mitt romney took offense to that change in tone. was it too harsh?, you know, voting rights is a crucial important issue. you're talking with mitt romney about shouldn't there be a floor, shouldn't there be a standard for elections. yes, there should be a standard that includes new york and delaware and new jersey. but that deals with some of these clearly antidemocratic voter suppression laws that are being passed around the country in response to the big lie about the 2020 election. so, yeah, president biden got worked up about, that and i get worked up about that, you know. i think it's an important issue. can't we unite behind the idea that everyone should be able to vote freely and have their vote counted fairly. >> andrea, has he done enough -- romney said he wasn't invited to a meeting on voting rights. i think he would have come to any meeting the president asked him to. >> that's the one thing about senator sinema's speech, and i had a problem with her timing, a freshman senator making that speech as the motorcade is warming up. it was so in

i want the hear from mitt romney.face reelection in 2024 and do what lot of moderate republicans. start sounding more conservative as his reelection comes. republican voters will remember exactly who mitt romney is. he can save it. the rest of us saw what was coming with joe biden and knew it would be a train wreak and it has been 52 weeks of that. >> harris: you took down everybody in there. something for everybody in that. what needs to happen next? we're in a hole. we know that. look at the cost of everything, bare shelves. what needs to happen next? >> you know what i would earnestly like to see is the white house start to realize the reality of covid, that we will have to live with it. it was never real they could crush an airborne virus. he can't say it. he says sit a pandemic of the unvaccinated which is not true. wear a mask all the time. now we know more about the efficacy of certain type of masks. they won't recognize natural immunity. they totally ignore therapeutics. a subtle pivot even in that getting awa

this is what romney had to say. >> the group of about 12 senators, republicans and democrats that are working on the electoral count act will continue to work together. sadly this election reform bill that the president has been pushing, i never got a call on that from the white house. there was no negotiation bringing republicans and democrats together. >> so what about his complaint that there was no bipartisan effort? >> reporter: there may not have been from the white house. from the senate perspective, the strategy here for democrats after joe manchin didn't support the original for the people act, this is how we got into the second phase of voting rights bills. the bill that is being debated now is one that's sort of designed and approved by manchin who was then supposed to go out and shop it to republicans. he was essentially given the task that if you don't like the bill democrats want, take the bill you like and go find people who will vote for it. given that manchin and romney have worked together on the infrastructure bill and other issues, i would be very surprised if no d

mitt romney's name would likely be on this list. here is what he said. >> the group of about 12 senators, republicans and democrats that are working on the electoral count act. he'll continue to work together. sadly, this election reform bill that the president has been pushing, i never got a call on that from the white house. there was no negotiation, bringing republicans or democrats together to try to come up with something that would meet bipartisan interest. sure, we could work together on almost every issue, where there is common ground. >> now i should preface this by saying phones work both ways. if he wanted to talk about voting rights, he could certainly call the white house. but i wonder if that is true, that they did not engage moderate republicans like mitt romney, is that a missed opportunity? >> no, i mean, let's have a conversation about what intellectual dishonesty is. the fact is mitt romney is on the record about where he stands on the john lewis voting rights bill and he's ben clear about that. but it should be n

mitch romney saying it reminded me of what senate used to be.to expect party line votes here, which republicans should democrats try to win over? >> you know, in large measure i think you will see party line votes. i think there will be an effort to get the mitt romney, susan collins, murkowskis of the world, maybe rob portmans to come on board with it, particularly given they voted for his judicial nominees, particularly one being considered for supreme court already. so, that's a good thing. i think the democrats don't need to over think this process. just do it. trust the president on this one. he's going to put forward a highly qualified candidate for the office. of supreme court for the position on the supreme court. and they run through the process the way they need to run through it. i think a lot of this crazy noise about you're going to pick a black woman. well, he said he was just reagan said he was going to put a woman for a candidate. this is not an unusual effort by the president to carve out his nominee. president trump, for all th

