We talk about this week's GOP debate as quickly as we can - and why we really don't need to talk about it. Joe wonders about how a campaign team could let their candidates walk into a mess like that - and what they're supposed to be doing about it. Joe's also not happy about the polls - but not about the numbers they show. What numbers do actually matter? And why voters break away from President Biden when given the No Labels option - and what we have to do about it.
Evelyn Quartz writes: "The ACA fight proved that Americans want progress. They took an imperfect system and fought for it because the alternative was too horrible. It only worked because ordinary Americans refused to let it be taken away."
Senate Republicans are moving aggressively to confirm Trump’s unqualified nominees. We need to be just as aggressive showing them what a mistake that would be...NOW!
How do we manage the non-stop real and manufactured political, social, and environmental crises we're living through? Maya May's guest crisis expert Juliette Kayyem says we need to break it all down into categories of "What? So What? and What Now?" She and Maya broke it down on tonights show - catch up now!