respond to the economic calamity that followed and how we re rebuilding america s economy. make sure they understand republicans have blocked us at every turn, and most importantly make sure they understand what a threat to democracy this ultra maga republican movement is. it is an anti-democratic, anti-freedom movement. it s premised on a big lie. it will excuse the criminal misconduct of the president by make kind of crazy excuses, so i think we have to do that, and we have to characterize them and call them out for what we understand. understand this is the fight of our lifetime. this is about whether or not we ll live in a democracy or that we ll give people to power who have lost the right to being in control of our economy, of our health care and of our democracy. you know. if joe biden who is the most middle of the road pro-police working class sort of, you know, inoffensive, purposefully inoffensive politician of his generation is painted as an
other leaders of his party are undermining him with younger voters. they are attacking him instead of attacking republicans. it is an enormous problem. dana: that was a long way of saying that it s a problem that democrats are attacking biden. harold: everybody gets them around the table. greg: what is under the hat? harold: first of all, i agree with everything that has been said about jill biden. i think politics is payback on top of payback, and when it gets smaller and smaller and smaller in the infractions are inoffensive, even less relevant or immaterial, we can t help ourselves. it s funny coming or opening. he is he is right. the democrats who are criticizing biden, biden is being criticized for pursuing their way of politics. i m sorry, the progressives, the progressives are saying he is
pretty clear sign to moscow that may be discussions are bearing fruit. 50 be discussions are bearing fruit. so discussions may be bearing fruit, let s run with that a little then how constructive, what state do you think these talks are in casilla i think these talks are in casilla i think it s encouraging that they re happening at all, not because i expect they will come to happening at all, not because i expect they will come- happening at all, not because i expect they will come to some kind of conclusion expect they will come to some kind of conclusion in expect they will come to some kind of conclusion in the expect they will come to some kind of conclusion in the near expect they will come to some kind of conclusion in the near future, . of conclusion in the near future, but as president putin understands that his inoffensive is not going well, the war is going poorly for his military, his definition of success will change. i think we will see him back down from his max
encouraging japan or south korea to get nuclear weapons, driving them even closer to confrontation? paul: so the thing to watch now is how quickly and how firmly the chinese actually follow through on their promises. i think that s right. but then also kim jong un, through this threat and through his other steps, i think, is just making it harder and harder to accept that missiles are being put on launch pads in north korea aim god knows where with what god only knows under the nose cone. paul: what about this back and forth insults? the president calling him rocket man and kim jong un, of course, they specialize in that sort of thing. is that something that you think is helpful from an american point of view? honestly, rocket man s a pretty inoffensive [laughter] you know, use of sarcasm can help sometimes. the north korean reaction is the standard stalinist propaganda. i think you could expect that under any circumstances. but they are so close now to achieving their 25-year
that s a tough thing to ask a candidate running for congress. yeah. and so, we ve got to figure that out. kasie hunt? congressman, the conventional wisdom here, if democrats were going to take back the house, has been essentially run to the center. i mean, that s what jon ossoff did in georgia. he tried to be kind of inoffensive to potential republican crossover voters, but your excitement, as you just pointed out, it s on the left and people who are starting to say, i mean, people i m even surprised by, saying look, we should be running on, say, medicare for all to energize those people. what is the answer if you guys want to take back the house next election cycle? well, i m a medicare for all guy, too, and i think making sure that, you know, if you could just buy into the medicare program, boy, that would simplify things. at least get medicare down to 55 or 50 so a lot of those working-class people that mike was just mentioning that have left the democratic party would say