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Attack rather than kicking a dead political horse. now, my view is that this is about how trump will govern. but what do you think in terms of essential argument and how central it will be in this election? >> well, with all due respect to senator romney, and i do respect him. i think that a campaign is what you may get. and when we talk about democracy and why january 6th was important, we have to convey to people what it means to them. so i see his point just in isolation this is not enough. b...

Attack rather than kicking a dead political horse. now, my view is that this is about how trump will govern. but what do you think in terms of essential argument and how central it will be in this election? >> well, with all due respect to senator romney, and i do respect him, i think that a campaign is what you may get. and when we talk about democracy and why january 6th was important, we have to convey to people what it means to them. so i see his point just in isolation, this is not enough. ...

Trumps lawyers say this is an accelerated time line and they cant be prepared. is that actually an accelerated time line? >> not particularly for a one defendant case in which you basically have three violations of law alleged. it is a big case, a case with a significant amount of discovery, but that sort of stuff is cut through every day in federal courts around the country. >> understood. okay. ben, mark meadows, his essential argument here, i should say his defense lawyers argument, is that h...

Win the republican nomination, two, question marks, three, become president. seems your essential argument is hes winning the far right of the party, but without setting himself up for being able to win a coalition to actually win the presidency. explain why you think so. >> well, as governor of florida ron desantis played a double game, he both nodded to the far right of the republican party, supported anti-vaccination -- promoted an anti-vaccination surgeon general, fed all kinds of anti-vax p...

The country on the virus at 2:00 p.m. today, he also is navigating build back better bill and joe manchin. whats on tap for today and what is he expected to deliver as a message to americans at 2:00 today? >> its a perilist moment for this president. his essential argument during the campaign beyond the nation of donald trump was to restore a real sense of competence and faith in the government that can do big things for people. democracy can work. right now with inflation up and test sites at l...

Do you accept any of the criticisms of how this was done, or do you agree with president bidens essential argument that this was going to be ugly and messy no matter how we did it? >> withdrawals are always difficult. there is some substance to that argument. but i think we have to look back beyond the past couple weeks, as weve been fixated, as we should be, in and around the kabul airport. look, the siv program, to bring afghans who have worked alongside of us to safety and give them a new fre...

Of course, of president obama and before that president bush whos presidency also served. and the essential argument that mr. bolton is taking if you want to denuclearize north korea in his mind, you have to do sanctions. whats interesting is that none of the three administrations that mr. bolton has critiqued on this have been willing to go do that including the two he served in because they didnt want to risk war. yes, there are things you could go do to north korea. and i think mr. bolton has...

After a couple good debate performances everybody forgot about it. thats the challenge for joe biden. he can afford one bad debate performance, but two, i think would really destabilize this race. thats what im going to be watching. >> in fact, you know, his team -- everyone is projecting he wants to punch back. he said im not going to be as polite this time around. hes been going after cory booker, his record as mayor of newark saying he was investigated by the justice department. held responsi...

Say anyone can tell you what happened to the von trapp family, but when you geinto court and put on a trial, you have to put on the sound of music. im interested to seeing if the house takes it to the next step and puts on an impeachment proceeding, that will televise everything, make it more compelling. that will make it theater. i think more people will pay attention than justin, who was the only guy who read the book, it seems. >> lets for a moment, if we can, jack, tune out the presidential ...

He said i stack my progressive credentials up against anybody, but the larger point is we need to be able to work together. i get criticized for saying nice things about mike pence, we remember, but we need to get things done and the other part of the speech that hasnt gotten as much attention and he was very stark in terms of the stakes of this election. he talked about the threat that donald trump poses to our own democracy. he said if you had told me two years ago that our democracy in this c...