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their desires that they want to blow up the capitol and kill as many members as possible with a direct nexus to the state of the union which we know that date has not been identified. >> the a house hearing on security failure, chief pitman said that very threat is the reason security remains elevated around the capitol nearly two months later. she told lawmakers that capitol police didn't ignore intelligence about the risk of violence but said the intelligence that had been gathered offered no credible threat about the siesz of the riot. she was asked about an fbi report that warned of war at capitol on january 6th and noted an online threat discussed specific calls for violence stating be ready to fight. congress needs to hear glass breaking. doors being kicked in and blood from their blm, meaning black

lives matter and antifa slave soldiers being spilled. get violent. she acknowledged the police receive that assessment but it wasn't forwarded up the chain. >> it was shared with task force ats that are embedded from capitol police with the fbi. they sent the e-mail they received to a lieutenant within the protective and intelligence operation side of the house. that information was not then forwarded any further up the chain. that is a lesson learned from u.s. capitol police. >> meanwhile we learn new details about the scope of the attack. an estimated 10,000 attendees of the rally leading to the siege dissended on the capitol grounds and 800 made their way into the

building. that's why nancy pelosi is pushing forward with a 9/11 still commission. the two top republicans in congress who stood by the disgraced former president's big lie leading toup the take on the capitol even though they acknowledged he was responsible for it, are trying to obstruct that full accounting saying it's unfair to republicans. >> it seems most of this is politically driven and it seems like she is setting up a system to fail. >> speaker pelosi started by proposing a commission that would be partisan by design. an inquiry with a hard wired partisan slant would never be legitimate in the eyes of the american people. >> before retreating into his shell, mitch mcconnell said the commission should look at violent extremism from the left which is about as deranged as wisconsin republican senator moscow ron johnson pushing a conspiracy theory earlier this week that fake trump supporters

were behind the riot and real trump supporters were too busy carrying their grand kids to the capitol be the culprits. speaker pelosi said she was disappointed in the senate minority leader. >> i had the impression he wanted to have a january 6th, similar to 9/11 commission. it seemed only spoke that he was taken a page out of the book of senator johnson. >> meanwhile, while republicans are desperately trying to move on from the terror of january 6th, the biden administration is tackling it head on. in an op-ed homeland security secretary wrote, for several years the united states has been suffering an up surge in domestic violent extremism. the horror of seeing the u.s. capitol, one of the pillars of our democracy attacked was a brutal example of our suffering and it compels us all to action.

emphasis on all. michael steel, former chair of the republican national committee. thank you for being here. congressman, i want to start with you. if the leaders of the republican house and senate, the republican caucuses in the house and senate believe that the having a 9/11 commission would be unfair to republicans, that implies that they either understand that republicans were involved or complicit and they understand if you unfold all that happened, it will implicate republicans. i point you to one of your colleagues in air quotes since she's just a troll most of the time. marjorie taylor greene, one of her friends refuted her claims that it was really antifa saying

it was us. i was there. i was part of it. do you think what is concerning republicans in either chamber is that they will get caught out if there was a 9/11 style commission? >> good to be with you. i'm not going to speak for the republicans. i'll say it's con founding. i don't understand their opposition to the reasonable proposal that the speaker has made in terms of having the blue ribbon commission particularly after the very startling testimony that we heard today from the acting chief which who you played in part. i would hope that every member of congress would want to have a commission take an objective look at fact and ensure we're taking appropriate security precautions here at the capitol complex given what the acting police chief testified to today. i don't know about trying to explain the rationale of the colleague you mentioned or any of the others. >> i will allow them to explain

themselves. i'm jumping up. this is mitch mcconnell. this is what mitch mcconnell said in response to your fellow impeachment managers case. here was mitch mcconnell's conclusion after he voted to acquit the former president. here he is. sgla there's no question, none. that president trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. >> same question to you elizabeth newman. if you were investigating this case on a commission, a 9/11 style commission, wouldn't you have to look at the former president who mitch mcconnell himself blamed for the attack and look at other republicans who were involved in inciting that riot?