>> well we've had meetings with senator romney, had meetings with republicans. we've had meetings with all of the senators. this is not a partisan issue. individuals are trying to hide behind partisanship or who had a meeting or didn't have a meeting or the language of what was said. let's talk about what should be done. early voting by mail, guaranteed for all 50 states, ensuring that the will of the voters can be ascertained and determine the outcome of the elections. these are not outrageous things. this should be a part of our democracy, so i nor my colleagues we're going to shrink this conversation to a compromise or some ancillary conversation. >> to your point, there were election changes for the pandemic passed by both gop and democrat-controlled legislatures at the time. derek johnson on this martin luther king day, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >>> multiple explosions from a suspected drone strike attack. what we're learning about the attack and the technology behind it. that's coming up. for rich returns. medical technology is giving nu

i want to read an interview he gave during the 2012 campaign about mitt romney.r father must be so embarrassed about his son, he said in in reference to turn over 12 years of tax returns when he ran for president. he went on to claim a person who had infested with bain capital called his office, harry, mitt romney did not pay texas for ten years. okay, well it was proven. am i right? and reid revealed his real character. >> no regrets about mitt romney and some called it -- >> they can call it whatever they want. joining me now dinesh d'souza host of the podcast and victor david hanson. again, we are sorry to hear that reid passed, but this effort to prop him up in this way, is that warranted in any way? >> i think it is a little obscene to be honest. i realize a tradition when someone dies, a dignified silence, i guess al capone died, we would be combined to talk about the fact he made really good spaghetti and meatballs. they would say nothing about what this man's life was declined by appear the same with harry reid. he has been a divisive in american politics

due respect, it's why mitt romney lost his presidential election.t understand there's anger in this country. that there's anger with hedge fund buyouts and the offshoring of jobs, and to return the country to normal, you needed an agenda. you need an agenda that brings jobs, prosperity, manufacturing back to areas that have been left out and that speaks to people's economic dislocation. so what president biden is doing is ultimately trying to defeat trumpism, not just dealing with the symptom of trump, but the underlying economic conditions that may have liven rise to trump. >> we will talk more about the challenges of trumpism later in the broadcast. thank you, congratulations to your 49ers. it pains me to say it. thank you for coming on. >> thank you. have a good one. >>> amid the interparty fighting in the senate over president biden's domestic agenda, a bipartisan group of senators are currently traveling to ukraine to meet with the president and reaffirm the u.s.'s support for ukraine's independence. that meeting comes as the u.s. and our nato

and so now you've got a voice like mitt romney who has been one of those.et's remember, he voted to impeach president trump. he is making the argument that to oppose the specific pair of bills, which in some ways nationalize elections, which is not a conservative way of viewing elections apart from abuses, that there ought to be some way for finding common ground. and democrats certainly the white house does not want an off ramp with some moderate approach. they want an all or nothing on this. and they're trying to make the big lie as they've now adopted that language referring to president trump's actions on the election as one of their tools. >> garrett haake, let me pose the question to you that we posed at the top. what is chuck schumer, but i'll alter the question a little bit. what is chuck schumer's end game here? >> i wish i could tell you, chuck. this is the challenge of reporting this out all week. schumer laid out a couple steps of a plan, but not all of it. they will vote on the voting rights bills on or by monday, martin luther king day. and th

senator mitt romney this morning praising the house committee's work. >> there's no question but thathey are finding things that we didn't know. and i think that's appropriate. look, there was an attack on the united states capitol. there was an effort to try and prevent the peaceful transfer of power. that's unacceptable. and we need to understand why there was not a rescue effort launched well before what finally came. and they're delving into that. i think it's an important and legitimate effort. >> and i suspect my next guest agrees, that being arizona congressman ruben gallego. welcome back, it's good to see you, congressman. >> good to see you too. >> first let's get to your reaction to mitt romney. are you surprised, a, a republican is speaking out so so vociferously in support of the 1/6 committee, and are you surprised it's mitt romney? >> the fact that we have to highlight one republican tells you what's wrong with the current republican elected senators. they're turning a blind eye, so they can ensure they keep getting the trump votes. that endangers our elections even more

in the new york magazine about mitt romney's forceful rebuke of biden's address in atlanta, romney speaksimportant faction of republican elites who may abhor trump's naked authoritarianism either openly like romney or more often in party. romney's position holds the pivotal point in the u.s. senate. anti-trump pro voter suppression republicans like him are the key impediment to passing any voting rights bill. do you agree with that assessment? where do the romneys of the senate fall in this debate? >> unfortunately from my point of view they don't fall in favor of this bill and only one falls in favor of the john lewis bill lisa murkowski whether they might be willing to support some changes at least in the electoral count act. i think that is possible and the democrats may have done more to push for that i think in the past year but as jonathan says and you just read it's been over republican support. we shouldn't lose sight of that as we focus on manchin and sinema. you asked whether there is any real chance of progress. the white house statement tonight put out about 20, 30 minutes ago

i don't believe mitt romney himself if we passed voting rights act would vote to repeal that. who would vote to repeal that. when you have fundamental legislation that is good and just repealing that becomes difficult. we saw the republicans couldn't repeal even the affordable care act and that is less fundamental to democracy than voting rights. >> sure, but look what they've done with the supreme court, look what's happening with abortion rights. what gives you such confidence and faith in doing the right thing? that's certainly not something that mitch mcconnell considers a top priority. >> stephanie, look, there's always a risk. i'm not going to say that there is no chance that a bad outcome doesn't happen. guys my view is this, i never thought growing up that i would get to congress and that in the year 2022 would be having to fight for voting rights. i thought that was settled in the 1960s. we have a moment where there are less ballot boxes in places that have african-american con stitt wednesdayees, where people are being thrown off the roles, where the fights that john

