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representative mccarthy was in the president's hometown of scranton, pennsylvania had push back on the administration's policy agenda and encourage voters to give republicans control of congress and the upcoming midterm elections. [applause] >> hello, hello. thank you all for coming out. let's get started. [indiscernible] [laughter] [indiscernible] [laughter] >> congressman, leisure. -- pleasure. >> same to you. >> thanks for coming out. [indiscernible] [laughter] >> they employ 34 people in northeastern pennsylvania. that is the kind of jobs we need to but i want to thank all the national reporters for coming and covering this important race in joe biden's hometown. we also want to welcome all the first responders, law enforcement, teachers, nurses, the everyday people that make northeastern pennsylvania go. thank you all for coming out. [applause] and lastly, we are joined today by 15 elected officials that are leading northeastern pennsylvania into a better tomorrow. thank you. [applause] joe biden came here on tuesday and let out a truth that my opponent doesn't want known -- mr. b

. >> when we moved from scranton, when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton.y dad wasn't a coal miner. my-- my great-- my great-grandfather was a mining engineer. but my dad was in sales, and there was no work. so we left to go down to delaware, i told you, where those oil plants were. but, i remember driving home, when you take the trolley in scranton, going out north washington and adams avenues. within 15 blocks-- we didn't live in the neighborhood. one of the most prestigious neighborhood in the region, in the town, where the scrantons and other good, decent people live. there was a-- you would go by a wall, that my recollection is was somewhere between 15 and 18 feet tall. and it went for, essentially, a city block. and you could see the coal piled up to the very top of the wall from inside. it was a coal-fired plant. a coal-fired plant. and all of that-- all of the negative impacts of breathing that coal, the dust, were affecting everybody. but at the time, people didn't know it, and there wasn't any alternative. ( laughter ) >> stephen: no doubt, he wil

we are almost in scranton. almost. >> he left.parties competing for votes here in battleground pa. >> how big a piece of your own personal economy are student loans? >> it's a huge part of my economy, student loans. i mean, that's why i'm looking to hopefully get taken care of. >> reporter: 28-year-old tyler graduated in 2018, he works at a local pharmacy. he says today he's caring about $36,000 in student debt. >> starting a business down the road is something that i would be very interested in. i mean, my current debt situation has made that significantly more difficult. >> reporter: student debt a factor for just about everyone. >> if you are saddled with this unbelievable amount of debt it's going to set you back. >> reporter: this local business owner 41 years old, recently paid off his student loans. his wife is still paying and their son has just started college and is taking on debt. >> we had that conversation of if you go to temple, this is how much debt you are going to have to take on. if you go to westchester this is

announcer: we take you live to president biden's hometown of scranton, pennsylvania to hear from kevin mccarthy as he shares his thoughts on the administration and the direction of the democratic party. you are watching live coverage. >> air travel has never been more unpredictable. families go to the grocery store and find empty shelves. necessities like baby formula have been impossible to find, which means many children can't get the nutrition that they need. if you can find what you need at the store, it costs more. a lot more. food prices are up more than 13%. the highest increase ever. we are told again and again by washington that it is all temporary. but this historic spending binge of joe biden and his democrat congress has brought the greatest inflation crisis to this nation in generations. democrats spend your money on wasteful projects including millions on ski resorts and luxury hotels. even spending $1 billion of hard-working taxpayer money on stimulus checks to violent criminals in prison. yes, they even sent one to the boston bomber. this has only driven inflation highe

one of the reasons why my dad moved from scranton when coal died, everything died. had to find new ways to do, learn new skills, new work. but hear me. we're going to leave nobody behind. we're going to be working with companies, community colleges, technical schools, union-led apprenticeship training programs, to make sure american workers are prepared to compete and can out-compete anybody in the world. i'm not joking. i'm not joking. earlier this month i announced a $52 million grant for the american rescue plan. that's a program to train workers and upgrade factories for electric vehicle revolution. for example, just like it used to be building carburetor, you won't be doing that much anymore. with electric vehicles. but you have to build an awful lot of vehicle batteries. the first people who get toaz jobs, the first people who train for those jobs, anybody displaced, anybody displaced. you know, i worked with longshoremen back in my state and around the country. you know, when we got all this new modern equipment to deal with the supply chain, to speed up prod

