whom reflected the new progressivism that gave connecticut's first gop governorships since 1930. suddenly if they are made in unexpected decision to remove the everlasting cns controversy of the 1940 presidential landscape. we now know that what happened where several secret telephone exchanges between willkie and if they are resulting in the final buyout of commonwealth and southern. on august 5 team, 1939 before newsreel cameras at the first national bank and to wall street when david william told handed wendell willkie a check for $78.6 million roughly equivalent to 1.4 billion current dollars. when does -- when does "time" magazine all but announced this respective candidacy as president if willkie was closed as a roosevelt dared to run again for a third time. intel is warp speed solution in may and early june of 1940 the republican party regulars needed help in catching up with the political prospects. simpson in new york committee in members spoke volumes. when asked to pitch wendell willkie by a major fund-raiser it dismayed simpson who listed the difficulties. so i'm supp

lies are being used by gop legislators and governors to justify election laws that make it harder to vote, change who oversees the election process, threaten election workers with criminal penalties, and tear down guardrails in key states that kept doesn't's big lie from succeeding. over the next hour we're tell you what these voting changes are broadly and specifically in three key states, the direct impact on the 2022 midterm elections, and ultimately how america is governed and by whom. >> record voter turnout this year with over 100 million ballots cast before voting even started this morning. >> look at turnout everywhere in america. this is a good thing, whether you're a democrat, republican, or independent. >> the 2020 election had the highest turnout in american history despite coming at the height of the pandemic. local governments came up with creative ways to make it easier to vote like expanding vote by mail and adding drop boxes. >> the ballot drop boxes are filling up so quick, elections officials say they can't empty them out fast enough. >> and drive-through voting. >

>> it made me sick, it really did. >> gop legislators aren't the only one.texas. he won the state but lost its wig big cities. governor greb greg abbott bowing to demands. we must take these steps and ensure public filibuster our system. >> they also pushed for sham audits in other critical swing states trump lost like pennsylvania and georgia. >> my fear is it's going to be used to just further create this division, keeping some people uncertain about whether they can trust the process or not. >> election experts are screaming from the rooftops about fear for the bed rock of american democracy. >> what's the voter out there going to say when he looks back at this when he thinks of the next election, should i even vote, how can i trust the system that i'm going to use. so what's the answer? >> there is one i think very clear and simple solution to all of these problems, and that is federal intervention. >> the federal government stepped in during the civil rights era with the 1965 voting rights act. >> among other things, it prohibited states from denying a

now one of his gop colleagues is leading the election view.may not be leading the all but other republicans in pennsylvania trying to subpoena voter information and move forward with an audit 11 months after the election. we reached out to mastriano's office with a bunch of questions. they didn't get back to us. >> mastriano was re-elected on the same ballot by the same voters as joe biden was elected. >> he is not concerned about that. >> no election fraud for his re-election. just for joe biden. sara murray, thank you. >>> coming up next, why your favorite tv series or upcoming movie might be delayed. stay with us. i've always dreamed of seeing the world. but i'm not chasing my dream anymore. i made a financial plan to live it every day. ♪ ♪ find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com (man) go on, girl, go on and get help! [heartwarming music] (man) ah! (burke) smart dog. with farmers crashassist, our signal app can tell when you've been in a crash and can send help, if you want it. get a whole lot of something with farmers policy perks. ♪

you've been covering the gop for decades now. did you ever imagine you would see someone like arizona's mark finchem being main streamed by that party, endorsed by the former president for a post that could help decide the next presidential election? >> you know, i gave up wondering what i would see in the future a couple yoers ago. you know, once the party nominated donald trump who was a conspiracy theorist, got there by birtherism, and once they embraced him after the "access hollywood" tape it was clear there was no bottom. we've been waiting for the bottom and it doesn't exist. now we are a few years later and he's been playing footsie with qanon and now is endorsing a fellow speaking at a qanon friendly event in las vegas and it is not just anyone. it's someone who will control if he wins how to count the votes, how to certify the votes in a key swing state, arizona. >> yes. >> i'm glad you showed the roy blunt tape earlier today on "meet the press" because i can't say i was surprised or astounded by that but i think it rea

