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they talk about how terrible things are in the country. i'm not sure really the things disturbing him the most, that stock markets are at record highs or unemployment is at record lows. i really don't think this is going to work, this idea that we are going to forget covid and forget donald trump is the only president since herbert hoover to leave office with your jobs -- with fewer jobs than when he entered office. he was impeached twice. he instigated a riot and tried to overthrow the government of the united states. >> right, so when people forget to remind them of these truths and greatest hits. stuart stevens, thank you so much for your time. that is our show for tonight. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening. >> i just realized we have three senate candidates joining us tonight. sheldon whitehouse and from delaware, all running for the
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united states senate. so they will all have the chance to talk to voters tonight. >> that is a good looking. someone did you very well. >> thank you. >> have a good night. stack at the end of this hour we have to say our final farewell to willie mays, who sadly died tonight at the age of 93. the stock market hit record highs again today. something that the religion called trumpism insists is impossible because in the last presidential campaign, donald trump promised this. >> if he is elected, the stock market will crash. >> trumpism depends on stupidity. it has to because donald trump is so profoundly stupid himself. it is impossible to get stupidity out of trumpism. there was once a time when i could tell you that every republican united states
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senator knew donald trump was lying when he said that china paid american tariffs. american tariffs for the entire history of the american government have been paid by the american people, that is how tariffs work. they are sales taxes paid by the american people. paid by the consumers in america who by the imported goods. donald trump has always insisted to his followers at his rallies that china pays the tariffs that donald trump imposed on china. now to be fair to the 99% of trump voters who have never gone to a trump rally, it does appear that the very stupidest of trump voters attend the rallies and cheer for the breathtakingly stupid statement by donald trump about tariffs, but i promise of joe biden never claimed that a foreign country pays american tariffs, the new york times would destroy him in a massive front- page headline and begin to
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debate whether joe biden was lying about tariffs or this was a sign about neurological decline in joe biden. who pays tariffs should be a question at the next debate, but the debate questioners always pride themselves on the complexity of their questions that never lead to yes or no answers or revelations of the shocking ignorance patterns of people like donald trump. donald trump introduced insult comedy to american presidential politics with his nasty nicknames, first for the republican candidates he was running against in 2016, all of whom then proved themselves to be worthy of even nastier nicknames for publicly offering their complete loyalty to donald trump after he humiliated them and insulted them and insulted some of their wives and gave out their personal phone numbers, things like that. senator joshua holly has not
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been on the receiving end of an insert insult from donald trump because he never ran against donald trump, but in his longshot current campaign for the vice presidential nomination, senator hawley today tried his hand at trumpian insult comedy. it was based on a lie circulating in right-wing media claiming that joe biden did not want to have to stand for the 90 minutes of the upcoming cnn debate. cnn said that was a lie with a cnn spokesperson saying, cnn's proposed format was to have both candidates stand and both sides agreed to the rules when they agreed to debate. and remember, joe biden was the first to agree to debate. he was the first to agree to stand for 90 minutes, but the lie that senator hawley used to insult joe biden revealed
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just how much he doesn't know about the country he lives in. senator hawley tweeted, he can't stand for 90 minutes, but he's 100% able to be president? have fun explaining that. okay, i can explain it in three words. franklin delano roosevelt. he was our longest-serving president, elected to for conservative terms as president of the united states before term limits were established by constitutional amendment and in every day of his 13 years as president, franklin roosevelt was in a wheelchair. the same wheelchair he was in in his two terms as governor of new york. franklin roosevelt lost the ability to walk when he was struck by polio at age 39. so, no, standing for 90 minutes is not a presidential job requirement. and what did franklin roosevelt do in his wheelchair? he did more things than any
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president before him or sense, including winning world war ii. adolf hitler was a younger, healthier man than franklin roosevelt, but from his wheelchair president franklin delano roosevelt forced adolf hitler in berlin to commit suicide in his bunker as the allies commanded by general dwight eisenhower were closing in on the german capital city. hitler could stand for 90 minutes. he did it all the time. 90 minutes was a short speech for adolf hitler. josh hawley would have loved adolf hitler if standing for 90 minutes and ranting incoherently is something josh hawley truly admires as presidential. josh hawley knows it doesn't matter how long a president can stand. he knows the republican governor of arkansas, who republicans believe is the greatest texas governor in
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history, has been in a wheelchair every single day of his governorship. but wiseguy josh hawley wants to do his joke about standing for 90 minutes, so that he can impress the world's worst insult comedian, donald trump. senator hawley is one of the unindicted participants in donald trump's attempt to overturn the election. he was the first member of the senate to agree to join republican house members in their plan to challenge the electoral votes one by joe biden. if only house members challenge to the electoral votes, those challenges would have been immediately ignored. but if the challenge comes from the house and the senate, then both bodies have to vote on the challenge. no republican senator was willing to step forward to support those challenges that they knew were coming from the house until senator hawley, craven lee, became the first.