one of the reasons why my dad moved from scranton when coalan died, everything died. to find new ways to do, learn new skills, new work. well, but hear me, we're going to leave nobody behind. we're going to be working with companies, community colleges, technical schools, union-led apprenticeship and training programs to make sure american workers are prepared to compete and outcompete anybody in the world. and i'm not joking. [applause] i am not joking. earlier this month, i announced a $52 million grant for the american rescue plan. that's a partnership right here in detroit, including the big three and united autoworkers, to train our workers and upgrade factories for electric vehicle revolution. for example, just like they used to be building carburetors, you're not going to be doingt that much anymore with electric vehicles. but we're going to have to built an awful lot of vehicle batteries.s. and the first people that'll get those jobs, the first people to train for those jobs, the people that are going to be able to do those jobs? anybody displaced. anybody dis

former president trump plans a rally there this weekend in scranton. matt? >> bradley blackburn in new york. thank you. >>> breaking overnight, a man is in custody after an apparent attempt to assassinate the vice president of argentina. cristina fernandez de kirchner was surrounded as she exited her videowpoinng a gun inches from her head. she was not physically hurt. argentina's president said the attempt failed because the gun did not fire when the trigger was pulled. the suspect identified as a brazilian citizen was quickly detained by security. the vice president who previously served as president is on trial for corruption charges. >>> back in california, firefighters are still battling two wildfires amid a blistering heat wave. the root fire in a rural area north of los angeles has burned more than 5,000 acres. it's destroyed at least one house and is only 27% contained. temperatures in the area hit 112 degrees yesterday. they're expected to top 100 for the next several days. >>> and the border 32 fire east of san diego has grown to more than 4,000 ac

seat, it is going to be an unmistakable message to the entire country that joe biden's hometown of scranton ethic of the liberal agenda. since he became president, he has driven our country into addicts. gas prices have doubled, the border is open. our country is in decline. he has even stopped inflation, which is destroying senior citizens social security. i am here on the campaign trail every day. people are angry at joe biden. they are angry at what they have done to us. we are mad as hell and we are not going to take it anymore. we are going to fix it on november 8. [applause] mr. bognet: we are mad that joe biden came here and called a specialist. a bernie sanders supporter is somebody who took a shot as steve scalise and we just had a crazy person try to murder brett kavanaugh out they did not agree with the supreme court decision. that is extremists. we are also mad that matt cartwright and joe biden effectively opened the border and are trying to poison our children. we are mad that nancy pelosi and matt cartwright and joe biden have gotten rich while they were in office. they lectu

thoughts on the administration and the democrats political agenda from the president's hometown of scranton, pennsylvania. >> dfw halls, community centers, machine shops here at dawn. over the past month alone, i have traveled to more than in 20 states and met with over a hundred -- republican candidates and members and thousands of their constituents. tonight, i want to share with you what i heard from americans across this country. what is clear to me, and clear to you is that washington and the white house are not listening. they just do not get it. you have never been more worried, more alarmed by the direction of our country. they tell you everything is fine. you worry that your children will have less opportunity than you did. yet they tell you things are looking up you fear that america is becoming poor, less safe. less respected and less free by the day. yet, they tell you the border is safe and america is secure. the white house says inflation is transitory. deficits don't matter. the spike in crime is just a bump in the road. yet, you know that doesn't add up. that is where we are

we're almost in scranton. almost. >> he left, he abandoned pennsylvania.eting for votes in battleground pennsylvania. >> how big a piece of your economy are student loans? >> it's a huge part. i'm hoping to get it taken care of. >> reporter: this 28-year-old graduated in 2018. he says today he's carrying about $36,000 in student debt. >> starting a business down the road is something i'm very interested in. my current debt situation has made that significantly more difficult. >> reporter: student debt a factor to just about everyone. >> if you're saddled with this unbelievable amount of debt it's going to set you back. >> reporter: this 40-year-old recently paid off his student loans. his wife is still paying and their son has just started college and is taking on debt. >> we had that conversation of if you go to temple, this is how much debt you're going to have to take on, if you go to west chester, this is how much debt. so those were very large parts of the conversation. >> reporter: for many here, the spiraling cost of college outweighing its benefit.

