i'll see you here next weekend for 6:00 p.m. and now it's time for "the mehdi hasan show." >> good evening. i'm in for mehdi hasan. tonight, the infrastructure bill is closer than ever to president biden's desk. we are moments away from a key vote. if it passes the senate, are will the house take it up, and will progressives play ball? i'll ask congressman jamal bowman. then is it too little too late? some say the president should have done more for americans facing eviction before the moratorium expired. you will hear from sabrina davis, one of millions experiencing eviction. plus, retired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman came to america to escape authoritarianism, but has it followed him here? he joins us live. and governor andrew cuomo is heading for impeachment.

can america shakies habit of toxic male leader? >> good evening. it has been a long week. a 15 up-day week to be precise since former president trump declared infrastructure week. tonight under a new president we are inching closer to an infrastructure deal on capitol hill, and with it a new generation of public works in america with mended bridges and decontaminated water and steadier wi-fi. any moment now the senate is set to vote on a pair of key procedural motions. the first on an amendment that adds the final text of the bipartisan bill and the second vote is on cloture to end debate on the bill. if all that have happens we should expect to see a final vote on tuesday morning and if all 100 senators agree to move things faster, we could see a final vote even sooner, and

we'll let you know if that happens and coming up i'll ask congressman jamal bowman about what happens next in the house. but, first, this was supposed to be our hot advantagesed summer. instead, it has become a summer of chill omens. wildfire smoke wafted from sea to shining sea. the apocket limitic weather-making change that climate change can no longer be spoken of as a future threat. a once mellowing virus surged back to life prague on willfully and cynically manufactured ignorance. new facts surfaced about just how close america came to a coup in 2020. in the last day we learned the senate judiciary committee interviewed former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen about former brump's efforts to use the department of justice to overturn the results of the election. senator richard blumenthal sits on that committee and here's what he told msnbc. >> let me be very blunt.

the president of the united states in donald trump mounted a pressure campaign that was absolutely relentless, brutal, personally involved, directly aimed at the department of justice seeking to break it and weaponize it to overthrow the election. i want to put aside talking about specific individuals, but i will say as a former united states attorney and a state attorney general for 20 years there's a real potential here for criminal charges. they should be seriously considered. >> and meanwhile a growing chorus of on-the-ground reporters and writers and scholars began sounding the alarm about 2024. their message. if present trends continue and if nothing is done, the next presidential election could be stolen, legally stolen. these are not the cries of extremely online provocateurs. they are fact-based warnings about what is actually happening

right now in states across this country. the scenario these experts warn of is of one of guns and tanks and the seizure of tv stations and leaders and unfortunate berets which may be a redundant phrase. you see, we are trained by hollywood and by our memory of world events to recognize the telltale signs of democracy under assault, but if democracy dies in america, it is unlikely to resemble our mental picture. that death would be, the experts tell, completely above board, fully legal, even constitutional. the is will be dotted and the ts crossed and the paperwork submitted properly and on time in trip kate and i know this. i know that i can say this to you tonight because the legal ma turves, the dotting and crossing and filling out of paperwork is now happening now a full three years in advance. the assault on 2024 is a crock pot coup simmering low and slow

under cover, breaking down the fibers of our electoral system until one day democracy itself is cooked. in arizona as meticulously report by jane mayer in the "new yorker" the crock pot coup looks like a phony audit funded by private donors, many of them out of state, with a view to giving arizona a pretext now or in the future to throw out a legitimate electoral result citing bogus claims of voter fraud. as written it's a surprisingly short leap from making accusations of voter fraud to calling for the nullification of a supposedly tainted election. in georgia, the republican-controlled legislature passed a law giving itself the power to replace county election boards and officials have already initiated a process that could lead to a takeover of elections in fulton county, a democratic strong hold. indeed, republicans have introduced more than 400 legislative proposals in 49

states to make voting more difficult, including threats of criminal prosecution for local election officials who violate these rules. athlete 306 these bills have already passed. the various expressions of the slow simmering coup appear to share a common object laying the groundwork for states to declare their own election systems to have been contaminated by fraud and thereby usurping from the people the power to allocate electoral votes. in short, these states are creating a legal framework to do what former president trump asked them to do in 2020. overturn their own elections. the cynically tragically comically orwellian name for these election machinations, election integrity. election integrity. if democracy does ultimately die in america it will be election integrity that did it. what is the answer to this crock pot coup?

