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Brooklyn, how are we doing . I am luke rustin, the host and greater director of Msnbc Live. We are excited to welcome you to our very first and sold out fan focused event. Thank you. This is where you get to meet and greet your favorite msnbc personalities live and in person and i can let you in on a little secret, Steve Kornackis khakis are just as glorious in real life. Over the course of the day jen psaki, Joy Reid and so many others will give you their take on the state of this wild and craz...

Brooklyn, how we doing . Im luke, the host and Creative Director of Msnbc Live, and we are so excited to welcome you to our very first and sold out fan focused event [ applause ] thank you and this is where you get to meet and greet your favorite nbc personalities live and in person, and i can let you guys in on a little secret. Steve Kornackis Khakis are just as glorious in real life. Over the course of the day jen psaki, joy reid, and so many others will give you their take on the state of thi...

Brooklyn, how we doing . Im the host and Creative Director of Msnbc Live, and we are so excited to welcome you to our very first and sold out fan focused event. Thank you this is where you get to meet and greet your favorite msnbc personalities live and in person , and i can let you guys in on a little secret. Steve cormacks khakis are just as glorious in real life. Over the course of the day, jen psaki, joy reed, and so many others will give you their take on the state of this wild and crazy el...

Brooklyn, how are we doing . I am luke and i am the Host And Director of Msnbc Live and we are excited to welcome you to our very first and sold out then focused event. Thank you. This is where you get to meet and greet your favorite msnbc personalities live and in person. I can let you in on a little secret. Steve Kornacki Khakis are just glorious in real life. Over the course of the day, Jen Psaki , Joy Reid and so many others will give you their take on the state of this wild and crazy electi...

these people are working, farm workers are working from sunrise to sunset, by the time they get home and ask for transportation and pay to go and find -- they find nothing. its so terrible. this has been a big, big issue. >> i thank you for being with us. thank you for doing what you do on a daily basis. its been great to have you here with us this morning. that wraps up the hour for me. see you tomorrow night on nbc news saturday. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitch...

Underlying issue here. a discomfort with majority democracy among the trumpist right. it is a definitive example of putting party over country, and props to nyu historian who recognized the danger of lees logic saying such talk often precedes exceptional and authoritarian government actions. look for more of this in the future. we sure did. if you need a reminder of why this is a rear view mirror exercise, remember the ex-presidents lackeys are still pushing the big lie and trying to have the el...

Joins us now is the professor. thank you for joining us. appreciate it. your point about the last eight presidential elections put that way is really quite stunning. how far from idealized democracy is the united states? >> well, not sure anybody has achieved and realized democracy but if you compare the united states to other established democracies in the world, canada, new zealand, japan, all of europe, we are far and away the most counter majority democracy that allows parties that lose the ...

So, two weeks until election with huge national implications, its the recall vote in california for governor gavin newsom. its a quirky law in process. quirky is a nice way of putting it, with a huge amount at stake. john avalon with a reality check. >> theres a recall election looming in california, and heres why it matters if you live outside the golden state. first, because its another republican end run around majority democracy. second, because control of the u.s. senate could hang in the b...

>> and yet, thats the question, right? because it all seems like he is playing these 40/60 politics. meaning 40% of the public is with him. 60% is against him. >> uh-huh. >> which shouldnt work in a majority democracy and yet it is somehow working. >> think about this, chris. his first goal is to try to control the republicans as much as he can. and so what he is doing with that 40%, which still remains a super majority of republicans is to control the party, control his chance going forward, tr...

Republicans shutdown in october which was inspired over appeal of the affordable care act, more repealed it than supported it. let me start with michelle on this. if you look at these numbers on guns and the chance at least for peace or avoiding a war with iran, a strong substantial number there. and yet the debate swings the other way too often. >> right. i mean, part of the problem is that the republican party or at least republican candidates are incentivized against being responsive to the m...