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Michael Smerconish tackles the American political and news stories of the week, offering only one kind of talking points his own. I would be remiss if i did not say it in the outset. Here you are of another summer of extreme weather. Well, we can talk about that in a second, lets talk about this whole question of coverage of trump. I dont know who was the moron from fox news who made that point of how did that work in 2016. Thats the question that i would ask is how is it working in 2018 . What ...

Unpresident ial behavior that trump exhibits most in his rally and tweets that we excessively cov cover. Bring on the coverage. The reaction like places of fox news, is this what everyone says leading up to the 2016 election. What a great idea, remember what happened the last time the media covered every tweet and rally and every word of donald trump and every wink and nudge became apart of the medias snarknato, they elected donald trump, the bozos. Is it a No Win Situation or if you are the pre...

>> you know, if you are a democrat, though, if youre helping to run president bidens re-election campaign, one of the things you have to do is recognize reality. the reality is that fear has been sold quite successfully to the american public for at least the last six years by one donald j. trump and his acolytes, who are clearly members of the house of representatives on the republican side of the aisle. what jen was just talking about, shes absolutely right, this is not on the level. but i gue...

State election officials and in state courts as part of the process for determining who can appear on ballots for presidential elections. final quick question for you, youve got to do it ahead of time, right? you cant do it after. its gotta be this question of, can they appear on the ballot as a front and question. >> thats right. you can go to try to remove someone from office once they are in office. but thats obviously much more explosive situation to end up in. when you have someone who shou...

Professors. they are sort of self proclaimed originalists. and they are arguing that the constitution requires trump to be barred from office. to prominent conservative law professors have concluded the donald j trump is in and eligible to be president under provision of the constitution the buyers people that have participated in an insurrection from holding public office. don trump cannot run for president, cannot become president, cannot hold office unless two thirds of congress decides to gr...

Really dont. but heres the thing. whale that is the vision at the top,t for the american politic right in the trump era, thats what they want for their national leader.or thats what they want the americanth presidency to become. it is also their broader project for what they think of governance. if you go down a step or two from theirp strong man vision r the guy at the very top. theyre also getting very big ideas about what to do with their power in the states right now. this is not something t...

Joe: the conservative tenet of free-market turns into globalism, the populism idea of america first, two groups though agree on a lot of things start to disagree and we see where does this best serve our political ideology. for america, security should be at the top. rachel: the other person buying farmland is bill gates who doesnt want you to eat meat and we saw the fda approved the first lab created meat where they take cells from chickens and create lab created meat, that has just been approv...

Actually make us very sick and then having a pharmaceutical solution. you know, were getting sicker, you know, more depressed, more infertile as i talked about, and of course theres a pharmaceutical solution for all those conditions. so this is known, theres power in keeping people in fear, theres power in keeping people -- youve said this, this is a sleeper issue this election. weve seen on both sides of the aisle presidential candidates talking about this issue, and i think americans are wakin...

>> that was the other sleeper issue in the last election. you know, some people said, yes, abortion could be important. i dont think a lot of cynics, there were any cynics that saw democracy as being really front most in peoples minds, but it was. i hope it still is. i mean, it is striking to me, what one person can do. donald trump was able to do. obviously, there were forces building up in the republican party. the party was changing. theres a sense in which trump was a symptom and not a cause...

And not learning. i mean, its drips and drips here. obviously we havent seen the memo ourselves. >> brit: no, we havent. and i dont know if we ever will. at least in any near term. but i do think this, bret. this idea of biden as a crook, as a guy who might have accepted bribes is a kind of a sleeper issue for this campaign. biden lived in delaware and elsewhere, at least in two places in delaware, i should say, very well for a man living on a government salary as a senator all those years and t...