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good morning. welcome. once again, it s saturday, which means i get to sit down with some smart people, to tackle the week s big stories, in a different way. this hour, we re asking, with democrats on a winning streak and the president s poll numbers really bad, should biden still get out of the race? then, the gop s akborgs problem can republicans change their tune and win back voters on an issue they have been pushing for half a century. and canada propaganda. we all saw dc panda bears head back to china and what it means for relations with beijing. is the panda story being over or underplayed. the panel is here and ready. so sit back, grab your coffee, and let s talk about it. first, our saturday starter, the democrats, yes, there was good news, great news for the president s party this week after big election wins but the president s week began with suggestions she consider ending his campaign for re-election. and now, he faces even more obstacles. democrats are s ....
Other than the senate. it was a massive sweep. then you look at what happened in new jersey. a race that, just last year, they won by 16 points. man, it s going down to the wire there. so this isn t your typical sort of off-year election. it s worse for democrats than that. no question. when you look, john laid it out pretty well, all the seats that flipped overnight to republican. it was a big fear of democrats that it might happen. i don t think they expected to lose all of them, including the house of delegates. looks like they ve lost that too. if you just get back to glenn youngkin and look how he won, he flipped back many of the suburban women. he dominated in rural areas. this is a guy who is worth, like, $500 million. ceo of the carlisle group appealing to the voters in virginia. he did it in many ways. he came in and i think, jonathan lemire, we were talking, the voters in virginia ....
what you saw today is the same thing that we had said from day one. there is absolutely no evidence that paul manafort was involved with any collusion with any government official from russia. thank you, everybody. well, at least you could hear him there. as far as i understand it, the virginia courthouse setting last week was a little harder for folks to navigate logistically. so last week when manafort s lawyers said the weird no collusion thing on the courthouse steps then, there weren t people standing around him in that moment, shouting him down, saying he was lying about that point. but he was lying about that point. just like in d.c. today. what manafort s lawyer said on the courthouse steps both last week and this week were both lies. i mean, in virginia, it was just as explicit as it was today in d.c. the judge in virginia didn t consider the issue of russia collusion one way or the other. the judge didn t collect evidence on russia collusion and ....
As far as i understand it, the virginia courthouse setting last week was a little harder for folks to navigate logistically. so last week when manafort s lawyers said the weird no collusion thing on the courthouse steps then, there weren t people standing around him in that moment, shouting him down, saying he was lying about that point. but he was lying about that point. just like in d.c. today. what manafort s lawyer said on the courthouse steps both last week and this week were both lies. in virginia, it was just as explicit as it was today in d.c. the judge in virginia didn t consider the issue of russia collusion one way or the other. the judge didn t collect evidence on russia collusion and then weigh it in that courtroom and then decide oh, okay, in fact i rule there was no russia collusion, just like in that d.c. courtroom today, in virginia last week that virginia judge was blunt and explicit and unmistakably clear about the fact that collusion wasn t something he looked at al ....