ct from fidelity. if it's friday t chances for president biden's$1.9 trillion bill has chance. what's for those that did not want it. president biden strikes syria. hitting iranian backed malitia for their targeting in iraq. it's his first use of military force as president. it's got some democrats uneasy. as conservatives gather at cpac to showcase their continued loyalty to former president trump, even mitch mcconnell says he's support donald trump if he becomes the republican nominee in 2024.

the house is readying is vote on president biden's bill tonight add the passage in the snats just got a lot more likely. the ruling that the chamber cannot use this reconciliation process to raise the minimum wage will make it easier, not harder to get this bill to president biden's desk as the country continues to reel from this pandemic. politically, democrats appear to be dodging a bullet. it's a big deal. democrats have no margin for error in the senate. moderates like joe manchin and kirsten cinema are more likely to vote for the covid relief bill than not. republicans are on shakier footing in their opposition to the relief bill which polls continue the show is popular. every one loves getting a check.

the republicans had tied much of their opposition to the minimum wage citing that analysis that said raising it to 15 there are an hour would reduce employment by 1.4 million jobs. >> one of the concerns that we have is the impact that this is going to have on small businesses and people at home as the democrats try to have a nationally mandated increase in the minimum wage. >> placing that one size fits all standard on every state in this country is ill advised and irresponsible. >> the minimum wage has not nothing to do with covid. zero to do with covid. it's got everything to do with their liberal wish list. >> specifically when it comes to the $15 an hour federal minimum wage issue, this would be so harmful for our iowa small businesses. >> you can see the problem they

have now. republicans can't really make any of those arguments if they choose to continue to oppose the relief bill. there's no minimum wage anymore. while some democrats are happy, some progressive democrats are not happy about this development. the chair of congressional caucus said we cannot go back to the working place voters who delivered us the white house and the senate majority and tell them that an unelected parliamentarian advised us that we could not raise the minimum wage. the house will be voting on the relief bim and keeping the minimum wage provision in there. it's going to have to come out at some point. no one said covid relief would be easy or pretty but members of congress need to confront the reality that it's a clear path to the president's desk and the fight to raise the minimum wage will move to a separate lane, if you low pressure for the latest

on where things stand, i got lee ann joining me from capitol hill. the house will go forward and the house democrats can say they voted to raise the minimum wage even if it meeps it gets taken out and has to come back. i'm curious about that. is this going to cost them any votes now? >> reporter: it doesn't seem to. there are threats from progressives saying they would not vote for the bill if the minimum wage was taken out. pelosi seemed to indicate the threats from progressives were

much greater than the concerns from moderates over having to vote for this legislation. what this minimum wage thing has done is pretty much a proxy war for the filibuster. this increase demands to call on the senate democrats to get rid of the filibuster. this will put a lot of pressure on senate democratic leader chuck schumer not only now but definitely down the road. progressives are they aware that joe manchin and kirsten are against getting rid of the filibuster? >> reporter: that's what my next point was going to be. there's not necessarily 50 votes at this point to get rid of the filibuster who is what is needed to change senate rules. i was talking to alexandria

ocasio-cortez and she said how can one or two people in the senate hold up this major progressive agenda talking about joe manchin. there's a lot of pressure on planchin. that's not something that works for him. he seems to be more emboldened the more pressure he gets. >> he can look at many a member of the house of representatives who wonder why a single senator has as much power as they do. that's the way the system has been designed for decades, if you will. i want to move to the republican side of the aisle. the best message they thought they had in opposing this relief bill was by saying it's not really targeted at covid relief like the minimum wage. the like the minimum wage is now

gone. i've noticed they are struggling coming up with a new rational for opposing this bill. what are they going to do? >> reporter: when they started going really hard on opposing the minimum wage, i thought that they were pretty confident that the parliamentarian was going to rule in the democrat's favor. that departments happen. it's unclear what they are going to do right now. there are some who are talking about that the government can't afford another $2 trillion bill. this goes into the pattern of when there's a democratic president and they start to get concerned about the deficit and the debt. there's also a divide in the party, chuck, on the minimum wage. while those democrats disputing and disagreeing with the $15 minimum wage, we have two republican pieces of legislation that have been introduced on increasing the federal minimum wage. one by senators romney and

