the disagreement over the democrat proposal does not mean republican's are not willing to work with democrats on covid relief. mr. president democrats move to ura purely partisan pathway on covid legislation is troubling but what is more disturbing is t the noise democrats are making about gutting the bird world, the bird world is made for and introduced by democrat senator robert byrd of west virginia was adopted to prevent abuse of the budget reconciliation process and protect the rights of the minority in the senate. it limits a proposal that can be considered under budgetat reconciliation so the majority party in the senate cannot use the budget reconciliation process to push through any legislation it wants with a bare majority vote. mr. president some democrats are suggesting doing away with the bird rule around getting away with a filibuster, that is a big problem. preserving minority rights was a priority for the founders, they knew and democratic forms of government majorities could easily trample the rights of the minority. and they were determined to put in place a system of checks

talk about what some democrats want. let's look at the summitng democrats support. a mandate from washington d.c. to double the minimum wage. nothing to do with coronavirus. that would make things worse. congressional budget office took a look at this and said what was the impact be on the economy? 1.4 million people who have jobs right now would lose their jobs if the federal government came in with a mandate to double the minimum wage. it's not a stimulus according to one report, the new mandate would also raise the cost of childcare by about 1%. how will that work for hard-working families trying to get back to work with coronavirus and need daycare for their children? with schools closed in so many locations across the country, that's the last thing working families need. an increase in the costs providing care for their children. the big spending bill includes $3,150,000,000,000 bailout for state and local governments. money is especially targeted to states have stayed closed the longest. this is money rewarding big cities and states like california and illinoi

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democratic governors are messing it up in state after state. this charade only serves the democratic party, their own obsessive-compulsive need to impeach donald trump, and avenge the results of 2016. they never got over it. they never will get over it. take a look. >> that could be seen as an impeachable of fence impeachable offense. >> impeachment. impeachment. >> impeachable offense. >> impeachment.. >> grounds for impeachment. >> impeachable. >> impeachable offense. >> we are going to impeach the [bleep] -- >> if that's not impeachable i do not know what is. >> talk of impeachment. >> none of us came to impeach a president but now we've got to do our duty. >> make no mistake, that's the short version. what's happening in the senate, we will call it sewer swamp theater. it's complete with hysteria, hyperbole and rank hypocrisy.rs the democrats conducted the snap impeachment in the house without taking time to build a case, allow for due process, defense, or even a rudimentary investigation. they are now short on something called "facts." thi

i used to be a democrat and i am ashamed at what the democrats did.ot a single one could say yes, this is first amendment. thank you. host: on some of steve's points it was noticed -- this was made by the attorneys for the former president -- the protest during the summer is irrelevant, says lee. there was no interruption of the peaceful transfer of power. nobody attempted a coup. he says when an attempted coup of the government is not grounds for impeachment than the impeachment clause has no meaning. all the votes yesterday, ryan points this out to some history of impeachment votes, senator susan collins of maine is the only senator in history devoted to acquit a member of the opposite party, then president clinton, and convict a member of her own party, president trump. part of the seven who voted along with democrats. one of the house managers from colorado in his closing arguments appealed to the senators' sense of history [video clip] . [video clip] >> i know what this body is capable of. i read about in history books. i have seen the c-span foo

the democrats know what republicans did in 2009, the last time democrats had control of the house and the senate and the white house. they say, we are not playing those reindeer games again. we learned that lesson. the country definitely and desperately needs relief. we're not going to interfere with that. we're not going to step that down and give the country less of what they need in order to keep you happy. when you're not negotiating in good faith, anyway. we've seen you do this before, we're not doing it again. democrats are all on the same page. republicans today are still trying to -- they want to try this one neat trick. once again, ten republican senators led by susan collins have proposed a covid relief bill that is very, very small. quite undersized given the state the economy is in right now. for the state -- the battle against coronavirus is in right now. what they're proposing is less than a third of what president biden has proposed as what the country needs. and, again, the reason for proposing this tiny little bill is the same argument they made with the last time dem

