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on blue sky. if you don't have blue sky yet, why don't you try it? it might not make you want to die. i'm on blue sky at msnbc.com. i find it to be a more constructive experience there than on other social media properties. that's just what i think on msnbc.com. all right, now it's time for the last word with the great lawrence o donnell. good evening. lawrence. >> rachel, it's not just what. >> you think. it's what i think. >> too, about blue sky. which is why i followed. >> you to blue sky. >> rachel. >> so this was one of those. >> nights when. >> i'm walking. >> through the hallways to get here. >> and the. silent tv. monitors that i'm walking. by show you with some pretty important. >> breaking news. >> about birthright citizenship. and i. can't hear a word of it. all i know is there's. >> this thing. >> at the bottom of the. >> screen that says. >> you know, this really. important thing has happened. by taking a quick look at the. >> the breaking news report on it. >> and it's. >> a trump appointed.

>> judge is. >> is saying, no, you. >> know. >> this this this case can be handled through the standard procedures. the and. >> it's not an emergency. >> we don't have. >> to go into an emergency mode to. deal with your attempt to. >> like. >> hand rewrite. >> the constitution. >> yeah. and it's actually it's very well written. it's written like, in non legalese. yeah. judges are charged to reach their decisions apart from ideology or political preference. when we decide issues of significant public importance and political controversy. hours after we finish reading the final brief, we should not be surprised if the public questions whether we are politicians in disguise. in recent times, nearly all judges and lawyers have attended seminar after seminar discussing ways to increase public trust in the legal system. moving beyond wringing our hands and wishing things were different. one concrete thing we can do is to decline to decide or pre decide cases on an emergency basis when there is no emergency warranting

a deviation from our normal deliberate practice, because they are going to appeal this on an emergency basis to the supreme court. and here's this appeals court judge in the ninth circuit. being like this is a lot of things. an emergency is not one of them. you're just trying to change the constitution. >> yeah. >> and this is. >> this is the same. supreme court. >> that was. >> in absolutely. >> no rush to hear. >> jack smith's. appeal to. >> the supreme court about the whole issue of presidential immunity. >> they wanted. >> to they wanted to. >> deal with that one as slowly as they possibly could. >> yeah. but this one is trump trying to change the constitution? so you're no longer an american if you're born in america. the idea that this has to be taken up on some emergency basis. i mean, we'll see what the we'll see what the what the supreme court does as justice department tries to rocket this to the supreme court. but this pushback from this three judge panel at the ninth circuit is, is pretty strong. >> yeah. >> he's trump's on a losing streak with this. >> one so far.

>> yeah. >> yeah. >> exc.>> tha you rachel. >> thank you. well, today. >> at 2:31 p.m. exactly. the white house posted on social media. congestion pricing is dead. manhattan and all of new york is saved. >> long live the king. >> president donald j. trump, and i'm sparing you what. was attached underneath those utterly insane words. >> it was. >> a deeply. >> perverse rendition of donald trump on what was designed to appear to be a fake time magazine cover, with him wearing a gold crown that he imagines kings wear. every day. >> there was a. >> time when. >> new york city was. >> governed by the king of england, but the people living in new york city and the other colonies joined together to kill. >> as many. british soldiers. >> as necessary to remove a

king. >> from their lives forever. >> of course, not a single. republican objected to anything about that social media. >> posting today. >> and although republicans will constantly tell you that government is. best when left to the state and local officials, especially on health. >> care. >> issues or. >> education, for. >> example, education should be as local as possible. >> none of. >> those republicans. >> objected today. >> about donald trump interfering in the most local possible issue traffic jams. at the beginning of this year, new york city tried something that i, for one. did not think was going to work, and i thought it was going to be a lot of. political trouble. it was an idea that had been kicking around think tanks and urban planning seminars for at least

