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Incumbent republican, that would bring the democratic pick-ups to a total of 40e in the house of representatives. jason johnson, politics editor at the root.com joins us now. an msnbc contributor. elise jordan is the co-host of words, the words matter podcast. shes also an msnbc political analyst. and, elise, i want to go first to mississippi tonight. you are from mississippi. i want to get your reaction to that senate race and what we saw there. >> i think what mike espy did pretty much unaided...

There is now just one outstanding race that has not been called in the elections. democrat t.j. cox is leading republican congressman david valadeo in the 21st congressional district in california. if the democrat wins that house race and knocks off the incumbent republican, that would bring the democratic pick-ups to a total of 40e in the house of representatives. jason johnson, politics editor at the root.com joins us now. an msnbc contributor. elise jordan is the co-host of words, the words m...

According to u.s. and european reports. as the president stayed in paris, he, quote, brooded over the florida recount and sulked over midterm elections he claimed as a victory. he erupt the at his staff over media coverage for his decision to skip a ceremony honoring the military sacrifice of world war i. joining our discussion, now, jason johnson root.com, jennifer palmieri, former white house communications director for president obama and former communications director for the hillary clint...

Reports. as the president stayed in paris, he, quote, brooded over the florida recount and sulked over midterm elections he claimed as a victory. he erupt the at his staff over media coverage for his decision to skip a ceremony honoring the military sacrifice of world war i. joining our discussion, now, jason johnson root.com, jennifer palmieri, former white house communications director for president obama and former communications director for the hillary clinton campaign. and jennifer, i ha...

Time. >> a former republican congressman, david jolly just cast his vote, he voted for andrew gillum. he said, the reason is simple, is because i have served with ron desantis. i dont imagine congressman jolly and mayor gillum agree on a lot, but maybe they just like all of us agree that theres some things bigger than politics. and thats on the ballot right now. what kind of politics do we want. >> joining our discussion now, david jolly from florida, jason johnson, politics editor at the root.c...

Social media posting before going in for the kill, then thats the price donald trump seems willing to pay for keeping his voters scared. have we now seen americas last mass murderer to use donald trumps language and ideas in his final social media posting before he kills as the mass murderer in pittsburgh did? we dont know. but we do know tonight that no matter how scared donald trump gets, his sane supporters -- most of his supporters, no matter how scared he gets them to feel tonight, none of ...

Nationalism, cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that americans consigned to the ash heap of history. >> a politics of fear and resentment and retrenchment takes hold. and demagogues promise simple fixes, norms that ensure accountability and try to change the rules to entrench their power further. and they appeal to racial nationalism thats barely veiled, if veiled at all. sound familiar?...

International leadership and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some half-baked spurious nationalism, cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that americans consigned to the ash heap of history. >> a politics of fear and resentment and retrenchment takes hold. and democragogues promise simpl fixes, norms that ensure accountability and try to change the rules to ent...

Root.com, msnbc contributor as whistles, stop the bull horns. well. all right. the attacks on me running are i got my florida panel. i got my d.c. panel. all intended quite frankly to no offense, guys, im going to further a stereotype about start with my floridians. plaque men, illegal, unethical, adam, you watched this a long time. take things for free, monkey it is florida making this sharp of a left turn as these polls in up, jungle animals. those kinds of things. the last week indicate? its ...

>> we have asked for it if it administration said in the geostrategic context of the exists. >> trump fanning the flames of a middle east, we are going to throw our weight towards saudi conspiracy theory there. arabia because we hate iran that much, and the two countries are his secretary of state was far more blunt. when it comes to this alleged at loggerheads. theyre rivals. torture and murder, he said it has to do with religion and straight up the trump administration doesnt really geopolitic...