that seems to me the bottom line. >> eddie glaude, glad you're here.f our coverage. >>> when e we come back, the newest front on the assault on democracy. republicans redrawing congressional maps to squeeze out democrats and people of color. to give themselves maximum partisan advantage. how bad it has become and what can be done about it is next. >>> plus, the biden white house is mocking the disgraced ex-president for pretending he's still the president. doesn't seem to understand when you're not the president, just a guy in florida, you don't have ambassadors, envoys and don't get to send fake ambassadors to foreign countries, because you're not in charge of anything. "deadline: white house" continues after a quick break. don't go anywhere. it's another day. and anything could happen. it could be the day you welcome 1,200 guests and all their devices. or it could be the day there's a cyberthreat. only comcast business' secure network solutions give you the power of sd-wan and advanced security integrated on our activecore platform so you can control

let's bring in the host of "way too early," jonathan lemire, eddie glaude jr. best selling author, katty kay. why don't we start with the last person we saw in that shot, katty kay, nancy pelosi who now was a guiding force in pushing through the affordable care act, guiding force pushing through covid-19 relief and the transportation bill and the build back better bill. you look at her resume of what she's been able to shepherd through the house. i heard this was never going to happen. let's start with nancy pelosi. she obviously ranks up there legislatively as one of the most successful speaker of all time, does she? >> yes, i remember after the affordable act, this was a really tough passage. we saw all of the divisions within the house democrats and those who didn't want to vote on this until the build back better bill was actually linked and didn't want to vote on the infrastructure bill until this bill were going to pass as well. it was not a pretty process but she got it. she got both the infrastructure bill and the build back better bill voted on. no one

eddie glaude, this whole braid of -- and katty is right.ray has been testifying to this in public, openly, since september of the last year of the trump presidency. it is one of the things that drove a wedge between the two men, and there were a lot of concerns among people close to christopher wray that donald trump would fire him because he refused to say that antifa was as grave of a threat as domestic violent extremism fueled by white supremacy. i wonder whether you think we're in greater danger now without -- trump sort of seemed to be like a single avatar for that permission structure. but now you've got the entire republican leadership. you've got kevin mccarthy saying, paul gosar can stay, liz cheney must go. you've now got the whole structure green lighting this extremism. >> right. i mean, i think the illiberal forces that have now been a matter of american political life are now in full view. i think they have overrun the republican party, and we always kind of exceptionalized donald trump. i'm always thinking about joan didion's

harry litman, leigh ann caldwell, eddie glaude, david jolly, katty kay, thank you for being part of what wasn't our plan, but the breaking coverage of the hour. "the beat with ari melber" starts right now. >> hi, nicolle. welcome to "the beat." we're tracking the breaking news nicolle just referenced. the new subpoenas for roger stone. neil koch al joins us on that. i'll bring you all that with legal expertise from neil and others. we begin with our top story. that's the vigilante justice and the hate on trial across america. conservative leaders have been celebrating the jury acquittal of the teenager who killed two. there's these other trials that are continuing regarding where the jury is deliberating -- who are accused and indicted for killing an unarmed jogger. these killers all white and the jogger, ahmaud arbery is black. these men chased him down and shot him to death on camera. they later claim what they were doing in their mind was a citizen's arrest. they claim that without evidence of them actually doing so at the time. that's something the prosecution has torn into noting th

. >> what if our president on something a different eddie glaude altogether was just uncertain? there was an open question about something and the state wanted to cabin or draw a line with respect to the the presiden? with the u.s. have the authority there? is a something that what you think is the clarity of the violation here that triggers your authority? >> if the state structured that hypothetical law in this same way then we would have the same concern that the state is effectively seeking to take the issue away from the courts. so you can imagine a circumstance where our right is more unsettled. imagine for example, in a pre-heller circumstance the right to handguns in hope. if d.c. had enacted a law that deputize numbers of the general public to seek these kinds of suits against that conduct even before the court had clarified the right i think the way to phrase the same concern that effectively the state is seeking to box the judiciary out of being the final arbiter of constitutional rights. now i will say i think a state is far less likely to engage in this mechanism wi

. >> david, good morning, this is eddie glaude.blatantly illiberal. and they're saying that, they wrote a book, liberalism is not a failure. others say no, no, we still need normal democratic elections and liberal institutions. so the effort of this conference is to marry those who say liberalism is done but to those who say i'm liberal but i'm against the left. so there's a debate about that. but it's striking to me how we were raised with the idea liberal democracy, that's our system. that's what won the cold war. that's what won world war ii and that's now a very much open question across the western world. >> david, we grew up believing in liberal democracy and as conservatives, we grew up believing in small government. the government that governs least governs best, et cetera, et cetera. but you're right, you now have illiberal forces claiming to be forces who once again want to use state power. it's laughable how governors like "dancing" and abbott declare themselves to be conservatives and yet they're telling businesses what