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and mark mckinnon, former adviser to both george w. bush and john mccain. hosts of "the circus" on showtime. mark, indeed, i'd like to begin with you. is it a sustainable brand, what fred wellman of the lincoln project calls this ghoulishness. no mask, no problem. science be damned, as long as these republican governors don't piss off the maga base. >> well, it's a huge dice roll that's playing with human lives, brian. the reality here is that the measures that we're being asked to take now, which is wearing masks and mandating vaccines in some cases are precisely because of republican and for maga efforts, donald trump supporters' efforts to defy those. the reason we have a surge in the delta variant is because people didn't get vaccines, or they wouldn't wear masks. so the kinds of things that the health officials are asking us to do is simply basic safety measures. and the irony is that republican governors like texas and florida are doing exactly the opposite of republican orthodoxy generally asks for is to let local jurisdictions handle their own busine

senior adviser to the president, also member of the board of directors of the obama foundation, and mark mckinnon, he is among the cohosts of the circus on showtime. and mark indeed, i would like to begin with you. is it a sustainable brand what's fred wellman of the lincoln project calls this foolishness, no masks, no problem. science be damned as long as these republican governors don't piss off the maga base? >> it's a huge dice role that is playing with human lives, brian. the reality here is that the measures that we are being asked to take now and wearing masks, and vaccines in some cases, are precisely because republican maga efforts, donald trump supporters efforts, is to defy those. the reason why we have a surge in the delta variant is because people did not get vaccines, or would not wear a mask. so is the kind of things that the health officials are asking us to do are simply basic safety measures. and the irony is that republican governors like texas and florida are doing the exact opposite of what's republican general orthodoxy -- that's republicans usually govern. let locals make t

. >> still with us tonight dona edwards and mark mckinnon. said biden had reached the lowest point of his presidency. no one would have argued with that point, and then of course we were handed today. let's make clear we as a news media get stuff wrong constantly, big stuff, small stuff. we got an overblown sense of the destruction of norms under donald trump thinking every one of them would be certain political suicide. is it possible that even with today's tragedy for sticking with his convictions, for speaking forthrightly, for seeing the mission as he does and let's hope seeing it through the consequences politically. and it seems uncomfortable to have such a nakedly political discussion on this very day. the consequences politically for biden could be minimal. >> well, that's true, brian. i mean, it's hard to imagine it could get any worse than this week. i mean, biden ran on ending the chaos, getting covid under control and doing so through competency with a steady hand internationally. and on all those measures that has collapsed. but i

mark mckinnon is here as well.t almost the exact conclusion that you sort of displayed for us about what he was trying to do. how do you sustain that? >> it is the great question facing the republic, and, again, it is not a joke. that's it. i mean the biden view, as david put it there, is that perpetual warfare is not a sustainable governing strategy. and i understand why a lot of people find that to be a vision that is incommensurate with the reality on the republican side. one of the problems we have in this country, and it could possibly be a fatal one, is that we don't have two functioning parties. this is not the both sidisms, one of our besetting sins. it is not true. i get in arguments with conservative friends a lot when they say, well, yeah, the capitol, but what about portland, you know, or what about, what about, what about. well, one party sustained -- created and sustained a lie that led to the most direct violent assault on democracy since the civil war, and that was not the democratic party. the demo

. >> joining me now to discuss is former obama campaign manager jim messina and mark mckinnon, the formerdviser to george w. bush and executive producer of "the circus." good evening to both of you gentlemen. jealous of the hat, but that's okay, mark. we'll talk about my hat jealousy later. jim, what's your reaction to how this race played out? >> on one side you have kind of national folks wanting to make this a race between a liberal and a moderate. but those of these were progressive candidates. this was really about political positioning and the winner tonight, who by the way started out 35 points behind and was badly outspent, positioned herself as a supporter of joe biden, as someone who could work together to get things done, and went back to the old axiom that mark and i really believe in, which is all politics is local. and she said, i will deliver for my district. i'm going to focus on getting things done, and i'm not going to be a lightning rod in this race. and her opponent, who had way more money, ended up kind of blowing the lead because she nationalized the race and wanted

still with us is don calloway and mark mckinnon. episode is occurring in hungary and it has been occurring for the last several years, in which it's turning away from democratic institutions without necessarily saying so. one of the right-wing's most influential characters, tucker carlson, is broadcasting from hungary, and he is praising its leadership and its government. jonathan shade has written a column in this and which he says, tucker carlson is seeing the future and its fascist. hungary's democratic backsliding was slow and gradual, without a single dramatic moment when it's character flipped from democracy to dictatorship. even, now it retains the surface trappings of a democracy without the liberal characteristics that make those processes meaningful. if america ceases to be a democracy it will likely follow a path similar to or bonds, speaking of the head of hungry. i believe it's interesting, mark, that people, if they don't see us becoming an authoritarian regime, they don't necessarily see that you can become undemocrat

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. >> joining me now, cnn white house correspondent john harwood and mark mckinnon. he is a former adviser to george w. bush and john mccain, and he's the executive producer of "the circus." gentlemen, good evening. the stories are really just unbelievable coming out of afghanistan. john, the president is back at the white house tonight while his administration tries to contain the fallout over the chaos and the fall of kabul. he is going to do an interview with abc news tomorrow, and he's sure to be pressed on what went so wrong. what do you think we'll hear? >> well, i'd expect that george stephanopoulos will press him on why it was that the united states was caught so unaware by the rapid collapse of the afghan government and security forces. president biden has said in his speech yesterday it was faster than we anticipated, but we don't really know why. the other question will be why didn't you do more wereith the e that you had to get tens of thousands of not only american personnel but afghan personnel who helped the united states out of the country? having sai

he's the director of the cardiac president, and also with us, mark mckinnon and the executive producer of the circus. good evening. dr. reiner, you just heard those educators, facing threats and pushback from their governors for trying to keep students safe. there were parents there pleading with him to -- with this delta variant, they are angry and they are rightfully so at the so-called leaders playing games with their children's lives. >> right. so this variant is infecting kids at a very rapid rate now. about 220 children are being admitted to -- children's hospitals every day in the united states and in parts of the country, it's hard to find a room in an intensive care unit in a children's hospital because of the coronavirus. so the threat is real. over 4,000 kids in this country have had the multisystem inflammatory syndrome, a serious disease with unknown long-term consequences. so the consequences are real and now -- it's also important to understand that all of our kids under the age of 12 are vulnerable to be infected. we have vaccinated almost 200 million people in this cou

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