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so if i were democrats, and this is what democrats keep telling me why should we wait, why should we wait? but republicans, especially senate republicans say there's a narrow window for bipartisanship. this is going to set the tone for the next two years. so let's do this together. and remember, lisa, you know this. the last five covid relief bills were all bipartisan. lisa: yeah. jake: so this h been a bipartisan issue. but there are just some hurdles that you can't clear. republicans are not going to go for the state and local funding that democrats want. they're not going to go for $1.9 trillion. bin can't go below $1 trillion. so i just think there's not -- the venn diagram doesn't really work out here. lisa: congress is terrible at math and venn diagrams as you just pointed out. alexi, can you wrap this up? we started talking about the republican divide. democrats obviously much easier to be united when you're in power, however, they -- last night, in the vote-a-rama we saw divisions democrats breaking on fracking and even the minimum wage, undocumented immigrants. can you talk

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the democrats have the majority. and it's hard to imagine any -- many, if not any, democrats not voting yes on this. but what i was referring to was steny hoyer, after that moment, he said something along the lines of, we're doing our jobs for you. and that's an important thing, as we're watching this vote, to underscore. is that traditionally, this kind of thing, deciding which members get on which committees, is done by their party leadership. kevin mccarthy is the republican leader. he declined to deal with this. despite a lot of pressure to take her off of committees specifically the education committee. and that is why the democrats say that they are, in hoyer's words, doing their job for them. i don't expect, according to republicans i have spoken to, even many who are very, very angry about marjorie taylor greene, don't want her on those committees, i don't expect more than a handful of republicans to break ranks because they're listening to the process arguments about the fact it should have been the republic

thi grew up in a democrat home dependent on democrat policies and those policies failed me. they led me to stand in line for government cheese. the american dream is toil available, i'm in washington, d.c., fighting to make sure that no one else has to do that. >> laura: they are afraid of you. you are optimistic, young, they want to scare you. doesn't sound like they are doing a good job of t it. of course, the left smears against members of congress. they wouldn't be so effective if not for big tech. silicon valley is in a bunch of start ups anymore but massive monopolistic corporations in total lockstep with the democrats. with congress, a failure to reit them in, florida governor ron desantis one states laws to hold big tech accountable. says that if a tech company dte platforms a florida candidate for elected office during an election, well, they will take a dailyin fine of $100,000 until e candidates access is restored. governor desantis joins me now. governor, do you see what's going on with these moves to censor and cancel and threaten members of the g.o.p. with ever

but more importantly, democrat governors and democrat mayors throughout the summer, they can back met because i made personal phone calls to them every time that there was not only violence there, the president was swift to call and say we want to offer help, but he offered help on this particular day, more than 48 hours before. i can tell you, when i got the phone call -- i didn't ever get a phone call from speaker pelosi, but from mayor bowser, the answer was immediate and yes, and that is what we focused on, and so again, another false narrative by some of the democrat house managers to suggest anything other than a very deliberate and quick action on the part of president trump. >> sean: if there's any republicans now that are not going to apply the same standards to people that we played tape of, using insurrectionist language, their definition of it, anyway, i have no use for them. i'm not even a registered republican. john thune, we'll consider -- are you going to consider center of kamala harris and joe biden and chuck schumer threatening supreme court justices? we've got 30

priorities that could come back to bite democrats in the long run.xt two weeks, we're going to be treated to the big theater of impeachment. some democrats are concerned and think it's maybe not the way to go in terms of establishing bipartisanship in terms of trying to convict the former president, especially a trial that we know is almost certain to end in his acquittal. how to you expect, just briefly, how do you think this trial that we're going to see in the senate the next couple of weeks, how is that going to impact the way in which our political scene is going to operate over the next few? >> one name you don't hear a whole lott from the biden administration is the name of the former president, donald trump. they don't want to be involved. they want to be engaged in what's going to be a big partisan fight in the trial coming up this month. so, you know, i think it's sort of a wash politically. we know where most senators stand. it's going to be very anti-climactic. maybe you get five republican senators, at most, who vote for conviction, but,