now, for republicans, that may mean foregoing a gop candidate in certain races.pendent against a republican that they can't beat in places like deep red states. and so what we're doing this week at renew america movement is releasing a slate of those candidates, a slate of democrats, independents, and a handful of courageous republicans that should be defended. on the democratic side, it's people like elissa slotkin and abbey spanberger and in other places we're going to suggest that progressives, patriotic progressives, support folks like evan mcmullen who's running as a center right candidate against mike lee in utah. so that sort of coalition campaigning is what we're trying to do and it did work to beat donald trump and we've got to stick to that model. >> i hope it works, miles. it's worked in other places. i wonder if you can tell me anything about the campaign strategy, how much money you have, political ads, tell me what it looks like. >> yeah, well, look, right now, we're trying to raise a war chest. we're trying to raise a $15 million to $20 million war

gop strategist, ford o'connell, congressman brad wenstrup of the gop doctors caucus and congressman katammack of homeland security. we have a lot of show for you tonight. members of the media joining in justifying stalking lawmakers. this debate comes as democrats want the irs to get your bank account information on just as little as $600 in singular transactions. why 600 bucks? we have got the answers. how do you win your argument stalking people in bathrooms? is that okay for the gop or trump supporters to stalk and harass democrats, "the squad," nancy pelosi in bathrooms and airports? is that okay? okay. facebook is defiant today. we have the fireworks from today's hearing that once again shows you are the product at facebook. facebook's endgame, keep you on its platform, even if it means inciting bad mental health for children, hate, and ethnic violence. also we've got a brand new headache for facebook. plus it is special counsel john durham widening his criminal probe into the fbi's botched trump russia investigation? durham subpoenas now aimed at a trove of democrat documents that

a recent nbc news poll showing 77% of gop voters have a positive view of the former president. just 12% view him negatively how strong is the trump train here >> it's strong it's strong. >> reporter: in 2016, then-president trump won this deeply evangelical county with 78% of the vote >> my faith, it influences the way that i vote. it really does if a republican come out and said that they were pro-choice, he's off my list. he gone. >> reporter: the gop is red-hot in areas like this, but to win, they also have to keep new republicans in places like luzerne county, pennsylvania dasha burns is there. >> reporter: a lot has changed here since barack obama sat on this very stool in 2008 luzerne county had elected democrats since 1988, but that all changed in 2016 when trump won here by double digits. >> we use the excavator. >> reporter: norb's family has been working luzerne county soil for decades he says democrats lost this blue collar county because they're focused on the wrong issues >> diesel fuel prices are through the roof and they're not stopping you can't get truck tires.

we neat to talk about the gop. we need to talk about how this house will help children. >> who do you think -- i'm running over on time, but who do you think is the best messen messenger right now? >> i think biden can connect with real people when he does so. i think that is something he definitely can do and something a lot of americans would be very much open to. i also think, in the younger generation, aoc is actually very good on this. she does talk about young people, young families and working class families. she's also very good at that as well. i think both of them in tandem could work at making that message more clear for the american people. >> fascinating. finally, best movie on politics ever. >> "citizen kane." without question, it's the best politics movie. if you're looking at legislation and how they move to congress, they actually do a great job of getting things done through congress. >> i didn't realize "citizen kane" was about politics. but we learn from you. sometime i'll ask you to explain tha

yet, some of kinzinger's gop's out right dismissing the violence. >> there was no insure rrectiond to call it an insure recollection in my opinion is a boldface lie. >> out right propaganda and lies being used against law-abiding citizens especially trump voters. as a result, the doj is harassing peaceful patriots across the country. >> it was trump supporters who lost their lives that day, not trump supporters who were taking the lives of others. >> when i see this sheet on our timeline and on the, let's see, okay, at 2:07 a mob of trump supporters breached the steps. i don't know who did a poll that is trump supporters. >> there have been things worse than people without any firearms coming into a building. >> adam kinzinger calling out the former president without saying his name. >> we have allowed leaders to reach power selling the false premise that strength comes from dehumanizing those who look, act or think differently than we do. >> also applies to members of congress rather than debating issues on the floor of the house, which is their job, scream at their opponents on the