>> obviously mitt romney has his head in the sand.ere is the reality, we're seeing bills passing laws in states like georgia and texas and by the way it would be law here in pennsylvania as well but for the veto pen of our governor making it harder for people to access the ballot box and don, let's be clear, they're trying to make it harder for black and brown folks to vote here in my state and other states and rig the system at the state level to work against our democracy. federal action is needed to try to stop those efforts in the other states. thankfully here in the state, i'll continue to fight back and win as a.g. we have a governor to veto the bad bills but we can't count on that in every other state. we have bad actors in mitt romney's party who are working over time to under mine our democracy. that is why federal action is needed. that's why i'm so disappointed that we've got these senators who have decided that they'll stand with the filibuster instead of standing with our democracy. that is just flatout wrong and doing re

you know, mitt romney is part of the reason to believe we have joe biden is folks like mitt romney thisld trump thing i can't do it. let's give the establishment the normal people a shot. now he is groveling 52 weeks too late about that. what has changed if anything about the republican party that gives you annual assurance that should you get power in 22 or 24. those people shifting in that direction will see a fulfillment of those promises. >> well, i agree that joe biden has not just had a bad week he has had a bad 52 weeks a lot of what you see now are the chickens coming home to roost of joe biden's bad decisions going back a year. look at inflation for instance this didn't just start in july or august or september it started on the first day of joe biden's presidency when he began to impose more red tape on businesses trying to produce the goods that our economy needs or when the democrats spent $2 trillion wastefully last march or look at vladimir putin massing hundreds of thousands of troops on the border of ukraine. that didn't just happen in a vacuum it happened in the context

now mitt romney is some kind of, you know, hero? he beat find saint hood. show some dignity on the left once in a while. >> pete: yeah, we were told we might see joe 2.0. man, if that is joe 2.0, the white house has got some serious problems tonight. dan bongino, thank you very much. appreciate your time. >> thanks, buddy. >> pete: all right, well, tonight, as you may have noticed, our back drop looks a bit different. we are live from the greater richmond convention center in downtown richmond, virginia where tomorrow morning starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern time we will be live on fox nation for the miseducation of "america live" summit. i released five part series miseducation of america fox nation. tomorrow on the stage you are looking at right there. we host a live summit that will amplify that steer series and further expose and dissect the 100 year progressive takeover of our classrooms as well as outline some solutions for taking back our schools. more on the fox nation series later in tonight's program and i hope you join us tomorrow morning on fox nat

it doesn't seem as if mitt romney is for it or susan collins.he electoral count was what, in many ways, led to the activities on january 6th because there was this false narrative that somehow mike pence could override and stop the certification of the election. the fact there's bipartisan support makes a lot of sense. the fact my republican colleagues have said harassment of independent election officials. nobody is going to want to be a poll worker if they are harassed on a regular basis is a good step. these steps are not a substitute for the need i believe we have to take for electoral reform to make sure there is fair and equal access to the polls. we have a long way to go to convince our colleagues. when we have 16 of us talking in a place, as you know, chuck, one team or another on these issues, i think that's a step in the right direction. >> i'm curious of your thoughts on the state democratic party in arizona censuring kirsten sinema, and if that at all, what you make of that decision, appropriate? whether you think this is sending --

listen to senator mitt romney. he said he and other republicans are working on changes to the electoral college act, perhaps other changes to things that they say are critical. trump talks about putting people in power who can essentially change the will of the people, decide to throw out votes after they are cast. governor romney says he would like to work on this. somebody has called. >> there's a group of 12 senators working on the electoral count act. sadly this election reform bill that the president has been pushing, i never got a call on that from the white house. there was no negotiation, bringing republicans and democrats together to try and come up something that would meet bipartisan from. >> is that a call, claudia, that the president should be making maybe after tomorrow or a lot of democrats would say, wait a minute. maybe senator romney is there, collins is there, murkowski is there, but will you really in an election year get ten republicans to stand with democrats on a fallback if that's what's nec

