when there s life and light and love. and that if we can just get to the light and life and love, 51% of the time, then we are having a good day. and we are having a good era. don t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. and i think that america is a marvelous example of a human community that gets so much wrong but which knows intuitively that if you do the right thing, everybody benefits. and we have to see each other as neighbors and not as enemies. do not despair, do not give up, in the words of churchill, never, never, never give up. try john meacham, as always, thank you for being with us. i hope you and your family are having a great fourth of july weekend. that was joe s conversation with john meacham ahead of this july 4th holiday. erin o hearn picks up the coverage right now. good money. morning, john. don t go far. no holiday starting yet. good morning to you at home and welcome to msnbc s live coverage on this monday, july 4th. we begin with the latest fr
the everyday challenges of inflation and the rising prices. republicans and democrats think that, more than anything, is what the midterms are going to be won or lost on. just because there are so many challenges facing this administration, some of it is frankly out of his control. it makes political sense to focus on january 6 even more than politics, he paints this as a threat to democracy. i want to bring in amara because he brought up a couple of good points in that, the american people are dealing with so much. we had the supreme court with that overruling of roe v wade. there s also the january 6 committee. and there s inflation. everybody is dealing with these prices at the pump whether they go to the grocery store. so a lot is happening right now, and there s also a few months before midterms. so what is the administration s biggest focus at the moment in order to prepare for this
president trump calling house candidates on to the stage at rally after rally. rallies i went to, rallies though thousands of people went to, that it s very hard for the president to not to claim that he was very much attaching himself personally to republicans who lost on several weeks ago. the other thing is, when you talk about cereal. there s this idea that the president maybe isn t out there buying his own cereal, so there s this if you want to do the most genuine point of view, maybe it s that he forgot that that s how it works. maybe he s talking about using your credit card? the point is that of course you don t use your i.d. to buy cereal. and even larger, courts have found that voter i.d. laws sometimes disproportionately affect people of color and native americans. and as a result, there are hundreds of people that are sometimes having problems voting, because voter i.d. laws can be a form of voter suppression, if you don t have the money to go, if you don t have the tra
abby: another network released stack of 2005. that was more than mitt romney, the list goes on, former president obama. bernie sanders. abby: bernie sanders. yeah, richard, i don t know why he s repeating that failed line that the democrats lost on. they are trying to paint a picture that they can actually win which we see time and time again that they are losing legislatively and electorally. i sat down with three a-list celebrities yesterday and they told me that there is something going on here in hollywood, we know that there s three pillars, arts and entertainment and media, politics and government. the one entertainment hub, they inform me that a lot of the elites are looking to entering antitrump rhetoric, commercials, tv shows and movies. these are things that people may not even notice and we continue
you have got someone like scott walker highlighting his humble beginnings talking about the suit from joseph a. bank he got from a three for one sale. someone like marco rubio talking about the fact that his parents were immigrants that came to this country, you know his father was a bar tender. his mother was a housekeeper and contrasting that with this sense of entitlement we get from hillary clinton and quite frankly, very out of touch with the average american. i wanted to hear from you on this issue this issue of same-sex marriage and these real hot-button social issues do you see a shift in these candidates from the last time around in terms of maybe not taking such a hard line and making the calculus the social issues is not what this election is going to be won on lost on? the what the is election is going to be lost on is the economy, kitchen table issues this americans sit around the dipper table talking about every night. you know, and i don t think that yeah but som