balanced budgeters, ask where were they when donald trump was president, when they controlled the house? where were they when they controlled the senate, where were they when they controlled the white house? where were they when they controlled all three? let me tell you where they were. right there. pigs at the trough. increasing the deficit and america s federal debt to record levels in 2017, in 2018. donald trump again in 2019. in 2020, devon mccarthy never said anything like this in 2017 or 18 or 19 or 20. none of these back-benchers said this in 2017, in 2018 how do i know? i kept talking about it and no republican wanted to talk about it. i even talked to mark meadow head of the freedom caucus. i said, mark, this is what you re supposed to do. stop chasing conspiracy
condemning a fascist who says he wants to terminate the constitution of the united states, condemning a fascist who sits down and has dinner with other fascists who say publicly i like hitler. they are incapable of just basic patriotism. a reasonable person might say, great news, brittney griner is coming home, and we got to get paul whelan home, let s keep working on this, and that is exactly what president biden has said, underlining something you said a minute ago, we should remind our viewers paul whelan was arrested and sent to prison in 2018. donald trump was president in 2018, 2019, 2020, did not secure his release either. the atlantic s tom nichols, thank you for being with us this morning, we appreciate it. national security spokesperson john kirby is standing by. we ll talk to him about what comes next with russia following
for putin and resumes that career. i can tell you, viktor bout looked good coming out of prison. he had been there 14 years? yeah. it s a shame that he s back on the streets. it s also a good day for america that an american prisoner came home from russia. to the point about whether we only care about black basketball-playing lesbians, joe biden got trevor reed, a former marine out in april. brittney griner was sitting in a russian prison when that happened and he got the former marine out. trevor reid went to prison in 2018. donald trump couldn t get him out of prison. but joe biden did. this is all about celebrity. because she s an intersectional icon, i m not buying it. a marine came home before brittney griner. i m not saying this guy should be on the streets. obviously a difficult idea to wrap your head around, letting somebody back out there that s
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congress and the democrats in our poll here are up by a point on the question here. what makes this concerning still for democrats, though, is the context. let s take a look back at the last mid-term election cycle. this was 2018. donald trump was president. remember there was a republican congress. the generic ballot in the run-up to the 2018 mid terms looked like this and this translated into a big mid term for democrats. they gained 40 seats, they took over the house, they were up by six points in the generic ballot at this point in the last mid term cycle and now it s basically an even generic ballot. the context on that number of 47-46, this is a much better environment for republican than this was the last mid term cycle. and there s the question of interest, of enthusiasm, how many voters are plugged into the mid terms, how many are excited for them, how many of them are looking forward to the november elections? overall we asked folks to rate