take a listen to senator romney's take on all this. >> he's got to recognize that when he was electedca. they were looking to get back to normal, to stop the crazy. and it seems like we're continuing to see the kinds of policy and promotions that are not accepted by the american people. >> that might be a little overheated, and our top story tonight was that we don't know what's accepted by the american people because senators like romney won't allow up or down votes. if they're so convinced they have the majority with them, why not just have a majority senate? i got to press you, david, and say is there a possible perception problem that asked for covid normalcy, which you just referred to, biden and the democrats are out on five other things. >> well, the biggest problem is things aren't back to normal. you're right about that. and i think that clouds people's view of what's happened. and some of these other issues. but, again, i think we will get back to some degree of normalcy. and i think you've got a better opportunity to explain what you've done. roads and bridges, all the supp

now, when republicans claim that this is all hyperbole or hysteria, as senator romney just referenced, consider this, in the year since our nation's most secure election ever, with regard voter turnout, republican state legislatures have passed 34 laws, not expanding access to the ballot, restricting access to the ballot. and also threatening election security. just look at georgia. yes, georgia. where republicans passed an elections bill, s.b. 202, on the purely partisan basis this last spring. in the 2020 election georgians voted in record numbers. many voted by mail or used early voting options to be able to cast their ballots safely and securely in the midst of this once in a century global health pandemic. and guess what happened -- those ballots were processed, counted, audited, and the results certified. so, how did georgia republicans respond? they wrote s.b. 202 to cut the number of early voting drop boxes in atlanta by more than 75%. to make it harder, not easier but harder, for voters who mistakenly go to the wrong polling place to cast a ballot and have their vote in state

or do you think mitt romney is more on the right path here?well, erin, you have just opened the door for me to walk through senator romney has no excuse for not supporting these legislative initiatives. there is great support in the state of utah i believe for in terms of utah becoming a more open state, if you will. among many other states to support this legislation. 71% believe there should be early voting made easier. 69% believe that we should have mail-in and early vote. >> senator romney says no one from the white house ever reached out to him to even talk about possibilities on this. >> and the white house has clearly told me that is not accurate when i say the white house, leaders have told me that is clearly not accurate. but i certainly would encourage anyone to reach out to all persons who want to seriously work. i want to answer your question directly. i want to take the time to focus on them as senators. and expect for them to be deliberative. i want them to understand what the republican senator said in the 1800s and he said it'

, and said, you and me, we have to do this, mitt romney isn't going to turn down that meeting. he may not agree with everything the president says. i'm not saying that president biden has to give a speech that appeals to mitt romney all the time on voting rights. but if you lose mitt romney, you've got to ask yourself if you're doing it the right way. >> i ask you that because there are a number of republican senators who have not bought into the big lie and have publicly not bought into the big lie. we had mike rounds the other day, senator rounds, saying that joe biden won the election. there were others at the time who said very publicly. there were others that voted to impeach donald trump or to convict donald trump. those republicans, i mean, i wonder, joe biden came in with this -- andrea, with this idea that he was the great unifier, and he could reach across the aisle, he knew everybody in the senate and had worked with them for so long. he was able to do it with some legislation, the bipartisan infrastructure bill. but considering the time that we're in right now, i me

john kerry who would become secretary of state called romney's claim preposterous. president biden tweeted mitt romney's foreign policy was straight out of the 1980s. you will recall the hillary clinton reset button debacle. so much politics mixed if here and just last year the president lifted sanctions to allow the nord stream pipeline to proceed giving a whole lot of geopolitical power right to putin. admiral john kirby pentagon press secretary with me now. thank you for being in "focus." when you hear former secretary pompeo say it, you hear republicans say it and others take the politics out of it and get to the brass tacks here why haven't we responded to the massive build-up of troops and estimated 127,000 that putin put on the border with ukraine. why haven't we responded before now or at all? >> harris, i have to tell you i'm not sure i agree with the idea we haven't responded. we have just approved another $200 million of weapons assistance. they are arriving as we speak including lethal assistance in the form of javelin anti-tank missiles. we have put an

where do the romney's of the senate following this debate? >> unfortunately, from my point of view, they don't fall in the -- they might be rallied to support some changes at least in the electoral count act. i think that's possible. the democrats might have done more for push them for that, i think in the past year. but as they said, and as you just read, the support as you support -- whether there's a chance of progress, the white house statement tonight, which is what i think came out 20 minutes ago, after the meeting with biden and manchin and sinema, it's pretty startling that we've been having these kinds of meetings for a while, i guess decades, and it always leads to a warm discussion in the exchange of views and progress. there was nothing of that. the statements that they provided after that were very chilling. it was a candid, i can't remember what it said, there was an honest an exchange of views this i think is what is well said. there was no honest exchange of views. the weather the president respects senator manchin and senator

