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proposal which was announced just a few minutes ago. press release was sent out by senator chris murphys office. he is the senator that has been leading this effort for almost ten years now since the sandy hook shooting. he says a group, a bipartisan group, ten republican and ten democratic senators have come to a resolution, an agreement in principle on this proposal. i will read a couple of the details that are included in this proposal to you now. one thing is incentives for states ...

Them for the last three months. Four months, five months. And theyre still here. Theyre still here. Meanwhile, bipartisan efforts to Shield Mueller and his investigation are moving forward in the senate, interestingly enough after much delay. Today republican Chuck Grassley, the chair of the powerful Senate Judiciary committee announced his panel will vote on a bill to protect mueller potentially as soon as tomorrow. That puts grassley on a direct Collision Course with the Senate Majority leader...

Nationalism. we have an increasingly diverse country where white christians are now in the minority. and we have people perceiving race relations to be at a quarter-century low. on top of that, extremism has fragmented, but it has entered the mainstream. >> its certainly been in the mainstream. do you feel like -- i mean, the three things i just mentioned just from this past week seem incredibly striking to me. are they striking to you? and what is causing these to grow? >> we have a variety of ...

The most reckless spending spree in american history i think this past year. he talked about conservative values in a faith meeting, paying off a porn star,etting busted with a playboy bunny. you could talk about all the racism after post-charlottesville, defending white supremacists. trying to ban 1.5 billion people from coming into this country based on their faith based on his campaign promise. >> did you get the porn star? >> yeah, i did. the litany goes on and on and on and then a left wing...

Bumping in the 40s. not the worst. not like post charlottesville. all the stuff on polling looks like, bad but not catastrophic for republicans. maybe improving a little. if you look at fund-raising, political reports, special elections, the behavior of people like paul ryan, it looks like a disaster. >> candidate recruitment is something that would figure highly there. seeing quality and number of candidates the democrats have been able to recruit. something hard to gauge now. based on sheer nu...

Time that is happening, also shifted seven seats towards the democrat. 29 republican house members are resigning or retiring, pennsylvania congressman, charlie dent, candidate about his partys chances in november. >> certainly the energy, enthusiasm and anger is on the democratic side. in this election. there its no, no sugarcoating that. so, you know a big wave coming. some members have to get off the beach. >> with me, michelle grober, josh ernest, christina greer, and political scientist. so,...

Head of the republican national committee. hes a very decent, solid, smart guy. and he ran a very strong senate campaign a couple of years ago. he has a good shot to be competitive and maybe even when this governor race of virginia. his challenge is whether or not he embraces president, who remember in one of the most populus counties, he didnt even get 30% of the vote. you will want to see him cozy up to mike pence than president trump. but president trump is still going to insert himself as so...

Conservative as senator jeff flake but hes bucked verbally what the president has said and proposed, the presidents policies and viewpoint just kind of almost on everything right now and his decision to leave makes clear there will be another republican in the u.s. senate who doesnt owe anything to anybody, isnt concerned about re-election and is now a free agent and can do whatever he wants to do moving forward, brooke. >> >> we were just talking about senator corker and post-charlottesville cr...

Corker has made. post charlottesville, he was questioning the stability of the president. now hes using the word reckless, chaos. now he is saying he concerns me. i think hes planting seeds for questionable the fitness, the mental fitness of the president pursuant to the 25th amendment to continue with his responsibilitys. >> you think that bob corker is that deliberate, that he is deliberately choosing words that will lay the groundwork for that? >> take a look at the amendment and then say, al...

Being republican men and white voters without college degrees. sophia, how do you explain that and how worried do you think the president should be by those numbers? >> look, alex, the president has had a difficult past few weeks post-charlottesville, even his voters who are rural white men, working class 53% of white women that group of americans, everything jonathan said is right, however, charlottesville shifted things for them, because the majority of americans the vast majority of us reject...