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Slates thanks to a small group i michigan, the michigan information and research service, mirs, which focuses on covering the michigan state capital. god bless mirs in michigan because we can hear all of this alleged conspiracy out loud as it happened on tape. listen. >> hi, representative -- my name is angela mccallum and im calling from trump campaign headquarters in washington, d.c. i know youre very busy, but i did want to personally reach out to you t on behalf of the president as youve got...

0 maddow show right starts right now. >> good evening chris, thanks my friend, much appreciated. thanks for joining us this hour, when the day this is been. be true. turns out it was rudy. heres the front page at cnn.com right now. giuliani led fake electors plot. heres "the washington posts" version of the that same front page story today. giuliani coordinated plan for trump electoral votes in states biden won. it was mr. giuliani, apparently. you know, you find a little thread of a story, you ...

Agile as he -- >> i thought his performance was okay-ish, and i think he had an opportunity toe improve a great deal. but a bunch of people are taking shots, and i thought he handled them okay. there were times when i thought he was pretty good and went on the attack and he defended hmm himself. he also did defend the legacy. this is a problem the rest have. yes, he does use obama as sort of his shield, but if youre going to go after him in recent memory, bidens recent memory, you do into smack ...

Hes running against the socialists. and the democrats are giving him way too much of an opportunity toe be three freshmen congress women. no one on the democratic primary campaign trail is pushing back on them and theyre letting them take up. dont push back, theyre nervous about trying to absorb the energy on the left, and seen as scary moderate centrists. if they allow aoc to dictate the terms of the party and become the identity of the party, theyre going to be in real trouble next year. >> i ...

He had no experience at all, in government, so im just not sure that the age thing matters so much. its interesting that hes fixating on that, when others are just as old as he is. or almost as old as he is. >> theres a case to be made that alexandria ocasio-cortez gets more air time on fox news. theres clearly an effort to brand her as the beating heart of the democratic party, the talk of socialism, the tower of the far left going-forward. >> president trump has starts his re-election campaign...

Him and known him is a feisty spirit, he enjoys being funny and poking fun, he enjoys a good fight. he really savor the opportunity toe engage politically with his politics. at times including throwing some elbow a elbows and barbs at them. >> of course, from a navy family and the other thing that always strike me is we think of him as a presidential national figure because he was the nominee for the republican party long known for his p.o.w. and the five and a half years of captivity in vietnam...

Wedge issue ahead of the mid terms, think about how this could potentially split the republican base. you just saw with mark sanford, the power of this president turning his twitter handle on you. they are all scared that like you said, poke the bear, hell come after you. and mcconnell himself, i caught him afterwards, after corkers tirade because it was so emotional. one thing, i dont know if you pitched it up. he actually name-checked not only cornyn by also inhov who was running the floor, wh...

Comparison would be better than in past cases. he took the opportunity toe the it now stands. lets listen in. >> we need quick justice and we need strong justice. much quicker and much stronger than we have right now. because what we have right now is a joke and its a laughingstock. and no wonder so much of this stuff takes place. >> so you heard the president say what we have right now, talking about the justice system, is a joke and a laugh g laughingstock. keep that in mind as we hear sarah s...

Immigration bidding war. we have a set of principles, i have been talking about them for a number of weeks. fortunately there is a group of senate democrats and republicans here who had similar principles who were able to join together to announce those prince tell p. pells. now we are going to start working on turning those principles into a bill, a law. at some point thats just a starting point because we have all the other members of the senate have their opinions. the president cease this as...

We are back with republican senator john cornyn, not to be confused with former senator jon corzine from new jersey, my apologizes. also with us democratic senator robert menendez. i appreciate you both being here. let me ask you, first, about a couple of things that you all have done or said over time. senator menendez, when you -- two days before you left town, you introduced major immigration reforming, which republicans have said this is cynical, were not going to pass it in two days, this w...