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this week the house select committee investigating january 6th wrapped up its summer series of hearings with the season finale of sorts. in a primetime event, they presented devastating evidence detailing the hours donald trump spent refusing to act as a angry mob tried to stop the certification of the 2020 election by force. even when it was clear the insurrection would not achieve its aims, did the commander-in-chief collin's meg army to step down? no. even a dalia later, never before seen outtakes show the president was unwilling to admit that the election was over. the bombshell hearings left me with plenty of questions.

will the former president or anyone else in a position of authority ever be held accountable? will congress have the courage to strengthen the election system that trump and his allies sought to undermine. and we'll be hearing sway voters as they head to the polls in the midterm elections? we've got a great lineup to talk about it, including minnesota's senator amy klobuchar, and former white house advisor said week richmond. plus later, we'll have an update on the health of president joe biden, as he recovers from covid-19 this weekend. and a look at how the twin challenges of the pandemic and structural racism are affecting america's nurses. so let's get started. joining us now is democratic senator amy klobuchar of minnesota. senator thanks for joining us. >> thanks, reverend. >> as we get started, please

share with us your thoughts on the january six committee hearings this week. let's start there. >> i think it was extraordinary. so many people tuned in and thought about, you know, if i was president, they thought to themselves, would i just sit there watching it on tv? sitting in the dining room, while the capital was being invaded and people were being killed? i thought general milley's word when he said, what did trump do, zero, silk, nothing. i was in a room, as you know, with other senators. we are all desperately trying to call police, national guard, military, trying to fill the void that he left. and it is his duty to execute the laws of the united states. he didn't just fail, he actually made things worse by sending tweets about mike pence, and enraging his already completely over the top supporters who, as you know, at

his direction, marched down the mall, and basically try to stage a coup, an insurrection. the fact that he just sat there is unbelievable. >> let me ask you on that point right there, something that's been on my mind all week that i think people -- is it not so that the president cannot come into the chambers, unless he's invited? even when he does the state of the union, he's invited by the speaker. if that is the case, whether what one wants to believe cassidy hutchinson's testimony or not that he was enraged and tried to grab the secret services we'll, he did announce himself he was going to meet them at the capitol. so if he was not invited to the capitol by the speaker or anyone, what was he going to do? i mean, the whole question of him going to the capital, in

and of itself should be, well, how could you go to the capitol when no one invited you? you can't even go to the state of the union without an invitation? unless his desire was to cause such in a -- uproar that it would help stop the certification? >> exactly, and we do know from multiple witnesses that he demanded that he go, there and the secret service kept telling him no. it's unsafe, you should go. there he knew his supporters were armed. you know, that that is come out now. he knew that before he even went out to give his rallies speech. so all of these things add up to a pre meditated plan going way back to anyone's basically undermining the vote by mail. knowing that it would take the states, some of, them a few days to count. i think when you look at all the facts, and this is what's been so brilliant about bennie thompson's work, and liz cheney's and the rest of the committees, they really put together a story that made the

case. and i think you and i, i'll, knew what was going on. i think the national guard of washington, d.c., then under the command of general walker, every second, every minute mannered. they were sitting in a bus and the president of the united states never called, never helped, to get them over to the capitol. that's just one glaring example that could've saved lives. >> senator, in your capacity of the chair senate committee and rules -- you announced this week you would hold hearings on the electoral act. this comes as a bipartisan group of your colleagues have hammered out a deal to rewrite the act in order to prevent a repeat of what occurred on january six 2020. now former president donald trump was quick to jump on this headline, claiming it's somehow justified his assertion that vice president mike pence could have sent the election back to the states, if he wanted to.

