mcconnell is looking at other candidates as well. republican leaders, people close to mcconnell also expressing concerns about walker. john cornyn who is a mcconnell ally told me yesterday, all i know is what i read in the paper. i want to win that race, and so i want the best nominee. i don't know whether he is it. now, walker has not said what he would do, john. he is still a texas resident. he suggested he's moving back to the state and could run, but several people have suggested they could be consultants for him including the former chief of staff to mike pence have reached out to him. the consultants have not signed on yet so it's still uncertain what he will do. john? >> still uncertain, but source of some concern to the republican leader in the building you are in today. manu raju, appreciate the new reporting. >>> let's discuss it now with our panel. here with us to share the reporting and insights capitol hill melanie sanona. and "washington post" congressional reporter. this is about one race and also about a bigger dynami

you have a mitch mcconnell standing in the way. let's hope and work and make sure that the senate sees the light. police officers and police reform and police must be held accountable. >> congresswoman lee. thank you so much. >>. >>> we have a lot more tonight including, we hear you. we see you. we have msnbc's viewers reactions and remixes of that savage schumer moment. >>> how close did we come to some are calling trump's coup. michael beschloss is joining us next. michael beschloss is joining us next downy unstopables feel the clarity of non-drowsy claritin. and 24-hour relief from symptoms caused by over 200 indoor and outdoor allergens. try claritin cool mint chewabls for powerful allergy relief plus a cooling sensation. live claritin clear. verizon launched the first 5g network and now we want to be the first to give everyone the joy of 5g, by giving every customer a new 5g phone. old customers. new customers new 5g phones when you trade in your old ones. upgrade your phone. upgrade your network. at usaa, we've been called to

i want to repeat what mitch mcconnell said earlier, senator mcconnell was absolutely right. the only way for us to grapple with this is to have ever-increasing levels of vaccination and to the degree that we are talking about these side issues of whether or not first graders ought be wearing masks or not, the time devoted to that is time that we can't spend and don't spend on encouraging more people to get vaccinated. >> chris: meanwhile, there were several new developments on covid this week at a want to put them up on the screen. more than 100,000 covid hospitalizations across the country on thursday and more than 2,000 deaths across the country that same day, first time we crossed the 2,000 mark since march. the fda gave full approval to the pfizer vaccine and after the president talked about a third booster shot eight months after the second shot from the vaccine, we got this. >> president biden: the question raised should be shorter than eight months, should it just be five months and that's being discussed. >> chris: juan, where are we now in the fight against covid? >

mcconnell. >> a mcconnell spokesman says the media always lean left and don't like the fact that he worked with donald trump. but the journalistic reassessment of mcconnell is rooted in the way he broke with the former president after january 6 and said trump bears moral responsibility for the capitol riots. >> mcconnell said he would vote for the infrastructure bill, trump attacked him for "weak leadership." mcconnell has never much cared about being roasted and ridiculed by commentators and op-ed warriors. when i asked if he is enjoying it, his spokesman told me i don't think it affects him one way or another. >> shannon: howard kurtz, thank you so much. good news before we say good night. a big smile to the face of a 3-year-old. he has been battling leukemia after finishing his treatment he faces a weakened immune system. he doesn't really leave the house but he does look forward to trip to the local publix for groceries. his favorite thing to do is ride in the car. republic sent him his very own cart fleet with his name on the license plate. we love to highlight the stories and

would it apply to mitch mcconnell or mitt romney or george w. bush being painted with that kind of brush. >> i think trump makes it easier for the left to do that. painting the entire movement to trump is easier. the conservatives without drum p being in office are still being treated in this ways. i'm not seeing any signs of this abating we talked about an npr story about your huge foosk facebooktraffic which says expey you may be furthering -- how do you you plead. >> if the idea is that we're conservative, i plead guilty. if the idea is that the only way to solve polarization is for their to be a monopoly, like one poll, then i strenuously disagree. that seems to be the idea behind the npr article. npr admitted we don't tell lies on the site, don't engage in conspiracy theories on the site, and at the bottom of the articles we print which says we're a conservative website. the fact that we are conservative was enough for npr to write a piece talking about how terrible is that we get heavy facebook traffic, should be telling. i never called fo

