investigation. so there s still a lot of questions here. democrats, i think, are in for a frustrating year and a half. yeah, democrats may have the majority on capitol hill, but barely. and their hope of keeping control is a facing a huge challenge. a postmortem report of the 2020 election conducted by several democratic advocacy groups shows the party failed to present a cohesive economic agenda. and struggled to counter republican efforts to tie all the democratic candidates to the far left. as the new york times notes, it follows a separate report by the dccc, which showed democrats had an insufficient response to attacks that framed them all as police-hating socialists. the findings say the party is at risk of losing ground with black, hispanic, and asian american voters. let s bring in the host of msnbc s politics nation and
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to make if things keep going in the direction they re in now as the president spins more and more out of control. the conventional wisdom on mitch mcconnell is he will do what s best for mitch mcconnell for keeping control of the senate for his own race. that s why it was so surprising to see an op-ed on friday in the washington post against the withdrawal from syria, saying withdrawing u.s. troops from syria is a grave strategic mistake, it will leave the american people and homeland less safe, embolden our enemies and weaken important alliances. the obama administration s withdrawal from iraq facilitated the rise of the islamic state in the first place. what do you think prompted that? i disagree if i m the president, but i think mitch mcconnell does what mitch mcconnell thinks is right for both the country and the politics of maintaining a majority in the senate to
a plan to have women speak out without losing everything. look, i think every time somebody speaks out, it does empower people. i think it s brave for you to take these risks and to speak out and to tell your story. but having said all of that, i also think there are a lot of people who don t believe you and who won t believe you. and why do you think it s possible that 15 women can come forward and say that they were sexually assaulted on some level or even worse in the case of your story, and that it hasn t made any impact? it s never made any impact for 20,000 years. women have been sexually assaulted since the beginning of time. nothing has changed. i just you know, yes, things have changed. women have risen up in the united states. and we are trying to change it. the thing about not being believed, that s the powerful male way of keeping control of
in our polarized society we live in today it s almost tribalized where half one of je everything we see we see through the lens of our jersey. that s senator ted cruz on the state of american politics today with midterm elections right around the corner judge kavanaugh s drawn out confirmation hearing has gambling at the ballot box. republicans could lose the house despite the momentum of judge kavanaugh s confirmation giving them a better chance of keeping control of the u.s. senate. so confirmed or not rjts, what affect will the kavanaugh hearings have on the republican party. joining me is margaret carlson. i want to start with your most recent column. you said what the country needs right now is some grace. after what we saw this week there was a lot of yelling, there were high emotions in that hearing room. where do you see that grace coming from in our politics today?