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president biden returning to washington after his high stakes trip overseas. he is feeling confident about his meeting with vladimir putin, saying he did what he went to do. but back home, he's dealing with a stalled agenda and republicans focus on obstruction, pass passing a bill to make juneteenth a national holiday xhel rating the end of slavery in the u.s. and tucker carlson pushing a deranged conspiracy theory that the fbi was behind the insurrection. really. i want to start now with senior political analyst john avalon and susan glasser. john harwood. excuse me. did i call you john avalon? i guess did i. >> you did. >> like the president today, i apologize. i'm really sorry. especially john avalon, of all

people. so john, just moments ago, the president arriving back in washington after his week-long trip to europe and face to face meeting with vladimir putin. he seems confident about what he accomplished overseas. he says, you know, a lot of challenges. but the proof will be in the pudding in time to see if anything was accomplished. so he has a lot of challenges. what is he up against? >> well, look, he has reason to feel confident about the results of the trim. it was overall, a success. he rallied allied democracies at nato and the g-7 and the e.u. to try to say, we need to show we can lead big problem, stand up to autocracies and show we're the way to lead to world in the 21st century. then he went to geneva, confront

an autocrat, stood up after the bizarreness of the last four years with trump but tried to lay a foundation for progress. as you indicated in the toss, all of the results of that are ahead of us. we do not know whether it will yield fruit, whether it will result in different russian behavior. nevertheless, it was a positive start. but to show that democracy works at home, which it's the test that he has laid for himself, he's got to get his agenda through and that won't be easy. there are some notes of positivity on infrastructure. potential bipartisan deal that would be in tandem with a democrats only deal. a larger deal on infrastructure. but very difficult to get ten republicans to vote for it. we'll see if they can do that. big challenges on voting rights. there are ways in which democrats want to protect voting rights against what's happening in the states. they need republican votes unless they squash the filibuster.

joe manchin doesn't want to do. that he laid out a way to narrow the we the people act to try to see if you can get that through. we will see. but all of those things are extremely difficult to accomplish. not to mention the difficulty of democrats holding power in the 2020 mid-term election. so on all fronts, legislatively, in the congress, and electorally with the voters next year, he has a lot of work to do to show his version of democracy can thrive. >> it's not even my job and i'm exhausted, just listening to it. susan, hello! good to see you. it's been too long. >> hi, don! >> hi. republicans are determined to block biden's agenda at all costs. you've just heard it. so the number three senate republican, john barrasso, this is what he is saying. listen.

>> he wanted to say he would be a one-term president. i want to make mr. joe biden a one half term president. and i want to do that by making sure they no longer have house, senate, white house. >> so biden was success envelop bringing foreign leaders together this week. but this kind of obstruction from the gop, can he work that strategy back home? >> well, i noticed when he was getting on the plane to go back on air force one, leaving geneva today, he was asked about what comes back when he gets back to washington? he was asked about mitch mcconnell. he sort of chuckled and said, no. and you know, i don't think biden and his team are under any illusions here. math is math. i'm not that good at math but a 50/50 senate was never likely to produce transformative results in terms of legislation. it is just not how the numbers add up. i do think that john is right.

that biden may have come to enjoy his europe trip a lot more than hess return home. he even got the leaders of the e.u. and the g-7 on board with his build back better slogan. he gets to enjoy his time on the world stage, as much as we are saying that vladimir putin enjoys the pageantry of international summitry and being recognized as a world leader, i think american presidents also enjoy this far, far away from congress. and biden will have to make some decisions. i think he's been really good trying to buy space and time for those decisions. but there will be a point sometime very soon, possibly in the next week or so, when president biden will have to decide, is he willing to take a first crack at an infrastructure bill? that enough republican votes might be given to him for it? or is that simply not acceptable? that will be in the end something the president has to

make the call on. sense she's trying to steal my thunder and talk about mitch mcconnell, i'm kidding. since you mentioned it, let's may the sound bite of the president talking about mitch mcconnell. this is earlier today. >> mitch mcconnell said if republicans were to take back the senate in 2022, he did not see a way you could get a supreme court justice confirmed. do you have a response to that? next year. >> i know, i know. the answer is, mitch is -- mitch has been nothing but no for a long time. i'm sure he means exactly what he says but we'll see. >> biden was smirking as the reporter was asking him that question. what is his plan to deal with it? it affects nearly everything he wants to accomplish in office.

