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good advice, scott jennings! okay.listen. >> hey, i am not a lawyer or anything but that's just my outside looking in. >> but -- but you play one on tv. listen. i have got to -- >> listen. >> i have got to ask you -- >> don, getting indicted in federal court could add up to hundreds of thousands, if not more, in legal fees very quick. >> yeah. so, anna, let -- let's talk about the former president defending the threats from rioters to hang mike pence. i mean, at any other time, i think this -- people would be outraged and it would be, you know, breaking news and that's all we -- we would be talking about. now, i think this is -- it has sadly become the norm but it is insane. >> i'm not even sure what the newsworthiness of it is. it would be newsworthy if he had said something differently. but this is donald trump. he is going to be in his death bed. and in his last breath, he is going to be blaming mike pence for having allowed the election to be stolen from him in a fraudulent way. he is never going to change his stor

joining me to discuss cnn political commentators ashley alison and scott jennings. rn on for citizen. you're on late. >> i'm the second hardest working guy behind you. >> that's why i'm going start with ashley. should the party be listening to carville? >> no. i think what james carville said is flawed and, it's not accurate. he made reference to buffalo and seattle. it's not like the state races flipped to republicans. they just went more moderate. he left out of pittsburgh and boston where i am now, all that elected young progressive people of color candidates. in virginia, yes, democrats didn't wink but it wasn't because terry mcauliffe was a "woke" candidate, and i don't like that term, because what does that mean is this a candidate who stand up for poor people, black people, people shouldn't be killed at the hands of police? i don't think he's right, and that's highly problematic if that's what he's going to follow. >> scott, you're smiling and you're like, keep doing it because we're going to keep winning. i'm seeing your smile and reading your thoughts here.

to now, stewart stevens, scott jennings, thank you for being with me tonight. scott, what was the lesson for you as republicans, and then the tak takeaway, you believe, for the democrats? >> thanks, chris. the lesson for republicans is platforms work, they didn't write one in 2020. this time in virginia, glen youngkin had issues. education, quality of life, crime. he wrote down a list of things that he would do about it. reforming the dmv. and he ran it on, and he never took the bait of the fundamentally unserious campaign run by the democrats, solely focused on one thing. lie about glen youngkin, trying to turn him into donald trump. stewart was part of it. it was never true. and had youngkin taken that bait, he would have been drug down. but the lesson for republicans, listen to the voters, write a platform, run on issues. and i think the lesson for democrats, if you thought you were going to run the midterms all on trump, you're sorely mistaken. >> and you also don't have to give trump a bear hug every five minutes no matter what he says. let's see if that ca

joining us now, gloria borger and scott jennings. scott, thanks for being with us.o start with you. i'm not going to ask you to agre adefend that unless you agree with that but this is an important change in the pandemic here in the u.s. as a political weapon, is that what is coming from the rest of the party or is he out on a limb by himself? >> i think he's out on a limb. i think what everyone hopes and prays for is that variant comes and goes and is mild and doesn't change our trajectory which is the vaccines work and they continue to work and we'll get back to normal life some day. i think what he's tapping into is that a lot of republicans believe that during the pandemic voting laws were changed to accommodate the pandemic and that we were all trapped inside, and a lot of republicans believe democrats want to put those into law permanently even if the pandemic goes away. and so that is what he's tapping into. and i suspect he won't be the only republican you hear sort of giving voice to that general concern. >> gloria, just to remind people this is the former

joining us now cnn political commentator scott jennings, special assistant to former president bush andyou on. there used to be red lines in congress, right? we saw how the gop treated steve king with his racist positions, and so on. that red line clearly moving here. some of that, it seems, about mccarthy making sure he's got the votes if republicans get the majority in 2022 to become speaker. tell us as someone like yourself, a lawoyal member of t party how you see this. are you disappointed? there are limits for your old boss mitch mcconnell, right? we saw his speech after january 6th calling out the president for his involvement there. have we dipped farther than even you would have imagined? >> well, i mean, there are people in the house, including in my own party, who have said and done things that most of us don't condone or approve of. i think the issue here for republicans was when the democrats decided to take the step of stripping him of his committees, when as republicans see it democrats have not policed some of the more extreme elements in their own party, and so i think u

