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You know, who uses the word? I started using the word. The groceries, when you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs, they would double and triple the price over a short period of time. You know, we lowered the cost of groceries. A simple word like that, groceries, it was almost a strange word. I hadn't heard the word in so long, but what could be more beautiful than the word grocery? Now, we've been playing these clips of him for a while now. And beyond just the... Do what weirdness of it. If you take a moment to just think about why he thinks this way, the answer is obvious, right? Donald Trump is an extremely rich man, always has been. He's just never had to think about groceries in his entire life. The word itself just does not come up ever. Like, Donald Trump's not like spending a Sunday night, like going to the supermarket to make sure the fridge is stock for the week, like pushing a shopping cart up and down the aisles, checking with spaghetti sauces on sale, carrying the bags out to the car, come home, fill the fridge. No. I mean, I don't think he's probably ever done that in his life. He's never had to even consider the thing that most people have front of mind all the time, the groceries. Of course, this is not a new observation. We all know this about Donald Trump. But in this moment, when the price of groceries and everything else is the most salient political issue, it is a pretty bad look to look this out of touch. There's a political cost for a look this bad. If you're older enough to remember, this might remind you that time in 1992 when President George Herbert Walker Bush made a campaign appearance at a Grocers convention. Groceries, such a beautiful word. And seemed amazed by the scanner thing they had at the checkout counter. He was in Florida yesterday talking to a meeting of the National Grocers Association. He called opponents of his economic plan professional pessimists. And he took a line from an ad campaign saying that reports that the economy has fallen and can't get up are just bunk. President also got a chance to see a supermarket checkout scanner in action. That seemed as though he never really seen one of those before. And the president said that he was amazed. Now, to be really fair here, Bush was actually just impressed by a new model of scanner, which could even read damaged barcodes. But the gaff, and again, these were... really simpler times, reinforced his image, the out-of-touch Kay Ivey League sign of a wealthy Connecticut senator, which he was. And that moment turned out to be one of the all-time greatest political disasters. And it sure did not help Bush when he lost his reelection campaign to Bill Clinton in the It's the Economy Stupid Election of 1992. But at least George Bush was aware there were things called groceries that people need. The current president thinks it's something from like the horse and buggy days.

And we have been talking this week about how much good, old-fashioned politics, just the normal politics of a democracy, can make a difference in combating this Trump administration as it attempts to steamroll through our democracy. And we saw it on Tuesday night. And it is amazing to watch Trump and his people make it worse and worse and worse at the worst possible political moment for him. It's as if the administration is on a mission to make sure every American knows that he is, in fact, an elderly out-of-touch rich guy who just does not care about you. I mean, just yesterday, the guy was quite literally asleep on the job, right in the middle of a televised White House event, only to wake up from his midday snooze when a guy collapsed right next to him in the Oval Office. That's the trademark face of a guy who just wants to get back to sleep. When the president is actually awake, his administration is publicly fighting to this day as hard as it can, to this very minute, to take SNAP benefits away from hungry Americans so they can't afford their beautiful groceries heading into Thanksgiving. In fact, just within the last few minutes, they asked the Supreme Court to weigh in, which could happen at any moment now, to make it possible for them not to send SNAP benefits. We played this last night, but watch when a Fox News reporter asked Trump about this, and he just passes the hot potato to JD Vance. A federal judge said tonight that the administration has to fully fund snap. It's the latest in the back and forth, and the Justice Department said they're going to appeal it. What's your message to folks as they work this out in the courts and in Congress as we're heading into Thanksgiving? We want to go with that? Yeah, look, Jackie, it's an absurd ruling because you have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the midst of a Democrat government shutdown, which what we'd like to do is for the Democrats to open up the government. Of course, then we can fund snap, and we can also do a lot of other good things for the American people. It's absurd. Of course, there's already a $5 billion contingency fund legally required, people argue, to be used in this situation. Now, Trump did end up weighing in on the matter with one hell of a Thanksgiving message to the American pizza. You know, one other thing, our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars could be anything. We have to remain liquid. We can't give everything away based on a number. I don't want to hear about the affordability because right now we're much less. Our country has to remain liquid because of the emergencies and can't not because of just a number. I don't want to hear about affordability. Are you people still talking about affordability? Didn't we get past us? It's like when the Epstein issue blew up, Trump cannot escape the issue, and everything he says seems to make it worse. I want the Republicans to keep control of Congress in 2026, but something has to be done fast. I don't see the best economy right now. Wall Street numbers do not reflect my main street money. Please do something, President Trump. So...

