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Theyre very clear public incidents of, you know, groups protesting blackface, of blackface -- they blow up and theres a cultural conversation around blackface. we have multiple incidents of blackface that have come up in the past couple of months alone, the past couple of days alone and this is in addition to other incidents that have come up in october. even if we move it out of the realm of hard politics, you can look at gu chi we just had a blackface incident this week, prada which had one a ...

This, our nbc reporters, ali vitali in tallahassee, florida. well get to vaughn hillyard in just a moment, just returning from arizona: also with us leah wright rigor assistant professor at harvards kin lee school of government. and dana milbank. well start with you in the sunshine state. it seems to have escalated fairly quickly there in florida. tell us about rick scotts lawsuit and tell us why american elections yet again circling around broward county and palm beach county. >> reporter: yeah...

There are so many ways to make an impact. politics is just not my thing. >> reporter: mrs. obamas memoir is powerful, and it is personal. according to the post she shares intimate details revealing that she and her husband had trouble getting pregnant, that she suffered a miscarriage and that both daughters sasha and malia, were conceived through in vitro fertilization. >> peter alexander there at the white house. back with me, leah wright rigor, assistant professor of public policy at the harva...

To disappear. >> were going to have to leave it there. dana, thank you so much. leah, thank you, vaughn hillyard here in the flesh now, ali vitali. weve got to get to breaking news out of washington at this hour. we have an update on supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. she was hospitalized yesterday. our justice correspondent pete williams has been following this very closely. whats the word? what do we know? >> shes out of the hospital, craig. the supreme court says shes doing well and...

Possibility of a federal law enforcement investigating. i think the larger and more likely federal role that will actually affect the outcome here is the court system, which, as we know, has been from the supreme court on down has been pretty well packed at this point by the republicans. thats probably the biggest danger here. its no mystery whats happening here. democrats live in big urban counties where there are a lot of votes to count as opposed to the rural republican county where is its ra...

There is a lot of people you can make a call to the pen and start them warming up right now. amy coney barrett who is very conservative, was just confirmed last year. she is a woman. so the optics of it would be quite different and would probably be more right wing than brett kavanaugh. so what is this about? >> i think there is a practical reason and a ideological reason. the practical reason is theyre afraid they wont have time to get someone through if they lose the senate. and thats perhaps ...

She is a woman. so the optics of it would be quite different and would probably be more right wing than brett kavanaugh. so what is this about? >> i think there is a practical reason and a ideological reason. the practical reason is theyre afraid they wont have time to get someone through if they lose the senate. and thats perhaps realistic. the other is they love to fight when they can create an enemy, and now the enis my the left wing conspiracy. now the enemy is you and me. now the enemy is t...

>> leah, this is something that fox reporter chad pergrom said kavanaugh nomination is in trouble. thats why mcconnell made blistering speech today. mcconnell trying to get gop peers to run out every ground ball to salvage nomination, kavanaugh lacks the votes right now. what do you think of that? >> yeah, so i do think the kavanaugh nomination is in trouble, even if it goes through, even if they force this through. what youve done is taint him for the rest of his career even if he is successful...

Place out the get them. and its insulting to these women. its not true. but it does sort of promote the view that you should promote a lot of women. and there are a lot of women running this time. >> leah, this is something that fox reporter chad pergrom said kavanaugh nomination is in trouble. thats why mcconnell made blistering speech today. mcconnell trying to get gop peers to run out every ground ball to salvage nomination, kavanaugh lacks the votes right now. what do you think of that? >> y...

Be facing. all right, robert costa, richard painter, leah wright rig gur, thank you. more on the breaking news this evening on the feud between trump and sessions, what trump is reportedly saying behind his back. ahead, a developing story, trump and michael cohen reportedly tried to buy decades of stories from the "national enquirer." a former executive at american media, the parent company of the enquirer, joined the beat exclusively tonight. and ron desantis says his controversial comment ...