and michael steele former chairman, happens to be the host of the michael steele podcast, good evening gentlemen, welcome to both. mr. gibbs i would like to begin with you, put in your own terms, the scope of the victory today in the senate and here is the tougher question, what do you make of the left's ability to sink the fortunes of a president in their own party? >> well, the i'm almost excited to quote joe biden on health care i think it is a big deal, i'll leave out the middle word, i think it's a significant achievement for this administration. he campaigned on this vision of trying to do things in a bipartisan way and a lot of people said that he was naive or crazy, i think he took a big step today and democrats took a big step in getting all of this past. to your point, democrats operating in a closely divided congress, both in the house and the senate, i think there is a challenge on both sides, you can have progressives on the right you could have joe manchin and others on the more conservative side of the democratic party a needle is gonna have to be thread on many months,

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robert gibbs, michael steele are still with us. there's a risk that we don't talk often enough about what the lincoln project called the ghoulishness of some of these republican politicians, siding with covid over constituents. ron desantis has degrees from harvard and yale and yet he seems so concerned that masks are off brand for him and might cost him the love of the maga crowd. >> not a great ad for harvard or yale if that's the product at the end of the day when you're talking about public leadership. which is oxy moronic in this gentleman's case. he's not a leader. he's a sycophant. he thinks by his own political calculation that he's willing to make the bet that it will set him up nicely in a republican primary should donald trump wink and nod at him and give him that juicy look, to set him on the course to become the nominee of the party in 24 months or so. the reality of it is, people are dying. his state is in a covid mess. it is a hot mess. if it were a country, it would be leading the globe in a number of deaths and inf

. >>> joining me now is former pandemic coordinator and michael steele and the vaccinations are rising and not fast enough for the delta variant and we are seeing these big crowds begin to gather across the country without mask mandates and how bad is that in terms of the combination of factors? >> well, we've seen the story before, andrea and one of the lessons we learned in the pandemic, as soon as the restrictions are down and people start to circulate freely and we start to see this virus recirculate and see disease spread and with the variant that is more transmissible, particularly in areas where vaccination rates are low, and you're right, the vaccination rates are rising in those area, but unfortunately, most of those vaccines take five to six weeks before they reach full efficacy. now we have a situation where we have large numbers of people that are mixing and likely to be a source for significant spreading. >> the timing is so bad because people are there with their kids and kids are going back to school and we can just see what could become a perfect storm. robert gibbs, ho

steele, but nobody misses him. he can have a great life over at m. s. b c, where liz cheney will probably end up look at where the republican party, whether donald trump grew it. he grew the enthusiasm and he grew the voter intensity and even in cities like new york city, here's a dining number. donald trump, in new york city alone, 120-0000 more voters in the 2020 election cycle than he did even in 2016 and joe biden, even in the liberal stronghold of new york city, got 3 percent less of the vote than hillary clinton did so there is an intensity that comes with donald trump, that is going to carry the party. the nomination is had to be wants that the only person that could take it is the person that donald trump chooses to endorse for 2024. i think that's the current date of the party, gina, i mean, historically speaking in 2022 that we should expect some kind of republican wave. i mean, historically, that has been the case here. would you attribute that just a history or to donald trump or both? go ahead. well, 1

i won't be as colorful as michael steele. i know jim jordan, john. jim jordan knows exactly when he spoke to donald trump on january 6th and he knows exactly what donald trump said to him. jim jordan doesn't stammer like that. i've rarely seen jim jordan stammer like that. j john, this is why it's so important that jim jordan and kevin mccarthy and mark meadows and all of these guys get subpoenaed and get their butts in front of that select committee. >> they're not going to talk, though, joe. do you expect they actually will? >> no. i don't think they'll show or adhere to a subpoena but they should still be issued and delivered those subpoenas. brianna, the most important things we need to find out are how and why did january 6th happen? trump incite d it. but then trump's behavior that day, we know from reports that he sat in front of the tv and che cheered on these supporters. he was speaking to jrnd and he was speaking to mccarthy multiple times that day. >> we'll see what that means. what is it for a member of congress to ignore a congressional

thank you michelle goldberg and michael steele. >>> coming up, more on the breaking situation in afghanistan. we will be joined live by agreeingly meeks, chair of the foreign relations committee. stay with us. i may not be able to tell time, but i know what time it is. [whispering] it's grilled cheese o'clock. ♪♪ ♪♪ was that your great-grandmother, keeping the family together? was that your grandfather, paving the way for change. did they brave mother nature... and walk away stronger? did they face the unknown, with resolve...and triumph. ♪♪ there's strength in every family story. learn more about yours. at ancestry. >>> welcome back to this special coverage of the situation in afghanistan. with me is my co-host for today's special show, richard lui. i want to bring now, congressman gregory meeks, the chair of the foreign affairs committee. congressman meeks, what have you heard so far from the administration about what's going on in the -- on the ground in afghanistan? is it fair to call this the president's first foreign policy crisis in or is this a mess he's inherited? what's

