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that s according to the survey from wpa intelligence and obtained by the national review. i m joined by former ohio republican governor john kasich who is also a former presidential candidate and current msnbc political analyst. always great to see you, governor. look, do you buy this? if trump is the nominee, does he hurt down ballot candidates or, frankly, at this point, trump is just baked in and they run by themselves? well, you know, i think that the case would be i don t think you re going to see great enthusiasm across the board in any way for donald trump. and if a candidate does not generate great enthusiasm, they start at the top, and if they re not enthusiastic, they may not vote or who knows, they might write somebody in or vote for a democrat. they don t usually go all the way down the ballot in all cases. there s a normal dropoff, chris, you know that. it s a simple thing. trump would have to do amazing things to turn it around, so his
facing the union. we got to a different room. i was in there with five other guys and we pushed a bed in front of the door and turned the lights off and turned the police scanner on down low and waited out for the night. you re a sophomore in college. yeah. you had to do that on your campus. yeah. another deadly school shooting, this time in michigan, as we mark five years since a gunman took the lives of 14 high school students and three staff members in parkland, florida. plus, former south carolina governor nikki haley steps into the ring to challenge trump as mike pence says he plans to fight the special counsel s subpoena. and twitter, twitter whistleblower joins me to tell us what she learned at house republicans hearing on alleged liberal bias on social media. we begin tonight on this february 14th, valentine s day, to those love birds celebrating, it s also frederick douglass birthday. and sadly, it s also five years to the day since the marjorie
he appeared in documentaries. we have video of one we could play. we re not going to play the sound bite right now. he s written articles. he s already talked about what happened on january 6th. how can he then shield himself behind anything, speech and debate clause, executive privilege. he s already talked about it. a judge is not likely to let him. you don t get to write a book about january 6th and then go on fox news to hawk it, and then say i can t talk about it to the grand jury because it s privileged. there s also a question about even if a judge agrees that he s a member of congress, whether this is legitimate legislative activity. jack smith wants to know about his one-on-one conversations with trump about trying to overturn the democracy. did trump admit to pence that he knew that they lost but he didn t care? that s not legitimate legislative activity. i think the other piece for him is that the political reasoning doesn t make any sense. he isn t going to he actuall
to run in is the not trump lane, the alternative to trump. i sort of think of it as like the sort of jeb bush 2024 version of the campaign. there s clearly a group of folks in the republican party who have been dissatisfied. the question is are there enough of them? in a republican primary, how does she carve out her lane and stay true to who she is and also reconcile the many inconsistencies she s had in the past, and as they say in the piece, the biggest problem she s going to have that every woman has when they run at this level is going to be her race and gender, which is just inseparable from the sort of current climate of republican primary politics. it s just gotten whiter and more sort of white supremacist, frankly, in a lot of circles. and i am waiting to see how she s going to square that. they re going to come after her with every conceivable smear. stuart, she s tried to say i m not one of the bad ones. i hate the 1619 project just as