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David Frum
@davidfrum· Mar 9, 2021

Trump desperately wants to be president again. He never understood how much he liked the job while he had it. But now that he doesn’t have it, he wishes he had it again.

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdihasan· Mar 5, 2021

So, I mean, our politics are broken out, democracies broken when 70 percent of the public support a bill and not a single Republican in the House or Senate support it. That is broken democracy.

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdihasan· Mar 5, 2021

It’s a great question. I think it’s going to be one of the defining questions about politics over the next couple of years, what drives these people. Is it ideology, is it ideology of bipartisanship, not left and right, as you mentioned…

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdihasan· Mar 5, 2021

Joe Biden, one thing he’s done very well is, he is -- despite doing the talk about bipartisanship, which I don’t like, he’s put his eye on the prize and he said, we’re doing this. We’re doing this bill. I would love for to you come along…

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdihasan· Mar 5, 2021

And yet the only thing you hear Republicans talk about, switch on Fox News. Well, don’t. But if you do, you will see Dr. Seuss instead of actual doctors trying to dodge COVID on the frontline, Mr. Potato Head rather than Mr. Smith, your…

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Mar 5, 2021

A new poll from the Associated Press shows Biden with a 60 percent job approval rating.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Mar 5, 2021

This is really really bad. There does not appear to be a good explanation for this.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Mar 5, 2021

Joe Biden has been in office exactly 45 days, the number of days Joe Biden has been on the golf course is at zero.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 5, 2021

We need a commission, a 9/11-style commission with subpoena power.

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdihasan· Mar 5, 2021

Our politics are broken out, democracies broken when 70 percent of the public support a bill and not a single Republican in the House or Senate support it.

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdihasan· Mar 5, 2021

I think it`s going to be one of the defining questions about politics over the next couple of years, what drives these people.

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdihasan· Mar 5, 2021

I`m not -- discipline is rare from Democrats. But we`ve had it from Biden on the importance of this bill.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 5, 2021

And that is what we`re seeing in response to this American rescue plan. Some of them went into the White House and wanted to negotiate something. Now they are pulling back. This is a party that really doesn`t have a policy compass, a lot…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 5, 2021

The party of small government wants to regulate the internet so that people can`t tweet mean things about Donald Trump, right? And they want to make us so that nobody can cancel people off of Twitter.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Mar 4, 2021

Republicans have been spending a lot of time talking about Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head instead of legislating, but they are laser-focused on defeating the bill that House Democrats passed last night H.R.1 or the For The People Act…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 3, 2021

So today, Senator Manchin, not just what you did for Neera and what you seem to be threatening to do to weaken Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, which to be clear means will help fewer people you, sir, for bossing around the Senate…

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Mar 3, 2021

The American rescue plan, the $1.9 trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill passed the House last week with not a single Republican vote despite the fact Americans, as we keep saying, are overwhelmingly in favor of it.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Mar 3, 2021

The public report, the letter tonight released to the public discloses that investigators looking at these corruption allegations against Elaine Chao actually found the allegations to be substantiated enough and serious enough that she was…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 3, 2021

The very things that are working, the reason cases are coming down, and just cutting that off is exactly the wrong thing to do.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 3, 2021

You, sir, for bossing around the Senate, which is not your job, you are the absolute worst.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Feb 26, 2021

The national effort by the Republican Party to prevent people from voting because they believe that that`s the only way they can win elections.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Feb 25, 2021

I think Amanda made a good point earlier, everything for me and for a lot of Republicans changed on January 6.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 24, 2021

It`s just the latest obfuscation from the GOP following the Capitol riot.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 24, 2021

We will keep up on it, and, hopefully, you`ll come back, Ron Klain.

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