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Invested in the idea that weve had the return to normalcy, that everything is fine and dandy, everything is looking up and you have a complete difference of approach when in reality we ought to be looking at frankly both what policies the biden administration is keeping from the trump years and the ones theyre rejecting as opposed to evaluating it on surface level, just inch deep levels of looking at whats actually going on around the world. howie: im going to come back to that. politico headlin...

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Appeal, just on a very surface level. his rhetoric, when you talk to voters, people talk about his rhetoric, they compare it to obamas. the way that he makes people feel is what people talk about the most. they talk about how smart he seems when he talks. and so i do think that some of that is a little bit of the intangibles of campaigning, that his favorability has been higher, but i will caution, jim and poppy, people dont know him. hes a lot less known than people in the campaign right now an...

Surprised and troubled that the president was trying to push for investigations into his political rivals that as you read he didnt believe there was any have a lvalidity to those a and also said he was concerned about rudy giulianis role and what it would do to the u.s. relationship between the u.s. and ukraine. in part because of bipartisan support on capitol hill to give ukraine the aid and belief from the ukrainians if they got involved in u.s. politics it could damage their relationship wit...

And now, of course, the balance of the court being with the 5-4 conservative majority. could get interesting. bottom line, brooke, that democrats likely wont see these financial documents at any point soon. this will continue to play out in the courts. brooke? >> your last point about the supreme court and precedent siding with congress is so, so important. and good enough to stay on a little more friday with me. thank you, and our legal analyst is back also. surface level, how big of a legal bl...

Around the issue of immigration coming from a border state like texas. and that is the visibility i think that someone like julian castro saw was to kind of get beneath a lot of the surface level talk of everyone being in favor of reversing trump and say how far are you actually willing 20 go, because this administration has been using the process of crossing the border illegally as a means to separate families at the border. are you in favor of making illegal border crossings a civil offense an...

Voters are closer to each other, particularly those who are post college, you know, graduate degrees, than older voters black and white. >> yeah. >> particularly on these kinds of issues. >> thats right. >> what do you think of that? i think the generational stuff ends up having more salients than the racial ones did. >> yeah, i mean, absolutely. on the surface level, right? what joe biden said about james eastland and talmadge who, by the way, were segregationist democrats. he was not talking a...

You do? tell me more. i mean this is the special counsels office saying this. its signed on behalf of robert mueller by michael dreeben, the top appellate lawyer on the mueller team. also by another lawyer. what is this press of work theyre facing right now this week that prohibits them from getting a motion into this judge by two days from now as it pertains to unsealing stuff from manaforts case? and why would filing the special counsels motion on that subject require, quote, additional time t...

By two days from now as it pertains to unsealing stuff from manaforts case? and why would a -- filing the special counsels motion on that subject require, "additional time to consult within the government?" i mean, at a surface level, i dont think anybody much cares about whether were going to get the muellers team response about unsealing all of manaforts stuff by thursday of this week or by april 1st, which is a week and a half from now. this filing today from the special counsels office says ...

Linking cohen to some kind of russian involvement, he would have had to plead guilty to that. the fact that he did not and plead guilty to lying to congress says a lot. mostly about what mueller does not have in the investigation. >> neil: its a very good point. what is also revealed here the trump tower that was going to be built in moscow, never was. getting donald trump to go to moscow to try to close the deal with cohen never happened. so it would appear at just a surface level that theres n...