scott jennings be well. appreciate you.s new crime spree. i think we are getting too affected by the videos, right? because it is so unsettling to see over a holiday weekend gangs of looters. it speaks to a complete breakdown of law enforcement, smash and grab robberies are not abating. it is all over the country. and there is no question that the videos are absolutely eye candy. have you to watch them. where are the cops? how are there so many people doing this? organized flash mobs are the answer. there is organized crime going on here. are these treated like organized crime? no. they are not addressed like rico on the federal level. should they be? are we missing the real opportunity to fix? instead of saying get the paddy wagon and chase the guys all over the place maybe there is a better solution. and i say that as a rhetorical question because there is. i want to bring in a top executive from the national retail federation. why? they've been looking at where this problem lives and it's not just watching people run on

scott jennings and kiersten powers, thanks for being with us. folks in the far right in certain parts of the caucus that they just can't control? >> senator mcconnell serves in the senate. i guarantee you, i know what he thinking. it's a garbage comment from a garbage politics. i'm as anti-squad as the next rep, but there's plenty of ways to debate these folks without stooping though this garbage rhetoric. i noted, by the way, that boebert has been forced to apologize. i assume that didn't happen in a vacuum, but she's of course committed the ultimate sin. is the people she's being formative for here would say you never should apologize. so ultimately this is not the future of the party, not the future of the country, not the future of what any of is wants. these are not the leaders that we need for america or for the republican party. >> what do you think, kiersten? do you thing republican leaders are hesitating behind the scenes, because they don't want to upset you-know-who? >> yes, he who shall go unnamed, i guess. >> just this once. >> yeah

joining me now, ana navarro and scott jennings. good evening. scott, let's start with you. i want you to listen to what congressman gosar is saying about all of this. listen to what he told his gop colleagues. here it is. >> i did not apologize. i just said this video had nothing to do with harming anybody. it's exactly what you were talking about. at an anime. we were trying to reach out to the newer generation that likes these anime, these cartoons fabricated in japanese likeness to actually tell them the harm in this world they're missing. >> so first he should apologize for his threats, and, second, we're not playing the video because it's really despicable. it does not explain policy. what is he doing here? who's he trying to fool here? that's not anything of what he said. >> well. >> well, he's not trying to fool anybody. he's trying to please his core supporters, and he's playing the trump playbook which is there's a lot of jobs in america where you can't tweet stupid crap because you'll get in trouble. this happens to be one of them. united states congressman and he

joining me to discuss, bakari sellers, attorney and former south carolina state representative and scott jenningspolitical commentator and columnist for "usa today." good to have both of you here this morning. there has been so much focus on this case around the country and i would say real visceral reacts as well. we just heard from kyle rittenhouse's mother, bakari, you've seen this. rittenhouse has been held up in many areas as a real hero in this case. that is not how everyone sees it. how are you seeing things this morning? >> well, i mean, i see a growing just love or admiration for rittenhouse, particularly on the far right. you see jd vance, a candidate for the ohio united states senate seat just envelop him and hold him out to be some type of hero. for many of us, though, and maybe i need to talk to my therapist about it, there is a certain level of resentment, i believe. i think it is a very human nature type of resentment. we see him, we see trayvon martin who didn't get the benefit or grace of his youth. we see tamir rice, who didn't get benefit or grace of his youth. and even more pr

. >>> scott jennings was sitting on an election set in new york a few hours ago. >> yes. a mere handful of hours ago. i'm not quite sure how i'm here. >> you are a republican strategist. and you watch this stuff very carefully. what have you learned? >> i agree with amount of what chris said. education is going to become a massive issues with republicans. you left off one bullet point. the schools were closed in virginia for 18 months. if there is one thing you aerd from parents, they wanted the school open. it was a cascade of issues. i also think what youngkin showed is that, you know, call me old fashion, but platforms work. when you actually run on issues people care about, they tend to listen to what you have to say. we know in the trump campaign last year, there was no platform. literally the republicans didn't write a platform. when you run on a set of issues people tend to listen to you. being your own person and not letting himself be defined by trump. they tried to being critical factors. this state, a blue state, required someone to do what he did. other jurisd

ron brownstein and political con em tater scott jennings. and in this corner -- kidding. it's not going to be any of that. good to see both of you. ron, we are less than an hour away from election day and all eyes are on virginia. larry thinks this race is leading towards glenn youngkin. how worried are democrats tonight? >> they are worried. look, i mean, in every election since 1977 except for one in 2013 the virginia governor's race has gone the opposite of the way the presidential race went. >> okay, okay, okay, ron, ron, with that said, why all of the hyperventilating and people getting the vapors about, oh my gosh, terry mcauliffe could lose? i mean, that's what history has showed, right? >> right. well, the main reason, don, is the state has become more democratic, you know, over the last decade than it was through all of that history when it was a purple state or even a republican leaning in the 1990s. i don't think terry mcauliffe losing guarantees that democrats have a bad election in 2022. what it tells them is that if the political environment stays the same,