could you explain why former president trump is wrong about the act, and wet revisions could be made to help defend our democracy? >> he's completely wrong about the act. at the time mike pence made it clear, as had every vice president, they don't have that power, it's a ceremonial role. but the revisionist of the bill, we can always clarify it. that part isn't necessary, but it's always a good idea. what is necessary is to make very, very clear that it's not just one senator and one house member that can object to an electoral count college outcome. we have a crazy situation. i don't think in the late 1800s during the time of rutherford hayes there was a ted cruz, or a josh hawley, because in fact, one senator is all it takes. so at the revisions do is say

let's increase those numbers. my original bill with senator durbin and king, was the third, and the crew went for 20%. that's good enough. that's one of the things we'll talk about at the hearing. there were so many things that open up loopholes, basically, for people like donald trump that want to illegally claim victory that he can use to this advantage. that's why this is so important to get this done. i'm glad a bipartisan group came together. and look -- looking forward to cheering the hearing. >> let's move to an issue front and center to many americans. this week, you held a virtual press conference where you urged your colleagues to pass legislation that would lower the cost of prescription drugs by empowering medicare to negotiate prices. are you confident congress can take action on this before the end of the summer, and before voters head to the polls in the midterms? >> i am, l, and that's because

the need has become even clearer. all they have to do is say on tv the ads at pharma running against this proposal. what happened years and years ago is that the pharmaceutical companies had written into the law a ban undergo shooting less expensive drugs. the result, despite the fact that our taxpayers are footing the vote for research, we pay the highest of any industrialized nation for prescription drugs. we pay 250% more for simple straightforward drugs like lyric and stomach. or we have canada having much less prescription drugs right over the border. that's why this negotiation, supported by aarp, is gonna make so much of a difference for bringing down the cost of drugs. we're also working to reduce the insulin costs. we are going to be able to pass a bill on. that and putting a cap on wet medicare recipients have to pay for drugs. it's a big deal. it's related to what we talked about earlier.

when you build trust with the country -- you get to the bottom of all the things that have been happening to tear apart our democracy. but you also build trust by getting things done. that's what president biden did with a group of senators with the infrastructure bill. that's what we're going to do with this pharmaceutical bill. that's what we're doing with the semiconductor bill which will be passed and signed into law by president biden. i actually think there's a lot of exciting things going on right now that are going to tackle what's number one on americans minds, bringing down their costs. >> now before we run out of time, i want to quickly get your personal thoughts about the latest legal developments in the death of george floyd. you are senator, one or two in that state, on thursday a judge sentenced former officer to two and a half years in prison for violating floyd's civil rights. officer lane held his legs as

officer chauvin pinned his neck to the ground for nearly nine and a half minutes. two officers are awaiting sentence for their own civil rights convictions. i know you were close and worked a lot around this case. what's your thoughts on this? >> well, i think this news got lost and i'm so glad you're asking about it. because derek chauvin got convicted, as you know, for murder. that was a big deal. it was a road to redemption, and we're not there yet. i don't think you can have complete justice until we pass cory booker's bill and police reform. i don't think we can have complete justice until we complete the pattern and crack the investigation of minneapolis police. you know, all, you've been to minnesota so much, how important that verdict was. and then second in a federal case was brought against the three other officers. they were all convicted by a federal jury, as you pointed out, as not eating in stopping

the murder. not stepping in and saving george floyd's life. that's a big deal because those verdicts don't usually come around easily. i'm not an expert on what the sentence should be. i would most likely have gone with what the prosecution wanted to hear. but the point is the conviction itself, it's very, very important. e point i think the conviction s important, i would've liked to see more time, but i also thinking it's more time than we got in a long time. thank you senator amy klobuchar, let's talk more about the midterms right now. joining me right now is cedric richmond, the former director of the white house -- he's a senior adviser to the democratic national committee center. thank you for being with us, again. before we get into the midterm races, i want to start with something you said regarding your former boss, president joe

biden. in the days after roe v. wade was overturned, he said democrats were attacking the white house for not doing enough to protect reproductive rights or engage with, quote, the same foolishness that got us donald trump, unquote. it's been a few weeks since he said that. during that time, the president has signed an executive order aimed at protecting access to abortion services. are you saying the democratic party -- are using the becoming more unified because he said that, then as you said a lot of stuff that the president has done, and you, i don't know anyone as much ice cream on the outside, or work harder on the inside, on things like police reform and women's right to choose, and as presidents, don't tell him, but i give him credit on many things. do you see some of the unity starting to come together, now, after you make that statement? >> well i do see some of the

