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Another from inflation and supply chain chaos to the migrant surge and theres more. critics say what the country really has is a leadership crisis. you think? president biden and top departments are drawing fierce criticism. there is chief of staff ron klain with the retweets of a comment by former obama and economic advisor that rising prices are a "high-class problem. vice president kamala harris is m.i.a. on the border, and we know that, and then there is a pete buttigieg making light of the ...

Across the country. the new case positivity rate here in the state of florida, 18 %, and this next metric is important, because school districts across this state and across the country are going to be starting soon here in the state of florida the positivity rate for children between 12 and 19 is 22%. and yet, earlier last week the florida governor making light of the new cdc guidelines at a conservative conference. joking about the fact that these new guidelines are out there, saying that he w...

But this is a very -- this is an order of magnitude different than anything hes encountered before. >> and also in the last two trials, they were political. he had people there who were invested in making sure he got away with it and he had leverage to use against them. here we dont know that to be the case. >> and he was still president. >> yes, sir, absolutely, which had leverage on high. that takes us to the difference between fealty, to whether he can really secure enough loyalty to stay out...

Flu? that it was too much testing that had people worried? where was your concern then? if you were so confident, why did you fail along with trump to get inspectors on the ground in china in the early days of this pandemic if it was such a real thing for you, so not to be ignored? we know the answer. because at first you were all about praising china, certainly trump was. heres his tweet. china has been working very hard to contain the coronavirus. the united states greatly appreciates their ef...

Good to see you, brother. >> hi, christopher. >> lets go through the three things that trump should worry about here. number one, prison. why? >> well, because this is the first time in his 74 years, about to be 75 years, that hes been looking at the possibility of a criminal indictment and criminal charges and an orange jumpsuit. that is new in his world. he has nine lives. he has escaped rigorous investigations and two impeachments before. but this is a very -- this is an order of magnitude di...

So i think its okay for us to say that on a lot of things last year trump and the republicans got it wrong but they were earlier than the democrats, maybe for all the wrong reasons and maybe doing it a nasty way in calling out china. >> they should have just searched then and pushed to get on the ground. they should have done something rather than weaponizing it politically as an offset to what they werent doing in this country. so now here we are -- >> chris, if i can just add one thing because...

Either of you? are either of you loving it? hands down, hands down. good. well start with you, axe, whats the state of play and why dont you like it and why do you like it? >> look, structurally democrats have a big challenge in 2022 because of the census, because of redistricting, because of the historical forces that you mentioned and because of the slim margin that they have in the house right now. youd have to bet right now on republicans taking the house as fractured and as absurd as they a...

Because of the census, because of redistricting, because of the historical forces that you mentioned and because of the slim margin that they have in the house right now. youd have to bet right now on republicans taking the house as fractured and as absurd as they are. you know, there are structural reasons why they have an advantage going into that election. democrats have profited from joe biden, and i think theres a great sense of relief among many americans that a decent, rational human bein...

There was group think across the board on the origins of covid and thats why and so many others have been doing so much work to say, hey, wait a second, lets not accept that we know answers to questions that are still outstanding. we cant say so, so definitively its natural origin. >> i think they cancelled it because thats what you do when you come in and it was a mistake. they didnt think they made a bad move and now theyre trying to play catch-up. >> i agree. >> trump was not early on the get...

Those are the people who have some of the closest proximity to trumps decision-making. i have to believe that cy vance has spoken to most of them if not all of them already. we know that weisselberg is the subject himself now of a criminal probe. >> you know, the third one i actually wanted to put first because i think it will be our first big indication of how strong a fight trump is going to put up, and the third one is adequate legal defense. when he was president, everybody wanted to get aro...