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Nominee. How it could influence the race to replace the republican leader. And the record busting billions that president ial campaigns will pour into buying a mountain of negative ads. Can all that money buy a winning message or is it just so much white noise . Msnbc chief political analyst chuck todd will join me to talk about that, and why it may takes weeks to get an answer. We start with today, the official start of the rematch most voters say they didnt want. Joe biden versus donald trump,...

paid to those materials when you are in office and after you leave office, and clearly that did not take place in this case. but the unequal treatment before the law was deeply troubling to me early this week. >> well, well, well. that was mike pence two weeks ago talking about president bidens classified documents. but now its pences lawyers who are explaining how classified material ended up at the former vice presidents home. also ahead, kevin mccarthy makes food on his promises f...

Attempts, the president public attempts, the president public attempts to carry on getting bipartisanship on a host of issues thatjoe biden once past, —— once past. the protection of the voting rights bills in the senate, it seems to me that progressive democrats are getting frustrated with those efforts to try to get bipartisanship and they say its time to move on, we have to do this by ourselves. i we have to do this by ourselves. i would separate the if structure from the voting _ would s...

Made clear to pompeo that is a great landing spot for those with his ambitions. and then underneath lies the uncertainty about the state of the race in kansas where there are red flags for national republicans. this is precisely the point mcconnell made directly to pompeos boss in a meeting earlier this fall sources tell me. trump im told was receptive and made clear if the race in the red state was in trouble he himself would urge pompeo to get in. im told pompeo is undecided and nothing is lik...

President didnt do what the house claims he did, then people like mick mulvaney and john bolton would likely testify to that fact. we all have opinions and its okay to express those opinions. but to be imparlgsz means to be open to the set of believes. and im certainly open to hear from the president. i think its unlikely hell be able to present evidence to change my mind. >> at this point mcconnell and sh schumer are not that far apart. he says he wants to use the clinton impeachment model. the...

Involved. the point mcconnell made which i think is correct is that basically any ruling that -- that roberts makes from the bench is essentially appealable to the full senate. >> right. >> so the full senate, which is dominated by republicans, will be the ultimate authority here and we do have the precedent of william wen qui william rehnquist who did, basically, he will tell you, nothing. sat up there, played solitaire during breaks. >> he did. >> i did very little, his quote, and did it very ...

In addition to not repealing all of the owe bake awe care taxes it doesnt go far enough in lowering premiums for middle class nor does it create enough free space." he is somebody that weve been watching closely and his displeasure with the bill has not been necessarily that vocal but he was against the bill when it was the first version of the health care reform bill, but he said he was open to working and negotiating on the second bill but he never fully embraced it. he was very concerned with...

Class nor does it create enough free space. he is somebody that weve been watching closely and his displeasure with the bill has not been necessarily that vocal but he was against the bill when it was the first version of the health reform bill but he said he was open to working and negotiating on the second bill but he never fully embraced it. he was very concerned with the way medicaid would pay out in this version of health care reform. he was somebody that was never really comfortable with i...

Body parts. the question is how do you achieve that? you could shut down the government and it would not defund planned parenthood. its a strategy that will not lead to a result that i would like. shutting down the government is something the american people overwhelmingly oppose and well not be doing that. it wouldnt produce the result that senator cruz and i would both like to produce, so therefore, it would be an exercise in futility. >> so hes not going to go down that road right? >> yeah, i...

Bevin won almost 40% of the votes, and they think grimes can really challenge mcconnell because shes a fresh face. shes a young woman. shes not run statewide before except for -- shes not run for federal office before. she can really contrast mccobbles the washington insider, and the sense is mcconnell just not beloved here. he is more feared than liked. the opportunity for grimes to really drive up democratic turnout and win if republicans stay home who are tired of mcconnell. >> to to that poi...