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call healthmarkets now. call the number on your screen call this number now. >>> to all the dreamers out there watching tonight. you are part of our story. we'll fight for you and we'll not walk away. congressman joe kennedy the iii displaying his bilingual skill. jonathan markey, the power of incumbency is being tested here. it is a different political world today. this idea of being elected and thinking it is your seat before you leave, that pain has changed. we are joined by our congressional reporter from politico. thank you both of you for being with us. phil, let me start with you. one of the basic question of the kennedy name, whatever you want to call it. does it still matter or count for much? 2019 or 2020 in. >> well, that's the question. kennedy getting into this race will make them force to choose between an incumbent colleague or someone who can raise them a boat of money. you can instantly congress then potential future senator candidate being top fundraiser for the party. he has not decided ye

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call healthmarkets now.all the number on your screen call this number now. >>> things just keep getting worse for texas republicans. three house republicans from texas announced their retirement last week. the most distressing for the gop being will hurd who only eked out his win in 2018 by under 1,000 votes and is only one of three gop congressmen who represent a district that hillary clinton won in 2016. hurd had been touted as the future of his party. former cia officer, the lone african-american republican serving in the house. represents 800 miles of border. now he's leaving. and then yesterday, congressman kenny marchant who represents a suburban dallas district announced his plans to retire. his retirement is from exactly the kind of district where republicans fear they are losing their edge the most, metro area suburbs. mitt romney, get this, he won that district by a whopping 22 points in the 2012 presidential election. not real competitive. four years later, donald trump won the district by just si

call healthmarkets now. call the number on your screen call this number now. >>> you saw the setup, and now as promised, the author of the new book "kochland", already a "new york times" best seller. business reporter christopher leonard with us tonight. christopher, we've seen big companies before and we've seen entities with huge political clout before. is it fair to say we have never seen a company this big with this much political clout before? >> well, i think that's absolutely fair to say. you saw in the introduction how deeply imbedded this firm is in everybody's lives. and it is also one of the largest companies in the united states with annual sales larger than that of facebook, goldman sachs and u.s. steel combined. so, the corporation itself is massive, but the political network that is really run out of the ceo's office of koch industries is unlike any political network in the united states. over 40 years, charles koch has patiently built one of the most effective political lobbying machines in t

call healthmarkets now. call the number on your screen call this number now. >>> thing one tonight, the president has been known to come up with some, to put it kindly, strange proposals that seem to just pop into his brain out of nowhere. sending his staff scrambling to spin whatever the heck it is he's talking about. the space force, for example, and going to mars before he's out of office or the big, beautiful see through border wall. see through because drug dealers might throw big bags of drugs over the wall and then hit innocent passersby, of course. then there was the suggestion we should rake our forest floors better to prevent wildfires because that's how they do it in finland. earlier this month we got wind of the scheme to buy greenland despite the fact that the sovereign territory is not up for sale. just yesterday we learned of a trump idea that's so wild even his staff was floored. quote, you could hear a gnat fart in that meeting. after the meeting we thought what the "f," what do we do with t

call healthmarkets now. number on your screen call this number now. >>> as we mentioned earlier, the 2020 democratic field is about to shrink by one. nbc news has confirmed a story broken late tonight by the associated press. former colorado governor john hickenlooper is expected to end his 2020 bid tomorrow. this move comes amid speculation he will instead go home to run for senate against republican cory gardner in colorado. meanwhile, beto o'rourke, who launched his presidential campaign don't forget on the cover of "vanity fair," is planning to relaunch his presidential campaign with a major speech just hours from now. o'rourke canceled campaign events in early voting states in the wake of the mass shooting inside the walmart in el paso that left 22 dead. he has spent the past week in his hometown attending vigils and gun control events. that meant skipping the iowa state fair where most of the other democrats in the field spent the weekend. as one of our next guests writes today, "the campaign aims to c

call healthmarkets now. call the number on your screen call this number now. >>> he is a republican congressman who has promoted neo-nazis, and questioned what's so offensive about the notion of white nationalism. and today he is suggesting that humanity itself would not exist without rape and incest. congressman steve king, republican of iowa made the remarks while discussing his push for a bill that would basically make all abortions illegal, even in case of rape and incest. here is his reasoning. >> what if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled those people out that were products of rape and incest. would there be any population of the world left if we did that? considering all the wars and all the rape and pillage that's taken place and whatever happened, i know i can't certify that i'm not a part of a product of that. and i would like every one of the lives of us are as precious as any other life. >> i've heard some weird arguments in my life, but that one's interesting. according to

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