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then he was immediately joined by his other comrades, like senator ted cruz and others. without senator hawley the trump criminal conspiracy alleged by special prosecutor jack smith would've been incomplete. other friends of donald trump were not so lucky as josh hawley. today boris epshteyn became the newest alleged trump co- conspirator to face arraignment, this time in arizona where he pleaded not guilty to criminal charges for his role in the a collector conspiracy. boris epshteyn is an utterly incompetent buffoon like many trump operatives who would have never have found a position of responsibility of any kind in a serious republican presidential campaign before donald trump. boris epshteyn is a nonpracticing lawyer who knows nothing about the practice of law and so spent every day of the trump criminal trial in new york sitting in the front row of the spectator seats, totally ignored by the real lawyers
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handling donald trump's losing defense. boris epshteyn was one of the very first and was the very last trump supporter who appeared as a guest on this program. it was during the 2016 presidential campaign and boris epshteyn appeared then to be the most reasonable of the trump operatives who only lied a little bit, not every word. but after listening to him on this program i realized it was a disservice to the audience to ever-present liars paid by donald trump to come on television and lie for him. it is an abuse of television time to give those people microphones. i have never seen a successful interview of a trump operative, because they will lie about anything and it is impossible to pursue all of those lies. but boris epshteyn is now going to find, as a criminal defendant, what donald trump has found. which is that fast talking
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lying on tv that trump and his people do just doesn't work in a courtroom where donald trump in fact was afraid to even open his mouth when he was on trial as a criminal defendant in manhattan. trumpism has infected the supreme court in ways that were unimaginable before donald trump. but some of which were actually happening before trump. it is inconceivable that justice samuel alito and justice clarence thomas and both of their wives suddenly became rabid, right-wing, trumpian republicans only at the emergence of candidate trump. we now know that the financial corruption of clarence thomas, the outright selling of his supreme court seat, or at least what we can all agree is the financial exploitation of his seat on the supreme court, has been happening for decades. clarence thomas was never admitting it. clarence thomas was violating
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the rules of financial disclosure for supreme court justices and claiming that as a supreme court justice, it was impossible for him to understand these very simple rules that you do not have to go to law school to understand. rules that anyone could understand on their first reading. clarence thomas's defense has been the kind of defense that disqualifies you as a supreme court justice. it is the claim that he is just too stupid to understand these very simple ethical rules. that would mean that he is by his own confession, too stupid to be a supreme court justice. but trumpism means never having to say you're sorry for being stupid, so everyone in republican politics accepts clarence thomas's defense that i was too stupid to understand the ethics rules that apply to supreme court justices and just when we think we know at all about justice thomas, there is
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more. the senate judiciary committee revealed no information that clarence thomas took three more flights than previously known on the private jet of republican mega-donor harlan crow. that is three more flights than the public knew about when data compiled by the watchdog group fix the court showed that clarence thomas received at least more than $4 million in gifts between 2004 and 2024. in the same two decades, no other justice reported even half $1 million or a quarter million dollars in gifts. samuel alito came in second with roughly $210,000 worth of gifts in the same two decades. the records do not show the purpose of clarence thomas's trips. the washington post estimated that such flights might have cost between $500,000 and $625,000.
