it's trump's republican party. i think juanita is right, and chuck schumer agrees there's not many republicans to be gotten. i think joe manchin knows this but wants a bill he can defend, go to republicans and say you want some amendments? go ahead, let's have a debate. i think will find few willing to debate or let it come to the floor, have an honest exchange of ideas, amendments and different proposals. once manchin goes through the process he will feel he's done what he can. big believer in bipartisanship to do that. then question is, is he willing to carve out something in the filibuster? he hasn't told me, but going to a lot of trouble if he is going to let it die. i think there's a decent chance. >>> the house speaker reacts to concerns of her party that the democrats could lose the house. when "the 11th hour" continues. s ? the open road. i have friends. [ chuckles ] well, he may have friends, but he rides alone. that's jeremy, right there! we're literally riding together. he gets touchy when you talk about

republicans in congress. and funny enough, they don't see the care enough about those threats to start the lives. they just keep online. other countries, namely russia and china, or exacerbating the problem. today, cnn published details of new intelligence reports that indicate that russia's efforts to interfere in our elections have haven't stop. they are quote, ongoing and evolving. and part of that evolution is folding republican lies about covid into their efforts. republican lies are helping the russians destabilize america. quote, there are some indications that moscow is now attempting to capitol capitalize on the debate raging inside the u.s. over vaccines and masking. those lies are hurting us. a new fox poll finds a 13% americans never were a mask in public. 17% have no plans to get vaccinated. now, those seem like small percentages. especially when compared with a 69% of americans who are still concerned about the pandemic and have been vaccinated. but that small group has an outsized influence, be

but republicans have power, they will draw districts to benefit republicans. when democrats have power, to a lesser degree, they will redraw them to democrat benefits in elections. we know some of the top lines from our census data will become more diverse. the number of white people in the country, the percentage, has decreased to below 50% for the first time ever. but understanding how it will now be used to alter our political landscape for the next decade, that is worth considering, and that fight is live. joining us now is eric holder, he's the former president of the national democratic redistricting committee. mr. tierney general it's great to see you, great to see you tonight. i am struck by the fact that democrats big proposed reform on voting rights, which is about a lot of us have shorthanded at, the people act, which you advocated for its passage, that not only would it undergird voting rights that we think in the traditional sense, making it not too hard for people to go vote, it would've made a national prohibition on using census data, drying di

listen to what republicans are saying. this is how freedom congress -- caucus member chip roy of texas spoke out against the budget resolution yesterday. [video clip] >> when thousands of americans are still on the outside of gays looking to get into the airport in afghanistan and kabul mac -- gates looking to get into the airport in afghanistan in trouble -- kabul, instead of having hearings of we can push this administration to do we are here to spend $3.5 trillion we do not have and have a federal takeover of elections. let's make no mistake about what this bill is, a bunch of leftist nonsense that the american people do not want to see with a massive takeover of health care and expansion of green new deal policies trying to push us to being 80% carbon free by 2030. all of the stuff is the wish list of the progressive left and the squad. that is why the speaker called us back in august -- calls us back in august while our people are on the outside looking in in afghanistan. >> listen to democratic rule share jim mcgover

it, she's not a republican. that's nonsense. it's absurd. well, i asked him to over choice words berlin cheney, but he's not a republican in my book and i call myself a conservative or i'm going to jump in here. we're going to go to a short break and ask about your break. we'll continue our discussion on trumped 2024. the ah, ah ah! the news me the new gold rushes underway and gunner thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the goldfields, hoping to strike it. rich children are torn between gold and education. my family was very poor. i thought i was doing my best to get back to school, which still will have the strongest appeal the . the me the welcome back to cross stock were all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle to remind you were discussing trump 2020 for me. okay, let's go back to jen in new york. we all know is some strange things happened in november 2020. okay. and we could probably talk for a long time about it, but i want to look forward and, and considering the d o j is making it very, very clear that states that,