. >> michael steel, thank you for being with me. thank you, thank you very much. moments ago, house speaker nancy pelosi doubled down on a federal ban for evictions. progressives are fire rouse that the house broke for it's summer recess without taking their own action. this weekend she carped out on the capital steps in protest. leann, walk us through where things stand right now. >> representative cory bush has been at the steps of the white house for the better part of the last three nights. she tells me that she is nom going to leaving in something changes. listen to what she said. >> we have been saying the same thing, the cdc and the white house to go ahead together. we want the administration to win an eviction moratorium this is our job. >> speaker pelosi sent another letter to her colleagues saying she is urging the white house to do something, that the cdc needs to do something, and she says that janet yellen is going to use allocated funds for rental relief. it varies from state to state. helping 52,000 people. south carolina in the bottom end have help

patel, and michael steele, former rnc chair and lieutenant governor of maryland. your thoughts, michael, about us not trying to make it harder than it has to be and a member of congress saying you can find things on the internet? >> well, we are in a space where we are making it harder on ourselves, at least some in our communities are doing that because of their abject lack of concern for their family members, their neighbors, they listen to members like that congressman, and while you have to be respectful, i don't. that was not just idioti diotic, and it when you are asked whether or not you are vaccinated your answer is yes or no, and when somebody asks you how to address concerns, your answer should be go to the cdc, or go to my website or the local boards of health, and you have an appropriate places you can give, and your answer is i don't want to take sides and i don't want to get involved, then you don't need the job. unfortunately you are representing a group of people that will likely re-elect you next year, and they need to ask themselves if they want

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joining me now are joan walsh, national affairs correspondent for the nation, michael steele, former rnc chairman and msnbc columnist, and maria theresa kumar, president and ceo of voto latino. thank you very much for being here. joan, so house moderates basically demanding that there be a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure only -- infrastructure bill. kind of goes counter to what speaker pelosi said from the very beginning, which is don't send one over without the other. i'm not voting -- we're not splitting these up. we need to vote on both. do you think at some point the speaker will have to relent? >> you know, if senator durbin can punt on this one and say i'll wait and see what nancy pelosi does because second guessing her is a bad bet, i think i'm going there. but, you know, jonathan, you pointed this out before, she did set this up, if they had to go together. as reaching out to her progressive side. you know there is pressure. there is no doubt pressure. and if there is a way to get the bipartisan bill across and let some of the progressives fall off, in protest, that mig

michael steele has formed an exploratory committee to consider running for governor. currently maryland has a republican governor larry hogan. what do you think of there being another republican governor succeeding larry hogan? >> i'm very confident the democrats will win the governor's spot in maryland. we have great candidates running on the democratic nomination, the democratic nomination. whenever there is an open seat for governor, you know you're going to get a lot of interest. i'm very confident the vision i've seen from those that are running on the democratic side is what the people of maryland want and they want to see that type of progressive leadership in our state. >> maryland senator ben cardin, senator, i hope you get to bed at a decent hour. until then i'll let you get back to work on capitol hill. thanks very much. >>> coming up, persuading the unvaccinated. preaching and arguing don't really work. but a technique called motivational interviewing could help you convince others to get their shots. >>> plus, who better to explain what simone biles might

well, the former republican national committee chairman michael steele is having absolutely none of it. >> i can tell you the time, the place, the date of every conversation i have had with every president of this country, period. going back to bill clinton. i can tell you where i was. i can tell you what was said. this son of a [ bleep ] is sitting up there asking like, i don't know if it was before, i don't know if it was after. i don't remember. i have to look at my notes. you know what time you called the president. and you know what you said. >> my god, yes. >> you're a grown ass man. llions struggle to get reliable transportation to their medical appointments. that's why i started medhaul. citi launched the impact fund to invest in both women and entrepreneurs of color like me, so i can realize my vision and give everything i've got to my company, and my community. i got you. for the love of people. for the love of community. for the love of progress. citi. ♪ when you have nausea, ♪ ♪ heartburn, ingestion, upset stomach... ♪ ♪ diarrheaaaa. ♪ pepto bismol coats your st

. >> as chairman michael steele of the rnc told me a few years ago, trust nancy. one more thing for you, chairman harrison, and that is what happens if congress doesn't do anything on voting rights? are you concerned about how that -- what kind of message that sends to the democratic party base in terms of whether they decide to come out and vote in 2022 or not? >> well, jonathan, we are doing everything that we possibly can. the dnc is ramping up its efforts. we're going to increase pressure. we know that this, in september, voting rights will again be on the agenda, legislative agenda in both the house and the senate. we're going to increase pressure on all members. democrats, republicans, everybody in between so that folks understand that this is the most important legislation that we can get passed. and that's the voting rights -- securing the voting rights of all americans. you know, you have a lot of republicans who love to tweet about how much they love john lewis, they love to tweet on martin luther king day what king did and what king said. well, this is

