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Reporter facing backlash for tweets urging trump supporters to be called, quote, enemies of the state has deleted the post. we to here to react is joe concha. is the deleted tweet, today's january 6thscores the national security dilemma, now entails calling a politician's supporters enemies of the state. the other, katie bennett. another example of liberals uniting the country, right? >> who is katie beener, not someone from the op-ed section of the new york times, some unhinged opinion piece from charles below or paul krugman who are paid to give provocative opinions, not_left-wing blogger wo...

And vice chair of the state democratic party, susan del percio. basel, i'm going to start with you on this one. i want to start with the alexandria ocasio-cortez interview because we left with that. we'll start that w that here and paul krugman and what he says about this new tax plan that she is proposing. there is a piece he wrote in "the new york times" op-ed section. part of it says this. it's a policy nobody has ever implemented aside from the u.s. for 35 years after world war ii, including the most successful period of economic growth in our history. so paul krugman is saying this, a guy...

We're trying to prevent bad decisions. but with what we've seen in the advances from the woodward book and from that op-ed, it's bad. >> do you think it's constructive, this type of move? >> i do not believe that it is. i think that as many have said on other -- in other places, putting your name to it is, i think, always more impactful. that said, what this could be, and this is my other thought, it could be somebody who's trying to position him or herself on the right side of history. >> let me push you on the empirical claim, and i say it with all due respect, but i think you might agree, a...

Personally decided that as a private citizen, not as a government employee, not as a personal representative of president trump serving overseas, that i was going to push back and i was going to write my own narrative and voice my own criticism as an american citizen. what you've got here with the letter or the op-ed in the "new york times" is something that's very, very different. i think you can read it one of two ways, and i frankly am not sure exactly which one is correct. we'll know at some point. it's clearly a cry for help. it's clearly, as i wrote in the editorial that i published toda...

Before but they are public now on purpose because of somebody who works on the senior level of the administration. i know you're sick of hearing the word unprecedented, but that word is not being overused in this administration. it is apt. and when the previously unimaginable keeps happening, we do need to think urgently and imaginatively about how our country comes out whole and responsible and constitutionally intact on the other side of this. >> i want to bring richard painter into the conversation, mara still with me. richard, your answer to rachel's question. >> well, this is a dumpster f...