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. >>> joined by abby phillip and john king. john, is this the party of donald trump as marjorie taylor greene contends? >> yes, it is. i get her point and the fight she and others in the party want to make. until they win it, it is donald trump's party. when can they win it? the 2022 midterms will be primary fights and primary adam. marjorie taylor greene's district may be redrawn and there may be a primary in that district. that may be one way to play it out. watch what happens next week, anderson. the republican party is trying to escape trump. marjorie taylor greene, the day after her leadership, liz cheney came to her defense. democrats had the votes. she's just stuck it to them. coming out and saying donald trump is the leader of the party, not even respecting her own leaders who stood with her. neck week at the trial, the former president wants his lawyers to repeeat the big lie o go on the floor of the united states senate and raise questions about the election. so we're at the very beginning of this fight. today it is d

let's get some analysis from our senior political correspondent, abby phillip, and cnn political commentatore dent. abby, first, the republican leader in the house, kevin mccarthy, he visited the former president down in palm beach. now congressman steve scalise makes the trip down there. why are these lawmakers so intent on staying in good graces with trump? >> it's a real reflection of where they believe that the republican base is right now. and if you are kevin mccarthy or steve scalise or really many republicans in the house of representatives, you are reliant on that base for your political survival. remember, they are up for re-election in two years. every two years, they have to go to the voters. and so i do think that they are saying very clearly here that they don't think that there is a path forward without -- without basically bowing to trump. and signaling to his base that he is still someone with a lot of power. and that that's not going to change anytime soon. they're not like people in the senate who can wait four or six years for their time to come up before voters. they hav

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and i'm here with abby phillip and also david chalian. guys, i'm sure that you all have been talking to your sources this morning. i've been texting with some democratic senators. one said on the whole notion of witnesses which they are debating, if we thought that it would change republican votes, i think that there would be more of a push-to to get witnesses. so a window into what they think could be right versus what they think could be practical. >> yeah, i think ultimately at the end of the day a lot of democrats are looking at it from that perspective, but they don't see a real openness from enough republicans. obviously there are some republicans, we know who they are, it is about six of them, maybe one or two more, but i think really at the most we're looking at maybe six republicans who have expressed a true openness to -- >> and we have them on the screen, the six who voted that having this trial is constitutional. >> but that is obviously not enough. they need 17 republicans. the only thing though that i think maybe has changed

cnn political correspondent abby phillip is here and also charlie den. abby, no minimum wage hike. the rules won't allow it. that is a huge disappointment for progressives, but does it make president biden's job easier politically maybe? >> i think it does, don. i think it really takes this issue off the table for the time being, and he didn't have to do it. he didn't have to be the one to say we've got to take this out and compromise with the moderates. the parliamentarian made that decision for him. now i think it's easier for biden to make the case that this is a bill that is needed. you heard over the last couple of weeks a message on not the campaign trail but on the sort of soap box trail for the president where he says what would you have me take out of the bill. well, for moderates and republicans, the answer to that would have been the $15 minimum wage. that's now off the table, and i think it will be easier for biden to pose that rhetorical question, and it will be harder for republicans to answer it. >> got it. the minority leader mitch mcconnell is saying if trump is th

joining me here in studio, dana bash and abby phillip. let me just -- i'll start with you, abby. it seems to me they had the task of presenting to the jury these arguments. donald trump lied over and over about the election results. the rally took place january 6th because of him, because it was the last chance for him to, in his view, overturn the election. he incited the mob rushing to the capitol knowing that there were violent people in the crowd. and that it likely would lead to violence. and then once it happened, he was indifferent, if not rudely ignoring the requests that he stop it. and as far as i can tell, they made a pretty good case for all four of those points. >> yeah, and so much of that case was made as they repeatedly said, not by mind reading but by looking at the evidence put out into the world by trump, himself. his tweets. his statements. his comments. throughout the day that laid out a chain of events and also preceding that. his words. his tweets. his comments. all the way leading up to the end of the day on january 6th. i thought that the final message he