i want to bring in now cnn political commentators scott jennings. gentlemen, good evening.reciate you joining us on the breaking news. charlie, i'm going start with you. because it's a huge this is a huge judgment against the former president. what do you think it means for getting to the bottom of what happened on january 6? >> well, don, the court made clear that a current president can assert president, not a former president. and the current president chose not to assert privilege. so that means now that these documents will have to be released from the national archives to the select committee investigating january 6. so it seems to me unless former president trump is able to get an appeals court to reverse this judge's ruling, it seems that the committee is going to be able to move forward with all the investigations, the phone records and all the other documents they need to get to the bottom of what the president knew and what he did on that day, who he contacted. so i think this is a very big win for the people of this country who want to get to the bottom of event

and i think there is an enthusiasm issue here for scott jennings earlier talked about boiler plate, you know, conservative issues. that's what the republicans wanted. can we get back to fighting about the culture, fighting about ideology and getting away from the toxic personality contest, so, you know, we look at virginia, it is our business to overreact to certain results and trends. but, you know, trump versus biden in virginia is a very different proposition than a new upstart conservative guy, businessman, running for governor. >> it is so true. what you said specifically about the bread and butter issues, that is a big through line in virginia, and new jersey. taxes, education is part of that, what happens to your children. but all of those issues are, you know, are the way i call it normal republicans, the republicans that we used to cover, all of us used to cover pretrump. and one of the -- i was trying to figure out why the former president left glenn youngkin alone. i asked somebody who knows him well, who still does work for him, who said that in his mind, he sees virginia, n

. >> joining us to discuss is scott jennings, columnist at "usa today" and former adviser to mitch mcconnellcrat, now an adviser to the democratic national committee and democratic congressional campaign committee. great to see you both, gentlemen. thanks for making time for us. kurt, let's start with you. who bears the blame for what happened on tuesday? and how does the party move forward? >> well, i think that what we saw on tuesday was an overall problem that democrats have had, the big challenge when it comes to branding the democratic party and our policies. for too long, we have allowed republicans to hijack a number of issues, from infrastructure to the price tag to the bill that just passed, to education, to the green new deal. to voting rights. you name it, democrats have had a hard time getting their message out in a way that connects tangibly to everyday working americans. hopefully now with the passage of the infrastructure bill, they can have the tangible deliverables to convey to the american people every single day between now and the midterms what they're doing for you. the

but what alice has been talking about and what republicans -- alice scott jennings got this thing right. democrats have missed how voters feel. they missed how to make voters' lives better. tangibly. like how they feel today. yes, what we did when we got elected to get people out of covid is great. judges may impact you in the future. but right now people want to know about the gas pump. people want to know about prescription drug prices, people want to know all all of these things that we just seem like we're unable to accomplish. >> there were a few things that he couldn't help. obviously he couldn't help the fact that joe biden has low approval ratings. he cannot help the fact that there is dysfunction in washington. there's no wins on the board with regard to a lot of these promises and spending planning. and democratic voters feel like the dog that caught up to the car. we got him here and what do we do now? >> what if he treated joe biden the way that youngkin treated donald trump? does he not have that option? >> obviously, he's the sitting president, and you're going to have him

straight ahead are going to show youu jen psaki is was our response to a question about kyle rittenhouse, scott brown, kayleigh mcenany, they'll react. also we will detail a bombshell report citing massive dysfunction in the administration and the latest of bidens blunders and biden versus kamala, apparently not a lot of love lost. newt gingrich weighs in on that and a lot more.nd we continue on this breaking news night, thanks for being with us. keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424. ♪ ♪ >> sean: team biden, they're showing no remorse for their rush to judgment in the kyle rittenhousee case, showing no apologies for falsely suggesting that rittenhouse was a white supreme assessed. now listen to this exchange between circle back propagandists at the white house jen psaki and our very own peter doocy. watch this. >> secretary psaki: so, peter, what are not going to >> sean: right now is anything about an ongoing trial, the president's past comments. what i can reiterate for you is the president's view that we shouldn't have, broadly speaking, vigilan

let me start with you, scott. as jen psaki's statements suggested that this build would curb spending, they have gotten janet yellen to ditch her economic knowledge and say yeah, all this extra spending is going to curb inflation knowing that that is a sweet spot. americans are afraid of this bill now. >> yes. inflation is a hot button, charles. it's simple math. if you look at the inflation and spending in d.c., they're tight. obviously injecting this money into the system via m2 has spurred a lot of inflation concerns. another quick thing about the comments that were made earlier is like, you know, they're talking about this being a job creation bill. we have 11 million jobs unfilled out there in the economy and we don't have the labor force to attack those. are we so worried about creating new jobs on top of those? it's not a big concern. the inflation part is. >> another concern obviously, brandon, are the taxes and all of the different tax gimmicks that they come up with. what do you think of the latest ones that ap