it, she's not a republican, it's nonsense. it's absurd. well, i asked him to over choice words berlin cheney, but he's not a republican in my book and i call myself a conservative or i'm going to jump in here. we're going to go to a short break and ask about your break. we'll get in your discussion on trumped 20 . 20 for the the one the make. no, you know board is blind to tease you as emerge. we don't have authority. we go to the back seen the whole world leads to take action and be ready. people judge. 2 governors crisis we can do better, we should be better. everyone is contributing each in their own way, but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is paid for the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes it feel very proud that we are in it together in hello, driven by dreamer shaped by those in me dares thing. we dare to ask me. ah ah ah, i use the the in the the welcome back to cross sack were all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing trump 202

the republicans were able to bury her story. and just to show one thing, there are two people so debbie rimer's story did not come up until after the week of kristine ford. the republicans were ramming this through so fast it was remarkable. they were able to keep a lid on it so it did not suggest a pattern of behavior on his part. one of the reasons the third allegation came up from girl name julie was credible. i am not sure. [inaudible] i am not sure that was credible. there may have been truth there but the republicans conflated her story which was credible with the other two women who were credible. there were two yale classmates, guys who did not even know who she was. who would come to the fbi and the senate judiciary committee in july of 2018. right after he was nominated. i'm told the story they had heard about in real time that brick kavanaugh had exposed himself to one of their classmates. they did not know who she was they described it there had been a deal so wade and jim around in real in this woman's face they cou

mcdaniel: real america highlights republican leaders and shows how republicans -- republican policies are working and leading america's comeback from conservative values and common sense solutions. let's take a look. america is an amazing country filled with wonderful people who do incredible things. too often, the media and liberal politicians ignore big parts of our nation and the people who make it work. i'm speaking with leaders and policymakers to deal with real problems every day. there is a reason our country was founded the way it was. it was founded for freedom and it was to get out from under the heavy-handed government. >> with the largest border crisis the century. texas is not just going to see her the border. --texas is going to secure the border. it is a good look into the chinese communist party in the people at the heart of who those leaders are. they are able to get with corruption and lying. they demonize republicans but they are insensitive to the minorities here. that is the question. [indiscernible] >> the party that produces progress in reasonable time. >> the m

they could plausibly walk over to the republicans and organize with the republicans. not that it would happen, but they could make that credible threat. whereas tea party republicans kwhashg keith poole calls the suicide caucus, his term, not mine, they have nowhere ideologically to go. they cannot credibly say if you don't capitulate, we'll get the democrats to organize. seitz more likely that the republican caucus is going to be like the democrats used to be, you know, not a member of an organized member and that is true of the republican party and that may, in fact, end up being the case. democrats have more to lose on the floor. some other things to think about, though, some ways the present from the antebellum period, first of all, there's presently no third force in american politics. right? so it's the three-cornered contests that are the most vexing. and so if there were a third force like donald trump starts his own party, then things could get really, really nasty. but there isn't. and actually election laws in the states make it really hard for third partie

to you the, because you know, it is trump synonymous with the republican party and the republican party synonymous with trump at this stage. go ahead. gina. actually the situation with donald trump is that he is the leader of the republican party. any other leaders don't exist to de donald trump says i don't care for them much anymore because people have come to love him, not because they're blind followers, but because you compare today's economy and so the bite and border crisis and the total disaster he's made out of operation warp speed, which donald trump created to, versus what donald trump gave america, he earned the respect and the support and more votes than any other president ever in history. he earned loyalty even beyond that. now his rallies are getting bigger . now smaller, you'll never see a joe biden rally, show me one. there is no such thing. so whatever donald trump decides to do, as long as he's still a spouse's, the same values, lower taxes, less regulation, more freedom for americans, family values. those are the kinds of things that are going to continue to make hi

yamiche: many republican governors are defiant. some are banning local officials from enacting their own mask mandates. on tuesday, president biden took aim at the governors of texas and florida. those two states account for one-third of all new covid-19 cases in the country. here's the war of words between the president and florida governor ron desantis. pres. biden: some governors aren't willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic. governor: why don't you do your job. why don't you get in border secure and until you do that, i don't want to hear a bp about covid from you. insight and analysis are four top reporters, lisa lerer, national correspondent for the "new york times," katherine wu, staff writer for the "atlantic" covering science, and joining me in studio, leigh ann caldwell, capitol hill correspondent for nbc news and josh dawsey, political enterprise and investigations reporter for "the washington post." katherine, the white house is continuing to urge people to get vaccinated and pointing out that vaccination r

