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1774. Kevin phillips suggests 1775 was the critical launching point of the revolutionary war and american independence. Sunday night at 8 00. Next, george will talked about the relationship between religion and american politics. He is introduced by john danforth. This is an hourandahalf. Finally, it is my honor to introduce senator john danforth, who will introduce mr. Will. The senator is a partner with the law firm. He graduated with honors from princeton university, where he majored in relig...

That the secretary of defense has ordered the pentagon to let women serve besides men on the. Ront lines of battle that experiment is under the defense secretarys order. We will come back to that story throughout this first 45 minutes of the washington journal. Our phone lines are open to you. Also open is our twitter and facebook page. You can follow the conversation on facebook at facebook. Com face facebook outcome cspan. We want to talk about this morning. Like i said, we have a special line...

Voters compared to 43 for donald trump among likely voters in pennsylvania. This fits where we are seeing biden has real strength in the upper midwest rust belt region of the country where the sun belt states have been a bit more margin of error races. David, we know that more than 40 million americans have already voted this election. What does this poll tell us about early voting in pennsylvania and in florida . This is just so fascinating and how different the biden world is voting versus the...

Elections. Fbi director Christopher Ray and director of National Intelligence John Ratcliff confirmed that are in his by emails into voters and four battlegrounds traits threatening them, they were thought to be sent by the problem is group and warned they would come after voters if they didnt vote for trump. At the press conference the intelligence chiefs also confirmed russia has obtained voter information as they did in 2016. The registration info doesnt have to be hacked in certain states an...

American covid deaths. Joining me now to talk about all of this, nbc White House Correspondent and weekend today cohost Peter Alexander and Washington Post White House Reporter ashley parker. Peter, and i should call you chief White House Correspondent, your title as of today, with kristen welker, so congratulations, the president refusing to follow in the footsteps of so many predecessors, still not conceding but acknowledging overnight in a video that there will be a new administration, while ...

Initiating military hostilities rr accessing the launch codes and ordering a Nuclear Strike. Pelosi told democrats she was assured theres steps in place to prevent a nuclear launch. Theres kpas pe ration inside trump world. Top advisers are discussing the need to resist orders from the president that might be dangerous or unlawful. Two trump cabinet secretaries have resigned since wednesdays deadly attack. Education secretary betsy devos stepping down. Devos blaming trumps rhetoric at the capito...

Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, rachel. I remember last week, at first it sounded like, they might, maybe there will be some kind of Impeachment Movement then it was very clear after you interviewed adam schiff on your program that impeachment was really happening. Here it is, theyre going to set a new speed record for impea impeachment this week. Yeah, it will be i mean, when we talk again in two nights, it will either have just happened or it will be in the...

Yeah. And im wondering how much of your interview Mitch Mcconnell saw before he surrendered because Chuck Schumer just kept saying, were not going to do it, you know, were not going to go along with it. Every member of the Democratic Senate agrees with this 100 . You could see he had that strength of every member which hes not always going to have. There are going to be some nights when he doesnt have every member, he wont be able to say that, and when you have every member like that, the other ...

Good evening, rachel. Great interview. This is a complete surrender by Mitch Mcconnell and i was struck by the strength of what leader schumer had to say about this point before we knew that he had won. Yeah. And im wondering how much of your interview Mitch Mcconnell saw before he surrendered because Chuck Schumer just kept saying, were not going to do it, you know, were not going to go along with it. Every member of the Democratic Senate agrees with this 100 . You could see he had that strengt...

So with us today, first, we have congressman jimmy duncan. He was a u. S. Congressman from the Second District of tennessee, from 1988 until 2019. In book that he has written from bat boy to congressman duncan taps a journalistic flair to provide a series of anecdotes from his storied life as a lawyer, a judge and a congressman. Congressman, welcome. Well, nathan, thank you very much. I have written a book. I was a lawyer and a judge for 16 years. And then i was the u. S. House for 30 years. And...