the story on the other side is a story -- we went through once in a century social disruption is having some nasty effects on the back end. is that how you view it? >> that is exactly how i view it. and what we gotta do is be more victim centered. we have to be more compassionate. my opponent, there was a tragic shooting incident at a high school football game. he goes on twitter and starts attacking me. i'm like, can you at least wait to least express and compassion for the victims of this crime. can we talk about why do teenagers have guns in the first place like this? you know, they're using it as a political tool and fearmongering. and in my particular opponents case, he apparently a legally collaborated with a pack that spent about $800,000 on these hateful ads. so, they are leaning in on the fear message. we've got to help people

understand there is been social disruption and trauma and it's time to -- together get a handle on. it >> keith alison. thank you very much for your time. that's all on this tuesday night. alex wagner tonight start tonight. this tuesday night. >> good evening, chris. thank you as always. thank you for joining us this hour. 13 years ago this week, a right wing, anti abortion group called operation rescue emailed its members encouraging them to participate in the special hollowing contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you could make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy. they even showed you how to bring the effigy once you made it. the whole thing was supposedly a protest about abortion related aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all expense paid trip to d.c., to earn that effigy. i'm not showing you this

because the contest was particularly impactful in anyway. it wasn't. this was a fringe group in 2009 taking dangerous political rhetoric about political figures like read and pelosi to a new and discussing extreme. but the fact that there were not mass effigy burning across the country is not the point. the worry is not that violent rhetoric and mainstream politics is gonna cause some levelheaded mainstream -- to do something awful. the worry is what violet, dangerous rhetoric encourage the least stable amongst us to do. here's a democratic leader in the house, nancy pelosi, a month before that halloween contest in 2009. >> how concerned are you about the tone of the political debate in terms of people talking about anti government rhetoric and so on and the possibility of violence? >> i think we all have to take responsibility for our actions in our words. we are a free country and this balance between freedom and safety is one that we have to

carefully balance. i have concerns about some of the language that is being used because i saw this myself in the late 70s, and san francisco. this kind of rhetoric. it is very frightening. and it created a climate in which we -- violence took place. i wish that we could all curve our enthusiasm and some of the statements that are made. and understanding that some of the years that they are falling on are not as balanced as the person making the statement. >> a few months after nancy pelosi made that statement where she publicly made clear her worry about the rise of dangerous rhetoric, the republican national committee decided to make pelosi, as an individual, their biggest target. on the night the house passed

the affordable care act in 2010, the rnc's website started redirecting visitors to a new fund raising page, fire nancy pelosi.com. it shows speaker pelosi with clenched fists in front of a wall of flames. the site was so successful that the rnc launched a national fire pelosi bus tour, with a zigzag all cross the u.s. and use pelosi to raise cash. the rnc chair at the time launched a tour while wearing a red fire pelosi hat. drumming up a and demonizing nancy pelosi as a person. that was a cash cow for republicans. by 2014, 13% of all republican ads in house races mentioned nancy pelosi. in 2016, when hillary clinton became the main republican, dylan pelosi was only 9% of -- by 2018, with clinton and obama not not in the spotlight, nancy pelosi was in a whopping 34% of republican house as. this, year republicans spent

more money on ad the demonize nancy pelosi that they have spent on ads about immigration. -- the things they spent the most money attacking our taxes, joe biden, inflation, crime, and nancy pelosi. at the same, time in the past two years, five people, five of them, have been arrested for how seriously they have threatened speaker pelosi. today, the man accused of breaking into speaker pelosi's home and assaulting her husband with a hammer, david depape -- he entered a plea of not guilty. according to the federal complaint, depape told officers he planned to hold nancy hostage and doctor. he said if nancy were to tell the truth, he would let her go. and if she lied, he was going to break her kneecaps. he told an fbi agent that pelosi was the leader of the pack of lies told by the democratic party. and if he broke her knee caps she would then have to be wheeled into congress which would show other members of congress there are consequences

to actions. two days before paparazzi was attacked, congressman tom membrane -- tweeted out this video of him, excuse, me firing a gun to the gun range with the hashtag, fire. pelosi when question about this weekend he said democratic rhetoric is just as. that he disavow the violence, but did not see anything wrong with what he did. today -- the communications president for the rnc, back -- doug high wrote this in the -- i helped run the fire policy effort, our toxic politics goes too far. hi talks about the initial rush became from how successful the campaign was. how it felt like a political gift. unlike the people in charge other public and party currently, high thinks this all has gone too far. quote, collectively, we have to

