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its good to be back with you on this second hour of "chris jansing reports." at this hour, former trump chavp chief of staff mark meadows is trying to move his georgia case to federal court. the skepticism were hearing from the judge. overseas, national security adviser jake sullivan is back in the middle east and in the middle of a diplomatic high wire act. the big change israel just announced during his trip. and payback, the senate just passed a major bill granting back pay to h...

paid to those materials when you are in office and after you leave office, and clearly that did not take place in this case. but the unequal treatment before the law was deeply troubling to me early this week. >> well, well, well. that was mike pence two weeks ago talking about president bidens classified documents. but now its pences lawyers who are explaining how classified material ended up at the former vice presidents home. also ahead, kevin mccarthy makes food on his promises f...

That the control of the senate in 24 will basically be decided by four states that are all very friendly to republicans. all of them are either red or swing states, places like west virginia, ohio, montana and arizona. you know those states well as i do. democrats successful there state-wide of unique democrats often independent from the national brand we see here in washington. thats not going to be easy for them to hold on to next cycle. so republicans are already licking their chops looking a...

Blue. >> right. >> theyre going to stay blue and stay blue by a significant margin. youre looking around the map thinking where else do republicans get votes? number one, again, this used to be more swing republican territory. it is swing. sea h see how close it is. the democrats winning. move up here, the republicans winning. its tiny. not enough people. go through the map, republicans will win out here. 1% of the population. .1% of the population. so, again, youre happy to be ahead if youre ri...

Donald trump says not so fast. >> were going into what they used to call democrat strongholds where were now either tied or leading. were going to minnesota. were going up to minnesota which traditionally has not been republican at all and were doing phenomenally. we just saw a poll. >> minnesota, a state that has not gone red in a presidential contest since the nixon landslide of 1972. and now trump and his running mate, mike pence are both going to be there today and tomorrow in the precious l...

A few cooks and restaurant people in new york would read it and really almost overnight the world became my oyster and i found myself with the best job in the world. i mean, look what i do for a living. i sit around with friends and looking at a map thinking where do we want to go and what stories we want to tell and how do we want to tell them? so it was absolutely transforming event for me and made everything possible. you know? i was a guy who never had health insurance in his life and now im...

Several republican on the ballot in 2012. they did not co-sponsor that, interesting calculation by them heading into the reelection cycle. as you noted before the break, the president is in wisconsin today. you might remember, everybody, hes a big chicago bears fan and the packers beat the bears on sunday. so the new republic governor on hand among others to greet the president of the united states with a packers jersey. this is what we call all politics is local. president took it in good fun. ...

Doing phenomenally. we just saw a poll. >> minnesota, a state that has not gone red in a presidential contest since the nixon landslide of 1972. and now trump and his running mate, mike pence are both going to be there today and tomorrow in the precious last few hours. does trump know something that the rest of us dont or is this wishful, perhaps even desperate electoral map thinking? senator al franken joins us. thank you. >> thanks for having me, jay. >> donald trump is heading there today. pe...