but trumpism is still very much the core of the modern gop as evidence by how many republicans stilluse to accept the results of the 2020 election for more on this, it's time for "a closer look." ♪ >> seth: if you weren't really following the california recall election because it was too dumb and confusing, you're not alone. in fact, there were three options on the ballot that said "yes," "no," and "this is a bigger waste of time than driving into l.a.x." seriously, why is getting into l.a.x. such a nightmare? most airports, you have get there two hours before your flight, but at l.a.x., you have to get to the entrance of the airport two hours before you need to be inside the airport. you can drive to l.a.x. or you can just drive back to new york in the same amount of time once i was stuck in traffic waiting to get to departures and i looked over to the driver next to me and he was a skeleton. [ laughter ] of course, in l.a., they don't call that a skeleton, they call that a weight-loss goal. [ laughter ] and even then, even the fact that he was a skeleton was less jarring to me than

>> well, gop 2.0 is not a new parrot.the conservative party. i think we lost our way. we have certainly forgot to be empathetic enough to grow the size of the tent and our tone is atrocious. donald trump's tone is one that set -- set them -- the -- the marketplace for dissension and rancor across the political spec spectrum and it is about turning the page and looking forward. i think voters want to look forward and see what the plans are and i want to make sure they are voting for republicans. >> what makes you think voters want that? because it seems like donald trump has a -- a pretty big stronghold on the republican party, and millions of americans who support him no matter what. so what makes you think voters would want a gop 2.0? >> yeah. this past week, i was up in new hampshire meeting with voters all across the political spectrum, and really laying the groundwork for gop 2.0 to make sure we set their expectations in the first and in the nation primary process to want a gop candidate with a 2.0 approach and i am h

we have a major new push by gop senators. they are demanding attorney general merrick garland stop his family conflict of interest, bigger than realized. his son-in-law makes big bucks from school boards pushing toxic agendas on children as the ag aims major federal firepower at parents. we have the goods going missing on empty store shelves nationwide. this debate. the white house knew about this problem months ago, why naming a port czar, task force, why do they think would get a broken supply chain moving again? it won't work. they need to move it by christmastime. big box retailers are hiring their own boats to get their goods here. as gas prices soar, watch biden officials check this out, they're going silent on their advice to energy workers, go-go code, guest software jobs. gas prices knocked back every president since nixon. speaker pelosi lecturing the media quote, to do a better job selling democrat big spending but we'll show you the dirty nasty, secret in the democrat's big green infrastructure spending. they don'

the state's gop is changing the rules to remain in power. how long will voters allow them to do that. new details about the president's plan to reinstate trump's remain in mexico policy. and tonight you'll hear from two political organizers finding america's next leaders on snapchat, one snap at a time. let's begin this hour with the never-ending quest to hold trump accountable for his lies and rhetoric that inspired the riot on january 6. signs of what would eventually happen could be seen in the first weeks of the 2016 campaign, when he began his lies about immigrants and now about the election he lost. the former president better stick to the truth tomorrow when he's under oath giving his first post-presidency deposition as ordered by a judge in the bronx, it's tied to a lawsuit by a bunch of protesters who claims they were roughed up. >> we have every reason to believe that mr. trump will be there on monday morning and submit to trial examination by video deposition as per the court's order. we expect this examination to be conducted in

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and warning that he is the gop front-runner is scary. because if he's re-elected, he will be about revenge. former communications director alissa fair said she would never vote for trump again, a sentiment shared by boat loads of officials. they warned about his fundamental unfitness for office. yet even when trump says the real insurrection occurred on election day, not january 6th, the vast majority hide their heads in the sand. afraid to confront the clear and present danger donald trump still represents to our democracy. silence is complicity. if you can't condemn someone for trying to overturn an american election, then you really don't care about our democracy. and that's the only issue that matters. because as winston churchill once said about courage, it is the quality which guarantees all others. and that's your "reality check." >>> such an important one. john, i know that you were talking about conspiracy theories on a second civil war in your digital series. tell us about this. >> brand-new issue dropped last night. a conversa

so the gop is working overtime to not even get to this point. as they failed that effort, now absolutely you can expect radio silence from the gop on this and let, as they step back and let trump do his worst. of course they don't want any of his energy directed at them in congress so they'll wait to see what trump does and wait to see what the courts decide. fully expect the gop to be silent until there is a court ruling. they want no part of it. again, they worked to obstruct not only every other legislative activity in congress but also this investigation. that could point to them being implicated in these call logs or visitor logs or social media dm's in the request for information. so hands off for the gop at this point. >> as she alluded to, treason goes down. i want to play this from dirk durbin who is talking about not only how important this investigation is, but how dangerous it is to ignore subpoenas from congress. >> i would suggest modestly, follow law instead of the ratings of this former president. he doesn't have the power to par