democrats have no room for error if they want to pass it. it's democrats debating with democrats. major questions remain in snats where some rival factions in the democratic party are battling over how hard they want to push for an increase in the minimum wage as part of that covid relief bill. party leaders say chuck schumer is begging democrats to hang together on this one. >> he's begging all of us despite any differences with any one section of the bill that we language together in is the signature provision of the biden administration in terms of dealing with pandemic and the economy and we need to stick together. that's it. >> the senate's parliamentarian could decide today that it would violate the rules to raise the minimum wage in this legislation that have being fast tracked through a wonky budget reconciliation. the parliamentarian met with capitol hill staff today and did not get any indications of how she would rule. if democrats are told they cannot include a minimum wage increase then progressives are expected to pressure democrats to try to vote to override that ru

join 7 republicans join the democrats in voting to convict but it's not enough as trump survives his 2nd impeachment. i'm tired right it's great to have you read this we begin in the united states where senators have voted to acquit former president donald trump in his 2nd impeachment trial they voted largely along party lines with democrats failing to gain the number of republican votes needed to convict trub impeachment managers needed at least 17 votes from the other side but god only 7 during closing arguments democrats accuse trump of willfully betraying congress members by inciting the mob attack on the capitol last month and then refusing to stop it trumps defense chain blasted the trial calling it a non-war full act against a political rival. receipt let's go straight to washington now and speak to us paul who's out g.w. washington bureau chief hi there ines the senate officially acquitted from democrats failed to secure enough votes to convict him how have those on both sides been reacting. that was actually quite a chaotic day so it was really exciting to see and hear why t

how much time could you spend praising the democrats? whole thing was a walk down memory lane about how much he loves the senate and this was like t

it seems that the democrats are going to use all 16 hours maybe fall just short of that there will be a separate vote on whether or not to unload witnesses at this stage it seems unlikely what i've been told is that the democrats are going to want donald trump what's convict him himself so there will be a lot of use of video we were ready so who are going to use that they are going to bring speeches up and play them to the senators they're going to show don't trust tweets as for the republicans as one of the guests said earlier the question is whether or not they have a case to put forward so that me limit the amount of time they take up i see that patrick leahy is back in the seat he is of course the senate the head of the senate and head of the overseeing these proceedings i was just got to see at this point to see if it gives us an idea of how congress has to know them is consent that the trial adjourned until 12 noon tomorrow wednesday february 10th and that this order also constitute the adjournment of the senate where there are objection. germany. to more. so than was the majori

>>the senate plans to work into the night as republicans stop try to slow down democrats. they're calling democrats efforts to pass the president's one 0.9 trillion dollars coronavirus aid package, a rush job. >>these kind of debates are important south carolina senator lindsey graham and senate republicans plan to offer nearly 500 amendments to the budget resolution to slow down the president's covid-19 relief plan one 0.9 trillion dollar covid package that i think in many ways misses the mark graham says one area both parties agree on is fighting the pandemic but the price tag remains the difference every day americans are struggling with the basic costs of living. senate majority leader chuck schumer and vermont senator bernie sanders say they want republican support but are poised to move without it. >>that is all a top priority. crush the pandemic and allow people to get back to work as we reopen. >>if they're good faith amendments from the other side. we look forward to them. >>ohio senator sherrod brown says as of now democrats are sticking with their plan to go big

should they add seats for democrats? guest: you might think so, but the highest growth rates have been the more republican areas in the state. florida is unique. it passed a fair district amendment a couple of years ago, actually right before the 2012 round, and the goal was to make part of florida statute that maps should be more compact and less gerrymandered and republicans held control last time and they help control this time. 10 years ago they drew a map that heavily favored their own party. florida through the map out in the middle of the last decade and forced the legislature to go back and impose a new map that allowed for democrats to gain a couple of additional seats. this time around, the balance of power on the supreme court in florida has shifted and many worry the republicans could ignore that fair district amendment and drop maps that their hearts desire. but it is complicated, because in florida, republicans picked up a couple seats in the 2020 election. they picked up two seats in the miami area. i thin

