but like, you know, the laura ryan, who's a former commissioner, owned dealerships. i wonder if you think can you hear me whether gerrymandering is an issue here, too? we have 65% of the states, 30 million people live in the five metro areas. and yet getting on i-35 from here to austin and back as a nightmare, there's no level initiatives to deal with that. we had a $34 billion surplus in the last year of the texas legislature. there were no substantial mass transit initiatives that tapped into that money. so it just seems to me that the republican leadership in the state either doesn't accept the driven science induced demand or is some other reason for why they simply engage in mass transit. yeah that's a great question. i mean, i think it is true of a lot of texas politics, which is like cities are dominated, rural interests like there is that absolutely dynamic in the texas legislature of like the liberal cities need to be constrained needs can't be you know that that that was the whole dynamic of the last session is like cities don't have the authority pass regu

but, laura ryan, who is a former commissioner, owned car dealerships. >> can you hear me? whether gerrymandering is an issue here, too. we have 35% of the states population live in the five metro areas, yet getting on i- 35 from here to austin and back is a nightmare. there is no state-level initiatives to deal with that. we had a $34 billion surplus in the last year of the texas nd legislature, and there were no substantial mass transit initiatives that tapped into that money. so, it just seems to me that the republican leadership in the state either doesn't accept the data-driven science behind induced demand, or there is some other reason for why they won't simply engage in mass tr transit issues. >> yeah, that is a great question. i mean, i think it is true of a lot of texas politics, which is like, cities are dominated by real interests. there absolutely is that dynamic in the texas legislature of the liberal cities need to be constrained, need to -- you know, that was the whole dynamic of the last session. like, cities don't have the authority to pass regulations. li

laura ingraham wrote. please get him on tv. destroying everything you have accomplished, ryan texted. , quote, can he make a statement, ask people to leave the capitol? sean hannity urged. >> he didn't want to do that at the time because he was too busy watching it and eating and hoping the rioters were victorious. those very same folks, the same individuals quoted on fox, they are working night and day to wipe your memories. actively collaborating with this despicable human being by covering up his despicable plan to end the american republic as we know. they don't want you to think about the horrors of january 6 while you're filling out your ballot. listen to j.d. vance today. >> the media loves to talk about january 6 and january 6, 2021, fewer violent, if you committed acts of violence, then you should be prosecuted. everybody believes that. >> does everyone believe that, jd? because trump thinks it was a day of love. he refers to himself as part of the mob and promising to -- the via -- rioters. the biggest obstacle for folks like vance and laura ingraham in mitch mcconnell, they want to make you forget it all. the biggest

laura leslie, capitol bureau chief at wral tv in raleigh, north carolina, and brendan buck, former adviser to house speakers ryanl of you for being here. oh, my goodness, 16 days, carol lee. i can't believe it, we are seeing these closing arguments take shape. we've been talking about them throughout the morning. the dark rhetoric coming from trump. kamala harris seems to be abandoning to some extent her message of joy. what is the strategy inside the harris campaign in these closing days? >> well, the strategy is first, the way to think about this according to campaign officials, you have two weeks. in the next few days the effort is to focus on the final stages of their persuasion campaign and a lot of leaning into and criticizing former president trump. that's something that the campaign officials say that they will continue to do. they will continue to seize on his comments every day and amplify them through election day, but they're going to shift starting on thursday with this rally that vice president harris is having with former president obama and that is according to campaign officials when they kick i