good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead -- promises made, promises left. tonight congressional republicans are calling for unity but refusing to take action against one of their own freshmen lawmakers. a conspiror-racist but then only five senate republicans had the courage this week to vote for our former president's impeachment over his outsized role in that carnage.

and right this minute the nation remains under a singular terror warning from within our own borders because of what happened at the capitol. and yet some republicans are crying that it's merely prejudice from the biden administration. the implosion of the gop and we'll assess the damage tonight and meanwhile at the end of this first week joe biden continues to add to his mostly remedial slate of executive actions and what isn't aimed at undoing the damage of the last four years is focus squarely on containing the pandemic. and it's there that president biden's promise to the black community will be immediately tested as the challenges of a national vaccine rollout becomes more visible by the day. there's already some evidence

black and brown communities may not be receiving the shots at the same rates as their white counterparts. and with 2020 election in the rear view, black voters are expecting to see their faith in democrats rewarded after making several historic possible wins. i'll talk to the new chair of the democratic national committee about keeping that faith with black america and more. but first, we turn our attention to the activity on capitol hill with a very important guest to start our show. i'm excited to be joined by the new majority leader democrat from new york, senator chuck schumer. senator schumer, i'm excited to have you because you and i go back 30 or 40 years in brooklyn and now you're the majority leader. >> don't tell anybody we go back that long. we're young, we're young. >> yes, sir. we started young. let me say this. president biden used his first visit to walter reed hospital as

president yesterday to reiterate the urgent need to pass his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, which contains considerable amounts of aid for communities of color hit hardest by the pandemic, but already even so-called moderate republicans such as senators romney and collins are complaining about the cost of the bill. are you still hoping to get republican votes for the measure, or are you already focusing on ways to pass the bill with democratic support alone to get through this with budget -- such as budget reconciliation. >> well, reverend sharpton, we would most prefer to have republicans join us. this is not a political bill, it's dealing with the covid crisis, getting our economy going, putting money in the pockets of people that need the help. i will tell you this, if the

republicans will not join us, we are not going to just sit there. that was the big mistake they made in 2009. republicans said talk to us, talk to us, talk to us. we talked and talked and talked, the democrats did, took a year and a half and we got one nice thing done, aca, important but not enough. we hope they join us this week. if they don't, we're moving forward on our own. this bill has a lot of good things for poor people, for people of color. obviously the $2,000 checks for anyone who makes below 75,000 individual, 150,000 for a couple. butch also we double the child tax credit. we greatly increase the earned income tax credit. working people, largely, much greater proportion of of color will get $300 more a week -- a month in their pocketbooks from this permanently. that's a huge thing we've been

trying for a long time. we will set aside a specific amount of money to go to communities of color. in the past they got all this help last. we want them to be treated fairly and equally and even $4 billion to help black farmers who have been neglected and creating that rural/urban coalition is a very important thing. we saw that in georgia where raphael wornock and stacey abrams got a lot of votes from poor people, black people, people who have never voted before. we have an obligation to them and we will fulfill it. >> let me say this. when we started dealing with this pandemic almost a year ago, you called me, i didn't call you and start saying that you wanted to make sure what we deal with this disproportionate impact and you had i don't know how many zoom calls with black pastors

and with people making sure they were in the ppp -- you fought mnuchin on that. i thought you had taken over civil rights for a minute because you were fighting about that. i have to give you credit on that. >> you came to me, reverend, along with franklin richardson, along with the national baptist chapters and saying no one can show up in church, these churches are going to go broke and they do so much of our social services helping the poor, feeding people, the elderly. the new law allows them to reapply again and given even more help. please spread the word, folks, tell your pastors, tell people in the churches and made much easier, it can pay the salary, the mortgages, the rent.

