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and these two things dont go hand in hand. shes a very, very smart person and im looking forward to her being back in office somewhere, someday, at some point. >> shes not ruled that out. politics is in her blood. >> appreciate it. >> have a great show. >> thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i dopologize for not week here in this chair tis this time last week. i was out sick. i think i was in the last people in the country who never had it before, but i finally t...

Swiftly, all while hosting the first state dinner of the biden administration with french president emmanuel macron this week. yes, that is big news on the political calendar front. a new plan of putting south carolina first would be a huge change to the traditional presidential trump primary system. i will any hampshire have gone first for decades. but there have long been calls to switch of the order to reflect more diverse electorates. that course only got louder after i was delayed democrati...

Hospital bed. that same day he underwent a three-hour surgery to have a defibrillator implanted. fetterman says hes on the mend and his doctors told him he suffered no cognitive damage. let me read you part of the statement he released today. i am feeling great but per my doctors orders i will recover. i will take the time i need to rest to get to 100% so i can go full speed soon and flip this seat blue. so fetterman expressing a lot of optimism that hell be able to hit the campaign trail in the...

That standards, our sense of decency in society have evolved to the point where you should -- the 8th moment amendment does nw the imposition of life without parole. i dont think the state contests that those are not the facts of this case, i think the state is relying on the fact that the supreme court hasnt addressed this issue yet. at least not to my knowledge, where preserving the issue for appeal. >> all right. the court received the motion. it looks like it was filed at 8:18. i have review...

Which iss is why well take a l at the early state contests. and also steve kornacki and the big board. and remember, there is actually four hurdles in order to sort of get democrats to understand the pieces of the electorate they need, whether midwesterners in iowa learning how do grass roots stuff, appealing to independents in new hampshire, latinos in nevada, african-americans in south carolina. so when you think about the first four states, dont assume that they are just randomly on a man oma...

State contests in iowa and new hampshire and in nevada, and south carolina, to focus on the march 3rd super tuesday states where nearly a quarter of the primary delegates are up for grabs. lets get a check of your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> did you notice it was a little bit warmer. >> like a tad. >> i cheated. im looking at your weather wall. >> like 30. >> like right here. >> 15 degrees? >> plus seven degrees. >> im cheating. i didnt get it right. >> thats the point. >>...

Look, i wouldnt extrapolate out whats going to happen in new hampshire but the trend lines tell you something, that the fact that bernie sanders has been resilient. and the fact that elizabeth warren has continued this steady rise. and the fact that joe biden is slipping. thats probably the most significant trend. other than warrens climb is bidens steady fall. its not that hes out of the game for any stretch of the imagination, but for a guy who came into the race as a clear front-runner and wh...

Maybe biden is still ahead in warren. sanders is in third and nobody else is popping. there is no national primary. we have a series of individual state contests and all the action begins in iowa with those caucuses. and whatever happens in those caucuses, whoever wins, whoever loses has such a big effect on what happens from there. so with that in mind, the latest polling out of iowa, just a couple days old, check this out. it looks a little different than what you see nationally. you have bide...

>> thank you. >> be good. >> back to you. >> chris hayes, thank you. over to steve kornacki at the big board. can you help us out with where this race stands right now perhaps? >> i think there is two ways of looking at it. one is i do this all the time. we get a new national poll out. warren, maybe she is three points ahead of biden, maybe biden is still ahead of warren and sanders is in third and nobody else is popping. and that is the story weve been telling nationally in this race. but there...

Early state contests, not just in south carolina where they made up 61% of the electorate in the primary, but also in all of those southeastern states that will come very quickly up on the calendar after those early contests. and if she can rack up a series of wins by consolidating the african-american vote which is a tall task, then she really could be in a strong position early in the presidential season. >> first she has to announce and then raise money. she is from california which is where ...