lower the temperature. people keep getting hurt. we are very likely no one has been killed. and i worry i need to emphasize, yet. as a republican, i know the original send begins with us. republicans, not all, to be sure, but enough. what we say is often not what people here, and everyone in political life has a duty to do better. joining us now delhi, former communications director for the republican national committee. doug, thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> i have to ask you. we took that unfortunate trip down memory lane and we saw the signage, the bus tour, when you launch the fire policy efforts back in 2010. did you imagine that it would end here? >> no. absolutely not. this was something that we did. we tried to grab ahold of a political moment. we did it in, what i would say, we were trying to be lighthearted despite the imagery. i was running the communications on. the face of the project with michael steele, your colleague here at msnbc.

he's not as one of the most affable people you'll ever meet in your life. it was successful. it was something we did a lot of media in. and took it through all states -- it went very well for us. as i said in the piece, it was a political gift to a committee that needed at the time. we were not thinking in terms of political violence at that point. the problem then, was there was a january in 2011, a saturday morning when gabby giffords was shot. and i drove to the office immediately, got on a conference call with colleagues in john boehner's office, air canada's office, the congressional incentive oreo committees. we talked about the proper way to respond. and also what we could do to quell what we would politely call, in mixed company, some of the loudmouths and bomb throwers. we use other language in private. to make sure we were all unified and saying the good, smart, and write things. fast forward to what we've just seen from friday, we see a lot of republicans, not all of, them but enough, are making

this a joke time. and things like that. that are just absolutely beyond the pale. and this is my concern. that it always gets worse. it's going to continue to get worse. and so far we've been lucky that nothing truly awful has happened and that someone has died. one of these attacks is going to be successful. it might be on a republican, it might be on a democrat. but it's gonna spin all of us up even further to what i fear is the point of unraveling. >> i want to talk about the republican contrition on this. but i do want to talk about this moment that the bus tours launched. it wasn't like political violence was a fantasy. we played that sound from nancy pelosi 2009 think she was worried about the anti government rhetoric -- the tea party -- there was the obama -- i know you say it was light hearted, but the imagery of nancy pelosi behind the wall of flames as yes, a play on the word, fired, but it conjures something darker. and i'm sure it seemed light and the --

for someone in the political mainframe, if you will. but did you ever pause to think, maybe we shouldn't do this? >> no. that wasn't a part of our conversation at all. i will tell, you part of what i did at the committee, some days i was successful, some days i wasn't. there are reported that you know i have worked with that will tell you about this, it's the pushback on some of the really, ugly narratives we heard about barack obama. questioning his christiane, or his religion, that not only did i think was politically out of bounds. it was politically stupid. and not what we needed to be talking about in 2010 if we wanted to take over the house. again, the fire policy campaign was the vehicle for us quite literally when we did the bus to do that. but not in the thought of political violence at all. i was not aware of those comments of speaker pelosi's then, i don't think. the other thing i would say is, the republicans aren't critical of nancy pelosi because they think she is incompetent. we launch this because she very skillfully got the obamacare bill through the house by a narrow margin. she is very good at her job.

and that's part of why she's been a real valid for it to republicans. because of her effectiveness. >> i wonder what you think of this quote from david axelrod this week and explaining what is so attractive to republicans in terms of nancy pelosi as a focus of the outrage to get people to the polls. >> axelrod says, it's gender, it's class. the whole idea of a wealthy san francisco liberal woman. the whole package is there. the difference is what began as a way to raise money and gin up turnout has now become a much door -- more deadly game. do you think there's more truth to that? it's beyond the efficacy as her speaker of the house -- it's something about the fact that she is a woman. that she is a liberal. that she is from a coastal city. do you think that mattered in all of this? >> i think some of it does. in the previous hour there was a clip of lindsey graham talking about san francisco. it has been a time honored tradition for republicans to use san francisco in new york city, where you, are washington of course, where i am, as

