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capitol hill where if you didn't happen to already be watching the news this morning, you missed a huge surprise that caused a huge spectacle. at 10:04 a.m., the house oversight committee gavelled in to debate ahead of a vote to hold hunter biden in contempt of congress for refusing to comply with a gop subpoena for closed door testimony. at 10:09, hunter biden escorted by secret service and flanked by his lawyers just showed up to the committee room offering himself up for public testimony. but instead of taking him up on that offer, republicans got angry and democrats got exasperat...

Office with a very high approval rating, akin to ronald reagan. and there was a poll that bloomberg did after the election that suggested he would have beaten trump by 12 points. now, that's not a campaign, and you don't know what will happen. but the president's point was that his point of view, and that's a more progressive, tolerant one america kind of outlook, has a majority constituency in the country. but he did say as athena mentioned, if the democratic party doesn't solve its problems, the democratic party could regain the presidency but still face gridlock in congress because of its i...

Political system that you have especially in the united states senate you have small states overrepresented in terms of per capita representation and smaller more rural states are more pro-gun. and there is just simply not a majority constituency for gun safety rules, even in light of the fact that the public is overwhelmingly supportive of it. so this sort of situation seems likely to continue. the terrible tragedy is even those of us who cover these stories on a daily basis have a hard time keeping track of how many there have been because it happens over and over again. >> matthew horace, w...

But the democrats now are walking out on stage. you can see every democratic woman in the senate. they're going to be highlighting the number of candidates they have got women candidates. >> there's another issue here. we should point out. there are a lot of pro-life democrats. a lot. so to go overboard on this issue is a fine line for the democrats. but when you get into the arena of contraception, then you get into the real everyday life of a woman and the health issues that go along with it. that's a new area of the conversation. that's where the republicans made a miscalculation. >> i don'...