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11 bill gun safety package tha includes policies on saf storage, universal backgroun checks and a red flag measures the momentum to get somethin meaningful done is stronge than ever. especially on the heels of the mass shooting just last mont at michigan state university this week, i went to michiga and i sat down in one of the schools most well-known alumni governor gretchen whitmer. we talked about gun violence the threats on her life, abortion rights and even som presidential politics. >> wer...

Party. and i suspect that the prospect of a succession potentially of indictments is only going to deepen the concerns among the republican leaders, strategies and donors that are worried that this is a losing proposition for 24. the problem is that memo has not gotten to the republican leadership in the house. and you see kevin mccarthy coming out yesterday, preemptively dismissing this as a political prosecution, saying they needed to investigate the investigators. and margory taylor greene sa...

Against who he is talk talking about. obviously rhonda sanders, as an example. how does this play? >> the state authorities have always had leeway to handle the issue of education, whether or a blue state or red state, thats often how this operates. and clearly voters in florida have been fine, broadly, at least a majority of them who turned out to reelect rhonda sanders in the last midterm. so politically right now rhonda santas is hand and leg of education is not hurting him with florida voter...

Crime. nobody believes that. i get it was disappointing midterm for republicans, but in new york theres a trend to the right. lee zeldin almost pulled it off because of violent crimes, acting like they care. watch the actions because the words are hollow. >> unfortunately and ironically for him and his fa family, they became victims several times leading up to the election. last quick thought. >> i mean, it is not just i am proudly on the right wing, fully understand that, but republicans unfort...

Perhaps play into his persecution narrative. what is your reaction to that? >> i think people have made the point that the manhattan d.a. is trying an unusual legal strategy here. you know, which is -- you know, you dont necessarily want to be trying out your new approach for a former president potentially big the first time indicted ever. i actually think these things are operating on separate tracks. you know, from kind of thinking about it in terms of the political calculation, its an interes...

Happened onjanuary the way to try and whitewash what happened on january six the way to try and whitewash what happened onjanuary six and whitewash the role that president trump played in inciting the violence that occurred on that day. what you are suggesting is there was a price to be paid for the votes he won to be speaker of the house. this is him bowing or nodding to the right of his party.— is him bowing or nodding to the right of his party. yes. we saw in the midterm _ right of his part...

You villainized on a trump, he is the problem. and then when he loses, and they lose a midterm, we think weve settled it all, when in fact it cuts much deeper. we have to tap through and figure out what is at the heart of this, at the heart of this is this refusal to believe that diversity is a constitutive element of our country, not an additive element, the black people, brown, people difference makes up who we are, not as some kind of charity gesture by the dominant group. you have to come to...

Herself safe. >> it also comes on the heels of a midterm where voters are very clear, about the fact that they didnt, like this kind of extremism, that even if they dont consider themselves pro-choice necessarily, a lot of them saw those government overreach and i wonder as we continue in texas, for zemple and other states to, to push a line if there will be electoral coupon sizes for these laws. >> what well see as electoral consequences of the top of the ticket, oddities said some highly gerry...

Courts and at the state level. so, this is, again, its devastating for women. its one of the reasons why we need to continue to push to put into law the protections of roe v. wade. we understand that is long as republicans can bar us from doing that in the senate with the filibuster, we are going to have to keep fighting this out at the ballot box and state legislators across the country. >> to that, point in your home state of minister in a, statutory right to reproductive freedom was created. ...

>> theres no question about that, jim. and i think what it reflects is where the republican party still is even as my dear friend alice would want to wish otherwise. and i know there are a lot of other republicans who have talked about it especially since the last elections, the midterm elections in 2022, wanting to turn the page from trump, but trump is not letting them do that. and cpac, even though they like to talk about that its a diminished cpac, is still where the energy, where the enthus...