cotton and another just today by senator josh hawley. there's the populist movement in some components of the republican party that's really challenging the more business oriented chamber of commerce portion of the party. there's way to come to an agreement. thank you. with me now is democrat senator. let me start with your reaction to parliamentarian. it is what it is. do you think it was the right call? >> i have different interpretation of the rules but

the parliamentarian gets to make that call. it does underscore the craziness of the system where whether or not we get a majority vote on a fundamental question like the need to raise the minimum wage comes down to these quirks in the senate rules. i'm an advocate for scrapping these reconciliation procedures and that means getting rid of and reforming the filibuster rule. this will bring more momentum to that. in the meantime we're going to press ahead with this very important 1.9 trillion dollar reconciliation bill which is republicans are going to have to explain why they are opposing it now. >> just to wrap up on the first part of what we were talking about there with the parliamentarian. what do you think of those calls that say overrule the parliamentarian. you could do this with 50 votes

plus the vice president, if necessary. is that path to go down or do you think that's a debate to have later? >> chuck, as you know, you need the votes to do that. as you were just discussing, we don't have, currently, 50 votes in the senate democratic caucus to overrule the parliamentarian on this question. my view is we should look for every way possible to pass the $15 minimum wage into law. we do need the votes. i think we need to scrap the senate fill butser rules. we're looking at another option. we're looking at ways that we could create a tax penalty for big companies that don't pay their employees $15 an hour.

we had a hearing just yesterday. there was a maryland who worked for 20 years for walmart who is not getting paid $15 an hour. walmart announced another 20 billion dollar stock buy back. that's just wrong. >> you're saying you're looking at it. can you give me some sense of how it will work. give me the size of company. what's the bar of the size of company that would be impacked? >> this is plan be that we're having to look at now because of the decision by the parliamentarian. let's take an obvious example which would be walmart. there's a big company. they're not paying their employees a $15 minimum wage. you would say if you haven't hit that mark within a zern period of time, maybe it's the same period in the underlying bill, year 2025 then you would pay a tax penalty because american

taxpayers are having to pay more to support these employees with respect to health care and other needs. after all the current minimum wage, you work full-time. you're under the federal poverty level. other anti poverty programs kick in. when it's the walmarts of the world announcing 20 billion dollar stock buy back. do their part and pay a decent living wage. >> are you open to coming up with a formula that took in geographical cost of difference and put it on track the way social security is and things like that. i'm opening to discussions for how we ultimately get to $15 an hour minimum wage. for areas where you have --

where it seems to be tougher for a variety of reasons on the current time scale, you could consider a longer phase in but again, the fact that the parliamentarian made this decision, i think does chuck reflect the anti-democratic small d nature of the senate rules and the senate is already an anti-majority institution. this compounds the problem. we need to get to where we can have an up or down vote. we need to get the votes. that's where this question you just asked comes in. >> i'm curious last night's strike in syria on those iranian malitias. a couple of your colleagues, senator tim kaine wants to hear what the legal justifications are. there's been a lot of senators concerned about any of this stuff in syria because there

hasn't been authorization. what say you? >> my view is that the strikes that have been aimed against isis, specifically, are covered under previous authorizations. although i also plooef that we need, as a congress, to reign in some of those expansive authorities as senator kaine has proposed. then there are other set of interests that come into play with respect to self-defense. again. >> let me ask it a very quick

way. do you think this falls underneath umf? >> the aumf in iraq does allow the united states to take actions. that is still on the books. this was an action taken in response to attacks by iranian malitia inside iraq. again, this could be -- this is a plur ri area which is why i agree with people like senator kaine who believe we really need to clarify the current state of the aumf. >> i think you put it well yourself. there's a lot of blurry lines. really appreciate you coming on today. >> good po be with you. we're going to have more on the syria strikes in a minute.

we got breaking news. this breaking news we all been expecting the be biden administration released the public intelligence report that saudi crown prince did approve the capture or killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. it says we based this assessment on the crown prince's control of decision making in the kingdom since 2017. the direct involvement of a key advisers of members of his protective detail and the crown prince's support for using violent measures to silence disdents abroad. the substance of this is not news to americans, not news to us who have been reporting on this. the significance of making this charge public, how will this be playing in the middle east. >> reporter: depend ons which country you're in. if you're a country that

opposing saurk, turkey doesn't like the crown prince then they will be embracing this report. this is evidence that the crown prince was running a rogue hit squad because this report also talks about the rapid intervention force. this crew that was answerable to mbs, the crown prince of saudi arabia, the defacto leader that was doing renditions and in this case an assassination around the world. it is bold. the u.s. didn't need to do this. people know there was this hit .

