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comcast business powering possibilities. the president in cornwall, england tonight. the first leg of his first trim trip abroad as president. he'll attend the g7 meeting with allies, followed by the nato summit and then a one-on-one sit-down with russia's president vladimir putin. what does he need to accomplish? the trip coming as his domestic agenda, especially a bipartisan deal on infrastructure is in danger of falling apart. the former democratic senator russ feingold is here tonight with advice for democrats on how to get around the gop filibuster

and get biden's agenda moving. and white house officials perplexed at the vice president's ill-prepared answers about visiting the southern border during her trip to mexico and guatemala. here at home, president biden's agenda is stalled. my next guest angst lot about how to get big bills passed in washington. former democratic senator from wisconsin russ feingold joins me right now. senator, thank you so much. good to see you again. >> good to see you, don. thanks a lot. >> so let's talk about this. when you look at what is going on at home with the president's domestic agenda, with hopes being hung on bipartisanship, please give us a reality check. >> well, you know, it's one thing if it's simply a president's domestic agenda. that's something where you would expect an opposition party where you would expect the tools they have to stop certain things from happening and maybe to use the filibuster. but this is far worse than that.

this is weaponizing the filibuster to prevent things that aren't just about the agenda. they're about thing like have a kpligs to investigate what happened on january 6 in the u.s. capitol and the insurrection. it is things like protecting voting rights which is being frustrated. when you used to have strong, strong bipartisan majorities, reauthorizing a strong voting rights act. so essentially this tool is being abused to undermine our democracy. it is not simply some kind of a gentlemanly agreement to let everyone debate fully. so it is also frustrating the president's agenda in terms of infrastructure and some of the other issues but it is frankly far worse than that. >> senator, it is clear that senate democrats aren't going nuclear to pass the president's agenda. but you say there are still things that can be done. like what? >> well, you know, they may not want to go nuclear to get rid of the entire filibuster. that may not be in the offing. but things can be done like

making exceptions for particular bills. a lot of people think the filibuster applies to everything. it doesn't. it probably applies to the minority of things that come to the senate. all the nominations. ambassador nominations, judicial nominations, they are no longer subject to the 60-vote rule. and the federal budget isn't subject to the 60-vote rule. certain trade provisions are just majority. so the question is whether some of these democratic senators and maybe some of the republicans would go along with exceptions for something as vital as voting rights. knowing this is a terrible thing to do in a country that already has an overwhelming racial bias legacy the allow a fbi that has to allow a filibuster that has been used to support jim crow and oppose civil rights legislation over the years. to allow that to harm people's voting rights going forward is unacceptable. so perhaps some of these

senators would agree to change things like the rule that 60 senators have to be there to break the filibuster. maybe you switch the rule and say, no, 41 senators have to be there to keep the filibuster going. why should somebody like joe manchin oppose that? it is only fair. and that would be a way in which you could make a big difference in the filibuster without having to completely eliminate it. >> you know, in recent times republican ted cruz famously filibustered obamacare for more than 21 hours. let's remind people. here it is. >> that sam i am, that sam i am. i do not like that sam i am. do you like green eggs and ham? i do not like them, sam i am. i do not like green eggs and ham. >> so if the talking filibuster comes back and republicans are forced to filibuster, will it actually help democrats pass the legislation? that's the key question. >> well, i think it might.

it inflicts a little painful maybe senator cruz liked doing that. the truth is it was funnier when i read the cheese recipes on the floor of the senate to oppose changes in the dairy industry. that's not the problem here. you don't have debate at all usually. you don't have senator ted cruz talking for a long time and then they move on and pass obamacare. what you have people doing nothing. sitting on their hands and allowing the states to gut the voting rights of the american people. and so yes. making them talk, making 41 people actually show up. i had congressman clyburn on the show the other day with me. he referred to it as the spa filibuster. all the people filibustering could be at the spa and it is the people trying to stop the filibuster that have to show one the 60 votes. that would be a very valuable change. >> could democrats vote to

change the 60-vote threshold of the filibuster? maybe 55? >> yes. they so. i mean i think that was an idea that former senator harkin had is that you gradually move it down week after week until you finally get to the point where it is a majority vote. the idea, if the filibuster is really supposed to be about providing the opportunity to debate and consider something, rather than always killing legislation, then why wouldn't people consider that possibility? but i'm hoping that democrats can at least agree, and maybe a republican or two, using their opportunity to change the rules on a majority vote to at least create an exception for vital legislation such as for the people's act, the john lewis voting rights act, and yes, the crucial idea of a commission to get to the bottom of what happened on january 6th. let's see if we can at least get some exceptions to the current rule. otherwise, i don't see how the filibuster can be sustained. the senate is already completely undemocratic.

