pat toomey or somebody else -- i don't know if pat is running for re-election.n bet that this stuff is going to -- if he tries this, he will -- >> sandra: it's remarkable. you look at the technology industry and reviewing their interests. >> they want more. >> sandra: we saw that and then they wanted more. shoe be careful. >> they want -- gary gensler wants every company to mimic the leftism of the tech sector. every company. >> sandra: it is fascinating to watch. okay. we'll see what happens. great to see you, charlie. >> thank you. >> sandra: looks like vlad is glad when it comes to american energy policy. we'll tell you why. and florida republican congressman and former green beret michael waltz on president biden's warning for vladimir putin ahead of the summit. was it strong enough? we gotta take off. you downloaded the td ameritrade mobile app so you can quickly check the markets? yeah, actually i'm taking one last look at my dashboard before we board. excellent. and you have thinkorswim mobile- -so i can finish analyzing the risk on this position. you two

joining us is pat toomey the ranking member of the senate banking committee.t out >> sure. well, becky, you know, if you can receive unemployment benefits indefinitely that pay more than it pays you to go to work, well, certain number of people are not going to go to, would. i think that's just common sense. i think the big picture we shouldn't lose sight of is our economy is not in a recovery mode, we're in a full blown expansion. now we've got a really robust expansion. as you know, the fed is projecting 7% real gdp growth this year. unemployment getting down to 4.5% and with prices rising all around us, it's still -- it's 2023 before there's a median agreement that we get off zero and we're still buying bonds at $120 billion a month the thing that i can't understand is when you have really robust growth, tremendous improvement in the employment market and right now we've got about as many job openings as there are people looking for jobs and prices are rising it's not like the inflation picture is benign and they are still in such an accommodative mode this

senate democrats can find three more senate republicans, there was six who voted for it, senator pat toomey missed the vote but said he would have voted for it if he were here. so let's say three more senate republicans. are needed. until mcconnell gives any sort of signal that he would support a commission, there is very little chance that it is going -- they're going to find the 10 republicans needed for it to pass. and, you know, there's a lot of land mines in that commission. people are under questioning what was the big deal about creating a commission to look into what happened? but for republicans, there was a lot of problems with it. for one, the final report could implicate a lot of members of their own party. so they obviously don't want that. republican leader kevin mccarthy is potentially a witness since he talked to the former president on that day. and even for mcconnell, he would have the role in any sort of commission to appoint some of the republican commissioners. and that is filled with land mines, too. what sort of republican does he appoint? does he appoint a never trum

he is running in a crowded republican party to replace pat toomey, another republican.tate for republicans to hold, but parnell may not be the best. georgia, everybody has heard of hershel walker, he does a thousand pushup as day, former nfl great. this is donald trump's preferred candidate in georgia. problem? hershel walker lives in texas. just finishing up last but certainly not least, neither of these two are favorites of trump. he's attacked both of them because of this ridiculous recount happening in maricopa county over the 2020 results. they haven't been supportive. brnovich hasn't been in favor of it, nor has ducey. look, one, two, three, four, five, six races. if trump weighed in heavily on one of the candidates or one of these two guys you may get one or two that would not likely win and that makes mitch mcconnell very nervous, rightfully so. >> donald trump says he cares about who can win the general election. chris cillizza, thank you very much. >>> details continuing to emerge on the january 6th insurrection. cnn congressional correspondent spoke with thos

significantly >> highlight of the calendar is the jobs report friday over the weekend, senator pat toomey fed is risking being behind the curve. do you agree >> in terms of the fed being behind the curve, meaning responding too late to inflationary pressure, i assume what you are implying. >> exactly >> i don't necessarily agree with that. i think much of the inflationary pressure we are seeing is transient. we are confronting a challenging situation now with the reopening of the economy happening at a very uneven level. we have a lot of supply chain bottlenecks. we have a lot of shifts in demand and mismatch in demand and supply i think over time will likely abate. the one area that i think will persist in terms of inflation is wage inflation that is a consistent level of feedback i hear from ceos and cfos of companies. it is taking more to get companies back into the labor force. there were probably companies over earning who will have to make adjustments to the compensation and benefits to attract employees. >> i see that gm is one of your top picks in your portfolio. why is that? >> g