>> well, i think it is an analog for his hopes of dealing with vladimir putin. that is to say, you can't change another personal's behavior. excuse me. their character. but you can try to influence their behavior by the incentives that you give. so when biden is dealing with putin, he says, let him know that we have significant cyber capability. and if he crosses certain lines that we have laid out for him, he knows that we have the ability to hit back. he hopes that will have an affect. we will see. with mitch mcconnell, what he is saying is yes. mitch mcconnell will want to block any supreme court nominee that i offer. the question is, is mitch mcconnell going to have the throw weight within the republican caucus to make that stick? he could with obama if 2016. could he do it against joe biden? who has been consistently popular? maybe. maybe he can, maybe he can't. and one of the things we've seen

on infrastructure. we saw a deal today where 11 republicans said they were going to sign on to this bipartisan deal. if that sticks, i believe biden will semiand it then go for the follow-on reconciliation bill with democrats only. why are there 11 republicans willing to sign on to that deal? in fact, infrastructure is pretty popular. and biden has purposefully set the most popular parts of his agenda first. covid relief, now infrastructure. that doesn't guarantee that you can get the votes. but it maximizes your chance of getting the votes. and similarly, i think he will try to put pressure on mcconnell if it comes to that by both his popularity, and the nature of the choice he would make. >> my apologies again for calling you out of your name, especially john avalon. just kidding.

i love both johns. i want to bring in the former u.s. ambassador. he was ambassador to russia from 2001 to 2005. ambassador, thank you for joining. i appreciate it. >> so the president wanted this. was it worth it? what is your assessment? >> i think it was definitely worth it. the president did as he said himself, achieve what he set out to do. there was never any expectation of big decisions or breakthroughs. just too many problems in the relationship to expect that. what he did was first of all, follow up on the g-7 at nato and showing again that the united states is back as leading the free world. leading the west in democratic values. and then i would describe what did he as challenging president putin to pursue a more aggressive agenda based on mutual interests, rather than

continuing his presence, disruptive zero sum approach. biden, of course, did lay out our concerns, belarus, ukraine, cyber attacks, suppression at home. and he was very explicit face the face saying we will respond very firmly if the results continue with this behavior. but he made clear they had a more stable relationship through dialogue and cooperation. he said the choice is russia's. and no high expectations that putin will change his behavior. that was very clear. >> let's talk about that. let's talk about that. putin deflected on everything. it is all part of his regular performance. do you think it will make him rethink his behavior at all?

>> i wouldn't bet too much money on it but there is a chance. he may not be persuaded by self-interest. but maybe by the certainty that biden means what he says when it comes to responding to the russians if they continue with the ransomware attacks. ratcheting up the pressure on ukraine, maybe more sanctions, maybe additional arms to the ukrainians. and in time that may lead the some softening in russian behavior. one can't be too optimistic. putin benefits, describing russia as a beseasoned fortress makes it easier to blame the west for the stagnant economy and for the repression that putin is carrying out.

this is a dynamic situation. biden said, let's see what happens in the next six to 12 months. if putin doesn't take up this offer, we have a unified transatlantic community ready to put the pressure on putin if he remains stubborn. >> there is one hopeful sign though. both men mentioned exchanging prisoners. before we run out of time, do you think that will really happen? >> i think there is a good chance of it. there will be a swap. and we may have to release people who are really guilty. not jailed on trumped up charges. nevertheless, this is what he likes, the exchanges of prisoners. the other interesting thing that i thought came out of this meeting was, what biden

suggested regarding cyber security. declaring 16 kinds of critical infrastructure off limits to cyber attacks. that will put putin to the test also. it is very verifiable whether they lay off those facilities or whether they continue with the ransomware attacks. so i thought it was altogether a fairly clever approach by biden. but no immediate results were ever expected. >> we're grateful to have you and your knowledge and what you think happened in geneva. thank you very much. so i want to bring in now cnn contributor garrett, it has been a long time as well. you need to come back more often. throughout this trip the president has said we're in a critical moment in the fight for democracy at home and abroad. he has called out what he calls phony populism. here it is. >> the world has reached a

fundamental inflection point about what it will look like ten years from now. a lot is going on. i don't know about you. i never anticipated, no matter how persuasive president trump was. that we would have people attacking and breaking down the doors of the united states capitol. i didn't think that would happen. >> it is a shock and surprise that what has happened in terms of the consequence of president trump's phony populism has happened. >> so what exactly is this phony populism that he's talking about? >> yeah. this has been a core part of donald trump's message since the beginning. but also, you see the roots of this in the tea party, the rise of the tea party in the wake. 2008, 2009 financial crisis. what we have seen is this