if a democratic president — on. hang on. if a democratic president was _ on. hang on.dent was in _ on. hang on. if a democratic president was in charge - on. hang on. if a democratic president was in charge and | president was in charge and held a rally and asked people to go, everything we know that has happened, and stormed the us capital on the floor of the house you would say that's just time to move on? i house you would say that's 'ust time to move omi time to move on? i listened to and i read _ time to move on? i listened to and i read the _ time to move on? i listened to and i read the transcript. - and i read the transcript. there were more than 10,000 words that president trump uttered that morning, he spoke for one hour and 15 minutes and i have gone through the tapes several time looking for that one statement that incited a riot. the fbi has said that the riots were planned long before by groups that were spread across the country in different areas and they were not co—ordinating with the tram campaign. so in terms of directly convicting him, i think they

democrat line.hank you for waiting. caller: i was calling because i was listening to an earlier caller talking more about the impeachment, and i believe that mr. trump is not going to be impeached. mainly, my reason why is because of the senators. there are a lot of senators, even in a divisive situation, and a lot of their supporters and voters voted for them are calling and saying not to impeach. we are in an atmosphere more where they are looking at their jobs more than the people. even though constitutionally wise i believe 45 has violated the constitution and his oath, but because we are in a divisive situation, just as george wallace, who was never elected for president versus what is going on right now. george wallace was actually not elected, however, trump was elected mainly because of the divisive news of the situation and growing demographic in the united states. host: from stella's -- stella, in florida. republican line. caller: thank you for being with us every morning. i would just lik

for being democrats. democrats are saying, listen, do what you did with steve king. strip her of her committee assignments or i guess we will have to do it for you. democrats have been incensed that they put greene on the education committee. put her on the education committee. house republicans haven't been able to bring themselves to use the steve king playbook. maybe it efs the supportive phone calls greene claimed to have received from donald trump. but kevin mccarthy after meeting with her yesterday in which she was not at all contrite. he put out a statement that did not announce any action on congresswoman greene and attacked democrats for their criticism of her. tonight the house rules committee approved a resolution to strip greene of her committee assignments. the same punishment that befell steve king. the full house will vote on it tomorrow meaning all house republicans will be forced to go on the record to support marjorie taylor greene or not. voting to go on the whether as to whether you can serve as a republican member of congress after calling for th

it's going democrats only, and if it's democrats only, those are the individuals you need to watch. >> they will work this out beforehand. >> he doesn't want to vote no, made that clear. the administration cleared up a few things with his leadership. >> christine, when you go into the latest jobs report, you heard the president saying the mistake would be going too small. if we go too big, we go too big, but that's the way to go, too big. when you look at the report, larry summers, democratic administration, wrote an op-ed piece saying he thinks it is too big where it is. it is clear the current secretary disagrees, it's clear the president disagrees. when you look at the jobs report, it's not just about the month-to-month tumult in the country. we focused on the first time unemployment filing, but there are a boatload of people on persistent long-term unemployment that tells you the economy is in a ditch. >> yeah. every month i get more concerned about the internals of all these monthly numbers and the high frequently numbers, to be honest. it just doesn't look good. you have million

priorities that could come back to bite democrats in the long run.r the next two weeks, we're going to be treated to the big theater of impeachment. some democrats are concerned and think it's maybe not the way to go in terms of establishing bipartisanship in terms of trying to convict the former president, especially a trial that we know is almost certain to end in his acquittal. how to you expect, just briefly, how do you think this trial that we're going to see in the senate the next couple of weeks, how is that going to impact the way in which our political scene is going to operate over the next few? >> one name you don't hear a whole lott from the biden administration is the name of the former president, donald trump. they don't want to be involved. they want to be engaged in what's going to be a big partisan fight in the trial coming up this month. so, you know, i think it's sort of a wash politically. we know where most senators stand. it's going to be very anti-climactic. maybe you get five republican senators, at most, who vote for convicti