urgent, urgent concert the democratic reform. quote, to save our democracy we must democratize it. we must expand access to the ballot. reform our electoral system to assure that majorities win elections and weaken or eliminatance gated institutions it such as the filibusters so that majorities can actually govern, radical idea. amid the summer of the delta variant and of the wild fires and blooming evictions and a last-ditch moratorium on the elections and a possibility at long last we will have our infrastructure week, the crock pot coup may once feel less immediate and more daunting but perhaps no other ongoing story in this country so deserves our attention. that you and i are even having this conversation right now doesn't fit the picture of america that many of us were raised with. we are accustomed to thinking of this country as immune to those

kinds of forces, but, of course, we aren't. my first guest tonight grew up in the soviet union, fled to america as the child of a refugee family seeking freedom and equality only to collide decades later here in america with the corrupt officialdom and politics of reprisal and democratic sabotage that his family had been escaping. >> i'm sitting today here in the u.s. capitol is proof that you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union and come here to the united states of america in search of a better life for our family. do not worry. i'll be fine for telling the truth. congressman, because this is america, the country i've served and defended, that all my brothers have served and here right matters. >> retired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman testified at trump's first impeachment trial about the former president's

dealings with ukraine. that testimony inspired the title of his new book "here right matters." his work and life testifies to a faith in america as essential goodness and democratic mooring. but what does the phrase here right matters mean? back to january 6th. what does it mean in this current moment in which the loss of american democracy is a serious conversation? former director of european affairs for the u.s. national security council, retired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman joins me now. thank you so much for joining me. i want to start with -- with the title of your book "here right matters." when you testified in congress that phrase won a nation's heart t.spoke to your family finding in america freedoms it lacked in the soviet union but you've lived to see anti-democratic forces follow you here and your confident right mattering here

seems to be intention with the democrat being backsliding that we're witnessing in this country and that you saw up close. does right really matter here in some special unique way? >> thank you for having me off. i think it does. i think this country is very unique. in addition to my decades of military service, i served in some really difficult environments, in countries where democracy didn't exist or was under great pressure and i could see the contrast between those countries and the united states. it's something important to mention is that president trump was the chief executive and his party controlled one of the houses in congress and he failed to steal the election. i think we have under a democratic administration, democratic house and a democratic senate the probability has decreased that there will be -- that any forces

will be able to completely upend our democracy but we should be vigilant. one of the reasons that i'm speaking about this is there is a sense of complacency that things will return back to normal, that our democracy is no longer under threat. that is not true. as you pointed out, there are forces in play that are purely self-serving that are looking to hold on to a -- an america that doesn't really exist anymore, a -- an america dominated by a white april glow saxon partisan population that wants to retain its own grip on power. there is nothing wrong with the country that has become more heterogenuous, more of a melting pot and more representative and the power has shifted to represent that population. i think that's the fear that the republicans are preying on. we are not out of dang, but this country is under threat. i still have faith that we're going to continue to move

towards that more perfect union. >> as a father and a son myself both, i wanted to ask you mentioned in the book your father's decision to leave the soviet union. you wrote that the more he rose in that system, the more he realized that the whole thing was a complex of quid quo proback room deal-making. your family came to the u.s. as refugees to escape that, but you found yourself witness to america's own version of quid quo pros. talk to me about how your family history informed your choice to be a whistle-blower, how your father evenings appearance of truth-telling in one system informed yours in another. >> it's interesting that you put it informing my decision to be a whistle-blower. in fact i didn't recognize that i would be a whistle-blower. my intent was to report wrongdoing and live up to my oath of office and my oath to support and defend the constitution of the united states and i was doing what so many other public servants have

done repeatedly. we've seen these cases where presidential wrongdoing under the previous administration has unfolded and there's been checks on the system. in fact, i would say it's -- it's -- this is not necessarily something that's purely driven by unique experiences. a lot of different people of our government trying to do the right thing. in my case i did have some very important experiences. those experiences come back from my deep background as an immigrant to the united states. they include military service under difficult conditions in -- in countries that don't have democracy and as a foreign policy analyst studying russia, studying ukraine and studying eastern europe and understanding how those systems fell apart towards tyranny and authoritarianism. all that have in that case informed my decision or understanding of what risks our country faced both at that moment and now. >> you have served under

republican and democratic officials, presidents in uniform. what would you say to the large chunk of republicans official that we're not talking about lay people on the street but high officials at state and federal level who appear to be going in this direction of overturning democracy as a litmus test for being a good faith member of their party. >> we see you. we recognize the threat that you pose, and we are watching you and will take action against you. when i say this, this is my call to arms. this is -- here right matters only if we make it matter. we need to make sure that all of the people that fail to line you have to their onlygations and that were complicit in january 6th and failed to hold accountable a president that was corrupt and was abusing his power energized the president, enabled him to continue to press and to steal our democracy and we know who those people are,

