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holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the u.s. and tucker carlson pushing a deranged conspiracy theory that the fbi was behind the capitol insurrection. really. i want to start now with senior political analyst john avlon and global analyst susan glasser. john harwood. excuse me. i'm sorry. did i call you john avlon? i guess i did. >> you did. >> like the president today, i apologize. i'm really sorry. especially john avlon, of all people. geez. 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 trip.

it was overall, a success. he rallied allied democracies at nato and the g7 and the eu to try to say, we need to show we we can lead, solve big problems, stand up to autocracies and show that we're the way to lead the world into the 21st century, not autocracies. ten he went to geneva, confronted an autocrat, stood up to an autocrat, stood up after the bizarreness of the last four years under donald 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 is the test he has laid for himself, he has to get his agenda through, and that's not going to be easy. there are 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. there is some hope there. joe manchin laid out a way to narrow the we the people act to try to see if row 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. you have to come back more often. >> hi, don! >> hi. republicans are determined to block biden's agenda at all costs. you just heard john talk about it, and you know. so the number three senate republican, john barrasso, he is saying -- this is at an even. listen. >> officials come under a lot of criticism at one time saying he wanted to make sure barack obama was a one-time president. i want to make 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 successful in 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, well, you know, mitch always says no. and you know, i don't think biden and his team are under any illusions here. i mean, 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 his return home. he even got the leaders of the eu and g7 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 period far, far away from congress.

and biden is going to 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 to him? that's going to be in the end something the president has to make the call on. >> excuse me. john, susan is trying to steal my thunder and talk about mitch mcconnell. i'm kidding, susan. since she mentioned it, let's play the sound bite. this is earlier today. >> mitch mcconnell said if republicans were to take back the senate in 2022, he did not see a what they you could get a supreme court justice confirmed. do you have a response to that? this would be next year. >> no, 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. >> listen, john, biden was smirking as the reporter was asking him that question. but what's his plan to deal with mcconnell's obstruction? it impacts nearly everything he wants to accomplish in office. >> well, i think it is an analog to his hopes for 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 accept it and then go for the follow-on reconciliation bill with democrats only. but why are there 11 republicans willing to sign on to that deal? because 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, his situation suasion with the public 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. thank you. i want to bring in the former u.s. ambassador. to russia from 2001 to 2005. ambassador, thanks for joining. i appreciate it. >> good evening. so the president wanted to meet putin face-to-face, and he took some home for, quote/unquote elevating putin for this summit. was it worth it? what's 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 constructive agenda based on mutual interests, rather than continuing his present disruptive zero sum approach. biden, of course, did lay out all of our concerns about russian behavior, ukraine, belarus, cyber attacks, suppression of human rights at home, and he was very explicit in telling face-to-face that we will respond very firmly if the russians continue with this kind of behavior. but he made clear the u.s. would prefer to achieve a more stable and predictable relationship

through dialogue and cooperation. so 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. at the press conference, putin deflected on everything from cyber crime to human rights. i mean, it's all part of his regular public 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 impressed by biden's apel to his self-interest, but he may be swayed by the i think certainty that biden means what he says when it comes to responding to the russians if they continue with the ransomeware attacks, ratcheting up the pressure on ukraine, maybe more sanctions, maybe additional arms to the ukrainians.

and that in time may lead to some softening in russian behavior. >> yeah. >> like biden, one can be optimistic. putin benefits from the enemy image of the united states, describing russia as a besieged fortress makes it easy to blame the west for the stagnant economy and for the repression that putin is carrying out. this is a dynamic situation. and biden said lets see what happens in the next 6 to 12 months. if putin doesn't take up this offer, we have these strong measures. 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 that. 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 to engage in as a former spymaster is 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 as well because it's very verifiable whether they lie ley off those kinds of facilities or whether they continue with the ransomeware attacks. so i thought it was all together a fairly clever approach by biden. but no immediate results were ever expected. >> we're grateful to have you and to hear your knowledge and what you think about what happened in geneva.

thank you very much, ambassador vershbow. so i want to bring in now cnn contributor garrett graff. good to see you. it's been a long time. 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, notwithstanding, 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 go back and you see the roots of this in the tea party and the rise of the tea party in the wake of the 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

populists. basically, this is the donald trump only i can fix this. and you're seeing this with orban in hungary. you're seeing this with erdogan in turkey. other countries around the world. and this is something u.s. intelligence is actually warning a lot about these days, this slip away from liberal democracy that ten years ago still seemed so ascendant after the cold war. it is no longer the way of the world is trending. >> garrett, unfortunately, that is all the time we have tonight. i appreciate you joining us. we'll see you soon. thanks. >> always a pleasure, don. congress passing a bill that makes juneteenth a national holiday, but not everyone voted for it. more on that 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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today congress passing a bill to make juneteenth a national holiday, commemorating the end of slavery in the united states. the holiday honoring june 19th, 1865, the day that youunion arm general road into and told people they were no longer slaves. at the same time on capitol hill, a group of republicans introducing a bill to defund the 1619 project curriculum. joining me now to discuss this is clint smith. he is a staff writer at the atlantic and the author of "how the word is passed: a reckoning with the word of history of slay