that is rapidly changing.so but i understand i really do one of the reasons why my dad move from scrantonal died everything died. we had to find new ways to learn new skills and new work. we won't leave anybody behind. we will work with companies in community colleges, technical schools, unions to make sure american people are prepared to compete and i'm not joking. i am nott joking. earlier this month a note a $52 million grant for the american rescue plan that is a partnership right here in detroit including the united auto workers to upgrade factories for electric vehicle revolution. just like building carburetors are not doing that with electric vehicles but we have to build allied of vehicle batteries in the first people that get those jobs that train for the jobs if anybody is displeased i work with the longshoreman and we have all this new modern equipment but i suggested. [laughter] i shouldn't say i made it. [laughter] so anybody displaced by any modernization, they got to get the jobs to be trained on every new thing going on and the same thing will happen with autoworkers. i ra

take joe biden out of pennsylvania, you can't take scranton out of joe.'s the hill writing as far as how that relates to events you will see when it comes to the midterm elections in the next couple of weeks and months ahead. again, what does maga mean to you? we're asking you to tell us what you think, 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8002 for independents. michael in tennessee, democrats line, you're next, go ahead. caller: yes, thank you for taking my call this morning. a lady several calls back talked about racial injustice and equality and then another caller talked about things were good with reagan. i'd like to remind everybody that ronald reagan got into office because he cooked up a deal with iranians to hold the hostages until after he won the election. and then we had iran-contra, and then we had george bush, who invaded iraq. and the only president who's had this country in the black financially when he left was president clinton. host: so all that aside, the term maga, what it means to you? caller: let me make

president biden likes to call himself scranton joe but in his hometown, 23% of folks have college degrees and means the rest of them don't. they're in that despair bucket. who is going to help them out? is anyone looking out for them? anyone? i hope scranton joe is looking out for them because they're not getting a nickel of that trillion dollars and they need it probably more than the elites that regret they took the wrong major. liz claman, over to you. liz: charles, the dow just hit a new session high while you were talking, 474 points to the upside. charles: we needed it. liz: just like that sign says, making money, let's do it. fox market alerted, we do have the markets charging higher as headlines from multiple news realms hit the tape and the dow at 463 and s&p up 71 and ten out of eleven s&p sectors blooming bright green and tech showing the strongest leadership and inter-day on the nasdaq climbing much of the session and look around 12:40 p.m. eastern time, it started ramping up just as federal reserve vice chair lyle braynard made all kinds of tough on inflation comments, "we ar

take joe biden out of pennsylvania, you can't take scranton out of joe.gain, that's the hill writing as far as how that relates to events you will see when it comes to the midterm elections in the next couple of weeks and months ahead. again, what does maga mean to you? we're asking you to tell us what you think, 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8002 for independents. michael in tennessee, democrats line, you're next, go ahead. caller: yes, thank you for taking my call this morning. a lady several calls back talked about racial injustice and equality and then another caller talked about things were good with reagan. i'd like to remind everybody that ronald reagan got into office because he cooked up a deal with iranians to hold the hostages until after he won the election. and then we had iran-contra, and then we had george bush, who invaded iraq. and the only president who's had this country in the black financially when he left was president clinton. host: so all that aside, the term maga, what it means to you? caller: l