rob portman, usually closely aligned with mcconnell, put public pressure on mcconnell on an important bridge that joins their two states, ohio and kentucky. the bryant's pence bridge, it crosses the ohio river joining the two states. last night, senator portman, the lead negotiator on the infrastructure bill for republicans, let mitch mcconnell's voters in kentucky know what is at stake for them in this bill. >> for 25 years, i have been involved in the effort to find the funding to replace this bridge, because it needs it. funding will give us the ability to do that. we will have the ability to help with kentucky and ohio. and with the federal government working together, with the local community, to complete this expense bridge corridor project. why? because we are putting unprecedented amounts of money to bridges like this one, not just bridges, bridges that are major commercial bridges. bridges that are functionally obsolete, which hours has been four years. bridges that desperately need help. >> today, senator schumer explained why what we are seeing in the senate tonight could n

mitch mcconnell seems to want to do that. i do not think he will succeed. second, because reconciliation limits what you can do there and doing it outside gives you more flexibility. yes? >> on voting rights. we have heard you say failure not an option and everything on the table. when you come back in september, [indiscernible] a path of what this will look like? sen. schumer: we have made progress and we are showing very clearly to everyone of our 50 senators that republicans will not join us. yet the importance of voting rights, if anything has strengthened in the mind of everybody, everybody, and senator manchin put down a proposal back in june. it had not everything i would want, but many of the things i want. we are making good progress and we will keep at it. it is so important. yes? >> what do you say to activists who say what democrats is doing is not enough, they need a lotto [indiscernible] sen. schumer: i would say we are going to keep at it, and as i said before, everything is on the table. yes? >> >> senator manchin put out a statement saying

. >> with mitch mcconnell what is on your reading list these days? >> not surprisingly i tend to tilt towards american history, much of it political. but actually one book i just finished was not about politics. it was about the history of the polio app academic from beginning to end. when a pulitzer prize i've always had a special interest with regard to vaccines but one of the things we've been pushing lately is to get vaccinated. one of the big differences between the situation we found ourselves in now and polio as it took 70 years to come up with two effective vaccines for polio. our marvelous country and pharmaceutical company three vaccines in less than one year. to give us an opportunity to get past the pandemic. one of the most interesting things about polio was fdr. he came down with polio at age 39. most people thought it was a children's disease but it does hit adults from time to time. in his own struggle to come back and ultimately go all way to the white house considered warm springs from the place whose go after he was afflicted. the

us into with infrastructure vote. >> it is a shame that the republicans did it, it was led by mitch mcconnell, note a leader you know that known that for a long time, i have i have known for the a long time i am the one got him elected with when i endorsed him, i endorsed him went up 20 points in kentucky, i love kentucky if they like me, i shouldn't have done it i should have taken him out in primary i could have done we had a guy could have absolutely beat him easily much mitch doesn't know i heard yesterday he said less than 1% our budget in that -- we spent 40 billion dollars in afghanistan, it is a fortune for our country those like 20 say liz cheney doesn't know she is alive, mitch mcconnell say there forever you can't say that here is a problem withdrawing is the right thing to do, but the way they withdrew will go down in infamy, there has never been a worse withdrawal there has never been a more super stupid group of people doing a withdrawal this is unbelievable military leaves first then they say oh, we have to go back civilians talking about very, very hostile people people that a

. >> mitch mcconnell, what's on your reading list? >> not surprisingly i tend to lean towards american history , much of it political but actually, one book i just finished was not about politics. it was about the history of the polio epidemic from the games and. it came out in 2006 and it won a pulitzer prize and as a polio victim myself, i have always had a kind of special interest in it. and i thought with the pandemic going on were some lessons with regard to vaccines and one of the things we've been thinking lately is get vaccinated and of course one of the big differences between the situation we find ourselves in now and polio is 70 years to come up with 2 effective vaccines for polio. our marvelous country and our marvelous pharmaceutical industry came up with effective vaccines in less than one year. to give us an opportunity to get past the pandemic. one of the most interesting things about the polio period was fdr came down with polio at age39 . most people thought it was kind of a children's disease but it did affect adult