think about what happens if the gop wins in the midterms. that's the end of congressional hearings of the big lie. the end of any real efforts to stop the nationwide assault on the right to vote. did you hear me? maybe you're not paying attention now. maybe you didn't hear me. call your friends. text them. or social media, whatever it is. jump in their dms and tell them. you'd better pay attention. because the threat is very real. the gop still kowtowing to i adisgraced twice-impeached one-term ex-president. nikki haley telling the "wall street journal" they need him in the gop. mike pence trying to blame the media for the attack by violent rioters, trump supporters, who said they wanted to hang him, an attack that forced him to run for his life with his family. >> hang mike pence! hang mike pence! hang mike pence! hang mike pence! >> so remember what happened on january 6th. okay? even trump loyalists saw how dangerous it was. lindsey graham saw it. >> i know the media wants to distract from the biden administration's failed agenda by focus

and now, the scam gop audit in arizona has proved it once again. part of their relentless effort to destroy democracy and discredit the very notion of free and fair elections, republicans are insisting of pursuing more sham audits in states like pennsylvania but the same thing's going to keep happening to them that happened in arizona. they're gonna look for evidence of fraud and when it backfires on them, they're going to say - >> oh [ bleep >> seth: this has been "a closer look." ♪ we'll be right back with billy bob thornton ♪ >> announcer: for more of seth's "closer looks," be sure to subscribe to "late night" on youtube. ♪ i really like this. something else you'll really like, old navy is imagining a greener future - future - future. hi. prickly - oh. when you're driving a lincoln, stress seems to evaporate into thin air. which leaves us to wonder, where does it go? does it get tangled up in knots? or fall victim to gravity? or maybe it winds up somewhere over the bermuda triangle. perhaps you'll come up with your own theory behind the wheel of

that, of course, is in cahoots with gop leadership in washington, d.c.thing new. folks will remember about 20 years ago when congressman tom delay led an effort, started an effort in texas to do mid-decade redistricting, and so that connection between texas republicans and d.c. republicans to rig the system here in texas, to make sure that republicans stay in power, that has been there for a long time and now they have taken it to a new level. as you mentioned with these new maps that completely block out the ability of the communities that are growing in the state, people of color contributed to 95% of the growth in the state over the last decade, cuts them out of any new political power that they should rightfully get. the voter suppression legislation that they passed, any number of other measures they put in place just to try and squeeze out as many more years as they can in power because they recognize that what happened in arizona, what happened in georgia, will happen here in texas. >> and let's underscore, it is shocking that even though the texa

the process would be unvote per delegation, 26-24 advantage, gop. in other words, pence would reject the georgia, michigan, arizona, pennsylvania votes or some combination thereof where they were contested on the ground and where the justice department had emboldened these states. and relying on eastman's advice that he had the power, pence would now reject certain states, while ordering the house to determine the election. as it is supposed to do only where a candidate -- were no candidate gets the majority of electoral votes. it could have worked. and now with trump and his allies endorsing secretaries of state in crucial battlegrounds concerns that it could happen again, they are warranted. but here's another scenario for 2024 that should concern democrats, donald trump might just legitimately win. last saturday night, i watched the latest trump rally. it was his return to first in the nation iowa for an event that attracted thousands on a balmy fall night tell state fair grounds. and for trump it was festivus. another night of airing of grievanc

>> reporter: he also leaned on gop allies like pennsylvania state senator doug mastriano. >> are we going to stand aside as these shenanigans go on. >> according to the senate testimony from richard donahue, former acting attorney general trump cold doj officials something to the effect of people are trying to address this problem. scott perry and mastriano. the democrat-led committee said ties to january 6th are particularly notable. and warrant further investigation. in the days after trump's call with doj officials, mastriano wrote election fraud is real and prevalent in pennsylvania, laying out his evidence of fraud, which has been repeatedly debunked and adding, this election is an embarrassment to our nation.

