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.@adrienneelrod praises Rahm Emanuel and other Democrats for appearing on right-leaning podcasts: "I think it's incredibly smart... it's sort of going into the belly of the beast." W/ @kasie @marctshort @LuluGNavarro @KSoltisAnderson
Congressman @ericswalwell responds to GOP threats to redraw congressional districts in Texas ahead of the midterms. "It's a very dangerous game to take these seats from Texas because we can do more damage in California," he tells @kasie.
.@kasie asks Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe about the alleged Epstein files: "If you show up on that list and they just declined to prosecute you, does that mean that you did nothing wrong? "Not at all," McCabe says. "But what it does mean is that the prosecutors, both…
.@SenPeterWelch tells @kasie why he walked out of the Senate Judiciary Committee vote on Emil Bove: "They wanted to shove through this nomination of a person who is extraordinarily unqualified and his only qualification is his personal and deep loyalty to whatever it is Donald…
.@BradOnMessage reacts to President Trump's bashing of "foolish Republicans" who are getting "duped" on Epstein: "Jeffrey Epstein has no supporters. Epstein Island has no supporters. Zero... That doesn't mean that this isn't the low calorie, high-sugar, shark week kind of summer…
.@Phil_Mattingly discusses the market's response to reports that President Trump was considering firing Fed Chair Jerome Powell: "That divot is what you need to focus on. Think about @KannoYoungs on the golf course. Just a huge divot without an outcome." ⛳🏌️ W/ @kasie…
.@SenTimKaine on President Trump: "I don't get why he would have appointed the Epstein prosecutor who did the sweetheart deal. And I don't get why he's supporting an Attorney General who's trying to sweep this thing under the rug." @kasie
NEW: A CNN poll shows that just 3% of Americans are satisfied with the amount of information that's been released about the Jeffrey Epstein case. Watch @kasie's take on the ongoing MAGA backlash⬇️
.@KSolitsAnderson on the Democratic politics on display in Arizona & NYC: "The era of cringe is dead... The clips you showed of Deja Foxx and the clips of Andrew Cuomo are so stark." @VanJones68: "Painfully stark!" W/ @kasie @davidaxelrod @ScottJenningsKY
.@ScottJenningsKY: "This disingenuousness is what you need to know about the Democrats right now." @VanJones68: "It's our fault now!" @davidaxelrod: "Kids, if you're interested in politics, watch this pivot." @kasie @ScottJenningsKY @KSoltisAnderson @VanJones68 @davidaxelrod…
.@ChrisVanHollen: "Whatever caused Donald Trump to realize that he was essentially being played the fool by Vladimir Putin, I'm glad he finally seems to have been woken up. Let's see. It's always one day at a time." @kasie
.@davidaxelrod reacts to former President Obama's message that Democrats should "toughen up" and "stop looking for the messiah": "You know, there's been a lot of discussion about why isn't he out more? I think his view... is that there are always new leaders and you need to lift…
.@kasie @DavidJUrban @KSoltisAnderson @LuluGNavarro @JoeCunninghamSC discuss how the WH's handling of the Epstein files is pitting the president against his MAGA base ⬇️ "Donald Trump always thrives as the outsider. And this issue has him as the insider," @KSoltisAnderson says.
.@ChrisCoons responds to GOP criticism of @JoeBiden's use of autopen: "I would have to ask whether President Trump signed every one of the hundreds and hundreds of pardons that he issued for folks who used violence against police officers in the Capitol on January 6." @kasie
.@ChrisCoons tells @kasie: "I am hopeful that President Trump is finally getting clarity that it is Putin who is the major barrier to peace, not Zelensky ... Here we are six months, almost seven months into his presidency and frankly, he's been on again, off again on whether he…
Would you call the President of the United States if you got his phone number? @tylerpager talks to @kasie about how his number was blocked after he called up former President Biden this spring. W/ @sabrod123 @XochitlHinojosa @LTrover
Former FBI agent @joshscampbell reacts to CNN reporting that Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino is considering resigning amid the Epstein files fallout: "At the end of the day, the DOJ is your boss." W/ @kasie @tylerpager @sabrod123 @XochitlHinojosa @LTrover
.@MitchLandrieu tells @kasie: "This idea of returning FEMA to the states and then cutting all the funding ... because it's waste, fraud and abuse, people should stop that nonsense. When catastrophic events happen that local communities can't respond to, the federal government has…
.@jkbjournalist, the investigative reporter who brought national attention to the Jeffrey Epstein case, talks to @kasie about the DOJ's conclusion that there is no so-called Epstein "client list." "He was a very smart man. He wasn't going to keep a piece of paper that had…
WATCH: @kasie and her panel react to former Vice President Mike Pence saying President Donald Trump hasn't changed the Republican Party. @ScottWalker @jamiegangel @elliotcwilliams @XochitlHinojosa ⬇️