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>> thank you, sir. all right. well, this is going to be hard. before we go to break, we do want to mark the passing of one of our favorite guests. you may have heard this week that media critic eric bowler was a passionate voice against right-wing extremism and hypocrisy in the media. through media matters, salon, and his newspaper "press run," he challenged those trying to poison our public discourse. eric died this week after being hit by a train while cycling. we want to send our deepest condolences to his wife tracy breslin and their two children, jane and ben. we loved having eric on. h...

Why should one man in the u.s. senate have this kind of power to break the backs of families. i have an assistant with four children, someone who does work for me. she relies on that tax credit. her family uses that tax credit for children, four of them, and to say this isn't impacting real people's lives is ridiculous because of course it is. and joe manchin has too much power. we need filibuster reform or we need to deal with that issue because if this is what's happening on build back better, jonathan, i can guarantee you he's going to do the same thing on voting rights which means the two ...

Unveiling additional measures to combat the virus, the president will issue, quote, a stark warning of what the winter will look like for americans that choose to remain unvaccinated. we're all getting a taste of that already. new york reached a record number of daily cases this week. more than 21,000 in a single day. that's a record for the entire pandemic. and live entertainment is being put on the back burner. broadway performances are being canceled. the rockettes ended their christmas season early and "saturday night live" closed its doors to audiences in an attempt to curb the spread. jo...

And ultimately they're going to have the same fight that the republicans are having right now, which is a pretty bad one. the party split and i see that happening for the democrats if they don't get the situation under control. >> eric, do you see it that way? >> well, you know, to the question of who's president? you know, joe manchin's best day of his life was when democrats won two runoffs in georgia. he was the happiest man in washington because he knew, he knew the power he had. in terms of who's president, who's guiding the covid relief, who's touring kentucky after the tornadoes, there'...

Out of state volunteers and a 35 point lead two months before the election, you assume that person is going to win. and that was the position nina turner was in. if you blow that kind of structural lead and name recognition, you really have to look at yourself and how you blew that lead rather than claiming it was an outside force. i can't think of another example of someone blowing a lead that big outside of a scandal. >> you just opened a hornet's nest. eric, i want to turn to you, because, again, i think a lot of this is the media framing around this and you always have such great insight, ...