unity, reverend al, and i'll tell you, i have a view that a lot of people don't. i see the thoughtfulness of the president. i see is fortitude and a lot of to the time i see what is going to do because he's doing that due diligence to get it done. my point, then, was that the president had action that he knew he wanted to take, but a lot of that has to clear certain hurdles. when i wanted to make sure that democrats understood is that we know who did this. we know who inflicted this harm and reversed this important right. that was the supreme court because of republican picks over decades. and so, to me, it highlights how important and the devastation of losing the presidential race was to donald trump. he appointed three supreme court justices, and the supreme court since then has continued to erode fundamental rights

that american citizens enjoy. you know, when you say that, let's move to georgia, where the democratic gubernatorial nominee is fighting back against republican efforts to paint her as an advocate of defunding the police, by pointing out areas were her opponent, governor brian kemp, is soft on time. she's also pledging to give cops a raise if elected. you think are strategies working? >> i do. i think it's smart. i want to be clear. i live in new orleans. we are having a challenge, like many cities. we are trying to address it in terms of violent crime. black people want police. they won just police. they want to make sure that the police, when they, come between have to fear about what's gonna happen. that they know that they are protecting their to protect and serve. we know the vast majority of police do that. that's why we support them.

the president said when he was running at the height of the presidential campaign, that he wanted to put 300,000 more police officers on the streets -- because everyone deserves the safe community. you're only gonna get that through investing and through policing. it has to be just. they have to be held accountable. it has to be transparent when things happen. i don't think the answer to crime is that we pull funding from police. we just add more funding to other areas. i think that stacey abrams, who is a very smart public servant, is articulating her values in terms of saved communities for everyone. >> in many ways, aren't we hearing some of the right-wing kind of turning up the volume of voices that are more fringe then speaking for the average voter, including the majority of black voters, so they can

hand these easy targets to go after? -- they are arguing against things that have not been said by many of the candidates and many people even in the advocacy world like i am headset. it gives them a stronger -- of fight that's really not there. -- democrats are getting excited about beto o'rourke, the democratic candidate for governor has cut incumbent greg abbott's polling support in half since the spring. -- democrats have put a lot of energy into texas in the past cycles, only to come up short. do you think things could be different this time? >> i do. a lot of it is because of what you just said, in terms of how extreme this party is. for example, they call us, and they say they want to defund the police, but at the same time, they support the actions

of donald trump and outside the capital on january six, where police officers were killed, they were sprayed, they were assaulted. if you don't stand up to january 6th and to what presidents child instigated, then you are absolutely anti police. when you see how extreme the republican party has gotten, especially governor abbott, it takes you back to when they said barack obama was a muslim and wasn't born in america. the republicans don't live on the same planet these days. that's what's hurting them. while we just continue to keep our head down and continuing to work on candidates, continue to knock on doors and talk about the world of a division, we see that blacking blocking climate change when every one of the world can see how important it is. you're looking at their stance on reproductive rights, you look at their stance on civil rights, voting rights, and you just go down the list. this is the republican party that has laser focus on taking

away fundamental rights. they are one that is so extreme that they don't bother to look at facts or articulate the truth. >> now, before we finish, i want to take, i want your take really on some polling that must drive you crazy. someone who has worked with the biden white house. political political reports eight months after president biden cited signature infrastructure bill into law, only 24% of americans are aware that the measure even passed. we both know democrats are fighting every day to help working people in this country. how does the party do a better job telling them about it? i talk to people on my radio show every day, why should black folk, we don't get george floyd, why should the average american vote for this administration, as one that was there and got a lot of work done that they just simply don't know and a lot of work

was not done that was simply beyond your grasp. i mean, talk directly. i'm sitting at. home it's hottest crazy is outside. why should i loaded for not gonna get everything i thought i was gonna get? >> i would answer that to. ace number, one it was incumbent upon democrats, my colleagues in congress, mayors, state legislators, to talk about what the biden administration and democrats have been able to deliver. for example, in the infrastructure law. not only are we going to remove all lead pipes that are delivering contaminated water to black households and 400,000 schools, 10 million homes, we increased 100 and $10 million to the minority business development agency so that we could create more minority businesses. we are going to increase disadvantaged businesses procurement by 100 billion dollars over the next five years. >> billion with a b. >> a billion with a b.

