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Per capita as the canadian or any other nation on earth. americans dont want the pay twice as much as other countries. and they guarantee health care to all people. >> joining me now is chief public affairs officer from moveon.org karine jean-pierre. director of paid media for hillary joel payne. msnbc analyst john than alter. republican strategist mike murphy, and politics editor at theroot.com and msnbc political contributor, jason johnson. im going to start with you, jason. on that julian cas...

Michael hilstic and jason johnson, politics editor at theroot.com. professor johnson is an msnbc political analyst. michael, we have the inverted yield curve which peter has decided now doesnt mean a thing. and weve got the president and his economic adviceors trying to say publicly no americans are paying one penny of these tariffs that are disrupting the global economy. and it seems like certainly american farmers have figured out how the tariffs work. >> american fasrmers, youre right. the fa...

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Jason johnson is politics editor at theroot.com. all of them are msnbc contributors. david, i want to start with you because this has been one of those -- weve been talking about this inside our own news room for quite some time going there is this giant foreign policy problem sitting at the presidents desk. but its hard to articulate because the problem is inaction. you did a good job of articulating it in this big picture, but this isnt the easiest story to explain to the public. explain what ...

Points. anti-semitic. thats also on the talking points. anti-american. among other things. im joined by peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times." jason johnson, politics editor for theroot.com and adrian elrod. whats this anti-semitic thing? its like this weird precious bodily fluid. it comes out of nowhere. every time he goes after the quartet, he brings it up. is this playing to the evangelicals? the conservative jewish voters? who is he after here. >> yes, all of ...

Thats up from 42% back in april. meanwhile, the crowded democratic field got just a little less crowded today. california congressman eric swalwell became the first candidate to bow out. he said hes returning to washington to focus on his work on the house intelligence and judiciary committees. for more on all this, im joined by robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington post." neera tanden, ceo of the center for american progress and jason johnson, politics editor for theroot...

Theroot.com. jonathan hour, digital national political reporter and heidi przybyla. hidely, lets talk a week ago about what happened. i guess my question at the top was that a one-off bad night for biden and a one-off great night for kamala harris, or are we looking at a big trend here? >> i think were seeing the top tier be completely reorganized. predebate we were talking about bernie and biden and biden being the establishment figure. and now were talking about really a three-person top tier ...

Inspire and recruit people. people who harbor extremist views can also obtain places of influence. now former white nationalist katie mccue wrote for conservative media outlets, turned a blind eye to or were genuinely ignorant of the fact that one of the young stars -- joined by writer. former undercover fbi agent who infiltrated the klu klux klan, and rabbi, organization standing up for human rights. and our friend, editor of theroot.com. youre all newcomers but jason, this is not pleasant conv...

Biden used his official kickoff rally in philadelphia yesterday to cast himself as the great unifier, but bidens entrance at the top of the polls and the medias obsession with the candidates who are white and male, the democratic party, by the way, now has more of them running for president hand the republican did in 2016. this raises the question of whether democrats and political journalists believe that the very diversity that defines the democratic party is in and of itself inherently dive s...

Forward on what is widely expected to be an epic shutdown to get legally donald trumps tax returns. we have nbc reporting from washington right now. the house committee with the authority to get these taxes is moving forward on the steps for something weve discussed previously, a formal request to the irs, lawyers working explicitly on language. the chair of that committee, richard neal, working with other top democrats who are involved in order to strengthen the legal case. this is an advanceme...