put public pressure on mcconnell about an important bridge that joins their two states -- ohio and kentucky. the brent spence bridge crosses the ohio river, joining the two states. and last night senator portman who has been the lead negotiator on the bipartisan infrastructure bill for republicans let mitch mcconnell's voters in kentucky know what is at stake for them in this bill. >> for 25 years i've been involved in the effort to try to find the funding to replace this bridge. because it needs it. finally we'll have the ability to do that. we'll have the ability to help with kentucky and with ohio and with the federal government working together with the local community to complete this brent spence bridge project. we are putting an incredible amount of money into not just bridges but bridges like this one that are major commercial bridges, bridges that are functionally obsolete which ours has been for years. bridges that desperately need the help. >> today senator schumer explained why what we're seeing in the senate tonight could never happen when mitch mcconnell was majority leader. >

[laughter] why don't you get a drink with mitch mcconnell. >> the senate republican leader who denied even a hearing to obama's supreme court pick merrick garland has embraced a negative nickname. >> i whether it comes to the socialist gleand that has abruptly changed since the hard nosed tactician agreed to work with the white house on bipartisan infrastructure bill despite plenty of media skepticism. >> is mcconnell really going to give biden a win? >> but the popular compromise is moving forward prompting politico to declare pigs fly. mcconnell is drawing credit from cnn and others for spending campaign found promote covid vaccines on 100 kentucky radio stations. >> does anybody out there willing to listen? get vaccinated. >> i'm going to use a sentence here that is not uttered very often on msnbc airways, good for mitch mcconnell. >> president biden give his adversary a shoutout. >> to identify compliment republican senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. he hasn't made political. >> the media always lean left and don't like the fact that he worked with donald trump. but the journ

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i want you to react to this statement mitch mcconnell put out. when you look just at how the -- sorry, wrong statement here. unless president biden adjusts course quickly the taliban is on track to secure a military victory. the news of a further drawdown in our embassy and a hasty deployment seem like preparations for the fall of kabul. president biden's decision has us hurtling toward a sequel to the humiliating fall of saigon in 1975. president biden's strategy has turned an imperfect but unstable situation into an embarrassment and a global emergency. resident biden is finding that the quickest way to end a war is to lose it. the costs and ramifications will echo across-the-board -- echo across the world. what do you think? guest: senator mcconnell is one of many politicians who over the years have been saying the same exact thing over and over and over. any time there was some sense a president or there was a movement to get out of that war, to reduce the troops, to start ringing our men and women home there have been politicians like senato

mitch mcconnell doesn't want to be on the wrong side of popularity. maybe on the wrong side of history. but these are popular plans where people. what's so radical, why can't we afford better hearing aides or vision for older people or all of the things that make us a more resilient and just country. i'm not a huge fan of bipartisanship, but today, we saw something. biden hassa gotten part of his agenda. the 3.5 billion budget plan essentially put forward by senator sanders, but not a single republican supporting it last i checked, is going to complete what i would call the human infrastructure. not that i'm opposed to, you know, broadband access, but the human infrastructure of this country will be made more resilient, just, and fair with thatnd 3.5 billion and that's going to be a tough haul. you'd need all 50 caucus members. i think in washington today, what mcconnell and the republicans did, not only on the 3.5 million, but on the voting rights, you've got to see the need for fixing the filibuster it seems to me. and that is not necessarily the be

you wrote this, mcconnell's incentives are more complicate and that the dr. no imagine he has cultivated over the last century and a half. by acquiescing to a deal, he can reward the republican allies and head off the democratic efforts to end the filibuster, and secure some goodies for his state. and this is going to give the republicans cover to distance 24e7 themselves from donald trump with this midterm election coming. >> yes, there is a slice of the repelling from the republican party to the democratic party and well educated affluent suburban party that is less interested in governing, and this is the republican party to court those suburban voters to let them know that they are not the party of trump, and still interested in governing and doing big thing, and for mitch mcconnell, this is a low-cost, low political cost way of kind of showing that. infrastructure is popular and it does not have a major constituency opposing it, and there are members in his conference that want to do things, and the second part of it for mcconnell is that it could make t