dynamics, every race literally matters here, and so many republicans retiring like rob portman and pat toomeyopen, and they are finding great k challengers like val demings. it's a really interesting mid-term overall state of play. >> i think the whole climate is fascinating. do you have a traditional election where both trump and obama lost the house in their mid-term election? post pandemic, and things are different. here's the president's approval. that historically is the most important benchmark. what is the president's approval rating when you get close to the election? we have a way to go. >> and joe biden went to deliver an address to the joint session with the house speaker and her argument was that it is a different world and you can't make the -- you know, it's the first midterms in a president's term because the way that politicians communicate, it's so different now. that's the way she is looking for the "w" on the board. >> it will be a while before we know if she's right or not, but we will have a lot of fun between now and then. >>> when we come back, we just heard moments ago

because you had a couple senators including republicans for instance, pat toomey, said he would have voted for it but he was out of town. is that -- is that a snowball's chance they may say we can get the 60 on this or has that ship sailed? >> nancy pelosi did float the idea that they could have another vote on the senate floor. she is ruling out this idea that president biden would establish a commission himself. there are a couple options that house democrats are weighing. do they set up the own select committee? but that wouldn't, of course, have perception of being bipartisan. and that's what democrats want from this to be, a bipartisan exercise. i want to quickly say, look, absent republicans are reckonning with the former president and his role, a number of republican voters continue to live in this alternate reality where the election was stolen. there are polls showing that a majority of republican voters actually believe the election was stolen. so that's why this investigation is not really just about january 6th and the 2020 election. it has significant implications for th

pat toomey, a republican, is retiring.r is both hold the conservative line on policy and also be pragmatic enough. and mitch, like any good paul knows a nice roads and bridges bill where every politician can cut a ribbon and take some credit is as good for his caucus as the democrats. i think everybody will find credit in this and from his point of view that moves the ball forward, political will i. >> juanita, will we get to 60 on this front? will mcconnell and schumer make at happen? >> i think yes on the bipartisan bill reached by the white house. i think also stand by for a second package from democrats that does meet the needs not only on progressives, but child care, women, and the lack of child care and other supports throughout this pandemic who need these very real pieces of infrastructure that impact the way we live our lives every single day. >> juanita tolliver, mike murphy, two good friends of the broadcast for good reason. thank you. >>> coming up, what today's supreme court ruling means for public school stu

but senator pat toomey was not present for the vote on friday, making it only three more republicanse commission in order to push it through. which means, potentially, maybe officer sicknick's family might go back to the hill as several of these senators told it that they would be willing to meet with the family. they just didn't have adequate time last week. >> that's really good reporting, jackie. thank you for that. everyone should subscriber to your newsletter. jackie alamani, thank you. thanks for getting up "way too early" on this wednesday morning. folks, get ready for what can only be described as a very special "morning joe." live from new york city right now. ♪♪ ♪ welcome back your dreams ♪ >>> that is a wonderful, wonderful tribute. willie geist -- >> if you're old like us, you recognize it. >> it's been a week since you have been in the studio. >> it's been -- >> there's our apartment, zooming in on top of it. we have hunkered down the entire -- we have been in the city the entire time. that's the first time i have seen "the new york daily news" -- >> got all of the paper

i can tell you this, gary gensler's on one side of the issue, pat toomey, ranking republican on the bankinginst it, so wait until we hear what republicans have to say. one other rule is gameification. what they're looking at is, at least the rule says should there with disclosures or regulations -- be disclosures or regulations essentially on these apps like robinhood where they have what was described as behavioral prompts. that means something that might induce you to trade more which may not be a good thing. so at least that's what's in the rules right now. now let's get back to wall street, because it is a big story here that we're breaking about the immense amount of profit that's going on on wall street. ashley, i've been spending some time talking with executives at the big firms, morgan stanley, jpmorgan, a boom somewhat like the 1990s. we haven't seen it totally yet. you know, we've seen good times in the profit, but there's something even better. what they're talking about, if you're a firm and you specialize particularly in trading and banking, goldman, morgan stanley and jp to a

