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senator lindsey graham relates to something much deeper and more important. tells us about where not only the republican party is but why we have so many problems defending our democracy these days. you may know him. really one of the people who has had kind of a self-defeating obsession of winning over trump even though he initially warned more than many about how bad trump is and that made graham a politically troubled character because the public record shows he knows exactly what h...

and thats in large part because ron desantis, who was initially hyped up as the candidate has seen his poll numbers tank. just look at the polling averages since the start of this calendar year. desantis should come with its own slide whistle. hes almost 30 points behind trump and the average of the national poll. even a top official at a pro-desantis superpact recently conceded his campaign has been a bust so far. >> right now in national polling we are way behind. to be blunt and hon...

un-redacted affidavit the government used to get a search warrant for trumps mar-a-lago club last year. full disclosure nbc news is part of a group of organizations that sued to get this affidavit un-redacted, and now it is out. it is not totally un-redacted, but it is way, way less redacted than the original version, so we have been comparing and contrasting the two as fast as we can. again, this thing just came out two hours ago, but the thing that jumped out at us immediately was th...

unredacted statements add fresh detail for the legitimate basis of the fbis suspicions. this latest release fills in some of the remaining blanks, particularly having to do with a key video that is referred to in the indictment. the newly available information suggests that people at the justice department suspected something was very much up after watching surveillance footage of trumps former valet, witness number five, moving boxes in and out of a storage area at the time he was bei...

white house meeting in december of 2020. flynn along with a crew of trumps lawyers like rudy giuliani and sidney powell, presented an avalanche of baseless claims of election fraud, while the white house lawyers debunked all of them. at that meeting, sydney powell presented trump with a draft executive order that would have directed the military to seize our nations voting machines. a lot of that plan would have also made sydney powell herself a special counsel, and could have imposed ...

legislation following a pair of deadly mass shootings, proving that action can overcome partisan division. serbia is taking swift action on gun violence -- >> not a progressive country, by the way. >> just two mass shootings in may that left seven dead and 21 injured, serbia took action. it has the third largest rate of gun ownership in the world, and it pushed through new laws with near unanimous support despite deep political divides. joining us now with more nbc news chief foreign...

gary schlafly told bret baer there was obstruction. >> are you convincing looking back at there now this was an effort to protect president biden and his family? >> uh, i mean we were conducting investigation of hunter biden and we were trying to follow the normal process. we were trying to get to the bottom of it, and ultimately if it was going to lead to another individual, you know, we should follow that, to determine what is actually happening. but, you know there were definitely h...

carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger. so helms called in the political consultants who in turn helped the helms campaign to fight back. this is what theygn came up wit this ad. >> you needed that job because you were the best qualified, but they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gains says it is. your vote on this issue, for racial quota, harvey gain, against racial quotas, jesse helms. >> you ...

people as the central players -- >> shush, dont tell them. >> well, cats out of the bag. >> its happening. >> i think it happened today. >> thank you for the book plug, as well. thank you my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the year was 1990. republican incumbent north carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger, a man named harvey gantt. it was a surprisingly competitive election. so helms cold in the political consultants, wh...

members of the house will be getting back to work this week, but a major priority right now is wrangling with the details of a potential bill to deal with the border, and aid to ukraine. last night president biden reiterated his support for legislation that would give him the authority to shut down the border if it becomes overwhelmed. also last night, donald trump said he would rather have no border deal than a bad one. so had much support is the current legislation garnering in the c...