>> i'm a believer in a fully bipartisan, objective review of what all of the factors that led to january 6th, but i think we need to go broader and i've been calling for there to be a 9/11 like commission for over a year. i testified before congress a year ago this week and said the federal government does not have the tools we need to be able to go after this threat. it's very difficult for us to do this in the executive branch or the legislative branch. it's highly political to look into what kind of tools we might need to best address the threat. i warned them that we were on the precipice of some event that ended up manifesting as january 6th. here we are on the other side. sadly now needing to investigate what actually happened on january 6th, which is very important. if we don't go look at the broader trends, the disinformation that donald trump absolutely took advantage of, but he did not create. if we don't look at the rise of

violent white supremacy that's been happening for a decade or the problem of malitias happening well outside of january 6th then we'll miss the point. we need to have a broad look at all of those factors in order to get to the right recommendations of what we need to do as a government and a society. i'll say one other thing with regards to mitch mcconnell we need to look at all violent extremism. i say the democrats should take him up on that. the facts are going to bear out that the threat is coming from what we call violent right wing extremism. it's not coming from the left. in the name of creating that bipartisan feel, if that's what the right wantss to look at, let that be part of the scope. >> yeah, bring it. i challenge them to find 1,000 antifa since they think they are living under every one's bed. the other issue is, michael, if there was an honest and thorough going accounting of what brought

us here, there would be a requirement to look into what amounts to parts of the right wing base. of the republican voting base because the people who are a part of that extremist movement whether they vote or not, they want and tend to support republican and conservative government. isn't that the issue. this is mitch mcconnell after he said that dude was responsible. donald trump did it. here was him tonight on fox. >> if the president was the party's nominee, would you support him? >> the nominee of the party, absolutely. >> absolutely. at the end of the day, michael, they are worried they need those people to vote for them. >> they do. >> the white supremacists and the neo nazis to vote for them. >> they do.

it encapsulate the fear they have that 25, 30% of the base will walk away from them, primary them, scream at them, yell at them. he says that it was this bad behavior that brought about the insurrection on january 6th but if he's the nominee of our party, he's my man. i'll be with him 100%. i can not agree more with elizabeth. i wish to heaven someone would listen to what she is saying because she's absolutely right. this is not something that just happened on january 6th. this is something that has been in making for quite some time. so, the democrats are strategic, they will call the bluff of the republicans and say you think everything is political. you see everything is partisan, what do you want to do? we'll do that. we will include blm. we will include antifa.

we will include everybody. we'll look at every protest that's taken place over the last five, ten years. the facts will bear out truth. that truth is what a lot of these folks are stoking this stuff don't want revealed. marjorie taylor greene's they grift off of that lie. that big lie is how they are where they are. let's expose it. hopefully they are summary ri removed from the body politic as they should be and maybe some of these republicans will see, oh, i guess the american people are right. we got a problem meaning us republicans. >> 100%. i double dare them. put black lives matter in there. we reported on this very show about all of the incidents where black lives matter will hold

march. they don't come arm. the sun goes down and people who are not black lives matter, black lives matter are filming breaking windows and starts fires because they want to implicate black lives matter to create talking point for the people they support, politically. it's happened so many times. we'll give them tape. the reid out will send them some of our reports. we report on this. we double dare you. black lives matter has been a movement about stopping police violence. they were flying trump flags. good luck. do it. congressman, the threat to the inaugural, the threat to the inaugural, the threat of the potential march 4th. we're hearing all of this swirling around. are you confident that the capitol police, right now, are prepared in terms of their security protocols to defend the capitol and protect the capitol for the inaugural and for whatever might happen in march?

>> i want to say this with respect to domestic terrorism, i think there's consensus in the congress it's a serious and lethal threat to our country. the judiciary committee is taking that issue up and i think that judge garland as our next attorney general, he made clear that this will be a priority of his. with respect -- >> is it a consensus? i don't mean to interrupt you. is it a consensus? >> the caucus. i should clarify. >> okay. in the democratic caucus. >> with respect to the chairwoman to have judiciary subcommittee on crime. consensus in the view of the congressional black caucus, i think there's consensus there. obviously, we'll have to do more work to convince some of our other colleagues. in terms of security concern, i would say today's hearing, i thought provided a better ins e understanding of the u.s. capitol police need and resources. obviously, we'll have o the take some significant and sub stan

