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To that limit its travel and interactions with voters. that logistical challenges grow tremendously when he stays somewhere up overnight as they try to keep him in a covid safe bubble in a new environment. so jason, how can he expect to effectively govern the country if he is doing the kind of hologram presidency as he did the hologram campaign. he said he was going to be with the people. that is what he promised last week at his big press conference. >> jason: well, i hope that he actually spea...

Mcinerney bring the list of democrats leaving the house to 28. wow. a lot of folks headed for the door. carley, it is fascinafascinatin remember the shellacking in president obamas words, he said at the press conference about his own midterm when he lost 63 democrat seats in the house, six senate seats. we could be headed for that this november. >> carley: yeah, president -- biden administration is plan og new strategy for the president for year two and think they know the reason the presidents ...

>> todd: welcome back, house minority leader kevin mccarthy says hes anticipating congressional retirements ahead of the midterm as republicans look to retake the house. >> in 2010, when we won the majority, 17 democrats retired. already 25. i expect that number to be up to over 30 democrat retirements because they see what the future holds and see the numbers. we want to earn enough to have a governing majority, in the relatem of 20 or higher, we are fortunate enough to win 25 republican seat, ...

Ideas to bring in a new generation of vomplets nancy pelosi will go down in history as probably the greatest speaker of all times. there comes a time whether or not you are nancy pelosi or whether or not you are tom brady, that sometimes you have to hang up the cleats when it comes to, you know, being leader of your particular party or leader of your organization. >> brian: right. so she is going to do it again. but, as lindsey graham says, if she says im not running like paul ryan did, then she...

To the nominees and the names we will be looking at over the next several days and weeks while we wait for an announcement from the white house that is a point of focus from president biden. his aides including his press secretary, jen psaki, has said he will remain committed to that pledge to put the first black woman on the supreme court. so, of course, the next steps here will be critical of what this looks like when they first announced this retirement. as wolf blitzer noted earlier, he said...

Clyburn has said his endorsement was him pivotal on saying he would nominate a black woman to the supreme court and this goes back even further than when joe biden was in office and he and clyburn had the meeting with vice president harris. so very much a priority, i think, for a huge part of the democratic constituency. so what youve seen i think so far is a lot of disappointment in joe bidens presidency so far in terms of the deliverables, whether its voting rights, whether its criminal justic...

Necessarily call it build back better. there is a short time line for this. as close as we get to the midterm, the more and more difficult it is for congress to focus on these types of legislative priorities and politics eventually takes over, alex. the white house trying to work as quickly as possible. >> folks are gearing up for their own re-elections. thank you so much, appreciate that. joining me once again, robert gibbs, former white house press secretary and msnbc political analyst. presid...

Havent given up on the idea that democrats can maintain the majority. but it really does depend on making sure that some of these things really get done. and i think its possible to couple and decouple different provisions of build back better so that we really do get a strong package through. and that will help democrats going into the midterm. look, i served in the majority and minority. i know the difference. i understand that. i do think i will bring the kind of experience that democrats are...

Turnout also tends to be lower. but there tends to be a core group of republican base voters who come out no matter what election it is. they show up, and they vote. so in these circumstances where youre really seeing from the split you showed, 47%, 46%, people are really pessimistic, that could spell trouble for democrats in terms of actually getting their voters out to the polls. i have to say, democrats, you asked whether they feel they can turn this around. they certainly are not closing the...

Democrats had a very big midterm, they flipped the house, they gained 40 seats. the climate back then that delivered that to democrats looked like this. democrats had a 6 point advantage in the generic ballot question when we tested it at this point in 2018. now its more of democrats by a point. its basically dead even. thats the difference in the climate from donald trump being president. democrats saying, hey, lets be a check here on donald trump, that was their appeal in 2018. now democrats a...