chuck todd is disgusted now, when he doesn't have a show any more.ryone knew this four years ago because it was in the laptop he was saying was russian. lying about pardoning hunter was the last straw for chuck todd, he didn't say diedly when biden made the american people broke. he had enough when biden made a liar out of him. so where does the democratic party go now? clinton has been me tooed, barrack is in hiding. what is next? there is a struggling for the soul of the democratic party. frances buckley says how they can pull the plug from the higher class and reconnect with americans. the party would have to abandon the message that their opponents are bigots are stupid. and they would to wean themselves from the serotonin rush from thinking they are the anointed ones. they would have to give up on the idea that they alone defend democracy. let's bring in a former democratic adviser and cohost of the morning meaning that we enjoyed greatly during this election season. how are democrats feeling after this pardon that was just decided. >> they are

chuck. todd's disgusted now when he doesn't have a show anymore. everyone knew this four years ago because it was in the laptop. he was saying, was russian lying about pardoning hunter was the last straw for chuck todd. chuck todd didn't say diddly when biden made the american people broke. he only had had enough when biden made a liar out of him. so where does the democratic party go now? clinton's been me, too. barracks and hiding biden's jimmy carter. so what's next? well, there's a struggle for the soul of the democratic party, and no one knows what to do. writer francis buckley is asking how democrats can pull the plug from the corrupt ruling class and reconnect with real americans. he says this the party would have to abandon the conceit that their opponents are either bigots or stupid, and they'd have to do so without adopting the socialist agenda of a senator sanders. they'd have to wean themselves from the serotonin rush that comes from thinking that they're the anointed ones rejected by the voters. they'd have to give up on the idea that

chuck todd is shedding crocodile tears. do you know why? as a lawyer for 35 years?tephanopoulos is useless. he has no credibility, liz, to ever interview donald j. trump or any member of the white house. liz: we've got variety, old school variety, really good sources, is reportedly saying george stephanopoulos may not renew his contract early next year. we're seeing abc parent disney want to put this behind them that new york post is reporting too based on anonymous abc sources george stephanopoulos is humiliated, furious, upset. especially because abc had to apologize. one of the sources said, "it's shear level embarrassment what happened." people are furious about what happened. it's also reporting that george stephanopolos defiant and if he is because he deactivated his twitter account. >> well, can someone tell george stephanopoulos that he used public airwaves and he lied? he did not tell the truth? if he's frustrated, disappointed, so what? because he got caught not telling the truth. those abc lawyers knew for a fact that he was in trouble if he had to take t

all those guys obama top aids, nbc chuck todd said biden should run again for the sake of america. now they are hammering him for pardoning hunter biden. chuck todd calls biden selfish and says hunter biden turned beau biden's widow into a crack addict and now california governor gavin newsom says biden was wrong to pardon hunter. let's welcome legal scholar and author jonathan turley. it's a pleasure. we love having you on the show. what do you make of this? do the bidens think they are above the law? if biden pardoned hunter for potential crimes not even charged over an 11 year period, dating back to 2014. >> well they don't think they are above the law. they are above the law. they have succeeded in evading legal responsibility over and over again. they are the best at this. this is a city wherein influence pedaling is the favorite form of corruption but no one has seen the likes of the biden family. they have made this a virtual artform, and this pardon finally seals it. the president lied to the public when he was a candidate, swore he would not even consider pardoning his son

meanwhile, one of the democratic party's biggest cheerleaders, chuck todd over at nbc and msdnc, is now lashing out at joe biden. would have been nice if he did this before the election, but don't hold your breath. >> i followed the hunter biden trial very closely. i read every transcript all the testimony, because that's what you all that was made public and there is you want to you want to read, you want to you want to get angry just as a as as somebody in just all these mixed emotions. you read the hallie biden transcript. and that's beau's widow. yes. and essentially he turned her into a crack addict. and this was all happening in 2017, 2018. and joe and jill biden were so concerned about their family that they decided to run for president. yep. i just so when you talk about the word selfish, i it's almost like the word doesn't i mean, i their decision to run for president put the entire democratic party and the united states of america in the position that it's in now. >> why didn't chuck todd say that 2017 and 18 now, liberal joe mika, they have a different take. they are lashing

