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At columbia university and contributor to the root.com. stephen baldwin, the actor, author and political activist, and ayesha tyler, the actress and comedian. kevin, what did you make of the president today and your former boss tonight? >> i thought the president today took advantage of whoa was a historical moment. and he definitely went out there and talked what was good in the bill and where americans are going to benefit. it did feel like a political rally a little bit at the white house, bu...

Certainly hope hes going to be confirmed. >> so here we have the future of the russia investigation, the future of the supreme court, and by extension the future of the trump presidency all potentially colliding later this week. we dont know what the president is going to do, but it feels like both sides are preparing for a worst case scenario. right now. ben wittes is an editor-in-chief of law fair. and a political reporter at "the new york times" and msnbc political analyst. a republican strat...

Slightly less extremist wing of congressional republicans. the compromised bill was not a compromise between republicans and democrats. it was a compromise between republicans and republicans. and donald trump backed down and changed positions three times on that one bill, which is to say he backed down three times on this bill before it failed in the house. how is that for backing down? we have never seen anything like it. donald trump is the weakest president we have ever seen because no presi...

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>> impeach or not impeach. joining us john holland, and also with us harry litman and deputy assistant general under president clinton, and jason johnson, politics editor at the root.com and an msnbc contributor. john heilemann, so jeff sessions is now a significant part of the obstruction of justice investigation? >> and i think, you know, in retrospect, as "the times" story notes, its sort of crazy that we didnt focus on this earlier. people have obviously focused on the relationship between t...

Burns. and jason johnson, politics editor at the root.com. jason. let me start with you. lets go bigger context to start with on this. whatever happens tonight, weve seen a 20-point swing in this district from the 2016 result won by trump. and its not the first district weve seen this in. >> this is getting worse and worse for the democrats. even as a political seen tescie ive been the contrarian. what weve been seeing is this. the special elections are getting closer and closer, and democrats h...

Staff. jason johnson, at the root.com. ron insana, a cnbc contributor and i only berate off air. does the president have a right to be frustrated? or did he have unrealistic expectations of what congress could achieve? or is he asking congress to achieve things that wont solve what he wants to? >> or did he not understand what congress can do? >> i didnt ask for a "d." >> youre being berated already. >> wheres my resignation. >> mines only written but not submitted. >> thats the problem. the pre...

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