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Potential job for general david petraeus. all of this coming after trump famously claimed to know more than the generals on isis and later said this during a town hall. >> i think under the leadership of barack obama and hillary clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. they have been reduced to a point where its embarrassing for our country. >> whoa. lets talk about this. with me, again, ron brownstein, senior editor for the atlantic and jason johnson, politics editor for the root.com ...

Happy about the prospects of our country. so in that spirit, im wishing donald trump luck and im going to give him a chance, and we, the historically disenfranchised, demand that he give us one, too. thank you very much. >> all right. joining me to talk about this is dino badalla show, and jason johnson politics editor at the root.com and professor at morgan state university. welcome to both of you. i found dave chappelles monologue really interesting. i also found that most people left off that...

Started talking about it. martin omalley from maryland, obviously. howard dean. there are a lot of people thinking those are the names -- elizabeth warren -- who might bring the party together to take us through the next election. the executive director of the new york state democratic party and former senate aide to hillary clinton. thank you for being here. >> thanks. the 2016 election left pollsters scratching their heads and political strategists reexamining their game. will this electio...

Performance where miss britney delighted fans. it came nowhere close to being the most talked about performance of the night. she had to follow this. 16-straight minutes of beyoncès lemonade-flavored performance. hillary clinton doesnt fully control her timing on the historical program. the reality is, it should be no surprise that after president obama got african-american voters into formation with record turn out in 2008 and 2012 as the first black president, hillary clinton is more like, lo...

The three men had been participating in the 1964 freedom summer when nearly 1,000 students, mostly white and college educated, came to rural mississippi to help register black voters and educate youth for the summer. part of the strategy of the freedom summer was to open up mississippi, to show the world what was happening there. and local organizers real liesed they could do that by bringing in white young people. in a recent piece for the root.com blair kelly writes freedom summer then was a c...

Arrives home from europe in just a few hours. it is a critical week for him to change the narrative but can he? is that even possible at this point? here to talk about the week ahead is scott wilson, the chief white house correspondent for "the washington post" and also with us is david swardlick, associate editor at the root.com. he says the presidents messaging is a problem he has had from his first day in office, something we might have seen again this morning from susan rice. >> i realize th...

Department. but the justice department wasnt just trying to catch a leaker. a government affidavit describing rosen as at the very least either as an aider, abettor, and/or co-conspirator. >> the justice department was alleging that the reporter in question, our colleague, james, had engaged possibly in a conspiracy, a criminal conspiracy, which means, martha, that the obama/holder justice department is now prepared to treat the ordinary news gathering activities of rompers trying to seek inform...

Actually prevent private ownership of all firearms. in 2008, 582 japanese homicides, only 11 from guns. im going to open up the conversation now, ben ferguson is host of the ben ferguson show on the radio. and capitol hill goth is political correspondent for the root.com. welcome, ben, to both of you. american gun violence is turning off foreigners apparently. i want to start with you, ben. how should the u.s. respond to that? >> i dont think the u.s. responds to this at all because i think this...

>> its bm a little proxy vote. >> the whole thing we have to watch is the disclosure. theyre going to press him on what he did after he left the senate. >> ex senator gave speeches for money, im shocked. shameless plugs. >> real quick, digital edition is available online free for all college students. >> actually shameless and plug something i wrote. i have a story today on the atlantic.com about the history of the gun control movement and whether they can get it done this time. >> very nice. >>...

Apologize and now that republicans are struggling to regain the senate, they are starting to throw their support behind the controversial candidate in missouri. yesterday, the nrcc officially endorsed him and the chair of the democratic senatorial campaign committee says the endorsement taints every republican senate, senator running in this election cycle. >> just a few weeks ago, every one of those republicans said that what he said was so offensive and how he said it was so offensive that the...