meanwhile, mitt romney was critical of the president's speech on election reform and white house secretaryponded to that, it is getting criticism. take a listen to this. >> i expected more of president biden, who came into office with stated goal of bringing the country together. >> press sect. psaki: there has been a lot about the offensive nature of the speech yesterday, that is hilarious, these people sat for the former president. >> carley: mitt romney far from silent over criticism of the former president. >> joe: yeah, i believe he voted one article of impeachment against donald trump, to say mitt romney has been violent, it is ridiculous. thank you, we like fact checks and i apologize for the error. she said mr. biden used objectively true statements on republicans trying to take away legitimate right to vote, at least that is what she claims. his speech was likely panned, including by his own party. he got four pinocchios. here is bottom line. his approval clocked 33%, stacey abrams in florida, voting rights thwarted by members of his own party in a matter of two or three days, not

and romney criticized democrats for trying to pass it alone. sadly, election a bill that the president has been pushing. i never got a call on that from the white there was no negotiation bringing republicans and democrats together. >> all 50 democratic senators are needed to change the chamber rules and right now, kyrsten sinema and joe manchin say they don't support it for now live in washington. i'm anna wiernicki. back to you. >> all right. thank you very much. >> don't be surprised if your next delivery is made by a robot. i'm rich demuro all share a new milestone in autonomous delivery. in tech, smart. when a truck hit my son, i had so many questions about his case. i called the barnes firm. it was the best call i could've made. call the barnes firm now and find out what your case could be worth. ♪ call one eight hundred, eight million ♪ do you have concerns about mild memory loss related to aging? prevagen is the number one pharmacist-recommended memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. h

including, george romney. who was named the gop governor of michigan. he strongly supported the 1964 civil rights bill. pushed to include an anti discrimination plaque and the house. and refused to support the republican presidential nominee barry goldwater. and yet, today, his son, senator mitt romney of utah who was supposedly among the most moderate republicans in the senate, opposes all the recent efforts to secure voting rights. romney was against the legal act. which would make it easier for all americans to vote. he's against the john lewis voting right ads. and he now also opposes the freedom to vote act. three opportunities to vote that he is the reasonable decision republican. and he said no, all three times. colbert king notice that them coming from the right wing has gotten increasingly radical and dangerous. he points to the other who argues and writing quote, democrats campaign decentralize election as part of a broader expert to consolidate power in the hands of its early class. his class want us to use this power to silence and disempowe

i want to say to my republican friends, senator romney over the weekend saying the '65 voting rights is still the law. that's not true. the civil rights act is still in place, but the preclearance section formula in sector 4 has been gotten rid of by the supreme court. we have not had that for nine years. and senator romney ought to be ashamed of himself for saying that. >> it sounds like you've run out of patience, congressman clyburn. >> yes, i have, absolutely. yes, i have. >> i wonder if from a strategic standpoint, legislative strategy, do you think we would be here if the administration hat perhaps started with voting rights instead of starting with infrastructure or build back better? do you think from a strategic standpoint, this is something that they should have started with earlier in the administration? >> no. i don't think so at all. i think that what you had we've had this argument earlier. you had the result that we expect for tomorrow and the next day earlier. and you would not have had this bipartisan infrastructure bill, and you would not have had the so-called resc

>> the filibuster from the mitt romney s and joe manchins of the world is historically wrong.ter isn't in the constitution and not a constitutional principle and not always been here and critically and i've written about this. i wrote about this a year ago a lot. the issue that we have right now we have a procedual filibuster as opposed to a talking filibuster. back in the day when the filibuster was still doing its work of propping up segregation, you basically had to earn it. stand up and hold the floor and they change that rule. democrats in fact changed the rule to make it a legislative all you have to do is check a box and you don't have to earn it. i've yet to hear a joe manchin or mitt romney explain to me why -- screw taking away the filibuster. why going back to the filibuster in the 1970s, going back to a talking filibuster is somehow worse than the current legislative filibuster. joy, joe manchin doesn't take my calls and go on your show. he'll not defend himself to the people he's unwilling to defend but if one of these other reporters could please just once ask ma