republican. caller: good morning. first i would like to say a harvard economist once said never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs. god bless you, girl. i have heard you try to inform people four times in one show. they were for something they were really against and you -- that is one thing. infrastructure -- i think we need to use alternative intelligence. i mean artificial intelligence, not alternative intelligence. host: for what? caller: to analyze, prioritize, subsidize, and design are infrastructure to prevent waste, fraud, corruption, incompetence, and partisanship because there is going to be a food fight. we need to optimize the efficiency of our expenditures. thank you very much. host: so you are for the price tag but want to make sure it is not wasted. david, arizona, independent. caller: i wanted to say it is kind of ridiculous, how out of touch some politicians are. these things would really benefit the people. we are just going to fight about it. i was thrilled

the republicans always have discipline. they vote on strict party lines and no one deviates from it. we do not have moderate republicans. to call these democrats moderate is a misnomer. it gives them political cover. for republicans to use afghanistan, a bipartisan quagmire, to undermine infrastructure for american citizens is ridiculous. as to the last caller, the point about pushing voting rights -- pushing voting rights helps people vote regardless of whether they are independent, republican, or democrats. why do they want to suppress the vote. -- the vote? we should not be calling democrats who vote with the republican party moderates. they are not moderate anymore than the republican party. they are extreme right-wingers. host: he was referring to the budget reconciliation bill. it includes voting rights legislation as well. here are the top numbers. 300 $32 billion -- 332 billion dollars for public housing and housing affordability. $135 billion to address forest fires and carbon emissions. there is more to it, as we

it is republican because this is a republican handbook for citizenship. it teaches citizens and republic how to behave in an orderly, decent fashion. thereby giving citizens the capacity for self government and for a republican regime to succeed. so let me conclude with this question. does it matter, does it matter whether we acknowledge the bible's contributions to the founding? and does it matter whether the bible is studied alongside other intellectual influences on the founding fathers? and, again, we acknowledge that the founding generation is drawing on diverse, intellectual, political traditions. but is it important for us to include the bible in our study of those diverse influences that this generation of americans is studying? yes, i think it does matter. i think it matters if one wants to understand the broad range of ideas that shaped the founders political thoughts. their actions and their deeds. an awareness of the bible contribution provide insight to the american people and experience in the republican self government. the wide spread bibl

republican -- republicans in the legislature have been messing with the governor along with making people vote during a pandemic, messing with the election in every way possible. host: go ahead and respond. guest: that is correct. i don't have the exact numbers in front of me, but for sure we have a lopsided legislative body, and that is because of gerrymandering. host: let's go to sean calling from florida on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning, everyone. i want to say to the host, a previous caller -- previous colors were slandering president trump, he never said those words. i think you should clarify that. gerrymandering, as a former democrat, i agree. everything should be fair. we should not try to scam people and move both around that should be -- votes around that should be counted. i believe if you have done your time, you should be able to come out and vote. until we fix the regular election, nothing really matters because no sitting president has ever won florida, ohio, and iowa and lost the election. this election was rigged. host: go ahead and respond to th

, republicans won't endorse them. trump won't even do it himself. the daily beast reports according to four people who have independently spoken to trump about a potential pro vaccine campaign, the former president has shown little interest in tying his name to broader efforts to get people inoculated. why? trump is choosing to stay silent, and thus amplify the worst of the republican base, anti-vaxxers and medical disinformation spears rather, than do the right. thing trump has always in donald abhorrent conspiracies. remember how obama was a kenyan born muslim? spoiler alert, i'm actually a canyon born muslim and obama was never at the meetings. at the kenyan mosque. and the people around trump have always been too willing to go over the right. to night we hear more of trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. according to politico, trump was obsessed with the video from georgia that he believed showed voter fraud. it did not. but that did not stop trump's justice department to break investigation to investigat