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host: let's hear from joe in scranton, pennsylvania. independent. caller: hello. i am speaking from a point of view -- i am 60 years old. what i have seen is a reduction in the formal christianity of a lot of families. i believe a lot of that has to do with the reduction of the nuclear family structure. as i'm sure you are well aware, the amount of african-american children who are lacking having that father figure in their family. is there any part of the studies or anything that are identifying that in coming up with some resolutions and some training or teaching to bring back that responsibility of being a father? guest: in this particular survey we do not cover those topics, but about 18 months ago we published a survey that was on african-americans and their religious traditions if you would like to take a look at that survey. you can visit pe wresearch.org. some of the things we found in terms of that survey that do overlap with what we are looking at here is that black americans by and large are more likely than the general public to say antiracism is an es

you have black voters, suburban women, union workers, and middle class voters in scranton. so an important opportunity for biden to test run his future for a potential race run. >> i thank you as we're watching marine one and people are starting to get out. we'll see president biden step out of that helicopter in moments. meanwhile, a judge in florida could rule this week on whether to appoint a special master to review the documents seized from mar-a-lago. meanwhile, the former president held his first rally since the fbi searched his florida residence and in a continuation of his attacks on social media, he focused on the doj and the fbi. >> rifle through the first lady's closet, drawers, and everything else. and even did a deep and ugly search of the room of my 16-year-old son. leaving everything they touched in far different condition than it was when they started. i want to bring in congressional reporter for the guardian, hugo, and glenn. let's start with the special master request. how can we expect to see that play out this week? >> given the judge has decided not t

scranton. i looked up scranton. 17% college grads.ometown, 83% of the people there aren't getting a nickel. the elites in that town, the 83% have to pay extra taxes so that the elites can make it through this recession. >> martha: thanks, charles payne. good to see you. >> you too. thanks. >> martha: coming up, k.t. mcfarland on the massive show of oppositions. the protests in the streets in iran. the likes which we have not seen. and why it's called a continuation of the biden obama love affair with the iranian regime. she will explain what she means by that next. woman tc: my a1c stayed here, it needed to be here. doctor tc: ruby's a1c is down with rybelsus®. man tc: my a1c wasn't at goal, now i'm down with rybelsus®. son tc: mom's a1c is down with rybelsus®. song: a1c down with rybelsus® anncr vo: in a clinical study, once-daily rybelsus® significantly lowered a1c better than the leading branded pill. anncr vo: rybelsus® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. anncr vo: don't take rybelsus® if you or your family ever had medullary t

biden's criticism of president trump's supporters in scranton, pennsylvania.s where kevin mccarthy will be speaking. jessica dean is working that part of the story for us. so jessica, what do we expect to hear from mccarthy tonight? >> reporter: well, pamela, we are getting excerpts now from what we expect to hear from him, confirming what a source told me earlier that he's going to call on joe biden to apologize for calling some americans fascists. i'll read you part of that excerpt we're getting. he's expected to say, "when the president speaks tonight at independence hall, the first lines out of his mouth should be to apologize for slandering tens of millions of americans as fascists." again, that's an excerpt we are expected to hear from kevin mccarthy, who is here to draw the contrast he wants to paint tonight's speech by the president as divisive. we expect him to try to craft that message, and say that the president is dividing americans, not bringing them together. we also know that mccarthy wants to bring the issues back to what gop members want to be

representative mccarthy was in the president's hometown of scranton, pennsylvania had push back on theistration's policy agenda and encourage voters to give republicans control of congress and the upcoming midterm elections. [applause]

host: let's hear from joe in scranton, pennsylvania. independent. caller: hello.ng from a point of view -- i am 60 years old. what i have seen is a reduction in the formal christianity of a lot of families. i believe a lot of that has to do with the reduction of the nuclear family structure. as i'm sure you are well aware, the amount of african-american children who are lacking having that father figure in their family. is there any part of the studies or anything that are identifying that in coming up with some resolutions and some training or teaching to bring back that responsibility of being a father? guest: in this particular survey we do not cover those topics, but about 18 months ago we published a survey that was on african-americans and their religious traditions if you would like to take a look at that survey. you can visit pe wresearch.org. some of the things we found in terms of that survey that do overlap with what we are looking at here is that black americans by and large are more likely than the general public to say antiracism is an essential part