the democrats attack him. whole plan basically launched into action to try to remove him from office wrapped around the conspiracy theory of russian collusion. that was being broadcasted 24/7, day in, day out from the media, was something most americans wouldn't believe, didn't believe and obviously later was proven to be false. myself, you know, not being a politician or ever having any plans to be one, i did the same thing as millions of americans and looked to the internet of what is really going on. that was where i stumbled across different ideas. i am just the kind of person, i will tell you what i think and feel and things i have read about and i did, i went on facebook and talked about them. a lot of the times i was just talking about the things i read, not necessarily preaching them, like some of these stories have tried to say. you know, i did that. i am a normal, regular person. i also found things i did not think were true. i made a decision to change paths and go, ok, if i want to make a differenc

democrats haven't.are different on this side. >> some republicans who vote against other republicans, adam kinzinger or liz cheney, they're getting a lot of grief from fellow republicans but it's good to hear you're not. at least not yet. it's only been 24 hours. our viewers should note that you did vote to object to the 2020 electoral votes wiechlt did you feel it was important to remove marjorie taylor green from her two committees while at the same time you the big lie. >> i never said the vote was stolen. i objected because i believe that i want to up hold the constitution, which says that only state legislators can determine the means and methods by which the electors are chosen. in those cases, some people that were not the legislator made rules and changed laws and that's against the constitution. by the way, at the end of the day, those two states would not have overturned the election anyway, unlike what happened in 2005 when 31 democrats voted against certifying ohio and 100 or 80 or so abstai

keep in mind this pales compared to violent rhetoric from some top democrats, although many democrats have made similar comments. we start with chucky schumer, he physically threatened to u.s. supreme court justices right on the steps of the united states supreme court building based on his standards. chuck schumer needs to be impeached. republicans, you ought to put forward the article. if you're going to follow their standards, maxine waters encouraged her supporters to harass and attack white house employees, remember, and follow them into the grocery store and create a crowd and get in their faces. they aren't wanted anywhere anymore, and don't forget, she also said i'm going to take trump out tonight. that sounds like a threat of murder. joe biden openly fantasizing about taking a sitting president, donald trump, behind the gym and beating the hell out of him. that sounds like a threat. sounds insurrectionist, and almost every democrat excused, ignored, or condoned the violent riots from over the summer. so, let's focus now on applying these same standards to all of these democra

amongst democrats.ricans lived in a county that went for one presidential or another in a landslide. the other three quarters lived in counties that were less overwhelmingly partisan. by 2020, 58% of americans lived in landslide counties. therein might lie a set of solutions to the problem of extreme polarization. ones i've outlined before in a commencement address at ohio state university. we should ask ourselves in what ways we can force ourselves to spend time with one another, including with those with whom we disagree. i believe that a program of national service in which young americans from all over the country can spend a year working together in the army or in schools or parks or homeless shelters could create a shared experience that would bind us closer together. above all, government needs to show that it can work for people. a generation of polarization has also produced a generation of gridlock, government so divided that it is unable to act. we have to find a way to free government from t

meeting with house democrats.in the message was the same, full speed ahead when it comes to a big covid relief package. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju has information on that. >> i have the audio of joe biden speaking to house democrats. he made clear that they are going to go big on this push. he said he did not want to sacrifice what he has been promising the american public during the campaign. he said he would not turn back on his plan to pass a major covid relief package. he implored democrats to stay united. but he also, john, indicated he's willing to pair back the stimulus checks that are at $1,400 under the plan in order to more target those to people who need it the most, while making clear he wants the democrats to be on his side. take a listen. >> this package gets money into the pockets. we can't walk away from an additional $1,400 in direct checks we proposed because people need it. frankly, they've been promised it. maybe we can -- i think we can better target the number. i'm okay w