one was carrying a bone saw. his fiance was waiting outside. he never emerged. the turks had the building bugged. there's recordings of his suffering and dying and the sound of his body being dismembered. a body that was never found. the facts were known but having it come out now in the early days of the biden administration is a slap in face to saudi arabia. a slap in the face to the crown prince and those who oppose him will be embraing them and those in the saudi camp will be pretending this report never happened. >> we're on the 37th day of joe biden's president and he had to launch an air strike into syria. the reason i did all those points, i'm sure you heard my conversation, this is -- we're a long way away from that original

aumf and what is legal and where we should be fighting these hot conflicts. is this a surgical one strike or do we think retaliation is coming and it will lead to even more? >> reporter: it's a very dangerous game. it's a slippery slope. any type you take action in middle east, there's potential for escalation. almost this exact scenario happened last year. the u.s. and iran almost went to war. it was handled very differently. if you remember last year, i was in iraq at the time and i was very nervous and there was talk that this was going to go to war and because there was a series of escalations. first the iranian backed malitias fired on u.s. contractors and then the u.s. responded with a deadly attack against iranian malitias in

which dozens were killed. then the u.s. responded by killing the top iranian general and things escalated and culminated with iran firing ballistic missiles. we were all on tender hooks. president trump came out and addressed the world and it was touch and go. were we going to war with iran or not because there were these series of escalations. it was in syria that reduces some of the pressure. they're letting the military do the talking.

there is definitely an effort on the administration side not to see this escalate. the iranians get a vote. just earlier today there was this mysterious incident. there's the potential for escalation but there's a difference. you have an administration that's trying to go slow and not putting the president front and center. it's not about biden. it doesn't seem like they want it to escalate and ron doesn't -- iran doesn't have an interest for it to escalate. i think this stage, it seems like this can be contained for

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down. a little joke about our polarization when he says he didn't want to ruin governor greg abbott's reputation. donald trump will be making his first public appearance since leaving office on stage at cpac. the question really is whether see if it's of what it used to be. is it really about the conservative movement or is this year going to be just all things trump? the events under way in orlando, there's more than 800 miles from its usual home. many of the speakers and panels are pushing the president's lies about election fraud. five years ago trump skipped cpac because his conserative credentials are in question. now it's been reshaped completely in his image to the point of the cpac is

unrecognizable. conserve tichl synonymous with loyalty to trump. mitch mcconnell who called it a disgraceful dir ligs of duty. >> i've got four members that are planning on running for president plus some governors and others. should be a wide open race and fun for you to cover. >> would you support the president if he was the nominee? >> the nominee of the party, absolutely. he has publicly been distancing himself from this conservative this year. is this even -- i've had somebody else who was active in

cpac who said this is nowhere near what it once was. what say you? >> i agree with that. i was a director of cpac for 14 years. i think i know the institution very well. it's a far cry from what we used to be. we have always been a little difficult. we had some unusual speakers speak to us but every single cpac i was involved in was all about policies. whether it was immigration, taxes, foreign policies, social issues. string led around those serious

con ver sagss were people like donald trump. this has become a cult. just a golden statue of donald trump this morning set it off. i'm sad. not only sad but i'm also concerned. i think that what we saw january 6th was a result of donald trump's irresponsible comments. if he does that again on sunday, i'm concerned about the safety of a political process and who we have become. i hope he measures his words although i wouldn't go to the bank on that. >> you have somebody that have tried to straddle this fence. you're not fan of donald trump. you've made that clear. you endorsed ron desan tis. you helped him. at what point do you think it's a mistake to be associating himself with cpac and the trump wing of this party. >> i think the governor is

popular in florida. recent polls show that's the case. i believe he holds a sense of loyalty to donald trump in his heart and he's proven that to be the case. to his credit, he didn't mention donald trump once today in his remarks on cpac. i thaug they were more geared towards policy issues and that was good for him. we'll see what the rest of the speakers do. i'll have a sense that there will be a pilgrimage to cpac. i think we maining speakers will heighten the level of cult support for donald trump quite a bit. >> were you disappointed that senate republican leader mitch mcconnell said if donald trump is the nominee of the republican party he will support the nominee? >> that's a tough question. he started out talking about a wide open race and asked a specific question and that is will you get it by choice.

