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,. >> won. president addressed americans black mayors and all mayors really in washington this. week touting policy wins on infrastructure, and the economy, at the midway mark of his presidents return. moving ahead in the next two years, and already challenges. republicans in the house are clamoring to use their new

majority to investigate the president's handling of classified documents. and to put his department of justice under the microscope. just two days ago, the nation hit its debt limit setting up a high stakes confrontation over government spending. it is a battle president biden will have to face without his veteran chief of staff, don klain. nbc has learned, klain will leave his post in the coming weeks according to two sources. all of this, as we mark the 50th anniversary of roe v. wade, this weekend. seven months after the landmark ruling protecting abortion rights at the federal level was overturned by conservative dominated supreme court. it is another hot button issue that will no doubt demand the president's attention.

in the next few years. joining me now, congresswoman sarah jacobs, democrat of california. she is the house democratic caucus leadership representative. congresswoman jacobs, first of all, thank you for joining us. and before we get into the legacy of roe v. wade, i want to get your take on that news that white house chief of staff ronnycleide is stepping down. clean separate celebrated his second anniversary just yesterday in a position where the average tenure is about 18 months. what is your reaction? >> i think ron is going to be very messed in that position. although he is allowed his much deserved rest, i think by virtue of all the things we have been able to accomplish in these two years it is very clear he has been one of the most successful white have chief of staff ever. i actually worked with him before i was in congress and

before he was white house chief of staff. and i know what a thoughtful and amazing person he is. and he has been such an asset to the biden administration. >> yes, i can say honestly in my capacity of head of the national action network, he was always accessible and has always been a straight shooter. but, let me move on. yesterday the president marked the halfway point of his first term promoting his administrations successes over this past two years. that two-year span marks your own tenure in congress in which you've become the youngest member of the house democratic leadership. as caucus now finds itself in that minority, given all that, this divided congress he must navigate to get things passed. where do you help the president throws his weight between now in 2024? by any measure what president

biden has already accomplished in his first term has been historic. we passed the biggest investment in the climate change after. we passed that first gun violence prevention legislation since i was in elementary school. we passed bipartisan infrastructure bill that presidents from both parties have been talking about for decades and were never able to get done. we have created 11 million jobs. we pulled millions of children out of poverty. even if nothing gets done over the next few years, which i don't think will happen, it has already been a historic term and we have been able to do that with the slimmest majorities in the congress. so now as we go into the minority, i still think there will be a lot of room to be able to get things done and deliver for the american people. i will be focusing on trying to address the high cost of living for families, especially around housing and childcare. which, for my constituents in san diego are huge burdens and barriers. and, i think that there will be some room to do bipartisan compromise on those issues. >> the biden white house has

maintained its stance that it will not negotiate with house republicans over our national debt ceiling. which the u.s. hit thursday. republicans want spending cuts from the administration in exchange for raising the limit. failure to raise the limit by june may result in the country defaulting on its debt for the first time in history. possibly leading to market turmoil and complicating the governments ability to make social security payments. some economists warn, that recession could ensue. of course, this is not the first time you've had a standoff over the debt ceiling. but now you have the expanded influence at the right wing of this house gop driving a truck that lock. what is going to happen? >> i think it is very simple. democrats want to protect social security and medicare and the extreme republicans

want to hold the full for faith and credit of the united states hostage to be able to cut medicare and social security. and so i agree with president biden. we are not going to negotiate with hostage takers. frankly, i think it doesn't make sense to have us vote on the debt ceiling at all. we have already voted to appropriate this funding. we should allow at the executive branch to spend that money to execute on what we have already authorized and appropriated and voted on in congress. so i actually support getting rid of a debt limit where only one of two countries that has won. but in the meantime, i think it is important that we continue standing up for medicare, social security, all of the things that we know americans want to need from their government. and that congress has already voted to approve. >> congresswoman, as we discuss priorities, you said all of the congressional pro-choice caucus. opponents of reproductive rights were out in force for yesterday's march for life in washington. many in the house gop are supporting a national ban on

abortion. seven months after the overturning of roe at after 50 years. i read this week about your plans to reintroduce reproductive rights legislation that stalled in the house last year. specifically, your bill to limit the collection of reproductive health data on websites and phone apps. what is your strategy and getting this bipartisan support on this particular issue in this congress? >> i think the fact that the march for life and it add to congress shows very clearly that this was never about state rights. we know the extreme republicans want a national abortion ban. they've already introduced. it and it is clear that the majority of americans don't want that, and they show that very clearly in this midterm election. so, we are going to keep standing up for abortion access and rights. and we are gonna make sure while they are doing, that we are working to protect people in states that are already criminalizing abortion.

