reality, a phrase you may have heard this is what democracy looks like. that can be an appeal, an argument, or a kind of protest, and lament to how democracy is going, which is how many view what is going on tonight, as we keep track of some of the first hearing of this new republican congress and some of the floor speeches defining the new agenda. alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. in western colorado, we call that a fun weekend. bottom line, socialism bad, capitalism good. sounds like you re prepared to go over the cliff if you have to. over the cliff. shut it down. drag queen story time, where men dress up as women and read confusing books to children. first i thought you said dry clean. confusing indeed. now, in all fairness, selected rhetoric or a few sound bites need tot define an entire party. take other eras in history, a few sound bites and that would not be the whole story. but the spats we re seeing, the often bizarre and downright hateful speeches tha
atrocities our leadership class committed over 2 years. shameless lying, stupidity and incompetence and the unfairness and the vicious racism to the majority of the american population. all which have amount to attacks on democracy itself. if you believed in democracy you would not act like this. the question is: is anyone ever going to be punished for it? that s on the ballot for november. the template for success is just run against joe biden. there may be people who feel sorry for him but nobody can argue he is doing a good job because he is not. just say that. run on the economy and crime. homelessness, it s everywhere. fentanyl and what joe biden has done to the southern border. stick to the obvious issues and you will win. voters care most about inflation, jobs and immigration. those are the issues according to a poll that voters believe are the top priorities of the opinion party the republican party. there is total alignment between their priorities and the prioriti
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from nbc news on how some republican senate candidates are looking to turn the page in a fall starting with a major ad blitz. that comes as for the first time ever voters seem lukewarm, the ones who are lukewarm on sitting president joe biden, still plan to vote for his party in november. and we ve been saying this for some time between the president s approval ratings and the generic ballot tests, joe biden is now in the mid-40s according to gallop and other polls. we ll talk about that. and longtime trump ally steve bannon expects to be charged in a state criminal case again? stemming into an investigation into his role in a charity that was supposed to have used private funds to build the wall of the u.s./mexico border. but didn t do it and isn t that really what donald trump did lying about the stop the steal money, where he got hundreds of millions of dollars and lied about the money being used for that again, here s another example, here s another parall
russian men being wrenched away to fight. terrified. loved ones being sent to kill or be killed in ukraine. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. well, what had been a sleepy atlantic hurricane season is now roaring to life and millions of americans are right in the path. this is tropical storm ian churning across the warm energizing waters of the caribbean. it s expected to strengthen to a hurricane before slamming into florida next week and if forecast models are accurate, it will be the first major hurricane to hit the state in four years. floridians are heeding the warnings and talking up on water, fuel and supplies and this afternoon florida s governor expanded a state of emergency to blanket the entire state. he says conditions are, quote, projected to constitute a major disaster. just minutes ago the national hurricane center issued its latest update. let s go straight to the cnn weather center where we are tracking it. what have we le