when congress has stalled, we have acted. george floyd act did not pass. that was unfortunate. it was a travesty. but the president signed an executive order to deal with policing. we couldn't get voting. writes we signed a voting rights executive order, we put money so we could start voting protection early than that's ever earlier than what's ever been done before. when we took office, 3000 people were dying every day of covid, and there were only three or 4 million vaccines distributed, now you're talking about hundred million vaccines distributed. there are things we could talk about over and over again, but i believe that we have to adapt a muhammad ali philosophy is democrats and go tell people what we did. people are so busy trying to keep a roof over their, head clothes on their, back and food on the table, they've been or have time to go out and do the research. maybe that's not even their obligation as democrats we need to unite and go tell people what we have been able to do,

those places where we haven't been able to get it done, tell them our plan to get it done. so, our nervous energy, we should use to go knock on doors, go to barbershops, beauty, shops churches, grocery stores, talk to people about what is really going on. by the way, we passed gun reform legislation that hasn't been done almost since president biden passed assault weapons ban. there are a bunch of accomplishments. we just have to go tell people. >> all right, cedric richmond, thank you for joining me. >> thanks for having. me >> after the break, one virus, two presidents. i'll take a closer look at the differences between our president biden and trump dealt with their personal, their own personal experience with coronavirus on the pandemic. and later, the secret services missing text messages. our political panel weighs in on a new poll that should shed new light on what happened on

january six. but first my colleague richard louis with the day's top news story. >> rev, good saturday to you. some of the stories we're watching. president biden's physician says the president's condition continues to improve after being diagnosed with covid-19 earlier this week. president symptoms down quote a sore throat, body aches, a runny nose, and loose cough. the white house doctor says biden likely contracted the ba.5's the variant of omicron, now the most prevalent covid strain in the united states. nbc news has confirmed the identity of one of two americans believed to have died in ukraine's donbas region. state department has declined to provide any further details on how the two u.s. citizens died. families of luke lucyszyn says the state department informed the monday of their son's death. breaking this afternoon, at fair port, knew your man was arrested and charged with assaulting congressman and republican nominee for governor

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for these five days following a deeper plan laid out by the white house, in consultation with infectious disease experts. that's not the approach president trump took on october 2020. we found about his diagnosis from the late night tweet that blindsided many of his own staff according to numerous insider accounts. trump didn't say how long he had been second this tweet. though we now know from his chief of staff, he first tested positive three days before. and went on to appear on stage at the first presidential debate. not that he revealed how ill he really was, later that same day, he would have to be flown by helicopter to walter reed hospital, where he spent the next three nights. during trump's convalescent, chaos reigned. doctors and political staffers

gave conflicting information about the commander-in-chief's health. while the president himself resisted even the more basic health and safety protocols. during a second full day of his day, president trump took a joyride in the presidential limousine, endangering his own secret service detail, so he could wave to a crowd of supporters. when president trump returned to the white house, he defiantly ripped off his mask for the cameras, his message to americans who are dying at a rate of thousands per day than, was let the virus dominate you. that's a quote. both presidents were at high risk because of their age and medical history. and we're very fortunate to have access to some of the best medical treatment in the world. the real difference, in the two stories, is not about medicine, it's about character. to me, it looks like president