mitch mcconnell seems to want to do that. i do not think he will succeed. second, because reconciliation limits what you can do there and doing it outside gives you more flexibility. yes? >> on voting rights. with failure not an option and everything on the table here, [indiscernible] sen. schumer: we have made progress and we are showing very clearly to everyone of our 50 senators that republicans will not join us. yet the importance of voting rights, if anything has strengthened in the mind of everybody, everybody, and senator manchin put down a proposal in june. not everything i would want in there but many things i would want. we will keep at it and are making good progress. yes? >> what you say to activist essay [indiscernible] sen. schumer: i would say we are going to keep at it, and as i said before, everything is on the table. >> senator manchin put out a statement saying he is concerned of the price tag [indiscernible] how do you navigate the concerns that the price tag [indiscernible] sen. schumer: there are some in my caucus who believe it is too

you have members of mcconnell's leadership team, including senator roy blunt and mcconnell himself who voted for it. including members of this g22 bipartisan group who came up with this legislation. but i will say the republicans are divided on this issue. not only on the vote itself and the legislation itself, but also on messaging. you had members like senator todd young of indiana who came out last night saying he's not going to vote for it because it's tied too closely to the $3.5 trillion human infrastructure bill. well, they are divided on messaging because people like leader mcconnell saying, no, these are two separate pieces of legislation that he does not want the public to think that they are tied together. so they have a little bit of a messaging issue moving forward. but where things stand, the final vote is expected very early tomorrow morning around 4:00 a.m. it could happen in the dead of night. if there's an agreement among all 100 senators, they could move that to the daytime so we all could watch it, steph. >> let's stay on that. the big-name republicans and 19 of the

host: there is what mcconnell said. i can't see a single republican this freefall for taxes and spending to vote to raise the debt limit. i think the answers is they need to put it in the reconciliation bill. so what is the move for the democrats on the debt limit? guest: this is really interesting because mcconnell is saying we aren't going to vote for it but then advocating democrats passed it by putting it in a reconciliation bill that can't be filibustered. you say -- see him saying he's not going to vote for it but he is not trying to stop it or defeat democrats on the issue. if you put it in the reconciliation bill, it also allows republicans to attack democrats in the campaigns and run ads because they had to put a dollar amount on it. then that gives republicans the hard dollar amount and republicans can ride ads against democrats that they run against in the upcoming elections. and then mcconnell can attack democrats for a vote that he is advocating that they take. so i think again you see the cynicism in ameri

now the house gop and congressional gop like mitch mcconnell, there are a lot of confidence they have. they believe we turn on the maga base that everything will be fine. it is possible that the maga basis simply not into trump as we thought they were. look at the ticket sales and the sales blog and these special election results. i think it is telling and possible that the d.c. are over popular trump is. >> you make an important point. we heard from top republicans days out of the election they were bracing for him to be the loser in '16 and they were moving on. they tried to respond to that by over learning in the complet. these primaries you are going to watch tonight are definitely fascinating indicate. chai, it is always good to see you on chai day. >> thank you, good to be with you, ari. >> another big story, the judiciary committee introducing key witnesses. we are honored to have a member of leadership, senator durbin, live, next. leadership, senator, live, next from the world's number 1 selling nerve care company. as we age, natural changes to our nerves occur which can lead

and for mitch mcconnell, the mission is personal. he's a polio survivor and has been trying since the beginning to try to get ahold on it. and rand's messaging is threatening to undermine that. and i point out that cases and hospitalizations are surging in kentucky like they are in much of the nation. >> you mention the personal nature. it is interesting. mcconnell using his e peerps as a polio survivor saying i'm living proof, get your vaccine. rand paul is a doctor. an eye doctor, but a lot of people -- public health professionals get frustrated. he's known as dr. paul and says stuff which is nuts. >> he says i'm not anti-vaccine, but i'm not going to push people to get it. it's a personal choice. that's a problem in the party. >> a problem in the party. what about the personal relationship. when tea party paul came to town, he didn't get along. then they tried to say we will get along. is this a difference or a difference that makes it even worse? >> they have had a hot and cold relationship. more on the cold side lately. but look

