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into chaos and create a showdown where the next president will be decided by a vote in the republican -controlled house of representatives. history suggests that democrats are all -- toward a midterm shacking, as president obama once called it. the party in the white house has few exceptions traditionally lost seats in congress. democrats are expected to perform poorly. theres almost a punchline at this point. yes, president bidens all-time low pole time certainly not helping his party...

>> welcome to "the lead." im dana bash in for jake tapper. we begin with our politics lead. donald trump today invoked his fifth amendment right in a deposition with a new york attorney general who is investigating the trump organizations finances. this deposition lasting more than five hours. in a lengthy statement, the former president claims he had no choice, saying hes the target of an unfounded politically motivated witch hunt. this from the man who once asked if youre innocent, w...

laying out an ambitious agenda and designed to hit the ground running should they win win back the house. >> bill: kevin mccarthy will announce the plan for commitment to america and that should ring a bell. >> dana: it is for sure, the title is a call back to the g.o.p.s contract with america. former house speaker newt gingrich was the architect of that plan. it repelled republicans with major victories 1994 when they won battles for the first time in four decades. >> bill: amazing hi...

conversation this topic back to the front. while republicans you can hear what the the house, something they were talking about as they try to woo the voters. >> dana: inflation, economy and jobs, that is the number one issue. all states, national surveys. right now, we are looking at a dow jones with a pretty tough week. a lot of people who are watching their 401(k)s are thinking this is not the trajectory. they might have to put off their retirement. or as they were sating in the pre...

really need. energy independence, the supply chain, the southern border, and crime. house minority leader kevin mccarthy and dozens of his colleagues formerly put it out there from battles ground state pennsylvania. >> washington using their political power to go after people for their own beliefs. we watched children get a loss of learning left behind. thats what happened with the democrats, because they control washington. they control the house, the senate, the white house, they con...

herschel walker a slight lead over raphael warnock despite the attack ad spirit a lot is going on in atlanta and the braves are desperately trying to catch the mets but they lost one and a half games out. >> ainsley: george is the number one team in the country, was it when they were playing ufc? >> brian: ted does not talk much but he nods a lot. >> ainsley: you should be the mascot for the georgia team, t ted, because mascots cant talk. >> brian: mascots cant talk, that is true. a lo...

know who nancy is. we believe this is his fiance but chelsea decided her next mission is to figure out who nancy was and maybe find her family too. >> oh, aaron gilchrist, thank you. a beautiful, beautiful story. thank you so much. it is exactly the top of the hour. the fourth hour of "morning joe." 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. we begin this hour from new reaction of a unsealing of a redacted copy of the fbi affidavit used to justify the search of former donald tr...

arizona house speaker rusty bowers. bowers didnt just refuse to participate in trumps campaign to, i dont know, end democracy. he testified about it publicly before the january 6th select committee laying out exactly how team trump pressured him to throw out the legitimate arizona election results even if they admitted they didnt have a scrap of evidence to back up their vote fraud claims. after saying back in june after that dramatic public testimony that he would support trump in a r...

between people who are willing to use the power of the state to silence their opponents and those who are unwillingng whats held this country together since the civil war. its not c the federal code. its not even the bill of rights. as important as that document is . remember, the soviet union i had a bill of rights guaranteed freedom of speech and equal rights. but in practice,free the bolshes assassinated their political opponents and sent their dissidents to the gulagsoa as veria bo...

get inflation under control. treasurer secretary yellen says bringing prices down is top priority for this administration but the plan forward to ease the economic pain is not clear. rich. good evening. >> good evening bill. more government data showing the same worrying trend higher prices throughout the economy at levels not seen in four decades. todays labor department report is blamed on one sector of the economy as democrats and republicans assign their own blame. for second strai...