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Hand ordinarily a high honor to serve on a high-profile investigation like this. but under these circumstances i think its rather challenging. i still say cheney might be best. it all depends on their own re-election. a hard political calculation. >> how will this play out with kevin mccarthy? >> i think kevin mccarthy will use his five selections and try to play defense. as best they can for trump. but if youre kevin mccarthy right now, what you dont want. you dont want the narrative of the mid...

Attorney general garland came into office saying he was going to depoliticize the justice department. falsely claiming that people of color are going to have their vote either not count or somehow they arent going to be able to vote is disingenuous at best and patently false and wrong at worst. and you know, i think americans should be very concerned seeing the department of justice being weaponized as our governor brian kemp said. weaponized by political activists who dont like how georgia is d...

Your ass and voting in mid-term elections. every four years we seem to be surprised to learn that the parties have moved farther to their extremes, the very far extreme in the case of republicans, and thats because people dont vote in mid-term elections, and the politicians running in mid-term elections know that. they know only the base voters are coming out and so they pander to them and then go ahead and act extremist when they get elected so we need people, you know, who care about voter acc...

And the entire democratic field, as it were. where they think they may have a better shot. lets give you a sense of what were hearing this morning. sarah sanders dismissing those polls you were talking about earlier. those internal polls, theyre all wrong. like the polls they saw in 2016. then i reminded her that the numbers she is dismissing are internal polls. trump campaign polls. she ignored the question there. she also wouldnt preview the presidents likely attacks targeting biden today. but...

Happened in the mid-terms, one after another, you know, moderate candidate in swing states, they won because they did separate themselves from those attacks of your socialists. they were very clear that heres what i stand for. theyre pragmatic. but being pragmatic doesnt necessarily mean you dont go after big ideals. it means you figure out how to do those big ideas. >> bernie sanders proudly calls himself a socialist. he explain what is he means on that on cnns state of the union this morning. ...

Mid-terms. was he trying to change the narrative? >> right. ive seen that theory tossed around. my sense of it is if you go back and i talk about it in the book if you look what happens during the news conference not just the confrontation he has with me, he refers to a question, a reporter from pbs, refers to her question as being a racist question at one point during the press conference because she asked him about this label that he gives himself that hes a nationalist and is that a dog whist...

Receive death threats. and, you know, we dont know how serious they are. could just be people venting their frustrations in a get that. we all get mad about what we see on the news on a daily basis. >> but some -- >> the question is whether or not somebody crosses that line and does something that hurts somebody or perhaps kills a journalist and as i write in the book, brian, i think at that point we cross over into a different era for the united states. where we join a list ever other countries...

Me to blood sucking. [laughter] >> no, its -- it boggles the mind. its like they literally -- they get up there, going to condemn this anti-semitic speech and turn around and dump. >> jessica, you think this is an opening for republicans, you know, in the next election cycle as you see a lot of jewish members of the democrat party feeling offended by this? >> im not sure the that its an opening in the next election cycle. before we came out here, i looked at where the jewish members of congress ...

Poll, clocking in at 46%, as good as its been for donald trump since hes been president. historically its not a great number for president, for trump its the high-water mark for him in his presidency. theres the issue of enthusiasm. earlier in this year our poll was finding a double-digit gap between the two parties, ask democrats now are they excited about the mid terms. 73% yes. republicans 72%. less enthusiasm outside the partisans, independents how they break looms large. a lot who seem unde...

Numbers up on the screen and say were smashing records, when you think back to the special elections weve had the last two years. pennsylvania earlier this year. georgia last year. a few others, remember what you saw with turn-out right there. the idea that were going to shatter all records here for mid-term turnout, for mid-term turnout and participation, when you see numbers like this among both parties, thats something we havent seen, where theyre both that excited at that level. >> nicole wa...