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Back with us, eugene robinson pulitzer prize-winning with the washington post. matthew, dowd former george should be bush strategist and founder of country over party. good to see you. jeanne, you wrote that. my question is, is what were seeing an act of self preservation? a slow learning curve, what? probably all of the above. in part, its an act of preservation and they saw they were trying to score political points with a kind of vaccine and skeptical stance that they were taking. they realiz...

Voting systems more secure? why not improve elections? what is the harm and trying to pass laws that tighten up the electoral systems? what would you say to them? >> i would say there is no harm and making our elections better. but these bills dont do that. they dont make our elections different. they dont fix the things that we need to do in order to make our elections more secure. we could be doing things like limiting audits or making sure that there is paper trail for every ballot in order t...

They wouldnt confirm her. the senate decided, never mind, we dont want to do that. shes a little too honest for our party. its interesting for people to say things like we are the good christian party. we are the party of everything that is right. yet they do everything that is wrong. brisco, they took that bill away from him. it doesnt matter who all has the bill, they are doing the bidding of the governor. theyre just soldier force the governor the last time i checked, none of them have the go...

"preventable," the inside story of how leadership, politics, and selfish unless doomed the coronavirus response. that is the thing that is so frustrating about this. is that this was preventable. and that the delta variant, the toll its taking and going to take could have been prevented, had more people been vaccinated. we just heard about the change in some republicans when it comes to their public messaging about the vaccine. that is to be applauded. president biden said that some had an alter...

>> chuck schumer, with all due respect, is not writing the bill. nor is mitch mcconnell, by the way. thats why we shouldnt have an arbitrary deadline of wednesday. >> congresswoman sarah jacobs, democrat from california, a member of the armed services and foreign affairs committee. im so glad to have you. im curious how you are or arent in these bills. >> well, im very confident that were going to get something passed. ive been home for the last week. were in a district workweek right now and ev...

Need to -- >> is that your advice, for people to call their local congressperson to get some help, and when they do call, what are you doing? are you calling the state department directly and saying specifically this constituent needs a renewed passports or new passport? >> yes. so for my case, i would say if theyre frustrated and cant get through, call our office. we can help. >> okay. and do you know what lengths people are going to to get passports? i mean, ive had friends who actually went t...

Pages long is too long for republicans to review and they need to slim it down to earn support, i think hes living in a dream world. texas democrats by their actions and their words are showing peel like senator manchin and senator sinama how much work need done. the john lewis voting rights act one year to the day of his death hasnt been written yet. so we -- we stand on this precipice of failure, frankly, because too many people in power like senator manchin, a lot of people in the democratic ...

Representative talarico, now that you and fox viewers have had a few days to digest this moment, do you think it moved the needle at all and what kind of feedback have you gotn? did you hear from pete, for example? >> i havent. i would be happy to go back on his show and continue this discussion about donald trumps big lie that the election was stolen because that is at the heart of matter. the only reason you andry sitting here and the only reason im in washington, d.c. is because of one mans e...

Inflation. my guess is that goes up, that the reassurances from the fed become a little tamer. we now have a place deflater of 7%. that is way above anyones expectations. and here is the real thing thatll impact investors, companies are beginning to talk about having the raise prices because their costs are going up. if we begin to think that margins are going to get hit, that earnings are going to get hit by rising costs and because not every company can pass along those costs, thats when the m...

Commission. now when that fell through in the senate, he saw an opportunity that this investigation still needed to move forward and of course speaker pelosi made it clear she wanted to get those answers, too. but hes making it very clear here that he realizes republicans are opposed to some of this. there are still questions about who mccarthy is going to appoint to lead the republicans on this committee. but one thing is very clear to me, benny thompson is not mincing words that if republicans...