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Away from them by republicans, i think they do animate these voter and awaken a sleeping giant, and they are doing something that democrats have not been able to do and that is to make women more of a single-issue voting bloc around choice which can very much change the dynamics of the mid-terms, but also down ballot as well. if democrats can connect the dots to this overwhelmingly unpopular piece of legislation that republicans are pushing through the state legislative bodies as well, i think t...

He made a calculation to accept that chaos. i think he made that calculation because he thought he could play the blame game and lay it off on president trump. that has failed. the lie failed. >> the poll numbers, bring these in. oh, as they drop to 43% in the new poll. the npr of pbs news hour poll. the facts are we know that the intelligence community warned president biden even before he announced the withdrawal in april that the afghan national army would collapse. so again, why the cover-up...

Americans will lose interest and dont talk about it because the mainstream media will not hold us accountable. i have to go back really quickly and give my deepest condolences to those affected by hurricane ida. applaud for you all for making sure that we do everything we can to make sure we hold this president accountable. the democrats recognize that they need to pull joe biden out of the fire on this one. hes under water metaphorically speaking for his handling of afghanistan and they recogni...

Unleashed in afghanistan before the mid-terms. that wont happen any time soon. 84% of americans say troops should have stayed there until all americans, not 90%, are evacuated. were short on time. lets go around the horn. it was covid, crime and border. now its afghanistan. how does this cut? is this on the mind of voters? >> i think it is. it is right now. but the enemy of us is our own attention span, whether we can focus. because we live in a different world to quote joe biden where were like...

A member of the house said many in the caucus believe the lower chamber of congress is already lost in the mid-terms. other democrats said they are bracing for the prospect of republicans making double digit seat gains. a very interesting piece right there. leader mccarthy still in town and he plans to hold a round table on afghanistan later on this evening with some ranking members and republican veterans. well be watching that. >> dana: even the senate considered possibly very much in play for...

The page. that, yes, of course there will still be stories emanating from the taliban and the crack down on women and young girls there. yes, of course theyll be concerned isis-k could be plotting other terror attacks there against afghan citizens or the west. that wont fade. but if we move on again to the presidents domestic agenda, the battle against the pandemic, we started looking towards next years mid-terms, hopefully economic recovery, so on and so on. thats what the white house hope were...

And this quick news cycle well forget about it. no one has cell phones, we dont know what is going on and who is getting beheaded. well forget about it by the next mid-terms. >> neil: im curious, if you dont mind -- im hooked with the isis-k thing. forgive me. i do remember when the taliban took over and one of the first people that they shot and killed was this presumably isis-k leader. there were similar such incidents around afghanistan. all right. theyre not close buds or friends. are you sa...

Thing in and of itself. when you talk about presidential popularity and mid-terms, here is some history. the last democratic president to gain seats in the first mid-term election is roosevelt. theres a reason he likes to talk about his agenda as being a parallel, a new fdr agenda, this expansion of a safety net. if democrats have a shot of holding power, they have to give voters a very good reason to keep them there. biden believes and many democrats believe this could be a reason if they get i...

Back the august 31st deadline? in terms of the delta variant, fauci may be more optimistic about getting it under control but what happens in the fall if schools have to shutter and go back to at-home learning? and because of what moderates have done the last couple days, a lot of balls in the air. >> a great conversation from our front line tonight. ben rhodes, andrea mitchell, greatly appreciate you starting us off tonight. thanks. is it safe to go back to school? ill ask the public health e...

Theres one thing we know about modern american electoral politics. its that mid-terms in the first two years of a presidential term are a referendum on the president. the past two weeks, nine democrats have attempted to block president bidens $3.5 trillion budget. the sabotage squad threatened to tank the budget blueprint to force the infrastructure vote, the bipartisan deal cut in the senate that they want. this afternoon, the two sides struck a deal. house leadership, nancy pelosi, and these n...