specific request the department has made for bennie thompson, the chair. our reporters and d.o.j. experts will tell us what, if anything, we should read into that. we also know today that former trump strategist steve bannon will go on trial next week for his contempt of congress case for refusing to answer the committee s question. his legal team lost a second team to delay his trial over publicity of the trial s hearings and as the man who tried to get trump in office prepares to go before a judge, there is also news today about what that man, the one he helped get into the office, is doing in 2024. donald trump telling new york magazine he s already made the decision about whether he will run again for president and that, quote, i feel very confident that if i decide to run, i ll win. it doesn t quite match up to the new york times reporting on how the republican party feels about him but i digress. joining us now is ryan reilly, a justice reporter for us here at nbc new
ah, the first episode of united shades of america. such an innocent time. i know many of you remember it, because i heard about it all the time. you re the kkk guy. why would you film with the kkk? america doesn t even have that type of racism anymore. hmm. you re right. it s gotten way worse. jews will not replace us! and that was all before covid-19 and before four cops in minneapolis killed george floyd. rather than just treat him like a human. before protests, a police station burning to the ground. i m in trouble, there s an african american man threatening my life. before too many karens, before flattening the curve. and through it all a president incapable of handling any of it at all. oh, look, baby s first bible! america is finally ready to get real about white supremacy. so, let s start super easy and basic. these are white supremacists. 44 white presidents out of 45 in a land originally 100% native american is white supremacy. white supremacy is a big c
rise in hate crimes to asian americans. you don t have to look to history to see racism. just watch the news. but the question is are we really ready to do the work it takes to make america the equitable place it is meant to be? ah, the first episode of the united shades of america. such an innocent time. i hear it all the time. you re the kkk. why would you do that? america doesn t have a problem with racism anymore. you re right. it s gotten way worse. and that was all before covid- 19. and, before four cops in minneapolis killed george floyd rather than just treat him like a human. a police station burning to the ground in protest. there is an african american man threatening my life. before too many karens. before fattening the curve. and through it all, a president incapable of handling any of it at all. aw look, baby s first bible. america is finally ready to get real about white supremacy. so let s start super easy and basic. these are white supremacists. 44 whit
call, it does send a signal that democrats are very galvanized behind that. and we can t wait until the 11th hour before the general election to get out the vote. so, i know of social conservative organizations that are getting bus tours ready, get out the vote efforts, volunteer groups to galvanize the pro-life community to get them out to vote. early on in the general election process. but this was certainly an opportunity for us to realize that democrats are just as motivated about this as we have been on supreme court justices for the past decade. so, both sides are really looking at that is an opportunity to buckle up and get out the vote. let me bring someone else in the conversation, cnn political commentator paul welcome to the conversation. harry enten you know, data as i call him, cnn numbers crunchers, he s an he crunch these numbers for us. he said democrats have now outperformed biden in 2020 and each of the four house special elections since roe was overturn
political commentators alice stewart and political analyst alex burns. he is the co-author of the book, this will not pass. trump, biden and the battle for america s future. good evening, one and all. thank you so much for joining. alex, we re gonna start with you. we need a reality check on the midterms, everybody s been anticipating a red wave, but that seems to have shifted significantly in the past month. what are you expecting now? don, i think there s no question that the circumstances of this campaign have changed substantially since the start of the summer. and it really does help to take a step back and look at the big picture here. the president s party almost always does terribly in the midterm elections, and democrats are probably going to have a pretty rough november. but when you think back to where we were at the beginning of june, with sky high gas prices, the biden agenda dead in the water, or so it seemed, and the republican party facing different kinds of