. -- they know, you know, pat toomey has said it, he's the senator on, ranking member on the banking to the fire if he dose with this way. -- he goes this way. he's got a short window. along the lines with what biden is doing with budget reconciliation and other measures to essentially pass spending bills that he's worried9 won't get through congress if it's a republican congress. so that's where we are right now. you know, with what i'm hearing from people that gensler's agenda is heavily influenced by elizabeth warren, the firebrand senator, democratic senator from montana. no fan of -- from massachusetts. no fan of corporate america. and that's why the republicans are so up in arms. they believe elizabeth warren may be calling the shots at the sec. at least that's what they're telling us. and with that, if they take control again, liz, and it's an if, not saying they are, it's going to be pretty interesting to see what happens. we should also point out that gensler has other issues on his plate that he's going to look at gameification of wall street, cryptocurrencies, you name it.

pat toomey wasn't here. he said he would have voted for it. so that's three votes they still have to make up. so the question is, where are those three votes and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell just yesterday emphasized that he does not see a need for a bipartisan commission. that he believes the doj can go forward with its criminal prosecution of individuals and that that is enough. that there are enough investigations going on here that he doesn't see that. without that kind of breaking, it's very difficult to see a path forward to 60. but that was one of the options that house speaker nancy pelosi laid out to her members in a phone call yesterday. so it's to go back to the senate again with another vote on a possible bipartisan commission. she also offered up, jim, as you mentioned, a house select committee that they could put together. additionally, she also floated the option of letting the committees that are already probing this just continue forward with their investigations. or appointing maybe one committee or zeroing in on on

kiryrsten sinema and pat toomey say they would have voted for the commission. votes for it and 35 against. that's a sign that something is deeply wrong with our democracy. remember, the dictionary definition of democracy is government by the people, specially rule of the majority. we're experiencing a sustained assault on those ideas. majority rule is increasingly undermined by the electoral college and partisan gerrymandering as well as voting restrictions being jammed through republican legislatures. in congress, we have become numb to bills that command clear majority support being blocked by minority of senators and the filibuster is almost always be murder weapon when it comes to killing these ideas, just as it was with the january 6th commission. even centrist joe manchin came to the realization that republicans were not negotiating in good faith telling reporters i'm very disappointed that politics has trumped literally and figuratively the good of the country. republicans backing the big lie, the sedition caucus seem to hate democrats more than they lov

president biden and then two nra-backed senators, pat toomey, republican, joe manchin, democrat, pushed to close what's called the gun show loophole so that everyone would have to go through a background check even if it was a private sale at a gun show. and that couldn't pass. that was in the immediate aftermath of the horrific sandy hook shooting 26 and 27-year-olds slaughtered. if they couldn't get it done then, can they get it done now? >> that's what's sogre depressi about all of that. we remember when they couldn't get that through and how disappointed members of congress were. toomey was stunned, manchin was stunned, obama was stunned. and joe biden has been dealing with this issue of assault weapons for decades. and here he is, he started out today by saying i've been dealing with this. he said, i've been at this a long time. >> yeah. >> and he has been at it a long time. so the question is will they be able to do it this time? and of course you have to say that the odds are against it, which is very sad to say. but what he put out today was, okay, we're going to give you money,

also the case, nia, that democrats also see potent political issues in the fact, for instance, pat toomeypublican from the great commonwealth of pennsylvania who put forward with joe manchin, two of them both big nra guys, a measure to close the so-called gun show loophole, requiring that private sellers also have to do background checks at gun shows and the like. toomey told me a few months ago that he thinks a very narrow version of that could pass and a democratic senate could get ten republican votes. but they haven't brought it up, right? democrats want to bring up a big expansive package that can't get 60 votes. >> listen, i'm skeptical of even what toomey was telling you about getting something through this congress with -- >> not ten republicans? >> i don't think so. i mean, i think we have an issue with guns and with republicans not really wanting to be bipartisan. there's really no reason of history of bipartisanship of guns. i think the most important issue here is biden wants to defang this issue politically for democrats. democrats have been tagged as soft on crime for decade

you're a democrat but the other senator, pat toomey, is a republican. went for biden. most of the congressional delegation is republican. do you think bipartisanship is important? >> it is. but you know what's more important than anything that's bipartisan? what's more important is delivering for families. we've got 820,000 people across the country who have been waiting, most of them for years, people with disabilities and seniors who haven't been able to get home and community-based services. people have been waiting for years for the federal government to finally step up and invest in american families. so that's more important. we deliver for families in a town that's been delivering for corporations for 40 years straight. >> so the chairman of the senate budget committee, bernie sanders, wants the budget package, this reconciliation, which will only pass with democratic votes or only needs to pass with democratic votes, he wants it to include a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants, he wants moves in the package to lower the price of

