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coast. we have a new special report for you right now, focusing on the specific plans for the bloodless coup during the postelection period after trump lost in 2020, as president elect biden prepar to take power, few people knew then how this coup plot wa working. the new report details a comprehensive effort, much o it unseen by an unknown to the general public to overturn the votes. the idea was to do it throug politicians, not violence. and that trump would attempt t stay in power i...

Katy tur picks things up. Im not sure that donald trump can speak fluent japanese. We have a team of reporters working on finding that out. We also have a team of reporters to break down Donald Trumps second bilateral meeting. That Press Conference that we justaw between donald trump and the Prime Minister of japan, shinzo abe. It has been a gruelling week for the new president. His major policy and major policy point, Executive Order struck down at least temporarily by the courts. That Press Co...

Consensus to change the rule -- given that everybody seemed to repudiate this behavior, i just seemed unnecessarily -- to go after the symbolic figure this broken man. let him live on his life none of that applies today were in a situation where, in fact, donald trump - the majority was in his ow congressional party. he was able to determine nomination fights in 2022. -- and there is a broad mood amon many of his supporters tha what he did was permissible. -- that election shouldnt coun -- there...

Court nomination fights? >> i have to say first of all, i wish i had as much hair as -- as i did back then. i do think it was a watershed moment but not for the reasons everyone tends to state. it was a watershed moment because it was an opportunity for the country to hear competing views of basic constitutional questions, like the one i was testifying about there about whether the constitution -- even though it doesnt say anything about bedroom privacy or sexual choice or the right to raise you...

Decisions in the board room. >> do you agree his defeat was a watershed moment in supreme court nomination fights? >> i have to say first of all, i wish i had as much hair as i did back then. i do think it was a watershed moment but not for the reasons everyone tends to state. it was a watershed moment because it was an opportunity for the country to hear competing views of basic constitutional questions like the one i was testifying about there about whether the constitution even though it does...

Sure theres a black woman on the supreme court to make sure we, in fact get equal representation. its not a joke. its not a joke. i would push very hard for that. >> politically supreme court nomination fights can come with huge risks, but they also present big opportunities to unite a political party. just look what it did for trump and the republicans in 2016. it even worked to a degree in 18 with the senate races. but the debate over breyers successor is a point to rally around. if it is an a...

Against the city of philadelphia on the contentious issue of same-sex adoption, and thats the path they chose. so a lot of these warnings, it just really show house hyperbolic these supreme court nomination fights are too often. >> joe, thank you for saying that, just because you look at what happened a couple of years ago, with justice kavanaugh and the sliming was such an egregious low point in american politics, and for those of us that know and respect justice kavanaugh, he did what we alway...

This week. >> reporter: thats right. first of all, on the coverage, if theyre running were covering them, right? kamala harris, she had a little bit of a press conference yesterday of the shell go to oakland, california, on saturday and make a formal speech but where will she go in between, south carolina, and thats really important. lets go over the map and timing. let me previous face this by saying these dates are iffy. they change, they could move up. they could go into january or february. ...

As republicans had in 2018. the senate map is laid out pretty well for the democrats. but its going require that they can start winning seats in red states. and thats going to require the democratic party coming more to the center on immigration, nor the center on some other issues if they are going to win in some of those red states. well like states like missouri where claire mccaskill lost, states like tennessee where democrats had a shot but still ended up loeg. m mika, that dynamic democrat...

Delaware. >> im jeff flake, a republican from arizona. >> it was our personal relationship that made the politics of compromise that prevailed yesterday possible. we hear you. and we need to keep hearing from you. >> so feel free to join me in an elevator any time. >> okay. so that last comment aside, they were followed by cardi b and i talked to before this unfolded, senator coons how he usually attends this festival and is not always greeted with much notice or interest but this year hes a big...