of ayman, republican revote. house speaker mike johnson just pitches put to get the government open and legislate members of his own party are already shutting him down. plus, 60 or losing strap. the gop has lost almost every major election since 2017. when will they learn they need to change? and taking advantage, how president biden and democrats can keep it straight going into 2024 and beyond. i'm ayman mohyeldin, let's get started. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> republicans, well, happens i? this they just keep on losing. and this week the gop suffered more losses and states all over the political spectrum to, in large part, to a stubborn hard-line stance on extremism and abortion. out of step with the super majority of the american public on both of those. virginians were in full by -- weren't filled by glenn youngkin's gaslighting about a common sense 15 wake up abortion ban, that i described. it pennsylvanians refuse to allow a candidate who had tried to hide her radical views on abortion, even scrambling sections of her campaign website from pain seated on the state supreme court. and over in ohio, well, voters there voted to enshrine reproductive rights into their state constitution that weapon 13 point margin. despite this embarrassing and clear losing streak, guess what? not one republican presidential candidate in this week's debate moderated their tone on abortion. >> i'm 100% pro-life. i have a 100% protective voting record. i would certainly, as president of the united states half a 15-week national limit. i would not allow states like california, illinois, or new york to have abortion up until that day of birth. >> and it's clear republicans still to understand the damage there believes have done to the electoral prospects. just listen to them hours before and even after their losses in this clip our friends at deadline put together. >> a big thank you to president donald j trump for his support. [applause] and his endorsement of this campaign. let me just say, let me just say that trump culture of winning is alive and well in kentucky. >> that didn't turn out exactly how i wanted it to. i promised the governor of a brief, so i'll be brief tonight. and say, thank you all. >> hold the house, flip the senate. hold the house, flip the senate. we know how to do this. we learned in 2021 how to win elections. >> and so, i look forward to working with the house and the senate going forward just like we have. >> well, what will it take for republicans to actually wake up? because they're now in and historically terrible losing streak, at every level. the state and even federal level. and it's honestly thanks to two very clear issues. one is donald trump. and two is abortion access. the gop lost the house to a democratic blue wave in the 2018 midterms. they lost the presidency in 2020. they lost the senate in 2022 and miserably underperformed in 2022, when everybody was expecting a so-called red wave. and just this week, that lost once again after wrapping their arms around abortion restrictions and, yes, donald trump, the man who handpicked conservative supreme court justices with the deliberate intent of striking down roe v. wade, which they ultimately did. as put by politico, never mind americans making concerns about the economy. never mind and expanding portfolio of global crises and wars and conflicts. and definitely never mind those you're out presidential polls. there is no two ways about it. it was another good election night for democrats. joining me now are brittany packnett cunningham, an msnbc political analyst and alaina beverly, a former national director of national -- average for obama in 2008, and host of the podcast -- and also kurt bardella, l.a. times contributor. before house oversight committee spokesperson for republicans. great to have you here. lots to unpack here, brittany, i'll start with republicans. they have ped after 2022 that would somehowclai suburban voters that is not the case. on tuesday, those voters in virginia, kentucky, andio swung back to mocrats without any ambiguity. and it was because of abortion dominating the conversation. suburbs in this country, certainly in those states, becoming a blue wall for democrats. >> i mean, i think that whether or not it of wall has yet to be seen. we'll see over a launch -- longitudinal look at this, especially as we come upon a presidential election next year. but i think what is really clear is that one of the biggest mistakes that gop made was creating a world without abortion, with less access to abortion over the last year and some change. because not woman and pregnant people don't have to imagine what the world would be, post route. we have been living in it. we have been seeing the kind of medical crises it's been causing. we've been seeing the kind of threats that people and doctors and mothers and daughters have been under. we've experienced what it feels like to have just a taste of our rights, once again, stripped. and people do not like it. so whether you're talking about the suburbs of an urban area or poor, ever folks have actually already tasted what that might look like. we don't have to imagine it and we fully reject living like this anymore. a lot of those gop candidates and folks are shaking in their bigoted boots right now, because that recognize that americans have been disgusted with some of the things they've been doing. daniel cameron thought he was going to say out to the governor's mansion on the back of breonna taylor. groups like untold freedom and local organizers made sure that wasn't true. and these are the kinds of experiences americans are rejecting. >> alaina, there was a headline this look out for me from rolling stone. we have it there on the screen, saying, maybe stealing women's rights wasn't the best election plan. >> absolutely. look, this antiabortion policy that republicans have continued to a spouse is their liability. it's a losing opposition for. then it unifies