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Not to curse. remember it remains the last best hope of earth. >> he mentored many future american leaders. >> he never stopped believing in america and we believe in america and we believe in midterm in no small part because it helped produce someone like colin powell. >> its not possible to replace a colin powell. we will miss him. >> colin powell a soldier until the end died at walter reed due to covid-19. he was fully vaccinated but also undergoing treatment for a rare blood cancer which sup...

Anderson and moa lathey. kristen, let me start with you. how damaging is this combination of supply chain problems and inflation? how damaging is that to democrats? are these the kinds of issues that voters are likely to blame them for? >> headed into a midterm where democrats already have a number of structural factors against them, most notably republicans being the party out of power, usually do better in midterms, you need something like a good economy to be able to run on to say, no, no, no...

Have stopped drilling leases for people. they have talk now about the fact they may unleash from the strategic petroleum reserve which is supposed to be for super duper catastrophic events where we cant get oil out of the middle east and that kind of thing. people get it and the insiders in oil and gas are saying no thank you. youve been talking about destroying us, were not going to work with you, we dont have an appetite. >> get a four year contract or longer commitments. >> get something it. ...

Have stopped drilling leases for people. they have talk now about the fact they may unleash from the strategic petroleum reserve which is supposed to be for super duper catastrophic events where we cant get oil out of the middle east and that kind of thing. people get it and the insiders in oil and gas are saying no thank you. youve been talking about destroying us, were not going to work with you, we dont have an appetite. >> get a four year contract or longer commitments. >> get something it. ...

With these two calling the shots, when will this, if ever, be resolved? >> well, look, as weve said before, it is a rubiks cube because they are trying to do so much in one bill since it is their only way around the persistent obstruction of the filibuster. and, you know, the conflicts become almost unending. sinema is resistant to have medicare negotiation of prescription drug. joe manchins okay with that but he doesnt want strong climate provision. shes okay with that. bernie sanders demands e...

Increase the odds of a bad midterm for democrats, and that is what manchin and sinema are ultimately gambling with here, not only this but with voting rights. chuck schumer said its going to be coming up next week, and they are deciding whether they will allow republican obstruction to basically run the congress from a minority position, and the stakes could not be higher on both of these questions, the reconciliation bill and the voting rights bill coming up next week. >> ive got another questi...

Midterm, there are major allegations of suppression across the board. >> put yourself in the place of somebody in georgia, south carolina, mississippi, louisiana, if you have a fair election, you are going to be drowned because, in fact, there are a lot more african-american citizens than there are white citizens, so the answer, if you are a white segregationist, was dont let them vote. >> and so, democrats took control of the house of representatives for the first time since the start of the ci...

Points. why is this race so close? >> the tradition not just in virginia but in a lot of other states is in a midterm election, even if its the year before the national midterm, you have some kind of negative reaction, usuallily, to the new administration or the incumbent presidential administration. so while terry mcauliffe beat that when he was elected governor the first time in 2013, it had consistently been the case that the candidate of the party opposite the white house won the virginia go...

An effort to hold these people accountable if they did not comply. theyve now started the process of doing it. >> well, its absolutely vital that they take this step. we saw during the trump administration the power of congress to subpoena information on behalf of the american people really watered down. that was one of the first charges in the first impeachment trial was obstruction of congress by former president trump. i think in this moment, the game is around delay, because we have a midter...

If you look back and if you go all the way back to the late 70s, long before i was born although i believe you were alive at that particular point. >> ouch! you hurt me, harry. >> i might have hurt you a little but the bottom line is -- the bottom line is that eight out of the last 11 times, the winner in the virginia gubernatorial race, right, that side wins house seats -- gains house seats in the next midterm. so, yeah, ill be looking at virginia, and especially if its close. look. the bottom ...