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let's get more insight on today's big topics from my political panel. joining me now is kimberly atkins, senior opinion writer and columnist for the boston globe. hendrix wilson, former gop strategist and co-founder of the lincoln project. let's start with the january six committee hearing, on thursday. the last of the summer, then we will see more in the fall. the primetime event painted the clearest picture yet of how former president trump waited until it was clear that his supporters would not be able to stop the certification of -- before he made any attempt to color off the angry mob. what are your thoughts about what we learned this week and therefore we're [inaudible] going forward. >> not only until it was --

clear that it wouldn't work [inaudible] to tell the capital to go home -- and not even say [inaudible] when they tried to recorded a video [inaudible] deliberate in by donald up -- trump throughout that day despite the fact that we did not have the white house efforts to indicate his whereabouts, we had through testimony and evidence the fact that family members were begging him to call the rioters a, but also the fact that he tweeted a tweet about mike pence, and that clearly riled up that crowd in support of

donald trump, and against mike pence in a way that put the lives of the vice president and anyone in the capital in danger. i think the committee did a very good job laying fairly clearly out that day, point by point, and showing exactly trump's role in all of. it >> rick, late yesterday, a jury found steve bannon guilty of two counts of contempt of congress for refusing to speak to the january six committee. bannon faces a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 30 days, up to one year behind bars, plus a fine of up to $100,000. do you think that's an appropriate possible punishment, and will the case compel other trump associates to cooperate? >> well i think, from my personal opinion i like to see trump in isolated segregation so in a super max, but that's

just me. i think he's one of the most dangerous people, and one of the central elements on these ongoing conspiracies to overturn the 2020 election. i think once this committee is being able to bring this penalty against bannon it's helpful -- i think bannon will laugh it off. it's a 30 day sentence, but if it's a two year sentence, it's a little less easy to laugh it off and have fun with it. i think the committee has shown, and the doj has shown, they're not going to let these guys who are performative circus clowns of the far-right, get away with their shenanigans. benin claimed he was gonna go medieval in the trial. it turns out he's just going to go to jail. >> kimberly, there is growing scrutiny around the secret services deleted text messages from january six. the department of homeland security's inspector general has launched a criminal investigation into the circumstances.

this comes months after the dhs inspector general who was appointed by donald trump, knew the secret service erased texts from the day of and the day before the deadly insurrection. but chose not to tell congress, according to the washington post. what do you make of this timeline? but could have motivated the agency to delete valuable evidence? >> well, taken together with other evidence that we know, for example the missing white house logs from january six, it really picks -- paints a troubling picture of potential criminality in trying to keep this evidence away from the january six committee and anyone else, if it is shown. that there was an active. purge the criminality can range from anything for the violation of the congressional records acts which comes with a three-year

penalty, or obstruction of justice if this was done purposely. if this was done purposely to try to obstruct the committees where. that's obstruction of justice, that's a serious felony. i'm also concerned, these are secret service agents that are in charge of protecting protecting the president, the vice president and other people. if they have been deeply politicized, that something american should be very worried about. >> rick, former president trump and mike pence held dueling rallies in arizona last night. both men where they're campaigning for their picks for your governor. but of course it was also a chance to measure the popularity of the two former allies turned rivals. we know trump remains wildly popular among republicans. but did you see anything that indicated pence has gained any following for his willingness to stand up to the former president, at least once on january 6th? >> you know, raf, i don't

really think. so i think mike pence is one of the saddest, one of the most tragic figures in american public politics. he's a guy that cannot come out and say the words that donald trump was not legitimately elected, and then you try to kill me. it's ironic that this is a guy who somehow thinks there's a path to power where trump is still in the field, or, where trumpism is still the dominant motivating force inside the republican party. i don't see any political method -- mike pence gets an a republican primary with donald trump, he will come in 15th in a field of 14. it's not gonna work. >> kimberly atkins stall, and rick wilson, thank you both for being with us. coming up, combatting racism in health care, the american nurses association is taking historic action, we'll tell you about it, next. l yo l yo about it

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the american nurses association took a historic move this month, issuing a formal apology to nurses of color, and publicly acknowledging organizations -- the organizations history of systemic racism. in the apology letter, the organization promised to account for past and persisting racism. to seek forgiveness, and to

reconcile with other ethnic nurse organizations and associations. >> joining me now is cheryl peterson, the american nurses association vice president of nursing progress. thank you for joining me today. miss peterson, and a's a policy later to nurses of color eyelets some noteworthy and concerning statistics. in a study conducted by the national commission to address racism in nursing last fall, 63% of nurses surveyed say they have personally experience an act of racism in the workplace. and 50% of nurses say racism in the workplace has negatively impacted their professional well-being. the study looked at trends in the profession over decades. why issue this apology now? >> yeah, thank you so much for inviting me to be on your show.

