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And he adds in some things like help with day care and elder care and he adds in infrastructure and things like that, if he does that and the republicans continue to block and block and block, not only will we have a good midterm, well have a historic victory in the midterms. >> stuart, that is my question, too. republicans are acting as if they have a sure thing in 2022. thats not clear to me. people want infrastructure, they want police reform. people want things, they dont just want the libs ...

At least say something about it, what he will actually do or propose doing about it remains to be seen, obviously this has always been a potent issue politically. when you look around the country the statistics, stores closing in san francisco because they cant do anything about the shoplifting. the riot squad quitting in portland. you have those awful scenes of violence in the streets of new york. people notice this stuff. and they dont like it. and they never have. so, if this is still the sit...

The transportation bill, and that is not clear. so the pressure from the left that mike is talking about is going to be this offer. mr. president, cant you just do one tough vote and get everyone on board, and instead of trying to jam this thing through with the republicans that leaves out all of the priorities from the more liberals and in the party to dampen the enthusiasm for the midterm in the second tranche, and plus time runs out. so the argument of looking at fiscal cliff of september, an...

Line by the western conservative summit found florida governor ron de santis came out on top with about 75% of the vote, narrowly beating donald trump, he got 72%. joining me now, jaf mason of righters. a big welcome to you. this is a straw holiday. so i guess take it with a grain of salt, right. but someone edging out the leader of the party seems significant. its not the first time we have seen momentum behind de santis, how do you read it? >> i think it is important to keep reminding ourselve...

As normally. he said well have to wait to see. my translation was i have to count the votes to see if i can block somebody, as well. i understand a piece of justice breyers reticence he doesnt want to look and more importantly he doesnt want to make the court look like another political player. lets get serious, if e were -- if he were to refrain retiring at the end of the month or in early july, and were to retire next year, how political would things look if a process launched with republicans...

Represented on the republican side shows that both sides are gearing up, you know, hell for leather on this 2022 midterm because they can see how narrow the existing majority is the republicans feel with redistricting and everything else, they have already practically got victory in hand and dont want to blow it for lack of funds. having said that i think we all can point to evidence from the last election cycle the huge expenditures particularly in a lot of senate races on the democratic side d...

Is not sacre sank. at a time to end the debate you needed 67 votes. that was seen as too high and they went down to 60. now youve got joe manchin and there is a lot of pressure on him from both the right and also from the quite conservative voter base inside his state of west virginia. also pressure on him from the 47, 48 not all 49 other democratic senators who are saying look, we cant let the republicans block our agenda. we only have two years until the mid-term and who knows what could happe...

That will cause inflationary pressure as well, isnt it? yes, the high oil price is because of the increased demand and that was knocked actually met bike more substantial increase in supply because 0pec have raised supply but they have raised supply but they have not raised it to the level that the market is expecting or meet demand. in the midterm, oil prices could cause short—term pressure inflation, if you look at it on a year on year basis, we still have a diminishing base, and if youre ta...

Api folks that are eligible to vote to see the more of coming of age and just like in the latino community youre gonna see 250,000 more latinos eligible to vote in the midterm. what does that say about the shenanigans that the republican state legislators trying to do to prevent individuals from voting and a fair election? >> you know, i believe that they are changing demographics and thats why theyre using those shenanigans. we are alarmed that the proposed legislation in texas would grants aut...

No one likes the idea that if the presidents mad, he can just go forth with setting personal phone that are on perceived enemies. >> when it comes to sowing doubt and democracy, trumps big lie might just take the cake. convincing tens of millions of voters that the 2020 election was stolen. a special report from reuters reveals how that lie has led to rise and death threats, targeting election officials and even poll workers. threats to take a life based on ally and that lie continues on as reut...