40 years, that i'm personally aware of. it was talked about in subcommittee hearings in washington decades and decades ago. >> but it was the. kind of. >> idea that usually scared most politicians. the new york politicians who supported the idea in the state legislature and got and. >> the ones. >> who supported it in the city, got very scared of the idea. the closer it came to being a reality, the idea of congestion pricing to try to control traffic in manhattan. so they delayed the idea. they delayed the idea that long held dream of urban planners, congestion pricing, in effect, electronic tolls invisibly applied. >> to cars. >> venturing below 60th street in manhattan. it was a desperate attempt to try. to do something. about 100 years of increasingly unbearable new york city traffic, and as the deadline for implementing congestion pricing

approached, politicians began to fear the wrath of every new york city car driver. while the governor had to worry about the wrath of suburban new york, drivers, also politicians. >> who. >> supported congestion pricing as the implementation day approached worried that they wouldn't get any gratitude. at all from most new york city residents who don't even own cars. new york city is the only city in the country where most people do not own cars, and at the last minute, they dramatically reduced the toll pricing in the congestion pricing plan. and the first day that congestion pricing went into effect in new york city. a miracle was upon us. >> i got into a car in. >> lower manhattan. >> and speeded. >> up to midtown on the fdr drive at the highway speeds. that road was designed to allow for. for the first time in my

life, the ride that. normally would take at least 45 minutes took 20. i went into an office where the first person i spoke to was from staten island. her commute to midtown manhattan usually was at least 90 minutes each way, sometimes two hours. and that day, for the first time in her life. >> it was. >> 45 minutes and she wasn't even driving. she was riding the express bus from staten island, and that's when i realized congestion pricing just might turn out to be the most popular thing that has happened in government in new york city in a very long time, because the bus riders. >> were very happy. >> new york city roadways intersect with the interstate highway system. so there are three levels of governmental interest involved in congestion pricing the government of new york city, the government of new york state, and the federal government. within a couple of days, most people in new york politics breathed a huge sigh of

relief, realizing that not only had the plan worked exactly as intended, even better than intended by breaking gridlock, but it could end up being the most popular thing they've ever done. president biden signed off on the federal government's okay for new york city's congestion pricing plan last year. and today, 2:31 p.m. donald trump announced that the king was ending it all or trying to end it. donald trump revoked the federal approval of congestion pricing, and governor hochul announced that new york was rushing into court to try to preserve the only new thing ever devised to reduce traffic in new york city. in donald trump's entire 78 years of life, the only thing that has actually worked at a press conference about donald trump's attempt to block congestion pricing this

afternoon, governor hochul was asked a two part question about two different things. >> and what would it take for you to determine that mayor eric adams was no longer able to govern new. >> york city? >> i'm ignoring the second part of the question because i. >> said. >> that's another day. >> okay. the first part of. >> the. >> question. >> which we missed, was actually about congestion pricing. and then there was a question thrown in there about eric adams, which the governor then didn't want to answer. the governor then turned to legal experts with help for the questions about congestion pricing and where that case was going to go. now it has been falsely reported day in and day out, pretty much everywhere in the news media that the governor of new york has the power to summarily fire the mayor of new york. that is not true, as i explained here last night, but it bears explaining again, since it's apparently a difficult lesson for people to learn, especially in the news media. the governor of new york only has the power to initiate a process that has never been

tried before to remove the mayor of new york, only after a hearing in which the mayor would be allowed to defend himself and be represented by as many lawyers as he wants, who would be allowed to call as many witnesses as they want. the rules for such a hearing do not exist. they would have to be created by the governor, because in this kind of hearing, which has never occurred, the governor plays the role of the judge and therefore would have to be there every minute. the governor also plays the role of the prosecutor in that hearing, presenting the evidence against the governor. and the governor plays the role of the jury in that hearing, and would have to make the final fact finding and render a verdict. every aspect of that process that has never been used before, and has been never tested for due process, every

bit of it could be appealed in court, and such appeals could be fought all the way to the united states supreme court. and that could take years. so, no, the governor does not have the power to fire the mayor. just have a hearing about the possibility of removing the mayor. and in that hearing, if the governor decided to have one, she would not be able to use any of the criminal evidence collected by the fbi and presented to a federal grand jury, which led to the criminal indictment of mayor eric adams on bribery and other charges. so there would be zero criminal evidence available to the governor to consider in such a hearing. zero. and so the magic bullet firing scenario that you've been hearing from people who literally, in every real sense, don't know what they're talking about, is impossible. also, at exactly 2:31 p.m.

