is barbara comstock right? does the republican party have a waste management issue here? they need to call out the g garbage collector? >> they do. and every movement is to purge the lunatics from it. a century ago there were scores of congressmen in the ku klux klan, and 16 senators were members of the klan. 11 governors. every single one was a democrat. i am ashamed to say. that's my party's history. every one of -- barbara's rig right,er every one was a democrat. the democrats purged the klan from their party and went from being the party of george wallace to the party of barack obama. i'm proud of that. ronald reagan went to maryland when a racist klansman burned a cross in front of an african american's home. he went to their home and said, "this is wrong, in is hate." and he purnled those lunatics -- purged those lunatics from his party. where is kevin mccarthy, the leader of the house republicans, who hopes to be speaker if the republicans take the chamber? where are the leaders today? something that barbara got to, too many republicans no longer have an issue or a

barbara comstock, james carville, amy walter, thank you all three.iate it. >> say hi to mary, james. i will, i will, barbara. always good to see you, amy. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, republicans in the u.s. senate blocked consideration of a voting rights bill for the fourth time this year. democrats needed 60 votes to begin debate, but fell well short. they say the bill is needed to combat new restrictions on voting in at least 19 states. republicans charge it would usurp state authority over elections. young children across the u.s. began getting vaccinated against covid-19 today. inoculations began after the c.d.c. approved low doses of pfizer's vaccine for children five to 11 years old. meanwhile, white house officials warned against vaccine misinformation. >> every parent has a right to the facts so they can make decisions for their children based on accurate scientific information. misinformation robs them of this freedom, that's why i'm asking parents to please seek answers from credible sources. >> woodruff: officials also say a fede

for more now on the effect he might have tomorrow and beyond, barbara comstock of virginia, a charliet of virginia. congresswoman comstock, the former president saying he doesn't believe in the sbintegry of virginia elections but that everybody should go out and flood the system. it's a very different approach. it's a smarter approach from when he previously encouraged republicans not to vote. dishonestly, saying the system is corrupt. i mean, is that going to work? is that going to help this time you think? >> well, i think the drudge report has the correct headline today. it said youngkin is winning without trump. he is winning despite trump. and he is winning because he brought diverse parts of the party together. i think as you know, charlie and i are not trump fans. we're anti-trump. we don't want to see him running again. but glenn has been somebody who has focused on issues. he is competent. while washington and democrats look pretty incompetent, he's serious. while terry mcauliffe looks kind of light and -- and not heavy on policy and he is focused on issues like public safety

. >> joining us now, former republican congresswoman barbara comstock. thank you for being with us this morning. we're seeing in this new tweet from the january 6th committee, they're raising questions about mark meadows' communications, whether he used a private cell phone and it appears essentially asking if he destroyed texts or other communications. is that how you read it? >> certainly it sounds like that's what they're looking at and it's interesting that if you go back to 2014, i believe it is, when mark meadows was in congress himself and on one of the major investigative committees, he was complaining about not being able to get emails from the obama administration. so this is somebody who apparently doesn't want to practice what he was preaching back then, and i think probably if he went back and looked at some of his rants at that time, he was very upset about documents and emails not being turned over. so i think the committee is going to treat him very seriously and they can just use his own words and actions from the past and i can tell you

. >>> we want to talk more about the virginia race, barbara comstock. welcome back to the show. good afternoon to you. >> good to be with you. >> you and i have had a lot of conversations over the months about former donald trump, his role as the de facto leader of the republican party, the way that this race in virginia became frankly a referendum on the power of donald trump and the gop. glenn youngkin did not embrace donald trump, but he did embrace some of these culture war issues, right, in particular critical race theory which is not even taught in virginia. and that seemed to work for him obviously if you look at the results. >> well, i think what happened is a year ago democrats really misread what their mandate was. biden won because he wasn't trump, and people rejected him. people like me, anti-trump republicans, i didn't vote for trump, i voted for republicans down ballot. we saw that in arizona and georgia, for example, where we won the state legislatures, but then we lost at the top because of trump. so what glenn did is he decided he's going to be his own man and h

. >> eugene robinson, former congresswoman barbara comstock, thank you. a lively conversation to say the least. >>> democrats scrambling after joe manchin went live on tv yesterday. he basically pulled the president's agenda down again. >>> plus a panel is meeting right now to consider a pfizer vaccine for young children. are parents convinced it is safe? >>> he was a target of his ire. georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger will join me here. . ♪ ♪ there are beautiful ideas that remain in the dark. but with our new multi-cloud experience, you have the flexibility you need to unveil them to the world. ♪ theo is saving big holiday shopping at amazon. so now, he's free to become, to unvthoughtful theo.world. and he's got a gift for everyone. so thoughtful. plaque psoriasis, the burning, itching. the pain. with tremfya®, adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... ...can uncover clearer skin and improve symptoms at 16 weeks. serious allergic reactions may occur. tremfya® may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them.

ana navarro and barbara comstock. >>> jacob chansley was sentenced to 41 months in prison. the prosecution asked for a big sentence here. >> a similar sentence to what they got last week. judge lamberth also sentenced scott farland last week. he was accused of punching a capitol hill police officer. jacob chansley, not being charged with a criminal act, also got 41 months in prison. judge lamberth thinks the impact of these charges, one with violence, one with non-violence, were equal. moving forward chansley will more than likely serve 31 months because he already served 10 months in jail. the judge said he can subtract that from the total amount, and when he's out, he'll be on prison release. to put it simply, ana, this is ramping up, and we will very likely see more of these severe cases come forward, and we'll see where judges are landing on the severity of these cases and the impact of these actions, violent or non-violent. just to bring our viewers up to speed here, the qanon qanon sha the most visible person in the insurrection, went up to the senate dias and left a

former republican congresswoman barbara comstock represented northern virginia until 2019 and is nowadviser at the law firm baker donelson. and amy walter of the cook political report with amy walter. hello to all three of you. amy, i will start with you because you have been looking closely at the exit polls, interviews with voters as they left their polling places yesterday. we want to understand more about who voted. tell us what you are seeing. amy: it is clear whether it is virginia or new jersey that this was a repudiation of president biden's low approval ratings nationally, also low in blue states. the exit poll in virginia showed president biden's ratings just 45%. the drag the president's disapproval rating has goes into state and local races as well as gubernatorial. all politics now is national, not local anymore. that is a big factor. the other question, through the trump years from democrats and republicans about how sturdy this suburban movement away from republicans and democrats would be. as one democrat said to me during that, i am worried we are just renting these