and i'm going to doing everything in my power and i encourage everybody that's watching this show, everybody that cares for this democracy to be equally as active in defending this democracy and voting in people that will live up to their onlygations, voting in people that will take their oath to protect the constitution of the united states very seriously. >> lieutenant governor alexander vindman, thank you so much. >> the senate is poised to vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill. how transformative is it and is the congress ready to vote on it? i'll ask congressman jamal and the headline of the week asks are we finally done with tough guy politicians? more on that in just a few minutes. on that in just a few minutes.

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any moment now the senate is expected to hold a vote to end debate on the bipartisan infrastructure bill and propel it forward. the vote is a key procedural step that will clear the way for a final vote on the $1 trillion package. it would then face 30 hours of debate before the final vote which is expected to tuesday morning. but, remember, this is just the senate. it still has to pass the house, and there progressive house democrats have demands of their own. joining me now is democratic representative from new york

16th congressional district congressman jamal bowman. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. as these proposals have morphed and reinvented themselves and wound their way through washington, we heard everything from this package is the greatest thing since light rail to this is de-fanged, watered down and milquetoast moderation. where have we landed? is the package landing your way transformative? is america getting a facelift or just some eye cream? >> well, the first package, the one that's going to be voted on tonight is probably a bit of eye cream but it's a lot of eye cream. you know, we don't want to sneeze at $1.2 trillion over whatever it's going to be, but it should be followed immediately by the full reconciliation package which is hopefully going to be north of $3.5 trillion. this is our moment. this is the most transformative legislation in a generation that we're going to be introducing.

we're responding to climate change but we're also responding to racial justice and a global pandemic and an economy that's faltering so this is the moment to invest in areas that we've neglected for a very long time like the care economy so we're talking about home care and child care, like green infrastructure so we can finally end our dependency on fossil fuels, like school infrastructure which is why i introduced a green new deal for public schools looking to invest 44 billion this year for retrofits and moving away from fossil fuels and 446 billion over ten years. it's time to invest in ssi and many other area, so tonight's vote will be some eye cream and hopefully the full makeover will be a part of the reconciliation package. >> so we know this bipartisan bill doesn't have everything that you just described, everything that progressives want for infrastructure. that's why speaker pelosi has said the house democrats -- the

house won't consider this bill until the senate also passes the larmer $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill which they hope will include the rest of what they want, but this weekend a group of moderate democratic lawmakers as you know sent a letter to speaker pelosi asking her not to wait to vote on this bipartisan bill right away and get these projects moving rather than waiting for the larger bill. are they wrong and if so why? >> they are wrong because we don't work for the fossil fuel industry. we don't work for real estate developers. we don't work for their donor. we work for the american people, particularly those who are most ignored and more disenfranchised. again, this is a once in a generation, once in a century investment in the american people. this is time for a federal jobs guarantee. this is a time for unprecedented workforce development. this is a time not just for road, bridges and tunnels but school buildings and public housing. this is the time for all of it,

and we need a whole of government approach to make sure we pats right legislation at the right number but also work together on implementation and look at what's happening right now in california, the second both of or second worst wildfire in the state's history. look what's happening in turkey in terms of forest fires. look what's happening with heat strokes and what's happening in unprecedented ways with climate change, and we know that the ipcc is going to come out with a report next couple of days that's going to be more damning than even we anticipated so now is the time to go as big as possible and both bills should be brought together. again, investing in areas that we have neglected, but on the back end the kickback is going to be tremendous. >> congressman bowman, stay right there. there's another story that we would like to discuss with you. tonight the fallout from the scathing 165-page report into

accusations of assault and impropriety by new york's governor and andrew cuomo continues. governor kwoema has until friday to submit evidence in his defense in the state's senate impeachment inquiry. no word yet on how many pages will be devoted to pictures of other people's comparatively inokayous hugs. meanwhile, a former staffer filed a criminal complaint against the governor with the albany county sheriff. governor cuomo disputes all the allegations but beyond the allegations there's a being laer question to be asked. are we finally done with tough guy politicians? that's the headline of a new column by the "new york times." after cuomo said earlier this week i am the same person in public as i am in private, she writes. a statement like that can seem like the problem more than the exoneration because in public mr. cuomo can be combative and domineering so why do we keep falling for boorishness

