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>> maybe this will give him more time to be a mentor, i hope more time to write and be inspiration to young physicians and kids in high school. i hope this president would give dr. fauci presidential medal of freedom, but hes received presidential medal of freedom. >> todd: kevin corke, is that what kids need, fauci as a mentor? >> kevin: im not a kid. dr. fauci clarifying hes not actually retiring, hes hes moving on to a mentoring role at the end of the year. president biden did thank...

Republican base does not much care or need very much in the way of policy. they just need to be entertained and to have their white grievance spoken to, which is exactly what donald trump did. he did those rallies. he sort of spoke to that grievance, talking about immigration in particular. also about gun rights. those were kind of core issues for the gop base. and he did so in an entertaining way, which is something that he learned from being a hollywood celebrity all those years. he learned to...

You talk about things going deeper and deeper and, once the democrats take their seats and get to work on the house and putting forward ideas, then do they run the risk of this really falling into their lap? >> im not sure, in the main reason is because democrats and all of the opponents of the president go back and sit there and play footage from that meeting in the oval office when the president went out inside i will take the blame if we have a government shutdown. i dont know why that has no...

Usual has been successful for lots of politicians, cincluding donald trump. this is a test for whether you can be a centrist democrat. >> heidi heitkamp said be careful. if you vote out moderates, you are going to have even more gridlock and partisanship, which is hart to imagine in washington. thats a message point we are not sure really flies in a situation and atmosphere where people are showing their partisan colors. thank you so much to all of you. thank you for watching. a quick programmin...

Election day. i do think he has a very good chance of winning this election based on the turnout that were seeing but also based on the fact that beto has been appealing to two groups extraordinarily well. one of those groups are base voters who typically are not coming out in midterms and are already showing up in droves. the other are suburban women, women who are turned off by the trump agenda and who remember the family separations at the border, which i think is a message point that he is t...

Look at the virginia governors election, the progressives and the more moderates came together to defeat the republican candidate. so now were in the point of the general election. what mcconnell did, which i think was quite smart, but lets call it for what it is. he knows theres an enthusiasm problem in the republican party. he knows the democrats have a lot of enthusiasm. no one is talking about the possibility of republicans could lose the senate. but it is a possibility. so he is sending out...

Think that the white house ought to not be saying, well, he wasnt our guy. maybe a better message point would be well, michael cohen wasnt the buy the i thought he was, maybe thats a better approach tom say a guy that was your personal adviser and attorney for that long that he wasnt your eye, i think philippe is right there. i dont think that flies with the american people. every second pollster got the 2016 presidential election race wrong and to a major degree they called eight quote/unquote ...

Allegation 14 and allegation 4 against scott pruitt at this point? he survived this long, what is it thats inching him towards the exits? >> theres also the irony, which is this is actually helpful to democrats. look, we dont like scott pruitts policies, but the truth of the matter is, he is such a great -- message point in the mid-term elections about the culture of corruption. every one of his policy ideas becomes colored through all of these scandals. >> you and steve are in agreement on that...

Hes talking about the problems that the public knows are in congress. many folks call them the career politicians who never held a job in the private sector and never signed the front of a paycheck. hes speaking as the change agent. of course, theres a process that wed have to go through. the republicans i believe, id support it. i think its a good message for him to be on because right now congressional approval ratings are in the single digits. 8%, 9%, 10%. i think its a good message point for...

At the vatican. its interesting to see pope francis in these situations when hes with politicians. he gives one type of speech. when hes with the people, he gives another type of speech. same message, different language. hes the peoples pope. he knows how to have the credibility to talk to them in simple terms about something so important like corruption. in this country like in many african countries, they suffer from the fact that a large amount of their wealth -- and they are very wealthy in ...