just listen to the late gop strategist who was credited with being the gop's map making genius over the past decade. here he is talking about redistricting. when he says redistricting he really means gerrymandering. >> of course redistricting is democracy at work. redistricting is like an election in reverse. it's a great event. usually the voters get to pick the politicians. in redistricting the politicians get to pick the voters. >> that is not how democracy is supposed to work. it's not how other democracies in the western world operate. if we lose the ability to choose our own politicians, our own representatives and leaders, then we no longer have a right to call ourselves a functioning democracy. we simply don't. for more let's turn now to the president of the national democratic redistricting committee, the group founded by former attorney general eric holder. thanks so much for joining me tonight. what the republicans are doing in terms of gerrymandering right now is clearly wrong, clearly partisan. but do democrats have credibility on this issue when the maps being proposed in

the gop is the party of trump. this gop is now democracies die. it is embracing authoritarianism.lence. a cbs poll in july said 55% of trump supporters as an act defending freedom. that should send shivers down the spine of anyone who believes in that demock sracy. this gop has been politically crushed to save our democracy. that's the blunt raeality. historians are saying this. people are yelling at us to look at this for what it is, an authoritarian or fascist movement. it can happen here. people don't think it can. it's happening. people have to unite, regardless of party affiliation. if you're pro democracy, stand up against an antidemocratic movement. >> dean obadala, and former congresswoman comstock, thank you. >>> the first coronavirus antiviral drug for emergency use authorization, what that could mean in the fight against covid-19. as someone who resembles someone else... i appreciate that liberty mutual knows everyone's unique. that's why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. oh, yeah. that's the spot. only pay for what you need. ♪ libert

trump is scheduled to hold yet another rally with top gop lawmakers in iowa this evening. and these politicians have to ask themselves, why are you sharing the stage with that man? after what he just said about haitian migrants? and what he did to this country on january 6th? when you do stand next to him, ask yourself, can you feel the darkness that fills his soul filling yours, too? feels cold, doesn't it? in trump world, they're calling it make america great again again. if it sounds like a bad sequel, we can only imagine what the closing scene of that sequel looks like. on inauguration day 2025, if trump returns to power, which flags will the bullies drape across the capitol?

i would say that's never stopped the gop before. if they happen to take control of congress, how safe are the programs in build back better? >> i think every program and step we take in a more just country to make it more equal and equitable is always a fight. we always have to fight to keep it. so this is not going to be something new. they tried to undo the affordable care act. they're finally giving up after ten years of fighting that fight. so we will fight every step of the way and there is no guarantees. you know what, it's a guarantee for the next six years, kids will be able to go to a pre school. i didn't get to go to pre school. we didn't have that in my community. i always wondered if i would have done better in my earlier years than in elementary school if i went to pre-school. for us, that is a big victory. we will fight every step of the way. i get it. they will try to undo it. we will try to keep it in place. congress is cumulative. we will build off what we have accomplished in this bill. >> congressman gomez, i want

. >> reporter: he leaned on gop allies, like retired army kurnl and dispensstate center mastria back him up. >> it's time to rise up, americans. >> reporter: the new senate judiciary report highlights trump's fast that mastriano was in his corner. it according to the testimony from richard donoghue, trump

quote, rational republicans are losing the gop civil war. the only near term way to battle pro-trump extremists is for all of us to team up on key races and overarching bill goals. miles taylor is one of the co-author, along with christine whitman. he served in the department of homeland security under president whose leadership he criticized in an anonymous essay and book. miles, this struck me as an interesting point. but also for christine, who is a, you know, republican in good standing. had been a republican in good standing, even if critical of donald trump, i think she still considers herself a republican, but it's not enough to criticize and effectively neutral, but this is zero sum and you have to work for one entity over the other. >> yeah, look, chris. i'll be honest with you. this is not an easy thing for christie or i to say. we're lifelong republicans. we wanted the party to succeed. but you said it earlier. it's become the cult of personality. the party of donald trump and what's worse, an authoritarian institution and again,

