who didn't like donald trump or whatever, this all the democrats the moderate democrats, they're notordinary hypocrisy with its nancy pelosi getting a haircut or gavin newsom and gretchen whitmer going out to dinner but when you start with i had hypocritical games with people security were gets a lot different there because when people vote on their personal security things get very ugly, usually for democrats. gerry: thank you to charlie hurt and tammy bruce, right after this at 10:00 o'clock. pray thank you for joining us will be back next week with more wall street journal at large, than j j joining us. >> "barron's roundtable" sponsored by invesco qqq. jack: welcome to "barron's roundtable" where we get behind the headlines and prepare you for the week ahead. i am jack hough in for jack otter who has the week off could be fishing or cycling or doing both at the same time right now. coming up sec chairman gary gensler calling for more crypto regulation. jan beneke will tell us why

remember, this is democrats against democrats.has nothing to do with republicans at the moment. they are having a family discussion and a family disagreement. it's playing out very much in public. host: why did these centrists have this leverage? guest: they have this leverage much like because -- of how joe manchin and kirsten sinema in the senate have considerable leverage. the margin of their majority is so narrow in both the senate and the house. in the house nancy pelosi can only lose three democrats on any given vote. josh gottheimer has now -- they were known as the moderate nine, they had nine moderates sticking together and saying my way or the highway. or we are going to take down joe biden's agenda. now they have 10. stephanie murphy, one of the other leaders of the moderates. she's one of the co-chairs of the blue dog democrats. she also has joined this group. now they have 10. they have incredible leverage. they flexed their muscle last night and showed that they mean business. it sounds like the two sides are inching

infighting over how to move forward. 10 centrist democrats holding up the democratic agenda. do you support it? what do you think should happen? this is tim in ohio, who says let's pass a budget that just pays our bills. it is required of the average citizen here and why not the government? -- then i support every bit of it. it is about time we had something big for the people. especially the human infrastructure part. republicans need to work together to do something for the 90% for a change. what do you think? caller: and for structure is -- infrastructure is generally seen as a budget positive item. reduces waste. $3.5 trillion is a large pill to swallow. when you have an interest wait so low -- rate so low. as a 34-year-old person -- what are those services going to be? we are seeing pull out of afghanistan, reduction of our imperial scope. you would think with that you would want to improve your budgets. it seems we are just taking that opportunity to increase spending elsewhere. host: how do you respond to this text? we support many nations. now it is time to support us

this is democrats against democrats. this has nothing to do with republicans at the moment. they are having a family discussion and disagreement and it is playing out in public. host: why do these centrists have this leverage? guest: because of how joe manchin and kyrsten sinema in the senate have incredible leverage. the margin of their majority is so narrow in the senate and the house. in the house, nancy pelosi can only use -- lose three democrats on any given vote. josh gottheimer has now -- they were known as the moderate nine. they had nine moderates sticking together and saying my way or the highway or we are going to take down joe biden's agenda. now they have 10. stephanie murphy, one of the other leaders of the moderates. she is one of the cochairs of the blue dog democrats. she also has joined the group so now they have 10, so they have incredible leverage. they flexed their muscle last night and showed they mean business. it sounds like the two sides are inching closer to a deal. there's going to be another meeting at 9:00 a.m. this morning. they will have a sepa

the democrats take the house, the democrats who come in are likely to be conservative democrats. so nancy pelosi or whoever the democratic nominee is going to be is going to be also not in a good shape either, because these are ideological battles. so just to wrap up, considering the past and thinking about the future in the next few years, so we think about the current complex of speakership, there is no evidence so far that members want to upset what i called an organizational cartel, that is, there's no evidence that members really want to give up this system where the parties organize things internally. the question is whether they can keep the system going. i think there's an argument that if you just kind of look at the types of very abstractly -- the types of contests that happened, especially before the civil war, and map those types onto the current conundrum, it's the democrats who have the bigger problem, because the democrats, the democrats who would defect from a nominee are conservative democrats. they could plausibly walk over to the republicans and organize with t