today, the trump white house issued their proclamation from their king about congestion pricing. exactly 2:31 p.m. and at that very minute, mayor eric adams was testifying under oath for the very first time in the criminal case of the united states of america versus eric adams. federal judge dale ho, who has been presiding over the case of the united states of america versus eric adams, was hearing a motion by donald trump's justice department to just dismiss the charges against mayor adams, a motion that was opposed by all of the new york city federal prosecutors who were handling the case. in all, eight federal prosecutors in new york city and washington have resigned over what they believe is an illegal scheme to dismiss the case for political purposes. one of the briefs filed in the case today included a letter from danielle sassoon, who was the acting u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york.

her eight page letter offering her resignation and her refusal to file the motion to dismiss, accused acting deputy attorney general emil bove of entering a quid pro quo for the dismissal. the letter said mr. bové proposes dismissing the charges against adams in return for his assistance in enforcing the federal immigration laws. the reasons advanced by mr. bové for dismissing the indictment are not ones i can, in good faith, defend, as in the public interest and as consistent with the principles of impartiality and fairness that guide my decision making. danielle sassoon's letter also reveals that she and her team of prosecutors were ready to bring an additional indictment against mayor adams, saying, we have proposed a superseding indictment that would add an obstruction conspiracy count based on evidence that adams destroyed and instructed others to destroy evidence and provide false information to the fbi, and that would add further factual allegations regarding his participation in a

fraudulent straw donor scheme. emil bove could not find any attorney in the justice department willing to stand in front of the judge today and argue in support of that motion. we saw the unique spectacle of an acting deputy attorney general appearing as a litigator in court, which they virtually never do. one of the prosecutors who quit, rather than stand up and tell the judge what he believes to be lies in the courtroom today, said in his resignation letter last week that he was confident that emil bove would be able to find, quote, enough of a fool to do it. emil bove did it. emil bove told the judge i'm here personally to answer your honor's questions, to give you the assurance you need to sign this. judge ho began the hearing by asking eric adams under oath if he was on drugs. that is actually a standard question for

defendants in hearings like this to establish that they actually comprehend the proceedings that they are in. the judge clarified that the trump justice department intends to hold out the possibility of bringing these exact charges against eric adams against him again, whenever they want to the court. mr. bove, if and when the motion is granted, can these charges be brought against mr. bove? they could be in the department's discretion. yes. judge the court. okay. so mayor adams could be re-indicted at a future date. mr. bove, it's possible the court is the government committing to stopping any additional investigative steps with respect to mayor adams, mr. bove no, that answer contradicts what emil bove put in writing in his order to danielle sassoon to ask for dismissal in the case. in that order, which she refused, emil bove said there shall be no further targeting of mayor adams or additional

investigative steps. now, you really don't want politicians like eric adams to know that the fbi has been ordered not to investigate him. the judge asked. mayor adams, has anything been promised to you to induce you to consent to the motion? the defendant? not at all, your honor. the court. okay. has anyone threatened you in any way to induce you to consent to the motion? the defendant? no, your honor. >> if he. doesn't come through, i'll be back. >> in new. >> york city and we won't be sitting. >> on a couch. i'll be. >> in his. >> office up. >> up his. >> butt saying. >> where the. >> hell is. >> the agreement we. >> came to? >> that video was not part of the record of the hearing today. to emil bove, the judge said, i just want to confirm my understanding that the motion contains no statement about the government's views regarding the strength of the case, in terms of the facts or the legal theory. mr. bove. that's correct. and less than a minute

