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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190722:00:06:00

said she suddenly thinking that the president is a racist, which is not something she said for quite a long time. if i could pick up on the point, the democratic party for about two decades has labeled every republican kaechbt for president a racist. >> have they? >> i remember being at the republican national convention in 2004 when george w. bush was about ready to accept the nomination for reelection, and democratic protesters backed by the democratic national committee comparing him to hitler. this is the incendiary rhetoric, which is the reason why in large part the accusations are falling on deaf ears when you go out the beltway. >> that doesn't cancel out the fact his tweets were racist. >> i'm talking about the overall discourse, when you go outside washington, d.c., it's the reason why a lot of these terms don't carry the weight these once good, because they've been used as political purposes for so long. >> does it give you any pause? >> look, i'll approach this in a

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190722:00:42:00

corruption scandals, over the fact thieve in this extended economic recession and debt crisis, and that they really don't have much control over finances, because they're controlled by the feds. people are fed up, they're angry at the governor and the protests really show no signs of stopping. >> so it's clear, obviously that the governor is aware that he has a problem on his hands, given that he announced he's not running for reelection, but is it inevitable he'll step down? will people accept this middle ground? >> he made this announcement on facebook live, without taking any questions since tuesday. some members of his own party, including the resident commissioner, who is the nonvoting member of washington, who is from his party, asked him to resign. so he says he's willing to face impeachment proceedings. it sounds like he's taking that gamble, because hi own party

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190722:00:43:00

controls the republican party house and senate, but really at the street level, even in terms of some mayors and legislators who were previous allies, his support has just been eroding. so how does this fit into just the lengthy and terrible recovery from hurricane maria that puerto rico has been through? clearly it's something we have covered from here in washington, because it became a political football that i think was very frustrating for people who were very affected by the storm, do puerto ricans blame him for the slow recovery? what role n. your view, did he play in some of the missteps around that? >> they definitely blame him for some of it. one of the things that was stunning was seeing the protest signs with the number of dead, you know, the several thousand people estimated to have died. people have not forgotten that

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190722:00:44:00

and not forgiven their leaders for taking so long to acknowledge that so many people died. that is the most emotional issue at hand here. they worry that this crisis has killed puerto rico's credibility and what was left of it in washington, and as a result of funds they have been waiting for will be even slower to come. they also think the island government was not ready for a disaster and not spending quickly enough to get them back on their feet. so what's next for the island here, if in fact rose will. lo refuses to step down and we see status quo here? what's next? >> there are mo protests plan. puerto rick ooh is in a perpetual state of protest. there's a big one expected tomorrow. it's an island-wide strike. the mall is closing down, because people are expected to take over the biggest highway and just sort of paralyze the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190721:23:02:00

>> the associated press reports that the double flip-flop you watched play out there was reminiscent of the president's response to the violation in charlottesville back in 2017. quote, he initially blamed violence on both sides of the altercation after a wave of bipartisan condemnation and scathy cable news coverage, he issued a cleanup statement at the white house days later. yet after watching the response to his reversal p. he doubled back to the original position during a wild >> translatotrump tower news conference. earlier today on cue he doubled back to the so-called squad, tweeting i don't believe the four congresswomen are capable of loving our country. in other words, here we go again. with that i want to welcome in my panel on set, washington chief for vice news, shawna thom i. msnbc political analyst robert costa, former poll cy

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190721:23:03:00

adviser to mitt romney and fellow, long hi chen and reporter for politico, tim alberta. also author of "american carnage: on the front lines of the republican civil war and donald trump." congratulations on the book. great to you have on the program. it's obviously chockful of news and memories i'm having trouble reliving but going through one at a time. i want to start with you because this, in many ways, wa played o played out over past week is everything you write about in this book, the divide in the republican party, tilt in populism as the president's all-out embrace of the president's political tool and strategy. how do you see, frankly, this ending for the president? it seemed like the plan is take this all the way through november of 2020. >> obviously if you're going to

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190721:23:21:00

washington. >> great to see you. >> what do you think -- there's been all kinds of speculation, obviously, about what we're going to see from robert mueller but this is somebody at the end of the day who testified before congress. more than almost anyone else he's one of the top people in this regard because he's been in public life so long and top jobs so long. what do you expect to see him wednesday and how are democrats going to handle this correctly and how potentially could they handle it the wrong way? >> i'm a big believer and always was a big believer as a prosecutor to listening to my witnesses and where they stood in court. mueller's made it very clear he's reluctant. i think particularly the democrats that will be questioning him would be will to remember that and realize he's pretty serious he will stick to what's in the report and that's good for the democrats. because what's in the report is pretty damaging. this is an opportunity to move

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180219:00:27:00

there are many, many weapons that shoot the same ammunition. i have a gun that shoots the .223. it's a vermin rifle. it shoots just as hard and just as fast. >> what do you have it for? >> for personal protection. i like to do target shooting. i have handguns, i have a concealed carry. but i don't feel like -- i feel like there are millions of americans who own these weapons and somehow a political party is going to say these people own these weapons are bad? i don't think that's a very smart politically. >> let me jump in on that because we do have some new reporting from our good friend of the show and washington bureau post bureau chief phil rucker who writes about this series of tweets. and, ken vogel, i know you do a lot of work on this reporting as well, so interested in your take. apparently the president, surprise surprise, has been watching the news. and he's been surveying the mar-a-lago club members about whether he ought to champion gun control measures in the wake of

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180219:00:26:00

the ar-15, you couldn't buy one, but they didn't take them away. the ar-15 platform which was armor light sold by colt back in 1959, the ar-15 has been around for decades and we didn't have ar-15s in schools shooting people. so, what has changed? >> but now they're selling a million two a year. in 2004 when the assault weapons ban expired they were selling 100,000 a year. this weapon has become incredibly popular in popular culture. you're right, you ban it, how do you get rid of the millions that are out there. >> of course you can. in australia they did. they had a big national buy-back. >> that's where the nothing -- that's where the nothing in washington will happen because there is no way this congress or this president -- there is no way -- people are going to call for a collection of weapons. and even if you took away the ar-15, let's say you took away the ar-15 and similar weapons,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180219:01:31:00

moron? >> i'm not going to dignify the question. >> oh, the job mitt romney might have had overshadowed by the intense news cycle that was this past week is the return of a political icon who is now looking for a different job, even though we all thought his time on the campaign trail was done. >> he's not going to run for anything. >> how do i make the case? where? my time on the stage is over, guys. i'm happy for the time i had there, but my time is over. >> do wa? >> do what? >> we're done. >> mitt romney finished the 2012 election in second place. but over the weekend, he did return to the campaign trail. closing his remarks by riffing on a past presidential slogan. >> during the last campaign, the president famously said he was going to make america great

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