and animates a very broad electorate. so when you're talking about a hot, you're talking about issued one. the voters that came out in support of that build initiative were men, urban men, voters of color, across generations, 18 to 64. so for seeing that abortion rights and abortion access and the pushing back against the government overreach and republicans trying to ratchet back a woman's bodily integrity. all of that is animating the electorate across the states. across ohio, across virginia, across kentucky. and we've seen this since the overturning of roe, it's been a consistent issue that abortion access is something that voters are engaged in trying to get back. so for example, when it comes to the right way in 2022, the supreme court price, the antiabortion fellow initiative on the belt in kansas, it is abortion rights has been a winning proposition for democratic elections and a losing proposition for republicans. >> corrupt, to the latest point. a portion has become in no other terms kryptonite for the republican party and they find themselves in between a rock and a hard place. their base, their maga extreme base, keeps agitating for and pushing for a federal abortion ban. extremists and the party are promising it. but clearly, even so-called compromise positions like youngkin's 15-week ban -- it is political kryptonite. it is not a winning strategy. and help to recognize what the red base wants? and their ability to govern? because it's kind of, like, in your desk of their base what they want to hear, no it's never going to work. >> yeah, if you want to know how this ends on a national scale, look at what happened to the california republican party. people forget, that influence that 90s, that republican party and california was thriving. they hit a majority in the state legislature. they were leading the governor's race. pete wilson was the governor. what happened over time, they moved so far to the right they started trying to appease their primary voters and what ended up happening within the decade, they found themselves completely out of power. democrats had voted majorities in the state legislature. democrats swept all the state legislative offices, all the statewide offices, all the constitutional officers. because republicans kept pandering to the extreme right, prioritized winning primaries not elections, and that was the end result. that's exactly what we're seeing right now from republicans at the national level. prioritizing when it through primaries, pandering to the market extreme right, pandering to the fox news crowd, and at the end of the day it is a touch with the majority of americans. this issue of protests, pro-choice has been to for a really long time in the minds of the american people. the republican party seems to have lost the memo on that, and they keep losing election after election after election. and then a wake of the next day, go, you know what? i know we lost the last five games in the road, but we're going to run the same strategy back. let's run that back in hope for a different result. there is a quirk for what you call it when you repeat the same behavior expecting a different result. that today's republican party. >> brittany, abortion played a major role and democrats victories back in 2022, direct the midterms some pundits connected it to the overturning of roe being so fresh and people's minds. they thought maybe by 2023 and even 2024 it's still not gonna be an issue. and i think they underestimate just how much of a mobilizing for us this is. because it wasn't a bellwether issue, right? it's an issue people feel, if your fundamental rights are stripped away from you, they're not gonna forget it in a year's time or two years time, they're gonna remember it until that wright is reinstated. >> absolutely. and i think one of the things we've seen organizers around the issue of abortion to really really well is make sure that we're telling the story. make sure we're talking about it as a common medical procedure. making sure that we are demystifying and removing the shame and stigma from the procedure and the choices around it. we've seen those organizers not only make sure those stories are told, but also uplifting stories of those who have suffered after roe is overturned. and in that time, we've seen that super majority of people not only go from saying that abortion should be allowed and identify as pro choice, but to say that it's morally acceptable. to thinking the 15-week and 16 -- sorry, six quick bans are unacceptable and draconian. so that kind of story tonight, that kind of on off the narrative has been absolutely essential to helping americans understand this is about our fundamental bodily autonomy and when we see it in that way, when we can connect the dots between abortion and poverty, abortion and medical racism, abortion and so much more, then people are really able to stand firmly in their understanding of what we can never allow ourselves to be a country that does not have -- that does not allow women or anyone control over their bodies. >> panel, please stick around. we're going to squeeze and a quick break. afterwards, we'll tackle the republicans assistance to house speaker mike johnson's newly announced plans to keep the government open. you don't want to miss that. but first, my friend richard is here with the headlines. >> hey, some of the stories we're watching for you. fbi agencies electronegativity is blocking to new york city mayor eric adams. the search is part of a federal investigation into adam's 2021 campaign. authorities have yet to accuse them there of any wrongdoing. the fbi and u.s. postal inspection service to envision, is a series of letters containing suspicious powder were sent to election workers and multiple states. at least one of the letters contained traces of fentanyl. officials said there are no reported 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also breaking today, he's already running into a wall of