later, in his very next answer, emil bove contradicted that answer he had just given when he said he believed that the indictment, quote, is an abuse of the criminal justice process. emil bove advanced the novel theory that no candidate for office should ever be charged with a crime. he said to the judge, i mean, frankly, i think the fact that mayor adams is sitting to my left right now is part of the problem. he's not able to be outrunning the city and campaigning. i think that is actual interference with the election. so according to the new trump justice department theory, any candidate in any party anywhere in the country cannot be charged with a crime of any kind because that is interference with the election. even if the election isn't even that year, presidential campaigns are four years long,

remember, emil bove also advanced the novel legal theory that you cannot indict the new york city police commissioner because the duties of that job are so important. the judge asked, would a rationale like this, this ability to govern rationale potentially apply to other public officials with significant public safety, national security responsibilities here in new york, like the police commissioner, for example? could it potentially be applicable in the event that the police commissioner were subject to some sort of investigation or prosecution? mr. bove yes, absolutely. in the long history of police corruption in the city of new york, no one has ever before advanced the theory that the new york city police commissioner cannot be indicted. the last new york city police commissioner to go to prison was mayor rudolph giuliani's police commissioner, bernard kerik, who decades later was of course, pardoned by donald trump. leading off our discussion tonight is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and

former chief of the criminal division in the eastern district of new york. he's also an msnbc legal analyst. adam klasfeld is also with us. he was in the courtroom covering today's hearing for us. and, adam, i just want to begin with the way this played out in the courtroom. the transcript, which i've read, shows the judge being very, very careful and solicitous to beauvais as much as he possibly could. very polite, not turning over his cards in any way about what he was actually thinking about it. >> that's absolutely correct. he was. even deferential. >> i looked through the transcript. >> as well after. >> the hearing. >> and i think he apologized before questions about. >> 12 times. so this was a. hearing where. >> he. >> was being. >> very careful, but he. >> was also. >> being very careful. >> in his questioning. >> one of. >> the moments that i found really interesting was. >> through the hearing there. >> there were these two parties in intense. >> agreement. trump's d.o.j. >> and adams's attorneys. but they disagreed. >> one time. and that time.

>> was when. >> the judge asked adams about his. security clearance. and this is. >> a part the judge said, is mayor adams currently in the process of obtaining his security clearance, or does that hinge on the resolution of the motion? >> adams's attorney. >> says it hinges on the resolution. >> of the motion. >> and. >> at that time, beauvais interjected, just a correction. i don't think it hinges on that. it hinges. >> his security clearance because the security clearance issue is another. >> executive power. so in that. >> moment when. >> he's asking that question, he's undermining the stated rationale that they were given. so that here's a judge who is being very deferential, very cautious, but he's not tipping his hand. >> yeah. and andrew, the judge actually had it emerged and the judge questioning the of course, donald trump can just give him a security clearance anytime he wants to, just like he did with jared kushner. it's completely within donald trump's power.

>> yeah. >> so that once. >> it's that's conceded. >> that means. >> that the excuse. >> that you. >> need to dismiss these charges without prejudice because of security. >> clearance evaporates. >> i did think there were some other questions. >> that i. >> was kind of hoping the judge would ask when. >> emil bove. >> says, basically, we can do this. frankly, we can do. >> this even. >> if there is a quid pro quo. that was sort of remarkable to me. and if i were a judge, i think i would have asked, so are you saying that if eric adams. >> dropped a bag of cash off with. >> the deputy. >> attorney general. >> that that would. >> be legal? >> in other words, and what's the difference here? >> why is if there is. >> that quid pro. >> quo. >> if you can't. >> do the. >> bag of cash, why can you do this? and then also. >> when why is it that you want to. reinstate these charges? >> would it. >> be if he. >> doesn't toe. >> the line and. >> then just sort of pressing a little bit more. on why it is that this is something they want to do without prejudice, as