joining me is michael steele and also back with me is the queen of keeping the real angela rye. i have you both on the screen to get into this. michael, i don't believe for one minute that the gop is having a real effort to get black people attracted to this party. i think they find people who conservative white folks are comfortable with and parade them out saying we're not racist. look at this nice black folk with the mega donors. you are a republican and the realist most normal republican i know. what is your thought? >> i think there's a lot of truth to that. it's a struggle for well over 40 years now where you have a bifurcated approach to make the outreach which is a term i banned as chairman because it meant nothing because we hind it is nothing. there's a photo-op and cocktail sausages and about it. what i said to the party leadership when i was chairman was don't look at me as some pied pipe we are a black man in the chair that the black folks show up. you have to do the work and that work begins with spending time in the community to understand what makes us mad, happy

. >> michael steele said they also may be thinning their own herd. kim and david are sticking around. after the break for us, a big day in the effort to prosecute those at the center of the january 6 insurrection at the united states capitol. and yet still scratching the surface on what is expected to be the largest prosecution in u.s. history. that story is next. at story is t at pnc bank, we believe in the power of the watch out. that's why we created low cash mode, the financial watch out that gives you the options and extra time needed to help you avoid an overdraft fee. it's one way we're making a difference. low cash mode on virtual wallet from pnc bank. low cash mode on up here, success depends on the choices you make. but i know i've got this. and when it comes to controlling his type 2 diabetes, my dad's got this, too. with the right choices, you have it in you to control your a1c and once-weekly trulicity may help. most people taking trulicity reached an a1c under 7%. and it starts lowering blood sugar from the first dose, by helping your b

good morning, again, matt. >> reporter: hey, good morning, michael. well, the storm ripped right overhead, anything that was high up came tumbling down including this multi-ton steel billboard but because of the unrelenting wind and the rain rescue teams have not been able to make full damage assessments. we don't know the scale of the devastation yet and more concerning, we don't know how many casualties there are. leaving behind a trail of a - destruction in louisiana as the storm barrels up north from the gulf coast. a camera in port fourchon capturing the wind underneath this dock and transformers exploding from a distance. >> something blew up. >> reporter: trees collapsing, telephone poles leaning over roadways. ida making landfall at noon sunday. we're just east of baton rouge, the rain and wind fierce, first responders there. that tractor trailer flipped over taking this curve. it gives you a sense of the wind and the rain and the power here. exactly 16 years to the day after hurricane katrina made landfall, ida already taking one life. with r

you can look at material names like the steel sector, they aren't giving all of their gains back. the steel futures curve is very robust through 2022. the steel companies have been able to pass off their higher prices on to their customers. tom: we have to leave it there because of the monday schedule but thank you for your optimism, you saved the show. that means we have to get jonathan ferro to damien who joins us. i know john is all fired up about china. i want to go to indonesia and the covert impact. the 10 year u.s. dollar piece, a price up yields down to a yield of 2%. >> i believe that has something to do with the bank of indonesia suppressing yields artificially. what's going on with the delta spread, let me pivot to the philippines where we have a central bank meeting this week. they might hike rates there. we have peru, the philippines. if you want to talk yields you have to look at china. tom: you are agreeing with ferr o. >> let's talk about factory gained inflation in china. the 10 -- the yield is following suit. jonathan: let's talk about those growth forecasts out

when the steel just creates all kinds of havoc on the bases. you know, from. managers, catchers pictures. you know it in just allows. you know, the hitters to get some some better pitches to in michael moore fastball. so there's there's a lot stuff to like about him. >> there sure is. he's been absolutely unreal over the last 5 games. he is batting 500 pretty good with 2 home runs. 6 rbi and 3 stolen bases. of course, that's just 5 games. but really since he came to oakland. he's made an immediate impact right. and everybody is assuming he's a rental. just based off the a's history. age but who knows maybe, you know, if he keeps this up, maybe the a's will try to bring him you know, they let go of jesus luzardo to get him so if they can retain going into next year as well. i would think that would be a win for the 80's. definitely helping them this year. check out the standings and i'll show you some proof the a's are getting things are getting a bit interesting in the a l they're just 2 games back of the astros and get this 6 of their last 9 games are against

i'm alix steel. francine, you are seeing in the market, a reaction. nothing massively significant in terms of asset prices. francine: it was a pretty cautious speech and we will speak to michael mckee shortly. basically, the fed chair saying they could be appropriate to get tapering this year. what was also interesting was the assumption about the hiking rates right after the tapering decision. this is one of the most interesting in terms of sequencing and maybe that is what the markets will take in stride. we can start tapering in september, october, november. it is unclear whether a rate hike could come before they start tapering. alix: we have definitely seen some softness. yields coming slower. let's get some more detail with michael mckee, economics and policy correspondent. your biggest take away? michael: the chairman is ready. he has joined the rest of the group and they will announce tapering soon. whether they do it in september or not will depend on the jobs report a week from today for august and also, the progress of covid. they will be k