that was the founder's intention. that every state should get two votes, no matter how small the state. when you add on to that the super majority, the bias of the institution is so severe and is being so abused right now that it makes a mockery of the idea of the idea of the senate being a democratic body. >> amen. senator russ feingold. it's good to see you again. we'll see you soon. >> hope to see you. bye-bye. i want to bring in now ben rhodes, former national security adviser under former president barack obama. he's the author of "after the fall: being american in the world we've made." good to see you, been. thanks for joining. >> hi, don. >> president biden really driving home the importance of democracy during his first overseas trip. listen to this. >> i believe we're at an inflection point in world history. the moment where it falls to us to prove that democracies will not just endure, but they will

enormous opportunities of a new age. we have to discredit those who believe the age of democracy is over as some of our fellow nations believe. >> democracy is under threat all over the world. you talked about this in your book. how hard is it going to be for biden to strengthen democracy abroad when it is also under threat right here in america? >> well, don, that's the central principle of my book. i went around the world to demonstrate that there is one trend happening everywhere. that includes the united states. i talk on hong kong protesters who saw their democratic movement snuffed out. i talked on alexei navalny in prison of course in russia and his network was just deemed essentially an extremist group by putin. i talk to democratic activists in places like hungary who face

a rollback of their rights in their country. what i kept coming back to, don, the reality that the most important thing america needs to do, as much as i welcome joe biden talking about this on this international trip is get our democracy in order here at home. because what people will tell you abroad is the most important thing america can do is set an example that a multiracial, multi-ethnic democracy can succeed in this new world of inequality and disinformation and nationalism. while i think this is an important step, we're talking about not disconnected from your last segment, if we can't get it right at home, we cannot be credible in delivering this message abroad. >> amen. so the four years under trump was really a roller coaster for american foreign policies. our alliances were frayed. our adversaries were emboldened. what do you think america's role in the world needs to be right now, ben?

>> i think, don, we have to get back to the basics here. because one of the things that struck me in talking to people around the world in the trump years, it wasn't just the fact that donald trump was president that made them concerned. that was clearly part of it. it is the fact that we elected donald trump president. the united states of america could do that. the united states has one story that we tell. it is a great story about equality and democracy. we also have the reality that we've not always lived up to that story. and donald trump put that on very stark display. i think there is an opportunity though, don, because we've been a country that has suffered through the trump years. because we've been a country that has demonstrated even though we have this exceptional story about democracy, we can have the corrupt autocrat with the son-in-law down the hall. we can have the people overrun our parliament. because of that, if we can fight through it, that example will ripple around the world. and that's what democratic activist, people struggling against authoritarianism need

from us at all. it's for us to once again set that example for the world. >> there have been so many challenges over the last five years or so, right? biden's challenge isn't just smoothing out trump's foreign policy. the world has been struggling with covid for more than a year now. many countries dealing with problems within their own borders. how does biden rally together on these big issues like the climate crisis when the world has become more insular? >> well, part of that is leading by example. >> go back to the answer you said before, right? >> there is an enormous amount -- yeah, an enormous amount of vaccine and distribute it around the world. on climate, this is why an infrastructure bill that is also a climate infrastructure bill in this country is so important. when you do those things, we learned this in the obama years. when you step up and you lead through your actions, it's much easier to go to other countries and say we need you to be part of this as well. i think on the democracy point,