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todd: a dozen gop governors heading to the border to join texas governor greg abbott as a local sheriff talked to you guys preparing for the next wave. >> not only dealing with the cartels but other people coming across from everywhere and elsewhere doing who knows what. todd: in the last week where the governors are headed, ms 13 gang member convicted of child molestation in north carolina and a guatemalan man were all arrested. we will see what texas attorney general ken paxton has to say later this hour. jillian: thank you and we will also hear what an governors who were invited by governor greg abbott will say later this afternoon and they will hold a news conference and the number of republicans visiting the border over the course of the last few months. there have been some democrats especially representatives on the border town who have been outspoken on this matter but haven't seen the vice president to some of these border towns right along the border and haven't seen the president down there. if we see benjamin hall we will see him in a second but haven't seen the president do

my point is why we are talking about inside the gop is that these are not real republicans anymore, they certainly haven't earned it. them getting the leadership of the congress back poses a threat to the nation of country. not real republicans used to define what it meant to be conservative as free mines, free markets, and free people. why now we're seeing in the party is closed mines, and approach towards market that is protectionist, and not an approach that emphasizes free people, but authoritarianism in the style of donald trump. as i noted, they haven't earned taking back to congress, they haven't worked in a bipartisan fashion, all they've done is continue to spell trump's lies, and the danger is obvious to all of us, chris. especially -- the leader of the house in the lead up to 2024 election, given everything we sign tried to do this over the last election, we cannot trust my own party to leave the house of representatives, in the lead up to 2024. >> you just said you feel those angry phone calls, who is left that is persuadable on this? when you write a piece in the new york ti

meantime trump's big lie has found a new fan zone among young gun gop house candidates.ast doubts about the 2020 election. among them caroline levitt who really thinks trump won the election, she says. tim baxter from new hampshire says it's time for an audit in every state. and gale huff brown who said, quote, there were a lot of irregularities in the election in 2020. it's a danger to this democracy and frankly influential republicans should know better. >> did trump win or lose the election? >> i don't know. >> well, there you go because the world does. >> he knows. so spare a thought for congressman tom rice this weekend whose truth telling basically cost him an invite to his own party leaving him with plenty of time to reflect on the state of the gop in this op-ed. my republican friends, my plea to you is this. enough with the bickering, enough with the conspiracy theories, enough with the grudges. if we don't change course, we are doomed to failure. well, thank you so much for joining me this evening. i'm pamela brown, and i'm see you again next weekend. hope every

the gop is on board with this. they're on board with a power grab at all costs, driven by 2350er of a changing country, fear propelled by the likes of tucker carlson and laura ingraham, who bring up things like caravans right at key moments during the election. and all of this in 2022 help the gop regain control of the house. members of the january 6th sedition caucus are now in control of the body that completes the electoral process. some democrats fret about what will happen in 2024. they worry if the insurrectionists will have the upper hand next time but represent in trump reality, up is down and day is night. his propaganda machine so thoroughly rewrites the story of january 6th, most trump fans now say the riot was legitimate and a vir churous attempt to right or wrong the felonies, brutal injuries and suicides have been written out of the story. the rioters have been turning to the victims, and most people by the end of 2022 have a sinking feeling that more riots are ahead. now imagine it's 2023. trump offi

trump wants to remain at the center of gop. in order to stay there, he's challenging his constituents and other party leaders to pick a side. he said that, it's time to stick together, and by that he meant stick with me. so republicans are saying are we going to be pro-vote or pro-trump. it is a thin line to balance for republicans. we are seeing them take different sides on this. i don't think a lot of republicans are seeing this might be a win or lose situation. he made this threat in georgia, when the senate candidates were faced with a bad day as he called it if state election results weren't overturned. and they lost. there is some hope on the republican side that if they do challenge this by trump, that still some people will turn out. on the other hand they have to strike this balance with trump. >> next, something has to give. the heart of biden's climate agenda facing the chopping block. why? joe manchin. >>> later, she took a stance for herself and family. a school board member facing daily threats for supporting scie

yamiche: and jake, where did general powell fit into today's gop?ld he have had the success that he had in today's gop? >> no, i mean i don't think so. you saw what donald trump said about general powell. it's not even worth repeating, but he was not praising carol powell. -- general powell. listen, i think that in this republican party, you see a lot of republicans not respect the military and its brass as they did in the past. i think that's just the reality of it. it's an unfortunate reality read -- reality. i don't think he has any place in today's gop to be honest with you. yamiche: it's such a smart analysis by you. i also think when i learned about his death, i thought about covid. i thought about the idea of him struggling and battling and still deciding to get vaccinated. i want to come to you in the last 30 seconds we have here just to talk a little bit more about his place and his legacy in his party. >> that's exec the right. -- exactly right. he's such a respected hero of the country. but at the same time, was increasingly out of step b