shorthand for coastal elites. and things like that. so i think there is truth to that. dan is a really smart. guy i don't want to disagree with him. i think he's made some smart points. >> you said there was a conversation after the giffords shooting where you guys circle back up the rnc and said, maybe we should tone it down. what happened in that conversation? what happened in>> it was a sat. and we were all, like everybody else, shocked that this happened. and the call, as i remember, it was one of a really somber tone. and making sure the statement that we put out, whether was from republican national committee or john boehner's office -- he being the new speaker of the house that, point that we set the route -- right tone and said the right things. and this is also the really important part, that we make it clear to, house leadership more than it is the rnc, that we make it clear to our members, members of the house republican congress, or the one 60, eight

than 168 of the republican national committee, do not say anything inflammatory, frankly don't think stupid. we were able to do that successfully in 2011. as we've seen 12 years later, just this past weekend, it's a punchline for some republicans. or some of the so-called conservative pundits who dabble in selling vitamin supplements on tv. and the -- that's unfortunate. that's why more republicans will speak up, or, if they said the right thing like youngkin, did apologize for, as you can then move on. >> you know, current chair of the rnc, run and mcdaniel -- romney mcdaniel, said you can't say people saying, let's file pelosi, or, let's take back the house, is saying, go to violence, it's just unfair. i think we all need to recognize violence is up across the board. that is not sound like someone who has learned at all from the mistakes that were made a decade ago. that is intent on calling the

anger and direction towards violence. violence seems to see a mainstay of republican -- what do you make of that someone who worked at the rnc? >> as i said in the piece. i think we have a original scent here. part of that is our language towards barack obama, michelle obama for that matter, as well. and the questioning of citizenship, and religion, and so forth. and then also, obviously, with donald trump in what alternately could culminate -- in january 6th, republicans should be more mindful of that. i think she's right that you can't necessarily draw a direct line between what one politician says and the act of a crazy person. when chuck schumer said that brett kavanaugh was going to reap the whirlwind and pay the price for his vote on the dog decision, i don't think he was sending -- the person to brett kavanaugh's house to get arrested. it's not a straight line. it might be a dotted line. it might be a broken line.

it's one of the reasons i wanted to be introspective in what my work has been. because i'm scared of what is going to happen next, just as well as i'm scared of what happened before. with steve scalise, that's not something that just happened at a baseball game. it's very personal to me. he is a friend. two members of his security detail work ferreira can or when i was in his office. i know them. well they are wonderful people, dedicated to doing the job. we're lucky they were there at the right time. next time, republican or democrat, they may not be. the kidnapping plot on whitmer could've been a successful. these are things that should scare every american and cause everybody in american public life to try to do better for themselves and ultimately for the country. >> yes. and the idea that violence -- condone, supported and being furthered by especially one party in this country should be an accessible to all of. a duck high, former communications for the rnc, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank. you >> we have much more ahead tonight. coming up, we'll talk to one of the most ambitious democrat in

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italy prices are up and grocery shelves are empty. >> the worst inflation in 40 years, home, heating groceries, gasoline, all through the roof. >> and exploding cost of living. our lives are dangerous and unaffordable. >> with just a week left to go until election day, republicans have found the closing message, inflation, inflation, inflation. there's just one problem with that message. republican don't really have a plan to deal with inflation, inflation, inflation. when asked by reporters about the plans for tackling that very problem, republicans have responded with a mix of deflection and confusion. this is what republican senate, mehmet oz told the philadelphia inquirer about what he would do to lower inflation. cut taxes for working families. boom. you got it. big problem there that cutting taxes while politically very popular, could very well make inflation worse by driving up consumer spending in pushing prices even higher. but that is almost the entirety

of the republican economic agenda, cutting taxes. they are ready to push it no matter what the actual problem is or whether it might even make the problem worse. democrats, the group of people currently on the defense here, they actually seem to have a plan for combatting inflation. some of which is already been put in place. they passed inflation reduction act, they've taken executive actions, including releasing more energy from the strategic petroleum reserve to -- gas prices. and now they're going after corporate greed. last, week the two biggest oil companies in the u.s. reported over 30 billion, with a b, 30 billion dollars in combined profits. even as consumers are facing higher prices at the pump. in other words, big oil companies are using the specter of inflation and higher cost because of the war in ukraine to boost their own share price. this is not something republicans have been talking about. last, night president biden exclusively threat in those gas companies with a windfall tax on corporate profits.

