people who can go out and give the soaring speech. sometimes, you just get people who like doing the work and try to move the ball forward every day on democracy. that is just as important. we should not need leaders to inspire. us it s nice when you get that. we all need to dive in and show up and protect the democracy at every step. couldn t agree with you more on that. congrats on the book. the book is grace, president obama and ten days in the battle for america. cody keenan, greatly appreciated this conversation. extremely fascinating. thanks. thank you for making time for us. make sure to catch ayman back here on msnbc saturdays at, eight saturdays at nine. the final episode of the four part series model america. the last episode is red, officer stands trial, 30 years later the teaneck community still struggles to heal from phillips 10 pm eastern here msnbc. until we meet again. i m ayman mohyeldin in new york. have a good night.
polls are tightening and critical states like pennsylvania and wisconsin. one of these reasons, republicans have ramped up their negative attacks, hitting democrats on issues like crime and inflation. in a moment, i will speak with the former chief speech writer for president obama, cody keenan, on his messaging advice for democrats in the final days of this election cycle. before, that we are going to discuss cody s new book, grace. president obama and ten days in the battle for america. which focuses on ten days in 2015 that forever changed our country. cody keenan joins us now. cody, it s great to see you. thanks for coming on. tell us about these ten days and their importance, and the importance they had on america as well. thanks, eamonn. everybody remembers the events of these ten days, not
politics to come to republicans taking up control of the senate after the midterms, even if democrats hold the line in georgia. a similar picture is emerging in the house, republicans no favor to pick up 220 seats, to democrats 180, with 35 seats as toss-ups. joining me now, cody keenan, former white house director of speech writing for president barack obama. his new book is grace. president obama in ten days in the battle for america. thank you for joining me. look, almost 14 years writing for barack obama. so clearly, you are a master at messaging. why do you think democrats are falling short? where are they succeeding as we push these midterms? on the contrary, i think joe biden is trying to something he couldn t in 2010. he successfully made this election a choice, rather than a referendum. and the choice is, who is
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battle for america. puts patriotism on display. take a look here. in june of 1775, on a small rise over looking boston, the greatest military in the world faces off against a rag tag colonial raffle and gets much more than it bargained for. america is born. dana: okay. and i had a chance to speak with kelsey grammer last week to get the inside scoop about the series it s on fox nation so you can watch both the wonderful interview i did but most importantly the series he did. both are available to stream now. and greg, you are next. greg: all right, tonight like i said i have great show bar rescue of john after it, i have got mike rowe because you can t get enough of roe, kat timpf and tyrus. now it s time for this. greg s office etiquette. a lot of people are getting back to work. you don t know how to act. take it from this example here. this is can t fluffer. you know, when you get back to the ooffice don t create a lot of distractions. don t bring in lots of pictures.