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Reached out to the secretary of the interior in late january or early february to talk about Vice President biden and the 2016 election. Thats certainly long before the phone call and before president zelenskys election. At that time around february, avicov expressed concerns to yavonovitch that getting into u. S. Politics would be a dangerous place for ukraine to be. Here is the testimony. Question what were his concerns as expressed to you . Yavonovitch he thought this was so he thought it was...

The World Economic Forum is inching rightward and backing away from the progressive causes it once championed loudly.

Border and get that stop. >> that was nikki haley outlining her plan to deal with immigration if she becomes president. david axelrod preemptive strike against. >> yes. >> against the tax. >> well that already came after, where she talked about the need for immigrants, that we need to reduce the amount of times that it takes for illegal immigrants to become citizens. and that we need people to go to college here and get educated here, we need them to stay and not send them back to their countrie...

Issues which are wildly out of swing with the voters. one of the other states that we saw with really abortion was the issue was wisconsin. they had on election over it this year for reap -- a state thats even it is divided with overwhelming when for the progressive side. i think what we see here that whenever republicans are on the wrong side of an issue they resort to voter suppression, gerrymandering, changing the rules halfway through the game, whether its in tennessee when they tried to exp...

Joe biden. do you think hes a bigger threat to joe biden than donald trump? >> no. i dont think anyone in the democratic party right now is a threat to him. everyone is coalescing behind him. aoc just endorsed him, which is a big deal. shes the head of the left wing progressive side of the party, and she came out early and said joe biden is the guy. theres an incredible track record of achievements to go into this election. shes sending a signal to other people in the squad, people on the left w...

But it is what is coming out of this. on the democratic side, the requirements, issues like that on the progressive side. however, theres not a position of negotiating on this at all. i wouldnt be surprised that the number of democrats that they need will vote for this. but its going to be a heavy lift with leaders as we go forward. its going to be 72 hours for the bill and then the house floor. >> so, then, you have the fight for work for federal food aid on one side. and cuts on other inside. ...

But dont worry, theyre gonna be freedom caucus members who vote for us. i think it is notable that you have jim jordan coming out and sounding very optimistic about the steal. talk me through the politics, and the machinations were gonna see on the republican side. >> so, the first place tomorrow gonna see a real sticking point, the rules committee. which controls what comes to the floor of the house and when. part of the deal that got speaker mccarthy the gavel, back in january, putting more ar...

They got a two-year deal here that takes us off the table until after the 2024 election, a two-year -- deal, everything reset to 2025. all these targets republicans are talking about, for spending, or nonbinding. that, of course, they protect the presidents inflation reduction act, his student loan provisions, climate change when measures, a lot of demagogic and say, okay, compared to what we thought, a week or two ago, this is not a better deal. >> were gonna help her from some of those democra...

-- it was a combination of ange over the gerrymandering an 2018, the republicans after 20 version, the democrat won th attorney generals office, they strip those offices of some of the powers these were very anti democrati lower case the efforts tha have pushed people and motivated them here was an opportunity, the first in a long time as you say, 15 years, even longer. in 2008, it wasnt really liberal controlled court, it was centrist it was the first opportunity t get the voter i.d. law all of...

Supply of the arms. >> i wonder is the white house at all concerned there seems to be a growing republican opposition to the u.s. continuing to finance or offer aid to ukraine? >> theyve got to be concerned about it. its not clear how much its grown. what fascinates me about it is, this is one of those rare issues where if you go to the far left of the democratic party and the far right of the republican party, for different reasons theyre coming out the same place. the progressive side is sayin...