stuart stevens is here. the former chief strategist for the romney presidential campaign and the senior adviser to the lincoln project. so good to have you back on, stuart. good evening. >> thanks, don. appreciate it. >> you say for those who believe president biden wasn't legally elected that means that they believe that we live in an occupied country and america is not a democracy, and you say that the official position, that is the official position of the republican party. did i get that correct? >> yeah, you got it absolutely right. that's the position of the republican party, that joe biden is not a legally elected president, and that that means we don't live in a democracy, which means we live in an occupied country. and when you take that position, this really hasn't happened since probably 1860 would be the closest analogy, that one of the major parties doesn't believe america's a democracy. >> how do you explain what's happening in the republican party right now, stuart? it is -- i sit here every ni

and stuart stevens, george w. bush president campaign.the lincoln project, his latest book is, it was all. eli how the republican parties became donald trump. >> don't say someone didn't worry you. good evening and welcome to you both. okay juanita tolliver, let's just agree for the purposes of this conversation. that everything in the big biden bill is good for americans. everything in it is designed to improve peoples lives. what do you cut? >> i can't agree with that. i'm sorry, brian, i know you said for the sake of the broadcast, but i can agree with false choices here. and let's think about the cuts that's interested in moderate democrats, they're proposing cutting childcare. which we know has kept millions of women out of the workforce. they're proposing cutting elder care, they're proposing cutting medicare expansion, like all in affordable housing. all of these things are critical investment because they are long-standing crises that existed well before this pandemic. and their industries that we know have a direct impact on our

republican and democratic strategists stuart stevens and james carville. good to have you both. jimmy, let me start with you. what do you think of virginia? do i have it right, that's what's happening with mcauliffe is the first look at the measure of democrat power? >> this is one irishman that has had a drink. >> i know you have. >> it's a very important election. it will be bad to lose, bad to lose any election. i wish they had been able to consummate this deal prior to tuesday. it looks unlikely to happen. i'm very worried, very concerned, every democrat should be, should be making calls to people in virginia and get as many people as they can out to vote. it's going to be a tight election. >> let's talk tactics for one second, stuart. some people showed up at a young kin event. a group your with, the lincoln project, owned that it was them, that they posed this way because they wanted people to remember. you're getting crushed by people on the right as a dirty tactic. do you stand behind what was done and is that being what you guys say you oppose? >> no. listen, every day

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still with us, eugene robinson and mark mckinnon, stuart stevens was on a night couples back. and every night he says it again, it just stopped your heart that there's one political party that is pro democracy. what do you do about this juror mark? even if trump went away tomorrow, went away and never said another word, not for authored another a ridiculous rendered to the wall street journal, it's in the bloodstream. >> you are right brian. there's no better advocacy, when you just repeat ally enough even in the face of zero evidence, the people will believe it, it's just usually problematic for the people of the republican party, for the country, for the democracy. the greatest fraud in american politics right now is the notion that the systematic election fraud. even just to give you frequent examples, arizona audits paid for by republican trump supporters not only found up fraud, they found more votes for joe biden. lieutenant governor of texas dan patrick offered 1 million dollar reward for anybody who could find any fraud and not until the last did he offer up the first

here to talk about, it juanita tolliver, -- two progressive candidates and stuart stevens, veteran ofromney and -- who is these days with the lincoln project. his latest book and it's an important one's, it was all a lie. how the republican party became donald trump. well, good evening, and welcome to your both. juanita, we're gonna have sore feelings on both sides. it is whatever the president going to sign still a victory? we >> absolutely. right? i don't think it can be underscored enough that once democrats are pulling this load all by themselves to make investments that are critical for the american public, but to, these investments are still historic. i think in conversations with folks like representative pressley about all of the things that are still included here, now negotiations aren't done and rest presented of jayapal said it's not all done unless it's all agreed to by everyone. then, we will have a final picture. but, short of that final picture while we still have is still going to have a large impact on peoples lives and that's what's gonna matter a year from now in t

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, speech writers like michael gerson and bill kristol, presidential campaign strategists like stuart stevens and steve schmidt, and the list goes on and on, including our first guest tonight jennifer rubin who writes, it is long past time that democrats seize the high ground on values including fair play, honesty, respect, and nonviolence. in truth, a party that winks at violence and tries to undermine faith in elections is anti-american and anti-democratic. hold republicans accountable when they rationalize violence and denigrate the importance of elections. take them to task as anti-work and anti-family for opposing necessities such as subsidized child care for working parents or paid family leave to take care of parents. that's how democrats can achieve consensus, if not unity, cast themselves as defenders of american values and put republicans on defense. in iowa this weekend, we saw a possible foreshadowing of the presidential campaign of 2024 with donald trump holding a rally in iowa campaigning for at minimum, attention. he was also campaigning to maintain his control over the republi