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Challenge. and i just think that shes got to start making, i guess, a more effective, affirmative case for what shes trying to do. and i think shes been doing it really since the first speech that she made in oakland when she launched her campaign in january. >> early in los angeles, were especially grateful for you getting up early. jamil smith of "rolling stone" joining us this morning. its a great piece worth reading. new polling suggests the democratic debates did little to shake up the fiel...

Jennifer palmieri, lets talk about personal history. kamala harris going against joe biden on his personal history, his political history. now hers is in the open and being looked at in this way. how -- whats your prescription for how she should talk about that or how she should have voters -- how she should demonstrate to voters why she did what she did and what that represents about who she might be as president. >> first of all, jamils piece, the "rolling stone" piece is terrific, its a reall...

And that is ironic. were at a moment where november elections brought out voters that were frankly really annoyed and fed up with the corruption in the political system and voting for democracy reform up and down and we have h.r. 1 in congress seeking to end all of these lies and thats where i think the american public needs to be. this kind of scandal i think really, the crickets were hearing from the crowd that has been peddling lies is fairly telling. >> jamil, what do you think? >> i think t...

Franchise. we saw massive voter suppression tactics just in the most recent election. this stuff is not from the 1960s and 70s. were seeing it play out and undermining faith in the democracy and thats why we need to pass these major reforms that were seeing passed in states around the country, we need to do it federally. >> jamil, an ironic details of this is the fact so much powe c -- focus has gone into voter i.d. to stop what they say is some, you know, vast amount of in person fraud. in this...

President and ceo of the leadership conference and civil and human rights and jamil smith. play out the thought experiment. what would we be looking at if there was a democratic congressional candidate that engaged in what appears to be illegal criminal ballot, you know, ballot fraud. >> i mean, there would be no question that we would have seen about, you know, 20 tweets from the president and the whole package of folks with the lies for so long really to advance policies aimed at shrinking the...

The very thing hes working against. >> when you corrected him, what did he say? >> the work that michelle and i do, we are working with white people who really want to help and dont want to be racist, you know that defensive reaction, well, he had the hard core defensive reaction. which just tells me that hes not listening and hes willfully ignorant. >> michelle, schultz first said this, he does not see color thing. there was a huge reaction to it. one of the people that reacted was jamil smith....

First interview vows to continue to stay in office and said he wants to spend the rest of his term pursuing racial reconciliation. i want to bring in mike viqueira live in richmond at the capitol and back with us jamil smith covered this unfolding drama for "rolling stone" and so mike, walk us through the fairfax story and do we have any idea of the timing of the statement or before the weekend is up? >> well that is what we understand. and it is a good question, frances, because yesterday lieut...

Comey just a couple months before he was let go when comey disclosed the russia investigation to lawmakers. >> the fbi, as part of our counterintelligence mission is investigating the russian governments efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russias efforts. >> joining me this mo...

The federal government does. president. he only wants to be president of his base. thats who he cares about, not joining me now, e.j. deyoung, the united states of america. and because of that this shutdown will continue, people msnbc contributor and columnist for the washington post, maria will suffer and bottom line, trump doesnt care if you suffer. cumar, president of voter that is the reality. he is about cruelty. latino, jamil smith from rolling >> and the thing is, gabriel, he stone and ka...

Security and things let over, a potential vice president like pre-k and helping seniors. candidate for hillary clinton. so lets talk about border >> i always loved that he had a security, that is fine. picture in his office of his mom but lets not play games. this is trumps campaign promise. and i wish the media would say who was a candidate. to him donald trump when you were negotiating new nafta with she was just this formidable organizer. >> it was an interesting story. mexico, did you ask th...