king's call, including george romney, who was then the gop governor of michigan. he strongly supported the 1964 civil rights bill, pushed to include an anti-discrimination plank in the gop platform and refused to support republican presidential nominee barry goldwater, who opposed the civil rights legislation. and yet today, his son, senator mitt romney of utah, who is supposedly among the most moderate republicans in the senate, opposes all the recent efforts to secure voting rights. romney was against the for the people act, which would make it easier for all americans to vote. he's against the john lewis voting rights act and he now opposes the freedom to vote act. three opportunities to prove he is actually a reasonable, decent republican. and he said no all three times. and colbert king notes that the rhetoric on voting rights coming from the right wing has gotten increasingly radical and dangerous. he points to florida senator marco rubio who argued against them writing democrats campaign to centralize elections is part of a broader effort to consolidate pow

his father, george romney, george romney had a much more, let's say, compassionate view of the world than his son seems to be expressing. >> so pretty personal, pretty sharp words there from the majority, but the question here, jeff, is without filibuster reform, democrats need republicans to pass anything, as hayes just explained on so many other issues. are tensions boiling over now on capitol hill? >> yeah, and i think an important contexteral note to make is this, authority to pass filibuster reform is getting a lot of attention because democrats control the levers of power in washington but you the chief reason voting rights legislation is stalled in the senate is because republicans are in lock step in opposition. in 2006, the last time the voting rights act had to be authorized passed unanimously, every republican senator at the same time voted in favor of it, more than a dozen still there, so the question is why, now, do you have republicans opposing it? it is because republicans have decided to use the cover of donald trump's big lie on suppression and subversion laws and ot

a lot of republicans said he didn't even try, mitt romney said he hasn't gotten a call from presidentone republican you would have thought he would reach out to on these issues. is it worth still trying to make any bipartisan progress or do you just give up and look for a different way? >> he might get mitt romney, murkowski, who knows, but can he get ten republicans to vote alongside him? because that's what he needs, ten republicans to pass major legislation, unless they're doing it through reconciliation. all right. so in talking about the numbers, again, and approval rating, and how americans are feeling, rev, when you're talking to other civic leaders, who is getting the blame for what's happening in washington? is joe biden getting the blame? after all, he did sell himself as somebody who could bridge the gap. or is it the other party? >> i think the other party gets a lot of the blame. but i think that a lot of people feel, including me, that joe biden should have used his bully pulpit earlier and stronger. we have been pushing all summer for him to come out against the filibus

romney lost, mccain lost and they didn't complain. they are only complaining now because the demographics of the country are changing. host: let's hear the response to that. guest: the caller mentioned a couple of parts. section five is the part that defines a formula under certain states that would be under special restrictions to essentially have to get federal approval to pass changes in their voting systems paid to change polling places and voting laws. the question is whether that is still as urgent as it was in the 1960's when there were really great differences in the number of states with incredible vote -- low voter turnout, we have certainly come a long way. republicans are more and the court has been more in the camp of saying it has to be a very high standard so the federal government to come in and say only the states need special protection. i think that will be hard-sell across the aisle. i do think there are other protections. the court has been limiting that in section two a bit but there are still protections against

try being a cheney, try being a romney. the same thing happened to romney. spine didn't crumble. >> they're afraid of being primaried by the man at mar-a-lago. >> they care more about the office. >> absolute power corrupts absolutely, it's a cliche but it's a cliche for a reason. you have people, as you say, who want to stay in office more than they care about the future of this country. you wonder if these people are having private conversations like we're having, looking at 2024 and worrying whether this country will exist as it exists after election day. >> they see it only as power. i mean, i'm not a partisan here, but in terms of people who just want to be reelected for the sake of being reelected and don't care what principles they compromise on the way, it's just extraordinary. we were all together on the air that day, and i covered the hill for years before i was the white house correspondent and covered foreign policy. so i've been back and forth on the hill since the '70s. i watched them go up those steps and i looked at the steps and i said to our

but those statements from murkowski and romney, they're very nice statements. but where were they today? can you imagine that dick cheney returns to the house of representatives and he is warmly welcomed by democrats. the absence of any other republicans today was just -- it couldn't have been any more striking. >> john, here's what we actually heard from republicans today on camera. here's ron desantis. >> i think it's going to end up being just a politicized charlie foxtrot today. i don't expect anything good to come out of anything that pelosi and the gang are doing. i don't expect anything from the corporate press to be enlightening. i think it's going to be nauseating, quite frankly. >> and ron desantis is now standard bearer for the gop, john. >> yeah. and you know what's nauseating besides that statement? january 6th. having a big lie metastasize throughout an entire political party with a few rare and honorable exceptions. and for phony ivy league populists like ron desantis to play to the cheap seats and try to make the issue the commemoration of an at