unless they start reducing prices. >> while companies -- profits are not because they're doing something new or innovative. the profits are a windfall of war. the wind falls from the brutal conflict ravaging ukraine and hurting tens of millions of people around the globe. i think they have a responsibility to act within the interest of the consumers and community, and their country. to invest in america bankrupting production and refining capacity. if they don't, they are going to pay a higher tax on the excess profits and face other restrictions. >> so there seems to be a democratic plan here as it concerns inflation, inflation, inflation. and yet, republicans are still lending their attacks against democrats on the economy. there are polls tightening every day and voters are saying the economy is the top concern. so what should democrats do? what can democrats do? there is one week left here. well, here's democratic congressman mike levin, facing

a tough reelection campaign in a california -- district. >> republicans are talking a lot about inflation. and yes, it's a big problem i've been working hard to address. but what are the republican plans? a bunch of bull. that's right. the republican plan is massive tax cuts for billionaires and giant corporations. pretty much to plan for everything. it won't bring down inflation, but it will make their donors even richer. what a surprise? >> i'm mike levin, and i approve this message because we need real action to bring down inflation. not a bunch of all. >> a bunch of ball. should that be democrats closing message? we have the perfect person to ask. joining us now is -- shakir the founder of a more perfect union. it's good to see. you >> good to see you too. >> it feels like democrats have just not wanted to say the word inflation because president biden is the president. and the democrats control

congress. should that be the closing message? should they be pointing out actively the fact that the gop plan is actually no plan? >> especially if you have the diagnose how inflation has happened. there's many reason about why inflation happened. supply chain during the pandemic of scuffles. ukraine has caused an increase in energy prices. corporate greed is one of the main things democrats on talk about. if you look at corporate greed, most of these large, corporate monopolies control large spaces within the markets. they have incredible pricing power over the use of pepsico and coca-cola -- their recording record profits. record profits. while you are tightening your dealt to save every penny they are showing the shareholders greater stock dividends and may backs. for a democrat that believes in the power of government to care for working people, you have to be will -- and corporate access who are trying to screw. you you need to a moat. that you need to have policies and plans for that. i'm glad joe biden has said

windfall -- there's ways to stop that. there's ways to control for corporate wrongdoing. that is what the fight is about. >> it's easy to understand if you're someone who has gone to the grocery store and has to do a back of the envelope calculation to see if you can afford all of your groceries to understand that pepsico, which makes a lot of the food in the grocery store, is recording historic profits. right? >> tie this with labor for a second. our work are seeing? it most republicans will blame workers. they had to pay an extra $2 an hour to chipotle workers, while aaa's breaking in record profit. the ceo is making 50 or $60 million per year. -- you should be able to tell coherent story that most of that profit is going into the shareholders, into the large investors, and chipotle. they're making out like bandits. they blame it on workers. it's our job as democrats to stamp the laborers. the liberals are telling you the story. look, i'm getting screwed. and barely making ends meet due to inflation. you have to get behind them like a flight train and say, we

fight for them. we fight for these underdogs who are being preyed upon in this marketplace because corporate actors have too much power over both laborers and consumers who are getting jack and prices. you see the chipotle bowl shrinking and shrinking over a period of time so they can make more money. that's what's going on. >> i don't understand how this is not a sort of foundational part of the democratic message this year. because it was such a plank in 2020, there was such a cute awareness of the pain people were feeling. the economic issues facing the country at large. the structural inequalities. multiple democratic candidates ran on that. and yet you don't see the same messaging in this midterm election. >> alex, one of the challenges we worked on this build back better for a long period of time. i think there was some build back better fatigue. when we passed the inflation reduction act, what got left on the chopping block? it was childcare. free tuition at community colleges.

