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but first, we start in september of 2015. donald trump was three months removed from his famed escalator ride announcing his presidential bid. he had already risen to the top of the republican field, leading in all the polls, and he found himself showing off his trump tower office to the wall street journal. this is shaquille o neal s shoe. oh my god! is that a real issue? he took it off after he handed it to me. i carry like this. tom brady s super bowl helmet. wow. this is mike tyson s belt. shock shoe! tom brady s super bowl helmet, mike tyson s belt. we have known for a while that donald trump likes to collect memorabilia, if you will. and so when trump arrived at the white house, well, it was no different. here is the new york times today describing trump s time in office. quote, white house aides described how excited trump was to show of all the material he had access to, including letters from the north korean leader kim jong-un, which he routinely waved
everybody all right? everybody make it through okay? yes we did. good evening, welcome to our special coverage of the third republican presidential primary debate which was held today in downtown miami, florida. the debate just wrapped up seconds ago, after two hours onstage. you can see there, the debate hall, some of the candidates, the five candidates who participated, still milling there. people in the audience the milling there. just finishing up within the last few moments. i am rachel maddow, here at msnbc headquarters, with my colleagues, michael wallace, joy reid, stephanie ruhle and lawrence o donnell. tonight s debate in miami was a home game for one of the candidates, ron desantis. of course, it s the governor of florida, a heck of a lot good that is doing him. a poll out just before the debate shows governor desantis losing his home state, at least as far as the polling says by 39 points against his constituent, florida man and former president donald trump, who
motivation of the sort of desire to take away self determination from voting citizens of places like your county, right? that voted in a way that state republicans don t like. but it obviously, clearly, amounts to a kind of, you know, sort of implicit threat, right? you know, who s going to be on this commission and is anyone going to file complaints? certainly, if fani willis were to indict trump with people around him, this seems to me to kind of poison the well, should it come to pass. vis-ã -vis that case in particular. i think you re absolutely going to see some circumstances where anybody that is unhappy with a prosecution or it is happening or not happening, you re absolutely going to see abusive this kind of commission. against district attorneys who were just trying to be their jobs, and that arguing the difficult prosecution decisions that we make every day, and using our best discretion. that s what these type of bills
worse, divide or segregate, something that we have seen a lot of in this country. but there is no reason we have to do it all over again just because that is how things worked in the past. i wonder, politically, how you guys are thinking about this moment. because it is obviously a huge it is a huge piece of legislation for the president. and we have seen some increasingly positive numbers in the midterm races, or at least in the projections about the midterm races. i think there is polling out today that has democrats up by 4%, generally speaking, broadly, in the senate races that are happening this november. we have some senate seats that look like they could go into the democratic side of the ledger, raphael warnock to keep his seat, john fetterman in pennsylvania, mark kelly. do you think this plays? does the i. r. a. or is it gas prices? i think because you are the transportation secretary and have to think about gas prices. how much of this, this sort of lofty propositi