basically, phony populism that has arisen as globalization, has cut off a core set of workers around the world from the benefits that they thought that they were going to get. and in many cases, in donald trump's movement in the united states and countries overseas, you're seeing authoritarian leaders masquerading as pop lists. this is the donald trump only i can fix this. and you're seeing this with hungary, you're seeing this with erdogan in turkey. and u.s. intelligence is warning a lot about these days. this slip away from liberal democracy that ten years ago

still seemed after the cold war, it is no longer the way the world is trending. >> garrett, unfortunately, that is all the time we have tonight. we'll see you soon. >> always a american. congress passing a bill that makes juneteenth a national holiday. not everyone voted for it. next. pilot over radio: here we go, let's do this. ♪ pilot over radio: right there, right there. [sfx: revving trucks] pilot over radio: g complete. how do you introduce the larger-than-life gmc yukon? with the world's biggest tweet. the next generation gmc yukon. premium that's made to be used.

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staff writer at the atlantic and the author of how the word is passed. a reckoning with the history of slavery across america. clint, i'm so happy to have you on. thank you. i'm going to get to your book. i'll start with the opposition of the critical race theory. senator tom cotton, mitch mcconnell, other republican lawmakers issuing a bill that would prohibit the use of federal funds to teach 1619 project. here's what senator cotton said. he said activists in schools want to teach kids to hate america, hate chut using discredited race theory curriculum like the 1619. they should not indoctrinate our youth. look, this is just not accurate and it really shows how afraid people are to talk about race. how did critical race theory become the new boogie man for the right? >> yeah. i think part of what it reflects

is something that has been happening in this country for a long time. that the name of white supremacy takes empirical statements and turns them into ideological ones. if i say the confederacy was a treasonous territory that raised an army to maintain slavery. in some classes, some people might see that as an ideological statement or a political statement or me attempting to indoctrinate students. when it is just reflective of the historical evidence we have in front of us. you just have to look at what they had in 1861 in a state like mississippi, it says very clearly, our position is thoroughly aligned with slavery, the greatest material interest in the world. they're not unclear about why they're about to fight the civil war. part of why this attempt to attack crt and the 1619 project, slavery and racism, it attempts

to turn these historical facts into something ideological. it's not. and they do it because they know the more young people come to understand the true history of the country, the less this country can lie to them. the more they realize the reason one community looks one way and another community looks to other way, it is not because of the people in those communities but because of what has been done generation after generation after generation. >> today congress passed juneteenth as a national holiday. you get broad bipartisan support. isn't this an exam of the time of reexamination that critical race theory asks us to do? >> it is a sort of strange time that as juneteenth is about to become a national holiday, there is a sanctioned effort in state legislatures across the country to prevent any sort of meaningful engagement with the

very thing that makes a holiday like juneteenth possible. but i'm not one to say that it doesn't matter. i think symbolism is important and it does matter. it is not obviously in and of itself enough. so there is a cognitive dissonance that one experiences when juneteenth is about to become a national holiday suppressing american history and voting laws that are to prevent black people from having access to the ballot box in the same way. so this is the marathon of cognitive dissonance. >> considering the way it happened, the timing, maybe it slipped by them. i don't know. but them making it a national holiday really comes out of the blue. do you know what? as you said, i'll take it. just paraphrasing your thoughts there. so your book is call, how the word is passed. a reckoning with the history of

slavery across america. in your book you visit eight places central to the history of slavery in manager. you wrote this in response to the negative messages growing up in your majority of your home town, new orleans, not too far from baton rouge where i'm from. tell me about that and how it affected you. >> yeah. so the origins story of the book, i was watching the statues of several confederate monuments coming do you know. jefferson davis, robert e. lee, and thinking about what it mend that i grew up in a mostly black city that there were more homages of black slaves. my middle school was named after a leader of the confederacy that my parents still live on a street named after someone who owned 150 enslaved people. the thing about symbols, they're be just symbols.

symbols shape the stories. and those stories he will bed themselves into the narratives that the community carries. public policy shapes people's lives. that's not to say that it will raise the racial wealth gap but they're part of an ecosystem of ideas and stories to understand what communities do and don't do and deserve. and how what communities have have been shaped by their history. so i wanted to go to different places across the country and to examine how different historical sites would be, how they wrestle with and confront this history or run in it. >> i really enjoyed the conversation. the book is how the word is passed. thank you, clint smith. >> thank you. so first it was antifa. now it's the fbi?

