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My dad used to love to hunt in the poconos when we lived in scranton. how many deer bear wearing kevlar vests, huh? >> not a joke. not a joke. come on , man. you know youre a . anyway, here with reaction, leo, to point out to ralph, former white house chief of staff mark meadows. leo, do you even want to respond to the remark about the only white guy in the best basketball players, you know? >> yes, i do, because its so racist. hes the only white guy basketball, many black people. joe buys it in...

Bidens three stops in seven days, wilkes-barre, pittsburgh, philadelphia over the next couple of days? >> i think hes got roots here, as you know, he was born and spent some of his formative years in scranton. i think pennsylvania could be the whole ball of wax. i mean, senate control, 50-50 with the vice president breaking the ties. in this case its a republican pat toomey whos hanging it up. so you know, this is potentially the easiest pickup for democrats to take control of the united states ...

The new 988 system launched in mid-July, and one early estimate says calls went up 45% nationally during the first week.

The thing that i find interesting is that joe biden has three trips to pennsylvania over five or six days. it makes sense, its his natural constituency, these towns are labor towns. hes the son of scranton. maybe helps with some turnout. but none of these candidates who want -- they will be at the same parade with him in picks bergh and john fetterman says, okay, i will talk about marijuana policy, but theyre not really asking him to [inaudible] >> are they treating him, as my mom would, say wit...

The swing states, this is labor, pro union crowd, hes a son of scranton, why not use his best lines there? >> thank you, tara. good to have you. zolan, great to have you as well. thank you very much. coming up next hour, as president biden vows to ban assault weapons across the country, cnn reports on a device that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into a machine gun. youre going to see how this works, how the modified weapons are so deadly and how quickly they can kill in a cnn exclusive ahead...

Votes are counted and cast and laws and things so the governors race there is key. also several house races in pennsylvania. so, look, if this is becoming a bit of a flashback to biden and trump, pennsylvania is ground zero for that because joe biden won pennsylvania in 2020, of course, donald trump won it in 2016. so for all of those reasons and more, of course, its joe bidens home, he talks about scranton so often and its easy for him to travel to it, so close to washington. all those reasons ...

Know, some folks might be listening but if you watch that video behind president biden were law enforcement officers in uniform. the imagery is unmistakable. democrats have an opportunity now to at the very least neutralize this issue for them going into the fall. they are taking advantage also of a generally improving political environment for them. now is the time, i think, a lot of democrats believe to go on offense, especially when some republicans seem to be walking into a trap. >> that see...

Officer that feels good about the fact that there may be a lousy cop. im tired of not giving the kind of help they need. folks, look, were in a situation in this country where we have to give them additional resources they need to get their job done. matt gets it. matt cartright, this is not hyperbole. matts the chair of the powerful s subcommittee that controls the funding for public safety. he knows what it means investing in an effective and accountable community policing that builds public t...

Referendum. hes trying to make it a choice about the trump era and his era. im told theyre not going to do this every day. they know that message would sort of grow old and tired. but they are going to use it to draw a contrast between trump past and maybe future and biden. >> again, joe biden born not too far away in scranton, pennsylvania. its the eighth congressional district. its represented by cartwright. hes going to be there today. ive been friends with joe biden for 30 years. a lot of de...

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