I guess what do you say to Regina and people like her? Well, I do say this. Beef, we have to get down. I think of groceries. You know, it's an old-fashioned word, but it's a beautiful word. Beef, we have to get down, but we've got prices way down, and I have energy down to five, six-year lows now. You think prices are coming down from this? We believe that. Yeah, I think they're coming down, but I think they're down already. I think the biggest problem is Republicans don't talk about it. He just can't say groceries without meta commentary. Look at that. There is that word again. The one I invented, maybe the old-fashioned one. I mean, in point of fact, the prices have not come down, right? Inflation is actually accelerated since around April when he announced all his tariffs. It's going up. People understand that. It hasn't come down. Certainly, that's a complete lie. But more importantly, he just isn't concerned. He does not care about affordability. He either doesn't care or he doesn't understand how bad his political optics are in the midst of all this. It is a bad look to tear down the White House East Wing to build a fancy new gilded ballroom or to post 25 photos of your new bathroom. 25, just every angle. Every way you could look at it in the midst of a government shutdown while the air traffic controllers are working without pay. It's truly a Hall of Fame bad look on the day that Snap funding lapsed and 42 million Americans had their lives upended to be hosting a great Gatsby-themed party at his palatial golf home in Florida filled with West Palm Beach rich folks dressed up like it's the Roaring 20s. You remember the Great Gatsby, of course, the novel about the idle rich people on Long Island who throw hollow gilded parties to show off their lavish wealth just before the country collapsed into the worst depression it's ever seen. All of this is not going on notice. Sometimes it feels like no one notices this up, but this is getting noticed. This was the message that was projected in Washington, D.C. this week, Trump parties at Mar-a-Lago while 42 million go hungry. It's no wonder why Republicans are starting to feel some political pressure. Margie Amaro is a veteran Democratic pollster and strategist Maria Theresa Kumar, president, CEO of Votesal Latino, and they joined me now. You know, Margie, a lot of things in public opinion can be muddled or complicated. It depends on the phrasing. And then there's these certain things that just jump out of you, right? Like that are clear as day in the data we have. The voting data, the polling data, cost a living. People wanted prices down. They were promised prices down on day one. They're not down. People aren't happy. This does seem like what all of political gravity is revolving around right now. I mean, if we weren't joking in the gallows humor of it all, we, it's very serious. It is the top issue, not just the cost of living, but groceries specifically. And when it comes up in every kind of conversation, it comes up when we do focus groups and we ask people, what's going on, what's on your mind, what's.

bothering you. What are you struggling with? That's what people mention. When we ask, like, what's the most important issue in a poll? There may be like an economy and jobs answer category, and there may be one just about the cost of living, because that's how salient is. And people talk about food and housing repeatedly. When you look at the shutdown and you ask people about the kinds of outcomes from the shutdown that they're most concerned about, cuts to snap and taking away food from hungry kids and hungry families. That's at the top. So it really doesn't matter how it comes up. It's something that people across the economic spectrum say they're worried about. And obviously, like, this is so fundamental to like people's happiness and security and how they feel. I mean, and it's not even just Trump in this moment. I mean, remember Mitt Romney, what one of the things that Sun Kim was saying, well, half of the population feels that they're in time. of food. I mean, it's that central to say like groceries, who would have thunk it is really just shows how little time Trump spends listening to people and what's on their mind. And Maria, to me, you know, after 2024, there are a few different ways to interpret that election result. One of the ways that people interpreted it, and again, I don't think this was a crazy theory and I don't necessarily know that we know the answer was that. Donald Trump was sort of doing this realignment where he was going to start to bring working class voters of color, black and Latino, into a coalition, and they were going to start voting more like working class white voters that he, you know, wins by huge margins, right? And that this was about this sort of new reorientation of American politics. And there are other people said, it kind of looks like inflation at 9% and working class voters across the spectrum really didn't like that. And they hold it against the incumbent party. And it feels to me like after Tuesday, It looks a lot more like the latter than the former. What do you think? Chris, I think you hit the thing on the head. When you don't see your groceries going down, when you feel that you can't make rent, when you feel that everything is under pressure, you try to say, well, what's the alternative? And that's exactly what happened in 2024. The headlines that people that had voted for Biden defected and went to Trump, most of it was just a hell Mary. He's like, well, this isn't working for me. Perhaps he can make it work. But this is the thing with Trump. Just because you say grocery prices are not going, that are, they're not high, does it mean that it makes it so? American people right now, they are living paycheck to paycheck, and he does not seem to understand it. And this is the other thing, if you ask me what happened on Tuesday. On Tuesday, it's reminiscent to me of what happened in California after Pete Wilson did the original show me your paper law, Proposition 187, where he got Californians to vote for that. You know what happened then? Latinos started getting pulled out of the classrooms, asking them if they were American. They were denied emergency care asking if they were American before. before they can get emergency care, and I can go down the list. And guess what? On Tuesday, Latino said, yes, I care about the economy, but I also understand that you are racially profiling me and my family, regardless of my status.