though, don, it's not just on joe biden just in the came that barack obama couldn't solve all our problems, in part because you make mistakes as president. but in part we need to claim this democracy. we need citizens at the grassroots level. we need organizations like what stacey abrams has done fwhe. we need people around the country to stand up and say we see where this is going. america is supposed to stand for something different. america is supposed to stand for democracy to do big things in the world and to co-exist peacefully and solve our problems. >> okay, you says just as barack obama downtown it and then trump in the middle and now you have a joe biden. the question, why should our allies feel confident working with us, if they know that they, one single american election can completely change how we approach foreign policy? >> well, i remembered the relief that came along with barack obama's first trip to europe where he was greeted with kind

of rapturous crowds and leaders. i believe it was more than the trump years, but i think it is like points to the challenge of the fact part of what those allies we looking at when joe biden comes. they'll be so glad he's there. he won't disrupt it. he'll try to get business done. he won't shove the prime minister of montenegro. he won't cow tow to putin. he is probably going to stand up to putin. that is all going to be welcome to them. but they also saw joe manchin's announcement. they also see republicans passing restricting voting laws. and they're thinking in the back of their heads, don, hey, we spent years negotiating the paris agreement with obama, the iran deal with obama, and trump came along, he tore that up. what's to prevent that from happening again in 3 1/2 years? so the reality is joe biden can the a lot on this trip and he can do a lot as president. but this is not something that will be solved in one trip or one term.

we have to build back that credibility that was spent down so severely under trump. this was the beginning of it but it is on all of us and we have to stick with it. >> ben rhodes, thank you so much. it's a pleasure, sir. the book again "after the fall: being american in the world we made." while president biden is overseas promoting american values and freedom, shocking details about how far the trump justice department went in trying to get hold of email and phone records from cnn correspondent barbara starr. a secret court battle was playing out for months and we're only learning about it now because of a gag order. it was lifted. on cnn's lead attorney david vigilante. he was prohibited from discussing or even acknowledging the case. he couldn't even speak with barbara starr. multiple attempts to negotiate with bill barr's doj, they went nowhere. the case didn't reach resolution until biden administration came in. joining me now, he wrote about this on cnn.com.

david, hello to you. it is fascinating. i was reading it and my jaw was dropping. you didn't know what the government wanted when the doj first came forward with this gag order. you were blocked at every opportunity and trying to understand what was going on. so you still have no idea what this was all about? >> i really don't. we can guess. you can try to work your way backwards by looking at what was covered in barbara's emails and what we covered on cnn at that time. but the truth is they were under no obligation to tell us, and they were completely unwilling to share any information. that was a shame because it could have helped us narrow the search and made it much more easy to protect what we felt was protectable and work with them, but there was no interest in cooperating on their part. >> i want to reit is it rate. this was a months long gag order. how unprecedented was this entire process?

>> for us, it was completely unprecedented. these orders themselves are not that unusual. typically you're going after phone records from a phone company. you're note going straight to a news organization and binding them to not be able to talk. i've been here 21 years. i've been in the front lines 20 of those years and it's never happened. >> what kind of punishment could you have faced if you had violated that gag order? >> i could have been held in contempt of court or even charged with a felony obstruction of justice. it's a pretty heavy sword of damocles to put over somebody's head. >> so i said that this didn't resolved until -- you didn't get this far until the biden administration. how did it come to this point at least? >> we got a good ruling from the judge that we appealed to in the district court. they took one last shot by filing a notice of appeal on the last day they could. which was january 15. but we were able to negotiate something i think with the coming -- oncoming

administration where they had to be more cooperative with us if they wanted to proceed any further. and they agreed that they could no longer use that order to seek information from cnn or from barbara. >> what is the danger here, david? >> the danger is, you don't know what else is out there. it is possible, i suppose, that they have other orders that are issued against journalists right now to their phone carriers or email carriers where we're not involved. for example, i didn't know until the day we got barbara's notice letter that they had been looking at herr of her accounts. and i felt both blind sided and offended. the whole time they were dealing with us, they felt no obligation or neglected to tell us they were seeking other accounts where barbara was probably clearly doing work for cnn and communicating on behalf of her job. >> you said there are others out there who didn't happen to just cnn. it has affected the "washington post." "the new york times." it's a scary thing to see given the first amendment. our jobs are protected under the first amendment.