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as joe biden said this weekend, if donald trump is elected president he will have two supreme court seats to fill. president biden didn't specify which seats, but it is easy to see how quickly donald trump and rich republicans would be able to purchase clarence thomas's supreme court seat from justice thomas by providing him with the fabulously wealthy lifestyle that justice thomas so openly craves. justice thomas is 75 years old. donald trump would make him an offer he could not refuse. the golden motorhome offer. the unlimited private jets wherever you want to go offer for the rest of your life. multimillion dollar income by sitting on corporate boards, making speeches to closed-door republican gatherings and donald trump would make samuel alito an offer that samuel alito's wife would not let him refuse. according to recently recorded comments about how much she hates her husband's job.
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donald trump would replace at least two supreme court justices in their mid-70s with extreme, right-wing republican lawyers like, say, 44-year-old joshua hawley, who can serve on the united states supreme court comfortably for another 40 years. where he could do much more damage than he tries to do now in the united states senate. leading off our discussion tonight is democratic senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island. he is a member of the senate judiciary committee and also the author of the scheme, how the right-wing used dark money to capture the supreme court. senator whitehouse, i have been wanting to get your reaction to what joe biden said this weekend about those two possible supreme court justices, which is not something that we in the media have been focusing on. the possibility there could be openings. as soon as we heard him say it,
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we could see how that deal would be made for those openings. >> yeah and there is a history of making deals for openings. justice kennedy left in what looked an awful lot like a deal to put his former clerk, brett kavanaugh, on the court. and it is customary for republican justices who claim to be nonpartisan to wait until there is a republican president before they retire and create a vacancy. i think more importantly what it reminds the american people of is what the stakes are of another trump presidency and an even more entitled and soupy messed supreme court. just the move from 5-4 to 6-3 made a profound difference in the courts behavior. if it were to go to 7-2, i
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think the rogue court would become a downright berserk court and it is very hard to get rid of them, because they have these lifetime appointments. so it is a very real threat to the country. to have trump have more appointments to this court. >> senator, have i oversimplify the clarence thomas to dance -- which to me seems to be, i couldn't possibly understand these complicated rules for financial disclosure for supreme court justices? this is someone who has to analyze antitrust cases and as we know, all sorts of law that is far more complex than these very simple, english language financial disclosure requirements. i mean, that just seems like a defense that disqualifies you from being a supreme court justice. >> the first line of defense is
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to say nothing at all. just to be mute. so he has never said a thing officially about what his situation was in regards to his wife's role in the insurrection when he was ruling on cases that were related to investigation of the insurrection. he just refused to answer, refused to engage, so nothing there. just mute silence. then you move on to the filings he has made, when he is caught making mistakes. he makes these weird partial corrections that he knows are not complete and then says that his failure to file very obvious requirements was inadvertent. if a lawyer made to justice thomas the argument that their mistake was inadvertent, they would be taken to task by justice thomas. so it is a double standard as to what they demand around them and the way they behave themselves.
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and very simple things like understanding when a $250,000 debt is forgiven for your motor coach, that that is income. all you have to do is read the plain language of the statute and the disclosure rule to know that and he does not seem to have managed to file his proper disclosure and we are investigating whether he managed to file his proper taxes. >> this is a judge in the federal appeals chain of tax evasion cases. of cases to failure to comply with taxes. both civil and criminal cases that find their way up there, where he has to be the ultimate interpreter of tax law as it applies in that case. >> we are going to find out what the facts are and they look very much like a supreme court justice has committed tax fraud and we are going to get to the bottom of all of these disclosure violations, but i
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have gone to the senate floor to disclose what happened when executive branch and legislative branch officials engaged in similar disclosure violations. they were prosecuted. they pled guilty to criminal charges. so we are dealing with very serious matters about which we have a supreme court justice who is simply not providing honest answers. >> senator sheldon whitehouse, thank you very much for starting our discussion tonight. >> thank you. >> coming up, democratic senator brown is running for reelection in ohio, a state donald trump has one twice. reelection could depend on how much ohio voters like fast talking car salesman, because that is who senator brown is actually running against. senator brown joins us next. ex. , but so especially now is saving. that's why america's best includes a free eye exam
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sherrod brown is reelection. hold onto control of the senate, sherrod brown has told onto the majority of voters in ohio who already elect did him to the united states senate three times. he won his last election with 53% of the vote. two years after donald trump one ohio with 51% of the vote. everyone in the senate on both parties wants to know how sherrod brown does it. how he wins reelection in an increasingly challenging political environment for his party, in his state. the only person on the senate who actually knows how sherrod brown does it is sherrod brown, who will join us in a moment. what we know is that at stake in sherrod brown's reelection is whether democrats will still be able to confirm appointments including possible supreme court justices. also at stake is whether the united states senate will pass
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a national abortion ban which sherrod brown opposes. democratic party control of the senate is not the kind of issue that swing voters usually find compelling. sherrod brown's campaign seemed to turn on the personal relationship and trust he developed with a majority of ohio voters. that is one of the reasons why unions come out in force for sherrod brown and his senate campaigns and in what has already become a hugely expensive senate campaign with a trump endorsed, rich republican nominee who got rich selling some very expensive cars. the brown campaign is now emphasizing moreno's zero experience in government and, in effect, testing how much voters trust car sellers. >> as a car salesman, bernie moreno would say anything to sell a car.