and what does it mean that cori bush, one democrat, a progressive democrat, can pressure officials in this way? leigh ann: the white house and democratic leadership really dropped the ball on this issue, did not bring it up until one to three days before the eviction moratorium was set to expire. now, the house of representatives, democratic leadership, tried to get the votes to pass something in the house on that friday before they adjourned for seven weeks. it didn't happen. so cori bush started this impromptu ptest on the capitol steps and that raised national awareness to the issue, put a lot ofressure on speaker pelosi who in turn put her pressure on president biden to do something. so it was a really rare but very effective moment of activism and protest at the capitol that moved policy and while it took three days since t eviction moratorium ended, it's actually moving very quickly for washington speed that they did so immediately. yamiche: lisa, the jobs report came out today. there is in some ways strong numbers there but there are also americans struggling. could you connect

the name the democrat -- they keep using the name the democrat party for credibility. they don't really care what the american people think. they know what is better. that is what this is about. this government exists to secure the rights of americans, not to tell them what to do. but that is what is happening. that is the long and short of it. it is unfortunate but it is reality. >> a couple people mentioned china relations. i want someone to clarify, are you referring to the budget reconciliation or the foreign infrastructure? >> all of it. >> $7.5 billion in the infrastructure built days china to -- pays china to build here in the u.s. for electric vehicle charging stations. then you add on the budget, once the budget is passed, that is full passage of the green new deal, which completely hands over america to be reliant on the dominant producers of lithium batteries, which is china. communist china. they already gave us covid-19. we do not want to depend on communist china. so yes, both of them together, you hear some republicans talking about oh, began for structu

and democrats' far-left presidential candidates couldn't make it out of the democrat primary. that's right. president biden was able to win the democrat primary and the general election because he presented himself accurately or inaccurately as a moderate. but despite their lack of a mandate, democrat leaders are apparently more and more willing to let the far left of the democrat party run the show, which is why we're standing here today contemplating a $4.2 trillion spending spree to permanently expand the size of government. mr. president, we don't yet know all the details of the democrats' budget-busting spending legislation, but what we do know is not encouraged. in addition to taxes that will burden hardworking americans and hurt our economy, democrats are con policemen indicating a new welfare benefit with no work requirement. lots and lots of free stuff like two free years of community college. elements of democrats' most extreme socialist fantasy, the green new deal, amnesty for individuals here in our country illegally, funding for tens of thousands. yes, tens of tho

where democrats have power to a lesser degree, they will redraw districts to benefit democrats in electionsw some of the top lines from today's census data. our country has become notably more diverse. the number of white people has decreased for the first time ever. and that information is super important. it matters. it is interesting. it drives some people crazy, i know. understanding how it will be used to alter the political land scape for the next decade, that's worth considering. that fight is live. joining us now, eric holder, the former u.s. attorney general under former u.s. president barack obama. the chairman of the redistricting committee. thank you for joining us. >> good to see you, too. thanks for having me. >> i am struck by the fact the democrats' big proposed reform on voting rights, which is how a lot of us have short-handed it. the for the people act which you've advocated, that not only would it undergird voting rights, making it not too hard for people to vote. it would have made a national prohibition on using census data, drawing districts in such a way that was des

democrats tend to be the good guys. right now, because we see what the bad guys are doing. and if they're doing it in texas, they're going to do it in georgia, they're going to do it in arizona, they're going to do it in florida. we see what they're doing. they are trying to take us down. and that's not what any of us should stand for. but we see that they are not the party of the republicans that just have philosophical differences. we see that they are the party of trump, and the party of the proud boys and the party of insurrectionists. we need to save our democracy and we need to save it like yesterday. >> yes, indeed we do. whether the democrats in the senate are listening, we will find out later on the show andy will be speaking to senator chris van hollen. for now representative jasmine crockett, thank you so much for your time tonight. appreciate it. >> thank you so much. >>> every single republican in the united states senate just voted against even debating a voting rights bill. so where are the democrats on k

so these mandates are clearly a winning issue for democrats.nd big majority of the american people are on their side. oh, and as for the other side? they are just drenched in hypocrisy. take a listen to texas republican senator ted cruz his latest anti-mask mandate and anti-vax rant on fox this week. >> there should be no mandates. zero, concerning covid. that means no mask mandates, regardless of your vaccination status, that means no vaccine mandates, that means no vaccine passports. and i've introduced legislation, a bill to ban vaccine passports, this week i'm introducing a bill to ban vaccine mandates and another one to and mask mandates. >> just one throughout small pointed cruise, your school -- your children attend in elite private school in houston, texas. whereas the blog going buoying reports, the school views the use of face coverings as an important way that we as a community can slow the spread of the virus and protect one another. due to the current situation in our community, our persons on compass will be required to have a fac