mitt romney over the weekend said he's not even gotten a call from the white house on this bill.there are at least a dozen good-faith republican senators who want to see people who should have access to voting able to vote, able to do it easily, but we have some different policy viewpoints than the democrats. this is where the hard work of legislating and governing comes in. you have to sit down and talk to people on the other side of the aisle and say, what are you able to get on board with and what do you need to see from us? i think there's actually a way there would be a transf transformational voting bill that comes out of this, but it 100% would require some buy-in from republicans, otherwise it's going to seem cheap and partisan. and that work has not been done by the white house to date. >> so i hear you on what mitt romney said, and he said just yesterday, right, there are more than a handful of republicans willing to work on the biden administration with this but his complaint was, but i haven't gotten a call from the white house. but, i mean, it goes both ways. republi

greg: another thing on the unity thing how he praised mitt romney, he said he's a great guy and this who biden said with put back in january. >> mitt romney said the other day he hadn't talked to anybody from the white house december. it's disingenuous. i'm a news guy from a couple things here. there turnout in this last election, it's higher than we've seen in 140 years and then for polling, they thought 94% of americans were satisfied because it was easy for them to vote. i wrote back down, i wrote down five things. greg: this is not the five. >> is one failure is not getting republicans into the game and making things better for the country. name me one thing fairport. and racist. i've not overpromise at all, i probably got the forms. [laughter] on the front is not cause for panic. testing kits, russian and ukraine, i do think it's a significant story. a minor incursion -- one thing if the minor incursion. vladimir putin may have gotten the green light we will look back and think that was not good for the world. inflation, everything to do with the supply chain. no mention that co

. >> republican senator mitt romney rushed and to support senator rounds, on twitter. truth, knowing that our republican depends on. republicans like governor hutchinson, baker and hogan, senators mcconnell johnson, bush and cheney plus 60 plus courts and even the right-leaning wall street journal editorial page agree, joe biden won the election. well joining us now, is claire mccaskill former democratic senator from missouri, she's an msnbc political analyst. senator casca, thank you for joining us tonight. there is mike rounds. saying, joe biden won the election. that provokes the predictable donald trump attack, that then sends mitt romney into defense of senator rounds. and we are watching what seems to be a phenomenon that refuses to ends, this republican attack on republicans about who won the presidential election. >> the interesting thing, is my former colleagues, more than just mitt romney and mike rounds, if all the republics did what mike rounds did yesterday, if all of them spoke up, there would be a sea change in this country. because donald trump would th

mitt romney a year ago did a video of him saying that he supports the talking filibuster.hat threshold so he could get three supreme court justices through. joe biden the president is being honest with what he says. we heard mitch mcconnell say during the obama administration it was his job to say no and to stop and prevent and to block and obstruct everything obama tried to do. no difference now with joe biden as president and mitch mcconnell hoping to be senate majority leader after the midterms. >> bret: all right. panel, thanks so much. nice, quick analysis of that news conference just before the show. i appreciate it we should point out the white house press secretary jen psaki will be on "america's newsroom" with dana and bill tomorrow. when we come back, honoring a sports and cultural icon. ♪ some of my best memories growing up were cooking with mom. so when she moved in with us, a new kitchen became part of our financial plan. ♪ ♪ find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com your shipping manager left to “find themself.” leaving you lost. you need to hire. i need i

something republicans probably wish romney hadn't done. again, they're not allowed to say that. again, this is just how republican politics works now. you have to openly embrace, celebrate donald trump's alternate reality, like congressman jim jordan does, because, again, even the most basic acknowledgement he lost. he lost. that truth will put a political target on your back. you know, for a moment a year ago it seemed like it might not be like this. in fact one year ago today in the aftermath of the insurrection, trump ally, fox news host sean hannity, who may himself be called to testify, we'll see, sent this text message to jim jordan and trump's then chief of staff mark meadows, having a little group chat powwow. guys, we have a clear path to land the plane in nine days. he can't mention the election again. he can't mention the election again, ever. i did not have a good call with him today and, worse, i'm not sure what there is left to say. for a second it seemed like hannity, jordan and meadows, republican party, understood that you just can't continue to lie about an ele