opposed to saying, look, we think it's a political prosecution, so we want it dismissed forever. and i think that is really. >> the flaw. >> in what the government is trying to do here is that sort of damocles, the. choke chain. >> that is being put on eric adams. that just has. >> to be something that. >> the law forbids. >> andrew, the judge is extremely limited here. it would be extraordinary for him to try to prevent the dismissal at this point. but, i mean, i have seen judges in hearings like this where no one feels as though they were pushed around by the judge, but the judge is actually just sitting there collecting, you know, all this crazy information that he needs to use against you because he went down some roads that were utterly insane. you cannot indict, you know, the new york city police commissioner, in effect, you cannot indict a candidate anywhere in america as long as they're a candidate. i mean, he

really and the judge did not test him on just how far do you want that statement to go? the judge left them there as indefinite statements that could be just as wild as they sounded. yeah. >> you know, i. >> was reminded of the presidential immunity case where there was the famous line in the court of appeals, which is, are you saying that the president can order seal team. six to kill a. >> political adversary? under your theory. >> and this. is this. >> is that wacky? >> but unfortunately. >> one, as you said. >> lawrence. >> the law here is very. >> very favorable to the government in their discretion. >> and two. >> we have a supreme court. >> that is bending over backwards. >> to find this, this sort of. >> overwhelming executive power. to the exclusion of. >> common sense. >> and frankly, i think sort. of the traditional ways we. >> think of the rule of law. >> it's the reason. >> that. you see so many people

resigning. >> yeah. and to andrew's point, adam, the one question that i that i was wondering why it wasn't there is the judge not specifically asking, why aren't you asking to dismiss it with prejudice? because given the reasons you just gave, you know, why? isn't that a dismissal with prejudice? >> and that was entirely absent. i think one of the things that was a common theme. >> from the beginning. >> to end. the judge said. >> right at the outset. >> that he. >> has very little discretion. >> over things. >> and everything that we've been watching. >> over the past week, these. principled resignations, the sassoon letter that you highlighted in your opening, none of that is officially before. >> the. >> court now. bovey said. >> that he. >> should not. even recognize that evidence because it is. >> brought forward. >> by the. >> amici. >> who the judge. >> has not made the decision to recognize. >> yeah, but he incorporated that decision in the entire decision. he's going to decide whether he will accept those

documents as part of the record. but, you know, like that fox news video is never going to be part of the record. there's a there's a context that we all know out here in the world that the courtroom will never allow within the playing field of this issue in the courtroom. and so this is one of those issues where we are more informed than the judge will be, even though the judge will be correctly, legally informed. andrew weissman, adam klasfeld, thank you both very much for starting us off tonight. thank you. you're welcome. coming up, our next guest is from a place that used to be ruled by the king of england. and so he had a little something to say today when donald trump declared himself a king. senator sheldon whitehouse joins us. that's next. >> not feeling the graze, but don't want a color? try just for men. control gg gray reducing shampoo. just shampoo like you do to gradually reduce grays. now boosted with keratin hair

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joining us tonight. and i know you are from a part of our world, rhode island, that used to be ruled by the king of england. and i noticed that you took notice today of donald trump declaring himself a king. >> yeah. >> i thought. >> it was a little bit preposterous what he was saying, and. >> took. >> a little poke at it. we usaid, in all of the work it does at certain points, intersects with classified information as obviously pentagon, full of classified information. we're going to have absolutely no idea what the musk crew is up to with any of that. >> no. >> but what we do. >> know as the musk crew, who i refer. >> to. >> as the. >> muskrats, that when. >> they go. >> into all of. >> these different government. >> data. >> systems. >> whether it's. >> our healthcare data. >> our social. security data. >> our labor department.