will you support donald trumps. i get his answer. that's not how i would have answered but i don't think his answer was that outside the scope of reality in terms of what he's got to do. i do think these four years will be a long four years. sunday will be a repliep der that donald trump wants to be here for the next four years and beyond. >> why do you think it's so hard to convince republicans that donald trump is not been good for the party? the fablgts speak for themselves. there's no power that republicans have and yet i talk to republicans who are like you have no idea about the base. you're sitting there going, but 48% is still 48%. like your coming up short here in your georgia's. you're coming up slort in your arizonas. you're coming up short in your michigan. that's not going to do it and

it's pretty clear who as to why. why do you think it's so difficult to convince them he's the reason why they don't have the senate. they don't have the white house. >> i think they know that. the challenge is they are looking at the math and saying well, it takes half of the republican vote as trump cult supporters and the other half are not. if i do away with one-half, i can't win a general election. i have to somehow hold my nose and run excepting the reality of donald trump and supporting that. the challenge with that is that look at the hundreds of thousands of republicans who have quit the party since january 6th. lit be a shrinking base for years to come thanks in large part to donald trump. while in the short term there's a fear that without donald trump they lose general elections, and

perhaps primaries. the real reason is the party will be extinct in ten years if we follow this cult crowd. it's a tough choice to make. the people who are willing to do a better job are resigning from congress and from the senate left and right. we're being left more and more with people who are willing to do what it takes to stay in power. >> thanks very much. up next, inside the complex and urgent process of making these vaccines. we finally have an inside, up close look at these realities. we'll go inside a vaccine facility with a multi-step process begins. we'll take you there after this. machine s begins we'll take you there after this. machin just over a year ago, i was drowning in credit card debt. sofi helped me pay off twenty-three thousand dollars

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power, heat. air force one landed in houston earlier this year. it's his first trip as commander in chief to state after a natural disaster. we are expecting the president to visit the food bank. delivered remarks at a mass vaccination site before flying back to washington this evening. several members of the texas delegation are joining president biden there afternoon including governor greg abbott and the senior senator there john cornyn. congressman, it's good to see you. it's been a while. >> start with president biden going down to texas. it's now been a week after the

heart of this disaster down there. there's going to be a lot of after action reports. do you think it's time for texas to join the national grid when it comes the power? >> i think there is going to be a lot of after action studies being done. ercot was built to be self-reriebl and not be tied to the other grids and that provides cyber security protection. in the case of the arctic blast we're not able to share with other grids. i think that's in time of emergency the ability to share with other grids because i went five days would you tell user in my own home and no water. mistakes have been made. i also want to thank the president of the united states for coming down to my state. i saw him in the white house and talked about the fema assistance and he's granted assistance to every county within the stats.

>> sounds like you come up with a texas version. you'll join the grid but it's not a full joining. you think there's a possible yo quasi-independence but the national grid could backfill and vice versa, if there are problems in the southwest or other areas, texas could backfill? >> yeah, i think sort of a hybrid version where you have a grid that's self-reliant, is sustainable without being vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks. that's been the strength of ercot. we saw the weaknesses last week with the grid going down of the on an emergency basis that would have been very helpful to tap into the other grids. >> i've got to ask you, though, on your constituencies, the idea of this deregulation was supposed to lower power bills.

the data doesn't back that up. people don't have lower power bills the way that i think those proponents thought they would have. why is that? >> i think the thought process and i know governor perry talked about this, we wouldn't be subject to government regulations and that would bring the costs down. i don't know the truth yet. we're looking at all the facts coming in right now. certainly that was the concept of why it was built independently in the first place. so, look, my state legislature is looking at this very intensely. we are looking at this at the federal level as well how to fix this and what to do with the ercot organization and the board members who made mistakes and where, when and why. >> i want to move to some foreign affairs issues. the president just released the