-- substantive steps. >> on the homeland security front in terms of immigration, there's been an attended rebrand of the unrebrandable figure of stephen miller who is out there trying the seem less creepy and give interviews. he's trying to wage war against the current president, against president biden's immigration policy by trying to wrap the former president around biden's policy to try to make it look like he's continuing them and to try to flip the sort of story line on him. far be it from us to brace yourselves for this. this was stephen miller. he was on fox news. here he was trying to call the

current -- the current president's policies inhumane. >> what we are seeing here is the cruelty and inhumanity of joe biden's immigration policies. he came into office and announced there's an open door and that young people who come into this country illegally are going to be resettled instead of returned. he's forcing thousands of young children into the arms of snugglers, traffickers, into the arms of coyotes. they are being put in harm's way because of a policy choice joe biden made to restore catch and release. that is cruel. that is inhumane. >> that dude will never not be creepy. what he's doing is that he's actually behind the scenes calling on officials to collect internal information for future lawsuits. he is calling on publicly law enforcement agents to defy

president biden's policy and run a propaganda war that it's already a catastrophe. he wants to restore the anti-brown, antiblack immigration policies he's snuggled up to since college. what do you make of that aspect? >> not surprised. sounds exactly like the kind of conniving that stephen does. he single handedly destroyed one of the best opportunities for immigration reform in early 2018. the deal had been done. everything was on board and it was him that blew it up. it's so ruined, the relationships with members of congress. you can't seem to get your act together and make an agreement

that you can stick with and the idea that it's stephen back on the hill with the very people that really loathed him. they don't like him. i'm not going deny there are probably handful of very, very trumpian to their core members of congress that lap up any attention that stephen gives them. the republicans that just hold their nose and tolerate trump, they really do not like stephen. if you were trying to send your ambassador to the hill to try to make sure that your agenda is preserved, i don't know that stephen is the best person to do that. i could go on. he's not making a compelling argument here. >> he's weird. very quickly, i have one final question for the congressman. michael, you and i talked about this before. the republican party, assuming it can survive this with the one

or two people of color in it. that's not true. what is the point of sending that guy back out to further alienate anyone under age 40 who is looking at the republican party as a racist party that embraces neo nazism. why send that guy back out? >> you still see the influences of the trump-esque kind of environment that's been created. number two there's the set up place for 2022 to lay down the tracks as early as possible, to categorize and box in the biden administration around this notion that now he's opened up the borders and we're over run by these illegal immigrants and to elizabeth's point, you have to understand there's the congressional play that is why would you do that. they don't give a rat's poottie

about that. it's the broader messaging to set the democrats back on the heels on this issue on immigration. guess where? with white suburban women. this play is going to be one that you got to watch evolve over time. >> we are out of time. very quickly, yes or no. is the $15 an hour going to pass? >> i think so. i think so. >> yes. excellent. thank you all very much. coming up, the report on the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi won't just impicate the saudi crown prince. it will expose the trump, kushner, mnuchin relationship in that part of the world. ted cancun cruz is concerned. they are concerned about mister potato head.

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the biden administration is planning to release an intelligence report that concludes that saudi crown prince directly approved the killing of jamal khashoggi back in 2018. the journalist from the washington post who openly criticized the saudi arabian

government was lured and murder bid team of operatives with close ties to the crown prince. the saudi government originally denied the murder and claimed it was an accident. an accident involving a bone saw. we known the crown prince was responsible for more than two years now. the release of the report marks a big shift in policy. we had one focused on the money saudi arabia spent on u.s. weapons who refused to acknowledge mbs involvement. instead of speaking out against this human rights violation tlens an american rez dents, our president released a statement titled standing with saudi arabia where he noted the world is a dangerous place and it could be the crown prince had knowledge. maybe he did and maybe he didn't. candidate biden had a very different take.

>> i would make it clear, we're not going to sell more weapons to them. we were going to make them pay the price and make them the pariah that they are. >> late today the white house announced president biden spoke with saudi arabia's king. the read out says biden confirmed the importance biden placed on human rights and the rule of law. richard, what will we learn in this report, to your knowledge, that is new? will we learn anything new here? >> we haven't seen the report so there could be new information. the new fact is it's being released at all. there was considerable reporting at the time and a lot of people in the intelligence community

about two years ago when khashoggi was killed and a lot of leaks and a lot of -- there was quite a bit of detail how the u.s. was convinced at high degree of certainty that the saudis were behind the murder because if you remember, initially, the saudis said they had nothing to do with it . this was a mysterious disappearance. this well known columnist for the washington post walked into the saudi consulate and never left. the initial response was to shrug their shoulders. we learned quite a bit at the time. now to see it come out in this way, very early one of the first major foreign policy moves from president biden. that is the significance.