masquerading at leadership? we're joined by jinah now as long with the congressman. toil city to said every congressman is creepy in his own way but you write that governor cuomo represents a larger cultural phenomenon. explain. >> i referenced sandy, hurricane sandy in the column and it's really interesting because cuomo and chris christie who both have a very combative persona were beloved and had such great moments during sandy because voters like a certain amount of paternalism in a politician and they love politicians who in a movement crisis can really lay it on and say i'm the guy here take care of business, and they will -- really, really look over a lot request a politician can

seem really ashore tatetive and tough. i think it's an addiction among americans. we've seen it beyond certainly kristie and many other politicians. >> congressman bowman, i want you to stick around to ask you what the hole situation tells us. about new york state politics. ready to dismitts it at a real thing. can they be separated from the fear driven drone and pay to play politics? >> i'm new to politics and my experience here based on the new progressive ayi progressive coalition that we were built to help us win and help us gofrp, i never viewed politics, especially the way i try to lead in, that way, but i don't think that this is a new york problem. i mean, as we talk about the paternalistic white patriarchy,

toxic, masculinity way of governing, it's more about power. it's also about leadership. leadership is about inspiring a vision for transformative change. it's about uplifting others and creating an are environment that brings the best out of them. what the governor has seep during the years is something more akin to power hungry, oppressive intimidation-style leadership which has einvolved into sexual harassment and sexual assault when it comes to the women who were brave up in to speak up and speak out against him. all they have to do is deny the allegations which, you know, i take exception to because the investigation was done by attorney general jaynes who has

an impeccable reputation for integrity and expertise in her work so it's almost like you're pushing, back and one last thing i'll say is i used to work in education for 20 years. the thirst thing you teach your students is to take responsibility for your action and the government need to take responsibility for his -- they have lost faith and trust in his leadership. time for us to survive. described him as a beany of violent negotiator who didn't feel the need to pitch, kiss or caress. his defirst suggest, is he who plants his lips on everyone by default violates no one, and us a note in the piece as an italian-american yourself, the

governor seems determined to drag italian-americans as a whole down with him, seemingly implying that the sexual harassment he's accused of personally is actually cultural. i emergency a lot of times americans might be unjustable -- >> i saw the way my fathers and uncles fought against that stereotype that we saw from rudy value treano on of italian men being very -- are unable to control themselves. i was talking to a friend of mine who is a scholar of italian-american history and it's a real -- we've come very far to combat that stereotype and he's bringing it back in. his excuse is -- i'm -- i'm alive, basically.

i'm emotive. i touch. i'm physical and what's interesting that his father, you know, it was the ann at this time sis of that. italian americans worshipped him not because he was the first to make it very big in politics but because he was so cerebral and he countered that so effectively. the italian-americans feel wait a minute, we're going back a couple of decade and i was saying in the column, bill de blasio, a another big-name american-italian politician is totally aloof and impersonal. yeah. >> jinah belafonte and congressman bowman, thanks so much for being with us. >> thank you so much. next, one woman's fight to keep her roof over the head after the eviction moratorium expired. president biden timely took action, but is it too late? first, richard lui is here with

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on thursday, sabrina taste of was in court fighting to stay in her home. she's in this heart wrenching situation after the biden administration and congress allowed an eviction moratorium to expire last weekend. on tuesday this week president biden issued a new 60-day eviction moratorium. it's meant to help protect renters from eviction as a number of new cases of coronavirus caused by the delta variant continues to climb. president biden said this week that he hopes the moratorium gives states more time to distribute financial assistance to rernts and landlords, but for many americans like sabrina the move was too little too late. the second moratorium was only issued after progressive activists and lawmakers put pressure on the biden administration and democratic leadership in congress with representative cori bush and other colleagues camping out outside the capitol for dayed to make their case and the fact that the moratorium expired at

all perhaps demonstrates perhaps how low of a priority it was for the democratic party leadership, but the new moratorium set to expire on october 3rd. time is running out for a long-term solution. joining me now sabrina davis. she's the tenant facing eviction i just told you about and the director of casey tenants and the homes guarantee campaign director for people's action. sabrina, thank you for taking the time in the midst of all that you are going through. you've been fighting eviction proceedings against your landlord in court for over a year now but you say that when you stepped out of your house yesterday to run some errands they changed the locks on you. tell us your situation now. >> yes. that is correct and thank you for having me on your program today, but currently i'm homeless. i've been fighting this eviction for months as you said, and yesterday when i left the house to go do some normal everyday things, when i returned a couple hours later the locks had been

