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Health care and a $50 minimum wage in an effort to advance more progressive policies. on the establishment side is a local county council member who chairs the countys democratic party. she has aligned herself as a loyalist to president joe biden. joining me now, our nbc news senior political editor. so the race for the 11th district in the cleveland area, it has drawn a lot of national attention from democrats and its taking a bit of a nasty turn. certainly when youre talking about interparty f...

That, youre a republican, i dont see how anyone could say this is not blatantly racist. >> rev, if there had been any other moment in particular, there are quite a few i think we could all cite that should mobilize people to turn out to vote. theres this notion of well, you know, i dont want to trust the polls because we trusted the polls in 2016 and he won, anyway. how many more examples do people need to indicate to them that the country is going in the wrong direction? donald trump has taken ...

Says enlisted in those services with the sole intention of starting and launching his law enforcement career. tomorrow would have marked six years with the police department, his shift originally runs from midnight to 8:00 a.m. ana, this shooting happened at about 7:30 this morning, which means he was essentially preparing to wrap up his busy day when he answered what would become his last call for service. >> very end of his shift. polo sandoval, thank you for bringing us the story. interpart...

Mcconnell ripping into the president on the heels of the phone call. sean duffy weighed in on the drama earlier today. >> the president is right, he campaigned on repealing and replacing obamacare, but the house and the senate also campaigned on it. the president has been pretty docile with the failure, he knows he can send out really mean and aggressive tweets. hes been pretty nice and the tweets he sent out against the senate. they have to work together to get these senators on the same page t...

Campaign. clever marketing move. but does it say anything about the state of the race? well talk about that with donna brazile, vice chair of the democratic national committee. republican congressman from virginia, dave bratt. cnn political commentator anna navarro, rooting for jeb bush. thanks to all of you for coming in, especially on this post-new-years weekend. good marketing move? >> i just like to see the interparty fighting, first and foremost. we do believe donald trump is the standard-b...

Geographically and historically. and as was said already, this is the cradle of the voting rights movement in many ways, and many of the offices that had been shuttered are, you know, really in the shadow of selma. so i think not understanding that is a statement in and of itself. >> looking at this from the outside, one of the things thats obvious to see from the outside but its consequences arent obvious is the unilateral political control in alabama by the republican party. especially when a ...

Rights but it is a consequence nonetheless. and the fact that he did not see it coming is really sort of a problem i think of not really understanding where you are both geographically and historically. and as was said already, this is the cradle of the voting rights movement in many ways, and many of the offices that had been shuttered are, you know, really in the shadow of selma. so i think not understanding that is a statement in and of itself. >> looking at this from the outside, one of the ...

The spring and say we stared these guys down before and got away with it. we can do it again on immigration. it will save the party in the long run without ruining us in the short run. >> so a lot of people would look at this and say boehner is pouring some water on the fringes fire. as we look at the longer game of 2014 and 2016 and we look at paul ryan specifically, weve got the daily beast pointing out what it means for him. theres going to be a lot of bluster on the right but i think he come...

Advantage but is this something to worry about? >> two things to worry about, primary and general election challenge. we have seen mitch mcconnell in the comments hes given suggests hes more worried about the general election than primary. its important to take a step back. we have seen interparty fighting, prominent republican senators getting primary challenges and losing, robert bennett in utah in 2010, but what is striking here is that mitch mcconnell is the senates number one republican. he...

>> he feels like hes victimized by whats going on on the hill, not just by the partisanness of it, but the interparty fighting. >> hes sitting there, and they cant -- thats the thing. whats amazie ining about this hundred days is nobody is in better shape. >> the whole idea that the fever would break, you had a sense of that early on with with the fiscal cliff. >> its a free for all. ted cruzs staff attacking eric cantor. its a free for all up there. >> it is crazy. all right. theyre playing my ...