and the idea you said came from me, it didn't. it came from reverend sharpton. i just happened to be able to get it done. >> well, you got it done. in a moment i'll be talking to the new chair, jamie harrison. earlier this month in georgia, as you said, helping you become the leader of the senate. so black voters can expect a lot from your considerable efforts. >> absolutely. >> and the efforts going on in the senate. an institution which i don't need to remind you with only 11 african-american members in its entire history, three of whom are serving there now. as you fight these fights, you have this in mind and as a priority? >> yes, absolutely. both because it's the right thing to do, i've always believed in it because people have been neglected and, frankly, we have an obligation to the people who helped us. we can -- georgia is a model. we can change the south by

changing the way we do elections. stacey abrams led the way and we elected raphael wornock, who i'm happy to say served in a couple of years as a student pastor at the church. but this is a model. this is the right thing to do, money to make sure communities of color that have been neglected, whether it's schools, agriculture, housing, we must focus on the neglected communities and we can build them up and that's going to be good for everybody in america, everybody. >> earlier this week 45 republican senators voted to dismiss the impeachment trial against former president trump, which prompted your colleague, virginia senator tim cain to

mention censure. you said you intend to go through with the trial. why you believe it is so important to move forward with the impeachment, even if there may not be enough republican votes to convict. >> number one, we're required to. two, we can knock him out of office and, third, there's a lot of bull going on with the republicans. they say let's sweep it under the rug. this creates disunity. the only healing will be is if we take full responsibility and go forward. and the trial managers will show people vividly on film what happened there in the capitol, what trump said. maybe our republican members will change or not but history will say we at least tried to bring justice. this was the most despicable act a president has ever done.

donald trump is the worst president in history and to sweep it under the rug -- i told tim cain censure, sweep it under the rug, no. >> so censure is not a first option to you and you say the managers that will prosecute this impeachment proceeding will take film and graphic ways -- >> all of america will see it and they should. the historical record will be very, very clear. >> senator minority mitch mcconnell has had to cave this weekend except the power sharing deal that you laid out after the democrats won the majority at the ballot box. we know mcconnell has a long history of trying to obstruct

democrats by any means necessary. do you believe you can work with mcconnell to get things done in the senate or will you constantly be called to fight against him? >> well, reverend, we have one goal, big, bold change in america. we would like the republicans to join us in some of those things at least and maybe they will. but we are going to get that changed no matter what. we cannot -- there is such a demand, three three hugishies we have v to do, climate, racial and economic inequality which has gotten worse and not better, and imimproving our democracy. automatic voter registration, getting rid of citizens united. all the things embodied in hr-1, which the house passed. we're going to fight to pass it in the senate. that's why it's s-1. racial, climate, education and

improving our democracy, dealing with puerto rican -- the john lewis act, which defanged the voting rights act. >> what about the filibuster? >> well, as i said, we will find a way to do big, bold change. our caucus will sit down and figure it out, but failure is not an option. we must create change. >> can we get rid of the phil buster or is that something the caucus has to debate? >> we'll put our end tote to -- thank you for your time tonight. >> my brooklyn friend for 40 years, even though we're still young, it great to be on your show. . forever young.

>> thank you for coming on. and now we go to the new chair of the democratic national committee, jamie harriman. mr. biden's moment of truth during the presidential primary was not in iowa or new hampshire but in your home state, south carolina. and engineered at least in part by your good friend and mentor congressman jim clyburn. so black voters, black democrats are rightfully expecting it. as the new chair of the democratic national committee, what does that look like to you? >> rev, thank you for having me on the show. black voters delivered for the democratic party and it time for the democratic party to deliver for black voters, who are struggling dealing with the koef

individual rye russ. we see the di proportion and from the criminal system to our housing m. dealing with an economies that krut and it tends to the communities of color and the black community specifically that gets the bunt of it. even dealing with the impact of climate change and all just of these environmental injustice issues that have a disproportionate impact on the bls and i believe like black voters in black communities are looking for democrat thos i've had very good conversations with congress and with the white house. you have seen in just the short time that president biden has

been there, he's been working on keeping the promises that he has made, speaker pelosi has done the same thing and i'm very, very happy to be leading this party right now as we move forward and really address these big issues. >> now, before georgia's senate runoff, your competitive senate race again had political media riveted. i'd imagine you'll bring a southern perspective. so what did democrats get right in southern races like georgia this year and what does the party need to do better in the south where so much of your african-american base is? >> well, you know, rev, we came up a little up here in before my race, the most vote any democrat had ever gotten in oh, was