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forgotten this lesson from the odd couple. because his latest january 6th conspiracy theory makes huge assumptions in a baseless bid to let rioters off the hook. >> strangely, some of the key people who participated on january 6 have not been charged. >> it's not strange at all. prosecutors are still building their cases. but carlson is claiming without any proof that the people given anonymity in court papers were actually government agitators there to stoke a riot. >> the government knows who they are but the government has not charged them. why is that? you know why. they were almost certainly working for the fbi. so fbi operatives were organizing the attack on the capitol on january 6th. >> carlson is nobody for his logical leaps but this is one of the most egregious ever. >> this is crazy and we should

resist it. >> now carlson has whipped up his allies in a frenzy. >> here's marjorie taylor greene assuming carlson is right and saying we need names and banss the fbi operatives involve. this is just another baseless theory that carlson has hyped to millions of people. the existence of unnamed, as yet uncharged co-conspirators doesn't mean they were working under cover in the fbi. look at the size of the mob. >> the phrase unindicted co-conspirator cannot refer to an fbi agent, acting as an undercover or to anybody acting on behalf of the fbi. because under federal law, if a person is acting for the government, they're not part of a crime because they're essentially pretending. >> in tucker world, conspiracy beats reality. look at his banner onscreen and asking, what really happened on

january 6th, as if it is some sort of mystery. and his guest -- >> prior relationship with the federal government -- >> a former speech writer for president trump attended a conference frequents by white nationalists. when cnn exposed this, he left the white house. but tucker never mentioned any of that. instead, he promoted beady's website which posted a just asking questions sort of story. suggesting that the feds infiltrated militia groups who ransacked the capitol. for carlson, it is part of a story that he's been telling ever since the night of january so 6th. >> always with the questions. brian is here along with the former fbi assistant director for the criminal investigative division. they're going to explain exactly what is going through tucker carlson's head. that's next. it comes from within. it drives you.

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conference attended by white nationalists. does tucker really take this guy seriously? >> in a word, yes. this is how the right wing world works. it starts on the tucker show and they know it spreads through gop. in the maga echo chamber, brave patriots were pushed into starting a riot. no evidence at all. lots of evidence to the contrary. but tucker somehow seems to need to provide excuses for these rioters to let them off the hook. to say they were innocent, brave patriots. >> give us the facts here. the whole premise is based on two unindicted co-conspirators. can you please explain what that might mean? as it was said in that piece, it can't refer to the fbi. >> no. by definition, in a conspiracy, you can't have a government agent as an unindicted

conspirator. moat are people who cooperated after the fact. and that's how you make conspiracy cases. they are by definition also one or more people agreeing to commit a crime and taking steps to commit that crime. so unindicted co-conspirators, i think what tucker is reflecting is a fundamental misunderstanding of the criminal justice system. it is not the kind of thing you want to say if you're going to be taken seriously. >> we heard from officer fanone earlier in the show. he was brutally attacked like many officers defending the capitol. the right wing likes to channel law and order. but isn't this a slap in the face? >> 130 officers were assaulted that day. over 130. many have been charged for those assaults. and i think if you asked any police officer in the country, they would come out strongly saying the same thing that i am.

everything that happened that day is wrong. >> a new edition of your book, hoax, is now out. it is the big lie leading to the capitol attack. even after the attack, some republicans tried to lie and say it was actually antifa, black lives matter who attacked the capitol on january 6th. where did you lerm about where these came from? >> it start the night of the riot. i went back through all the tapes and showed what the commentators were saying right after the attack. the antifa, the conspiracy theories, it started right away and it has continued to this day and now here we are talking about tucker promoting an inside job false flag theiry. it is more of the same. it is so insidious. they're presenting seven or eight different theories. none of which make essential but all of which provide excuses. in some ways, it was because it was so shameful, so criminal. it was such an attack on our

democracy. there has to be an excuse. tucker has to present these alternative realities to let his viewers i guess speak better at night. >> and we've heard from law enforcement and from intelligence officials that they're concerned this could lead to more violence. >> it could. i mean, don, i would like to think the fbi and other law enforcement agencies have penalty trade these organizations and -- they've penetrated these organizations. i think they're behind in that area. it took us about five to eight years back in the '80s and early '90s to infiltrate these groups. it takes some time. i don't think even today they have enough coverage, other than just reading their social media. >> thank you. i appreciate it. make sure you check out brian's book, hoax. now out in paperback. the final debate. new york's democratic candidates for mayor making the last push for votes before the primary election. and taking final punches at each