and one of the ways that we really need to do that is to protect reproductive and sexual health data in the way that my bill would do. there was a poll done in october that showed that the majority of americans, including the majority of republicans want congress to act to protect reproductive and sexual health data from being sold or shared without your consent. and so there is bipartisan consensus among the american people. and i'm working now with privacy minded republicans to try to see if there is a version of this bill we can craft that will be able to pass in a bipartisan way. >> lastly, congresswoman, as of this week we now have some gop house members that have denied the 2020 election results and expressed sympathies with the january 6th insurrection. sitting on committees tasked with defending our institutions and investigating threats to them. marjorie taylor greene, paul kosoff, laurin ball burt and scott perry.

now all sits on the house oversight committee. green is also on the homeland security committee. you are on house democrats chair line policy committee which makes those committees assignments for the other side of the hour. what is your take away on all this? yeah >> i think that these committee assignments show very clearly that kevin mccarthy mortgage his speakership and a republican majority to the far-right. that he will be the weakest speaker in history, and that he's already given up all the power to the extreme parts of his party. i think that it is a sad day for america when someone who defrauded small businesses that's on the small business committee, when someone who's being investigated by the justice department is going to be sitting on the committee investigating those investigations. when someon doesn't believe in the safety and security of our country sits on the homeland security committee. so. i think this was a moment where republicans could have shown leadership and could've actually shown the american

people that they were willing to fight for what they said they were going to do in the election and address inflation, and instead they are so focused on kowtowing to the far-right extreme and fighting with each other than doing the right thing for the american people. >> all right, we have to leave it. there thank you very much for being with us congresswoman sarah jacobs. now, as we just mentioned, tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of roe v. wade. and as some states across the country move to restrict abortion access, after the repeal of roe last summer, some democratic attorney generals are fighting to protect reproductive rights. one of them is joining me now, michigan's attorney general dana nessel. thank you for joining me today. earlier this month the biden administration changed fda rules to make abortion pills more readily available in pharmacies. at the same, time the new republican house majority has

made restricting abortion access at the federal level a priority. introducing a flurry of legislation including a bill that could subject doctors who perform abortions to criminal penalty. as an attorney general, how do you navigate the push and pull on abortion going on at the federal level? >> first of all, one of the things that i ran on initially in 2018 was the understanding that we were likely going to see the overturning of roe, quite honestly after brett kavanaugh was a super appointed to the supreme court we knew that it was coming. so a lot of us in states around the country as attorneys general that we were not going to enforce these abortion bans that would criminalize what had been a legal medical procedure for nearly 50 years in the united states. and now, as state attorneys general in an environment where

obviously roe is now technically no longer the law of the land, and you have some states where it is legal like it is in michigan now since the voters took back are right and codified reproductive rights into our constitution, we have made it a priority to make sure that not only are we protecting people who live in our states, but we will also be protecting people who come to our states in order to access critical health care, which is what abortion care is. >> attorney general, you have refused and forced michigan's 1931 abortion law which makes performing the procedure a felony. in september, a store state court declared the law unconstitutional. however, abortion opponents in your state are still looking for ways to restrict access in your state. as it is restricted in some neighboring states such as wisconsin, which has an abortion ban with no exceptions

for rape and incest. how confident are you that your state can protect abortion rights? >> well, and less we have some interference by the federal government at this point, there is very little that anybody can do because we, asked the voters, put this on the ballot in november and it passed by 13 and a half points, almost 600,000 votes. so it is codified into our constitution. and of course, not just the right to an abortion, but also birth control, the ability to manage a miscarriage, even fertility treatments now are codified into the michigan constitution. so the only thing that could change that at this point is the federal government. if we have congress passing a law that outlaws abortion, and a president you will sign on to it. that is why what i have to say to people is this. at this point, without protections by the united states supreme court, every

election is an election where abortion is on the ballot. whether you're voting for somebody in the state legislature, or whether it is a member of congress, and certainly whoever is president of the united states matters in regard to abortion. now, until we have another supreme court that decides to protect abortion rights again. >> let's switch to voting. rights democrats in michigan are trying to expand voting access after their successes in the midterm elections specifically after voters approved a constitutional amendment that creates a nine-day early voting period and requires the state to fund absentee ballot drop boxes. are you also looking into automatic voting registration, and have you discussed criminalizing election misinformation? >> yeah, i think that everything is on the table with our legislature.