look at mitch mcconnell who always has his eye on the ball. mcconnell obviously thinks that if we pass this, it's less likely they pass the 3.5 trillion extravaganza. i think he also think that is the hundreds of thousands of jobs created and the waterways and the ports and the internet broadband that goes across the nation are good for the country. good for the country, good to stop the tax and spending extravaganza, people should be voting yes. jacqui: all right, we will be catching, senator cassidy, thank you very much for joining us. senator: thank you, jacqui. griff: more to talk about details and what to expect when it gets to the house democratic congressman from massachusetts and long-standing member of the transportation and infrastructure committee steven lynch. congressman, thank you for taking time. let's pick up where your colleague in the senate left off. it appears that this will pass eventually one way or the other. what do you foresee happening when it gets to the house? congressman: well, a lot depends on what is actually in

what does mcconnell think about rand paul behind the scenes? because he keeps it very much under wraps in public. >> he does. and they have somewhat of a roller coaster relationship. they don't always see eye to eye, but look in this case, i've talked to people familiar with mitch mcconnell's thinking and they say that he believes the best way to deal with people like rand paul and others in the party who are either spreading misinformation or just have really struck an anti-vaccine tone, is to just counterabout with pro vaccine messaging. he doesn't want to take these members head on and pick head on fights and call them out. he is going to push his message. he paid for campaign -- with campaign cash for radio ads in his home state of kentucky to get that message out. >> rand paul did not, do we know? i'm assuming. >> yeah. we are unclear where rand paul is. >> all right. melanie zanona, thank you so much for that report. >> thank you. >>> with coronavirus cases the numbers growing including among children, there is a new concern testing so on

majority leader mitch mcconnell is in no rush and the clock is ticking. less than a week to get across the finish line before they leave for recess, everything could get derailed after lindsey graham tested positive after being with joe manchin and other senators over the weekend. sahil kapur. >> reporter: they're not panicking but already are taking precautions. we're told yesterday how leadership meeting virtually by zoom, sources say democrats intend to hold weekly lunch meeting by zoom. senators from both parties were on joe manchin's houseboat, where he lives in washington. put that up on the screen. none of them other than lindsey graham tested positive. break through infections are rare. we are told they're testing to make sure they are in fact negative. senator manchin spoke to reporters on this. this is what he had to say. >> we were outside, okay, and we were all vaccinated. i mean, i talked to lindsey today, he is fine. >> how long did you all go? how long was the event? >> i don't know. >> couple hours? >> whatever it takes to eat a hamburger

here is a portion of mitch mcconnell from monday. [video] >> i understand they sent out the treasury secretary to argue both parties have addressed the debt ceiling together. of course it is our senate democratic colleagues who have no interest in what is historically in order. they are borrowing and -- there borrowing and spending are historically abnormal. democrats boast about how wild and revolutionary their partisan vision is. our friends across the aisle should not expect traditional bipartisan borrowing to finance their nontraditional, reckless taxing and spending spree. that is not how it is going to work. democrats have all the existing tools they need to raise the debt limit on a partisan basis. if they want 50 lockstep, cutting votes to spend trillions and trillions more, they can find 50 democratic votes to finance it. if they don't republicans, they don't need our help. host: mr. bixby, those of the statements paid by -- made by the minority leader of the senate. how do you respond? guest: a flaw in the argument is the b

we can let our viewers and listeners know mitch mcconnell was a yes vote on the infrastructure bill. is that a separate at all? >> no, mitch mcconnell has said from the word go that infrastructure was something on which he thought there could be bipartisan progress, and i think it's interesting to note his three lieutenants all republican senators with the first name of john all voted against this, so the jockeying to eventually be the next republican party in the senate as they are trying to align with the majority of republican senators. mcconnell wanted to be out on front of this for two reasons, the straightforward one where he said he wanted to see infrastructure get done, and the other thing this does for him is it takes some of the steam out of the effort to get rid of the filibuster, to change senate rules to pass big things. mcconnell has been making the argument and will continue to make the argument that the passage of this bill, he will say, proves that you can do big things in the senate with the rules the way they are. that argument may carry water with joe manchin and

