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It's not disastrous. it's not where an incumbent wants to be. if you're a democrat in a tough district, that's his national number. in your district, the number is lower. >> the bottom line is the democrats have to prove they can be a governing majority. not just a majority, but that they can govern. and that they can make washington work again for you. and that, the jury on that is still out right now. >> they could have done that two months ago when the senate overwhelmingly bipartisan passed a $1.2 trillion traditional infrastructure package, but then the white house decided to link it to t...

The democratic party would allow the hard infrastructure bill and the reconciliation to sink? >> that's an excellent question. it would be a bad time for the democrats to implode. look. the bottom line, this would be a disaster if the bills got nothing out of it because if democrats really believe that democracy faces a challenge and in the midst of this rolling assault on the democracy then the democrats need to act like it as opposed to playing a game of political chicken that could result in political catastrophe. democrats have a hard time with it because do the math. the democrats may con...

Up? >> well, look, all polls in italy show that this law enjoys broad support. depending on which poll you look at and how the question is ready worked, somewhere between half and two-thirds of italians say that they are in favor of it. italy's current governing majority supports it. it is reasonable to think i suppose that at some point some form of this law made be adopted. were that to be the case, the 1929 bilateral agreement between the vatican and italy say that the vatican would have the right to insist that joint commission between the vatican and italy be created to adjudicate this di...

Actual rule change. sentiment is not enough. it doesn't actually change lived conditions. but racial justice became a majority issue and now we have to work to make it a governing majority. not just in terms of our policies but the practices of the practices of media, the practices of so many areas of society where the rules and the systems are constantly set up to put black people in harm's way. we constantly say that the system is not broken. it's operating exactly the way it was designed and that is what we have to continue to fight to change sp we're going to need as many people invested i...

Is. >> "washington post" summed it up for the prime minister this way. after just six weeks on the job johnson lost his governing majority. exiled the members and slapped down by lawmakers three times in 24 hours. the shortest honeymoon in british political history. who said johnson is essentially in government but not in power. johnson is in a terrible mess. no prime minister has lost the first vote in office since 1783. lot alone the first three. president trump said he's following the developments and predicted his friend will be just fine. >> >> boris is a friend of mine and he's, he's -- ...