khashoggi intelligence report. congress actually ordered former president trump's administration to do that. first of all, do you think it's good that this is public? and if you do, what do you hope the impact is, and what do you expect it to be when it comes to u.s./saudi relations? >> well, it was a gruesome murder. i'm not surprised by the director of national intelligence report that was just released. it was classified. most things that happen in the intelligence, they don't happen by accident. the crown prince is in charge of all that. it happened in the saudi consulate in turkey in a very gruesome murder in and of itself. so i can't say i'm surprised by it, but i do think there should be consequences to it. you know, we have looked at the idea of sanctions against the saudis on this. i think there should be a strong condemnation of this murder and what took place, possibly by the king himself. and i also think that we've got

to be looking at policies that -- countries that go against journalists and dissidents to restore trust. i think there should be a consequence. chuck, what is the downside to all of this is that we were following moving forward with the partnership with the saudi royal family and the kingdom, they are becoming aligned with israel against the biggest threat in the region and that is iran. so the geopolitical issue gets very messy, very tricky now in light of this gruesome murder. >> don't you worry that mbs took advantage of that, that he knows we need them or he thinks we need them, we need the ally, israel needs the ally, so i can get away with a little bit of stuff like this? >> well, i think it's very reckless and it was very amateurish. the idea that we wouldn't suspect him to be behind it was, you know, a bit laughable.

so i do think perhaps, but we obviously with the abraham accords and the alliances with the state of israel, saudi was going to be kind of the real prize here to get them to join the abraham accords. so this has really been a real big step back. i met the crown prince on many occasions in washington. he seemed to be wanting to move his country forward in a more progressive direction. but this -- again, this gruesome murder of jamal khashoggi, larry wright is a good friend of mine, they were dear friends. it's a major setback in our foreign policy. >> let's talk about the strike last night. you came out and you were supportive of the president's decision. but, you know, i've got to ask you, we launched an air strike in syria against iranian-backed militias for actions that took place in iraq. i was speaking with senator van hollen earlier and he essentially said, well, you

could loosely make the case that, yeah, that falls under the aumf but we are getting toward a slippery slope here, are we not? >> in the foreign affairs committee, i'm the republican leader, we will do the authorizations. we will get a report, a notice of a use of military force within 48 hours on this particular event. i know in the soleimani case that occurred in iraq but it was a constitutional self-defense strike. i'm assuming that's what the administration will rely on in this case since they did hit our u.s. soldiers in both erbil in northern iraq and also got very close to our embassy in the green zone in iraq. both the shia proxies and shia militias are behind these attacks and i think that would be the strongest argument they could make. some of this going back to the original aumf from 2001 against al qaeda, you know, i think a

lot of both republicans and democrats think maybe we ought to look at updating some of these uses of military force. >> yeah. let's remember there are now people who weren't born who are being asked to engage in force essentially through an authorization that, again, was created before they were born. one last question and i guess i'll call this the mcconnell question, since he was asked this last night. if donald trump is the nominee of the party in 2024, do you think you can support him? >> look, we're four years out and there's so much that's going to happen over the next four years. i'm going to support the nominee. that's what we do. but i think we're going to have a lot of good candidates out there. i think, look, we can take the victories that the prior administration had. i think his appeal to the working man, the working class, blue collar is something to take away from the previous

administration, from trump, and i think that's the part of the trump administration we want to carry forward that reagan was able to win over a lot of these states, you know, blue states. and, you know, i -- i don't know, we'll see. we're a long ways out, chuck. i'd be remiss if i didn't mention the incredible white house invitation and visit with the president of the united states about decoupling our supply chain from the chinese communist party and manufacturing and bringing jobs to the united states and manufacturing here while at the same time protecting our national security. i was really elated at the substantive conversation we had for about an hour with about eight combination of house members and senators, bipartisan. he said it's the best meeting he's had since he's been president in the white house and i think this is a policy that's

so pro american and so against the chinese communist party, it's a real winner. and with the president's endorsement and support, i think we're going to get it done. >> congressman mike mccaul, republican from texas, you aren't the only republican praising that meeting, mike braun was on doing the same thing. appreciate your time and perspective and i've got to rush off. i'll be back monday with more "meet the press daily." if it's sundays, it's "meet the press" on nbc. msnbc's coverage continues with katy tur right after this break. katy tur right after this break. walk with me. that's enough! the epson ecotank cartridge-free printer. big ink tanks. lots of ink. and you can save a ridiculous amount on replacement ink. print in color, all you want, without busting your budget. but you might be bustin' a move. ♪♪ the epson ecotank. just fill and chill. ♪ ♪

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