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Lets bring in david chod. david, great to have you with us on this. there is a serious conversation that is happening and its been happening but one that is more and more out in the open is people feel more emboldened as weve seen, especially if they want to talk about things that many of us would look at as openly racist, bigoted comments and standings that they have. where do you see this country today? >> well, obviously our country is divided and its divided by our leaders in part and the pr...

Been so much more successful at using the nomination of a supreme court justice as a galvanizing issue? and i apologize in advance for the awkwardness of this conversation that were having on live television as this woman descends and ascends into the air. >> an artist, craig. >> indeed an artist. brian, just listen to the words. dont look at the pictures. >> ill give it my best shot, craig. yeah, theres been a 40-year mission on the right to basically take back the courts. it grew out of what t...

Court nominee. >> so importantly, thats from meet the press yesterday morning before we had the name in hand of judge kavanaugh as the presidents nominee. robert, talk about where you see the math that building behind you right now tonight. >> its complicated for the democrats especially those running in states won by president trump, if youre joe donnelly or bill nelson, democrat in florida, tough choices ahead. you realize youre running in states with a rough path to nomination. theyre not goi...

Same way judge amy coney barrett may have done if she was nominated. so youre going to see leader shumer in the senate based on my reporting really try to get the democratic base engaged in this fight, make sure this is a galvanizing issue for the in the midterm elections and make sure its not just about abortion or contraception but economic issues facing the court are also brought up as a way of making sure democratic voters are engaged. >> kim, we all have favorites. members of the senate wer...

Galvanizing message or issue at this point going into the upcoming election? >> democrats clearly have a galvanizing issue in president trump and opposition to him. we have seen democratic enthusiasm play itself out in many of these primaries, in special elections in the last year and a half in the trump era, in the polling. so that enthusiasm advantage clearly exists for democrats as it does for the opposition party of the presidents party, in opposition to the presidents party in the first mid...

Years, a massive issue for republicans, and for republican turnout. it has not been the same sort of galvanizing issue for democrats. they think this time they can make this an argument that will energize the democratic base. >> vote. this is the vote that determines roe v. wade. justice kennedy was the republican appointed justice that was that fifth vote in abortion, 5-4. i do think that while its always been conservatives like me who have been genned up by the supreme court. if its not one of...

This is going to turn into arguably the biggest political narrative for both sides for months until this seat is filled. it is going to be a galvanizing issue for both bases. the immense number of consequential sides. this is for progressives and women, it fits into the narrative that they are spinning about president trump and serves to further that narrative. you can expect republicans are just as loud on the same issues in the other direction. >> nothing galvanizes voters like a supreme court...

Hes watched msnbc before, i can assure you of that. he has gotten information from that. fox news has placated. but theres a conservative base of people who buy products that are advertised on these stations and every now and then you better speak to them, you better talk to them. i think im seeing the economics of cable tv, the economics 6 politics. but the message is, whether it be stormy daniels, theres so much out there to about sorted right now, that im not sure whats beating its way throug...

Would feel differently, too. again, these kids have seen it with their own eyes. thats why they can speak with the moral clarity that youre talking about. whereas, in your air conditioned office hundreds of miles away or in washington, d.c., you dont have to confront those things. >> yeah. i mean, i think this is going to be the first generation that our teens are going through this, you know, month after month, and this could be kind of that turning point, where you look at republicans in parti...

Harassment and that gave another surge of energy and a sense of mission. i think youre going to continue to see this for a long time. >> you have this juxtaposition of the metoo moment of national reckoning women are saying enough is enough, we are going to speak out about mis conducon and then you have a president who stands accused by as many as 17 women of sexual assault. thats been a galvanizing issue. >> this bad news last week, its just complete confusion. everything seems to be baked in t...