barack obama, 865,000 votes. i got 1.1 million votes. the only difference about 50,000 from what donald trump got just four years earlier. we are making headway in the south. you you a and that's because we organized, organized, organize and it wasn't the imd stacey abrams and her group approach ticketing the voters when they got there. that is and if we do that, we will see victory. and when we see sick have i from now, we know that the fwop certainly at the state level is looking to amplify its voter suppression efforts. for example, limiting access to

early rote. given that the efforts are largely meant to suppress democrats, black voters, how is the dnc going to push back on your watch because artfully the to -- in s1 and hr1, it is tackling the of voter prshs from and those who try to suppress vettersnd keep them from exercising their fundamental right need to go to jail. lock up some investigate and i hope to see some teeth in this legislation that's coming up. and what weir going to do in the dnc is to make sure there's the capacity in every state. i believe in a 50-state strategy along with and i hope we get the

51st and the 52nd and dfrmt krnkt i believe that we need to make sure that the capacity of the area is to and make sure they can exercise at right. we're working with the resources to guild and i know all uls we are going to be aggressive and fight for the american people pause we've seen the dumpster fire on the other side. and all these types of people that just doesn't even deserve to be in congress right now but they don't have the back bone to stand up and do the right thing. well, the democratic pear does and that's why if folks want to be a part of this effort, go to democrats on the organization. ep us build a 5-state strategy.

>> thank you joining me is my panel, anita tolliver and susan dps and msmc political analyst. let me go to you first, susan. for the first time the department of homeland security issued a prags appropriate do to this many were, quote, motivated by a range of issues, including over anger over could and it seems to me that protests against the police violence have been over whelmingly peaceful? >> i guess i also want to add, rev, that it's not the first time that our government has said there is a threat. the fbi fbi has been saying that

the threat then because of white supremacist groups through the strit and i think at this point, the putting everything together, when you look at what's happening domestically, if wh we see the insurrection and they're saying they're pro testing. krar these people are ducking the police. they're afraid. they are going to give up anyone they have to avoid jail time. they are not principle tall. flm and they are propped up right now frightenly enough by members of congress. and that is about.

because eare getting vol dated by our government. am. juan eatia, let me go right to the point of this gop congresswoman, congress who has hosted bunked conspiracy series, including the qanon and that multiple mass shootings were staged, following news attentions to these [ bleep ]s, the congresswoman raised over $1 million in donations and bragged about having a great call with thor pred. how does the and neck deep in nulling. >> well, i think are two factors, how do they respond to

to? how should they respond to it, representatives like green should being expelled immediately. hoose a karma fully many after this week after this insur, while still not accepting the 20-'21 election cycle and continuously perpetuating these lies. the ienl thing that you had happen to her are expulsion, along with the other members of the league who believe and spot and say the same thing. when i thought the sid yes of her and i was texing friend in the building had much toe pass

being live nowhere smot. they have said the same lines, tied to the same who are bem bodying the same belief, in what the gop should do is we've seen their namts run down in "the new york times." we've seen and heard their word from the floors-the house and the senate. we know exactly who they are. now ne need to be held accountable. >> democratic congresswoman cory bush has announced that she has had to move her office due to the threatening behavior of taylor greene and her staff. speaker nancy pelosi said, quote, the enemy is inside the house of representatives. how can members be expected to do their work for the american people when their own colleagues are violent extremists? >> well, it's -- it's so -- i'm

sorry, i'm get being choked up here because i'm just so angry and i'm so horrified at the same time. how is it possible that the house of representatives have members that they cannot trust because they are concerned about their lives because they're not -- certain republicans aren't willing to walk through magnetometers, they want to bring their weapons to the floor of the house of representatives. thankfully nancy will say you have to pay $5,000 on your first offense should you go around them. she should stay and it's marjorie taylor greene who should be kicked out and moved out of her office, not the other way around. and we've heard from members of congress who said that i've only given members -- family members -- i hope we look into