we'll see what is in the report but the timing may be more revealing than the details itself. >> let me play what the former president said when he was asked about the person who was an american resident. he was a columnist at the washington post. here is what he said when asked about that murder. >> they spent 400 to 450 billion over a period of time. all money, all jobs. >> that's the price. as long as they keep buys, you'll over look this behavior. >> i'm not like a fool that says we don't want to do business with them. take their money chuck. >> he later boasted he saved his a. he said he didn't do it. he said he didn't do it. that was good enough for me. money was always behind this. money was always behind the indifference of the previous administration? >> yes. not only arms sales. the truth is when we saw january

6th, the insurrection, we saw white supremacists try to over throw a democracy and install a dictator. dictators around the world tried to buy him off. if you remember in december 2018, apologies, 15. at mar-a-lago, 20 days before his inauguration, trump said well, i had a great offer from an emirate businessman. he offered to bribe me, basically. he offered $20 billion. i had to decline. that message was heard from dictators around the middle east who start understanding that trump was for sale. america was for sale. immediately the first trip overseas was to saudi arabia. then we start seeing every official from pompeo, to mnuchin

going back and forts to saudi arabia. we had every policy regarding the middle east that favored the saudis and emirates. we know there were business deals. donald trump blurred the line between his business interest and america's policy. jamal khashoggi is the peak. it's the -- when we saw his killing, we realized immediately and i hope in the report will come out that the brother at the time was ambassador. he assured jamal khashoggi he could go to the embassy and be safe. those calls, probably are heard by our intelligence. the fact that donald trump understood immediately that there was huge involvement not only by mbs but the whole royal family who looked at donald trump as america's and they dealt with him as he's an

american dictator. >> richard, when you think about it, you also -- i think about the close buddy buddy relationship between jared kushner and mbs. they're what's apping. i wonder if he might see some what's app conversation in this report. he had a weirdly relationship. there were times he disappeared in the middle east. next thing you know cutter is cut off. i wonder if we might anticipate his involvement and whatever was going on in that relationship. >> i think that will be very interesting to see. will this investigation, will what is revealed go that far? will it focus on temp set cover up, for lack of a better word. why president trump turned a blind eye?

will that be part of this? it doesn't have to be if they just want to talk about saudi arabia and they want to talk about what saudi arabia did and what information they had and what intercepts and who on mbs -- who in the inner circle was in contact with the team of hitman who had the bone saw, some speculation about what may have happened to khashoggi's remains because they still have never been found. that's one thing. if they also then focus on the trump administration, what the trump administration knew, what trump administration did with this intelligence, correspondences between jared kushner and mbs, i would be quite surprised if it went to that level of detail. it's much more domestically focused report. we'll see. that will be a different level of report that i think that i'm expecting.

>> military forces this evening conducted air strikes on infrastructure by militant groups in eastern syria. the strikes were authorized in response to recent attacks against america and coalition personnel in iraq. what do you know about that, if anything? >> not very much about the specific strike. there had been -- there's been an escalation of attacks against u.s. personnel. there had been pressure on the biden administration. this administration like with putting out this report is establishing tone. it is trying to set up boundaries. it's sending a message to the crown prince of saudi arabia that that kind of behavior, killing journalists and then

expecting to get away with it and expecting impunity will not continue. that's the message from this report. from this military strike on infrastructure is sending a message to the malitias that just because there's a new administration, don't assume things have changed and they will continue to keep pressure on those who try to harm u.s. personnel in the war zone. >> i wonder if that new message might include taking a second look at the things that steve mnuchin doing. he's setting up business, setting upshot to do a well fund in middle east which seems quite -- your thoughts? >> i think it's crucial. it's about substance. the middle east understand two languages well. power. they also understand there must be a punishment, impunity. they understand there should be accountability. the murder of jamal khashoggi

started with when trump embolden, he started sending death squads. they threatened a former fbi agent. they send death squad to kidnap people from around the world. we're talking about a rogue regime that is willing to do whatever it takes. he needs to be personally sanctioned. his assets need to be frozen. also we need in order to establish the dignity of the office, we need to see the corruption, if mnuchin, of trump, of kushner took money in favor of the saudi crown prince. this is about the rule of law. if this administration is serious about the rule of law then they should send a message. america is not for sale. >> they're going to need to be more reports. thank you very much. really appreciate both of you. still ahead, breaking news