he's got control of the democrat party. the democrat party wants more control. ed markey say who is from massachusetts, i heard him say, steve moore, this is only the beginning. we've got a lot more to do when it comes to the economy and to climate change and all the rest of it. this is a first step, and so people need to understand, they are never going to be satisfied because people who stir the pot like this and turn systems inside out and create all kinds of horrendous consequences, some predictable, some not, they never look in the mirror. they are never circumspect. it is the fact they don't have enough power or your money or control. this is the first step? you talk about 6.5 trillion. that doesn't even include the 6 trillion dollars proposed budget by joe biden, does it? >> that's right, well put. you know, so we're talking about numbers that i never thought we would ever be talking about in this country. when i first came to washington, 35 years ago, when ronald reagan was president, i remember when we passed the first trillion dollars budget. we weren'

it is genuinely unclear why this handful of democrats, 4% of the house of democratic party. it is unclear why they wanted to do this. they couldn't give a policy based answer of why it was important to blow up this larger thing? i don't know. they did get a lot of free media out of it and they got their names in the paper, maybe that was it. their plan did seem like it was mutually a shurtd distraction. if they had blocked the larger bill, the big pro fwres sieve bill, multi-trillion dollar bill, much larger grouch, the house progressives, weren't going to vote for the smaller bill and that would mean nobody would get anything. neither the small bill would pass nor the big bill would pass and the democratic president's whole economic agenda would go down in flames with nothing passed. great plan. look at us. democrats control the house and the senate and the white house and we can do nothing because we stood up and insisted that nothing be done. vote for me. tough district. that was apparently the plan. so last night the time for the first scheduled house vote arrived on the

in the democratic party it is different. constituencies care more about these kinds of allegations and take them more seriously. her in mind, there may be an occasion where a democrat could skate through something like this. like, let's say, for example, the lieutenant governor in new york were a republican and cuomo was going to be replaced by a republican. and i think the politics of this situation would be different. i'd knowledge that. by and large we have reached a point where in the democratic party there is no tolerance for this sort of thing anymore. i think that is a good thing. host: do you think andrew cuomo would still be governor of new york if he had been a republican? guest: yeah, i basically do. i don't think, as i just said, there is a machinery, say, within the republican party that, you know, gets terribly upset about these kinds of things and that seeks to punish it in the same way there is in the democratic party. host: how does the #metoo movement play into this situation in new york with andrew cuomo?

guest: the question is how many of the nine centrist democrats vote for the rule.hat could indicate squishing this within the ranks. even though, at the lawmakers have noted, what they said they are unified on is not the procedural step, it is the vote on tuesday, and that is a key step the democrats need to take to advance in this budget process known as reconciliation. that is what will enable them to pass legislation in the senate with just democratic votes, otherwise they would need to clear the 60 vote threshold and get republican support, which they will not get on the budget package. host: how important it is to the speaker to get these measures passed before september, the budget package, the infrastructure package, and the voting rights piece? guest: i think that the congressional leadership has set september 15 as the deadline for committee chairs to finish their pieces of the budget package. i think there is skepticism on capitol hill that that is really possible. this is a huge piece of legislation. they have also said it will be paid for, so they have

that's what democrats want.ocrats don't want to run facing questions about are you going to impeach or not impeach? >> are you standing with the governor? >> whole election campaigns will be about that. >> about the only one in the democratic governor in california, gavin newsom, facing the recall. even though registered voters in california outnumber republicans 46% to 24%. do you think that democrats are actually lose in the state that they typically dominate in? >> this is certainly different than the last recall, which i covered back in the day when arnold schwarzenegger ended up winning. there are some -- it's a divided republican field, certainly. and there is not a lieutenant governor, big-name democrat run ing as an alternative. but democrats in the state of california are doing what democrats in a lot of places do, which is worrying. and also that worry sort of breaks through potential complacency and complacency and people not voting would be the real problem for governor new some. >> running scared. a

and the republicans that it's the democrats who have the bigger problem because the democrats, the democrats who would defect from a nominee are conservative democrats. they could plausibly walk over to the republican party and organize with the republicans. not that it would happen, but the key party republicans and the suicide caucus, they have nowhere ideologically to go and if you capitulate with the democrats to organize. so it's more likely that the republican caucus will be like what the democrats used to be. remember the old saying, not a member of an organized political party and i'm a democrat and that's true with the republican party and that may end up being the case. democrats have more to lose on the floor. some other things to think about, though, is that some of the ways the president is different from the antebellum period. first of all, there's press notally third force in american politics, right? it's the three-connered contests that are the most vexing and so if there were a third force like donald trump starts his own party then things could get really, really nasty, bu