it's one of the things america stands for, freedom of press. where do we go from here? >> well, you know, home any we'll get together. we're going to get together with the attorney general and staff on monday in washington. it will be myself. our bureau chief sam feist along with my counterparts at "the post" and "the times." the hope is it's not just to figure out what happened but to see if there are more pragmatic solutions to prevent it from happening again so we're not just didn't dependent on the good graces of whoever holds office at this time. that's not the way our government is supposed to work. it is supposed to have predictability and to anticipate what the law will be. that's the whole concept of what due process is built around. >> david, it is scary. i'm glad it got to this point. keep us updated on where it goes. thank you so much. >> thanks, don. good seeing you. >> you too. vice president kamala harris

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i know this will be a fascinating conversation. the vice president is getting criticized from the right and from the left following her first trip abroad. she had this moment with lester holt on nbc that didn't go so well. take a look. >> do you have any plans to visit the border? >> at some point. we are going to the border. we've been to the border. so this whole thing about the border, we've been to the border. we've been to the border. >> you haven't been to the border. >> and i haven't been to europe. i don't -- i don't understand the point that you're making. >> so dana bash is reporting that some administration officials were perplexed by the vice president's border answers. what is behind this reaction? >> well, i think we've seen this time and again from kamala harris, don. throughout the campaign in 2020. when she doesn't like a question that she gets, she often deflects in a way that can seem defensive.

the point that lester holt was making was obvious to anyone else who was watching this interview which is that the issues at the border are inextricably linked with the portfolio that she has been given, which is to slow the -- to stem the flow of migration from central america. so it was a really perplexing answer that came off as flippant. and i think that's what people within the white house are reacting to, because there was any number of ways that she could have answered this question that came off differently. she has visited the worder as attorney general of california. she visited the border when she was a u.s. senator. so she's reacting in a defensive way because the right has been trying to make her into the administration's border czar and that's not the portfolio she was given and it's not a role that she wants. we really saw that come through.

in her answer. >> okay, so listen. hindsight is 20/20. we can say would have, could have, should have. i felt it was a lay-up. that she had to be prepared for that question by her team. how could she not have had an answer? is that the central -- is that what people are -- >> yeah. these one of the most obvious questions that you're going to get. to not have a good answer for it is what is drawn all of this criticism, don. >> so ashley, i want to bring you in here. we're sitting here saying here is what she should have said or she could have answered it a certain way and she didn't. vice president harris is an historic figure. the first woman in her role. some of the criticism she's receiving related to that? is she perhaps being judged by a different standard? do you think that's fair to ask? >> well, as i was listening to the clip, the first thing she actually said when asked the question, she said we're going

to the border. so she did answer the question. it wasn't a perfect answer because she continued to talk and there seemed to be some defensiveness. no. it wasn't a perfect answer. let's be honest. this was not the first politician in washington, d.c. that didn't answer a question perfectly this week let alone in their entire career. what vice president harris' plan is she has been to the border. she has been an advocate for immigration rights her whole career as a senator and attorney general. so this target on her that she hasn't been to the border i think is unfair. and especially coming from the right. oh, now they care about the border? now they care about children they separated for the last four years? right. we believe that. >> ashley, let me jump in here. >> so i understand what you're saying and i don't disagree with it. her effectiveness, her negotiating and what she has done and can do, that's separate than her performance. and yes, you just answered the question in the way the vice

president should have answered the question. so it is not incumbent upon maeve reston or even people in the administration or for democrats for anyone to answer the question for the vice president. she is the vice president of the united states. this is the second biggest job in the world. shouldn't she have had a better answer and you shouldn't be answering the question for her? she should be answering? i think that's fair to criticize her for. because if she thought that republicans are setting her up for some straw argument about that, she could have pointed that out in the answer and said it's not important whether i went to the border. i'm dealing with the business of the border in the place it should be dealt with, in washington, d.c. in the white house where i can be more effective rather than going to the border for a photo op. boom! next question. it's over. do you understand what i'm saying? >> i totally get it. >> go on, go on.