to the republicans. guess what? we can't believe that everybody listens to the democrats. host: ok, i am going to move onto the next caller in maryland. what is your name? your question or comment for our guest? caller: first of all, i want to thank you so much for giving me the opportunity. i appreciate the wonderful job that you do. i also want to thank president biden for making a strong decision in deciding to pull america out of afghanistan. i thing it is the right thing to do. let's also not forget that it was trump that made this deal. so if this deal goes bad, it is trump's deal, not president biden still. all he is doing is trying to carry out. trump would have done this if it was the other way around. secondly, i just want to do say to the professor, or ask a question, the way that the afghans handed over the weapons to the taliban -- host: mr. baheer, did you hear the question? guest: he is saying why people handed over weapons to the taliban? host: yes, the afghan soldiers, why did they put d

what is a real republican? i keep hearing that. what does that, a real republican by the definition on our other guests today is anybody who follows any been to i'm says, and if you are, if you don't list jane, i mean you are more conservative personally loose. janet. she's not a republican. that's nonsense. it's insert, how well i was. i asked him to over the choice words berlin cheney, but she's not a republican in my book and i call myself a conservative or i'm going to jump in here. we're going to go to a short break and ask about your break. we'll get in your discussion trunk. 2020 for the i believe we need to look, i was off the field. see what you actually puzzle you through that actually use them sheet which is a big milk with your vehicle. but sure that i would continue to tell you because it was in the famous from a credit issued by both of us in the shape of those in me, i think we dare to ask in the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interest, while you see in this,

republicans have power. they will redraw districts to benefit republican elections. where democrats have power to a lesser degree, they will redraw districts to benefit democrats in elections. we know some of the top lines from today's census data. our country has become notably more diverse. the number of white people has decreased for the first time ever. and that information is super important. it matters. it is interesting. it drives some people crazy, i know. understanding how it will be used to alter the political land scape for the next decade, that's worth considering. that fight is live. joining us now, eric holder, the former u.s. attorney general under former u.s. president barack obama. the chairman of the redistricting committee. thank you for joining us. >> good to see you, too. thanks for having me. >> i am struck by the fact the democrats' big proposed reform on voting rights, which is how a lot of us have short-handed it. the for the people act which you've advocated, that not only would it undergird voting rights, making it not too hard for people t

of course, florida's republican governor, along with a number of other republican governors across the country, are still banning mask mandates in schools. but parents and school boards, they are fighting back. millions of students in florida, texas and arizona are now required to wear masks in class as school boards in mostly democratic areas have defied their republican governors and made face coverings mandatory. the south remains the epicenter of the delta surge. but cases are also taking up in places with higher vaccination rates. the baltimore sun reports that across maryland, where 60% of people are fully vaccinated, 204 of the 271 staff to pediatric beds are occupied. and nearly all of the 61 pediatric icu beds are taken. covid-19 and other respiratory viruses are largely to blame. and as schools reopen with mask requirements that vary from county to county, the situation could escalate and crippled the health care system. hospital officials and medical professionals say. leading our this off our discussion tonight is dr. jason custer, director of the pediatric intensive care u

votes, including republican minority leader mitch mcconnell. that stands in stark contrast to today, when every single senate republican blocked advancing the voting rights act before heading off for a month-long summer recess. so even the republicans can do bipartisanship, it does not mean they will. because saving the anti-democratic filibuster is the thing republicans care most about, senators like shelley moore capito of west virginia is out pretending there will be many more bipartisan bills moving forward, so why get rid of the filibuster saying, quote, when we work together and really put the nose to the grindstone, we can get bipartisan support to move forward. that's what the bipartisan group did so i think it blunts the argument on the filibuster. well, saying the quiet part loud. the thing is, it is worth it for mitch mcconnell to vote for a bipartisan infrastructure bill if it means preserving their beloved filibuster. if it means they can kill other democratic priorities including the protection of our voting rights. while it's gre

why does that never happen with republicans? >>> after years and years of infrastructure week, we're on the cusp of an infrastructure decade. >> a bipartisan achievement for biden. can anything else get through the senate? >>> wisconsin has been at the forefront of the national republican efforts to override the will of the people. >> i will speak to the democratic governor of wisconsin who just vetoed republican efforts to undermine democracy in his state. >>> as cvid cases surge in florida, patiences are suing the governor. >> i don't want to hear a blip about covid from you. >> when "all in" starts right now. good evening from washington, d.c. he was accused of sexual harassment. now he resigned. i'm not talking about donald trump. rather, the democratic governor of new york, andrew cuomo. he was forced out under pressure from his own party. >> this situation by its current trajectory will generate months of political and legal controversy. that is what is going to happen. i think that given the circumstances, the best way i