president biden likes to call himself scranton joe but in his hometown, 23% of folks have college degreesng to help them out? is anyone looking out for them? anyone? i hope scranton joe is looking out for them because they're not getting a nickel of that trillion dollars and they need it probably more than the elites that regret they took the wrong major. liz claman, over to you. liz: charles, the dow just hit a new session high while you were talking, 474 points to the upside. charles: we needed it. liz: just like that sign says, making money, let's do it. fox market alerted, we do have the markets charging higher as headlines from multiple news realms hit the tape and the dow at 463 and s&p up 71 and ten out of eleven s&p sectors blooming bright green and tech showing th

in scranton, when cold died, there weren't any jobs and my dad was in sales. we moved back down to delaware, where he was from. a steel town called claymont, delaware. it used to have almost 5000 steelworkers. the whole community was built. it was a company town, literally. steel died. there was not a single steelworker left. what happened was about midway through, i got very engaged, in my case the civil rights movement. as a kid, i worked a lot in the movement and got deeply involved in the democratic party because the democratic party in delaware was a southern aquatic party. we were more a southern state then northeastern state. i got involved in one thing led to another and one day, a group came to me, the senior members of a party and said they wanted me to run for the senate. i said i'm not old enough. i was only 29 years old. a former chief justice whose family had more senators than anyone in history said you obviously did not do very well in law school. he said you don't have to be 30 to be elected, you have to be 29. you just can't get sworn in unti

. >> reporter: speaking in the ps hometown of scranton, pennsylvania, house republican r kevin mccarthy said mr. biden ig to distract americans from other other issues like the economy. >> washington and the white houe aren't listening. they just dont get it. >> reporter: a new cbs news pol found seven in ten americans believe democracy and the rule of law ared unthreat, about the same as in the days following te january 6th attack. on thursday former nypd detective thomas webster was sentenced to ten years in prison for assaulting police during the insurrection.r president trump told the wendy bell radio show that he will pardon the rioters if he is ree. >> if i decide to run and if i , i will be looking very, very sty about pardons. >> reporter: on friday former p white house counsel pat cipolloe is expected to appear before thl grand jury investigating januar. >> the first doses of pfizer's new covid booster shot are arrig at sites nationwide hours after the cdc signed off on them. at least five bay area counties say coun sll e rsuntil the whcod be as soon as next week. the bivalent

and just outside biden's hometown of scranton, pennsylvania.evin mccarthy pointedly criticized the president. >> washington and the white house aret listening. they just don't get it. his policies have severely wounded america's soul, diminish ed america's spirit and betrayed america's trust. yamiche: is a lot going on in pennsylvania this week. joining me me to discuss this and more jonathan martin senior political correspondent for the "new york times" and co-author of "this will not pass: trump, biden and the battle for america's future." evan perez. and yasmeen abutaleb and laura barron-lopez. yasmeen congratulations to the promotion of white house reporter. of course, we saw this primetime speech from president biden where he called out in a rare way president trump by name and republicans. what's behind behind the strategy there? and does the white house think this speech is going to make a big difference yasmeen: i think the white house thoughts it was a launch of the campaign than will start with labor day weekend and begin in earnest a

when nicole died in stand -- whencoal died, in scranton -- there was not a single steelworker left. about midway through -- i got very engaged, in the civil rights movement. as a kid, i worked a lot in the movement and got deeply involved in the democratic party because the democratic party in delaware was a southern aquatic party. -- southern democratic party. we were more a southern state then northeastern state. i got involved in one thing led to another and one day, a group came to me, the senior members of the party said they wanted to me to run for the senate. i said i'm not old enough. i was only 29 years old. a former chief justice whose family had more senators than anyone in history said you obviously did not do very well in law school. he said you don't have to be 30 to be elected, you have to be 29. you just can't get sworn in until you are 30. one thing led to another and i ended up deciding to run. i was having great difficulty getting support. even though the labor guys liked me, they did not think i could when. until i got brought up to pittsburgh by the steelworkers

event >> no, it's not a political speech >> reporter: but house leader kevin mccarthy hieaded to scranton to demand mr. biden apologize for criticizing trump voters >> president biden has chosen to divide, demean and disparage his fellow americans >> reporter: citing president biden's record on crime, inflation and immigration, mccarthy made a direct pitch for republicans to take over control of congress. >> we must change direction in washington before it is too late >> reporter: in this political season, defending democracy is a fight in itself. kelly o'donnell, nbc news, the white house. >>> a twist in the legal battle over the search at mar-a-a-lago. a federaral judge is still weighingng whether to grant forr president trump's request for a special master to review documents recovered from the florida home but it appears that a more detailed list of what the fbi seized will be made public peter alexander is tracking the development. >> reporter: the showdown over government secrets lawyers for president trump and justice department prosecutors facing off in a federal courtroom over pr