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or rates of community spread, and the virus worsens. fail to provide masks or class sizes that allow for social distancing, and classrooms close back down. a successful reopening requires real safety and accountability measures. including prioritizing vaccines for educators. parents and educators agree: reopen schools. putting safety first. well, we've got breaking news tonight. the senate parliamentarian has denied $15 attempt to include a minimum wage in the $1.9 trillion covid relief package. it's a huge set back for democrats who were bullish on the prospect it would survivor. president biden signalled there could happen and it's unclear what democrats will do going forward. the minimum wage is in the house version of the bill that is set

to hit the floor tomorrow. joining me now is reverend al sharpton. he has an exclusive interview with vice president kamala harris which airs saturday. congratulations on that interview. speaking of vice president kamala harris, if in theory she could overrule the parliamentarian. she had ron klain on last night and he indicated that's not something they are willing to do. where do you think they will go? >> i have no idea where they will go. i hope we get the $15 minimum wage in. i think it's absurd to think people can survivor off of $7 an hour or $11 an hour given where we look at the economic reality that people have to feed their families. we have to remember people are also coming out of slowly a pandemic where they have extra

needs. clearly, i think we should do all we can to maintain the $15 an hour wage. i have no idea where it will go but i know where i think it should go. whether or not we deal with it in terms of an overrule an over not, we must continue to struggle to give people what they need. >> does this become an issue for activists because joe biden has been pretty popular so far, and he's gotten a lot of support from across the spectrum of the democratic party. but we got a statement tonight from bish on william barber from the poor people's campaign. they've been really pushing hard on this $15 an hour. he called this our economic selma, says this is it right now. he said every one of them makes a lot of money based on our tax dollars and they've never voted to reduce their own wages. does this wind up becoming an issue if team biden decides no the to fight this? >> it will become an issue and an issue directed at this

congress and this senate. and it is an issue that we cannot back down. there is a moral part to this as well as a political, and that is that we must stand for people to be able to feed their children and pay their bills. and whether or not we have to keep fighting beyond what is decided since the parliamentarian has come with this or whether or not we see something immediate, we must not ever -- you know, they used to say when i was growing up in the movement, keep your eye on the prize and hold on. we can never surrender, particularly when we're talking about people having the ability to feed their families. we just came out of an administration that gave a tax break to billionaires. we can't tell poor people to understand some protocol and procedures. >> you know, we're seeing a lot of sort of gamesmanship on the hill, which you have dealt with presidents in trying to get

policy through. on this neera tanden thing, now the word is that lisa murkowski, who undecided on her nomination, is trying to use leverage about where her vote will go to get concessions on things like drilling. we know there are environmental justice issues here when it comes to raking more oil of the ground. how do you think this is going so far in terms of the way the biden administration has fared on the hill, including with this nomination of neera tanden? >> well, i'm happy to see they have not withdrawn the nomination of neera. i think that it is the absolute blatant contradiction for people to sit in the senate that had a president that would insult people 20 times a day on twitter and try to raise some things that they consider distasteful, nowhere near as obscene as the things trump would say about people, including me. that didn't bother them. and they supported him for

president of the united states, and many of them supported him for re-election. so by what measure are they going now by someone that might say something that they felt was disagreeing with them or characterize them in a way politically, never with the kind of obscene, hateful language that a president that they supported. so let me get this right. the president can call people names. a person can call people all kinds of lewd and rude things, and you say he should be president. she could say something that's disagreeable to your position or your stand, and she can't be the head of omb? i think that is a blatant contradiction, and they ought to be called out on that. >> and you had this interview with vice president harris. let's play a clip. you asked her about this issue of the skepticism that remains in parts of the african-american community about the vaccines.

let's play that clip. >> yes, we must speak truth about the history of medical testing in this country. we must be honest about the fact that people have a righteous skepticism about how it has been used, how it has been tested, and on whom it will be used. there is a righteous skepticism if you know history. but i promise you, and i am telling you this vaccine is safe, and it will save your life and the lives of your family and your community. >> did you get a sense that the vice president is more concerned about skepticism or about access because it seems like both things are happening to the black community right now? >> she's very concerned, as all of us are, about access. people have the right to choose whether they want to be vaccinated or not. but you don't have a choice if you don't have access. there's not been equal access, and i think that she's put a lot of energy behind that.