changed. the mailbox was taken, so i can no longer receive any mail and the landlord just made my life incredibly miserable for over a year and a half now. if it's a terrible situation to be put in. >> and what percentage of your income goes to rent and utilities as part of getting into this situation with your landlord. >> all right. so currently 90% of my income, my disability, social security is eaten up paying rent and paying for an electrical bill that is outrageous every month and it's a nightmare. >> tara as someone who fights on behalf of tenants in the st. louis area, tell us what the past week has been like for you since the original eviction

moratorium expired. >> thanks so much for having us. sabrina and i are both in kansas city on the other side of the state and the past week has been equal parts inspiring and frustrating and the we've got to give love to the congresswoman from our state cori bush who with a handful of other progressive lawmakers camp out on the steps of the capitol and refused to go on vacation until the president and congress took appropriate action to protect renters. the frustration comes in the reality that the action that the president ended up taking is a hail mary, and it's not a very good one. they basically just regurgitated a trump-era policy that's riddled with loopholes that landlords like sabrinas have figured out how to exploit over the last several months and thousands, hundreds of thousands of tenants like sabrina are still going to be everdict and have been evicted and even while this federal moratorium is

extended to october and then come october we'll be in the same position again that we were in last saturday. >> sbreepa, you've been working with a lawyer as you fight this eviction. will you be able to use the protections from president biden's new action to get back into your home? >> i'm sorry. i had a difficult time hearing what you just said. could you please repeat. >> do you think president biden's new action will help you get back in your home in any way? >> president biden's actions haven't helped me with anything yet. i have applied with over 20, 30 agencies in the last seven months and i've heard nothing from any of these agencies. i haven't heard a word. i applied for the pandemic relief and utility assistance and there's absolutely nothing

available for me, i'm not sure what president biden has done, but it's not helping me at the moment, and i need that help now, not later, not next week, not next year. i need that help now. i'm in -- i'm in desperate situation beyond belief and never thought in a million years i'd be in a situation but here i am along with millions of other people and the government here needs to do something now. >> sabrina, i know my mother is watching tonight, but in the off chance that the president of the united states is also watching tonight, i want you to look at camera and address joe biden. what does he need to know about you and your life and what he needs to do. >> president biden, i'm a 62-year-old woman. i'm scared for my life.

i have nowhere to go and i pray to god a friend heard of my situation and gave me two weeks to stay in her apartment and after two weeks i will truly be in the street homeless. technically i'm homeless. i've been shut out of a home illegally, in an illegal eviction and i've tried so hard and i thought i've been fighting hard and i just don't know what else to do, and i'm so stuck. mr. biden, please recognize that it doesn't have to be this way for myself and all the people that are facing an eviction. the pandemic has been a nightmare for us, for me and i'm

sorry. >> please don't apologize. sabrina davis. >> we need the help. we need the help now. thank you. >> we're pulling for you and wish you all the best as you fight for your home. i hope the president and congress is listening to you. i'm sure some people there will. tara, thank you both for being with us tonight. >> stick around. a tribute to a man who fought endlessly for workers rights. richard trumka. s rights richard trumka or floss can be a sign of early gum damage. new parodontax active gum repair kills plaque bacteria at the gum line to help keep the gum seal tight. new parodontax active gum repair toothpaste. this is a hero, walking his youngest down the aisle, which to his bladder, feels like a mile.

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this week we lost one of the fiercest and most powerful advocates for workers, richard trumka. he was the president of the afl-cio, a federation of more than 50 national and international labor unions. it represents 12.5 million people. trumka was a third generation coal miner from southwestern pennsylvania. at 33 he was elected the youngest president of the united mine workers. there he led a successful months long strike against the group that cut health care benefits to retirees. striking miners tried to block trucks from transporting coal. trumka worked also to make the labor movement more inclusive. he was a staunch opponent of

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thanks for watching. to reassure you, mehdi hassan will be right back here in this chair next sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. and you can also catch him monday through thursday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on "the choice" on nbc's streaming channel peacock. now it's time to turn it over to joshua johnson. hello, joshua. >> hello, anand. thank you very much. and hello to you. it is great to be with you tonight. especially because it's a busy night in washington, where the senate is in a rare sunday night session. right now they're considering key votes on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. we're watching the votes now, and we will update you on where they stand in just a moment. florida's covid hospitalizations are at an all-time high. what more should local