and pat toomey was a clue that the senate it's outs.the leadership, the democratic leadership in the senate was recognizing that she was really not conducting that strong leadership role that we really need. i think one of her what what one of the things we mentioned recently was for embrace of lindsey graham. after a senate hearing and telling him that it was one of the best hearing she'd ever attended. we wanted her to be a stealth bomber on hearing you don't see her taking the kind of leadership role you want her to be taking. >> that's exactly right. i want her to lead on the east. he was a leader. the whole time. she was in san francisco. she was a leader and he was a leader in the senate when she got there i voted for and we want her to retire. >> with all the glory and all the praise and all the dignity that we can possibly be stored on her. but it's time now and she's diminishing her 4. her exit really 95 and was. >> capable and demonstrably capable of doing it. i'm so i'm clapping for more power to you. if he were 45 and could

pat toomey, senator from pennsylvania is big on the case here.finitely going to hurt some businesses. it is expensive. neil, back to you. great to see you back in the chair again by the way. neil: same here, my friend. a guy said to me when i was gone, what is charlie gasparino really like, i said as i tell all these people, he is what you see on the air. this guy immediately said, that is what i was afraid of. but i think he loves you. he loves you. he was an italian. he had some wiggle room there. charlie, thank you very, very much, my friend. one and only charlie gasparino. we're talking about progress we're making on covid vaccination front. we might not make the goal of the president getting seven out of 10 americans fully vaccinated at one time. we have at least one shot. it might not matter. we'll tell you why after this. the rx crafted by lexus. get 1.9% apr financing on the 2021 rx 350. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. (judith) in this market, you'll find fisher investments is different than other money managers. 2021 rx 350. (ot

pat toomey, senator from pennsylvania as you know, a ranking member of the senate banking committee whichrity right now but he is still i believe, what we understand will push back on this. if the republicans get the majority, you know it will be hard for gensler to do some of this stuff. he has a window of about a year-and-a-half, david. back to you. david: i'm sure bernie sanders is very happy with all of these changes. we'll see if they do -- >> elizabeth warren too. david: charlie, very important subject. thank you so much. appreciate it. coming up benjamin netanyahu letting loose, lashing out at president biden's foreign policy in his final address as prime minister. the details coming up. ♪. wanna help kids get their homework done? well, an internet connection's a good start. but kids also need computers. and sometimes the hardest thing about homework is finding a place to do it. so why not hook community centers up with wifi? for kids like us, and all the amazing things we're gonna learn. over the next 10 years, comcast is committing $1 billion to reach 50 million low-income americ

demand certainties closures and there's pushback from the business community no doubt look for pat toomeynd house and senate or both the sec will probably get this through and it's not much anybody can do about it. back to you. >> well i think you just explained why jay powell be in the room if they aren't talking about interest rates or the overall economy right now in the state of it. policy like this could create a very very up-ended situation for many different businesses, as you mentioned the smaller businesses are going to have a tough time and then that will become jay powell's problem. charlie: well, i don't know about that. he is the nation's central banker. he's supposed to be worried about creating full employment and low inflation. my guess is he's involved there, because biden just wants to show a solidarity but i just don't know what the fed could do. i mean could the fed say we're going to keep interest rates low forever so it'll enforce, so we can advance environmental goals? i mean, maybe. but this is really like we're in indiana comedy hour here, to a certain extent. >>

practically every day for months, as joe in a very pro-gun state took big chances, working with pat toomeywner and someone who voted to defend gun rights time and again in congress, i'm just wondering, as we try to find common ground, and i know a lot of people i went to church, first baptist church in pensacola and knew all say that all of these things make sense. universal background checks. universal background checks when you're talking about private gun shoels, gun sales. and i'll tell you what. these are 90-10 issues, but let's even talk about a tougher issue, the military-style weapons like ar-15. that's going to be hard to pass that ban in congress. but why can't we, joe, why can't congress figure out a way to make it so much harder for let's say, an angry, aggrieved person who wants to use an ar-15 to shoot up schools, make it so much harder for them to go through the process to get that -- to get that done? it can still with legal, but it can be a lot harder to get that, because let's face it. ar-15s account for a small number of the deaths. you look at handguns, illegal handguns