A recent study out show that at least 50 of the Venezuelans who were grabbed, put on airplanes, and disappeared into an El Salvador jail were in this country LEGALLY. They were here legally. Also, Trump pays off the family of one of his insurrectionists, and the issue is transparency. Transparency is so damn important. And team Biden really failed at that.

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Our “face to face conversations with Americans” continues this week with a group of folks sitting around a kitchen table in the Western Suburbs of Chicago. How divided are we? I asked Harris voters why people voted for Trump. I asked Trump voters why people voted for Harris. I asked them all to put the best reasons forward. They all struggled with it. We lack understanding these days. We really do.

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Final look today at my conversation with former FBI/DHS intel expert Brian Murphy. How foreign adversaries influence our elections. Also, James Comey does something stupid, Trump world whines about it, way too many of us are way too easily offended, and Kristi Noem is pushing something utterly cruel & despicable.

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My former political party, the Republican Party, is a cult. To stay in the party, you must pledge fealty to Trump. If you speak the truth about Trump or criticize Trump, you’re banished from the party. Democrats should be different. Voters would appreciate Democrats being different. Which is why Democrats should acknowledge the truth about Biden. Also today, my interview on small businesses with Vermont Senator Peter Welch.

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Continuing my conversation in Northern Virginia with former FBI and Homeland Security analyst Brian Murphy. Today we talk about misinformation & disinformation. Who’s responsible for the spread of both? What’s the result of both? What does it mean to be radicalized? Fascinating conversation.

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They fought alongside American troops for years. They risked their lives siding with and helping American troops in Afghanistan. And because of that, they were promised refuge here in America. Yesterday, Trump broke that promise and is sending them back to suffer under the Taliban. Shameful. Also, the plane from Qatar isn’t the Statue of Liberty, and, we continue to normalize Trump’s lying. All today.

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This week, in my weekly face to face conversations with Americans, I sat down in Northern Virginia with regular guy/expert Brian Murphy, former Marine,FBI, and Homeland Security, to discuss the threats America faces at home and from abroad. Today, we dig into the threat of polarization.

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A final clip today from my face to face conversation with folks from Lancaster, PA. Today they discuss whether a political party that ran on a “decency” platform could win. And this group of Republicans, former Republicans, and Democrats isn’t convinced it would win.

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Nick Wilson at the Center for American Progress supports a ban on assault weapons. I don’t. We disagree. But we didn’t have a fight about the issue, we didn’t argue, we didn’t debate. We sat down and had a conversation. We listened to each other. We tried to gain understanding. We need to do more of this

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Our conversation with Democrats, Republicans, & former Republicans in Lancaster, PA continues today, and the focus is on the best way forward for the opposition party, the Democratic Party. The good folks in Lancaster wrestle with the age old question of how big of a tent should the Democratic Party be. And they’re not quite sure.

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