>> it wasn't a perfect answer, but i think the trip was bigger than just that answer is what i'm saying. >> yeah. >> i think the criticism of her performance is a fair criticism. if you're going to play on the big stage, then you have to take the big stage. and you have to take the incoming as we do here, and as anyone in that position does. go on, maeve and ashley, go on. >> what it opened her to is, the right is looking for any way in which they can criticize her on the border issue. it's great topic for them going into the midterm elections. they want to talk about it. so what it did, was it overshadowed all the substantive things that she talks about on this trip in her press conference, for example. >> and she may yet accomplish those substantive things. >> exactly. this is the beginning of the very complex task that she is taking on. so to your point, don, this is a woman who president biden has put forward as potentially his heir apparent.

he's talked about it being a transitional figure and he has her in the room as the last person every time he makes a major decision. she is the now on the world stage and the spotlight will continue to shine very brightly on her. >> okay. >> so she's got to have a team around her and be prepared for those kinds of questions. >> i think that's fair. ashley, i'll give you the last word. >> well, i will say again, was it a perfect answer? no. but to say that her career or her trip or her substance should be criticized by one answer is often what happens to black women. we have a standard of perfection. i agree. kamala harris is up for the job to be vice president and she deserves criticism. but answering one question wrong should not actually be a whole news cycle. she says she is going to the border. we should take her for her word. she actually went to guatemala

because her purpose is to handle the root cause. but we're making the point for her. black women are often held to a different standard and are scrutinized, called flippant. called all these things because we get one thing wrong that is what i'm saying. i think her answer was not perfect but i don't think it should be in a news cycle for an entire week. >> i don't disagree with what you're saying and i accept that. but remember hillary clinton, a white woman. they talked about her voice and she was defensive and she was robotic. it's often. i don't want to man-splain but it is something that happens to women, especially women in power. am i wrong? >> and she's held to a higher standard. yeah. and she's held to a higher standard and she has acknowledged that many times. she needs to continue to point it out. >> thank you both. i appreciate it. >> thank you. protesters gassed, forcefully cleared out just

outside the white house just before the president walks out to do a photo op. but a new inspector general report on the incident is out, and we're going to take a look at it, next.

a new report tonight about last year's violent clash between police and protesters in lafayette square near the white house. who can forget the video police gassing and pushing away protesters who were demanding racial justice? a short time later, the then president crosses the intersection for a photo op holding a bible in front of st. john's church. but now an inspector general's report says that park police didn't clear protesters for trump but to allow a contractor

to install a white house fence. i want to bring in now cnn's whitney wild. whitney, good evening to you. thanks for joining. what does the report say about why these protesters were removed and why so harshly? >> as you point out, there are two questions. in that question. the first is why they were moved out. what the report says is for a few days leading up to june 1st, it became clear as the days were progressing, that protesters would become more, what they describe as perhaps more violent. so there were examples of protesters assaulting police, one officer for example sustaining an injury from a brick thrown at the officer. there was a lot of concern among law enforcement that as night fell, things would get violent. by june 1st, they realized, look, they need to get this fence up around the white house. this is becoming a real problem. so it was june 1st that a contractor said, all right. we can do the fence but we need to do it during daylight hours and we'll have to have police presence while we put it up.

the idea was to get the contractor there with all the materials and then assemble a lot of law enforcement there to make sure that the contractor could set up the fence safely. now, earlier in the day, there was actually a meeting where the attorney general was. in meeting. they were talking how they were going to affect this. the plan was to move the protesters out of the way so the fence could go up. the attorney general was at that meeting but he never mention that had the president would later plan to go over to st. john's church. park police say they didn't know that until like way later in the day. sometime between 3:00 and 5:00. the meeting with the attorney general was around 2:00. so that was the plan going into this. park police used the measures they did because they were worried about violence. so their operational plan was to have all the law enforcement agencies, arlington county police, secret service, d.c. national guard, bureau prisons added in kind of late in the day. they're actually not sure how

that deployment passed. but bureau of prisons showed up late in the day. and the operational plan was to say, three time over a mega phone, to the crowd, disperse, disperse, disperse. the problem is that mega phone wasn't really appropriate for the crowd size. it was so loud. so raucous. that people didn't hear it. reporters didn't hear it. a lot of the crowd didn't hear it. so to the crowd, all of a sudden it looked like police were coming in harshly without giving them any warning, or perhaps for some rioters, coming in right at that same time. so the operational plan, and i think this was important, too. u.s. park police had never planned to use tear gas. that was not part of their plan. that was used later by the metropolitan police department at a different location close by but not actually from the park police. >> all right, look. >> sorry. i know a lot about it. >> no, i like that you're giving us the information. there are just too many coincidences and the attorney general was in the meeting and didn't tell them. >> yeah.