i want to bring in abby phillip, gloria borger and david axelrod. good evening to one and all. it has been interesting standing by watching this. the president the first time out of the white house meeting with -- having a town hall with the american people. gloria, let's start with you because the big news tonight, everyone's wondering when are we going to get back to normal? when are we going to get back to normal? the president said back to normal by christmas and there will be a vaccine by the end of july readily available to everyone. not making promise -- >> he said he hopes so. >> right, not making promises. but this is a leadership moment for president biden. what did you think? >> i think it -- i think it was a leadership moment. donald trump in the rear-view mirror. and he came out -- and i think what he was trying to do tonight really was to be reassuring to the american people without overpromising. everybody wants to get back to normal. everybody wants their kids back in school. everybody -- or lots of people -- want to get vaccinated. and he promised those 600 mil

and our senior political correspondent miss abby phillip joins us as well. the anchor of "inside politics" sunday morning. so good to see both of you. thanks for joining. david, i'm going to start with you. president biden is sounding pretty confident about that massive stimulus rescue plan. the way he sees it, voters are on his side, republicans are making a mistake. >> yeah, this comports with what we've been hearing from white house advisers for a couple weeks now, which is to not only think about the support for this bill in terms of the votes it's going to get in congress but to take the support that it has broadly with the american people and most of the components are pretty popular, and then take that to congress and try to apply some pressure. mike donilon, the senior adviser to the president, had a memod tr white house staff, and conveniently of course leaked to the press because they want -- they want to flip the script a little bit and say republicans should start thinking about whether or not it may cause them some political peril at the end of

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joined now by abby phillip and john king. john, is this the party of donald trump as marjorie taylor greene contends? >> yes. it is. until they win it, it is donald trump's party. when can they win it? 2022 midterms. they are going to primary liz ch cheney. there will be a primary in that district. that will be one way to see it play out on the ballot. watch what happens next week. the republican party is trying to skate trump. marjorie greene, the day after liz cheney came to her defense, trying to keep her on her committees. they lost. she just stuck it to them, coming out saying donald trump is the leader of the party. not respecting her own leaders that stood with her. the former president wants his lawyer to repeat the big lie. to go on the floor of the united states senate and raise questions about the election. we are at the beginning of the fight. today it is donald trump's party, until proven otherwise. >> the tone struck by greene this morning. i woke up early this morning literally laughing thinking of what morons

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i want to go to professor william hazel tine, and or abby phillip. thank to both.er than initially shot, you know, ten million doses, and this comes as dr. fauci has pushed back the timeline to the end of july. he wanted that to be april, now it's july. do you think the administration is being aggressive enough here? >> when you're manufacture new drugs, new vaccines, you can't be sure what you're going to get at the beginning. these are complicated vaccines. johnson & johnson is a virus that in itself is complicated. you can't predict how much doses you will get. to me it's amaze ing. >> today obviously the cdc has been clear on this, they do not think that vaccination should be a predicate for teachers to go back. the vice president didn't go that far. and shortly after, jen sacck -- jen psaki said this. >> it's not a requirement, but they believe that teachers should be prioritized. >> reporter: she knows what the cdc said, but she's trying to stick with that. perhaps because the cdc was pretty clear you don't need teachers vaccinated, why can't they get this st

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let's discuss with cnn correspondent abby phillip and cnn commentator bakari sellers. i spoke to senator bernie sanders, he wouldn't actually commit to supporting neera tanden. president biden made it clear he's not backing down. is her nomination doomed? >> i don't know that it's doomed just yet, because it's not clear that she has absolutely no republican support. but it certainly signals it's in deep trouble. we already knew it would be, that her nomination was likely to be one of the ones that would have the harder time getting through. and it's not surprising also that bernie sanders wouldn't commit to that, because there has been a long standing tension between tanden and sanders and a lot of supporters who don't support tanden's history. i think the jury is still out on whether some of the more moderate republican senators would be willing to vote for her in the interests of giving the president his nominees, which is a principle that for the senate, a lot of senators have stood by for a long time. >> that's an important point. bakari, senator manchin of west vi

. >> abby phillip, what a difference five years ago. five years ago he did not get his hearing.ers wouldn't meet him on the hill when barack obama nominated him for the supreme court but the senate was under the control of mitch mcconnell at the time. that difference is notable, is it not? >> yeah. he's had a tough go after it recently. not really even being given the opportunity engage in this process. and it is striking. because merrick garland is known by all accounts well respected on both sides of the aisle. early on in this process, when joe biden announced that he would nominate merrick garland during the transition, one of the people that spoke out that said he would be ilg -- willing to consider him was lindsey graham, as staufnch of a republican as you could get and not wanting to take it up before impeachment and so we're well into february before this part of the process. but this is someone who spent his time staying out of the political fray. but he will be dragged right back into it today during this hearing. i think you'll see a lot of republicans trying to bring