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>> 52 carwashes a year. >> an amazing vehicle. >> now that he is running for senate, bernie moreno has not changed, not one bit. you could not trust him as a car dealer. so why would you trust him as your senator? >> nobody else can offer you -- >> i am sherrod brown and i approve this message. >> joining us now is democratic senator sherrod brown of ohio. he is running for reelection to the u.s. senate. how does ohio become maybe the most expensive senate campaign in the country? california is a bigger state, more expensive media markets, but ohio seems to be exploding and how much it cost for you to run. >> it is a big state that trump carried twice, by eight points both times. mitch mcconnell and donald trump, it is his number one targeted senate race. mitch mcconnell has pledged to spend somewhere upwards of $90 million once labor day rolls
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around. he is spending millions already. the drug companies want to beat me. wall street wants to beat me. the oil companies want to beat me. we stand up to these interest groups. it makes it expensive and makes the race tough, but it is also why i win. we have talked before, lawrence. most people don't see politics as left to right, liberal and conservative. they see it as whose side are you on and that is why i ask people to contribute five dollars or $10 or whatever you feel like doing, but help us out. >> the voters of ohio know who you are. they don't really know your opponent as well. this is one of those opponents who comes basically out of the world, with a color self financing candidate. he has a lot of money himself to pay for the campaign. bernie moreno is going to try to identify himself to voters. what about you identifying him to voters? >> the contrast is clear and
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part of that contrast is ohio passed by 57% a constitutional amendment supporting abortion rights. i was on your show the night we did that and that was an exciting night for all of us in ohio. moreno said i am 100% pro-life. the other contrast is bernie moreno has always been out for himself. the way he's done business. he has defrauded his workers. paid a huge fine and destroy the records. as a senate candidate it is clear he is out for himself. he said he doesn't want to work with anybody that he doesn't agree with and that is the ticket to getting nothing done. we've passed a pension bill to save the pensions of 100,000 ohio workers. we have passed an infrastructure bill and put a cap on prescription drug races. you do that because you figure out how to work with the other side and get things done. that is why tester and i were able to team up with republicans on the pact act, so
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veterans exposed to those burn pits get help from the va and that bill is named after an ohioan named keith robinson who died from his exposure. if you want to get something done, you figure out how to do it. you don't come as an ideologue and say i'm only going to work with people that are right wing, like i am. >> we've already seen a republican proposal to cut social security benefits by raising the retirement age and other methods to cut social security benefits so that they can do yet another tax cut for the rich. you are a member of the senate finance committee with jurisdiction over social security. obviously if you remain a member of the committee and democrats control it, nothing like that, no kind of cut to social security is going to get through that committee. >> and you know when you were staff director what was and still is the most important committee in the senate. how important social security, medicare and trade and taxes are on that committee and the
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chairman is going to let nothing like that through his committee and i will be standing with bob casey and others shoulder to shoulder to make sure they don't. we had a field hearing and i don't do many field hearings. we had one in columbus friday and a 73-year-old bus driver who drives 200 miles a day along the ohio river. she has done this for 40 years. she gets a small pension, because bus drivers don't get rich driving buses for school districts and she would lose some of her social security because of the peculiarity in the law. the social security fairness act would fix that. it would make a huge difference for her and police and fire and teachers and school custodians and cafeteria workers and clerks in state offices who work hard and for the hard work they do, don't see the kind of support that they should in terms of pensions and income and benefits. my job, always thinking about the dignity of work, that is
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why i wear this pen to focus on what workers need and that this society works and people do well in this society because workers produce wealth. whether it is a local school district in ohio where it is j.p. morgan chase and 20,000 employees in columbus. if people work hard they should be able to get ahead. >> i heard the description of your opponent, bernie moreno. he sounds like donald trump. he's out for himself and does not want to work for anybody in the other party or anyone he doesn't agree with. that is a description of donald trump. why wouldn't ohio voters go for someone like that in the senate if they are willing to vote for donald trump? >> that's a really good question. one of the differences is he is spending his own money to buy the seat. i think we are explaining who bernie moreno is, before people know who he is around the state. we want to make that contrast and i make that contrast clear everyday.
