david gregory was actually with me last year on that very historic night.could you have ever imagined what the year would bring when we started there thinking, wow, this is huge, the nba is not going to play. >> yeah. i mean, it touched popular culture in a way that night where all these things came together. the sports world, you know, a figure like tom hanks and rita wilson, people who are so recognizable started to bring it home. and then looking at a president who was facing down something that was so difficult, he didn't realize that he seemed in over his head that night and obviously in the days and months to come. this has been quite a year. but it's at least redeeming tonight that we have a different future that we can start to see the end of this. >> impact david axelrod, of the speech by president biden. >> you want to speak about the ordeal we've been through and honor of sense of pain and loss that people feel and still be optimistic about the future. you want to signify the progress that has been made without rolling up the mission accomplished

david gregory, i said at the top and i believe this. it's an existential cause the fight they're about to have. pandemic is bad. it was always going to go. it's just about how much human cost comes along with it. this spate of laws going across this country is something i would never have expected to see in my lifetime. this is a jim crow move by the right, plain and simple. and the only chance that there is to stop it in a single stroke, you can litigate your way out of it but it could take years, is hr-1. do you think the democrats can pass it? >> i don't know if they can. everybody who wants to vote should be able to vote in this country, and nothing should get in the way of that. that makes common sense. but republicans are able to muddy this by in some cases legitimate questions about making sure elections are secure, issues around provisional balloting. these are fair questions. what are unfair questions is when you have litigants like from arizona say this is a zero sum game, we have to keep our advantage by making sure certain p

joining us now political analyst david gregory. david, i want to play again part of what we played before. just the president's speech where he talks to the american people and asks them for things i haven't really heard in a way from a president before. listen. >> i will not relent until we beat this virus, but i need you, the american people, i need you. i need every american to do their part. i need you to get vaccinated when it's your turn and when you can find an opportunity and to help your family, your friends, your neighbors get vaccinated as well. >> you know, you were at the white house after 9/11, and i'm not saying presidents haven't called for sacrifice before, david, but i don't remember seeing a president lean over a podium like that and reach out and basically shake americans by the lapels and say, i need you. help me. help me. it was different. >> it felt a lot more reading about fdr than seeing modern presidents we've could have had in that setting in the east room who are more formal and are more grave and certain

david gregory and brian fallon. d. greg, is my analysis of mcconnell and this kind of feigned surprise at what he's saying now, do you see this as unexceptional as i do? >> yeah, i do see it as unexceptional. this is about the votes and this is about power politics. we are well into this era of power politics. brian will weigh in on this, by suspect given the democrats i know there's a lot of frustration that republicans have played power politics better than they have in congress. mcconnell of course is the ultimate player in that. and so, yeah, he'll issue these warnings saying that all kind of things will happen, and democrats do need to remember that what they achieved today will ultimately be used against them when republicans are back in control and they have to make a determination about whether it's worth it. calculation now is on the filibuster, how do they reform it? where do they have the votes? it's a simple numbers game they're playing and that's the calculation the president will make. >> first things fir

joining us now to talk about all of this, we have cnn political analyst, david gregory. see you, david. >> good morning. >> so the scope of this act is being likened to the new deal. nancy pelosi says it's the most consequential thing she's seen in her 33 years, except maybe with the affordable care act, but she thinks that this one will have an even bigger impact. so what's the significance today? >> well, it's a huge legislative victory. it's his first major piece of business. it's a lot of political capitol on the line. and so the president has an opportunity to not only notch a victory, but go out to the american people and say, look, i'm delivering something for you during a crisis. and that should matter to you. and it is big in scope. it's also something that the progressive wing of his party is very excited about. yeah, there were some areas of compromise, but primarily, this includes a lot of things that progressives want to see government do. and wherever you're a president in position to directly deliver checks to the american people, talk about it, do a road

we'll be meeting with cnn political analyst david gregory. you're a man who loves theater and i love that about you. look, there are 1.9 trillion reasons to debate the economic relief package. have a real discussion, back and forth, make your argument. but what did ron johnson accomplish by demanding this 11-hour dramatic reading of a 628-page bill, other than the theater that you normally so love? >> yeah. it is a show. and that's all it is. it's a show. and st partly democrats being captive to having such a slim majority, right? but the real point is that ron johnson and others who think like him are playing to a smaller audience. that they hope will become a bigger audience of conservatives who say, look, this is not just covid relief, but this is liberal overreach. and that there's too much in this bill that goes beyond what is needed for covid. and they want to begin to make an argument that they'll make more next year about why congress has to return to republican hands. it's obviously difficult to make that argument in the face of need