>>> welcome to "inside politics" on this snowy washington sunday, i'm abby phillip. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for spending part of your weekend with us. 11 months into the covid recession here in the united states the numbers remain stark. the latest jobs report out on friday showed that 10 million americans are unemployed, another 6 million have managed to find only part-time work and 7 million more want a job but have given up finding one. those statistics and the real people and families they represent are why president biden says this country needs the biggest economic relief in american history. >> a lot of folks are losing hope. we can reduce suffering in this country. we can put people back to work. we can control -- gain control of this virus. that's what the american rescue plan does. and that's what i'm determined to do. >> congress took a major procedural step last week to quicken the final passage and to do it in a way that would only require democratic votes. speaker nancy pelosi wants a bill on the president's d

. ♪ >>> welcome to "inside politics sunday," i'm abby phillip.our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for spending part of your weekend with us. 358 days ago the united states reported its very first confirmed covid-19 death, but by tomorrow it will likely report another number, 500,000. half a million dead, that is one in 660 americans, it's more than any american war except for the civil war and modelers expect to exceed that milestone by the summer. the good news, and there is good news, is that the number of daily new cases has plunged over the last six weeks. still high, but at the lowest level since october and 13% of the country has received at least one dose of the vaccine. president biden has been in office now for just about a month, but voters will judge his first year based on how quickly he contained this virus. biden has promised to always level with the american people and on friday he told the country that vaccinations will not be enough to end this crisis quickly. >> while we wait for everyone to get vacc

also senior cnn political commentator abby phillip.you see this rift between the former president and nikki haley as representative of the republican party at large? >> well, i think nikki haley, she really is trying to have it both ways. her rationale is this. her take is, well, trump's policies were terrific before the election but since the election his actions and his behavior were bad. well, you know, this isn't about policy anymore. this is about principle. it's about support of democracy, rule of law and frankly the truth. and i think this is -- there's a real problem here. i think -- i understand where adam kinzinger is. i understand where liz cheney is and mitch mcconnell. but i think nikki haley, she wants one foot in the trump camp and one foot out. and it's hard to do both. and so this uncivil war as we're calling it is just brewing up. there are factions developing who want a clean break from trump and trumpism. and she can defend the policies all she wants. but maybe she likes the protectionism. maybe she likes all the ag

. ♪ >>> welcome to "inside politics sunday," i'm abby phillip.our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for spending your weekend with us. president biden spent his first month in office pushing a nearly $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill. it's one of the biggest pieces of legislation in the history of this country and after the house passed it early saturday morning it's one big step closer to becoming law. the next step, the senate floor. >> we have no time to waste. if we act now, decisively, quickly and boldly, we can finally get ahead of this virus, we can finally get our economy moving again and the people of this country have suffered far too much for too long. we need to relieve that suffering. the american rescue plan does just that, it relieves the suffering. >> and here is why this bill matters to you, it includes $1400 stimulus checks for most americans, more money for unemployment aid, for state and local governments and for schools struggling to reopen, plus $60 billion for vaccine distribution and covid test

. ♪ >>> welcome to inn side politics sunday, i'm abby phillip.our viewers in the united states and around the world thank you for spending part of your weekend with us. 57 senators voted to convict donald trump, the most votes ever for a presidential impeachment but still short of the ten needed to have the super majority that's required for conviction. yes, the seven republicans who sided with every democrat risked intense political backlash from their base, but two aren't running for reelection and three more won't face voters until 2026, freeing them up to be blunt about the twice-impeached former president's conduct. >> rather than defend the constitutional transfer of power, he incited an insurrection with the purpose of preventing that transfer of power. >> our constitution and our country is more important than any one person. i voted to convict president trump because he is guilty. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer accused the other 43 republicans of cowardice. >> if instigating a mob against the government is considered permissible

and dana bash and abby phillip are here with me. less startling, stunning video today than what we saw yesterday. but clearly, the argument is being made that president trump in their view remains a clear and present danger unless the senate votes to convict him. >> and that's really the key. that the takeaway from what we have heard so far from these democratic house managers. it's -- what you said at the beginning which is that it was something that people who followed him had a practice run for, with what happened in michigan. but more importantly, what is before the senators is "a," to convict a president who is no longer in office and "b," if that happens which we know is a big if, but if that happens to then vote to prevent him from running again. and some if you kind of look at the totality of what they were trying to do they were trying to say, we -- if question don't stop him, it will happen again and the it not being he's going to run, but the it being the violence that they claim that he put forward and one of the most co