. >> reporter: speaking in scranton, pennsylvania, tonight, house republican leader kevin mccarthy insistedthe other party that is pitting people against each other. >> we should inspire us to defend america first, not blame america first. >> reporter: white house officials argue the president isn't trying to be political. he's simply calling out extremism. but with just nine weeks to go before the midterm elections, there's no question he's trying to create a contrast between his party and the g.o.p. norah. >> o'donnell: nancy cordes for uthank you so much. >> o'donnell: turning overseas, a team of inspectors reached that embattled nuclear power plant in ukraine today, trying to prevent a nuclear disaster. the convoy was temporarily delayed by shelling in the area, with russia and ukraine accusing each other of trying to sabotage the inspection. it's unclear how many nuclear experts will stay at the damaged plant, or for how long. one school district is looking to solve the teacher shortage by fixing the housing crisis. that story, in 60 seconds. dupixent helps keep you one step ahead of e

i've moved because when cold died in scranton there weren't any jobs and my dad was in sales and i was in mining but we moved back down to delaware. moved a little steel town called claymont delaware delaware. claymont used havealmost 5000 steelworkers . hold committee was built with a company town literally. and steel died, it was dying and there wasn't a steelworker left and we know what happened. it was about midway through when i got elected. i got very engaged and in my case the civil rights movement and as a kid, i was a in the movement and i got deeply involved in the democratic party because the democratic party in delaware was the southern democratic party. we were atof more southern states than northeastern states and i got involved in and one thing led to another and one day a group came to me as senior members of the party said they wanted me to d.run for the senate and i'm not old enough. and i wasn't, i'm only 29 years old former chief justice his family born united states senators more than any family in american history looked at me and said you didn't do well in law sc

my fellow democrats, please join me now in welcoming the kid from scranton. friend of working people everywhere. the president of these united states. president joe biden. [applause] ♪ think about it. -- i am low. ♪ pres. biden: hello folks. jamie, thank you for the introduction. folks, thank you all for being here and thank you jamie for your leadership. before i begin, i want to say a few words -- i stop by the british embassy to sign a book in the honor of queen elizabeth. i had an opportunity to meet her in the past and she was a graciously decent woman my prayer and thoughts are with the people of the u.k. and commonwealth reef -- as they grieve. now let me talk about why we are all here. in 60 days. 60 days. from the midterm elections, i want to be crystal clear about what this -- is at stake at the ballot. your right to choose is on the ballot. know this is a fact, this is not that i brought up any of this. your social security that you pay for is on the ballot. look at what they put out they want to do away with it. they want us to decide whether it c

. >> reporter: speaking in scranton, pennsylvania, tonight, house republican leader kevin mccarthy insisted it's the other party that is pitting people against each other. >> we must change direction in washington before it is too late. >> reporter: president biden is giving this speech from independence hall because it's the cradle of american democracy. and aides say he's giving the speech now because even as we head into the november elections, there are still so many americans who deny the outcome of the last election. norah. >> o'donnell: nancy cordes for us, thank you so much. turning overseas, a team of inspectors reached that embattled nuclear power plant in ukraine today, trying to prevent a nuclear disaster. the convoy was temporarily delayed by shelling in the area with russian and ukraine accusing each other of trying to sackitage the inspection. it's unclear how many nuclear experts will stay at the damaged plant or for how long. one school district is looking to soft teacher shortage by fixing the housing crisis. that story in 60 seconds. dupixent helps keep you one step ahead