those family members because a lot of them are connected to such groups. we have to dig deep and we have to root them out. the only good thing about all of this and the horrors that we see is that we are identifying people for who they are. 20 years ago this group was silent. now they're speaking out. anyone willing to have their picture with them stand behind them or even stand silent should be cast along with them because they're nothing more than people without a frikin white pillow case over their head. >> you mentioned marjorie taylor green. republicans in congress are have ties to multiple white supremacist extremist groups. at what point can we stop

pretending these a few bad apples. >> let's not forget mcconnell has pictures with klans members, for christ sakes. ne have pictures of them. now is the time to expel them, especially since they have delivered the house and senate to the democratic leadership. so now is the time to take action. it can't wait. >> want -- juanita, thank you. >> and the speaker of the house has noted the enemy is already inside the building. homeland security member congressman al green will join us. but first my colleague, richard

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. for this weeks's edition of "rise up" i'm taking aim at an age old impediment to democracy and civil rights in america -- the filibuster. it's a senate procedure that allows a minority of just 40 senators to block legislation from coming up for a vote, even when that bill is supported by a majority, newly demoted senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is a staunch supporter of the filibuster of course. and he issued a warning against it's elimination this week. >> if the democratic majority were to attack the filibuster, they would guarantee themselves immediate chaos. destroying the filibuster would drain comity and descent from in

body to a degree that would be unparalleled in living memory. >> there's a lot of hypocrisy to unpack here and i will have much more to say to the minority leader in a segment tomorrow, but let's start with the laughable idea there's ever been much comity and consent in the senate. the upper chamber likes to portray itself as dignified and respectful, but that hasn't always been the case. where, for instance, was mcconnell's call for comity when president obama was in office? republicans used and abused the filibuster so much during the last democratic administration, they shattered records, leading the solid 44th commander in chief to make this call for its elimination as late as last summer at the funeral of the late great john lewis. >> and if all this takes eliminating the filibuster,

another jim crow relic, in order to secure the god-given rights of every american, then that's what we should do. >> indeed the filibuster is a relic from the darkest days of jim crow. in the half century following the premature end of reconstruction, dozens of anti-lynching bills were filibustered out of existence and not a single substantial civil right bill became law. all because of an arcane rule wielded by a racist southern minority in the senate. indeed the longest ever filibuster was completed by perhaps the country's most famous segregationist. in 1957 senator strom thurmond filibustered a civil rights bill for tofr 24 hours effectively delaying progress toward equality for black americans for

years. the filibuster has always represented a tyranny of the minority over the majority. a democratic change in the senate has made it more unconscionable than ever. the senators represent 40 more american than their 50 republican counterparts. and because gop senators are from overwhelmingly smaller and whiter states, their threat to filibustering president biden's entire agenda must be understood for what it is, a white minority standing in the way of progress and equality for the multi-racial majority. and since this segment is called rise up, here's what you can do about this miscarriage of justice. call, write and e-mail your senators if you have a republican senator, tell them that any abuse of the filibuster will strengthen your resolve to organize against them in their

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increase security funding for members of congress has been introduced, calling for more protection. joining me now is congressman al green, who introduced this resolution and serves on the homeland security committee. thank you for being with us this evening, congressman. >> my honor to be with you, reverend. thank you for using your courage and intellectual prowess to help the people of this country. i appreciate you much. >> thank you. >> now, you alongside republican congressman david swearkirk, introduced this resolution to increase security for members of congress on both sides of the aisle. we've seen lawmakers be verbally attacked and confronted like in public spaces like at airports, which i know also happened to you. tell me what safety measures are you calling for in order to

protect yourself and your fellow members of congress and their staff. >> well, thank you very much, reverend. this is a bipartisan resolution. my colleague and i have consorted and conferred and concluded that it's necessary for us to have additional fund to protect members but not only members, reverend, but also the public that happens to interact with members. we have to recall that we've had a member to receive some harm while having a street corner presentation in terms of rallying people around to discuss issues. we also have had persons to be hurt at a sports activity. so it's important that we do something to protect members and the public and increasingly the allowance would do this. but it's also important that we do something else. i was on a plane when there was a disturbance and i understand that at 35,000 feet and 500 miles per hour, you do not want a disturbance.

