later this hour. and today, thousands of biker wills take their last ride to our nation s capitol for the annual rolling thunder rally. honoring fallen soldiers and missing in action for more than three deck kaisdz. there will be the event s last year citing high costs. there are some questions about that. president trump has offered to support the ride in any way he can. we ll speak to the president of the ride at 7:00. griff, jed, down to you guys. i hope you re wrong on that. hillary clinton is back in the spotlight speaking to a crowd in texas and making this fre dictiomaking thisprediction. when i look at texas, i see the future. i see a path to drive record turnout in 2020. we can elect leaders who share our values up and down the ballot and turn this state blue once and for all. because if testimonies win in texas, wow, we will sweep the
infringes on women s healthcare on a women s healthcare right. tony perkins, the president of the family research counsel joined us earlier, he says pro-lifers won t back down. lawmakers who are defending the sanctity of human life are not going to be deterred by a judge who thinks he can determine what s best for the country because he is sitting on the bench for life. griff: meanwhile the governor of missouri signs legislation outlawing the termination after eight weeks. the law allows exceptions for medical emergencies but not rape or incest. and hillary clinton making a bold 2020 prediction during a speech in houston. i see a path to drive record turnout in 2020. we can elect leaders who share our values and turn this state blue once and for all. griff: clinton lost the lone star state to president trump in 2016 by nearly 10
pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan by less than one point. they acknowledge privately there is reason to be a little bit worried. joining me now, msnbc political analyst, zerlina maxwell, senior director of progressive programming at sirius xm. amy parms and shane gold mmatch are still with us here on set. both have acknowledged my home state is a must win for them. if you look at the trends of pennsylvania, president trump won there in 2016, as we ve said. but before that, it was democrat, democrat, democrat for the past six presidential elections. what do democrats need to do to try to flip that state blue for 2020? i think the same thing is true about pennsylvania that s true about michigan and also wisconsin. it s that we need to increase turnout. and specifically in the major cities. so when we re talking about these three states and specifically pennsylvania, we need to remember that the
neil: these are the bullet points. beto has that, knows his bullet points. not in the same way, but he doesn t have, you know, four years of having a base neil: you know, chris, i think republicans, though, underestimate beto at peril. i agree. neil: that was the consensus view, barack obama had only been a senator a couple of years, and, you know, the last guy who went on to lose a senate race and went on to win the presidential race was abraham lincoln. i am not comparing the two at all, but history has a way to have making fun it does, but if i m cory booker or kamala harris, i m really angry about the attention he s getting. the other people that are angry are texas democrats because he s spent more time campaigning in iowa than he did in texas. he did not help the democrats statewide in neil: he was very confident he could tip that state blue. well, there is a lot of reasons why what happened in texas in 2018 happened.
doing in an effort to turn that state blue. she almost did it herself. the first major party african-american can female nominee for governor in american history. she got the most votes for any democratic governor in georgia history. though she didn t take the race in the end, she s clearly not it done. she s been tapped by chuck shumer to deliver next week s democratic response to president trump. there s another big day on stacey abrams calendar and that s february 24th for a special live episode of our podcast at 6:00 p.m. in new york city. you can go to our facebook page for a link to tickets. presale starts tomorrow at 6:00. tickets will, i think sell pretty darn fast. so check that out tomorrow and