it is not just the jim jordans, this is the gop establishment. chuck grassley, the most senior senate republican on stage over the weekend in iowa rallying with trump. you have trump headlining two upcoming fund-raisers for the nrcc and nrsc, the house and senate campaign arms coming up in the next few weeks. it shows you that even the establishment republican now is bringing him back, welcoming him with open arms and tightly hugging him. >> what do you think, joe? >> this isn't a comeback. it is interesting -- it is a great story. this is no comeback, though. this has been his party since he came down that escalator, certainly since he got the nomination. it's been pathetic for five or six years. it's been pathetic post an insurrection that it is still his party. but it is his party. you're right, i think of chuck grassley, 88-year-old chuck grassley, he's been in d.c. since, like, 1874. he's running for another term. he doesn't need trump to win re-election. but yet there he is, on his knees last weekend, bowing to donald trump. steve scalise w

trump hosts fast to his election lies as the gop establishment hugs him tighter.n of the republican senate appears on stage to pick up trump's endorsement, the same stage from which trump repeated complete falsehoods about the 2020 election results. today, a new warning from a former trump insider about trump 2024. >> i think now, because his base is reacting to him the way that it is and polls are showing that he is still very much the leader of the republican party and very, very few republicans are refusing to speak up about his role in january 6, but also this current attack on democracy with regard to election integrity, i think he is going to run again. that's why i'm speaking out the way i am. i don't want him to run again. i think people aren't remembering that if he does run again in 2024, he will have no guardrails, because he will never have to worry about re-election. so he will do whatever he wants. he will hire whomever he wants. that includes people of the january 6th mind. >> my panel is back with me. don, can you imagine an america where, as steph

trump will make sure the gop loses the next one too. as for accountability for the january insurrection, steve bannon defying a congressional subpoena from congressional commission investigating january's attack. the committee will hold a contempt vote tuesday. if approved, it heads to the full house and then the doj. when president biden was asked about the tug of war between congress and the trump world -- >> i hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable. >> should they be prosecuted? >> i do, yes. >> in a statement, the doj says it will make its own independent decisions on prosecutions, period, full stop. kicking us off this hour, a trio of msnbc contributors. we have national correspondent betsy swann, former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence, frank figliuzzi, and former watergate prosecutor jill wine-banks, cohost of the hashtag #sistersinlawpodcast. do you see a political strategy? >> i see obstruction of congress. i see crime. i think we've long since passed the time when we can allow witnesse

this is trump is the first choice in a gop primary.53%. that's a little bit lower than october of 2017 when he had the advantage but he starts out at a much higher level than the first bid when he was at 3%. it seems just so long ago. >> yeah. i mean, i don't think the june thing works anymore. i mean, he's been president since then. so how does this support around him compare to presidents when they lost an election? >> yeah, i love this. because normally, when you lose an election. >> you're a loser. >> you're a loser. you're a loser. here is the thing. he is a winner in their mind. look, he's in first place compare that to h.w. bush and the first polls after the '92 race. he was in fourth. carter was in third after 80 and look at that, even ford was only in second place and that was a very, very tight contest. this is historically very, very unusual and i know your next question. why is that? because remember, in the republican's minds, he's not a loser. they think 2020 wrongly was fraudulently decided so all of a sudden, if you don

why doesn't the gop plan give a voice to the new growing demographic?is extremely shortsighted of them? >> it is extremely shortsighted. it is unconstitutional. it violates the voting rights act, and frankly, i'm asking -- i'm making an inquiry as to why. why did -- >> once again, a bit of a technical hiccup there. is she going to come back up like she did a moment ago? perhaps not. you know what, let's clear this out, guys. we're going to take a short break and see if we can hook this back up properly, we'll be right back. if we don't get to that, we'll talk about the beginning of the end, falling case numbers, a vaccine for kids on the way. what will it take to transition out of the pandemic and into the next phase of our recovery. we'll get to that if we can't get back sheila jackson lee. i got a fancy grown up lamp to make me feel like a fancy grown up. mhm. adulting ain't easy. ooh! check this one out. waffles loves her dog bed. we can hardly get her out of it. she's kind of a diva. yes, waffles! living your best life. [woof] i'm telling y'all ther