and democrats do their districts in such a way that ensures democrats get elected.rrymandering and the voting right stuff, all of those are components of the for the people act. which already passed the house of representatives. right? it's senate bill one, a landmark voting rights bill proposed by democrats in congress this year. of course, the for the people act was dead on arrival in the senate. republicans guaranteed it would never get any votes from them to pass. but the pressure to pass some kind of a federal legislation, to backstop voting, to codify protections around voting, that pressure remains and in some ways is increasing. just today, outside the white house, family members of john lewis, the late congressman, held a rally to try and pressure president biden to call the senate to end the filibuster. so democrats can pass the legislation even if they get zero republican votes. the washington post reports today that at the end of this month there will be 100 nationwide marches on voting rights. excuse me, nationwide marshes ago organized by more than 100

because the democrats, the democrats that would effect from a nominee or conservative democrats. they could plausibly walk over to the republican party, and organized with the republicans. not that it would happen, but they could make that credible threat. whereas tea party republicans, keith pool calls suicide caucus, they have nowhere ideologically to go. they cannot credibly say if you don't -- go with the democrats to organize. so it is more likely that the republican caucus could be like with the democrats used to be. you remember the old saying, nets true of the republican party and that could end up being the case. democrats have more to lose on the floor. some other things to think about though, is that some of the ways in which the president really differs from the antebellum period is these ways. first of all there's no third force in american politics. it is three corner contest that is the most vexing. so if there were a third force, like donald trump starts his own party, then things could get really, really nasty. but there isn't. election laws in the states make it

her fellow democrats. if she's at party should not discuss the funding the police and talked about defunding the police nearly cost democrats the house. democrats are fractured on the issue. >> the president has been crystal clear that he opposes defunding the police. there may be some in the democratic party including congresswoman bush who didn't agree with him. it that's okay. i would say the majority of democrats, and a majority of the members also agreed that we should not defund the police. >> the president supports increasing police funding and democrats see they have a message problem to allow the most extreme voices like cori bush will likely to find the party ahead of next year's midterms. bret. >> bret: chad pergram live on the hill, thank you. use overseas, iran's new hard-line president is now on the job. he's promising to give crippling u.s. sanctions against iran's economy lifted. greg palkot has a story tonight. >> meet new boss, the same as his boss. sworn in today the president of iran. h

democrats defund, demean, and disparage police. let us acknowledge the men and women in law enforcement for the heroes they are. we stand with them and appreciate their sacrifices. republicans back the blue. [applause] ms. mcdaniel: nowhere is democratic extremism more evident than when it comes to our most fundamental right of all. the right to live. not long ago, democrats believe abortion should be safe, legal, and prayer. they support taxpayer-funded abortion on demand now up to and after the point of birth. whether it is on abortion, taxing the supreme court, open borders, defunding the police, a federal takeover of a elections, or ending the filibuster, joe biden is in lockstep with the radical left. this only motivates me more because i am confident as ever in our country's future. confident because of the leaders in our party and the work they are doing to improve the lives of every american and i get to see appear that republican leaders are showing americans with strong conservative leadership lurks like -- looks like. th

and only senate democrats can do it. only senate democrats have the power. the power to actually do something to fix it and to pass voting rights and get it done. we saw activists embark on a multi day 27 mile march in the summer heat in the senate capital, that is modeled to the cellmate to montgomery march in 1965. to try to move the united states senate to -- in this upcoming weekend were expected to see a whole bunch of marches, in washington and in multiple cities across the country, all aimed at ratcheting up the pressure on the white house in the senate to get this done. again the john lewis voting bill passed the house tonight. it's in the hands of the senate. today, outside the white house, there was this. >> a protests just outside the white house from two big well-known advocacy groups targeting president biden specifically asking him to do even more to make the senate do the right thing. to use every power he has to persuade the senate to do what they can do and which they so far lacked the will in the gumption to effectuate. under the banner of