our chief correspondent dana bash and abby phillip is here. john king and cnn contributor, former impeachment council for house democrats normizen. the former president very unhappy with the performance of his, let's say his so-called defense team. they weren't much of a defense team at all. are bruce castor and david schoen outmatched by the house impeachment managers. >> they certainly were today. and the question is this fitting, does the senate have jurisdiction over say now former president. he was president when he was impeached by the house and now a former president. do they have a jurisdiction. they were outmatched today. they were blown away. the house democrats came in with a historical argument about the flamers and the fakes of january 6th and a powerful video presentation and the president's lawyers mostly former president's lawyers mostly rambled. that doesn't mean they can't adjust. this is not about the constitutionality, although the house democrats certainly brought facts into their presentation about the constitution. we wi

. >> here with me to discuss, cnn chief political correspondent dana bash and correspondent abby phillips. and dana, i have to say jack dorsey and the team at twitter, in my view, and also all of the gang at facebook, they did donald trump a huge favor by banning him. because i cannot even imagine what he would be tweeting right now. >> absolutely. there is a huge sigh of relief for those remaining people around donald trump that he can't live tweet this. that he is spending time on the golf course and not finding ways to make his frustration known in public. because it would only hurt his case. and everybody around him knows that and they've been trying to convince him of that. but, look, as much as we're going to hear today from his lawyers, the what about-ism and sound bite after sound bite probably like the one we heard that anderson played from chuck schumer and others from people from maybe from bernie sanders on down saying fight and so on and so forth, it isn't the same. but that is almost besides the point. because as we've been talking about now for several days, the republicans

. >>> joining me now, political chief correspondent dana bash and political correspondent abby phillip. dana, let me start with you. today is going to be a focus on the constitutionality of it, and the truth of the matter is that according to the nonpartisan congressional research service, most scholars that have looked into this say it is constitutional. you know these republican senators well, you cover them all the time. how many do you think that say it's unconstitutional are actually saying it because of the merits, they actually feel that way, and they've studied it and looked into the trial of former secretary of war, ulysses s. grant, and so forth, and how many are taking the low end so they don't have to deal with president trump? >> the latter, i think it's fair to say. it's pretty clear that even before these senators had the opportunity to study that, i mean, they all have google like we do, but for the most part, they're looking for an offramp, a desk to hide under, a process out. that's just the way it is. there is pushback on that, and not just from democrats but from so

i'm still here with my colleagues abby phillip and david chalian.aker pelosi for a second who kind of just appeared in that press conference and was so incensed, so angry, understandably so, given the fact that she really would have given the impeachment article to the senate had she not heard pretty clear like we all heard from mitch mcconnell when he was still in charge of the schedule of the senate that he wasn't going to bring them back from recess. but going off about how the republicans who hung their acquittal vote on that technicality were cowards. >> i think that's why she appeared. i think the mcconnell speech is what prompted her to appear. >> i agree. >> to make this point. because it's -- it is really hard to listen to mitch mcconnell make the argument -- wolf just went through the words -- and not have that reflect poorly on the 43 republicans, he being one of them, who voted to acquit because those two things don't sync up. you can't decry the trauma on our democracy that we all suffered, the severe country suffered this trauma, this

here with me, cnn kmeef political correspondent dana bash as well as cnn senior political analyst abby phillip. you just heard the senate majority leader and the vice president of the united states in those clips, a year and change ago, saying it's a sham trial, it's not a trial if we don't have witnesses. we still don't know if the house democrats, and the senate now controlled by democrats, are going to call witnesses. what gives? >> we still don't know. you're right. what gives is that no matter what party you are in, you're not impervious to thinking something is different when the shoe is on the other foot. that's just the reality of washington. i don't care where you stand. you have to admit that is the case. having said that, the argument that i've heard from some democrats is that what gives is this is different because of the nature of the crime that donald trump is being tried for in the senate, and that is that every one of these senators were effective witnesses to what happened in terms of the violence at the capitol. what we don't know is really at the core of whether or not dona