today on "meet the press," romney claimed he has not yet received a call from the white house to talk about this. while i take juanita's point that there are going to be a lot of people who say this is not enough, it does seem to be one piece of this larger discussion. can you tell us more about where that proposal stands? >> yeah. it's not enough in and of itself, but it is really significant because if you think back to january 6th and what trump was actually trying to do with the political elements of his coup, it was to abuse the vice president's role and the objection process that's spelled out in the electoral count act. and he saw the vagueness of the language, and john eastman, the conservative lawyer who was at the willard war room, saw the vagueness of the language and they decided to exploit that in order to return trump to office. so it is really significant in and of itself, and i think the issue here is, you know, the select committee investigating the capitol attack hasn't quite finished its work. but the house administration committee on which two of the members sit ar

thing but i would say the gop could still blow it because of course you know the gop chair, mitt romney'se narrative is biden is weak on foreign policy and we need warmongers back in there so if the republican party doesn't want to embrace in america first foreign policy, they want to go back to mitt romney foreign policy, they could lose this incredible offense they have. kennedy: they've squandered in the past, there's no doubt about that, i think both parties are on their own identity crises but you are right, teachers in chicago essentially declaring themselves nonessential workers, shutting down schools in chicago for four days, you think the parents aren't sick of that? just weights, it's just the beginning and they don't have an answer on that, they don't have an answer on the virus, on inflation but you know, low-grade opportunity. is there a way to fight aging and live forever? the answer could be just and times for drugs to slow down the aging process, the average lifespan. pills that could boost life expectancy from 77 to 150 years, not likely anytime soon, researchers say 10-2

mitt romney knows that. mitt romney knows that.him voting even to debate changes in the rules, even to debate making our voting rights act sanctity and strengthening it. we don't see that t all from any republican. we've successfully labeled trump's false claims about the election the big lie. you know, he gaslights. they all gaslight. they say, oh, democrats are doing the big lie. we're not doing any lies. everything we've pointed to that state legislatures are doing is happening and happening right now. so i am disappointed, deeply disappointed in mitt romney, being that partisan when the facts, not the issues, the facts, not the ideology, are the other way. it's all republicans in legislatures without a single democrat. in a highly partisan move, taking away the voting rights of people of color, of young people, of older people, of people who live in urban areas. it's a decimation of our democracy. >> senator schumer, al sharpton. one of the things -- >> yes. hi, rev. >> hi. one of the things i think was brought to bear yesterda

in the presser he called mitt romney is straight guy forgetting he once said this. >> romney once electede said the first hundred days he's going to let the big baked bit once again write their own rules . unchain wall street. they're going to put y'all back in jane's. >> guy putting someone in jane' doesn't sound like the behavior of a straight man to become a joe. two embarrassing when i have to call 911, at least they keep very of course, joe doesn't expect you to remember that smear if he doesn't. and then he questions the legitimacy of future elections freight who does he think he is? hillary post 2016 who blamed he loss on every russian. >> again, nothing but crime as people get picked off and write on every real issue when it's crime, covid, or inflation they flounder. imagine if joe had focused on immediate concerns and not what trended on twitterberry tb okay. i wonder what joe thinks. >> laura: just soaking my feet after a marathon yesterday. i didn't run one, or walk one, talked when. they all said it was a marathon just like they told me to. no matter what i said, it matters t

mitt romney talked about voting rights legislation. i want to play a little bit of what he had to say. >> the election reform bill that the president is pushing i never got a call on that. sure. we can work together on almost every issue where there's common ground. i would note on this that on the bill they put together that they want a real dramatic change and feel instead of elections run at the state level they should be managed and run at the federal level and recognize the founders didn't have that vision in mind. >> what is your response? >> you know, i never -- let's just say i beg to differ. look. read federalist papers 59. read what hamilton had to say about this. he didn't say federal elections up to every state and specifically said that they cannot be left up to every state and why states weren't allowed to have term limits. i watched him over the years and been disturbed. i snow his father. george romney had a much more compassionate view. >> if democrats are not able to pass voting rights by the mid ternls are you confid

>> thank you senator romney. we are inactive conversations about how to include their time limits and my understanding and anyone can jump in the process requires in order to generate this particular anti-viral. a chemical chemical process and it's hard to accelerate her while we've been able to do is find additional scientist to work with pfizer to unlock additional capacity where they can find it. we are continuing to do that actively. >> thank you. and doctors walensky good to see you again tonight appreciate the chance we had to speak earlier this week or last week rather. as i look at the covid track report i know the data goes to november 20 and in my decent business if we didn't have daily information we could make good decisions and i wonder do we need to invest in either developing a new sub agency or a task force to get basically immediate data so we know what's going on and not just for the public. for those of you who are making those decisions. do we need to do a better job moving faster getting data