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A few moments ago? >> actually, jim, somewhere in between. its helpful if you understand its three major components. first components. we were expecting a delta wave, because weve not done a good enough job vaccinating the country. only 60% have gotten two doses. that means the unvaccinated, weve got a -- were going to pile into hospitals anyway because of delta. thats point one. point two is we have the omicron variant superimposed. a lot of us were hopeful it would have a four to six-week lag ...

The omicron variant so no question youll be better off. having said that with the third immunization, data coming out of uk health security agency said about 70% to 75 protection against symptomatic illness so not quite as good as it is against the other variants. thats point up. point two, that level of protection is -- may be the best case scenario because it starts to decline after a few months based on data coming out of germany, so thats why this is going to be so problematic is we will see...

A -- >> mcconnell is already face -- several gop candidates have made voting him out of leadership now part of their platform. chris cillizza has a piece about that on cnn.com. so walk us through how real this morning is that threat for mitch mcconnell, chris? >> sure, erica. lets start with what we definitely know. point one, donald trump does not like mitch mcconnell. he has gone after him many times. point two, donald trump has tried to recruit someone within the senate to challenge mitch mcc...

>> who risked his life for our country. >> tell me again why you hate america. >> i dont hate america. i just hate the truth. -- i just hate the troops. >> im glad we distinguished that. we made a very important difference. >> you put that out there, oh, my god. >> i dont have full control over anything i do. thats point one. point two, you can lose more time when you turn off all notifications. anyone do this? you turn them off. you look like, okay, its been enough time you have to see people w...

Country. >> tell me again why you hate america. >> i dont hate america. i just hate the truth. -- i just hate the troops. >> im glad we distinguished that. we made a very important difference. >> you put that out there, oh, my god. >> i dont have full control over anything i do. thats point one. point two, you can lose more time when you turn off all notifications. anyone do this? you turn them off. you look like, okay, its been enough time you have to see people want to hear from and nobody tex...

Lot. >> professor, that certainly has been the trend line with republican success, making inroads among hispanic voters. thats point one. point two, do you think what happened in virginia is a portable skill that they can move on and put on the road in 2020? or was it a one-off? >> what we saw with youngkin and latino voters -- let me just put this out there. the data is a little spotty because of the sample sizes. but what were seeing is that about a third of the latino vote in virginia went fo...

Hears the third big abortion case of the term, the direct challenge to roe v. wade on mississippis law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks. so i think, lets step back here and look as a practical matter, i think as a practical matter, sb 8, the texas law, is going to remain in effect for at least several more months while thats cases work their way through the supreme court, thats point one. point two, theyll hear two lawsuits on november 1. the first one is a state lawsuit filed by abortion ...

To then try it again. what is the justice department going to do here? how does the justice department clean up after this mess? i dont know what will happen to trump. i dont know what will happen to jeff clark here. whats the justice department going to do about the way it was used? joining us is rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse. he sat in on some of the testimony. he is also a former prosecutor. he was u.s. attorney in rhode island. he was the states attorney general. qualified to comme...

Point two would be how much of this scheme focused on georgia. the letter was about georgia. the schemes to maneuver u.s. attorney pack out of georgia were obviously about georgia. it supplements whatever investigative materials the fulton county d.a. is pulling together to look at trumps efforts to subvert the election in georgia. it ties together into what could be a very interesting case in the fulton county d.a.s office. the last is, its apparent in the transcript and more evident if you wer...

He wants a blank check. i am not going to vote. you can write this down and take it home to momma. i am not going to vote to give senator schumer a blank check. thats point one. point two, let me tell you whats really going on around here. i dont know first hand, i havent talked to every one of my democratic colleagues. but theres some that believe that senator schumer now has the votes to break the filibuster on the issue of raising the debt ceiling. i dont know if thats true or not. but obviou...