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scott. >> reporter: tonight, the white house on the defensive amid the news that a record 4.4 million americans quit their jobs in september. press secretary jen psaki putting a rosy spin on the numbers. >> ultimately, that's a good thing. many workers feel this is a time to look for a better job with greater pay and more benefits. >> reporter: still, the white house and experts say that's not the only reason so many people are quitting. there's also the difficulty of finding child care during the pandemic, a mismatch between skills and available jobs, and a large number of retirements. the government also surged support for americans during the pandemic -- stimulus checks, enhanced unemployment, rental assistance, and food subsidies. but the bottom line is that businesses across the country are desperately searching for workers. >> i could easily here hire at least another ten people, and it's hard to get even one. >> reporter: susan lim owns the praline bakery and restaurant in maryland. because she can't find workers, she's been forced to curtail her offerings. she can't seat as many customers. what's more, the cost of ingredients is skyroc

scott has more on how long this could last. reporter: the white house on the defensive amid the news a record 4.4 million americans quit their jobs in september. jensaki putting a rosy spin on the numbers. >> ultimately, that is a good thing. many workers feel this is a good time to look for a better job. reporter: experts say that is not the only reason so many people are quitting. there's also difficulty finding childcare during the pandemic, a mismatch between skills and jobs, and a large number of retirements. the government searched support for americans with enhanced unemployment, rental assistance, and food subsidies. the bottom line is businesses are desperately searching for workers. >> i could easily hire another 10 people. it is hard to get even one. reporter: she owns a bakery and restaurant in maryland. because she cannot find workers, she has been forced to curtail her offerings and cannot see as many customers. the cost of ingredients is skyrocketing. >> a case of butter increased $15 last week to this week. eggs can jump $20 from week to week. reporter: the analyst says what we are seeing is a perfect storm. >> the worker shortages

scott has more on how long this could last. reporter: the white house on the defensive and made the news that four .4 million americans quit their jobs in september. jenki putting a rosy spin on the numbers. >> ultimately that is a good thing. many workers feel this is a time to look for a better job. reporter: still, the white house and experts say that is not the only reason so many people are quitting. there is also difficulty finding childcare a mismatch between skills and available jobs. and a large number of retirements. misses across the country are expertly searching for workers. could easily hire another 10 people. it is hard to get even one. reporter: susan lim owns this restaurant and maryland. she has been forced to curtail her offerings. she cannot seat as many customers. what is more, the cost of ingredients is skyrocketing. >> a case of butter increased $15 last week to this week. eggs can sometimes jump $20 week to week. reporter: marg sandy says what we are seeing is a perfect storm. >> the worker shortages are conflating with the supply chain problems and is creating this massive shortage of product. reporter: he predicts inflation w

when jen psaki said at the white house that it was an effect of work, it was a lie. chief scott told you the great success he had in san diego. president trump talked to the experts. so title 42, where did it come from? i was talking about it with him one day. i said call mike morgan. he talked to the men and women who spent decades on this issue. this administration isn't talking to anybody. they're too busy throwing border patrol under the bus. i can count on one hand how much secretary mayorkas did that. they're listening to the political left. political appointees have been planted at i.c.e., gbc, and the white house. these policies are being written by activists. he's not talking to the men and women who spent decades fighting this and standing on the border and enforcing immigration law. that's the biggest difference. you can see by talking to the experts, who was a little more successful at shutting down and securing our border to the highest degree. it was president trump. >> one thing that's come up today only indirectly is technology, sensors, cameras. when i was down

jen psaki said at the white house that it was an effect of his work is a lie. chief scott told you the great success he had in san diego. president trump talked to the experts. title 42, where did it come from? he talked to the men and women who spent decades on this issue. this administration isn't talking to anybody. they're too busy talking to the board. i can count on one hand how much senator mayorkas looked at the law. critical points have been planted at i.c.e., gbc and the white house. these policies are being written by activists. he's not talking to the men and women who spent decades fighting this and standing on the board and enforcing immigration law. that's the biggest difference. you can see by talking to the experts, he was a little more successful at shutting down and securing our border at the highest degree. >> one thing that's come up today only indirectly is technology, cameras. when i was down at the el paso sector, i asked them how much of the technology had been installed. you can go down to yuma and there are literally gaps in the wall. it was all