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>> shannon, the president himself tweeted his real had a massive impact on voting and they did win the other statewide seats. having said that, for example, i spent time, i spent a weekend in virginia and i can tell you that donald trump came up a lot, came up a lot in the suburbs, came up a lot with women, came up a lot when the discussions were about the e.r.a. whats your take on what you saw? >> i was at that kentucky rally that the president had. its interesting, one of the things i heard fr...

That he and his words have put him in? >> look, i think theres a saying that when a person shows you who you are, you should believe them. joe biden for his entire career has been really against the grass roots base activists of the democratic party and time and time again activists are right. our progressive movement is right, whether thats with anita hill deregulating wall street, being on the side of credit card companies, the 1994 crime bill and i think now his most recent comments. this is ...

There is a political calculation, is to soften the idea of pardon. that if he needed to do this, well it would only be because this group of democrats, again not true, but angry democrats found that he had done things. so to sort of float the idea to his political base. that said, i just dont -- sure some people in the base would say, hes only pardoning himself because this is a witch hunt but i dont think that even all of his base who would agree with that. >> and the power component to this re...

It had something to do with adoptions and clearly it was erroneous. >> there is no doubt about it. and you also have the presidents son, with his very famous statement and something like bring it on or something like that. no, they knew exactly what they were looking for. they were looking for some dirt on hillary and the russians who were offering it. there is no doubt that. whether -- now the question arises, was there effort to derail, to misdirect the investigation, was that obstruction? tha...

Not unheard of that president trump does -- doesnt stick to script. >> i remember, by the way, when ken starr, the independent counsel at the time, wanted to question bill clinton. they did it for four hours. >> yeah. >> he was at the white house. they let him do it at the white house out of respect for the president, but there was a video link to the grand jury that listened to the q&a. >> to add to danas point, unless he is sort of compelled to do so, i would be skeptical because look at -- wh...