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lost. after the laughable landscaping company press conference. even after the attack on our nations capital. no. instead it is escalating. that anti-democratic cancer is metastasizing. just look at pennsylvania today. the two high-profile races for the open -- and the governors mansion and -- have huge implications for both the commonwealth and the nation at large. as they do every year. the editorial board of the philadelphia inquirer, one of the nations biggest newspapers, in a cruc...

it is escalating. that anti-democratic cancer is metastasizing. just look at pennsylvania today. the two high-profile races for the open large. as they do every year. the editorial board of the philadelphia inquirer, one of the nations biggest newspapers, in a crucial swing state wanted to endorse a republican candidate for those races. but they couldnt. they write that they sent every republican candidate in the senate race a survey to see where they stood on a number of issues. but t...

Wow. if this oligarch is talking out of his heart, speculating idly, doing kind of remote diagnosis the way a lot of people in the press are doing, okay. or number three, perhaps most tantalizing of all, if this is some cleverly cooked a piece of disinformation that russian elites have disseminated into the west, and also within moscow itself, in the inner sanctum of the russian government, then it suggests that it is designed to make putin look vulnerable, and weak, and perhaps susceptible to a...

Coverage. >> and as we talk about health care right now youve got the covid response team briefing reporters as the biden administration has announced theyre going to form a task force to research cases of long covid. citing the millions of americans who are still suffering from the virus even months or years after testing positive at this point. i want to bring in nbc news correspondent ali vitali. lets talk about former president obama. he doesnt just show up for any and everything, right? the...

Are the democrats willing to sit down? they skipped their last meeting with trump because they didnt like the tweets right before. they look like they will go to this one but they have proven that they do not want to negotiate with donald trump. i am not sure politically its a bad move for them. may be bad for the country but politically, if you look at all of the special elections we have had in the last year, democrats have done very well because there is a lot of anger about president trump a...

The sporting goods stores. >> right and there is a prominent manufacturer of rifle magazines in colorado with about 200 employees that says its going to leave colorado, take 200 jobs out of the state because of these laws. its ill-considered, its kind of a disaster and its really not going to make us safer. and gun guys are irritated by it. jon: do you see the legislature and the governor saying, woe, maybe weve made a mistake here, lets rethink this? >> you know this was -- governor had a good ...

Its not clear where the republicans in the house stand. >> david, what about the political calculation here? as well as a policy calculation? where does the white house fall on both? >> you saw, alex, this week the president came out on tuesday and he had an event with first responder emergency responders saying their budgets are going to be cut. then the pentagon came out the next day and said were going to have to lay off 800,000 civilian workers or furlough them one day a week. yesterday you ...

Illegally. that argument is not going to work in a general election if youre trying to win hispanic votes. so the question to look for now, tamron, is how much will romney try to back away from the positions that he took during the primary, use marco rubio as political cover and end up with a more moderate position. what the position is trying to do today is lay down a marker to say im going to do the humane thing. if you try to match me, were going to point out you flip flopped on this issue. >...

Talk about what it is exactly that we would do to help grow the economy and how folks that are looking to get in this country, aspirational americans, how we can help them and do it legally. >> quickly, we will move on to the bus tour, can the republican nominee of the party keep the immigration position, mitt romney espoused in the primary which was to the right of rick perry, to the right of newt gingrich? is that a sustainable model? you republican strategist looking at 2016 and 2020, given t...

quick to compromise with republicans. well, today that same president delivered this warning. >> i will not support -- i will not support any plan that puts all the burden for closing our deficit on ordinary americans. and i will veto any bill that changes benefits for those who rely on medicare, but does not raise serious revenues by asking the wealthiest americans or biggest corporations to pay their fair share. >> the rich, very rich politics of this debate in just a moment. first, ...