And we are going to, we may not be marching, but we are going to make you pay at the ballot box. I would encourage people to really watch what's happening in the Latino community right now, Chris, because Latinos in this country, we are living a completely different reality. We are not only living the economic pressures of every day of trying to make ends meet, but we are also living under the pressure of are we going to be racially profiled? Are we going to be incarcerated regardless of status? Are we going to be disappeared? And I think that the more that the Democrats can speak to that experience, it starts a lot. them to start talking about the policies that they need to move the country forward. Margie, on the, I want to get back to immigration, but I want to just stay on cost of living for one second. So one of the things that strikes me, Marjorie about this is it's a real devilish issue for the incumbent, right? It's for the out party and the opponents. And we saw this across the world, whether the incumbent party during the COVID, the sort of post-COVID inflation bout, whatever there were on the political spectrum, they kind of paid the price. You know, Trump, but Trump didn't just say. we're going to bring down the rate that prices go up. He said prices will go down day one. And he also... put in tariffs that are raising people's prices while they're knocking down the ballroom and parting down in Mar-a-Lago. Like, there's stuff you could control and there's stuff you can't control. But even the stuff they can control, and it does strike me that when you look at the polling on the terrorists, folks do make the connection. Like, the terrorists are incredibly unpopular. And that is not escaping people. It's not like some abstraction. They understand Trump's done the tariffs. Terrorists make things more expensive. Is that your read of the data? Yeah, so we did a whole range of focus groups with working class voters right as that in the beginning of the year. So as people were kind of learning about tariffs in real time over the course of the project in the beginning, they'd be like, well, yeah, I'm just going to wait and see how this goes. I'm going to trust the process. Some folks who have voted for Trump, let's, you know, see how it goes. And then by the end, people said, I think this is hurting my business. I think it's going to hurt what I'm paying. I'm really concerned. It's hurting the jobs in my area. I can't get the things I need to supply what I sell at my organization. So it was something that people were really worried about. I said this has been very chaotic. And it has no sign of improving. And I think if you zoom out a little bit more, too, another thing that Trump said this week is we're in a golden age of America. Everything is, you know, going great. And that is so at odds with where people are. And this is a question that we asking focus groups that we've seen in certain, you know, Politico asks us, CNN asks this recently. More people now say America's best days are behind us than ahead of us. Almost nobody says that it's happening right now. And when I give those options that a focus group is behind us or the best days behind us ahead of us, and I'm like, oh, and happening right now, just to make sure we're being, you know, completest and have all the categories. We're like, well, it's obviously not happening right. And like, why did you even offer me that category? And yet that's where Trump is because he is not, he spends a lot of time talking. He doesn't spend a lot of time listening to where people are, unless they're saying something, unless they're praising him, he's not really interested in hearing what they have to say.

