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That is tremendous amount of access. he has a lot of access to the president of the united states. he speaks frequently with jared kushner. so hes getting a lot of bang for his buck at this point. >> alex, i want to turn to mirna for this other prong of this approach. youve got the donor class and theyre writing the big checks and then the voter suppression fights. georgia right now, theres a lawsuit being filed about these 53,000 upheld registrations. whats going on in georgia right now? >> the...

Right. this is a drop in the bucket for sheldon adelson. he typically gives in election cycles around $100 million. what he gets in exchange for that is tremendous amount of access. he has a lot of access to the president of the united states. he speaks frequently with jared kushner. so hes getting a lot of bang for his buck at this point. >> alex, i want to turn to mirna for this other prong of this approach. youve got the donor class and theyre writing the big checks and then the voter suppres...

Him and everybody needs to stop covering him critically, et cetera. >> well, that could have been a valid point had he not continued to then justify his support for all of donald trumps policies. there is a deep sense of betrayal among people who follow hip-hop and rap. kanye was supposed to be this harbinger of conscious rap and hes at the white house for a president who is systematically denying black people the right to vote and purging voter rolls and calling him very fine people. this is no...

Part, lawrence. enthusiasm and anger last forever, right? republicans were mad at obama for eight years, so democrats can stay angry. ill give you a perfect example. my class tonight, i was teaching my class at morgan state, came here to the tudev joe. every single one of my students are registered to vote. that wasnt the case in 2016. they are registered to vote where ben jealous is far behind. i didnt have to force them to, i didnt have to offer them extra credit. i am seeing here in maryland,...

Website being sent out right now in georgia helping people make sure theyre registered to vote because brian kemp is notorious for erasing the polls and purging people right before the election deadline. so, again, ive seen people being more dedicated, being more focused, not just mshing aarchi being happy. but actually getting out there and helping candidates and fighting against voter suppression which is what the democrats have to do in order to make sure these close races agely turn into vir...

In the op-ed but maybe move trump out and get a mike pence. set up more rivalry between trump and pence. make trump distrust mike pence. you know, use lodestar a lot. thats the speculation, too. we are already seeing per axios, white house aides are using this op-ed to throw people under the bus, to create a purge. am i thinking two, three-dimensional chess that this could be someone trying to help his party by presenting an opportunity to purge people they dont like and be left with just the ta...

Tamara and zeke, i want to talk about the idea of what we saw. you were with me in the transition, the beginning days of the administration, when we covered all of the changes. the purging, quote, unquote, of trompe loeump loyalists of dif agencies. the obama holdovers. john bolden was expected to clean house, for example. the president working to fill jobs still occupied by obama appointees at the time. this was, frankly, in some ways, it still is, something certain segments of the presidents a...

Conservative think tank and the international republican institute. nonprofit pro-democracy group board includes senator john mccain pap short time ago testimony from state department officials at the senate foreign relations committee hearing punctuated where the attacks are coming from and who they support. >> the threat from russia evolved beyond being simply an external or military one. it includes influence operations, orchestrated by the kremlin in the very heart of the western world. as t...

So laura can get back to the dogs. would you sit still? this is lauras mobile dog grooming palace and this is where life meets legal. the attorney for the president trying to defend the battle over his testimony. >> im not going to be rushed into having him testify so he gets trapped into purging. when you tell me he should testify because hes going to tell the truth and shouldnt worry, thats so silly. its somebodys version of the truth. not the truth. he didnt have a conversation --

No ones quit this administration. i think its time for dan coats to man up, so to speak. i think its been clear he does not like some of the behaviors by the trump administration. hes the head of national intelligence. he was caught off guard at the aspen institute and he did not know of this purging. in some weird way coats is expendable unlike mattis, who i think it would be a disaster if he left. i think its time. >> stand by. well talk more about clearances. when we come back, no sign of a v...