. >> jesse: why didn't chuck todd's anything. of a sudden he doesn't have a show and joe lost and now he's screaming from the rooftop about this and that. why did they do that? >> i saw joe biden's mental acuity decline in 2017. i talked about it on a regular basis. it's some combination of trumped arrangement syndrome and not wanting to be ostracized for doing anything that might help donald trump win. the irony is the reason joe biden has left the position he's in, the reason donald trump was reelected, there are plenty of reasons. a big one is a silence in the media. i think it's one of the biggest scandals of any sort in american history and certainly one of the biggest media scandals. people say they didn't see behind the all you needed was others c-span subscription to know there was a level of mental decline and they stood silent. the donors were spending time with him in living rooms. they saw it clooney said it up far too late. >> jesse: you are right about the social ostracized asian. it's professional, it social. that

here is chuck todd.one issue in particular that republicans align more closely with latino voters on. rather, latino voters align more closely with them and that is school choice. florida and texas have been aggressive in expanding school choice and where have they made the greatest florida and texas. so, education, the economy, those bread-and-butter issues. let's be honest. you are in a state that the governor went all out to try to elect new legislators. he fought people of his own party. many times there are republicans in office mo states that do not want to support this kind of stuff just like some states are democrats do, it is not entirely partisan. was this a wake-up call, sorry chuck todd, msnbc, this is been happening for a long time. right. what did you see with the latino parents that you served. >> again, i will just reiterate we served over 108,000 parents. the majority of our parents live on $50,000 a year or less. school choice is not controversial among regular everyday parents. people

and you heard in that clip from chuck todd.me to latinos, trump spoke to them as the working class. democrats spoke to latinos as people of colour. >> you remember the kamala harris video where she rolled it out specifically for hispanic and latino voters. it was a woman with an accent. -- we'rer all over the place. we don't have just one accent. but also she talked to people as if they're not american first. it just shows how far removed they are. capitalism is okay, but crony capitalism is not good and that's what the democratic party represents. >>jesse: all right. congre congresswoman, thank you so much for being with us. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> california thieves get a reviewed awakening. reviewed awakening. when you're in the military you're really close with your brothers and your sisters that are in the military with you. and when you get out of the military, you kind of lose that until you find a new family. we can talk about our struggles and the things that we did overseas and not everybody can do tha

he went on chuck todd and every sunday show and said it's in plain sight, evidence is in plain sight.is that a crime? no, is not a crime. liz cheney has trump derangement syndrome. she is absolutely deranged over trump, is that a crime? no. i don't know what else they've done to warrant a pardon but just the idea that the white house is talking about handing out these pardons tells you about how they use the justice department for their own purposes. >> you can't help but question it. and looking at that story, obviously the biden administration knows that there's questions because they say if they're going to do this obviously it's going to call things into question but i do have questions. just the fact that we're talking about this. why? why? and is it because the issue is hiding the others or is there something that we don't know? maria: that's what these pardon conversations are doing, they're raising your questions, you're saying wait a second, let me leak at this again which is also stupid. what are they doing? >> why do you want to revisit this? there's got to be something her

next day, when trump's then senior counselor kellyanne conway appear on nbc's "meet the press" chuck todd did not answer the question of why the president asked the white house press secretary to come out in front of the podium for the first time and utter a falsehood. why did he do that? it undermines the credibility of the entire white house press office on day one. >> no, it doesn't. don't be so overly dramatic about it, chuck. you're saying it's a falsehood. they're giving sean spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that. but the point remains -- >> wait a minute, alternative facts? >> period. it wasn't a lie itself that mattered but what it signaled. the size of trump's inauguration crowd was never of any consequence whatsoever. that's right, folks. size doesn't matter. but, his obsession with it, his insistence about lying about it and then getting his staff to lie about it and the invention of so-called alternative facts, all of this pointed to a new era in politics and journalism. frankly in our country's collective regard for the truth. "the washington post" start