Maria, one of the critiques, I think, of democratic politics, particularly on immigration and in terms of Latino voters, was a kind of over-indexing on immigration, right? This sort of overly simplistic idea that, like, this is the issue to win Latino voters. And they, you know, this is the, this is how you talk to Latinos. And one of the things we've seen, right, is that Latino, the number one issue for Latinos in the last election and in most elections has been the economy, the way it has been for every, basically every demographic group. How do you think that? is functioning now among the subset of persuadable voters, the kinds that may have defected before. Well, this is what's really what we're learning, and we do focus groups all the time, trying to really track and understand the Latino voter. And one of it was it was the economy that swayed them more than anything for the folks that voted. But Chris, get this. A third of Latino voters that voted in 2020 sat it out in 2024. And most of them, 70% of them were Democratic voters. So this is an opportunity for the Democrats to talk. And I think this is what. Mikie Sherrill did so well. This is what we saw in Virginia that did so well, is that they talked about the economy, but they also spoke to people's experiences. And this idea that Trump is disconnected with the American people, it makes you think that he actually cares about the American people. He doesn't. And I think that once we start really recognizing that, it's the very first time that we have someone in the Oval Office that is all about ingratiating himself and the people around him. But he really does not care about what is happening to everyday Americans. He's not even curious about it. the Democrats have an opportunity to capture that. But I'll tell you this, what we saw in California under Gavin Newsom's with Proposition 50, that's what blew me away. The reason it blew me away is that normally off-year elections for a proposition, Latino voters are the ones that are least likely to participate. The fact that they over-index, not just in L.A., but everywhere, says that not only that they're paying attention, but their protest is at the ballot box. And Democrats need to figure out how to actually capture that moment. Margie Amaro, Maria Theresa Kumar, thank you both. Coming up as the Trump shutdown drags toward Thanksgiving, Senator Jeff Merkley on the Democrats' latest effort to make a deal today. That's next. There are moments that define who you are and who you're becoming. And when those moments arrive, what you drive should rise to meet them. The Rangerover Sport commands attention from the very first glance. Every line, every detail, engineered for impact. Inside, refinement takes over. with sculpted 22-way heated seating with available massage and a 13.1-inch touchscreen that puts everything within easy reach. But the Range Rover Sport isn't just about luxury. It's about uncompromised performance, too. Delivering a powerful, agile drive that feels as confident as it looks. And with nearly endless ways to personalize, from interior finishes to wheels to unique colors and accessories, your Range Rover Sport becomes unmistakably yours. For those who expect more from every moment, there's a vehicle designed to meet it. The Range Rover Sport. Exclusive offers available now. Explore further at rangerover.com. Watch Disclosure Day at home now with exclusive bonus features. If you found out, we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you? Would that frighten you?

Well, now the truth belongs to 7 billion people in an original event film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by David Kep starring Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Coleman Domingo. Find Disclosure Day on major digital platforms now with no subscription required, also in theaters. I'm Lindsay, and in my line of work as an investigator, I'm always looking out for other people. Getting my diagnosis didn't really change that, but it did make me realize that I also need to keep an eye out for myself. So my doctor and I decided to start on Kaskali ribocycliffe. Lindsay is a real patient compensated for her time. Visit kaskali.com. That's K-I-S-Q-A-L-I-com to learn more. And ask your doctor if Kisgali-Rabocycly is right for you. We are in the longest government shutdown ever on record. And today, on day 38, Democrats proposed a possible off-ramp, a plan to reopen the government. Senate Democrats proposed a one-year extension of expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies alongside a package of funding measures in order to secure their votes. Republicans said, no. Republican Senate leader John Thune telling reporters, I think everybody who follows this knows that's a non-starter. Senator Jeff Merkley is a Democrat who represents Oregon. He serves on the Appropriations Committee and the Budget Committee where he is ranking member. Just two weeks ago, he spoke on the Senate floor for more than 22 hours in protests of Donald Trump's policies, urging Republicans to negotiate and end to the shutdown. Senator Murkley joins me now. Senator, it was unclear to me today because I'm not in the room and I'm not there whether the proposal today was a good faith effort, opening a hand knowing that they were going to say no, a stunt. What was it? What did we see today and why today? Well, actually, we were very much hoping they'd say, my goodness, Democrats have narrowed it down to one simple factor, a factor that's very important to Republicans in their states, which is that we do a one-year extension of these ACA tax credits, the credits that are being diminished, that are doubling the costs of health care on average on the exchange all across America, affecting so many millions of people who will be out in the cold because they won't be able to afford health care. And we thought, well, look, all of our Republicans. have so many people in their states affected. And it's also a political problem for them because all those folks who are seeing these health care increases, doubling, tripling of what they're going to pay and maybe won't be able to afford it all. Well, those folks are going to care next poll. So they've got both a policy and a political reason to join us in this one simple request. We're taking the Republican plan to reopen for the length of time they want with the details they wanted in it and saying add this one.

