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Continue to fight as our predecessors, as our ancestors did. as african-americans in this country, we have always had to fight for voting rights to be protected, and unfortunately we found ourselves in this moment again. so for us its going to be almost six months of protesting and going to jail with non-violent direct action and all the things heating with senator manchin and senator sinema and republicans in the house continuing for the last six months. to be able to have a moment where we can...

Working its way through the georgia legislature essentially allowing parents or giving parents the ability to ban books they deem objectionable. >> well, i think we have a few things going on here. i mean, first of all, we live in an un-paralleled and unprecedented time of educational polarization of the electorate where the more educated you are the more likely you are to be progressive, and the less educated you are the more likely youre to going to vote for republicans. racial injustice exist...

Their diversity. of the 42 you mentioned only two are white males. that is not the most important criteria but it indicates i think a commitment to broaden the face of the judiciary, something president carter started and presidents since then have tried to do. he is taking it to new heights. about one third have substantial experience as public defenders and that is a big increase over his predecessors as well. so it is a very interesting, important story but it tends to get under reported. we ...

Under 40% approval at this point. you go back to barack obama and you can see obama was actually at 50% approval at this point, the numbers were heading down, but he was still at 50%. biden is in between where trump and obama were, of course, the problem there for biden and democrats, both trump and obama suffered very difficult midterm elections and biden is right within that range obviously where his two predecessors were. if they look closer at that 43% approval rating, you can break it down ...

The number of conservative mps demanding a vote on whether to replace the prime minister, the number of labour mps, after this weeks defection and the odds on borisjohnson surviving in office. none of that can be blamed on inflation, at least, which has hit a near 30 year high. more on that later. the perilous state of mrjohnson�*s fortunes was laid bare in two appearances this week. challenged repeatedly in a tv interview about parties in downing street during covid lockdowns, the prime minis...

Deals in congress have largely not panned out. much of his first year in the white house was spent working closely with congress on bills that did make it through the house but only died on the senate floor. and the frustration of the president is being matched in polling of the american public. just 43% feel like the president is doing a good job. joining me now is nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki, "the new york times" chief white house correspondent and msnbc political ...

>> why are you so confident he will change his behavior, mr. president? >> president biden: im not confident. what do you do all the time? [inaudible] >> do you think that might incentivize more people to come over illegally. >> if you guys keep sending that garbage out, yeah. >> dana: the other thing that happened yesterday is the president said at the inflation event im not going the take questions on ukraine. you dont really get to say that. the press can ask whatever they want and you can ta...

Makers are trying to directly inhibit childrens education and insure that they remain as narrow minded as their predecessors and do not defect to the more urbane and sophisticated party. i think its clear that since the start of covid republicans have latched onto this idea of parents rights. this was about masking in schools, right? we have had so many culture wars in so many states now and on the federal level about whether schools can require children to remain masked to limit the spread of c...

You ought to do it, but presidents always overestimate their mandates, i believe, and i think biden did the same thing. talking to white house sources, its clear to me that goes back to covid and that he saw there was such a crisis in the country that i think instead of trying to be a transitional president, he set out trying to be a tran transformational president. >> he sort of missed opportunities to communicate more with the american public. hes had the fewest press conferences during his fi...

Weve got new numbers this morning on president biden standing with the american people one year into office. what they could mean in key battleground counties come this novembers midterms. were also going to go beyond the numbers with our special series county to county because we have dasha burns in pennsylvania, but lets start with steve kornacki, at the big board for us. steve, i think theres a lot of fascinating tidbits in this poll. tell us your height lights. >> this brand-new nbc poll one...