and you heard in that clip from chuck todd, he said, when it came to latinos, trump spoke to them ashe working class democrats spoke to latinos as people of color. >> yeah. they did. you know, you remember the kamala harris commercial where she rolled out a video specifically for hispanic and latino voters, and it was a woman with an accent, which, by the way, hispanics and latinos are not just monolithic. we're all diverse. i'm mexican, there's puerto ricans, colombians, salvadorans all over the place. we don't just have one one accent, but also to talk to people as if they're not american first is completely rude and disrespectful to the amount of people that have come here legally and started businesses become doctors, lawyers, politicians, and it just shows how far removed they are. so again, capitalism is okay, but crony capitalism is not good. and that's what the democrat party represents. >> all right. congresswoman anna paulina luna, thank you so much for being with us. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> all right, california thieves get a rude awakening. >> look closely

. >> well, why didn't chuck todd say anything when he had a show? mark? all of a sudden he doesn't have a show and joe lost, and now he's screaming from the rooftop about this and that. why do they do that? these people. >> you know, i saw joe biden's mental acuity decline in 2017, and i talked about it on a regular basis. i can't explain it. it's some combination of trump derangement syndrome and not wanting to be ostracized for doing anything that might help donald trump win. and of course, the irony is the reason joe biden's left in the position he's in, the reason donald trump was reelected. there are plenty of reasons, but a big reason is the silence of the media. i've called it this before. i think it's one of the biggest scandals of any sort in american history, and certainly one of the biggest media scandals, because people say, oh, they didn't see behind the scenes all you needed was a c-span subscription to know that there was a there was a level of mental decline, and they stood out. there was. right. and not just the press, no hiding this guy,

chuck todd is having nightmares about it, and he doesn't even work in the media anymore. >> i think this was stunning to me and absolutely a gut punch to anybody that works at a major media company, because i think it it does set a. it sets a precedent that is going to be very difficult. it's going to be very difficult to get from get out from under potentially. i just, you know, i think the risk of losing this suit was 5%, right. abc, abc, abc. so, you know, this was a decision to buy off a bad pr. >> well, today, trump sued that iowa pollster, selzer, who accused brazen election interference and consumer fraud for releasing a suppression poll on the eve of the election that had him down three to kamala when he won by 13. everybody in the discredited press is now trying to save their careers. they're all running the podcast saying, i knew we were going to lose. >> if democrats are the party about like caring more and doing more and caring about everybody, they also need to have some hard conversations that when you care more and you treat people better, it might make the world cost more

many of you, some of you, i don't know how many of you caught this comment by msnbc commentator chuck toddthe other day right after the election but is strictly for two reasons, one is years ago we were at a board meeting for our organization and i had a board member say when i was talking about parent power, this is not a boldfaced promotion but it is parent power index, she's like why are you spending so much time on parents, you should be spending time on legislators and governors, because parents communicate the work and there was a period of time nobody put that much work into parents except those of you recruiting and talking with parents so i found this so interesting that some 20 years later here is chuck todd and there's one issue in particular republicans aligned more closely with latino voters on or rather latino voters aligned more closely with them and that is school choice. florida and texas have been aggressive in expanding school choice and wherever republicans made the greatest gains among hispanic voters, florida and texas. education, the economy, those bread-and-butter i

and speaking of that toxic brand, chuck todd just dropped a bombshell. a biden polling memo from two years ago warning they'd go broke if they went woke. a strategist for a biden superpac circa 2022 sent me a polling memo that that he had sent to the campaign. >> the democracy message really didn't ring true with latino voters, especially if they're first or second gen. because first, you know, you want to see a democracy crumbling. let me introduce you to el salvador. you want me to see a democracy that doesn't work? let me introduce you to venezuela. the trump campaign targeted them on the same issues. they were targeting working class white voters, and the harris campaign targeted them as a community of color. >> so could fresh leadership be the antidote for all that ails the democrats? well, not so fast. jen psaki is scolding her party for snubbing aoc and picking a 74 year old long time key committee for a key committee post. check this out. >> house democrats missed what i would consider a big opportunity. they passed over congresswoman alexandria