the democrats will.nd tomorrow we will get to see every republican member of the house go on the record about where they stand on the anti-semitic conspiracy lady who endorsed the murder of nancy pelosi. we don't yet know the timing of when that vote is going to happen yet. we don't know about the kind of debate or floor speeches that may happen in advance of it, but we know it's going to be on the house floor tomorrow afternoon. watch this space. r tomorrow aftn watch this space they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the services of the post office plus ups only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. >>> still having to get used to the fact that we're allowed to actually book government officials now. we were always calling them and asking them to be on the show,

david: heidi, you were the last standing democrat in a state that used to elect democrats all the time. it has now become quite a red state. in the position you were in, you, like well, there was an incentive to be someone who reaches across the aisle, someone who tries to find common ground and so on. you did that. both of you had high scores for bipartisanship and yet you lost, so what lesson did you derive from that? not to set you up all the time to be captain bring down here. [laughter] david: -- sen. heitkamp: yeah, why did you lose? if you were so good at what you did, why did people reject you? when i ran in 2012, we had a long history of being a republican state but republicans were willing to cross the aisle and vote for democrats because they did a good job or because they demonstrated an ability to get things done and so when i won in 2012, we expected 20% of the democrat or leaning republicans would cross over and vote for me and they did. i outperformed barack obama by about 22 points. when i ran in 2018, when we talk about tribalism and this being the party of trump, whe

then you have layer three, the allegations up bowling again by democrats, new york democrats assemblingabor for code just recently now the allegations of sexual misconduct by lindsay bowen. and this is an allegation that does not come from 40 years ago when cuomo was in high school but something that happened relatively recently. so as far as scandals go with a baseball term, this hits a cycle. because there is a d next to governor cuomo's name he gets a pass by the media and particularly cnn and the d means disregard, nothing to see here and that is a dereliction of duty, sean. this is a national -- >> sean: what amazes me, the eye believers. i believe, i believe, i believe. i didn't say i took the position that justice kavanaugh, he deserves the presumption of innocence and i'm taking the same position here. just because somebody says something, we don't have all the facts. i don't believe rushing to judgment. the democrats are the ones that use it when it's convenient as a political story, which should bother people. >> absolutely. every man should be given the presumption of the inn

sinclair is, first of all, our democratic party has stayed with them. i am a democrat. i do not want to change my politics. i believe that the republican party, so far, has been a failure. >> have you anything to say that? >> you are wrong because the democratic party is not with sinclair. the democratic party is not raising funds for sinclair's election. the money raised in different states is independent of the democratic party. you know that. >> sinclair has interviewed are president of the united states. and had a great reception. >> and when he went to see him, he told him not to discuss politics because he knew that he would be put on the spot by sinclair. >> there is no such thing as putting a ban on the spot. that is the thought of your mind. >> we are on the spot now. [laughter] >> i disagree with you on that. >> senator machen do has billboard the whole town -- senator machen do has billboard did the whole town. >> you can see it for yourself. >> i can see that is a mistake. >> it doesn't matter how you registered, democrat or republican, you can cast your vot

my question is when the democrats going to follow suit? when will the media mob correct so many stories they all got wrong? here is my prediction. down there will freeze over first. don't hold your breath. they are feigning their pony outrage as usual and playacting. this is the most important story of our time. it's not. congresswoman green, she hasn't set the agenda for the republican party. the way the radical squad led by the real speaker of the house, congresswoman o garcia cortez does for the democratic party. you people know congresswoman. i don't know a conservative or a republican that supports or condones those past beliefs that she disavowed today. the real story here is that democrats have now opened the floodgates with alarming new precedent. apparently voters at elections, they no longer matter to them. according to those who voted to remove congresswoman greene from committees, a standard that doesn't believe dell might apply to themselves, those who voted for her by a whopping 70% of tht don't matter to the people who voted