it sounds like she doesn't trust these ten democrats, and possibly other democrats, to show up when she needs them. in october. to vote on the budget reconciliation package, if she lets them vote on the bipartisan package now. >> i think what's important is that this is going to be the house and the senate. right now, the senators, on the democratic side, have agreed to the resolution, but there's still a lot of discussion that needs to take place in terms of the ultimate substance of the 3.5 trillion dollar agreement, so from my standpoint, and i'm not speaking for anyone else, you had senators like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. vote for a resolution along with senators like kirsten sinema and joe manchin. that's the least that we can do in the house of representatives. to get the process started, in over the next few weeks, we can have a substantive discussion, and negotiation about what the build back better budget framework, should look like, before it gets enacted into law. >> congressman jeffries before you go, andrew cuomo has less than two hours left in the job, as govern

democrats (202) 748-8000. independents (202) 748-8002.ongressman israel joining us after a late night in the senate after an agreement was not reached on that bipartisan infrastructure bill. take us through your thoughts on the path forward on that and the reconciliation bill. guest: this is complicated. you are seeing policy and schumer, they are skating on thin ice while trying to thread a needle while trying to reach the finish line. very difficult to do. here is what i think will happen based on the conversations i have had as recently as last night. they are going to get this bipartisan bill done. they should get it done because it is a bipartisan bill. there may be further delays. one senator yesterday objected to various amendments that has postponed a vote on culture until saturday. -- on cloture until saturday. i think it is going to pass as it should. then senate majority leader schumer will bring up the budget resolution that allows for reconciliation where you only need 50 votes to pass investments in infrastructure, human ser

this is not really a massive redistribution of wealth to the democrat party and democrat party base.you look at where the money is going to go, the payoff for example i think $200 billion to the teachers unions are major supporters, $200 billion of people don't want to show up and teach. you look at what is happening, what you basically have now is union allies, big-city machines, you have very big corporations in many ways resembles italian fascism and that you have an alliance between the biden administration and many of the biggest corporations so that the biden administration is actually suggested a facebook and twitter and others might do have better job of policing the american people. now this is a kind of a coalition. in the 1930s, was very dangerous and i think you're saying it come back is a combination as you point out, transition point to marxism. so sort of the aoc marxist level and bidens considered of moderate because he's just implementing some of the state fascism in which the government in the big because this cooperate and i think it is very dangerous. i regard the

i've talked about how democrats love to worry.it is such an important issue. many democrats see it as an existential issue for our democracy. not just for the party. that said, you know, i'm not ready to write it off. write off the possibility that something actually gets through somehow. hard to imagine exactly how that happens. it is maybe how it starts. senator schumer along with senator warnock, senator manchin, i think senator king and one other. they're already trying to craft a voting rights, a federal voting rights bill that is broadly acceptable to the entire democratic caucus in the senate. now, the question is, even if you get all the democrats on board, how do you get over the filibuster? and it may come down to crunch time. it may come down to bringing that legislation up and getting it to the floor and then seeing, finally in the end, what joe manchin and kyrsten sinema are willing to do with an existential piece of legislation that they support and that they helped craft. and so we may get to that point. we may see.

if democrats are able to get this done, it gives them a message.ahil, it seems to be the democratic party doesn't seem united on what the message is. look at gavin newsom and terry mcauliffe. they're running on the 2020 message of not trump or beware of trumpism or let's fight trumpism or whatever version. it sounds like maloney is saying, look, that certainly you can do some of that, but you need another message. is this part of the problem that there's a disagreement and how much to sort of bank on the trump messaging as being their get out of this box free card? >> well, of course, chuck, we have to keep in mind that gavin newsom is running in deep blue california. virginia is also a blue trending state. those candidates are really looking at different electorates than the marginal democrat in the house who has to win in probably a suburban district, you know, upscale, affluent and a lot who flip to democrat. that is the marginal seat at the house at this point and that includes turning on their base and the voters that were held by donald trump

as democrats defund, demean, and disparage pulleys. let us acknowledge the men and women in law enforcement for the heroes they are. we appreciate their sacrifices. republicans back the blue. [applause] nowhere is democrat extremism evident than when it comes to our most fundamental right of all. the right to life. not long ago, democrats believed it should be safe, legal, and rare. now they support abortion on demand up to the point of birth. whether it is on abortion, back in the supreme court, if federal takeover of our elections or ending the filibuster, joe biden is in lock step with the radical left. this only motivates me more. i am confident as ever in our future. confident because of the leaders in our country. i get to see it. we are showing americans what strong conservative leadership looks like and there is no clear contrast than the way republican governors have led to this pandemic versus how democrat governors have failed to this pandemic. trust me. i now. i am from the people's republic of michigan paired they took awa