tax provision that is so important to so many in all of our states. So we thought they might say, well, maybe not take it exactly like that. Maybe we'll adjust it here or there. But here's a route that serves all of us and serves America. So we really hoped it would start, well, break the impasse. Is there, are there talks happening? I couldn't, that was the other thing I couldn't tell today. Are there negotiations having we're not seeing? Is anyone talking to anyone? Is the president talking to anyone? Like is what's going on? The president is missing in action. Both Chuck Schumer and the leader of the Democrats in the House, they have both said to the president, we want to get together. Let's meet. Let's all get together. We'll come over to the White House. We'll meet you wherever. We'll meet you on a confidential line if you're overseas. We'll do whatever you want. But let's... solve this problem. But the president's missing in action, and he doesn't want the House and Senate Republican leadership to talk to Democrats, which is just bizarre. We were a republic. The whole point is to be elected, to work with others, lay out your vision, find a bridge, solve the problem, deliver for the people. None of that can happen if Republicans refuse to actually talk to us. So Democrats have a clear off-ramp, which is, look, let's Let's pass a one-year extension of these ACA sub-disees along with some bipartisan bills, actually, that are actually coming through the regular budget process along with a continuing resolution. That's my understanding. That's right. Three spending bills, you bet. Right, three spending bills. So the president's solution is nuke the filibuster. We got a majority. We don't need 60 votes if you just nuke the... This is what he said today. The United States Senate should not leave town on the delay of a deal to end the Democrat shutdown. If they can't reach a deal, the Democrat should terminate the filibuster immediately and take care of our great American workers today, Russ Vought, also endorsing the idea of nuking the filibuster. What do you think of that idea? Well, the reason the Republicans haven't responded to that. Now, on everything else, they say to Trump, yes, we'll do exactly what you want. You don't want negotiations. We won't talk. You want this. We'll do it. But on this, not. And why is that? It's because Republicans do their agenda primarily through tax bills. And tax bills are already simple majority. So they can pass their agenda when they're in the majority by simple majority. Great for them. But when Democrats are in charge and we have policy bills, those require a supermajority so Republicans can block it. So from the Republican perspective, this is a pretty sweet deal. For them, it's heads they win. And for us, it's tails we lose. And so they don't, Trump doesn't understand the dynamics of the Senate and that the Republicans have this huge advantage. They'd be throwing away if they nuke the filibuster.

So it doesn't look like they're going to do that. So this weekend, I mean, to go back to this, he says, you shouldn't leave town. The Stoon, I think, is keeping the Senate in session. The House has just announced they're not coming back even next week. I think this is setting all kinds of records for the House being out. So are there going to be talks this weekend? And what role does both the SNAP funding and the cuts to air travel play in terms of adding pressure to those negotiations if there are in? You know, for the house, this is phenomenal. It's the, tomorrow will be the first day of their eighth week of a paid vacation while the country suffers. Oh, I can't even, I can't even imagine me. What beach are they hiding out on? Are they getting a good, good tan or what? But the country's suffering while they party and vacation. So here we are with the questions you ask about how is Snap working. Well, oh, Snap hurts a lot of people. And the court said, two district courts said, you've got to fund it. And the administration said, hmm, well, we don't want to fund it. We only fund it halfway, but that will require rejiggering the computer. So maybe states people, that is ordinary people won't get the snap benefits for November. For weeks or they said, or months, they put this in a court filing. All right. For weeks or months, you're saying the court says do it today. Do it latest tomorrow morning? You're going to wait weeks or months to deliver benefits. So what happened? Well, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said we have to comply. So a bunch of states today did get full benefits distributed, but with a caveat. And the caveat is if the Trump administration wins on their appeal, they're going to claw that money back. And states will be on the hook. Right. And right now we're waiting to hear from the Supreme Court, which they have filed an emergency motion. We're going to see, we're sort of tracking that at this moment and see what happens. Hopefully by the end of the night, that stuff will get paid out, Senator Jeff Merkley. Thanks for your time tonight. I appreciate it. So good to be with you. Still ahead. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett on the Republican Vendetta against fair elections. Next.