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i fight for workers, he treats his workers out of pay. i fight for women's health and that women and their family should make these decisions. bernie moreno once a nationwide abortion ban. so we will make that contrast consistently and my reputation of fighting for workers and the dignity of work i will contrast any day with a guy who is clearly out for himself every day in the business and in the community. >> senator sherrod brown, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. coming up, we will have a last word about willie mays at the end of the hour. today president biden simplified an immigration policy that now allows spouses of citizens to remain in the united states when they apply for permanent resident status. of course donald trump is lying about that policy. that is next. next.
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we can both secure the border and provide pathways to citizenship. we have to acknowledge the patience and goodwill is being tested at the border. they don't understand a lot of it. these are the fears my predecessor is trying to play on when he says emigrants in his words poison the blood of the country. i'm not interested in playing politics with border or immigration. i'm interested in fixing it.
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i said it before. i will work with anyone to solve these problems. that is my responsibility as president. that is our responsibility as americans. >> president biden will allow spouses of u.s. citizens to apply for permanent resident status without having to first leave the country as current policy requires. donald trump's campaign of course slide and accused president biden of offering mass amnesty and citizenship. no one will get citizenship because of this change in policy, no one with -- this will simply allow the spouses of american citizens to remain in this country while they apply for permanent resident status which they qualify for. these applications take sometimes several years to process. years. not one voter will be added to voter registrations in america because of this change in
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policy. the biden harris campaign release to this ad this weekend. >> joe biden and kamala harris really care about keeping families together. >> who would want to separate us. >> demonizes immigrants. >> they are poisoning the blood of the country. >> i urge my friend, family, and community members to vote for joe biden. >> joining us now is robert garcia of california, member of the house oversight and homeland security committee and also a member of the biden harris campaign national advisory board. congressman garcia, this changing policy is really a change in the conditions of filing an application. that is what actually happened today as i understand it. >> absolutely and look, this is a really great day for keeping
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families together. people feel families should remain together. this is an incredible moment for those families and for our country. we are talking about half 1 million people, 500,000 people where you have an undocumented person who in many cases has been here for 10 or 15 years, that is married to a u.s. citizen and does not have a legal pathway to be a permanent resident and possibly eventually a u.s. citizen. it is very hard in this country to earn citizenship, as we know. so this action will keep families together. imagine being a son or daughter and one parent is a citizen. the other is not. knowing that that parent can be not only deported, but for them to apply for residency they have to actually leave the country and separate the family. that is unjust, inhumane and the president has done the right ring. what a contrast with donald trump and this horrific rhetoric about deportations. >> i discovered this policy about having to leave the
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country when applying for a change in status literally decades ago in college. a friend of mine from france discovered that she actually had a legal right to a green card, to permanent residency, through her mother which she did not quite realize, but then discovered i have to leave the country in order to file that application. i remember discovering that at the time and finding it to be, even then, for someone who has a right to this status, to say you can only do it if you go to your home country and file it through the state department there. it seemed like a completely unnecessary extra demand on that applicant. >> it is an extra demand and also cruel and inhumane. i am an immigrant. i came as a young kid. i became a citizen. ironed citizenship for my family. these folks will be impacted, they will make some of the most
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patriotic americans in this country. they love this country. they are working hard. often times taking jobs other folks don't want. they are as american as our neighbors. i applaud the president. this is an important moment i think for him and the administration. quite frankly it is a promise kept that he made to not just focus on securing the border, which we know is necessary, but also providing real relief to families across this country. i've been hearing messages all day from folks grateful and excited that this action took place and i think it will really make an impact on good policy across the country. >> so when you hear donald trump talk about punishing the blood of this country, knowing he is literally talking about you, how do you feel? >> disgusted. this con man, this traitor to our country, this criminal, is somehow trying to humanize us who came here as children who