really, following the murder of george floyd, the american nurses association did partner with the national black nurses association, the national association of hispanic nurses, the national coalition of ethnic nurses associations, and we've launched the national commission to address racism in nursing. through this effort that a and a realizes that four in order for us to be credible leaders -- we needed to look at ourselves, as a professional association. that is 126 years old we needed to repair our relationship with the nurses of color, and the organizations that stepped into that breach when we failed to represent the interests of their members and their needs of communities of color. so we consider the release of

the statement really as a start of a journey, a journey that we are committed to and one that is absolutely necessary to address and repair fractures within the profession that can impact our ability to provide appropriate care to all people. it's a start. >> it's a star, but we also have to acknowledge that there is a past, here. as you said, you're dealing with many years, i believe in repainting but you have to deal with repairing. a lot of people's health could have been impacted by this. in the apology statement, the ana is promising to work towards an equitable workplace. it also underlies the history with racism. how back in the 60s, exclusionary practices were used against nurses of color. talk to me more about this history, and how this racism became so prevalent in the

nursing profession? >> well i don't know that nursing is probably any different than any other profession, we're choosing to address it because we know that racist views, policies, and behaviors have, over many years, been unchallenged, and unchanged by those in power. we also know that they've been systemically normalized into society, and more specifically, into health care. the nursing profession as part of society, and it's in -- a significant part of the health care system has participated in perpetuating racist views. so in may, the national commission to address racism in nursing published a series of reports that take a pretty unvarnished view of how racism shows up in nursing's history, the contemporary nursing, and through for focused areas of practice, education, research,

and policy. and the purpose of this is to shine a very bright light on the problem of racism in nursing. so that we can begin to address it, and guide the ways in which we do this work. >> yeah but -- racism was, i hear your statement, and you look like you're reading. i appreciate all the work you're trying to say, but it's not just like everybody. you're dealing with life and death situations here, miss peterson, that have impacts on people. we talk about for decades, andrés is of color, and the patients that have suffered from this. research from health affairs highlights the last of equitable access to health care, quality health care, of systematic racism and health care policy, which favors a white population and disadvantages other. so moving forward, what tangible actions can the american nurses association take to address this problem,

and how do you repair the damage already done? >> yes well, we aren't going to be able to repair, we're hoping that people will see this apology as a step tour a form of reckoning and towards a form of forgiveness. so how can we then take that forward and improve the profession at large? so how are we going to work together with our colleagues, with our ethic and minority nearest organizations, and ultimately if we address the problem within the profession, address the problem with the nursing, then we believe that it will have a ripple effect and will have improved care, and address health inequities. it's gonna take us a while,

it's taken us a while to get here and we step into the space as humbly as we can, as we work with our colleagues of color who we -- we know that we harmed, who are asking for forgiveness from, and who we seek to partner to move forward to strengthen the profession. there's nobody who comes into the health care system that doesn't have some point of contact with nursing. if we -- can work with nursing and change nurses and do better, we will do better for health care and for patients of color. >> that is my point, in working with these other organizations, associations, they can help you get there. i do not want, clearly, when you ask for forgiveness, with forgives comes accountability.

i don't want to minimize the untold impact and effect this could've had. i know has had on families down through the decades, so, you can always ask for forgiveness, but you also must be accountable for the debt damage done. cheryl peterson, thank you for coming on and reading the answers to me, tonight, we'll be right back. , we'l be right back. be right back. when uc held me back... i got lasting, steroid-free remission with rinvoq. check. and when uc got the upper hand... rinvoq helped visibly repair the colon lining. the colon lining.got the upper hand... check. check. and check. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. serious infections and blood clots, some fatal; cancers, including lymphoma and skin cancer; death, heart attack, stroke, and tears in the stomach or intestines occurred.

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