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Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Or distorted what happened in the election campaign. But what is Donald Trumps core point that he wants to say even more than no collusion, no collusion, no collusion . It didnt change a vote. So this is a problem. So if they had stepped up their game in 2016 and the Obama Administration was asleep at the switch, maybe they did change some votes. Trump i...

Liberal Black scholar Cornel Wests presidential campaign likely poses no threat to US political duopoly, especially considering he is running under the banner of a third-party distrusted by many in his own progressive base.

Implemented. >> sergio, i wonder, you said a resounding no -- when i asked you, are they being loud enough, -- some form of fear about being sort of painted as inhumane. why? because, in some way, the administration is using stricter policies in the sense, that they are closing the border and going out to cuba, venezuelans, patients and nicaraguans. yes, they are creating more legal pathways. but in a way, that could alienate the more progressive base of the party. is that part of the no? >> the...

Inhumane. why? because, in some way, the administration is using stricter policies in the sense, that they are closing the border and going out to cuba, venezuelans, patients and nicaraguans. yes, they are creating more legal pathways. but in a way, that could alienate the more progressive base of the party. is that part of the no? >> the party needs to lean into what the president ran on in 2020, which was to roll back these hideous and horrible trump policies, things like separating kids from ...

>> anita: good point. katie, let me have you respond. >> president biden has a lot of things he can do here to stop the flow from coming. the truth is the administration is fine with it because they dont want to take on a their progressive base which thinks that the border should be wide open. the fact is, the border was closed under president trump. for political reasons, the biden administration decided to reject every single policy position that was working for the sake of saying theyre repea...

Did it come at allenating the pro progressive base? so, i consider the campaign is feeling confident about this strategy to appeal to these split-ticket voters tonight. >> all right, eva mckend, with raphael warnock at his headquarters. lets go to jeff zeleny right now in herschel walkers headquarters. how did that campaign feel about the campaign strategy? they were obviously knocked off course several times because of herschel walkers scandleses in his personal life. >> they were indeed. and d...

Also being true. there is more diversity and size of these other states. it is important for african americans to have stronger voices in the nominating contest. all of these things happen to be true and, yes, obama benefited from the iowa caucuses, but the second time around, south carolina was happy to embrace him and the first time around it was up closer than anybody thought it would be. black democrats in south carolina fell in love with barack obama in 2008 and were really divided between ...

The progressive base. do you think that its part of that bipartisan pressure to make the white house rethink this? >> i do not know. i know he doesnt listen to republicans, he doesnt listen to those of us that talk about this, so i dont know if you will listen to democrats, many of them it is a political issue. and i know that it is about policy because they know that communities are being overrun, hispanic voters are coming to the party rapidly. and there are a lot of issues, but this is an iss...

Timing is important on this matter. >> so that leaves us back at the question of what is the democrats end game? moments ago the white house confirmed that president biden will attend the caucus lunch to discuss the push to pass voting rights and potential changes to senate rules. right now members of the congressional black caucus are about to hold a news conference as the progressive base grows increasingly frustrated with the lack of action on this issue. the big questions about the path forw...