studio? i like it like this. is it you doing this? i don t even know. i m a kind of go along to get along dude. i like being with you, so if that s the cost of sharing a studio. we can raise it up, whatever you want. just feet away from each other. i ll just wear a sweater. thank you. have a good evening, chris. thank you for joining us tonight. i m ali velshi in for alex wagner. we re going to warm up in the next few minutes. president biden hasxt released s first campaign ad of 2024. and in that ad president biden makes clear what he believes will be the central issue of thisce election. i ve made the preservation of american democracy the central issue of my presidency. i believe in free and fair elections and the right to vote fairly and have your vote counted. there s something dangerous happening in america. there s an extremist movement who does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. all of us are being asked right now what will we do to maintain o
ramaswamy recently completed a full grassly for the second time. how s this is all working for them? sarah longwell, publisher of the bulwark has been hosting regular focus groups with iowa republican voters. here she is describing how the latest reacted when she asked about nikki haley declining to say slavery was the cause of the civil war. so we asked about the nikki haley s slavery comments. only the nicky curious normy had even heard about it. when we asked her so can you explain to the group what it was, she was like, well, she said something but i can t remember what it was. it was like she had heard about it, so nobody else had even heard about it. joining me now sarah longwell, publisher of the bulwark. i think what you learned there is very telling to a lot ofulse who spend time worrying about these sorts of things and thinking, wow, this would be campaign ending to not say that
to save for my kid s college. this hurts all ofulse. it doesn t make my care better. look, healthcare costs as you know were rising at double diget rateless. in the last two year they are lower . saying that healthcare costs goes up. that is wrong my problem here, austin, you guys sold it and you were there when you sold it . i remember the term. if you don t remember the term. we ll bend the cost curve down. you are not doing that. our premiumings are still rising. i have to bring wayne rogers in. you know, with all due respect. no one knows what the costs is. you have 2300 pages that say 17,000 that the rheums and
watertown many years ago. they are familiar neighborhoods and the fact that these guys were living less than a mile from there and a shoot out and a lock down in brookline and couldn t leave the house it a very, very strange, strange day and obviously a very strange and horrible week and given the tragedies earlier in the week and i think it still baffles all ofulse. how can a kid that sounds like a normal teenage kid. the younger brother perpetrate this kind of stuff? we don t know. we are talking to one of the business ledgends in america. he doesn t say that. but any time you can found a company like staples. an idea i came up with and tom shamelessly stole it that is neither here or there. what about you, when you brought staples to the world
600 billion . a 1:42 a.m.. we were call would to vote. it passed with only 8 dissenting votings. it is got to stop. uma: whatap concerns you more about the background checkings that you believe is really a clear violation . amendment and invasion of privacy. my concern with it, it restricts the laws rights of law-abiding citizen. all ofulse would like to eliminate sandy hook happenings. but this kind of law is confuse vague for the law-abiding, but it is easy for the criminals to get around. and a problem when we look at this, we see that legislation like this can t fix the problem. ine a universal background system can t work as a of the jo