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Pennsylvania, they will change the name. They will change the name. How the Keystone State has become the crucial battleground. s co what the Harris Foundation is doing is so important. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The Labor Day Holiday is over its a first tuesday in september. First day of tuesday in november, its happening. We are two months out, 63 days to be precise which means the sprint is sent to the finish and republicans are getting nervous a...

It is good to be back in pennsylvania. 63 days from election day. Pennsylvania. They are going to change the name of pennsylvania. s tonight, steve kornacki on the road to 270 and how the keystone state has become a crucial battleground. I love the road to 270 map and now we get to use it. And donald trumps eroding advantage on his centerpiece issue. And just as you thought the unearthed tapes were all earthed clearly this has made me a miserable person who cant have kids. J. D. Vance and his l...

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...

Wouldnt it be possible that any hotel in that location, in that gorgeous building, designed the way this one is, would put other hotels at a competitive disadvantage just because of the merits of the business? >> no. it is a good devils advocate question, but we already know that they were losing money on that hotel before the president went into the white house and, guess what, suddenly diplomats from all over the world are saying, we have to stay there. they openly admit they want to tell the ...

>> well, i mean it certainly depends on what happens in the senate. one of the looming questions whether or not they need 50 votes or 60 votes. the parliamentarian has been looking at the bills but thats a real question that exists as well. if the senate cant pass anything if mitch mcconnell cant get anything through i dont know. is he going to reach across the aisle? that hasnt been the pattern hes shown. up next, its not just one or two white house staffers who could lose their jobs its all ...

Thats whats happened today. there is no debate. theres very little actual thought. the role of reason is not playing the role it should in the arena because the basis of both parties hold people accountable to these purist tests all the way along. and so if you have a hearing and you ask -- god forbid you should ask a question to which you might want to know the answer, then youre sort of seen as wandering off the reservation. i think thats what mccain was talking about. i think he was talking a...

And just punt. listen, guys, we have to get a bill to conference with the house of representatives. lets scribble down a few words and try to pass it off as a procedural vote and well have the big negotiations in the conference with the house. that would be a total surrender, an abd indication to the house bill, and the result would be in conference the house bill with maybe a couple minor amendments would survive, and that bill of course is terrible for people with preexisting conditions, so th...

Democratic senator chris murphy from connecticut. senator, you were vowing to try to punch back with this health care bill offering up to 100 amendments. is it a delay tactic, maybe devils advocate question, wouldnt you want to try to make it better as opposed to muck up the process more. >> i hope they pass and make the bill better. democrats have been shut out of this process. this happened behind closed doors. there is no committee process and no hearings so the only opportunity that democrat...

Of that conservative national strain of politics that ultimately delivered the white house to donald trump. so in distancing himself from sessions, what i will describe as cyber bullbullying, hes cyb bullying him into resignation because he wont say it to his face. hes ultimately conflict averse. youre left with a situation in which the right is starting to break from trump in a pretty significant way. you have rush limbaugh, who is not only a leading indicator, hes kind of a latter indicator, s...

Legal counsel, he does not want officials that are going to uphold the law of the land. high wants lawyers who want him maneuver of law of the land in himself favor. and so not uphold our rule of law and just throw it out the window and its one thing when its norms, which im concerned about, im concerned about all of the norms surrounding the presidency that this president has just completely destructed and the ethical lapses but now were talking about the law and think thats when youre really g...