we have already held more votes on amendments then in any recent years under leader mcconnell. we are only in july. 56 amendments have received roll call votes this year. yesterday, we voted on three of them and adopted two of them. they were adopted by more than 90 votes. today, we voted on two more amendments. this is how the senate is supposed to work. i am proud of the work done by our members throughout the weekend to move the bill forward. the senate will continue to work through the bipartisan infrastructure bill on the floor, but we must work efficiently to set up the votes. that requires cooperation between the majority and minority. as a reminder to everyone, we have already gone through this process with several bipartisan bills this year. since i know all of you want to know about the upcoming schedule, the senate will complete both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the budget resolution before we leave for august recess. timing for the next step will be driven by when we finish the bipartisan infrastructure built. the senate is going to stay here until we fini

and they can't do it, led by mitch mcconnell, the mcconnell republicans, all 19 of them. 30 did the right thing. the mcconnell leads a minority of a minority, 19. he helped grease the skids for what's going to be a massive expansion of already a massive welfare state. most of our laws are not made by congress. they're made by this massive welfare state, unelected bureaucrats, millions of them, who work in allegiance and alliance with the democrat party. and i want to talk about that a little bit in my opening discussion with you. and i want to turn to american marxism. this book has sold three quarters of a million copies. it has received no attention by the left, purposely. it has received no attention by the republican establishment, purposely. this book goes around both. it's aimed at you, the people of this country, the people who brought us the reagan revolution, the tea party revolution, the gingrich revolution, and the trump revolution. this is aimed at democrats and republicans and everything in between. this is aimed at blacks and browns and yellows and reds and whites, whatever

this go around with you as the senate candidate that you are the one, you're not running against mitch mcconnell, that was amy mcgrath, you think overcan overtake rand paul this go around? >> we can. and, you know, what we showed in the last cycle, against one of the most well funded senate campaigns in history is when you listen to the people, when you organize and meet people where they are, they can inspire a movement anywhere, even in kentucky. and the issues that we were lifting up ending generational poverty, making sure everyone

as a mcconnell whisperer, does that mean anything for the future? or is it simply a quote for the "wall street journal"? >> i think he means it. mcconnell could have torpedoed this thing. i think he went for it. i think the translation is biden stopped the liberal wing of the democratic party from screwing with this thing to let us get to a place where a bunch of republican cosmetic vote for it. i'll give president biden and leader schumer and leader mcconnell a tunnel of credit for this. we needed to show our allies and nato and around the world that we can pass a grown-up bill on something we need to be economically competitive with which is infrastructure. i think they all ought to take a bow in the senate. now we're going to part two. and i'm a little worried about the house where there are a lot of progressive democrats unhappy and they've been beating their dream catchers into staffing sticks lately. i think the infrastructure bill may not be out of woods yet though i hope i'm wrong because the country needs it. >> eugene, to mike's colorful p

chris: thank you senator mcconnell it's good to talk with you sir. >> thank you chris. chris: we were being in our panel to discuss the high-stakes excerpt who is now at the center of islamic radical terrorism. (music) >> we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down and make you pay. chris: president biden then vowing to advance thursday's suicide bombing at the kabul airport killing 13 us troops and more than 150 afghans and with friday's drone strike taking out to members of isis-k he began to make good on that pledge it's now time for the sunday group gop strategist karl rove and covering the white house for the "washington post" and fox news political analyst juan williams. i think it's fair to say i don't think anyone would disagree with than the toughest two weeks of the biden presidency first of all the stumbling * after the taliban took kabul then they seem to get a handle on the evacuation and then of course on thursday the tragic bombing of the airport that killed 13 us service members and 150 afghans. where is the biden white house at this p

behind this important, important resolution which i will describe in a minute, and i also thank senator mcconnell. and i certainly thank my friend, senator blunt, for his leadership. we must pass this legislation honoring the capitol police and other heroes who protected the capitol on january 6 by awarding them this congressional gold medal. senator blunt joined me from the beginning in sponsoring the senate version of this legislation and worked with me on the rules committee. and thank you to the presiding officer, senator padilla, for his great service on that committee to continue the work of getting to the bottom of the security planning and response failures that we saw on january 6. while that work goes on, it is important that we recognize the bravery and patriotism of those who defended our democracy and our lives with congress' highest honor. the insurrection at the capitol was more than an assault on democracy. oh, it was that in a big, big way. but it was also an actual life-or-death situation for the many brave law enforcement officers who show up here to do their work every day. we

