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Watch former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, who has announced he will primary President Trump for the 2020 Republican nomination, join Stephanie Ruhle to discuss his run and if more republicans have reached out to him in the wake of the…

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Bill Weld announced Friday he is exploring a primary challenge against President Donald Trump in 2020. “Weld is the same ex-Republican who deserted Massachusetts for New York; who endorsed President Barack Obama over Senator John McCain for President; who renounced the GOP for the Libertarian Party; who ran against the Trump-Pence Republican ticket in 2016, while cozying up to Democrat Hillary Clinton,” Lyons said in a statement. “After abandoning Republicans, Democrats, and Libertarians, Weld demands that faithful Republicans consider him as their standard bearer. Charlie Baker, who once served in Weld’s administration? Baker was Weld’s secretary of Health and Human Services. No worries in D.C. And lastly, how about those currently in the White House? Lewis serves it up at MassBay State Rep. Jack Lewis, D-Framingham, visited the main campus of MassBay Community College in Wellesley Hills last week to lend a hand to the college’s monthly Mobile Market. Lewis, along with state Rep. Alice Peisch, D-Wellesley, passed out fresh fruit and vegetables delivered from the Greater Boston Food Bank to students, staff and faculty members on Wednesday. Cooper said that since the program started in 2016, the Food Bank has delivered 130,000 pounds of produce to MassBay. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently announced that she has chosen Lau to manage her 2020 presidential campaign.

Former Republican Governor Bill Weld took the first official step toward challenging Trump in the 2020 Republican presidential primary. Ali Velshi discusses the possible impact on Trump’s re-election with political expert Larry Sabato. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc MSNBC delivers…

Bill Weld is back. Brett, a former Massachusetts state representative who has stayed in touch with Weld since their time together at the State House in the 1990s, says he reached out to the 73-year-old former Republican governor to see if there was any interest in speaking at Politics & Eggs. Despite running in a disproportionately Democratic state in a presidential election year, the Weld-Kerry race was neck-and-neck through the summer, before the incumbent senator won with 52.7 percent to 41.2 percent of the vote. After switching his residency back once more to Massachusetts, the former Republican governor was picked to be the 2016 vice presidential running mate of Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson. “We are planning a partnership as president and vice president; I think it’s something unprecedented,” Johnson, who referred to himself as the “lesser half” of the ticket, said at the time. During the campaign, Weld had responded to Libertarian Party members who were skeptical of his Republican record by pledging to remain “Libertarian for life.” And the former governor was so active in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections — touring Libertarian conventions, talking about how the party could grow, fundraising for the party, and endorsing its local candidates — that he stirred speculation that he was setting the groundwork for a 2020 presidential campaign on the Libertarian ticket. And later last month, several outlets reported that he was considering running against President Donald Trump in the 2020 GOP primary. “I’m not going to have anything to say until my talk at Politics and Eggs,” he told WMUR. Then and now, Weld has hardly been the only anti-Trump Republican. While acknowledging the difficulties of running a primary campaign against a Republican president, Brett says he feels pretty sure that Weld will announce plans for a White House bid Friday.

For the politics of pot, the times they are a-changing. For example, former House Speaker John Boehner, who was “unalterably opposed” to marijuana legalization as recently as 2015, announced in a tweet last week that he is joining the weed industry and the legalization cause. Boehner, who served as speaker from 2011 to 2015 — and voted against legalizing medicinal marijuana in the District of Columbia in 1999 — announced that he is joining the board of advisers for Acreage Holdings, a company that cultivates, processes and dispenses cannabis in 11 states. My reaction is two-fold: a.) what took you so long? But after his election, his very conservative attorney general, Jeff Sessions, announced that he was revoking a policy from President Barack Obama’s administration that discouraged prosecutors from enforcing federal marijuana laws in states that had legalized the drug. That reversal, an apparent part of President Trump’s ongoing campaign to undo everything President Obama did, outraged Sen. Cory Gardner, a Republican from Colorado, which legalized cannabis for recreational use in 2014. During Sessions’ confirmation hearings, Gardner had asked him to promise that the feds wouldn’t interfere with pot businesses and users that complied with state laws. Federal law has irrationally classified marijuana as a “schedule 1” drug under a law passed in 1970 during President Richard Nixon’s “war on drugs.” By listing marijuana as having no acceptable medical use and a potential for abuse and dependency as high as heroin and ecstasy, that law actually prevents useful research into the actual effects of the drug. Removing federal interference from states that have decided to legalize pot would not be the same as a national legalization bill, but it would be an important step in the right direction at a time when common sense seems to have gone up in smoke.

Former Governor of Massachusetts Bill Weld says it makes a lot of sense for Republicans, like President Donald Trump, to support de-scheduling marijuana. "I would think it's excellent politics for President Trump. "Including this former Republican," Weld added, chuckling. The former Republican governor of Massachusetts-turned Libertarian has made his newfound feelings about marijuana well-known, since announcing last week he would join former House Speaker John Boehner on the board of medical marijuana company, Acreage Holdings. "There's almost no logical argument against" de-scheduling marijuana, he said on Friday, adding that problems like banking would resolve themselves if marijuana's scheduling — or level of regulation — were reduced. Furthermore, Weld not only thinks marijuana would fit well into Trump's political agenda, he thinks the president might be leaning toward loosening regulations already. "President Trump talked with Cory Gardner, Republican Senator from Colorado...and said, 'No, no, I'm going to take care of the rub between the Feds and the states. If it's legal in Colorado, we'll make sure you don't get prosecuted for that,'" Weld said. "That's the President of the United States talking, so that's pretty high cotton," he added. As for full legalization, Weld didn't seem opposed, but he said he thinks it is "still years away for all 50 states."