resistance from this very same conservatives, chip roy, marjorie taylor greene, warren davidson. they have all time out swinging, attacking johnson for his ill-conceived. glenn johnson can lose only minimal gop support if he intends to actually pass his plan for the house. the white house press secretary parade jean-pierre chimed in a short while ago, saying, quote this proposal is just a recipe for more republican chaos and more shutdowns, full stop. my panel is back with me. brittany packnett cunningham, alaina beverly, and kurt bardella. kurt, i'll start with you on this round. your reaction to this untested funding approach from the new speaker? back to square one, six days ago. >> well, it's the least shocking center that a speaker that was just thrown into office after two books of chaos has no idea what he's doing and isn't over his head. that republicans are not going to resume their tide anticipates refugee of attacking one another and creating a spiraling -- spiraling government shutdown of which they have no idea how to get out of. they'll pay a price for. this they seem to be intent on reminding the american people, every six of the, they have no earthly idea what you're doing. they're clearly too caught up in their own drama and their own interpersonal conflicts to be trusted with the rights of power. it's unfolding and is backed up -- you threw at one. speaker even one of your own monica right wing constitutional conservative, whatever you want to call, it in the seat of power. and here we are, a few weeks into the speakership, and you are now back to attacking him. and this is going to be a cycle that will repeat itself over and over and over, because this republican party is completely ungovernable. they love sitting on the sidelines yelling at the people in power. but when she put one of them in that year, they have no idea what they're doing. >> brittani, you have chip roy, marjorie taylor greene already speaking out against the proposal. and i assume, based on what mike johnson is doing, he's not a math guy. so he can only afford to lose four gop votes as of democrats oppose it, and that is assume you've got the house in full attendance. how does this look like to you? >> i mean, we already knew he wasn't a math guy. because he's an election denier. so he had some travel heading up in the first place. but listen, ever since he's been in this position, the republican party has not chipped in one. but i actually am old enough to remember a strong republican party that moved in lockstep. certainly on things i didn't occur with him, aunt they were tight, they were controlled, they were always in order. and i wish i could sit back and just chuckle as somebody who vehemently disagrees with so much of both parties this. for because they're incapable -- in chaos. they cannot seem to get it together, because they don't know what the right hand is the ortholog is doing at the same time. and yet, the american people suffer when they cannot even be functional. we're talking about parents and children who will not be able to have access to wic, to formula, to the food that need to survive. we're talking about federal employees who will be stop living from their savings, who are often already underpaid, and then heading to tucker out the next move as they wait on the government to finally get together. i really wish i could sit back and chuckled at the circuit that's in charge, but guess what. the american people suffer when the circus is in town. >> this is not a man, or is exactly pointed out. there are people's lives and livelihoods at stake here. you do not want to be a federal employee who cannot pay a mortgage payment because michael johnson and the republican party cannot get their act together. and, yet alaina, that's where we find ourselves. let's say my johnson pulls this miracle of some sort and gets this bill for the house. it will still fall short because he has to deal with the democratic-controlled senate. so he's basically trying to waste his time -- no it won't go anywhere with the democrats. and here we are. again, republicans just simply waste in time for political purposes and not getting the job done. >> you're right. i mean, this was developed, he's the far-right and freedom caucus -- they're not with him because it does not have the budgetary cut they want. but democrats won't be. within senator patty murray who cherish the senate appropriations committee called this the craziest, stupidest thing she's ever seen. it doesn't include any of that request the biden administration made for military support for ukraine or humanitarian aid for ukraine or gaza. but importantly, it has this -- there is no other way to say. it asinine rolling funding of the agencies. how is that possible? how are we going to put this together, when there's funding of the agencies for hot and d.o.t. through january, and funding of commerce and hhs in february? it continues to kick the can down the road and make those cliffs fourth as edmonton staggered. it's a ludicrous proposal and there is no way they look at democratic support. >> kurt, what's the plan for democrats? here if this was purely about politics, i might say sit on the sidelines, let that republicans continue to make fools of themselves. but both two brittany and alaina's points, at some point and adult has to step up and say, we have got this, we can't let millions of americans suffer because this republicans can get together. so what to actually do in a moment like this? >> ultimately, i think -- during some of these conversations and political debates, we hear a lot of the media about the so-called moderates, and districts biden carried the up and the next election cycle. these are the people that could hold the key here. they can come to the table and, say we are overlooking the extreme nanticoke us detect the interruption of the republican conference. where don being held hostage -- work in a tell you, this is what we're gonna vote for and will w