is what the democrats always want to do. spend more money from hard-working taxpayer.s is supposed to be covid-19 bill. only 9% of it goes to covid-19. >> is the thing. there is little the gop due to stated the let's way on its way to passage. it hits next to the rules committee word is expected to move ahead with a final vote possible on the house floor by week's end. be sure to check out republican congressman greg steube and here is what he has to say on what republicans can do to slow the strain down. shannon: appreciate it. >> molly hemingway says although a lot has come out of the pandemic there is hope on the horizon and that needs to be communicated by our leaders as well. >> we need and encourage her. there is so much good news, cases are declining significantly, the vaccine is being spread throughout the country and that 7 a real effect. it is time for our public leaders to communicate more about moving past these horrible things we have gone through in the last year and getting the country open in dealing with the reality that we are having some good news he

democratic party? the teachers unions are in charge. this is with the pandemic has exposed, the teachers unions are not run by the school districts or they are hostage to the decision of the teachers unions, that's a problem with the schools and it's leaving parents in the lurch because they don't put kids first. the science is very clear and it's clear from the catholic schools. catholic schools and a lot of these cities like in chicago, catholic schools have been opened. they don't have a lot of funding, they are able to keep covid at bay by instituting safe practices. what's lacking is not a federal billions but the will to open them up in catholic schools are a great example to the contrary. >> bret: chuck we are starting with you on the other side of the break, one to come back the panel looks ahead for tomorrow's headlines tonight. transformative sleep. so, no more tossing and turning, or trouble falling asleep. because only tempur-pedic uses proprietary tempur® material, that continuously adapts

>> well, you know, as a moderate democrat and the new democratic coalition, of course, we're concerned with members who come from areas in which this is going to be a steep climb. and so we have been voicing concerns and thoughts and ideas to the leadership. but at the end of the day, wolf, democrats are going to be unified and whatever our leadership, speaking with committee chairs, speaking throughout the caucus, we have a big tent. we're going to make sure this is passed, that it crosses the line and we get it to the president's desk before unemployment runs out, before -- there are 40 million americans right now that have home insecurity. 12 million children have food insecurity. 24 million americans are hungry right now. we're going to get this done and get it done quickly because it needs to happen for the american people. we know elections have consequences and the democrats are the ones that are in control. it's unfortunate this has to be the democrats that are taking this through reconciliation, but we're going to get it done. >> and we'll see what the house parliamentarian de

voters who used to call themselves democrats.ingly, the current republican party is looking more and more like the democratic party of the mid-20th century, think '50s and '60s. >>> when we come back, the gop is not the only party that's divided between factions, as president biden is finding out. stay with us. ctions, as president biden is finding out stay with us part of the team that built 5g right, the only one from america's most reliable network. we designed our 5g to make the things you do every day better. with 5g nationwide, millions of people can now work, listen, and stream in verizon 5g quality. and in parts of many cities where people can use massive capacity, we have ultra wideband, the fastest 5g in the world. this is the 5g that's built for you. this is 5g built right. only from verizon. [♪♪] life is busy, and sometimes odors can sneak up on you. for a convenient life hack. try febreze unstopables fabric refresher. with 2 times the scent power of regular febreze, unstopables fabric finds, neutralizes and eliminate

david: after democrat congressional candidates took a major beating in november several democrats specificallyith his lawyer tiffany townsend blackwell who is called the lapd barbarian and occupying army she's not only for defending the police she supports shutting down prisons and a 2019 tweet she writes prison is obsolete we need to reimagine america without it you julie davis said prisons disappear problems they do not solve them how will angelenos and the rest of america respond to this continuing narrative regarding lawaw enforcement we welcome former nypd lieutenant darren porter, darren great to talk to you again are fox affiliatee is reporting ms. blackwell is being brought in as a deputy da in los angeles we have seen a picture of her that has a picture saying police are trained to kill she wants to abolish prisons what does this do to police morale. >> if only as problematic first and foremost all behind criminal justice reform i think it is something that should come t ino play but in the same token when we look at defunded the police i don't think that's an objective we need to emp