lost all of his support amongst new york democrats and jonathan, amongst the federal democrats as well. new york state legislation to congressional and senate level calling for resignation. even the president calling for his resignation. where does cuomo go for support if anywhere? >> aren't many play places to go. he's a man on an island, ali. allegations first emerged, there were democrats who called on him to resign, senator schumer, majority leader and new yorker suggested he resign. but not unanimous. there were holdouts with the power players and unions who supported him a long time. had his back and gave him hope to survive this. in recent months seemed like there was shot he could have. poll numbers crept up. did a lot of constituent services and touted his handling of the pandemic, worked with african-american communities and church leaders. seemed like he might stabilize himself and run for a fourth term next year. in the wake of the attorney general's investigation, there's no support left. support has abandoned him and death blow may have been this week. i was in the white

and we have a democratic governor. it is almost inevitable that that map will be made up by the governor and lawsuits will start happening. the census data came out thursday and with them, less than 24 hours, we have a lawsuit filed trying to get the courts to go ahead and draw maps because there is so little confidence in a map not going to the courts. host: let's let some of our viewers join this conversation. let's start with randy calling from madison, wisconsin on the democratic line. randy, good morning. caller: good morning. i want to guess to comment on the fact that how upside down wisconsin is. i believe the partisan numbers are 60% of wisconsin once a democratic government, yet we only received 40% of the representative of the state. 40% of the republicans yet 60% of representatives were totally upside down. republican -- republicans in the legislature have been messing with the governor along with making people vote during a pandemic, messing with the election in every way possible. host: go ahead and respo

vivian in tennessee, democratic caller. caller: good morning. i was calling about the democrats. they have control of the house and the senate. they need to get together and pass these bills. quit arguing among each other. the republicans are sticking together. republicans are voting against everything helping the american people. i don't understand. they have constituents in states that are poor. and then with afghanistan, it is time to come out. look at the money and the lives lost over there. that money they use over there, america could be using that money now, older people on social security, childcare, student loans it all that money could have been used here in america. just like they said, make the rich pay their fair share of taxes. i am sick and tired of republicans saying they are going to raise your taxes, the ordinary people. no, america, it is the big companies that need to pay their share. and then the crime going on here, people killing america -- killing each other everyday. we don't hear anyone saying anything about it. people dying every day up in memphis. the

his idea was to put democrats on the record on the issue. that effort backfired after democratic senator cory booker responded by celebrating the amendment. this is how it played out. >> i call on my colleagues to support our law enforcement by voting yes for this amendment, opposing my amendment is a vote in support of defunding the police and against the men and women in blue. >> the gentleman's time has expired. >> madame president. >> senator from new jersey. >> i am so excited. this is perhaps the highlight of this long and painful and torcherous night. this is a gift. if it wasn't complete abdication of senate procedures and esteem, i would walk over there and hug my colleague from alabama. and i will tell you right now, thank god because there's some people who have said that members of this deliberative body want to defund the police to my horror. now this senate has given us the gift that finally once and for all we can put to bed this accusation, somebody, in this great esteemed body would want to defund the police. so let's all of

house democrats announced they plan to cut short their summer recess, come back to washington by the 23rd of august to take up the infrastructure bill, and eventually the budget bill. as we mentioned earlier there is also major political news out of the state of new york where governor andrew cuomo announced his resignation today, but in a very cuomo move, he's not leaving right away. he's given himself two more weeks in office. his goal of beating his father's record of three terms ending early amid nearly a dozen accusations of sexual harassment. the governor's resignation came a week after this report detailing those allegations released by new york's attorney general, and a state law makers were in the process of starting impeachment hearings. right now, it's unclear whether impeachment will continue, today the governor again denied any wrongdoing. rnor again>> the report said i y harassed 11 women. that was the headline people heard and saw and reacted to. the reaction was outraged, it should've been, however, it was also false. now, don't get me wrong, this is not to say that t