>> come on. look, this is a alaska, i just want to show you this, walking around 6:00 p.m., looking around. yeah. there's a lot that has to be unpacked when it comes to this. i have to run. i appreciate all the details and i appreciate your reporting. this isn't the end of this story, i believe. thank you so much. i appreciate it. only 4.7% of fbi special agents are black. we'll look at the bureau's diversity problem and what they have to do about it, next. not touching is still touching protection. adding lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99.9% of bacteria. detergent alone, can't. lysol. what it takes to protect.

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the fbi is in the midst of its own racial reckoning even as the bureau takes the lead in the multiple civil rights investigations of police involved shooting deaths. justice corn jessica schneider has an exclusive interview with the man the fbi has just named its first ever chief diversity officer and he is owning up to the bureau's mistakes and promising change. >> breonna taylor in louisville. >> hear my roar. >> jacob blake in wisconsin, and andrew brown jr. in north carolina. all three african-americans who were shot by police. breonna taylor and andrew brown jr. were killed. jacob blake, paralyzed. all the incidents are being investigated by the fbi. a law enforcement agency nearly three quarters white. >> are you concerned at all by

the numbers? the fact that 74% of the fbi's work force is white? >> i'll say that the numbers, we can definitely do better and we need to do better and we need to recruit the best high caliber talent out there that is diverse. no question about it. >> scott mcmillion started 23 years ago in the fbi as the only black officer in nebraska and iowa. now he is stepping into a new role to tackle the decades old diversity program. >> what is the mission for you as chief diversity officer? >> the mission is pretty clear. it's make sure that diversity equity inclusion is interwoven into everything the fbi does. >> the fbi has fielded criticism about its composition for decades. the top of the leadership team is consistently comprised of mostly white men, including today. but director christopher wray recently appointed four new minority or female assistant

directors to oversee directions at washington headquarters. now mcmillion is crafting new strategies. >> different is what the fbi wants. >> to recruit a more diverse workforce. >> i think wave good marketing strategy that we're launching out. particularly we're reaching out to those underserved communities where they haven't really considered the fbi as place for a career or even a job. >> black communities in particular have historically viewed the fbi with suspicion. a fraught relationship with the counter intelligence surveillance of martin luther king jr. and other civil rights leaders in the 1950s and '60s. >> we own the mistakes and even the things in the past that have happened. so if we don't steer clear of that or shy of that. we recognize that. and the bottom line is we're going to do better. >> but a group of retired black special agents who have created a diversity advocacy group called the mirror project point out the percentage of african americans at the fbi has been dwindling, from 12% in march 2016 to 10. 7% in 2021.

just 4.7% of the fbi's more than 13,000 special agents are black. >> it was difficult. because i felt alone many times. >> eric jackson retired from the fbi in 2019 after leaving the dallas field office. he was the only black special agent in training and his fbi academy class in 1997. and he is concerned the numbers haven't gotten much better in the 20 plus years since. >> black agent numbers have never gotten above 6%. that should concern everyone. especially when our population is anywhere from 12 to 14%. >> jackson and fellow >> jackson and fellow mirror officer applaud the efforts but they're concerned that mcmillion doesn't answer directly to director wray.

>> i think there are senior executives who are committed to diversifying the fbi. but i think what's going to have to happen is they're going to have to go beyond that. so for example, director wray is going to have to make a statement attesting to his commitment to diversifying the fbi. >> mcmillion reports to the associate deputy director, insisting that his his direct line to director wray. and he defended wray's commitment to diversity at the bureau. >> director wray takes every opportunity he can and mentioned equity inclusion particularly to inside workforce as well as every time he goes out externally and he has the opportunity to do so. >> jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >> thank you, jessica. we'll be right back.

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