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My friend Jon Alter has a piece up about how Biden and his campaign can defuse and limit the damage from concerns about his age and mental acuity.

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TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Im Terry Gross. Though this years proliferation of bills restricting ballot access in red states has commanded national attention, it represents just one stream in a torrent of conservative legislation posed to remake the country. GOP controlled states have advanced their most conservative agenda in years, and one that reflects Donald Trumps present stamp on the party. Thats what my guest, Ronald Brownstein, wrote in a recent column in The Atlantic, where...

Be, jon alter, to vote for this guy, even in a caucus? >> well, he is going to get some votes because he actually -- the times i had fascinating conversations with him, i thought he was, you know, in the 90s he was actually right on a few issues, so its what day you catch him on. its kind of the good newt, who sounds reasonable and intelligence and then theres the unbelievably irresponsible newt. >> well here he is -- >> part of it is who is going to show up in iowa and you can never tell on a g...

Together his actions that is the most accurate predictive model of his behavior. this is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works who happened to play a wonderful con of us for which he is now president" for more, we are joined by mother jones david corn, msnbc political analyst, and jon alter. gentlemen, i give you free-fire zone on this character. i think hes a menace in terms of elections, but maybe, maybe we will learn something from the the horror of what he says....

Way he uses political rhetoric, without the slightest regret, any sense of remorse over everything he has done in his career. >> if he is winston churchill, snoopy really was fighting the red baron. thank you, david corn and jonathan alter. how ronald reagan became the great communicator, a lot has to do with the three by five cards. tip oneill was right all along. the three by five cards. historian doug brinkley joins us to talk about his new book. and ron reagan here to talk about president ...

What is this new precious bodily fluids right out of "doctor strangelove" why is he saying secular socialist? what is that about? that phrase? >> well, he is trying to appeal to social conservatives, despite the fact of his messy personal past, three wives and two bad divorces, he is trying to go out there and whip up the evangelical vote by saying it is not just that he is a socialist, hes also a secularist, which truly means atheist, these people dont believe in god, want to take god out of th...