in 2020 he continued with the lies and lost the presidency and the gop of the senate. and that is the track record that he has. i wish that every republican who has been bending in the supreme, and would just recognize it for, themselves because at this point they have literally tended themselves to the point that they don't have an exit strategy. so while tim is talking about driving a wedge between the crises and the normals and recognizing that the need for tapping into other issues that are not the 2020 big lie, they are not going to do, that they don't have the backbones to do it. and they're not going to challenge trump in a way that he needs to be challenged. and what they risk losing, is the midterms, while we know 60% of republicans believe in this live, we also know a percentage of them are going to stay at home. whether or not trump tells them to, because they no longer have faith in elections. >> it is just monday, these guys are already on fire, to my friends juanita tolliver, tim miller, thank you for staying up late in coming on tonight's broadcast. than

you have a lot of people, gop men in particular, that -- gop elected official, rather, who are fearful of president trump. who are scared of him. of dealing with his eyre of having someone take their jobs as elected officials. look no farther than senator grassley who even though he voted to acquit president trump said at the time that his behavior was aggressive. that it was irresponsible. that he pushed. he was talking about president trump, that he pushed mike pence to do unconstitutional things. that was chuck grassley in february then this weekend, grassley was on the stage with president trump smiling, saying he was going to take his endorsement for his eighth term in the senate. that tells you everything you need to know about the sort of spine of the gop. the gop right now is a party that is fearful of trump. it's not surprising that senate republicans don't want to see him be president again because it's the same thing that's happening when he was president. you had senators who would whisper of course i can't stand him, this is ridiculous, but they would get in front of camer

i suppose for the gop, if they could focus him | for the gop, if they could focus him on the here and're in, it would be all the better but of course donald trump wants to do it himself and an election that happened last year. there is always to donald trump us in writing events like this. there is a script that donald trump and improvisation in donald trump. descriptive donald trump started his mighty speech going afterjoe biden and the democrats record so far and the nine months of the biden presidency but he did there off and start talking about election fraud again and he said at one point i like to talk about election fraud because that's their biggest applause line. it was not really the biggest applause alignment, the crowd seemed not interested in donald trump's conversations about the election but clearly it's something donald trump cares a lot about. , ., ., , ., , about. there is another story in the -a ers about. there is another story in the papers today _ about. there is another story in the papers today that — about. there is another story in the papers today that tickl

senator joe manchen — democratic party - - gop? senator joe manchen has _ democratic party - - gop? to understand the contact, there is a _ important to understand the contact, there is a tonne of pressure on senators _ there is a tonne of pressure on senators. you can imagine some words flying _ senators. you can imagine some words flying that _ senators. you can imagine some words flying that might not have been aligned. — flying that might not have been aligned, but there will be a lot of eyes _ aligned, but there will be a lot of eyes wandering what he means. i�*m eyes wandering what he means. i'm not sure eyes wandering what he means. not sure how eyes wandering what he means. i“n not sure how many friends he has in the republican party. last night, he had sponsored and he said he can pull over ten republicans, and he didn't get any of them. right on cue, we get a vote in texas this week in which the texas legislator signed off... it's a thing we sometimes gloss over when we talk about american politics, but you're quite keen on this. it happens in both states, but you always s

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with where is the gop outrage that subpoenas are being ignored? where is the gop outrage that their president was actively working to use the levers of government, to overthrow the election that he lost. thewhere is the gop outrage tha president might have illegally profited from the presidency? where is the gop that was all about law and order, let's remember that if we survive this moments, and our democracy survives. it's because democrats did the hard and necessary work to save it. and the republicans? forget good government, even basic democratic government does not seem to be a priority priority after donald trump. leading off our discussion tonight is steve schmidt, a former republican strategist he's a cofounder of the lincoln project. the trump hotel story is really a canary in a coal mine. it's one of those stories that comes back around to the beginning. and you can't be a little be pregnant, and you can't be a little antisemitic. there is no country on earth wary strongman, or a dictator, oversees a fire and law-abiding society. so why