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>> if we don't get gun violence under control, it's going to stop our economic recovery. >> i am not running to get the title of mayor. i am running to do the job of mayor because new york city needs someone, who is going to roll up their sleeves. and solve the impossible problems. >> reporter: and drawing contrast with their opponents. former-2020 democratic presidential hopeful, andrew yang, hitting eric adams. a former-new york police captain, now serving as brooklyn borough president, for not winning the endorsement of his former colleagues. >> people who worked with him for years, people who know him best. they just endorsed me to be the next mayor of new york city. they think i'm a better choice than eric to keep us and our families safe. >> they didn't endorse me because i didn't ask for their endorsement. >> reporter: adams and civil rights lawyer, maya wiley sparring over policing. and his push for the return of a plain-clothes anti-gun unit.

>> the worst idea i've ever heard is bringing back stop-and-frisk in the anti-crime unit from eric adams. which, one, is racist. two, is unconstitutional. and three, didn't stop any crime. and, four, it will not happen in a maya wiley dmingsz. >> i don't and never will allow stop-and-frisk to be returned and abuse people. i know real solution for real people in new york is. >> at a time when the nation's most populous city is recovering from a pandemic-induced crisis and facing rising crime, much of the focus on was issues like public safety, mental health, and spurring economic growth. >> the health pandemic was preceded by a economic inequality pandemic. that we need to go at, in many, different ways. and we are seeing that play out, on our streets and on our subways. >> i understand what it's like to have anxiety about crime in the city. >> our largest psychiatric facility in the city is riker's

island. >> the topic where there was perhaps the most agreement. >> what's more important? desegregating schools? or improving the quality of schools? >> you have to integrate. and you also have to build quality schools. >> you have to have high-quality schools, and you have to have integrated schools. it is not a choice we should be making. >> so it's imperative to have both. >> i think quality and integration go hand in hand. >> reporter: athena jones, cnn new york. >> athena, thank you so much. i want to make sure that you know about my new podcast with my bud, chris cuomo. it's called "the handoff." in case you can't get enough of this. >> let's bring in d lemon. and before you -- >> yeah. >> 98, 99, 100. >> before you speak -- what's the matter? you allergic to the ground? you only go halfway? you allergic? you allergic to the ground? >> sorry about that, i was just doing my preshow warmup here. >> how are your pants? >> i actually ripped them. >> yep.

that's what i heard. and, no, don't show me. >> my gosh. was so young and skinny. it was just three years ago. two years ago. okay. or this. >> what does lasagna of lies mean? >> when you make a lasagna, you start with one layer of pasta. >> okay. >> and you have the meat. then, you have ricotta. then, you have some cheese. then, you have some sauce. and then, there's more meat. and there's more ricotta. and then, you have some more cheese. and then, you have some more sauce. and you build it more and more and more and more. that is the lasagna of lies that we are dealing with on this probe. do you understand? >> from the south, chris, it's a gumbo of lies. no, it's a jambalaya. how about that? >> lie-a.

>> he is nuts. nuts, i tell ya. look, we need a little levity. and we're going to be getting to that and some levity and some seriousness as well. so you got to tune in. chris and i are taking you behind the scenes, with an unfiltered look at our friendship and what we are talking about. so, subscribe exclusively -- exclusively on apple podcasts. and in case you didn't know, a new season of my podcast "silence is not an option" is out now. what does it all mean? lots more work for me. that's what it means. and chris. thanks for watching, everyone. our coverage continues. ♪welcome back to that same old place♪ ♪that you laughed about♪ ♪well, the names have all changed♪

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good evening. president biden is airborne heading back from his summit with vladimir putin. he departed geneva with a distinction not publicly siding w with the russian dictator as his predecessor did. apart from that, this was simply a normal meeting between a superpower and a far less influn shl adversary. the president said, afterwards, i did what i came to do. >> the bottom line is i told president putin that we need to have some basic rules of the road that we can, all, abide by. i, also, said there are areas where there's a mutual interest for us to cooperate. for our people, russian and american people. but also, for the benefit of the world and the security of the world. >> well, to that end, the president says he warned against further-russian cyberattacks on the u.s. he also promised devastating consequences, if the dissident alexei navalny were to die in prison and he brought up the cases of two ameri