joining us now is cnn political analyst david gregory and maeve rusten.t few days. first, one of the former governor -- one of governor's former aides came out and wrote an essay about he sexually harassed her. then a second. then this woman who never worked for the governor but just encountered him at a wedding. she was, i believe, in her late 20s at the time and he put his hands first on the small of her back, which -- >> bare back. >> her dress was low in the back. she removed his hand and then he seen here put his hands on her face and moved in for a kiss, she says. so, now an investigation by the state attorney general is being launched but these investigations take a long time. so are these -- the question is will something -- will some action happen before an investigation is complete? what do you think happens next? >> well, i think we're going to be looking certainly to see more from governor cuomo as we saw that apology that he put out over the weekend was very much in the space of if my actions were misinterpreted by these women, then i'm sorry

david gregory, laura coats. good to see you both. why is it so simple for so many of the justices in terms of saying, yeah, i think this is fine what they want to do in terms of carving up the community? >> well, first of all, i think he said the quiet part out loud, the idea that the only way to win, they believed is through suppression in some way shape or form. if that's the only way a party can survive, perhaps the party should not sur is vief. if that's the tactic you use. the supreme court is looking at it because it's not been particularly friendly in recent times to the voting rights act. number one, gutting section 5, the formula that provides for the preclearance by the doj on these issues the idea of up ending the intent based test. if they gave a real benefit of the doubt to jurisdictions about whether they had a racially motivated intent to adopt things. what is left now is the results test. meaning, if you didn't have the intent to discriminate, or to create this inequity, if the result is to have this affect still, the

trump had jim acosta, george bush had david gregory, now why didn't president biden call on pewter doocye the p opportunity will come next time. howie: biden should do more of these, more often then doocy and others can get questions in. next on media buzz, the press reveals that andrew cuomo gave family members special treatment on covid-19 tests at a time when hardly anyone could get such tests. ben domenech is on deck. >>> howie: it was clear early in the pandemic that governor andrew cuomo and cnn host chris cuomo had a close relationship which played out on the younger brother's primetime show. >> this was the actual swab that was being used to fit up that double barrel shotgun that you have mounted on the front of your pretty face. .>> see, i said i was going to e nice and sweet. i was trying -- >> was it this or was it this? howie: the washington post and albany times union disclosed the governor secretly arranged for new york state officials to administer covid-19 tests whiz were very scare at the time to his family members including his brother and the state assembly made this p

we'll be meeting with cnn political analyst david gregory.s theater and i love that about you. look, there are 1.9 trillion reasons to debate the economic relief package. have a real discussion, back and forth, make your argument. but what did ron johnson accomplish by demanding this 11-hour dramatic reading of a 628-page bill, other than the theater that you normally so love? >> yeah. it is a show. and that's all it is. it's a show. and st partly democrats being captive to having such a slim majority, right?

. >>> joining us now, cnn political analyst, david gregory and toluse olorunnipa. itics reporter for "the washington post." david, i don't use the term revisionist lightly, but that's what's going on here, an attempt rhistory, pure, simple revisionism, which is why what christopher wray did yesterday was so important. he did it with anthifa and also did it on this idea of white supremacy. what i'm going to play for you is a cable television personality lying to his millions of viewers and what christopher wray had to say about it. listen. >> there's no evidence that white supremacists were responsible for what happened on january 6th. that's a lie. >> is there any doubt that the people who stormed the capitol included white supremacists and other far-right extremist organizations? >> there's no doubt that it included individuals that we would call militia violent extremists and then, in some instances, individuals that were racially motivated violent extreme ists who advocate for t superiority of the white race. >> there you have it, david. there you have it. so imp

merriwether, da von, gregory marshan from missouri, ervin from new mexico, jacob lee haines from pennsylvania, jonathan martinez, pennsylvania, july eye julie legal carveles, lee patrick david, west virginia, manyari smith, illinois, marquis louisiana, officer dominic jared, virginia; raymond william, kansas; reginald james, california; robert bigger, illinois. i'm sure some cynical viewer tonight may listen to a name they recognize on this list and say, oh, well, wait a second, i know that guy, he had a criminal record. that individual was involved with some bad people. there's never a justification for a gun homicide. no matter whether the individuals on these lists were perfect angels or individuals who had made mistakes, none of them deserved to die in an episode of justice. to answer a hypothetical question, i haven't vetted the names i'm reading because not a single person on this list deserved to go in the way that they did. i remember talking to a woman who's become a friend in hartford, connecticut. she lost her son just about a month before sandy hook. she remembers when sandy hook happened that she latched on to the number of children who were killed, 20 kids wer