it worse than screaming fire in a crowded theater because there are no safe exits. i believe that we have to announce that there are penalties for creating disturbances on planes when they're in flight. and this should be done, reverend, at the time people are on the ground when we are told to buckle up, we are told what we can do in the case of an emergency. that penalty, which exceeds $30,000, should be made known to people who are on planes. it's imperative that we do so. i would add one more things. i think that we have rules that allow us according to article 1 section 5, clause 2 that allow us to impose punishment on our colleagues for behavior that is unbecoming. i think that we're at a point now where we have to do this. if we fail to do it, we set a precedent such that future transgressions may not be properly addressed.

these are but some of the things we can do to protect members. >> the acting chief of capitol police has made the call to make the fence outside the capitol permanent. that has received some pushback as the people have enjoyed walking the grounds of the people's house. mayor muriel bowser said although she aggressive security needs improvement, she would not accept permanent fencing. what else can be done to keep people saech and allow people to visit? >> reverend, we can use means other than fencing to do this. i'm not quite there yet with the fencing. the capitol has been open to the public and at some point we cannot allow our desire for

security to prevent us from interacting with the public. i think there is technology available to detect and warn of certain things occurring on certain places on the grounds. i will think that we have to understand that something must be done about large groups that come to the capitol for the purpose of protesting when they are armed with hockey sticks, when they are -- bring ropes and gallows so that they can indicate that they are there to do something other than have a conversation with they have nooses, i would think so. so i think that we have to make sure that we observe and that we monitor persons as they march toward us and we cannot allow white privilege to cause us to treat persons differently. the president said himself that if these had been black people approaching the capitol or muslims, they probably would have received a different

reception. this was the epitome of white privilege allowing officers to be assaulted in a way that should not have occurred. there was hand-to-hand combat taking place on the capitol grounds. this is unacceptable. so we've got to train our officers and expose them to a belief that you don't have to accept threats on your life. we find quite often that officers will say i felt my life was in danger and i had to defend myself. this is the kind of thing that we have to instill into officers at the capitol and have regulations that allow them to defend themselves more forcefully. i don't want to see anybody hurt but i don't want to see officers who lose their lives in an effort to tried to thwart off and ward off persons who are armed and beating them with flags and hockey sticks. the officers have to be allowed to use greater force than they did use when we had this last

assault on the capitol, the insurrection, if you will. >> now, you know tomorrow on this show we will talk with congressman hakeem jeffries, a former impeachment manager. he said this today to my colleague ali velshi. >> let's also keep in mind that the senate floor is not just going to be a courtroom, it is a crime scene and that the individual senators are not just jurors, they were victims and witnesses to the crimes that took place on that particular day and have seen in compelling fashion as you've shown your viewers thereafter. so i believe there are enough senators who objectively could make up their minds to convict. some certainly we can write off, like ted cruz and josh hawley, but i'm not prepared to write all of them off. >> congressman green, you were the first, as i recall, to call

for impeachment in the former president's first impeachment. what do you think will happen with this current impeachment? >> well, from the floor of the house i was, and i had also 109 other people to join me in actual articles of impeachment to impeach this president who is no longer president, former president trump i should say. with reference to this impeachment, the senators will be more than jurors. they will also be judges who will be judged. history will judge them. time tells, history judges and truth is known. they're going to be judged. the question is will they allow the senate to become not only a crime scene but to remain a crime scene, or will they rise to the occasion and restore the majesty to the senate that is as richly earned over the years and deserves.

