119 republican held congressi...

Law, at least takes effect. how big a win was this for the gop? joining me now, politicos national reporter. >> happy new year. >> ed: democrat seems to be effective during the debate saying this is about the rich, its not gonna help the middle class. the president, before he left for florida said, look, im not gonna have to sell this. once people start getting fatter pay checks in february, thats when the irs said with holding will take effect, is that gonna start turning this around? >> thats ...

Honorable man? >> he seems such. i agree this may not be the food fight it would be worth in a different climate. >> bill: his record on the bench is stellar. its a stellar record. appointed to the lower court, the democrats went with it. now they dont. and its not because of gorsuch. its because of trump. they dont want to give trump the big a win. and it will be a big win for trump on friday. heres what i dont understand. explain this to me. they know gorsuch is going to get confirmed one way ...

Remove him as chairman. you have a greater chance of an independent committee being formed or a commission being formed to look into this than you have of nunes being removed from that i think that what sch doing, again, is just sort of the political posturing of the day, which will lead to absolutely nothing in terms of what happens to nunes. >> i should note the speaker has said today in a statement he has faith in chairman nunes. chris, what about democrats in all of this? friday, you had the...

Christie is campaigning so aggressively just days before a voet hes got locked up. christies still on the move. nbcs kelly odonnell is on the move as well, having interviewed christie on the road. she joins us in hamilton, new jersey. a good sunday to you. what is behind this tour? >> reporter: well, weve been traveling with the governor, talking to him along the way. he says the polls could do him a disservice because voters actually have to get there on election day and cast ballots. so he say...