This legal challenge is enough to overturn the call that was already made for Joe Biden. The call, the call. It was called for Joe Biden. Why do you- Because they don't decide the election. The call for Joe Biden isn't, is it, is it, who was it called by? All the, oh my goodness, all the networks. Wow. All the networks. Five years ago today, the 2020 election got called for Joe Biden and Rudy Giuliani gave us a funny, sad reminder that Donald Trump and the Republicans really hate to accept free and fair elections, and they still hate it. You know, back in March of this year, two Democratic members of Congress passed away just over a week apart. Raul Grahalva of Arizona and Sylvester Turner of Texas, who had just been sworn in as a freshman congressman in January. Today, about eight months later, Both of their districts are still without representation in Congress. Now, you probably know about Adelita Grahalva, who won a special election in September for the Arizona seat held by her father before his passing. She still hasn't been sworn in by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson. You may not know that Texas Governor Greg Abbott is pulling a version of Mike Johnson's stunt in his state, slow walking the pick of a successor for Congressman Turner. You see, as governor, Greg Abbott gets to set the schedule for special elections. It should have been easy. There's already an election day scheduled for this past May. He could have simply added this race to that ballot. Instead, he did nothing for months, eventually scheduling the race to replace Turner for this past Tuesday. But under Texas election rules, the top two vote winners in that race, who are both Democrats, must now face each other in a runoff election. And that won't be until sometime in January. Greg Abbott gets to decide the date. Which means by the time anyone wins and is seated, they'll have to repair for a midterm primary just weeks after that. It's a case that's fallen under the radar, but it's another example of Republicans attempting to rig the game to keep the voters from wielding their power in Trump's America. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett's Democrat of Texas, and she joins me now. Congressman Jasmine Crockett, I had sort of followed this after the death of Sylvester Turner and the news about them not using that May date. But when I re-immers myself in the facts here, it's pretty shocking this district is being kept without congressional representation for like it's going to end up being maybe 10 months. Actually, it may be very close to a year by the time all is said and done. What most people don't realize is that, number one, we lost three Democrats since Donald Trump has sworn in. And it was actually Sylvester Turner who passed away, unfortunately, first. Yet it is his seat that is actually going to be filled. last. Just think about that for two seconds. You just talked about Representative Grijalva or Representative Elect since she's not sworn in. Let me clarify that. And so Christian Menefi, who is currently the acting county attorney in Harris County, he actually started to make some noise. He came to D.C. He talked to leadership here. And he decided that if need be, he was going to file a lawsuit to get Greg Abbott to actually set an election. And now.

We do have some parameters, but when I say he is slow walking this, I mean, he is slow walking it, and it is so sad. I don't know how anyone in the 18th congressional district can even find themselves voting for a man that would leave them without representation. We know that once you are sworn in, you then have to deal with constituent services. You've got to make sure you're dealing with whoever needs help from the VA, whoever needs help from the IRS or Social Security, as we are about to go into, obviously, tax season if we can open the government back. And now we know that people are dead. devastated because they don't even know where their next meal is coming from because of this rogue government. And we know that there's not anyone who can hold the town hall and give them the updates on what's happening in D.C. So everyone should be outraged by this. This should not be a partisan thing. But as we know, some people love to just kind of run to their corners instead of pointing out right is right and wrong is wrong. Yeah, I mean, your point there's a really important one. Because at one level, right, the calculation by Mike Johnson in refusing to swear an Adelaide Grahalvo, which he could do. There's these pro forma recessions that keep doing. He's refusing to do it. He doesn't want that plus one added to the tally. It's pure partisan power consideration. Same with Greg Abbott, who's slow walk this, obviously, because he wants to keep the Democratic number in the House as small as possible in a very narrow five-vote majority. But your point here was that... You know, there's 7,800,000 people represented in each congressional district. Like, they have no representation. I mean, and Congressman Electra Halva has said this to me. You know, I want to help them. The government shut down. We've got federal workers in my district. Like, the idea that you just don't get to have a congressperson is pretty, it feels profoundly un-American and anti-democratic to me. Absolutely. I mean, the idea that, and rep elect Grajava is in a very unique situation because in this moment, those constituent services should still be going at least for the 18th congressional district. But once there was someone who was elected, everything stopped for rep elect Grahava, right? Right. So now her constituents literally have. absolutely nothing. Like there's no staff that can do any work. They have her to say she's repelect, but there's nothing she can do. She can't log into systems. She barely is in an office. So she can't be opening cases so that once the government opens, that her staff can kind of deal with those things. It is really sad. And here's the other kicker to this, right? Let's say, you know, our speaker decided to grow a spine. And actually. go ahead and swear in Repi Lake Grahava. Well, ultimately, that means that we have the 218 signatures that we need for the discharge petition. But since we still aren't in session, it's not like a bill can come to the floor. Like, we have no bills that are hitting the floor anyway. So ultimately, like those two things are going to happen at the same time, no matter what. So right now, why don't you at least try to look like you're serious about your job and look like you were doing the work of the people?