susan del percio is a republican strategist. both are msnbc political analysts. juanita, the 2020 census results were released, and it is a telling picture of what redistricting will look like and how it will impact voting rights. america has become more diverse in its racial makeup, with asian, hispanic, and black populations showing an increase in population. urban areas and left-leaning cities are also -- they saw a boom in population as typically white, red-leaning, rural areas showed a decline. however, when it comes to redistricting, republicans will still get to draw 187 maps. democrats will get 84. how will this impact voter turnout come next election? >> look, rev, i honestly hope that black, hispanic, and api voters are standing in the power they create for these states because it's the growth within their populations that prompted these additional congressional seats. when standing in that power, we're going to see a larger turnout, but on the flip side, republican-led state legislatures hold the pan on redistricting in key states like texas, florida,

one is the republican party is shrinking, and there is a chunk of the republican party that agrees with liz cheney and agrees with congressman kinzinger. so i do think that electorally, i think we're not in a horrible position. the other thing we have to remember here trump appointed judges, laughed his lawyers out of the courtroom. when they tried to go through the courts to get re-dress. and so we've got to remember we do have this balance of power between the executive branch, the legislative branch and judicial branch. so far some things i don't like what the judicial branch has done, but in terms of this election they did the right thing and said you know what, you don't get anything if you don't have evidence. >> you know what it's interesting. but what's fascinating to me and all that's true, that letter is an end run around the courts. and it's a recognition the soft underbelly of american democracy are the state legislators of the republican party who were the most radicalized and most sort for lack of better phrase down to clown, and stuart, that's what's so dangerous about th

and republicans promise zero support for the president's next massive agenda item. eye they want t unleash a spending spree. brett: we'll ask transportation secretary pete buttigieg about the state of the deals. then -- >> if you are not vaccinated, please get vaccinated. brett: states face more tough choices on vaccinations and mask mandates as covid cases rise. the white house ups the pressure on gop. we'll talk with florida senator rick scott about the record rise in his state and the fight over masks in schools. plus -- >> i never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances. brett: calls the from both sides of the aisle for new york democratic governor andrew cuomo's impeachment over findings of sexual harassment. we'll ask our sunday panel about the fate of the scandal-ridden politician, all right now on fox news sunday. ♪ brett: hello again from fox news in washington. a rare stroke of bipartisanship as senate republicans joined this weekend with democrats to advance a bipartisan infrastructure bill that would provide federal dollars

republican general orthodoxy -- that's republicans usually govern. let locals make their own decisions. so up is down down is up, it's kind of an allison wonderland -- i'm worried that the republican party is becoming the gradual pandemic party by embracing the pandemic and kind of damn the consequences of the health problems. >> well david plouffe i want to play for you the latest from the governor desantis in florida, we'll discuss these remarks on the other side. >> i think the non-pharmaceutical interventions we've seen, remember, we were promised that it would end the pandemic, lockdown, school closures, mandates. and it just hasn't done. that this is a very transmissible virus. covid's covid is not gonna go away, i think we -- i think it's a trend that is just natural. >> we david, as i keep pointing, out this guy went to harvard and yale so maybe the coin a phrase he doesn't think where stupid is, how much is this the actions of these republican governors, going to actually set the public health fight against the pandemic? >> well we have self

but is it republican? is it republican? and in what's sense is the bible republican? what are they talking about here? as i've already mentioned, there were americans in the founding era who believed the hebrew -- from the exit is to the coronation of sault, they see in the hebrew commonwealth a form of government that they perceive to be republican in nature. it's a republican government well designed to promote political prosperity. political servants of the founding era include numerous appeals to the hebrew republic as a model for their own political experiments. let me give you an example. in an influential 1775 massachusetts election sermon, samuel langston, who at the time he gave the speech was the president of harvard college. he later served as a delicate to delaware. he says this. the jewish government, according to the original constitution, which was divinely established, was a perfect republic, a perfect republic. the civil policy of israel is a doubtless excellent model, at least some principles may be copied to more modern establishments. you will find