>> data, or now. usaid data, they. have an undeniable. >> motive. >> which is that the tech bros. >> who were there. >> at trump's inauguration. >> and elon. >> musk there. >> whatever he is, boss, i guess. they think this data. >> is. >> immensely valuable. they operate. systems in which data is the coin of. >> the. >> realm, and as they. >> go into ai. >> more data. >> becomes more valuable. >> and so question one is are they building in back doors? particularly you have something like godmode or administrator mode. you have the ability to actually change the wiring of how the system runs. and you can. >> put in. >> a back door so you can. >> get in later. >> and then exfill data that you want, or let somebody else do that. so there's a. huge data. security problem and they have. >> a huge.

>> motive to. >> violate americans. >> privacy in all of these things. >> then you get into separate. >> issues of. >> do they really have the. >> authority to be there? >> do they have the. >> security clearances to be there? >> are they competent. to mess in these complex systems and not do something inadvertently stupid? and there's no way to find out. >> much of. >> anything about all of that, because the whole thing. >> is shrouded. >> in secrecy. >> well, i think we do know that there's no positive answer to any of those questions that that, of course, they're they're all capable of being wrong, looking at something they've never seen before, working with things they've never seen before. they obviously had no comprehension of social security data and how that works. and they kept thinking they were staring at 150 year old people in, in there getting social security checks, which they're not, because they don't know what they're looking at. >> yeah. >> and so the. >> gradient here is somewhere.

>> between. >> let's hope. >> only a small amount of bad stuff happens from all of. this over. to they break. >> something really big. or they leave. >> an access into the data that they. themselves or tech bros, or perhaps. even foreign interests can find a way into. and as best i can. >> tell. >> there's nobody. >> in the government. >> who's watching. >> that, who is. >> checking on. >> that, who is going to go back and try to. >> see what patches need to be made. if you. >> had a. break in. >> a corporate. >> system, the first. >> thing. >> you do would be to bring the it experts in and try to make sure that your systems had not been corrupted and not. >> been. >> compromised, and there's no sign of anybody trying to do that either. >> senator sheldon whitehouse, i've got to squeeze in a commercial break here. when we come back, i want to ask you about something donald trump is doing we've never seen before.

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the initial shock of hitler changing sides in the middle of the war, he joined in an alliance with great britain and eventually the united states to crush adolf hitler. donald trump has already changed sides in the war in ukraine, and now it's just a question of whether he can get the rest of the american government to change sides with him. for the first time, and betray the people of ukraine. yesterday, in a flight of sheer dementia, donald trump blamed ukraine for starting the war, which began only when russia invaded ukraine. that is exactly like blaming poland for starting world war two, when adolf hitler invaded poland. it's exactly the same thing. and no one in human history has blamed poland for starting world war two, not even adolf hitler. today, donald trump called the heroic ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky a dictator, which is a

lie. president zelensky was elected with a larger share of the vote than donald trump has ever won. and donald trump continues to tell the lie that millions of russians and ukrainians have been killed in the war. the last time millions were killed in a war in europe was world war two. once again, the total number of war dead on the ukraine side is 46,000. the total number of war dead on the russian side is 854,280, not millions. still, with us senator sheldon whitehouse, who's just returned from the munich security conference. senator, today, some republicans disagreed. you know, they're careful about their language, but they certainly disagreed about with donald trump about calling zelensky a dictator. >> yeah. >> i think most. >> all disagree. >> i will tell. >> you that in the. >> meetings we had. in munich,

there was a very substantial array of. republican senators. >> including very senior ones. like lindsey. >> graham. who runs the. foreign ops. >> account for appropriations. the chairman of the armed. services committee, the chairman of the foreign. >> relations committee. and what. the our guests heard over and over again was their absolute support. for ukraine. >> and for. >> victory in ukraine. and the house. >> chairman of. >> armed services. >> mike. >> rogers, even said any. resolution to this has to be a defeat for. vladimir putin and has to be seen to be a defeat for vladimir putin. so it's going to be a real test of what you might call trump's servants. >> in the republican. >> party, to see how many will push back against this. >> we are already. seeing pushback. the trump. >> is you know. he's flagrantly.