not look like a petulant child and swear her in because at the end of the day, because you've decided to avoid having us in session, we can't take a vote on a bill anyway. Yeah. And the other thing is just bring back Congress into session. Again, I can't figure out, it's very hard to tell because he does these press conferences every day, which sort of hits his talking points, says that he hasn't seen anything in the news, you know, blames the Democrats. what the position is he doesn't want to bring you back from recess because then he has to swear in Grahalva or he doesn't want to swear in Grahalva because he doesn't want to bring you back to, I don't know. But the point being, it's what, nine weeks now? It's one-tenth of the term she was elected to will have been spent on ice. Yeah. Because Mike Johnson doesn't think anyone in the House of Representatives should work. Yeah, it is absolutely astounding. And I want people to pay attention. When you go and you hit those booths come the midterms, think about. which party decided that it was okay to literally be on vacation while it is that people were going hungry in the streets of America. This isn't about partisanship. Again, to me, I mean, like, is really like really clear to me. We have over 40 million people in this country that are not going to be with their snap benefits because you have people that have decided that they believe that they are basically pawns in a game of chess. That is not what anyone should. want from their elected officials, whether you are a snap recipient or otherwise. And the idea that we're still getting paid while we're telling air traffic controllers who are responsible for keeping planes and people safe, that they're not getting checks or while we're looking at TSA, which they tend to be some of our lowest paid federal employees and tell them, oh, well, just keep showing up to work. Because if you go get another job, you're going to lose this job while we literally are not working. Make it make sense. And ultimately, I need everybody to just vote in their own best interest. Congress from Jasmine Crockett, thank you very much. Still to come after historic games for Democrats, Barack Obama taking a victory lap. That's next.

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spent, I think, a majority of her money on ads about trans people, demonizing them and trying to tie Abigail Spanberger to, you know, being too tolerant of trans folks. What does it say to you that so much money went there with so little return? I... So what it says to me is that attacking trans people kind of stir up anti-trans bigotry for its own sake is a losing proposition for the simple reason that it's just not that salient to people's lives. One percent of the total population identifies as transgender, right? Like it's not that many people. It's not something that... Anyone other than, you know, bigots, frankly, sickos are thinking about all the time. If they themselves are not transgender, like if you're transgender, I am, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Pretty frequently. But if you're just a regular person, if you're just a person in the world, not something you're thinking about. So to focus all your ads on that, I think sends the message, right, that you're not actually concerned with the issues that people are concerned about. You're concerned about this sort of niece cultural issue. The other thing I'll say is it's clear that the Republican campaign was trying to mimic Trump's performance last year. And even Trump's anti-trans ads were tied to a broader message about the economy. Yes, and being out of touch more broadly, which is what made them effective for Mel Bowie. Thank you so much. We'll be right back.

Yesterday in Chicago, Illinois judge Sarah Ellis read from Carl Samburg's poem, Chicago, before she issued her ruling in the ICE case there. Quote, I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city and give them back the sneer and say to them, come and show me another city with lifted heads singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. And told by someone who was in the courtroom, the judge stared down the government lawyers when she read that part. Judge Ellis then extended restrictions on the use of force. Border Patrol agents are allowed in Chicago saying, quote, the use of force shocks the conscience. That does it for All In. You can catch us every weeknight at 8 o'clock on MSNBC. Don't forget to like us on Facebook. That's facebook.com slash all in with Chris. In the U.S., there's a break-in every 26 seconds. But when intruders step near, Simply Safe home security steps up. Stop. This is SimplySafe. Police are on the way. Using AI alerts, U.S.-based live agents help deter break-ins. Simply safe, no long-term contracts. Save 50% on your new system with professional monitoring at Simplysafe.com slash SXM or with promo code SXM. Outdoor deterrence requires a Simplysafe Active Guard outdoor protection plan starting at $49.99 a month. Visit Simplysafe.com slash licenses for alarm licensed information, Tennessee 2012.