if republicans are these radical republicans that speak as if they have so much pride, why don't they wear a t-shirt that says i'm not vaccinated? that way, at least the vaccinated people can walk on the other cited the street and respect them. that's all without arguing or anything. and joe biden has said more than i've ever heard any republican president say let's work together. except for george bush. host: let's go to cornell who is calling from new jersey on the democratic line. caller: good morning. i'll give joe biden an "a" and the democratic administration an "a" because their functioning now. under the trump administration, they didn't have hearings. even the one bill that the trump administration past, they didn't have no hearings, and then they passed it, a $2 trillion bill, with not even one hearing. joe biden is governing with what he has to work with. one of the biggest problems we have in america is that the republicans and the ones that are not getting vaccinated and will not wear masks and are obstructionists just like the ones on january 6, are way more of a threat

are very exciting to republican donors and republican activists. i am not surprised these ads are being run. to me, if you're upset about these facebook ads you really ought to call the white house and ask biden and harris why aren't you getting the border under control. to me that's far more concerning than rhetoric in a political campaign. >> we'll be right back. thank you both. it's time for the biggest sale of the year, on the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it helps keep you effortlessly comfortable by sensing your movements and automatically responding to both of you. and, it's temperature balancing to help you stay comfortable all night. it even tracks your circadian rhythm, so you know when you're at your best. in other words, it's the most energy building, wellness boosting, parent-powering, proven quality night's sleep we've ever made. and now, all smart beds are on sale. save 50% on the new sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. plus, 0% interest for 24 months. only for a limited time. do you have a life insurance policy you no long

we have 18 republican senators, including the republican leader mitch mcconnell who are busy cutting bipartisan infrastructure spending deals. what kind of ridiculousness is this? they don't know what's in that bill. other people are starting to find out what's in the bill, but putting that aside, when you have somebody in the white house, like joe biden, who is defying a supreme court decision, who is violating federal immigration law, when you have a president of the united states who is allowing people into this country by the tens of thousands, of the covid-19 virus, and the delta variant, while he's insisting that law-abiding vaccined american citizens wear masks, you don't start cutting deals with somebody like that who won't fix the border, who is creating a health disaster in our own country. you have a guy in the presidency who wants to destroy our voting system, who is destroying our financial system, and we have 18 republicans in the senate including the republican leader, we have a bipartisan bill here, bipartisan, it is wonderful. with only 500 billion of the 1.2 trillio

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republican. these are the most closely contested, most fondly calibrated elections in american history. all during the period when people think no things happening. in, fact the votes could change the outcome. so it's a fundamental restructuring. but the commonality from what joanne is saying, is polarization seems to find a way to happen. winner take all. two parties. us and them. us and them are shifting, but there seems to be a polarizing impulse in the political culture. >> so interesting. thank you for that. one important point that it was the fear of losing the games of the civil war that led the supporters of the 15th amendment to embody the constitution. we tell the story of the civil war exhibit in the debate between stephen and james, -- we might lose, it we've got a political constitution, you describe how that was a pattern for so many of the games of the administration and the warning that the losers might not go away gracefully is not so great for today. now joanne we have a bunch o

it would be very point must republicans and i think will have a major issue in the republican party and i think people will say just as they did with the panama canal treaty with a whole generation of was wiped out in the senate. because they voted with giving will play the panama canal people were furious and as american nationals, they really rescinded it doing it. so the ticket out on the republican senator and i think this bill is going to be similar. mark: will it always amazes me that the senate republican leadership blames everybody but themselves they don't when the seats they think they should win predict they never looked in the mayor, these guys they just think they will glide their way through and it's not going to happen today. too much at stake, everything is at stake. people see that it's affecting their homes and their cars and it's affecting the gasoline prices and effecting their children in the public schools the idea that we don't have a more offensive minded and progressive republican party in the senate and laying it down the principles the spelling out with the ot