and, obviously we have the first time in 40 years that we have a democratic legislature and a democratic governor. and so, i think they are looking to ensure that we can shine voting rights into our state laws to the very best of their ability. and also, to attract protect election workers which is a significant issue in our state and in states all around the. country so, i know that this legislature will try it's hard as they can to do that. but we are only in this place to begin with because the people took back our rights. and when we had a congress that would not protect voting rights, and united states of cream court that will not protect voting rights, and frankly a state legislature that wouldn't do that either when it was controlled by republicans, it was the peoples initiatives, both in 2018 when we made access to voting absentee. no reason. and now whether it was abolishing gerrymandering in our state which we also did we

get a ballot proposal, and then as you indicated this last time, ensuring that we have as many protections for voting rights as possible. we are going to continue to do that in the state of michigan as it seems to get harder and harder to do on a federal level. >> lastly, i must ask you before i let you go about gun control. democratic leaders in michigan who now control both the house and its senate have made it clear they want to pass gun laws specifically universal background checks, new gun storage requirements, and so-called red flag laws, meant to keep firearms out of the hands of people who pose an immediate threat to others. even governor gretchen whitmer has said that these are high priority for her. i also know personally that religious leaders in michigan are joining forces to push the state legislature to enact

sensible gun laws that will keep churchgoers safe. what can you tell us about these efforts? >> well, that they are underway. and that there is a lot of excitement about finally, at long last, having the opportunity to pass these common sense gun laws that will help protect the residents of our state. these are enormously popular proposed legislations. so many people in our state, both democrats and republicans and independents of course as well, want to see these laws and acted. so, what i can tell you. with a legislatures are actively working on those laws as we speak. and i think we are going to see the introduction of them shortly. and i believe that they are going to pass because, here's why. we know that they. work they are impactful, they are effective, they are going to bring down gun deaths and gun violence in our states.

and that is why all of us won our elections who believed in putting these kinds of laws on the books. because we want to protect people the best that we can. and democrats in our state are determined to do just that. >> michigan attorney general dana nozzle, thank you for being with us. later on politicsnation, house republicans and the white house gear up for a clash over the debt ceiling. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene trades in her space lasers for a seat on the homeland security commission. but first, my colleague jessica layton with the day's top news stories. jessica? >> hi, reverend. i'll thank. you stories we are watching this. our five memphis police officers have been fired after the chief there says, they violated department policies during a traffic stop that ended up leading to the death of time greene nichols. a 29-year-old black man. the incident is being reviewed by the tennessee bureau of investigation in the department

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and jon bayne, and michael hardaway, founder of hardaway wire and former staffer to now minority leader hakeem jeffries and senator dick durbin. michael, the biden administration past the midway mark during their first term, and today nbc news has confirmed that white house chief of staff ron klain is expected to step down in the coming weeks. it is not unusual to see turnover in the white house at this point in a presidency. mcclain has been an experienced and study hand. what is your reaction? when >> i think he has done an incredibly excellent job of delivering on the presidents agenda. all of these historic first and we have had under this president have been executed by ron klain. as chief of staff of the president, you are really the quarterback who's responsible for implementing, executing, and orchestrating the presidents agenda and i think if you look at things like

historic infrastructure that has been passed, and all of these other things have been happen delivered by this right white house, ron mcclain is the person responsible for making sure that those trains went on time. and so i think for him, there is a personal tool as well that comes along with being a white house staffer. much less chief of staff. and, so it is completely understandable that he would want to leave at this particular moment after he has delivered all these very important things. >> and he stayed longer than the average. brandon it claims his exit comes as the administration transitions from working with a democratically recorded congress to a house run by republicans. how does divided government change the way the white house is run? >> this is a completely different shot at this point. the time for legislating is over. there is no more big bipartisan bills, no more big progressive bills that are going to happen. this is pure politics for the next two years. congressional investigations are coming, obviously they need to ramp up for reelection.

