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Government will come in to save us. but abortion rights is the result of state legislative level, that is also true for voting rights, and education, and the quality of the public schools. so many things are resolved in state legislatures, and as you know and many of your other viewers know after the thomas concurrence on dobbs, more things like birth control, the griswold case, all of those things could hat to the state. that is why it is so important for democrats to win state legislatures acr...

Talking about abortion. more to discuss on that. donald trump is seething over the gops disastrous midterm performance, and the blame hes getting. well dig into his state of mind with mary trump. plus, how young voters helped save american democracy this week. ill talk to democratic congressman elect maxwell frost, the first gen z member of congress. good evening, im mehdi hasan. when joe biden was running -- potential fdr, with his desire to build back better and help america recover from the d...

Democrats kept control of the senate. but how they do? it by and -- by playing it safe and start talking about abortion. much to discuss on. that donald trump is seething over the gop disastrous midterm performance. and the blame he is getting. we will dig into his state of mind. plus, how young voters helped save american democracy this week. ill speak to democratic congress elect maxwell alejandro ross, first jims a member of congress. good evening. im mehdi hasan. in 2020, he and his team pos...

Majority disapproval from the country. the only examples we have of anything like this are years like 1934 with fdr, 1962 with jfk after the cuban missile crisis, 1998 with clinton after impeachment, 2002 with bush after 9/11. all of those presidents were extremely popular at the time that their party defied the usual midterm trend. that was not the case this year, and the only way to explain democrats avoiding the kind of losses that have been typical when a presidents approval rating is as low...

For the first time since 1934, that was fdrs first midterm. since 1934 that the party in power did not actually lose any state legislators. and joe biden may just actually do something that people havent done before in this situation, pick up a governor or two. i mean, there are so many presidents -- >> incredible. >> -- that have fallen. and really, its interesting too. you have people going, well, how could the media have gotten this so wrong. well, you know, a lot of times, we kept talking ab...

Welcome back to our third hour. caddy kay, mike barnacle and reverend al sharpton. jen, i know you understand how unbelievably different, how historic what the democrats did in the senate is and what theyve done across the country. its not happened since 1934 that state legislatures for the party in power didnt lose these state legislatures. biden may actually pick up a governor. you worked with president obama who in 2014, if im not mistaken, a guy who had just won two years before, he lost 9 s...

Fdrs overreach cost his party the mid-terms. packing the court and a new, new deal. after losing 81 seats in the house in that election fdr changed his tune working with congress and building up his democratic base. joe plans on singing the same tune until 2024. why? harry s. truman worked tirelessly to focus on issues important to this people. civil rights and healthcare. he changed. what matters to the people doesnt seem to matter to joe biden. there was no red wave. jfk, for example learned f...

We should make sure we value the backgrounds of the people who gave us the vote. do you think mitch mcconnells leadership should be damaged? >> i havent heard that before. im not aware of any challenges to senator mcconnell or any of the other leaders in the republican leadership. we need to look at the agenda we offered. but this election is still not over. we are still counting ballots in nevada and arizona. and we still have another ballot in georgia in december. lets focus on making sure we ...

The only way you can get that is to bring people together and have a senator in washington that will fight for everyone who has the quality you deserve to have. brian: what about his vote that might appeal to make them your voters? >> the way you get to that vote, you have got to talk to those people and let them know how important this election is. let them know who they are fighting for. everyone is going to worry about their pocketbook and retirement. right now, you know into your retirement ...

We should make sure we value the backgrounds of the people who gave us the vote. do you think mitch mcconnells leadership should be damaged? >> i havent heard that before. im not aware of any challenges to senator mcconnell or any of the other leaders in the republican leadership. we need to look at the agenda we offered. but this election is still not over. we are still counting ballots in nevada and arizona. and we still have another ballot in georgia in december. lets focus on making sure we ...