this is a republican -- it was a republican/republican election. what does that -- i mean, is he the leader? >> well, i think -- >> is he the leader of the republican party? >> he's the most visible figure. the question is is this something that accrues to him personally or can he actually shape policy outcomes? you saw this outcome in the special election in texas. really that wasn't an ideological divide between the candidates. it wasn't something personal or something amplified within the race. if you look at the special election in ohio, donald trump has a horse. he picked aes co >> there's not an ideological element to this. infrastructure, donald trump has said he's campaigned aggressively against this infrastructure bargain, right? it doesn't appear to have deterred that many republican lawmakers. this seems to be about him, his voice, his visibility. it's good if he wants to run for president again. can he shape what republicans are doing if it's something they wouldn't otherwise want to do? that's the question. >> are we overstating his ho

they're not putting pressure on republicans. they're putting pressure on democrats, is what the democrats from out of the other states are doing. this is not for them in the short term about republicans. this is for them in the short term about getting other democrats to do what is right. the long term is about republicans in the 2022 election and fighting this fight if they lose it now in trying to defeat republicans overwhelming, which as i have told you before, we're at a point in our democracy speaking as a former republican that the only vehicle to save our democracy and to preserve voting rights is to defeat republicans overwhelmingly in a series of elections. >> eddie, let me again try to say this carefully but clearly. the problem with the pressure campaign by democrats for democrats is that that should be done. democrats' hair should be on fire so they can move on to making it politically untenable for republicans to oppose things with 69-53% public approval, things like automatic registration, things like making it eas

republican form of government. a representative form of government with everybody having the right to participate on the basis of one person, one vote, as the supreme court said under the 14th amendment cases. so i'm going to support this legislation, and we should do everything in our power to make sure that everybody can vote. i yield back, mr. chairman. mr. perlmutter: thank you, mr. raskin. mr. reschenthaler is now recognized. mr. reschenthaler: thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate it. i associate my remarks with ranking member jordan's and ranking member cole's and i want to commend ranking member jordan for laying out a strong case and with that, i yield back, mr. chairman. mr. perlmutter: ms. scanlon, you are now recognized. ms. scanlon: thank you, mr. chairman. you know, the right to vote is one of our foundational -- in america and it shouldn't be a bipartisan issue. recently, the voting rights act of 1965 is partisan. the passage has been re-authorized five times under both republican and democratic pres

and of course it shook it down in a republican defeat to abraham lincoln and the republican party, who became the force to defeat slavery and we will talk about the things and how it changed in the aftermath of slavery and the reconstruction period, and all of those things that were life and death issues to so many really created a level of polarization in the society, and it broke down obviously along the regional lines, and those regional divisions continued to persist, but not necessarily in the same way as the parties change, and the democratic party which became a more dominant party many decades later had a merger of southerner and northerner democrats, but the polarization of the society and the parties and nolan mccarthy is right that what we are seeing now is something far more distinct than what we have seen since any period in 100 years. >> that is fascinating and you are teaching that the party system in the civil war period mirrored the polarization period in society and nicely reinforces joanna's point in congress -- the violence in congress mirrors the violence in societ

i want to talk about their concerns though, republicans were not for this. they are concerned abut that deficit debt. as a candidate then-mayor pete, as we called you then, you spoke a lot of of the federal debt. you set on the trail that worried you deeply and that democrats should talk about it. take a listen. >> the time has come for my party to get a lot more comfortable owning this issue, because we've seen what's happening under this president, a trillion dollar deficit, and his allies in congress do not care. so we better do something about it. >> bret: so is there any indication, mr. secretary, that your party is taking advice of mayor pete? >> secretary buttigieg: absolutely, and you can tell because the president put forward a way for this to be fully paid for from day one, when the american jobs plan was released and the pay fours that are in this bill are appropriate for a bill that's going to grow the economy and grow u.s. productivity. you don't see the number of conservative republicans supporting this bill unless it's fiscally responsible and

host: conrad in philadelphia, republican caller. caller: i have a couple questions, two about the voting situation. i do not understand why my party, republican party, is thinking that the elections were stolen from our president. every elected republican from the united states won. the only one that did not is donald trump. so the party was part of it. they agreed to do a down ballot on donald trump. how is it that every republican won every state, and donald trump was the only one that did not win? so nothing was stolen. republicans and democrats, they all are buddies. everybody thinks they are against each other. they are not. on infrastructure, why is it every time that the citizens of the united states needs something for our roads and bridges, the republicans are saying it is too much money? it was not too much money to give afghanistan, what, $5 billion, $10 billion over 20 years? they say they have the money in the bank that they do not want the taliban to get, so why don't they take that money and put it in our infrastructu

