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Overrated and while napping -- man, you cant be hitting us with kale. -- >> i was going to say. kale its not as controversial as it used to be. kale was probably -- people now eat kale like its nothing. we have kale chips. i dont know why hes using it as a example. >> its like a cesar salad that puts up a little bit of a fight. >> fernand, your final thoughts on this. does throwing math sinema into the mix, elevate her to the worst of the week? >> like marisa says, she loved the attention, so im...

>> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ welcome back to "state of the union." senate democrats kicked off their week with a big victory when senator raphael warnock won his re-election in georgia, but the week ended with a new wrinkle when senator kyrsten sinema announced that shes leaving the democratic party to become an independent. take a listen to the senator explaining more about her decision in a brand-new interview with jake tapper. >> when you look at your voting record...

Their 51-seat majority right after the runoff in georgia. erin? >> thank you very much. and lets go now to harry enten. harry, heres the thing. everyone is saying, okay, you fight for this, years have gone by, you finally have the majority. and kyrsten sinema goes, hmm, okay. can we just take a look at her voting record to understand what this really would mean? how often did she vote with her party before she announced this today? >> if you take a look at the time that shes been in congress. i ...

Speaking out on twitter. however, the leader in the progressive caucus, camilla jayapal, telling us in the last hour that she trusts sinema, she takes about a word. its an interesting dynamic there as they try to keep sinema on their side of the bench. i want you to take a listen to what other cinema colleagues have said yesterday. watch. >> shes showing that she has an independent streak and how she operates. >> i dont think its going to greatly change how the senate is working right now. >> we...

That independent senators bernie sanders of vermont and angus king of maine currently do. she is also expected to keep all of her committee assignments. before her party switch, democratic congress men rubin but gallego was considered a strong primary candidate to sinema in 2024. according to a post -- on msnbc.com, my colleague steve bannon writes, earlier this year, data for progress polled arizona democrats and found incumbent senator sinema trailing gallego 47% to 60%. thats not a typo. she ...

She went from green party activist to democratic senator to moderate democratic senator that was sometimes a thorn in the side of the democratic leadership. now shes an independent. we sat down and talked about her decision just yesterday. youre here to make a significant announcement. >> ive registered as an arizona independent. i know some people might be a little bit surprised by this but actually i think it makes a lot of sense. a growing number of arizonans and people like me just dont feel...

The infrastructure bill so i dont think a whole lot of thing also change at least at this point. i think its 2024 that you got to look at and see how the dynamics will shift. >> senator boxer, it is true so far at least that the democrats weve heard from, amy klobuchar, chuck schumer appear to be downplaying this publicly but do you think theyre striking a different tone behind the scenes? >> you know, i dont think so because senator sinema has shown that independent streak on occasion. now, i l...

That shes exhibited over the past few years in the senate. even in the house, before she was elected to the senate, she was always quite independent-minded. she laid out a lot of issues with partisanship in this partisan issue that i think a lot of americans will find resonance with. as lauren rightly pointed out, i think people are zeroing in on what will stay the same which is equally important today, the balance of power in the senate by all accounts will not change. nor will her values or he...

Vote, let alone to go to the u.s. and. and that he gave the honor to fannie lou hamer. he gave the honor to john lewis. -- and to his mother, who you just so beautifully mentioned. i think its important. because we assume that everyone knows when we say, this is georgia. he made sure everyone knew, that they are martyrs, that they gave their life for this -- >> and i think it was import that he mentioned bipartisanship in the speech tonight. he does have a strong voting record, he and president ...

On the other hand, reverend warnock has been very happy to have former president obama show up and anybody who has seen those clips with president obama is reminded of what a brilliant political communicator he is and he cuts to the heart of the matter frankly like when he talks about, you know, the debate that walker apparently had with himself to be aware wolf or vamp ire, yeah, i had the debate myself when i was 7. i think athis is unfair to walker as well. i dont mean to just mock them. i do...