at least we expect that's what they will be. doing so whoever they pick next, i think it needs to be someone who is very familiar with the investigations and oversight role of congress. someone who knows how to fight down in the mud because that is what is coming at them. but frankly, someone who is prepared to draw a contrast. i think the white house has a huge opportunity with republicans coming into the house. we saw with barack obama, we saw with bill clinton. contrast with the house republican, congress that is probably going to be very aggressive. and if the white house is able to take advantage of any overreach that could be what provides the boost for the president as he seeks to get reelected. >> michael, one of the first issues this new congress will have to deal with is the debt ceiling. many house republicans say they won't increase the limits unless there are spending cuts. they writes, for many democrats, a debt limit standoff could

bring political benefits because they believe the public will not side with republican attempts to extract concessions at the risk of default. is that a sound conclusion? many economists are warning a default could be catastrophic for the economy. >> this is an embarrassment. we are the greatest nation in the world and we continually operate in this way where every few years, if you have a democrat in the white house in republicans controlling the house, all the sudden we have to go through this exercise about money that is spent. and this particular situation, that limits allocations have already been put forth. and that money has already been spent. it is kind of like at home, if you wait until you get the disconnection otis to pay your bills, it is incredibly irresponsible. and i think that most americans who are in the middle on both sides of the aisle, can look at washington particular day with the house republican congress that is really leaning leading this horrific effort, and i think they will say, i can't

put these people back in power in 24 if this is how they're going to govern. look at kevin mccarthy. i think he's got a real opportunity to lead, i just don't know that he can truly represent the far-right wing of his caucus when he meets with the president on this particular issue. i think that will be something to watch. >> brandon, for speaker mccarthy the debt limit debate could pit him against, not only democrats, but against hard-liners in his own party. as you have seen firsthand, debates over government spending played a role in the unfolding of the past two republican speakers of the house. how do you see this playing out? >> this is what i am really worried about for kevin mccarthy. there has been a lot of focus on some of the promises that he made as it relates to the procedure on the floor and how easy it is to try to kick him out. many assignments. this is what is really most important. he made a bunch of promises to the far-right of the conference that they would be able to cut spending very significantly and

that they wouldn't negotiate with democrats on funding the government or on debt limit increase unless they agree to do so. i just think he was making some promises that he can't really deliver. so, i am very concerned about this both for kevin mccarthy's political future, but also just how the heck we increase the debt limit. i lived through some pretty dramatic debt limit standoffs in my time on the hill. i think it is a really dangerous tool and we should just get rid of it. but it is very clear to me that the republicans don't actually have a plan to increase the debt limit. i'm not so sure the white house has a plan for how they're gonna increase the debt limit. so, i think at some point they are going to have to come together. i understand not wanting to negotiate. one person's negotiation is another person's physically. there might be some small thing they can give republicans. but i think people need to realize is a dire situation and people need to think a little more seriously about how it's actually going to exit. >> i have just both of you to answer quickly for. me tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of roe v. wade.

is abortion rights going to be the political issue or one of the top political issues for the next two years? brendan? >> well, a, or republicans seem very interested and continue to have this conversation. the first week of the house, the first theme of the week was voting on a bills about abortion. so, it obviously was a political loser for the republicans in the last election. i am hoping they learned that election lesson. but it is something that is really important to them, so they're not gonna drop. it >> michael? >> i think republican republicans are smart they will drop, it but i don't think they. will i think democrats if they are smart will take it and run with it. because to biden's, point that was incredible that was incredibly effective for them as it related to last year's election and they should really drill down on the idea of personal freedom. because that is what this is about? >> brendan buck, and michael hardaway, thank you both for being with. that's coming, up denver is hundreds of miles from the mexican border. but the city's mayor says it has become a destination for

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problems he fixed. >> that was president biden yesterday addressing the bipartisan u.s. conference of mayors. many city laying leaders use the audience, the presidents to ask for additional resources to handle migrants and asylum seekers in their communities. according to customs and border patrol, there were more than 250,000 border crossings last month. that tops the previous record set last may by about 10,000. joining me now is the mayor of denver, michael hancock. mister mayor, more than 4000 migrants across the southern border last month wound up in denver. how is your city handling this influx, and what is exactly that you hope the federal government will do to help? >> first of all, let me say rubbed and sharp, and it's good to be with. you i'm awfully proud of the

people of denver, my city employees who responded to make sure that none of the migrants that came to our city were left on the cold. we had some tremendous cold trends and denver during that. time to a 24 below zero here in the 30 days and 44, 4500 migrants were coming into our city. and, so we spent now about four point, 54 point $8 million to care for them, to shelter them, 2 to 3 wrexit or's. but, i gotta tell you the non profit sent to faith community. stopgap helped us to begin to care for them. we are beginning to see smaller numbers of migrants coming to denver. but, we are still not out of the woods. we have about 900 migrants still in our care. but, we need the federal government now to look at short to medium long range. short-range, we need some shelter. we need some resources. money, as well as it may be some waivers to some of the lawsuit we have in place, or to move quickly to change. lost these migrants will. work they have shown up at

