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♪ ♪ ♪ it's one a. m. here in new york, midnight in iowa, and a very first test of the 2024 republican primary season is now complete. joining me now at the top of this hour, former obama campaign manager, msnbc political analyst, and my former boss david plouffe, former rnc chairman and co-host of the weekend, michael steele, former communications director for jeb bush 2016 campaign, and now writer at large for the bulwark tim miller, and former communications director for president obama jennifer palmieri. now, tonight in iowa, nbc news projected that donald trump won the ca...

refinery maintenance shutdowns ant -- and opec's latest cuts as retirees will soon get the biggest social security living increase that they've seen in decades. in a moment we will hear from the wall street journal jon hilsenrath. analysis in moments. arthel: the white house trying to get in front of rising gas prices and inflation among top voter concerns. hey, lucas. lucas: price of regular unleaded gasoline nationwide is 3.91 according to triple a. president biden lashing out against saudi arabia and opec for cutting oil production former secretary of state mike pompeo responded t...

Month in social security benefits, what if inflation goes down, do they come and cut it, they come and knock on your door and rip up the check? jon: no, this is a one-year adjustment. so this is going to the hold for the next year and then we will see what happens to consumer price numbers next year and they will make another adjustment in a year. that's locked in and that's really good news if the inflation numbers come down. if they don't then as i say it's going right back out the door and, you know, at the least it's making up for loss ground. a lot of seniors really got hurt in the last y...

Benefits are adjusted based on the consumer price index. the consumer price index was up nearly 9% in the the last year and so this is catch-up. this is catch-up for the loss ground that americans experienced in 2021-22. now if inflation comes down, then that's good news because some of the catch-up is going to go back into your bank account. if inflation doesn't come down, then it's going to go right out to the grocery stores, right back out to the gasoline pump and that's why this the fight that the federal reserve is undertaking to get inflation under control is so critical. it's why you se...

They know who hillary clinton is. she wasn't elected president. how this is going to help her image or recover her loss ground, she's now in some polls less popular than president trump. >> at times i felt like carrie mathison on the tv show homeland. a little bit of self-reflection there. >> i'm sure, as you look deeper into the book there's going to be a little self-reflection. there's going to be some honesty, candor and lashing out. i don't know if you would expect anything different from that from someone who went through