when you think about the things that would reduce inflation, or help people that are really dealing with inflation, it would be those elements. imagine if i could come to you guys and say, i have a plan to deal with childcare. or i'm gonna get you a childcare tax credit that would deal with some of the cost you experience in your life. wouldn't you be excited about it? what i feel as the struggle is -- when democrats are fighting campaigning, we came to votes short. we stop talking about. it -- >> they found became political kryptonite. >> you can be honest with voters and, say we came up to vote short of being able to do those things. and that's why need mandela barnes in the senate. that's why need john fetterman. we're coming, that we're not forgetting. that's we're gonna keep fighting for childcare. we're gonna keep fighting for acute -- that's why you need to put it back in the office and give us a chance to do this. >> and they haven't done that. >> that's a threat. you can't talk about sure -- there's a lot of people saying, just talk about the great things we did. alex, if you and i are struggling paycheck to paycheck. what is paycheck to paycheck? mean there's 50, 60, 70, 80% of

people in this category struggling. that means at the end of a two-week work period -- 800 every two weeks, you have zero in your checking account. zero and your savings account. let's not even talk about policy for a second. feel that emotion? a match in anxiety, the suffering, the concern that you have. the shame you have. am i doing enough for my family? start with that. and say, do you really want to hear about accomplishments right now? do you want to go back to that person and say, don't worry, we did all these amazing things. no, you want to, say i see your pain and suffering. here is the next three things i want to do. and these bastard on the, right or not gonna do anything for you. they don't care. >> the republicans have been pretty clear about what they're gonna do. it's not going to help the problem. and, yet deserve default back to the stereotype that the republicans are quote unquote, better for the economy, then democrats are. it's a more complication nuanced message to say, we have not done everything we want to do, we'll do more.

i understand. that but it's not that complicated to say, tax cuts for the wealthiest are not going to help you. i wonder whether there needs to be more offense. in addition to the defense. >> everything you're saying is absolutely correct -- obama did it. well senator sanders doing well. to they want to cut such security medicare -- okay, so here's clear contrast. i understand the abortion messaging. and for so many democratic candidates -- it's not easy to talk about. you and i could write a 32nd ad explaining how and why we care about this. i see a lot of people struggling with an economic contrast. which in my mind as easy. but many democrats have not been willing to make a forceful economic contrast. for a better part of the, year voters have been saying it's a dumb one issue on their mind. >> by the, way abortion is economic issues. well >> that's. to put in addition to it abortion be an economic issue, you could talk about what you want to do to talk about peoples increase flu cross, grocery bills, fuel costs --

you want to take it to corporate -- trying to prey upon. you these guys on the, right there in their pockets. it's the people finding their campaign ads. they're not gonna do anything about. it we stand with workers. we stand with consumers who are getting the shaft. and if you don't have government willing to stand up to corporate actors, you're only gonna continue getting preyed upon. it's the democratic party that has a responsibility, has the willingness and desire to take on corporate wrongdoing. >> if you say they can do, it -- it's always a pleasure to see you. in just a few, minutes we're gonna talk with one of the democrats who votes that that omicron -- will take into the senate, ohio congressman, tim lyon joins us live. up next, disturbing news from the new owner of twitter, elon musk, as he ordered his team to shut down tools used to moderate hate speech right before the election. that's next. election. that's next. that's next. [sfx: stomach gurgling] it's nothing... sounds like something.

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silence, brazil president, bolsonaro finally addressed his historic loss to -- desalva. bolsonaro spoke for just two minutes. reports ahead of his highly

anticipated address indicated bolsonaro would officially concede the election -- and accept defeat. he did not do that. during those two minutes, bolsonaro never want to mention the victor or the election results. it wasn't until after bolsonaro left the podium that the election results were even addressed. that's when his chief of staff stepped up to the microphone to say that the bolsonaro administration would start the transition process. this was not a concession, but it did provide a reprieve. because what's been happening and brazil during bolsonaro's today the postelection silence has been chaotic. truckers and demonstrators blocked roads throughout brazil since sunday. all in support of bolsonaro. some of the truckers protesting have called for a military coup to prevent -- from taking office. today bolsonaro failed to call his supporters are, of instead, he welcomed peaceful -- peace while -- but at least the bolsonaro administration appears to have

begun the transition process. it was a real concern that this would actually happen. no member of the bolsonaro -- but even other the word of the transition. that's because at the new york times documented, bolsonaro has say exactly that the past few months. he's been telling the world that if he lost it because the election was stolen. he's been casting doubt on the legitimacy of brazil's elections for years. >> [speaking non-english] >> if i don't win, there must have been fried. remind you of anyone? those are exactly the sorts of things that donald trump said in the run up in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. trump made similar statements

