House correspondent, Weekend Today cohost Peter Alexander, Garrett Haake on capitol hill, brendan buck, former Senior Adviser to house speakers paul ryan and john boehner, and former Maryland Democratic congresswoman Debra Everets and former senator claire mccaskill. Peter first to you. Lets start with the covid Relief Package. The white house releasing a statement after that monday meaning with republicans saying the president is open to reconciliation, but the republicans are in the conversation. So where do we stand . Are democrats on the Progressive Side getting nervous hell compromise too much, or are all saying hell go big even if it means going it alone . Reporter when everybody was said and done last night, it was clear President Biden, this white house wasnt really giving much ground here. They say that the meeting was substantive and productive but at the end of the day he said they had to meet this moment. The decision is whether to go big and go it alone or scale back this
Count. There were seven swing states in the 2020 president ial election. Arizona, georgia, nevada, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania and North Carolinasix of them won byjoe biden six of them won byjoe biden all of them crucial this time around, in the race to 270 Electoral College votes. In the popular Votejoe Biden won the 2020 election by Seven Million votes. But look how narrow it was in some of these swing states in arizona, joe biden won by 10,167 votes. In georgia, which biden also won, the difference was 11,779 votes. And in nevada, biden won the state by 33,596 votes. Three states which could decide this election, the two candidates separated byjust 55,832. But for democrats the polls spell trouble. In all these states right now. Trump is winning. Across all seven states, 48 of voters said they would back trump, 43 would back biden. We saw just the we sawjust the other week we saw just the other week that the issue of israel becomes very important. If that were beat to be repea
the ingraham angle from washington tonight. now what is going to matter more to the country? the retirement from the presidential race of chris christie, who devoted his campaign to smashing trump and polling at 3.6% nationally or retirement from college football of nick saban who won 297 games, 10 sec championships, seven championships and had heisman trophy winners? that s all. i know which will upset me most. bowing to political reality, chris christie did drop out of the gop primary race today and turns out, it is surprising and shocking to you tonight, the gop constituency is not actually watching morning joe and it doesn t hang on every thing the new york times publishes. you would see chris christie debate teachers union and know that. for someone as sharp as he is, he totally missed the obvious, republicans are fed up with the old guard for a long time, fed up with wars, with pro-china trade policy, border, the push for more immigration and big spending. why would
now, what s going to matter more to the country in the retirement from the presidential race of chris christie who devoted his campaign to smashing trump and was polling at about 3.6% nationally or the retirement from college football of alabama coach nick saban who won 297 games, 10 sec championships, seven national championships and had four heisman trophy winners, that s all. i know which retirement is going to upset me the most. finally bowing to reality former governor chris christie did drop by the g.o.p. primary race today and it turns out and it is surprising, shocking i note to so many of you watching tonight. but the g.o.p. constituency isn t actually watching morning joe, and it doesn t hang on every word that the new york times plushes. pres pres publi. for someone as sharp as he is, he totally missed the obvious that republican voters are fed up and have been fed up with the old guard for a long time. they are fed up with their wars, they are fed up with their
you by meso book.com. former president donald trump speaking tonight in iowa. his 1st trip to the crucial campaign state. he is announcing his 3rd white house run. rival candidate nikki haley and likely contenders ron desantis and mike pence also making trips to iowa. the base wants to move on from trump. here with me now karen, bob, mona, tia. i m glad you re all here tonight. let s begin with what trump is saying about governor ron desantis. i know you re saying what is he saying? he is what he is had to say. ron desantis red sanctimonious. ron desantis strongly opposed ethanol do you know that? we don t even know if he is running. if he is not running i will say he was fine on ethanol. don t worry. he also fought against social security. he wanted to decimate it and vote against it 3 times. voting against social security that s a bad one. he is under his skin. he hasn t announced his run yet but he is focusing on him. he has no one else to focus on really because t