among democrats.ve in a county that went for one presidential cand candidate and another in a landslide. t by 2020, 58% of americans live in landslide counties. i believe that a program of national service in which young americans from all over the country can spend a year working together in the army or in schools or parks or homeless shelters could create a shared experience that would bind us closer together. above all, government needs to show that it can work for people. a generation of polarization has also produced a generation of gridlock. the government is so divided that it is unable to act. we have to find a way to free government from this death row. politics have to function. those who win must abe allowed o act. they have the power to vote, constant paralysis feeds the feeling that government does nothing and it is to be mocked into spies. we talk about plans of policies, ultimately this may be a personal challenge, up to all of us, to imagine ourselves and other people's shoes, to see t

that is the democratic party. yes, they have a lot of fringe conspiracy theorists, and agitators, except they are not little-known in their party. they are literally running the whole show for the democratic party. they set the agenda, and they have all the power. so, democrats, ought to purge taylor greene from committees, then this same standard must be applied to them, right? out a fundamental fairness. for example, let's start with congresswoman omar, remember, she once floated the conspiracy theory that evil jews in israel have hypnotized the world? she said the council on american islamic relations was founded after 9/11 because some people did something. "did something?" you mean killed 3,000 americans, that "something?" end in 2019, congressman omar used an anti-semitic trope alleging that jewish influence in america, it's all about the benjamins, baby. remember that line? will democrats vote to bar her from those committee assignments? again, there you go. should in the same standards be applied to both s

are senate democrats negotiating with republicans at all?e been negotiating for the past several months and we've been having a real challenge of responding to the need. people are hungry. children are going to bed hungry. se seniors don't have enough food. seniors are dying of isolation. the reality of what's happening in my state is horrible. and so we need a generous and robust and bold package. we need something that actually adds to food stamps and to pandemic ebt, that adds to job training. that's what republicans are unwilling to do. they are willing to do money for vaccines, everyone is. they're not willing to go the extra step to meet the need of the suffering. >> president biden said in the oval office he thinks some republicans ultimately will support the plan. i assume he's talking about the $1.9 trillion plan. as of now, do you know of any republicans on capitol hill who are open to voting for it? >> so, typically, we've gotten support for these kinds of investments from a handful of republicans, people like susan collins and li

democrats, (202)-748-8000. independents, (202)-748-8002. we mentioned your work as the top republican on the budget committee. why do we have budget reconciliation? guest: budget reconciliation has been around for several decades, and it is a tool within the budget process that is used to address revenues, spending, and debt. after you pass a budget resolution. but the reconciliation instructions do not come about until you pass a budget resolution. it is interesting because the majority party, the house democrats, did not even file a budget resolution and the entire last congress. it has been over 700 days, even though by statute, you are supposed to pass it right april 15 of every year. in fact, the president is supposed to provide a budget to congress by february 1. yes, we still have not received a budget from the president for fiscal year 2022. what was passed on the floor yesterday evening was in fact a budget resolution for fiscal year 21 because -- well, the democrats in the last congress did not pass on. it is interesting. you are

some democrats are talking about. you have is some democratic senator who are just as anxious, including a former senator who is now president, just as anxious to see this impeachment trial go away. do you think some witnesses don't get called because of that? >> what we wanted in the last trial was let the house, let the prosecution put on its own case, let it to decide whether to call witnesses, what witnesses to call. that's what should be allowed in this trial. it will be up to jamie raskin, a brilliant constitutional scholar to make those decisions with the team. but in a very real way, chuck, we have the unusual circumstance where on the very first day of the trial, when those managers walk on the floor of the senate, there will already be over 100 witnesses present, and those will be the house and senate members. whether you need additional witnesses will be a strategic call for the house managers. >> before i let you go, i would like you to respond to kevin mccarthy on the marjorie taylor greene vote. here is