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Way. By the middle of next month about a dozen more states will be early voting, which is to say we have truly entered a critical time in this unprecedenteD Campaign. It is not lost on kamala harris, who spoke to a Capacity Crowd of more than 10,000 people last night. In many ways, you heard me say before. He is an unserious man. The consequences of putting them back in the White House are extremely serious. Extremely serious. On the republican side this moment seems to bring out some ugly tacti...

momentous showdown in tennessee . a white democratic lawmakers survives the vote to expel her from the statehouse, while republicans ousted two black lawmakers over gun protest what the white house is now saying at the sour, plus free luxury trips and lavish trips for more than two decades. yet supreme court justice clarence thomas failed to disclose any of them new reporting on whos been funding those vacations. and overnight violence is erupting in israel and now lebanon two days aft...

>> joined, now, by our chief domestic correspondent, jim acosta, who covered the previous administration. cnn chief white house correspondent, kaitlan collins, is back with us. there wasnt applause when the vice president had the line, you know, we went back and we did our duty. the applause was backing the, you know, im not going to let it, you know, basically, turn -- make me turn against the president. im so proud of what we did for the four years. what else did the vice president have to say...

The midterm vote also includes 36 races for governor. and democrats see a giant opportunity to roar back at the statehouse level. republicans dominate in the current balance of power. 33 gop governors, 16 democrats, and one independent, but democrats 2018 hopes include a half-dozen contests in midwestern states that currently have republican governors and democrats see a chance to make history in florida and georgia. tallahassee mayor andrew gillum wants to be floridas first black governor. and ...

A direct link to president trump.they are directly tying it to issues more so than anything else. >>leland: give me a sense of what the candidates there are doing. are you seeing candidates line up behind the same issues as their fighting it out in the primary? >> you are seeing a lot of that. how that bears out depends on whether its a republican or democrat primary. we are very keen on watching the special elections. the state house seat special election in the area and the congressional speci...

Their voters, they can be trying to find a leader who is not was not elizabeth warren or bernie sanders, because if they tie their wings to them, they will sink like a stone. they can be trying to rebuild are the lower level, at the statehouse level of the government. instead, they are trying to stay up all night in the senate. i think it is a waste of time. >> in the in the case of jeff sessions, the senator nominated as attorney general, so much of the debate over his nomination has focused on...

They can be working to galvanize their voters, they can be trying to find a leader who is not was not elizabeth warren or bernie sanders, because if they tie their wings to them, they will sink like a stone. they can be trying to rebuild are the lower level, at the statehouse level of the government. instead, they are trying to stay up all night in the senate. i think it is a waste of time. >> in the in the case of jeff sessions, the senator nominated as attorney general, so much of the debate o...

This podcast and, you know, he did in a way accept it because he said we got to the white house, we were grappling with these problems, and suggested that perhaps we lost focus on that element of leadership but spoke very, very strongly about the need to retrench, to rebuild that strength at the statehouse level, at the legislative level, and to inspire young people to seek these offices. so implicit in what he was saying was we should have done this, we didnt do it, we have to do it now. >> he ...

Trickle down? will it disproportionately favor one party to the house and senate level? obama can overcome the ads. >> money goes a lot farther. >> even more significant at the local level, at the statehouse level it makes all the differents. >> wanna summers, thank you very much. >> next, if you think the ads are bad, wait till you hear where the money is coming from. that and the lifestyles of the mitt and the famous as "the cycle" rolls on for monday, july 9th. ♪ i cant get no satisfaction ...

Night. thank you for being with us. now its time for the "last word" with lawrence odonnell. were going to be discussing exactly what you were just talking about later in the program, an article today by a couple of nonpartisan authors saying that the necessary strategy at this point is to boycott the republican party. and they advocate this to actually save the republican party from itself. theyre saying if you want this republican party to live and to survive trumpism now is the time to vote...