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With a lack of sleep, and not at least find out how the county voted. stay up and i promise i will stay up with you. in the meantime we'll we'll bring in folks to talk about everything going on. jason johnson theroot.com and msnbc contributor, jonathan altar, kaitlin burns, they are back with us. i was saying in the break, i'm almost running out of questions. but maybe i just take a minute here to appreciate, you know, if you're anybody watching at this hour, you're an election junkie or insomniac. let's talk to the election junkies because you don't get nights like this. whatever side you're ...

Welcome back. i'm david gura. there is nothing quite like a trump rally, something the president said last night in pennsylvania. president trump sounded more like candidate trump. the chief washington correspondent for bloomberg news, also is jane newton small arc "time's" magazine contributor, politics editor at theroot.com and msnbc contributor. kevin, take us back down memory lane. how similar is what you heard last nit to the trail. >> it was like flashbacks. seriously, this is exactly what we saw, president trump really going all in for republican candidate saccone. quite frankly, the po...

Welcome back. i'm david gura. sports fans across the country are anticipating monday night's s.e.c. face-off in atlanta for the college football national championship, and the possibility of president trump attending the georgia versus alabama game, two states he carried in the 2016 election, have many wondering if this is a political play. alabama voters dealt trump a blow last month by electing democrat doug jones, and for months, the president has battled the nfl over players kneeling to protest social injustice. remember trump's war of words with georgia congressman john lewis, in which he...

Welcome back to the world famous rockefeller center in new york city and the seventh annual revvie awards. here again is your host, reverend al sharpton. >> thank you for joining us for our end of the year celebration. i look back on what that year was in politics. joining us this morning, robert traham who is a former bush-cheney senior adviser, joan walsh, national affairs correspondent at "the nation," dean obidala, political comedian and radio host and jason johnson, the political editor of theroot.com. our next category has so many possible nominations. we couldn't fit them all in, really...

As what frederick douglass called the slave master's religion versus the religion of christ. it's always been a part of the american construct that we misinterpret. >> on that note, i want to bring in jason johnson, who is politics editor of theroot.com. at a certain point what i think a lot of people don't understand is how raw self-interest doesn't over come this. these are the same people who are cutting out health care, who are taking away living wages, who are denying minimum wage increases, who are saying we will leave you poorer. we refuse to let you have higher wages. you cannot have h...