flagrantly lying. and the worst thing is that not just the president of the united states is lying about something where he's obviously lying, but that his lies track perfectly with the talking points of vladimir putin. so if you go back to remember trump-russia the mueller report said there was trump, russia bipartisan senate intelligence report said. >> there was trump. >> russia repeated trials brought in evidence. showing there was trump. russia there was is and ever shall be trump. >> russia. >> this is trump russia rearing its ugly head again. and i think a lot of my colleagues on the republican side are going to be pushing back hard behind the. scenes on the white house in the days ahead. >> senator whitehouse, i just tried to write the word trump without looking down so i could keep my eye contact with the camera, and actually came out pretty good on my notes. but now i'm going to read it more carefully. thank you for that word. you'll be hearing it here.

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as you know, and the audience might not know that the budget resolution is just a set of instructions to committees telling them how much money they want them to cut, raise, whatever. and so it's hard for a citizen to read that and make sense of it. it's never going to say cut medicaid, but you have to know when it orders that committee to cut $800 billion. medicaid is the only thing they have to do it. and so we'll get to much more specifics at the next stage, which is the reconciliation bill, where all those cuts get specified. so we're we're marching up toward the specifics now. >> and there's one other thing to keep in mind, lawrence, which is that spending runs. >> out. >> on march 14th. so they have to do at least a stopgap spending measure, even as they do this budget resolution, deal with appropriations and then do their big reconciliation bill, which we should note. they've said they want to increase the. debt ceiling by. $4 trillion as well. you and i have been around long enough. you and your time

at the finance committee, me even longer around the house and senate to see farcical budget debates take place. this one is going to take the cake, i believe. and what we know. >> is that. >> the reason, primary reason, as we saw in his statement that donald trump endorsed this house. budget resolution, even though it. >> will violate his pledge. >> is because the senate won with lindsey graham, is going to give money to ukraine and the house one does not. so he'll abandon everything else so that he can continue to abandon ukraine. and we're going to see whether, as sheldon whitehouse has said, republicans will talk tough not just behind the scenes, but in their votes and whether the house will be able to get republican votes. and frankly, given this farce, any democrat in the house or senate that votes to save the bacon of these republicans going through this horrific exercise would be

nuts. >> yeah. and obviously, the reconciliation package they will present will greatly increase the deficit and the debt. and i suspect that what their argument is going to be is ignore the budget projections, because elon is going to give us trillions more in spending cuts when he gets finished with his work. so just ignore what the congressional budget office says about how much this is going to increase the debt. >> the other. >> thing that's going on here a little bit in their discussions behind the scenes, as you know, with reconciliation, there's a kind of a farce. you're not allowed to increase the debt after ten years. so they've passed these ridiculous budget cuts. bush did it, and trump has done it in 2017. enormous cuts for the wealthy that expire after ten years. what they're doing now is continuing those ones starting next year,

ostensibly for another ten. but you've got a bunch of republicans in the house and senate saying, let's just ignore those rules. we'll rule over the parliamentarian and make them permanent, because we don't want to risk having them go away even after another ten years, ignoring their own rules, blowing up the budget, lying about where they're going to make the cuts. i mean, this is unlike anything that i have seen in more than 50 years of being around these institutions, and i've seen plenty. lawrence. >> yeah. and that's why i think the must thing integrates with this, because it's giving people the idea that you can these there are these magic cuts that can happen that's never been in the mix here before. in one of these reconciliation packages. no. >> and you know, what we have seen often in the past is republicans talk a good game about cutting government. and then they find that all of these programs actually work for their own constituents. what's going

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