construction sites, they've shown about hospitality sites asking how they can work. many of them are here of course on documents with no contact the federal government so they can't work. long-range, simply federal government in particular congress needs to stop and partisan politics and develop a immigration policy that provides a pathway to citizenship. what biden and the minister and his administration did was helpful. it doesn't it gave us some relief, but it doesn't give us the long-range relief that we are going to need to help these migrants as they seek opportunity in the united states. >> new york city mayor and rick adams visited the border last weekend as president biden did two weeks ago. these visits get a lot of attention. but do you think they are helpful in understanding this situation in a city like yours, which is roughly 650 miles north of the border? >> i will tell you what it does. do we didn't understand how denver was as a destination for

these migrants. to your, point we are not on the border, we are not naturally destination for migrants and i would imagine, neither is new york city. and mayor adams who's a good friend of mine, we've talked about. this i think that going was going down there does this tell us understand, who is sending these migrants to our. cities how are they being coordinated. and help us to hopefully stop the pipeline or get better information so that they understand. whether it is the smugglers, or the ngos that are sending them our way, that when you send them our way there is a possibility that they might be on our streets. because we simply don't have the ability to care for. them so we can bring some truth to those individuals who are coordinating the efforts to transport them to our cities. maybe that is a good benefit in value. i think it would be. so certainly i don't shied mayor adams for the president going down there. because, other than the new biden strategy as well, they have to be on the other side of the border before they can apply for asylum to the u.s. under the new policy that he put forward.

so, it makes sense to go down and spread this information. because they're spreading information by word of mouth to each other. >> colorado governor jared polis is calling on your state legislation to pass new gun measures. including an expanded red flag law at the same time lawmakers in colorado are stab list and office of gun violence protection. 18 months ago, with a 3 million dollar budget. but the office has not distributed any grant money to communities to stop gun violence. how important is that money? what would you like to see state lawmakers do to help crack down on gun violence in your city? >> i think they are making some good movement. i certainly think governor poets is well aware of a lot of the challenges, and the root consequences of the challenges. there, by he's looking at not over the gun laws but also red flag laws that we have here in colorado. we have to certainly deal with those. many of those guns are being

created in the garages of these individuals. we certainly have a limited capacity, the size of the magazines that are in these guns because those guns that are being used, these automatics are good for nothing other than killing. and so we limit those capacities within the magazines. the other thing that we need to do, and i think that there's a move to do this. i know we move to do this. that is to partner with the u.s. attorney. co-finnegan here in colorado. what we did was to partner with him and to hire for special attorneys to be embedded in his office to be kind of a liaison. about a third of the crime, not more of these gun acts of gun violence being committed in our cities around the state of colorado are being done by people who are previous offenders. and we know that they should not be carrying weapons. and, so instead of indicting them on state, laws we are going to go straight and indict them on the federal laws. and we want some very strong

messages. if you are previous offender in colorado, in denver colorado, you are going to be, we will do everything we can to make sure we limit your time free on our streets to continue to further hurt people. so, we have got to think differently about these laws, and we have to continue to work with the state to make sure that we are intensifying the penalties of these laws so that people understand, we mean business when it comes to carry weapons and using weapons to harm folks in our city. >> they, are no more time but i have to ask you very briefly about homelessness. denver it has jumped by 24% last year. according to recent statistics. what is your plan to address this? >> we are going to continue to do a lot of the efforts that we have undertaken, reverend sharpton. one is to do everything we can to make sure that we have not only immediate, but transitional shelter for individuals. so we are pouring almost $300 million into that effort in 2023. we are also trying to mitigate

the impacts by, that are being brought to the homeless community by drugs. particularly opioids and fentanyl which is devastating, not only denver, but cities across this country. and then of course stepping up our game with solution centers which are emerging around denver to help those who are suffering from mental health and continuing to bring non police enforcement responses to those who are in crisis in our community by putting mental health professionals on the streets. so, what we are gonna continue to do everything we can. we have to make sure that we are attacking the mitigating causes of many people being unhoused in our city. >> denver mayor michael hancock, thank you for being with us. more politics nation after the break. re politics nation after the break.

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