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Opportunity to share on your show the fact that native-americans are so, such a crucial voting block throughout the country. what we have to do is continue to cover and list the places where native-americans have made a difference like arizona, wisconsin, michigan, minnesota, across the country. but also i think we have to lift up the ways in which its difficult to vote and make sure we say when native nerns have power we dont put more of a target on the back of americans, which is something we ...

Marc thiessen is fox news contributor and "washington post" columnist and a friend always welcome in "focus." i want to start with representative banks words. that is really jarring if theyll say you dont agree with one group who is in power now with majorities on the hill and in the white house, so thats against the law now? >> its ridiculous and complete overreach. look, this is going to play out in the 2022 election. first if you look back at the key voting block that turned elections in the ...

The power progressives it seems more potent than it has been in the past. whats different this time around? >> thats correct. so progressives have grown in strength on capitol hill. thats in part due to a few reasons, but one is simply theyve been running progressive candidates in many districts and winning the races. the progressive caucus is nearly 100 members strong on capitol hill. thats almost half of all house democrats. so they have a huge voting block. they have lots of influence. but in...

Administration, particularly with his most loyal voting block, and thats african-americans? >> he said black people have always had his back and he has ours, right? that is something hes said. hes repeated that over the years and i think that black people were looking at that, looking at people that looked like us even though theyre from another country and, you know, whether or not there was a conversation like is that a whip? what is happening? it doesnt matter, i think, for a lot of people, r...

Saying this is something thats been happening all along, the question the american people have, what are you going to do about it now, youre in charge now and are still waiting for an answer on that. lara: of course there waiting for an answer, i dont think well get an answer, charlie i want to go back to you what you just touched on it so profound more people need to talk about it this is not an accident when you see this happening, this is intentional, these are the new voters for the democrat...

People like joy reed of msnbc as stated last year when trump was pushing for the vaccine to be put out, who on gods green earth would trust the vaccine approved, this distrust started with the same administration that is trying to mandate it and is carrying over to what we see today. laura: this is a big drop, not a drop in the bucket, 12 points among unvaccinated african-americans, 17 points. could this be a new amalgam of a voting block going forward? african-americans and people who have thei...

That stated last year when trump was pushing for a vaccine to be put out. who on god greens earth will trust a vaccine put out by this man? it is carrying over to what we see today. >> laura: this is a big drop. not a drop in the bucket. 12 points and among unvaccinated african-americans its 17 points. could this be a new amalgom of a voting block here democrats or republicans, just distrust in government? >> we are seeing a bit of a divergence. that is, that working class black americans, lower...

So the real block you have to win over are moderate democrats or independents. as a voting block, theyre very skeptical. im talking about independent americans that right now are not showing a great deal of enthusiasm for this. i want to bring in lee carter. its interesting to note about a third of general view of independent voters approved the job the president is doing. when it comes to things like the big spending initiative, that works into that skepticism. what is going on here? >> so what...

The numbers are clearly in newsoms favor. however, a couple of things that are interesting to watch here. one is that there doesnt seem to be a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for him among voerts eiteed to get out and vote. independents are fired up more than democrats and more than a quarter of the people have already voted in this election. the other thing to watch is the hispanic vote which makes up a third of the registered voters in this election. they have also said that they are enthusia...

Or the homeless but i can come after you. its a low-hanging fruit, low risk. i can get righteous without spending any capital. >> kash: you have a willing mainstream media. there is a 50% increase in violent crime in chicago, new york and los angeles. shootings. two weeks ago a 5-year-old got shot. a 5-year-old got shot. that should be national news. going back to gangs, its a hard problem here we tried to graph it -- crack it under trump. but the media doesnt care. he took on violent crimes in ...