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Things around the table, i would think about mental health and with getting police officers back on the street. >> dana: we saw in the letter a balk, spending the whole press conference saying we dont have a problem, there is nothing happening here, if you dont believe your own eyes, the crime is not up, and so it feels like they are really disconnected and there is a no real cohesiveness from the top. >> jesse: he should feel the pain instead of trying to spin the pain, he cant say everything i...

>> dana: things getting pretty lonely for president biden in his own party, democrats are worried biden scary poll numbers will lead to a midterm bloodbath and some are making sure to distance themselves from the commander-in-chief like vulnerable house democrat jared golden who says he is not worried about him and his thinking numbers and heres why, what i know about his approval ratings right now versus my own is that i am not facing him by about 30 points, harold, for democrats, they better h...

And lastly, a federal judge ordered a trial date of july 18th for the criminal contempt case against trump ally, steve bannon, who refused to comply with the panels subpoena. all these developments underscoring the urgent mission that rests in the hands of the members of the january 6th select committee. politico reports this. "right now, the january 6th panel is the only comprehensive investigation in washington that is probing how the government responded to an attack on one of its branches. r...

The clock ticking is where we start this hour with one of the committee members, congresswoman zoe lofgren of california. i will just say, my personal opinion is that midterm history can be defied. i worked for a president in an unprecedented moment of angst for homeland security issues specifically in 2002 and that history was defied but how much does regardless of the midterm result, how much does the clock weigh on your work? >> we need to get an answer to this. i mean, we had a situation whe...

States and china, the two most populous countries in the world. china with the zero covid problems that the president cant even leave the country. united states with our incredible divisions in being able to respond to the pandemic, in a midterm that looks like theyre in serious trouble. that makes it much harder to have international leadership isnt responding to global crises. despite that, were seeing a lot of places where the world is trying to respond. and climate, believe it or not, was th...

Ground in got efforts one year ago to help him get out the votes. their main downfall was being too close to trump, dismissive of the election results and campaign was teatering, if thats what he want to see do, this is an exercise of futility in georgia. >> at large, looking at the map, approval rating, midterm election for a new president, youre seeing republicans poten potentially cannibalize their own, youre happy i presume? >> we welcome that. i think it does give democrats an opportunity t...

Lid. >> certainly though we should noted of no short of social media outlets. if you look at facebook shared stories, theyre all from conservatives. why do they want to do that? >> a lot of conservative democrats will give you tight races in the midterm saying they dont want to focus on trump all the time. cases in virginia and youngkin. youngkin was able to thread that needle. what these democrats are telling us, all politics are local. they want the build back better and they want to focus on ...

Glorias analysis was spot on. to suggest that governor kemp and brad raffensberger who refused to -- who refused to violate the oaths of their office did the right thing in certifying the vote. thats not the reason that donald trump lost -- that perdue lost. perdue lost because donald trump said the system was rigged. that you couldnt trust the vote. he suppressed the republican vote and that cost him two republican seats. it seems to me that david perdue is doing this, running, because he wants...

Be a backlash against the republican party in the midterm. i no longer believe that and its based on what we have seen recently. we see in virginia where youngkin won. then we had that texas law, i am pro-life but i thought it was a bad law because of the bounty hunter aspect of it and the vigilante aspect of it. it has receded and kind of gone away. i think what has happened is that the abortion issue really is no longer the dominant hot button issues of america. yes, it will be important and i...

Kyrsten sinema who came out this last week and would not commit to saying that she would vote for this plan. you wonder why, why wont she commit publicly and then you have senator joe manchin who came back from the holiday break and got an ear full about inflation, hes worried about spending and he will commit publicly to voting for the plan. he says no one knows how hes going to vote, not even schumer. then you have the moderates were worried about the upcoming midterm and how that will go for ...