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That >> it is still disturbing that the special counsel, i, mean what this is to me is just a total abdication of duty by the department of justice because. they had this for two years and for them to turn it over to a special counsel to avoid impropriety does he think there is anyone on the right that is going to say that oh, the special counsel will accept the results or donald trump will not be immediately into combative mode with this person. it shows that his delay tactics are working. >> e...

Electric car, he bought tesla. that doesnt make him a genius. >> joy, that is exactly correct. in this country, we defer to wealth as though anyone who becomes wealthy somehow has brilliance across every topic. and that just isnt so. and if you allow those people to be in charge of critical services, like facebook, like twitter, like fox news, you can have really bad outcomes. and our government, i think, needs to start recognizing that the public interest is in having a set of rules that protec...

Trump literally got elected because he was rich and famous and people said, he must know how to run the country. wrong, always wrong to go that way. excellent segment, thank you both very much. >> now, for even more on how social media helped get us to this moment of polarization and disinformation, check out the msnbc films presentation split screen, this sunday at 10:00 p.m. eastern and streaming on peacock. and up next, a tale of two caucuses with republicans in ruin and the discipline on d...

>> i believe he was. >> but he never got access to that crowd. and then once he was in power, or suddenly they want his number. certainly they want to hang out. >> he wanted that legitimacy that he never got. >> coming to power gave him. that >> it is still disturbing that the special counsel, i, mean what this is to me is just a total abdication of duty by the department of justice because. they had this for two years and for them to turn it over to a special counsel to avoid impropriety does h...

Democratic representative, stacey plaskett of the u.s. virgin islands. she previously served as impeachment managers during the second impeachment of donald trump. she is also a member of the house ways and means, agriculture, and budget committees. thank you for joining the. i have so much to ask. you i wish we had so much time for the whole hour, just because you understand the inner workings, but my first question to you, congresswoman, is, you were one of the first people in congress to feed...

"special report" our "common ground" segment with republican john katko, democrat henry cuellar. thanks for inviting us into your elm who tonight. thats this for this special reporter fair balanced and still unafraid. "jesse watters primetime" who apparently is partying down in florida or something. joins us right now. >> jesse: im just making sure harold ford jr. behaves himself. >> bret: all right. we will see you. have a good show. ♪ ♪ >> every team is only as good as its leader. we see i...

>> laura: welcome back to hollywood, florida, time for the seen and unseen segment, exploring the cultural stories of the day, we turn into the wise men about christmas, raymond arroyo joining me here on set. >> here we are. >> laura: the media, they were in true morning, and sympathetic as i am wearing black. because about to say because they were announcing that nancy pelosi had stepped down. but over at msnbc, she was being hailed as a mix of something between margaret thatcher and mother cab...

That on a state level elections to gerrymander the state legislatures and they put in place generally have lasted for most of the last decade. we formed up to make sure that didnt happen. we just wanted to make sure we had a fair process. i was confident that if the calm process was fair democrats would do fine and we have seen that to be the case. >> before you go, you had the job where the moment comes, where the prosecution memo comes to you as attorney general on a major case, one of the mos...

Stop overdoses. >> the concern its being used as a cocktail with other drugs. if its mixed with fentanyl obviously it becomes deadly. >> the centers for disease control and prevention reports drug poisons in america are at a record high over 107,000 people died from a drug overdose last year. 70% caused by synthetic opioids like fentanyl. >> its a constant cat and mouse game between drug traffickers trying to get drugs into the country and the cbp which is trying to keep them out. while ketamine...

And i know that its at odds with peoples public perception about him, i want to tell you, it was true. i could tell he was saddened by what had happened. >> michael, is the remorse at odds with the public perception? is that the sincere emotion that you have seen from a former president? >> listen, you know, good for mike pence for trying to say the right thing, he tried to say the right thing throughout the entire segment. and you gotta give jake tapper a lot of credit in a pat on the back, the...