i said -- florida democrats, of course, talking about the texas democrats. john heilemann, i want to bring you in to this, and i worked for a president whose vacations became sort of a flashing yellow light politically for us. because of the nature of the things happening in this country, clearing brush was always something that he took a lot of criticism for. fairly or unfairly. this seems like a moment where the same kind of criticism about vacations, and i've defended the ideas that politicians are always working. i believe them to be true, but the optics is what we're talking ak obviously. you have texas democrats standing up for 15 hours without leaning on a desk for a battle they know they're going to lose. where is the parallel? even if it's a battle they know they're going to lose where is anyone, as i said at the top, coloring outside the lines in washington for this fight? >> hi, nicolle. >> hi. >> they're nowhere, is where they are. and the story here is, we can't reduce it. david praised you for con attacks forwarde in strikes, context. at this m

up next, democratic governors in trouble.drew cuomo facing calls for impeachment and california's gavin newsom facing a >>> the independent investigation has concluded. that governor andrew cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law. >> i welcome the opportunity for a full and fair review before a judge and a jury. because this just did not happen. brett: new york democratic governor andrew cuomo in a fight for his political future after a bombshell report released by the state attorney general. we're back a with the panel. marie, president biden has called for him to step down. cuomo to resign. there are increasing lists of democrats who are doing the same thing. yet he seems defiant in this time. >> this is certainly his political mo that we've seen throughout the governor's career but you're right, president biden every single democrat in new york and the question now is whether he wants to put himself and his family and his party through what will be a months-long, very, very emb

the democrat -- my democratic colleagues and i believe that governor abbott is exceeding his authoritye we're breaking. none of us are breaking any law. there is no reason for him to threaten us with being able to be corralled when we come back into texas to be hauled into the house chambers to force us to reform. we believe this is another violation of our constitutional rights and the governor exceeded his authority just as he did when he defunded article 10 effectively eliminating the legislative budget so we believe that the court is the only relief that we have to check to make sure that the governor is not exceeding his authority, which we believe that we're going to be vindicated when the court makes that ruling? >> representative martinez-fisher. can you talk to me about the plan as the new special session kicks off. what are you planning to do? >> sure, great question, alicia. first and foremost the new session was off to a start the second suppression session, there was no quorum. only 82 members of the house present. there were even a couple who probably were voted for that

every democrat voted for both the bipartisan bill and the resolution, the budget resolution, every democrat and the first bill, the bipartisan bill, was a long overdue step to revitalize america's infrastructure and give our workers, our businesses, our economies the tools to succeed in the 21st century. the bipartisan infrastructure bill will put america on track to lead the 21st century in both productivity and job creation for decades to come. while the bipartisan infrastructure bill is a very significant bill, my entire caucus agrees there's much more that needs to be done. so on the second track, we passed a robust budget resolution that will grow the middle class in the 21st century and give more americans a chance to get into the middle class, keep those in the middle class and assure them they're going to stay there, they're worried about it, help those to climb the ladder to get to the middle class to get there more easily. that's our mission. that's our goal and frankly, that is my passion. that is what motivates me in working as hard as i can to get this going forward. the democr

democratic congressman of colorado. tonight that is tonight's last word, the 11th hour with brian williams begins right now. e 11th hour with brian williams begins right now. good evening once again, they 202 of the biden administration. it's good to be back. let's see where we. oh yes. it seems the news has gotten worse. the nation is now fully in the grip of an escalating health crisis brought on by this relentless new delta variant. tonight, the u.s. reached a new milestone in this pandemic, over 36 million cases. we are now overawing over 100,000 new cases a day. if that number sounds familiar, it's because that's the rate we were seeing last winter. just over six weeks ago at the beginning of last month, the pandemic appeared to be in the rearview mirror for much of our country. now, tonight, every state is experiencing an increase in infections. situation is expression we grave especially acute in the sun belt. florida recorded over 28,000 new cases on sunday alone. officials in austin texas were brutally honest a

there is a very slim majority with democrats.immest majority in the house with pelosi, and they have tried to push through a lot of far left wing ideas and also in the senate 50-50 taking advantage of that. when it comes to what the issues are, inflation, obviously is a big one. crime is up, when you have 42% of people saying that they don't think that democrats can be trusted on the economy, that's a big problem for democrats given these factors, and when you're talking about people's livelihoods and crime and democrats not being trusted with that at all and defunding the police and having to crawl back from going in on the deep end with activists, activists were totally in on defunding the police, so yes, they have got to work on it. >> within the democratic party, even because they are so liberal, people have a false impression, i think, within, for instance, in the hispanic community. as in the african-american community, there is a lot of conservatism. a lot of conservative people within these liberal groups. one issue which