i also think she's saying that we have a choice of doing this, or we can infect those that we love because what is the option if you don't use the vaccines that are there? you have black doctors, dr. corbett and others that were part of making the vaccines. i was very skeptical. but as i started doing my own studies of the conspiracy theories, i looked at the tuskegee experiment, which was one of the things that was in my mind, and the fact is, joy, that in the tuskegee experiment, they would not give the victims, black people, the vaccine of the time. it wasn't they injected it. they wouldn't inject. >> that's right. >> so how are we going to flip it the other way around? are we really saying that we're going to let others, whites, get all of what is available that could save them, and we're not? so, therefore, the option is that we're going to play russian

roulette with our health and infecting others, or are we going to use what's available that people like a black woman like dr. corbett was part of this -- are we going to use that to try and affect the health standing in our community? and i think the vice president articulated that, and many of us are doing it. i went today and brought ten ministers with me, and i was vaccinated for the first time. i'm not going to say i didn't have hesitance, but i'm going to say that i had to deal with reality. >> well, i am very glad to hear that. reverend al sharpton, thank you very much. we look forward to watching your interview this weekend on msnbc on "politics nation." thank you very much. we're now turning really quickly to tonight's other big breaking news at around 6:00 p.m. eastern. the united states carried out air strikes against facilities. the strikes were authorized by president biden in response to recent attacks by american and coalition personnel in iraq. that is according to a pentagon statement. i'm joined now by general barry

mccaffrey, msnbc military analyst. explain to us who the targets of these attacks were, and what is the connection between them and iran? >> of course a lot of this, joy, was triggered by the death of a u.s. contractor and another american service member was wounded, and several allied troops were hit also. they'd been conducting rocket attacks. the last one was up in the north in the kurdish areas innishle. lately they tried to attack the u.s. embassy in baghdad. i think president biden, he's been around a long time. they took diplomatic measures to consult with allies and then took a targeted, limited strike against shiite militia units in eastern syria. they're actually not in iraq. in eastern syria. i think it was a good move. it's a signal, back off if you

want to reopen negotiations on a nuclear accord, you can't do it by continuing to act -- to attack u.s. presence in iraq. >> that was actually the next question i had because we do know that the current administration is looking to get back into the iran nuclear deal, which the previous administration rescinded. how do you think that something like this, these incidents, impact those kind of negotiations, and what kind of a signal do you think the biden administration is sending here in this early outing? >> well, first of all, we've got an incredible team now. the secretary of defense, lloyd austin, and our new secretary of state and the national security adviser, these people have tremendous experience. they're moderate. they're cautious. they do want to reopen talks with the iranians. the iranians are playing with us, which surprised me. they want all the sanctions lifted before there are any conversations. i think in short order, you're going to see -- i'm sure the

engagement's going on in private right now. reopen the dialogue. the europeans will be part of the discussions. we'll re-enter the accord under some conditions. there are challenges. we need somehow to get at the notion of their delivery systems, the missile systems can threaten not only israel but also as far up as europe. so the last accord had flaws. hopefully the ongoing discussion will try and resolve those concerns. >> because the thing i think people worry about is the idea of sliding back into anything that looks like war in the region. that's not something we should be thinking about, right, or worried about? >> oh, absolutely. the whole biden team says we're changing our notion of endless involvement in small wars. we're down to a tiny presence in iraq, around 2,500 troops. a little bit of a risky situation in my view. nato allies are there with us

also. but i think they're going to be very careful about it. but on the other hand, you simply can't tolerate direct attacks on the embassy and on u.s. service members. >> thank you very much. general barry mccaffrey, really appreciate you. that is tonight's readout. tomorrow we'll present a special edition of this program, live for the full hour with dr. anthony fauci, members of the congressional black caucus to discuss the racial disparities with covid. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on "all in," republicans refuse to quit trump. >> if the president was the party's nominee, would you support him? >> the nominee of the party? absolutely. >> tonight as covid relief heads to a vote, how one-half of congress is ignoring a crisis in favor of viral content. then the game of keep away is finally over. >> i'm not really saying the