you see what the republicans are doing. what really strikes me is the pettiness and the mean spiritedness of these voting laws. they don't do anything whatsoever to deal with fraud. they make it harder for certain people to vote. particularly the elderly, the disabled, shut-ins, it makes it harder to cast absentee ballots and also makes it easier to throw out completely legitimate vote. i vote absentee. i live in wisconsin, my vote could be thrown out if there is a small technical error now is routinely fixed by clerks and the republican bills would ban that. so, what you are seeing is, the way that some of the conspiracy theories from the big lie and the stop the steal movement have worked into this lejs legislation. we should underline it has nothing to do with preserving the voting box. the subpoenas are absurd. the governor is right to call it a clown show. this is kind of a rogue committee that is inspired by what is going on in arizona. they're looking at that instead of seeing a dumpster fire. they're seeing a model,

weak rhinos, republicans in name only, one of his rivals, reckless spending, the republican candidate one in the north carolina senate race, paving roads so you can drive to your china bank to pay for it. is it just sour grapes? i wanted this and didn't get it? >> i don't want joe biden to have it. >> these an eagerness for some republicans to buy into the influence that trump has and try to win over some of his supporters. there's a risk there, a fascinating point in manu's reporting where he talked to some republicans who talked about how do you really want to -- sure, you can make comments like that to try and get trump's base, but you also risk possibly being known as one of those people in washington who is not focused on providing solutions to problems, not focused on ining in an issue that does have continue investing in an issue that does have bipartisan support but rather blocking legislation. >> that's the issue with the american rescue plan, where no republicans voted for it and the democrats said look at the relief we're providing to business and no republicans for it. out

, republicans won't endorse them. trump won't even do it himself. "the daily beast" reports according to four people who have independently spoken to trump about a potential pro-vaccine campaign, the former president has shown little interest in tying his name to the broader efforts to get people inoculated. why? trump is choosing to stay silent and thus amplify the worst of the republican base, anti-vaxxers and medical disinformation spewers rather than do the right thing. trump has always indulged abhorrent conspiracies. remember birtherism or about how obama was a kenyan born muslim. spoiler alert, i actually am a kenyan born muslim and obama was never at the meetings at the mosque. the people around trusk have been willing to go along for the ride. according to politico, trump was obsessed with a video out of georgia that he thought showed voter tampering. it did not. but that didn't stop trump from pushing his justice department to break long-standing tradition to investigate that video. and the people around him

to be replaced by a republican. and i think the politics of this situation would be different. i'd knowledge that. by and large we have reached a point where in the democratic party there is no tolerance for this sort of thing anymore. i think that is a good thing. host: do you think andrew cuomo would still be governor of new york if he had been a republican? guest: yeah, i basically do. i don't think, as i just said, there is a machinery, say, within the republican party that, you know, gets terribly upset about these kinds of things and that seeks to punish it in the same way there is in the democratic party. host: how does the #metoo movement play into this situation in new york with andrew cuomo? guest: well, you know, i think, himself put it pretty well in his resignation speech, although it was kind of pathetic. he said the rules have changed in a way i did not grasp. he should have grasped that. the #metoo movement, which started in 2016 with the allegations against harvey weinstein and a lot of the prominen

. >> why does that never happened with republicans? then -- >> after years, and years, of infrastructure week, we are in the cusp of an infrastructure decade. >> a big bipartisan achievement for biden but can anything else get through the senate? plus -- >> in many ways, wisconsin's been at the forefront of the republican efforts to override the will of the people. >> what i will talk to the governor of wisconsin who is undermining democracy in the state. as covid cases surge in florida, parents are now suing governor desantis to get their kids protected. >> i don't want to hear a blip about covid from you. thank you. >> when all in starts right now. . good evening from washington d.c. i am mehdi hasan in for chris hayes. donald trump is a man who is rise to political prominence was always defined by one inference, lock her up. it was everywhere during his 2016 campaign against hillary clinton, and remains a trump crowd favorite, even today, despite it being based on nothing. we raises theased o governor cuomo was forced out after pres