on twitter, -- getting his millions of followers to believe in the live election fraud. encouraging them to gather in the capital on january six. as a refresher, on december 19th -- trump wrote statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 election. big protest in d.c. on january 6th. be there, will be wild. our former twitter employee who was on the team responsible for content moderation throughout 2020 told the january six committee that after trump tweeted that, it felt as if a mob was being organized. on twitter, trump's lies took off like wildfire. a mob was echoing trump screams of voter fraud and preparing to assemble at the capitol on january 6th. armed and ready to attack. a twitter employee who testified to the house panel said twitter consider the -- adopting stricter content -- because of trump's rhetoric. but it never came to pass. instead, trump continue to fan the flames on twitter, calling for people to gather on the six. and we all know what ultimately happened that day.

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capitol on january 6th, they are the -- [applause] they are the leaders. that is what i am saying. they stormed the capitol on january 6th, they beat up 140 police officers, killed one -- okay, they killed one. >> -- >> we all watched the video. the we all watched the video -- >> hold, hold -- let him finish, please. >> i'm happy to have this conversation. i'm not afraid to have this conversation. these are the conversations we need to have in this country. i welcome you guys. let's just be respectful. but i'm not afraid to stand here in defend my position. >> i'm not afraid to have this conversation. that was tim ryan, democratic congressman vying for ohio's

senate seat this year. he was making his case to an audience at a fox news town hall earlier tonight. now, say what you will about the audience's reaction to a question he was trying to answer about the maga movement. but here is a person trying to speak the truth about what happened on january 6th, to a room from of people who had been lied to for quite some time. it is not a very comfortable conversation. but tim ryan was trying to have it anyway. and then there was his republican opponent, j.d. vance, who is given the chance to condemn the politically driven attack against nancy pelosi's husband paul. and j.d. vance said this. >> i have condemned the violence against paul pelosi from the very beginning. i think it's preposterous, i think it's disgusting, and i think it's something all of us should condemn. what i've also said that i think the effort to turn this into a political issue is actually a real problem here. because paul pelosi was attacked --

[applause] pelosi was attacked by a person who is an illegal alien in our country, should never have been here in the first place. my view, very simply, is that we need to deport violent illegal aliens. >> -- because illegal immigrants. j.d. vance, it should be noted, did not take the opportunity to have an uncomfortable conversation about the ways in which fox news has fomented anger against speaker pelosi and spread misinformation about the democratic party. quite the opposite, in fact. both vance and ryan are locked in a tight race. the latest polling average from 5:38 as events leading rind by just two percentage points. and tim ryan is hoping he can close that gap by not only turning out faithful democratic voters by but also by convincing some ohio republicans, including some trump supporters, to give him a shot. which is maybe why he's doing fox town halls. and today he got the endorsement of a republican who is very much not a trump supporter, wyoming congresswoman liz cheney.

now an endorsement is a good thing. but is this endorsement helpful? let's ask tim ryan. joining us now is democratic senate candidate from ohio, congressman tim ryan. congressman, thank you so much for joining me on this busy day you have had. can we please begin with liz cheney's endorsement of you? what is your thought on it? >> well, there are certain issues, alex, that our american issues, that are the foundation of the country. do you believe in democracy? do you believe in the rule of law? do you believe that elections are free and fair? and if you agree on those things, welcome to the united states, you are an american. and liz cheney and i agree on that. and then you can break in to your parties or your views or your philosophies on how to govern from that point. but you have to agree on the integrity of elections. you have to agree on these

foundational democratic issues. and if you do, you are an american. and i think that is what liz was saying today, that we have an obligation to the americans first, and agree on these foundational issues. and then we can have our political fights within the context of that. and so there are a lot of republicans here in ohio that are tired of the extremism. j.d. vance has denied the election. he is running around with donald trump jr. -- and donald trump senior, but donald trump jr., making fun of the paul pelosi incident. but it's like, no. they missed the memo that everyone is tired of that. so, liz cheney's endorsement is very welcome. and if she is ever back in congress and i am back in congress, we can argue about other things. -- >> i'm very curious to know how you are trying to pull off what is a very, tight, tightrope walk. on the one hand, you are trying to get the support of some folks who maybe still have positive feelings towards donald trump, who watch fox