. >> reporter: but house republican leader kevin mccarthy headed to the president's hometown of scranton to demand mr. biden apologize for criticizing trump voters. >> president biden has chosen to divide, demean, and disparage his fellow americans. >> reporter: citing president biden's record on crime, inflation, and immigration, mccarthy made a direct pitch for republicans to take over control of congress. >> we must change direction in washington before it is too late. >> reporter: in this political season, defending democracy is a fight in itself. kelly o'donnell, nbc news, the white house. >>> now to the growing crisis in mississippi. the city of jackson without safe drinking water for a fourth straight day the national guard arriving to provide much-needed help morgan chesky is on the ground >> reporter: tonight in jackson, the mission couldn't be more clear >> have a nice day, ma'am. >> reporter: hundreds of national guardsmen handing out clean water to a nearly nonstop line of cars the site one of seven just opened by the state. >> it's sad. and i can't even afford to move out of

talk so much about threats to democracy and talk about the infrastructure bill is helping jobs in scrantonsylvania. host: it is a race by race thing in terms of candidates. let's talk about the senate. a couple of races i want to highlight. the key ones for, you may be looking at. arizona, mark kelly versus blake masters. pennsylvania, john federman versus mehmet oz. georgia, rafael warnock, incumbent against herschel walker. nevada's catherine cortez masto against warsaw. senator ron johnson, republican against mandela barnes. any of those you want to talk about? guest: in a 50-50 senate, every race matters. i think what has been interesting is the field of gop candidates right now running against democrats, particularly in arizona and pennsylvania where there has been a lot of -- on the republican side about candidate quality. blake masters has been outraised by mark kelly by about 14-one, he has massive money issues. peter teal invested about $15 million in getting masters across the line into competitive arizona primary. that has had minority leader mitch mcconnell sweating bullets. ho

biden who often touts his scranton roots gave the prime time address vilifying mega. we just heard in lucas tomlinson's report trump has been pushing back a stop in pennsylvania. you got up on stage there, you are of course a trump back to candidate in this race. how big of a place do you view the presence back into be for you? >> thanks for having me from a very proud and honored to president trump in town last night. the energy at the rally was palpable. people in northeast pennsylvania are ready for change for they are sick of bard jim biden/cartwright. biden insulted and demeaned as i call it his start of insult america tour. people are sick and tired of being attacked for not agreeing with joe biden and matt cartwright. they went change and were going to give it to them and 65 days regrets writing is represented cartwright in 2020. longtime incumbent held a seat. why do you think this rematch will have a different outcome? >> we are hearing over and over again that matt cartwright and joe biden lied to us as voters for this to their moderate and reasonable. they

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kevin mccarthy speaking in scranton, pennsylvania. [video clip] >> in the past month alone, i have traveled over 20 states and met with republican members and thousands of their constituents. tonight, i want to share with you what i heard from americans across this country. what is clear to me and clear to you is that washington and the white house aren't listening. they just don't get it. you have never been more worried, more alarmed by the direction of our country. yet they tell you everything is fine. you worry that your children will have less opportunity than you did. yet they tell you things are looking up. you fear that america is becoming poor. less safe. less respected and less free by the day. and yet they tell you the border is safe in america, and it is secure. the white house says inflation is transitory. deficits don't matter and the spike in crime is just a bump in the road. yet you know that doesn't add up. that's where we are different. i don't dismiss your fears. i share them. and i will go to congress this year and

he stepping up his appearances, one in scranton the other day, when in philadelphia but it the same pitchute speech and doing more to counter the narratives that he is somehow impaired after the stroke but he has not answered the tough questions. the key policy issues that the oz campaign is hitting hard, we will see if he takes questions. on special report, he has not expected that. ashley: don't give up. also, i want to say the democrats believe the abortion issue will be critical in the midterms. we know the president has gone after trump supporters calling them semi-fascist, republican say it is all about the economy. should the republicans be putting out a stronger message as we head towards the midterms do you think? >> republicans are getting ready to unleash the gop agenda which will be like newt gingrich when he took over as house speaker and a contract with america on the key issues, economy, inflation will lead the way as will crime, immigration. those are if you look at google search, immigration and crime has spiked up as far as searches people are interested in more than abo