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they've uncovered new avenues of investigation, most recently those missing secret service text messages from january 6th. the d.a. inspector general is now launching a criminal investigation into what happened. as a former dhs official quote "almost nothing about this makes sense. at best the loss of these texts is evidence of astonishing incompetence. it is indicative of darker motivations." i want to bring in ali vitali, barbara mcquade is a professor at the university of michigan law school, donelle works as a senior policy researcher at the rand corporation, katie benner is the ...

Out front winning issue broadly for democrats going into the midterms, and i sort of have been arguing i think that's problematic. if you look at the new "usa today" polling out shows that over 80% of americans are actually worried about democracy. senator warnock is right that democracy's in peril, and americans overwhelmingly feel worried about democracy. so i think there is now some political traction there broadly. but also when you talk about sort of base mobilization, and looks, we've talked about this before. you know, those young people that democrats need to turn out who turned out in...

And distill them down to very basic messages centering around jobs and affordability and just repeat them over and over again. we are not going to win with republican tactics of division and hatred and disgusting rhetoric. we will win, though, with the barack obama script that barack obama strategy of addition rather than subtraction, which leads me to my second point which is that after losses with the democratic party does too often is says well, we have to choose between base mobilization and persuasion. any party that forces themselves to choose between the two is guaranteed to lose. we ha...

Will somehow be curtailed in a real, real way and democrats, they feel as though this seems like the thing that could galvanize people on the midterms when they badly need to win the midterms. and gain seats. >> terry mcauliffe and gavin newsom, they grabbed on to this immediately in the virginia race. glenn youngkin was like, can we talk about something else? >> let's talk about base mobilization. what will gin up republicans, this is a party that lost women by 15 points, independents by nine, ten points. they can't afford -- this only helps them in places they are winning big. i agree with c...

I think frankly they, a lot of people in the trump camp see this as an opportunity to drive, continue to drive base enthusiasm and make sure those people are getting out to vote to create that energy because the worst thing in the world would be for that base to be somehow lethargic when it comes to the 2020 election. it clearly is not a strategy driven at independent voters but driven at continuing to animate that base and by the way, it's tied to the immigration dialogue. it's tied to other things which the president has seized on in recent weeks. so no, i don't think it's a strategy for ind...