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Where fraud in the election is involved. >> we will absolutely be watching to see what comes next out of her testimony. jill and daniel, thank you both. next, back to our breaking news were covering from hurricane ian. we will hear from a group working to help support survivors. and later, we had to puerto rico, where thousands are without power two weeks since hurricane fiona hit. and believe it or not, a lack of electricity is not the biggest problem facing the u.s. territory. u.s territory. l...

Would if there was no special master, and theres no need for a special master. in the end, this will end up being nothing but a delay tactic. >> that did cause a lot of folks to do a double take, scratch their head there. he is saying, look i can be done with this in october. its, no, no, no, take it till december, conveniently after the november 8th election. daniel, trump continues his attacks on doj and fbi on truth social, his knock off region of twitter. how is he weaponizing the investigat...

And Antony Blinken makes a surprise visit to Ukraine.

Democratic Reps. Raskin and Lofgren are renewing calls for Ginni Thomas to sit down with the January 6 Committee after reports she tried to interfere with the 2020 election results in two states. Daniel Strauss, senior political correspondent for The New Republic, and former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance discuss whether the panel will issue Thomas a subpoena and what to expect when public hearings resume this fall.

Observed a crime in progress. this is just fact witness testimony, there is no indication that hes been told that he is in any way under personal investigation for his conduct. and so, one would hope that the courts would enforce any sort of a subpoena in the setting. >> and daniel, january 6th hearings are of course expected to start up a day this month. any reporting on what theyre likely to focus on, and how that might play into the midterms? >> much of it is going to be on the role that -- t...

Midterms? daniel strauss is back with me, along with political white house correspondent christopher cadelago. daniel, i want to start with you. we have these two drastically different speeches just days apart, from biden and trump, both happening in the key battleground of pennsylvania. give me your sense of how it is changing the tone of the race, heading into november. >> look, i think this is going to be a very negative final few months of the election. the main pillars of democrats campaign...

Alaska native in congress. palin pinned the loss on alaskas new ranked choice voting system. that system was approved by alaska voters in 2020 for all future elections in the state. joining me now, daniel strauss, senior correspondent for "the political republic." she called rank choice voting and her loss the reason for quote, someones experiment. and the effect this may have more broadly on the race for the full two-year term for alaskas lone seat in the house. >> poppy, i think rank choice vo...

Them in this race and what led to the rise of petola. it will be interesting to see if petola can hold this ahead of the general election as they vie in a couple months. but it was a huge win and a huge success for democrats. >> daniel, i want to go to you on the broader picture and what it means for democrats in the midterms because you see democrats across the board in these special elections, exceeding their 2020 performances in a handful of the special house elections since the supreme court...

And a handful of state legislative seats around the country could make the difference in whether abortion is legal or illegal for millions of people.

Ground that youre hearing? >> yeah, i mean, liz cheney is unequivocal she believes donald trumps behavior is unamerican, unconstitutional and not an argument sitting well with republicans in wyoming. the polling is just highly unfavorable for liz cheney. i would take a huge crossover for democrats and independents to show up and order for her to win the race. there might not be enough of that in the state. ha hagueman is looking big. shes been here campaigning for hagueman telling campaigners to...