mitch mcconnell? please. mark milley doesn't report to mitch mcconnell. mitch mcconnell doesn't control the fbi or the intelligence agency. mitch mcconnell is unarmed. what's he going to do about it? give a grumpy speech and drive back to his condo? that's what they're saying. that's what criminals always say when they shake you down at gunpoint, and make no mistake, that's exactly what they're doing because that's exactly who they are. charlie hurt is opinion editor at "the washington times," he joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. i never thought that i would live to see the day within administration would acknowledge in public that what they are doing has been prohibited recently in clear language by the supreme court but they are doing it anyway and they don't care, because who's going to stop them because we are armed and you're not? i mean, what system is that? >> yeah, it's beyond unconstitutional. it's anti-constitutional lawlessness and you ask why are they doing this. the reason they are doing this is because democrats control every l

mitch mcconnell voted with biden today. that means that mitch mcconnell and he's 100% with biden today. so we are now here at this pivotal moment, a pivotal moment of what the president trying to do to rebound off of covid. it is a contrast of donald trump's many, many claims infrastructure weeks which were over shadowed that he never got anything done with infrastructure and it became a national punch line. biden is built on that well-known theme. today he's hitting his predecessor and some of the critics. >> after years and years of infrastructure week, we are in the cusp of an infrastructure decade. this bill is declared dead more often anyway. if bipartisanship is a thing of the past, it was characterized as an earlier age. as you may well remember, i never believe that. i still don't. that's biden flexing on his victory lap. 110 b for roads and bridges. 65 billion for water and clean and drinkable. this will go to the house. speaker pelosi intends to act when the senate sends a $3.5 trillion safety net bill. if you are

well, senator mcconnell. things are changing. for once in a very long time, the united states congress is going to stand with working families and not just the rich and the powerful. host: again, that's senator sanders from yesterday. you can see more on c-span.org. when it comes to the senate they highlighted the fact that the moat -- more centrist wing in recent weeks have had their own trepidation around the hefty price tag. senator sinema of arizona signaled in late july that she would vote to adopt the budget and begin the work of rafting legislation to carry it out even as she remains concerned about the overall cross, saying -- host: so, that's just some of what to expect when it comes to the back playing out on this piece of what's being debated. again, the infrastructure bill being finished up and voted on today. we have been showing you highlights throughout the course of the morning and you can tell us whether you supported or not for the next 30 minutes or so. (202) 748-8000 if you say yes, (202) 748-8001 if you say n

before the vote today saying mitch mcconnell is over rated. why is he giving biden this gift? republicans understand and those 19 republicans thought every one need a road or bridge or internet access but in doing this, they also handed joe biden a big political win. >> a massive >> a massive $1.2 trillion piece of legislation. thank you all. >>> we just heard president biden address the mask controversy in so many schools, florida especially. florida governor ron desantis has threatened to revoke the pay of superintendents, school board members who enforce mask mandates at school. my next guest is one of those school officials who is potentially willing to put her salary on the line. the school board in broward county, florida, has decided to maintain their mask mandate in classrooms, but the decision did not come without a fight. we have the chair of the broward school board. thank you so much for being with me. i want to start here with how you got to this decision. because i know it was a passionate, long meeting that happened today. what

congressman, 17 gop senators, mitch mcconnell, romney, all these guys in the senate, very well respected in the business community. why was senator kennedy wrong? >> this bill is twice as long as the bible. there is the senator that read the bible cover to cover for the last 24 hours. we 19 senator cassidy said he read it with his staff. >> hard for me to believe anyone read the bible cover to cover. they didn't read this book cover to cover. a lot of concerns in the memo we released to our members a little bit ago. my biggest concern is do the math with me, go back to january where they passed the covid relief bill and look today at what that has done to inflation. high street inflation since 1991. do the math with this, trillion dollar infrastructure deal, $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill nancy pelosi says the infrastructure bill will not pass her house without the reconciliation bill passing with it and imagine what that will do to inflation, you're paying more for a gallon of milk, every time you pump up your gas tank at the gas pump you will pay twice as much when these guys are do