across america." senator tom cotton, mitch mcconnell, other lawmakers introducing a bill this week that would prohibit the use of federal funds to teach the 1619 project. here is what senator cotton said. he said activists in schools want to teach our kids to hate america, hate each other using discredited critical race theory. federal funds should not pay for activists to masquerade as teachers and 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 such a new boogieman for the right? >> yeah, i think what it reflects is something that's been happening in this country for a long time. it's that the nature of white supremacy takes es 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 of the primary source documents and the historical evidence in front of us. all you have to do is look at the decoration of confederate station in 19 of 1. our position is thoroughly aligned with the institution of slavery, the greatest material interests in the world. so they're not unclear about why this succeeceding from the uniod about to fight the civil war. the 1619 project and slavery and racism is it attempts to turn these, again, historical facts into something ideological. and it's not. and they do that because they know that the more young people come to understand the true history of this 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 to those communities generation after generation after generation. >> today congress passed juneteenth as a national holiday. one that commemorates the end of slavery in the u.s. is it interesting that this could be -- you get broad bipartisan support? isn't this an example of a type 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 state sanctioned effort in state legislatures across the country to prevent any sort of meaningful interrogation or engagement with the very thing that makes a holiday like juneteenth possible. but, you know, i'm not one the say that it is 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 that we have these states that are attempting to suppress the teaching of american history and also put in place voting laws that are intentionally meant to prevent black people from having access to the ballot box in the same way. so this is the marathon of cognitive dissonance that black people have always experienced in this country. >> 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 look, your book is called "how the word is passed: a reckoning with the history of slavery across america." you wrote this in part in response to the messages you heard growing up in your hometown near new orleans, just down the road from baton rouge

where i'm from. tell me about that and how it affected you, clint. >> yeah. so the origins story of the book, i was watching the statues of several confederate monuments come down in my hometown in new orleans. beauregard, jefferson davis, robert e. lee. and thinking about what it meant 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. because as we mentioned, the thing about symbols and monuments and iconography is that they're not just symbols. symbols shape the stories that societies tell. and conditions of people's lives. it's not saying taking down a statue of robert e. lee is going

to erase the wealth gap. but these things are part of an ecosystem of ideas and stories how communities do and don't and how what communities have has been shaped by their history. i want to go to different places across the country and examine how different historical site, angola prison, whitney plantation, new york city among others, how they wrestle with and confront their relationship to this history or run from it. >> i really enjoy this conversation. i hope you will come back and appear on this program. clint smith, thank you so much. the book is "how the word is passed." thank you, clint smith. >> thank you. so first it was antifa. now it's the fbi? tucker carlson's newest baseless theory about the insurrection and how he is spreading it to millions of people. next.

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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 people called unindicted co-conspirators were actually government agitator, 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. >> reporter: carlson is known for his logical leaps, but this is one of his most egregious ever. >> this is crazy and we should resist it. >> reporter: now carlson has whipped up his allies into a frenzy. >> whoo! >> here's marjorie taylor greene assuming carlson is right and saying we need names and answers about the fbi operatives who were involved.

but this is just yet another baseless theory that carlson has hyped to millions of people. the existence of unnamed, as yet uncharged co-conspirators does not mean that they were working undercover for the fbi. just look at the size of the mob. this is a massive case. >> the phrase unindicted co-conspirator absolutely 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 actually part of a crime because they're essentially pre10:00. >> but in tucker world, conspiracy beats reality. just look at his banner on screen asking what really happened on january 6, as if it's some sort of mystery. and his guest -- >> prior relationship with the federal government -- >> darrin beatie, a former speech writer for donald trump attended a conference frequented by white nationalists. and when cnn exposed this, he left the white house.

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so the fox propaganda network pushing the basel less conspiracy that government agentses planned the capitol insurrection. gentlemen, thank you so much. brian, i appreciate the report just before the break. as you mentioned, this whole story line comes from a site run by a former trump white house speech writer who left the white house after he attended a 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 a fringe website, gets on the tucker show and spreads all throughout the gop. that's what happened in the past 24 hours.

in the maga echo chamber, the idea that brave patriots were trapped by the fed, 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. >> chris, give us the fax here. the whole premise is based on two unindicted co-conspirators. can you please explain what that might mean? as elie honig said in brian's 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. don, most unindicted co-conspirators are people who cooperated after the fact. by the way, 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. >> chris, we heard from officer michael fanone earlier in the show. he was brutally attacked like many officers defending the capitol. the right wing likes to channel champion law and order. but isn't indulging these sorts of conspiracies a slap in the face to law enforcement? >> it is. 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 was wrong. >> brian, let's talk 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. what did you learn about where these lies came from? >> it started on 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 craziness, all those conspiracy theorys to divert blame. it started right away, and it's continued to this day. here we are talking about tucker promoting an inside job false flag theory. it is more of the same. it is so insidious. they're presenting seven or eight different theories. none of which make sense, 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 in order to let his viewers sleep better at night, to be honest, don. >> 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 penetrated these organizations and actually have informants in 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, chris. thank you, brian. 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 other. stay with us.

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debate highlights. >> the leading democratic contenders are here tonight. >> with early voting already in progress and the election less than a week away, the top contenders in new york city's democratic mayoral primary, making their last pitch to voters in the final debate. >> 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.

never went in front of them. >> reporter: adams and civil rights lawyer maya wiley sparring over policing, particularly adams' defense of the nypd's stop and frix tack tibbs, and his push for the return of a plainclothes 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 administration. >> 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 was on 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're seeing that play out on our streets and on our subways. >> i understand what it is to have anxiety about crime in our 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. >> athena jones, cnn, new york. >> athena, thank you so much. i want to make sure 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? >> oh, i was just getting ready for the show. sorry. sorry about that, i was just doing my preshow warm-up. >> 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 is another layer of pasta. 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?

[ laughter ] >> you go ahead. >> i'm from the south, chris. it's a gumbo of lies. no, it's a jambalaya. >> 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've 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. no, he's not in his room. ♪

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