news. on the other hand, you are also trying to turn out the democratic party faithful and people who believe in, for example, the truth about what happened on january 6th. we have been led to believe that those two groups of people do not overlap. that the people who believe in what happened on january 6th, which is a violent insurrection at the capitol, and the people who support donald trump, those are never the same groups of people -- have you found otherwise? >> i think there is some overlap there. i don't know. i'm not smart enough to do the whole analysis of this, honestly. all i know is what i feel on the ground. and what i feel on the ground is, there are people who are absolutely on gettable. they are in that small group of people. and maybe it is 30 or 35% of the electorate. but they are unbeatable. and then there is a group that is, like, they voted for trump because the system is broken for them, whether it's the economic system, the retirement system, the health care system, the education system, they have

a level of frustration. and they felt like this independent guy from the outside, who is rich and famous, maybe he was the guy, after 40 years, maybe he was the guy who could fix it. and so those voters are open to a guy like me who says, look, i agree with me on trump on some of the china stuff, i agree with not the rhetoric, by the policy of we have got to be firm and outcompete shiner -- we renegotiated nafta. he wants a strong defense. like, maybe we can vote for a guy like tim ryan, because he is for us, he is for our retirement retirement, he is for a wages, he is four -- and similar to sherrod brown, who -- fox news because i am afraid of the people who support the insurrection on january 6th. i went on fox news because you have got to go in the lines than to even be able to access those other people. and we are. and that is why we are going to win this race. it's because there are those

other people who will vote for me. they feel like they are a person without a home. and we want to give them a soft landing because we are all americans. we do not have to agree on everything. and we are just asking people to help us, to go to timforoh.com and send us a few bucks, because mitch mcconnell is not funding our campaign, or the democrats in the senate. we need the rank and file to make this happen. >> -- the economic frustration and the fact that democrats actually have much more of an outline plan and an action plan, some of which has been enacted, to help people, to help the working class. my question to you is, how do you tap in to that sense of anger and frustration and loss that is a hallmark of this group of people? working class americans? and not just white working class, but just working class americans who feel left behind, who feel like people do not care. how do you tap into the emotional center of that without becoming an angry

candidate yourself? because that seems to be what happened here with the republican party? and even donald trump -- the rage machine, it eclipses the problem at hand, which is the fact that people feel left behind and lost and broken. -- >> this is why i love. you absolutely hit the nail on the head. you get this stuff. and you meet them where they are. you cannot say, oh, how old do you feel about inflation? and you say, well, the fundamentals of the economy are good. that is not the right answer. the right answer is, i know you are -- $3.85 or wherever whatever it is where you are living, it is really hard. whether you are a home health care worker who happens to be a black woman in cleveland, or you are a construction worker, who happens to be a white dude from up the ohio river, that has to travel a couple hours every day, in each instance, the gas prices are crushing new. and in these instances, the

food costs are high. you are talking to everybody, you have to meet them where they are. i understand how difficult this is. i understand the pain. and i have been saying, that is why we need a tax -- a earned income tax credit, put some money in your pocket. a general tax cut for workers and small businesses. meet them where they are. understand their pain and then provide a solution. people are smart. they don't expect you to have a magic wand. they just want you to understand. and then have a plan moving forward. we have a good mid to long term plan -- the chips act, in four structure, inflation reduction act -- we are bringing back manufacturing. we have an industrial policy in this country for the first time in 40 years. but what we are not getting right is, we feel your pain, we understand, you need a tax cut. you need some more money in your pocket to weather the storm. if we do that -- i am doing that, we will see how it works out. but you have got to understand where people are coming from. again, you said it. white, black, brown, gay,

straight, man, woman, manufacturing sector, service sector -- they are all in the same boat. they're working hard, falling behind. we have to help them. >> democrats and candidates for ohio, congressman tim ryan, it's a two point race. we will be watching. best of luck out there, congressman. thanks for joining us tonight. >> -- at, help us, out timforoh.com. we need you. >> we will be right back. ll be right back

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our zone, it was a little over a week ago when these images of mask, possibly armed individuals, patrolling a maricopa county drop box or fist. the individuals are reportedly taking photos of license plates as they were voting. so, the arizona chapter of the league of women voters sued to stop that group from intimidating -- the doj even stepped in this weekend father even support of the argument. and just tonight, within the last several minutes, a federal judge has ruled in favor of the league of women voters. the organizationed