here is chuck todd. there's one issue in particular the republicans align more closely with latino voters on or rather latino voters align more closely with them. that's school choice. florida and texas have been aggressive in expanding school choice. where have republicans made the greatest gains among hispanic grains, florida and texas. education, the economy those bread and butter issues. this is not to wax partisan. let's be honest. you are in a state that the governor wept all nt all out to new legislators. he fought people of his own party. many times there are republicans that don't want to support this stuff like some states are democrats that do. this doesn't entirely mean part son. is this a wake-up call? this has been lapping for a long time. what did you see with those latino parents that you serve? >> i'm going to reiterate, we severaled over 108,000 parents. the majority of our parents live on $50,000 a year or less. school choice is not controversial among regular, everyday, normal, regula

next, to his left, is chuck todd, who's the chief political analyst for nbc news and former host of "meet the press." francesca chambers is next. the white house correspondent for usa today and is a former dull institute student advisory board member. [applause] brandon joined us two years ago as the top republican communications strategist who served two republican speakers. molly murphy is a leading democratic pollster and adviser to vice president harris's campaign. alex lachman worked for president trump since 2016, including a four year stint in the white house political office , and most recently as the director of congressional engagement for the trump campaign. anita dunn is the partner of the public affairs firm skdk and a senior advisor to president joe biden. molly ball is the wall street journal senior political correspondent. and joining us for the second session will be jonathan martin of politico, senior political columnist at politico. so we will get started and anita, i will start with you. and this is not a particularly easy question, but it's one that we have to ask

thank you so much for joining brad todd and chuck rocha. they are back with me, brad, i mean morale aside for a second, let's talk about the nomination process. there are some republicans who have ultimately praised this nomination of kash patel there are others who are a bit more equivocal about the entire thing. do you think that hunter biden's pardon might grease the wheel here in any way? >> well, yeah three camps, i think of republicans. there are some republicans who enthusiastically like kash patel and know him. there are some other republicans who think a president ought to be able to have the ability to staff his administration. should some of those republicans voted for a lot of joe biden's nominees by the way, lindsey graham being one of them, who sits on the judiciary committee. so then there's another group that i think the jury's still out on. i think susan collins and lisa murkowski. everyone expects that they could be a no on kash patel. i'm watching chuck grassley and john cornyn. they both sit on the judiciary committee. i

one high profile democrat not taking a stand, chuck schumer was asked about the pardon yesterday and declined to answer. >> todd: did not take the bait. fox news alert last remaining house race has been called in california's 13th district. democrat adam gray flipping the seat after defeating duarte. 220 to 215, gop could start with tw two-seat majority only. special election will be healthed to fill seats of michael waltz and elise stefanik. and now former congressman matt gaetz who resigned amid consideration for attorney general. new york city mayor eric adams wants to meet with tom homan to talk about the city's migrant crisis and he's not afraid of backlash from the left. >> those here committing crimes, raping innocent people, have been a harm to our country, i want to sit down and hear the plan how to address that. this is not a new position. in the state, in the era of cancel culture, no one is afraid to be honest about the truth, well, cancel me, i'm going to protect the people of the city. >> todd: that language seems to have changed since november 5. city spent 6.4 billion to help migrants who came f

chuck schumer is expected to become senate minority leader, klobuchar is expected to become number three leader in the chamber after stabinou is retiring. >> todd: thank you. white house on defense after president biden pardoned his son hunter after insisting he would not. >> he believes in the justice system and believe the war politics led to a miscarriage of justice. hunter was singled out because his last name was biden and he was the president's son. he believed enough is enough. [ [indiscernible] >> todd: president facing blow dlat back from his own party, jason crow said he promised he would not do this, it will make it harder for us to talk about up upholding democracy and improper use of power and the media c calling out the double standard. listen. >> faith in rule of law, finally. democrats have a moral perchs from which they can judge without shame, hypocrisy or nuance. >> i want democrats to stop acting like they are on this moral high ground, like biden pardoning his son, stop acting like you're the pure party. >> todd: hunter's sentencing was scheduling, now those appear to be done. republicans could look at t two-seat majority i