this is an opportunity for senators to rise to the occasion. if they don't, they will find themselves aiding the audacity of the audacious circumstances that developed on the floor of the senate, abetting the bigotry that calls people to come to the capitol and defending those dastards looking for speak are pelosi with the intent to cause her great harm. >> congressman al green, thank you for being here. >> we pivot to another, the pandemic. black americans' fears may be already justified as nearly half of the states are reporting that black and brown americans are significantly rind in rates of vaccination. but of course those same groups remain disproportionately ahead in both infections and deaths. joining me now is

dr. blackstock, yahoo news medical contributor. dr. blackstock you tweeted yesterday while getting your second shot of the moderna covid vaccine you teased an upcoming s administration needs to do to ensure black americans are not left behind in the vaccine rollout. what can we expect to hear from you? >> well, thank you so much for having me on, reverend al. first and foremost we think that black americans should be prioritized in the rollout. race has never been explicitly listed as a criteria by the advisory committee for immunization practices. no states listed race as criteria, instead they used essential worker category or people with underlying medical problems. we think black americans should be prioritized in terms of the prioritization scheme first. second of all, as you may recall

at the beginning of the pandemic, we called on the cdc and hhs to mandate that all states report complete racial and ethnic demographic data on cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. now we are seeing the same for vaccines allocated to our communities. we also need outreach to engage with community members, done by trusted leaders, barbers, pastors, in our communities, and we need accessible vaccination sites. hospitals and pharmacies won't do. we need it to be in community centers, schools, other accessible locations. >> nbc news has updated some disturbing numbers from the kaiser health news. quote, in 23 states, data shows white residents being vaccinated at higher rates than black residents, often at double the rate or higher. disparities haven't significantly changed with

additional two weeks of vaccinations, end quote. your thoughts, doctor? >> and this is not a surprise. we know that many states when they submitted vaccine rollout plans to the feds that they did not have an equity program listed within their proposals for vaccine rollouts. many states haven't thought how equity would look like. this is not surprising. they have not even thought about it to begin with. that's why we need the biden/harris administration to hold states accountable for reporting this data and then responding to it saying how are we going to perform targeted outreach in black communities because people will say this is about vaccine hesitancy, and i don't think that's necessarily the case. institutions like our government need to show black communities, why they should be trustworthy. and what it looks like is investing in our communities,

centering the communities and hearing concerns of community members. >> thank you very much for being with us, dr. blackstock. up next, my final thoughts. stay with us. up next, my final thoughts stay with us sofi made it so easy to pay off my student loan debt. they were able to give me a personal loan so i could pay off all of my credit cards. i got my mortgage through sofi and the whole process was so easy. ♪ express yourself ♪

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this week, we lost a giant of a woman in cicely tyson. to call her a mega star is to understate her impact and importance. she passed at 96 years old. for decades, she performed par excellence. what distinguished her was not only the role she played in the diary of jane pittman and others, it was the roles she would not play. she had standards. she had a line she wouldn't cross. for many years, black actresses and actors had to play things that were degrading, and in many

ways negative. cicely tyson would turn down those roles, even if she needed the money because she said what she represented and what she wanted to project was more important than the needs she may have had for that time of some kind of monetary relief. that's why people all over the world in every station of life stopped to honor this woman because she stood for more than what was on the screen. she, for many years, didn't get the biggest awards, she got them later in her career. her reward was that she stood for something. she never shamed her community. she never shamed her people. she never shamed her nation. and that is why she will be dearly missed and she will be always remembered because cicely tyson was a standard that others ought to try and emulate.

it is not how high your star rises as what your star represents and who gets the brightness of that star to inspire them. that's why even though i have known her since i was a teenage activist, every time i would see her, i would bow to her. she was royalty to me. she was the queen. she represented the best standards that we can see in the entertainment world. that does it for me. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern for another live hour of "politics nation." joined by assistant speaker massachusetts congresswoman katherine clark and has keem jeffries, representative from new york chairman of the house democratic caucus. now my colleague alicia menendez picks up coverage. >> thank you. hello. tonight, national security on the line. new reporting taking us inside

the pentagon's decision to keep thousands of national guard troops in the streets of washington, d.c. as we get a new gut punch from the fbi, affirming the greatest threat facing the american people is already among us, conspiracies and complacency consume the gop, sitting members of congress say they fear one of their own, congresswoman marjorie taylor greene who gained praise from donald trump, as mainstream republicans do nothing to keep her in check. parkland shooting survivor is with us tonight. welcome to "american voices." we begin tonight with the latest evidence the attack on capitol hill was largely fueled by a major political party that is sliding towards