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Its likely theyll move forward with a process called reconciliation which takes 51 votes. >> thats the problem of trying to appeal to your party rather than doing sort of what you think is right. am i wrong about that? >> no, youre not wrong. as i say, the issue is primaries. about 20 to 25% of the members of a party vote in a primary. who are those 20 to 25%? theyre the activists, the people on the democratic side more over toward the progressive, on the republican side more toward maga and the...

Pulling desantis ahead, particularly in places like miami-dade, was the lack of mask mandates. that was a huge issue for people who run businesses in dade county. a very tourism facing county. and a lot of people there like the fact that he didnt have any covid restrictions in the state during the pandemic. >> desantis is boring trump. hes boring trump. if you watch him talk or you watch 20 or 30 minutes, its a drier, more elite, more ivy league version of donald trump. so what hes done is becom...

Here with me at the table, former senator claire mccaskill joins us and former republican congressman david jolly here. both msnbc contributors. john, ill start with you. i thought that most of the political romantic had been beaten out of me by the events over the last five years, i watched that rally, i think i watched it on c-span, but those were two speeches really definitional not just of the midterms but of this moment. >> i agree, you know, president obama shows hes been out of the game a...

Along with her morning cup of coffee, perhaps? the afternoon -- as the insurrectionists breached the capitol boebert was publicly sharing nancy pelosis movements. speaker of the house pelosi second in the presidential line of succession. quote, the speaker has been removed from the chambers. it wasnt just boeberts liberal critics who were outraged by her behavior on 16, behavior that jeopardized this authority of her own republican colleagues, like congresswoman jamie herrera beutler. >> -- dont...

Going to win. that was reins forred by testimony yesterday, that donald trump knew he was going to lose. we heard that from some of his own advisers who worked directly at his side. ari, as you watched this unfold yesterday and helped to host some of the coverage around it, what stood out to you if this did, in fact, serve as some kind of a closing argument for the january 6th select committee? how did they put that fine point on the case? >> well, i think the country has been taking this in and...

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As his soul of the nation speech, president taking aim at what he calls maga republicans saying that the countrys institutions at risk and undermine democracy. the primetime speech review of the presidents campaign message ahead of the november midterms. will it persuade swing voters democrats need to keep control of congress? lets ask "wall street journal" in a columnist dan henninger and kyle peterson and monai. dan, starting with you, what did you make of the president beach? >> for starters,...

Empire. chad, your thoughts. >> a striking moment when ronald reagan passed away in june 2004 at the u.s. capitol. reagan stayed in the capitol rotunda and the first time or the second time i was around mikhail gorbachev, i work c-span some years before and he came in and met briefly and talked with him and studied a lot of things the soviet union in college and grad school. what i was struck is there was mikhail gorbachev a margaret thatcher just off of the capitol rotunda about to go in with a...

A Berkeley law professor took on U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley Tuesday, accusing him of being...