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Campaign that did, it is not only unacceptable but it has to in fact be addressed. i do believe that jeff weaver and the quote/unquote friends of bernie sanders, the campaign committee, came out and said those things did eventually get to the top of the campaign when it comes to jeff weaver, and other individuals. i think folks who were senior staff on the campaign, campaign manager level, and they did make some adjustments in the senators midterm, in his 2018 campai campaign. the fact of the ma...

Psychologically. >> lynn sweet, jennifer rubin, and adam jentleson, thank you all for joining me tonight. that is "all in" this evening. live outside the capitol on this historic fascinating day. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> super fascinating show tonight, chris. >> thanks. >> and traffic noise and nighttime noise around you. it gives a sort of urgent feeling. >> a lot of bustling. there is a lot of bustling today. >> well done, my friend. thank you. thanks...

>> which is why i alone can fix it. >> and so as we start off the new year, the one nine day four, thanks to steve kornacki for filling in here and thanks to you for slipping away for a while. were back. that is our broadcast for this thursday evening. thank you so very much for being here with us. good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. >> thank you at home for joining us this hour. happy thursday. it is an historic day. today the 116th congress was officially sworn in two years...

Against republicans in the midterm. what answers does he bring? >> harris, i think he does. he has experience having been a governor, having put a health care plan into effect. which obviously has some controversy around it. you learn lessons from that and figure out. hes taking a bigger role. the challenge of obamacare, gave the federal government far much know mike too much authority over the health care system. hes going to be an advocate along with donald trump and other republicans returnin...

Time. since 1974, republicans havent fallen anywhere near that level of defeat, until now. this year they lost 40 seats in the house to the democrats. it was the biggest midterm loss republicans have seen since that extraordinary election in 1974 that happened right after nixon had to step down. the republican president had just resigned in disgrace. this was their worst performance since then. and of course the republicans record-setting loss is the democrats record-setting gain. that was true ...

Of defeat, until now. this year they lost 40 seats in the house to the democrats. it was the biggest midterm loss republicans have seen since that extraordinary election in 1974 that happened right after nixon had to step down. the republican president had just resigned in disgrace. this was their worst performance since then. and of course the republicans record-setting loss is the democrats record-setting gain. that was true in 1974, and its true right now too. one of the things that democrats...

Election going forward, its going to be about the tens of millions of families across this country who work hard, who played to the rules, and who just time after time take one body blow after another. >> we are back panel. it is a good enough for elizabeth warren to tried to deflect the controversy over the dna test and say its not about me. its about people. >> no, unfortunately. it was truly a debacle. it showed what her political judgment is really like. its one thing to be on the senate flo...

Outgoing james matus. while mick mulvaney will take over as acting white house chief of staff john kelly. meantime the white house will look to get the state department of more women, heather nauert confirmed as u.n. ambassador, and willing a bar as her attorney we are back with the power panel. boyd matheson and john summers kicking this off. lets give u.s. -- you a chanco kick this off. this happens at any administration, but there has been a concern of turnover in the trump administration ove...

Trump supporters on the campaign trail, there was a lot of tension. they liked that he had money because they feel like he had nothing to win. he was doing this out of the goodness of his heart and as a public servant but on the other hand they had to acknowledge that he was breaking the traditional paradigm of what it meant to be a politician. do you think bloomberg could tread that similar line? >> i think it could be tough. having a lot of money has been replaced with bringing in a lot of sma...

Larger. i dont think so. i think theyre going to shrink. i think that base is going to shrink because theyre going to see who this president really is. >> now the democrats have control of the house, it remains to be seen just how far maxine waters and other democrats will go to put those wheels in motion. a reporter who covered the watergate scandal wrote a "new york times" op ed saying of the president, in the end republicans will opt for their own political survival. some senate republicans h...