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The states break. the former president in office did not have good luck in midterm years. hes trying to help democrats this time. >> this time around there are a lot of democrats telling me and probably you, too, they wish obama had started coming out earlier on the campaign trail and helping draft their message. until this point its been all over the place. >> we havent seen the president, hes not really been out much on the campaign trail. bill clinton, remember how he was such a huge democrat...

Longer governor of california, he was running for president. in august 1980, reagan gave a speech to 10,000 cheering evangelicals in a dallas arena, and he talked about creationism, and the bible. he talked about how evangelical institutions ought to be able to remain racially segregated, if they wanted. thats nice. but even then, he did not mention abortion. the plan to use abortion as a right-wing political organizing tool, to try, for example, to move catholics to the republican party, to giv...

His first antiabortion segment was not until 1978, more than five years after roe. even as late as 1980, when ronald reagan biden was no longer governor of california, he was running for president. in august 1980, reagan gave a speech to 10,000 cheering evangelicals in a dallas arena, and he talked about creationism, and the bible. he talked about how evangelical institutions ought to be able to remain racially segregated, if they wanted. thats nice. but even then, he did not mention abortion. t...

0 southern baptist convention. reactions to roe v. wade were also really heterogeneous for a long time between the two political parties. there were plenty of antiabortion democrats, and there were lots of pro-choice republicans. republican governors wrote the forefront of decriminalizing of abortion in the states in the 1960s. including the governor of california, a man named ronald reagan. in 1967, ronald reagan signed into law the most liberal abortion rights bill in the country in california...

Facebook can in no way be used to draw fair conclusions about it. internally, we share work in progress and debate options. not every suggestion stands up to the scrutiny we must apply to decisions affecting so many people." but the role facebook played in january 6th is still under scrutiny. heres select committee chairman bennie thompson from the weekend. >> were in the process of negotiating with facebook and those other platforms to get certain information, but its clear that the january 6th...

Museum. it is where we go to learn about bloody sunday, where senate republicans used the filibuster to block a previous round of super important civil rights and voting rights legislation. so again, it is not exactly clear who todays hearings are for and what larger strategy it is connected to. but we are familiar with story telling as an organizing tool, so theres that. >> is there implications, i dont want to put words in your mouth, maybe time and efforts and energy could be better spent? >>...

Get things done in the long run. an interesting long term, somebody portrayed as impatient, i think she has an impressive long view of what she thinks her role is now. i found it smart she views the green new deal as an organizing tool. she is not saying theyre passing legislation tomorrow which is a way of setting expectations more realistically. >> you look at the progressive economic base of the party, everyone remembers there was burning before he had the crowds and burning after, what every...

>> you talked about the aggregate nature of this with trump. the aggregate nature of trump is to the media too. whats happening now, kids, young people in particular are beginning to understand how to use social media as an organizing tool. and you have hash tag politics all over the place, with women, with blacks and with students. >> ill have to end it there, its going to be a wild weekend, a lot going on. thats why you got to tune in sunday. ill be right back.

They wanted to do was personalize this, and feed on antipathy towards me in their party. as an organizing tool. as politics. but i -- i dont have a pride of authorship on this thing. if they can come up with something better, im for it, but you have to show -- and i would advise every democrat to be for it, but you have to show that its better and thats not too much to ask. >> no more -- >> thats fair. >> asking republicans to have a replacement plan is no more than asking pigs to fly across the...

This and feed on antipathy towards me in their party as an organizing tool. its politics. >> that moments ago from the outgoing president. the first lady michelle obama holding her last official event at the white house as we speak. well take you there if anything interesting develops. with us to share the reporting, the atlantics molly ball, cnn manu raju and abby phillips from the washington post. the cia director who will be in the room with donald trump, john brennan, he says theres no doubt...