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>> mark caputo is a national political reporter for nbc news that broke the news yesterday that gaetz' ex-girlfriend was appearing before the grand jury and he joins me now. mark, let's start with the context of this inquiry that starts with greenberg who gets busted for a whole bunch of stuff, and we know for a fact he was an associate friend of matt gaetz and the two of them spent time together. >> right, joe greenberg was a one-man crime spree, really one of the great political sleazeballs that we've seen in a long time. his conviction led to an investigation of gaetz because he wanted to s...

Yelling, what were you guys doing? why did you do this? they're in a damned if you do, damned if you don't moment right now. kelly o'donnell joins us from the white house. mark caputo joins us on politics and the midterms including this republican strategy. kelly, you know, you can see the dilemma every day in the white house, words, actions, photo-ops. it is mixed. >> there are it is. it's quite visceral. you laid out carefully the imperative ha most americans would accept on its face of protecting the president himself from covid and at the same time how that may grate against weariness that...

Different standards in terms of like, i have a political problem in my hand. and everything you said about the legal standards as 100% true an important. he denies the allegations. but like a lot of times, that's not enough, for someone politically. matt gaetz is writing this out. he's in a safe district. we'll see what happens but so far he seems like he sitting tight. mark caputo, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> that is all in on this thursday night. the rachel maddow chill starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks very much. i appreciate it. thanks for joining ...

Campaigning. the anti-vax crowd might be a danger. falling back on the virus will get a vote, and this will dictate what happens going forward. >> yep. and as we know, it does feel as if there's a pattern, and if this seasonal pattern continues, what happens when the summer surge hurts and what happens to our political debate about covid if, indeed, a summer surge comes like the last two? kelly o'donnell, mark caputo, thanks for getting us started on this mix of covid and the midterms. joining me is colorado's governor, one of the most prominent and few democrats to declare the end to the pand...

Power that we see this time and time again. it's also a nation that's in midst of a third year of constant disruption. who comes out of the primary as one of the big saving grace is for democrats, they think. whether they kept someone like lack salt in the state urine which is a closely divided state. and that being a more beatable candidate and someone might think. >> yeah, that's absolutely right, chris. these republicans can start telling people like black salt and dean heller, the public doesn't care that much about 2020. they care more about covid than the economy. don't worry about it ju...