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From the root.com and msbc contributor. john podder ritz and jason. the president will try to find a way to declare victory with any of these. hes doing it in ohio tonight. maybe the republican party will be happy with that one. in can is if kobach were to win this thing, that is something the republican establishment doesnt want to see. >> the president is still the biggest loudest voice for the republican party. he can claim victories tonight and he has proven he can be successful in moving pe...

Working on making a platform other than we are not for trump. it is meant to focus on fighting corruption, lowering prescription drug costs to name a few of the items. a big question is, does the message even matter? will the race be fought entirely on the margins of enthusiasm? and how do democrats stoke and maintain that? joining me now, jason john, msnbc political contributor and politics editor at the root.com. heres what i thought was interesting. you followed, warner is running for her fir...

Politics editor at the root.com. heres what i thought was interesting. you followed, warner is running for her first re-election in her state of massachusetts where she is not expected to have too hard a time. she is traveling around the country and engaging in day to day, this is what our message is, and what is that? >> it is about a fight. it is trying to pull in the masses who are trying to see her. whether she is going to fundraising events, to conventions, whether she is giving her own tow...

Congress that he supports the so-called immigration compromise bill between republicans and the 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...

The root.com and msnbc contributor. jason, how did it happen? bob corker complaining about his republican senate colleagues as a cult at this point. >> you know, the republican branding to cult 45 has been going for a couple of years now, this idea that you can get elected, that you can be in power, that you can push through policy, not because of some long existing principle, but because personality that people like. and the republican party has been pushing for this for years, right? this goes...

United states a standing ation. its breathtaking, its audacious, its bold. it will be historic. >> the commander-in-chiefs leadip is now leading to a major foreign policy break through as it relates to north korea. >> joining our discussion now, the root.com and msnbc contributor. jason, how did it happen? bob corker complaining about his republican senate colleagues as a cult at this point. >> you know, the republican branding to cult 45 has been going for a couple of years now, right? this ide...

Roundtable. george wills, nita kumar, and jason johnson from the root.com and msnbc contributor. george, i thought i was listening to a real estate developer there. >> you were. he thinks north koreas beaches are grea yd seecuba. if cuba had in 1959, 1960 decided to open itself up, it would be a tourist meccaen a very wealthy country. turns out the castro brothers werent interested in that. they had other goals for their dictatorship. the same is true with north korea. mr. trump is demonstrating...

Times the departing president took the long view. at other points he called mr. trump a cartoon figure who cares more about his crowd size than any particular policy. and he expressed rare an self-doubt wondering whether he had misjudged his own influence on american history. "the new york times" reports that obama and his team were confident that mrs. clinton would win and like much of the country were shocked when she did not. president obama asked his aides after the election what, if we were...

Members of congress, democrat and republican are going to be informed a lot by their constituents. so our jury, as it should be, is the american people. >> 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 r...

Johnson politics editor for the root.com and contributor. i want you starting with aisha, put this together the way trump is trashing our institutions, the by, from and for the people institutions like the fbi, our u.s. government, our democratic form of government and at the same time accusing everything of it being a deep state. at the same time taking the side of the owners against the players in this issue of taking a knee. i think its part of one thing. what do you think, aisha? >> i think ...