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are giving back to our country. who have done everything. i am a former teacher. teachers and nurses and people working in construction and in our classrooms, that is who immigrants are. we contribute. we improve this country, as we have. as you know for hundreds of years. so this idea that we are somehow killers and murderers and we are in human i think is something that we have to look ourselves in the mirror as american voters and ask ourselves, this person, does this person really deserve to be president again? i think it is absolutely not and i hope more and more people are realizing that this person will not just hurt immigrants, but all americans who believe in human decency. i'm proud of president biden and i hope donald trump can quickly be a memory for all of us, but especially for us
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the biden/ harris reelection campaign and is now running for u.s. senate in delaware. first of all, how do you do both? how much of your day is cochair trying to elect or reelect joe biden, and how much of your day is trying to win the senate seat?>> first of all, it is good to be with you. this day in particular is such a special day because we made it official and it started at
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about 5:00 this morning, and we are ending on a high on the show. truly i feel like i am wearing multiple hats. i am a congresswoman, and we have the job because we have important work that we are doing on strengthening our economy and supply chains and making sure we lower the cost of living and goods, and do that work as well as lowering the cost of healthcare. bringing clean drinking water to delaware. the other one is the cochair had. this is my second time doing this. it was so nice they asked me twice, so i am glad to be back making sure this president and our vice president are reelected, and then the other one is running for the senate. that is something that is new to me. fortunately i represent the whole state, so i am used to
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running up and down the state, which over the 24 hours of this announcement we will be in all three counties because we are three counties that are urban, suburban, and coastal. the last hat was the new job that i got, which is grandmother. as you showed that clip just to see my granddaughter was so special because as soon as i started to talk about her i noticed she held the sign up for the campaign, so she is on the campaign trail doing work as well. we do it because we have a great team with great family and because we believe passionately in this country and the opportunities for this country, and really that is why the theme of the campaign is right hope. because we want to bring some bright hope to the senate and some bright hope to our country as well. >> you told us about your granddaughter on this program when ivf was threaten and is still threatened by republican
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policies now that roe versus wade is not along, and we learned then as you told us that might that you have your granddaughter. >> yes. it was the first time i really talked about our family story. not only did i share about the birth, but also that a year and a half or so prior to that my children experienced a miscarriage, and the thought that my daughter in law could have possibly been turned away at a hospital, which is happening to people in emergency rooms, could have died . these things are personal to families in our country. i think is one of the reasons why it's bringing democrats and republicans and independents together and why people are recognizing that donald trump owns this. those extremist republicans who are pushing for these laws across the country on this, but
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you have a champion in joe biden and me, and i hope that people will be a part of our campaign and think about joining us in this movement. i want to make sure that people can know where to reach us and find out more information, but this is truly about our families and safe the end of our rights to be first in a constitutional right has been taken away from us. in the senate i'm going to fight for it. >> delaware senate candidate, lisa blunt rochester, thank you for joining us. tonight last word about the great willie mays is next. (♪♪) plateau de fromage! [cheering] oh la la! [cheering] don't panic. gift easy with gift mode, now on etsy.
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continues to inspire generations of americans. >> [ applause ] >> willie mays son announced tonight my father has passed away peacefully and among loved ones. i want to thank you all from the bottom of my broken heart for the unwavering love you have shown him over the years. willie mays was 93 years old.