but, not eugene. eugene actually gave up her american citizenship.ugene wasn't an american citizen but had no documents. but, that doesn't bother him and by 1939, he's still running his club and the french, what's called -- it's the second bureau agency, which is french intelligence and counterintelligence they approach him and say you are running a great club there's about 17,000 germans living in paris and they were probably all nazi spies. but the club caters to anyone and a representative of the french police asked him would he get in good with the germans as he understands and speaks german he puts it together with the french intelligence agency and they pair offense this club. she behaves seductively and pretend she doesn't understand, and he can do the same thing. and as i said, he is a member of the resistance, working for the french secret service, which ironically gets him shot again, but this time by a french course akin gangster who thought that the man was a collaborator with the germans already and shoots him. he is too hard to kill, be

announcer: the chair -- eugene: good morning. i'm eugene daniels, coauthor for politico playbook. i'm joined by fellow author rachel dade. thank you for waking up with this morning. house republicans picked up a number of seats and defeated several democratic freshmen. then the january 6 insurrection happened, setting off an internal war within the gop. this morning we're joined by tom tom emmer of minnesota, the chairman of the republican national committee and the birthday boy. happy birthday, congressman. rachael: yes. happy birthday. thank you for being here. we'll dig into exactly how you guys picked up so many seats last election cycle, 2022 and former president trump's continued role in the party. for those tuning in to the live stream follow the conversation on twitter and ask us questions by tweeting us at politico live. last week, we put the chair on the spot and said how many seats are you going to keep or lose? his prediction was they would keep the house. your response to that? rep. emmer: we will win the majority. rachael: any prediction on number? rep. emmer: we nee

that today is where the statute of eugene bullard stands.ert: what a great thing to put your statuary account. that is the thing about interservice rivalry. [laughs] prof. morrow: the other thing i should mention is all these gentlemen are white. [laughs] nobody wanted him then and now everybody wants him. robert: everybody wants him. times have changed for the better, john. prof. morrow: yeah. robert: we have a pile of questions. let's try to do them as quick hit. some of the questions were comments complement inc. you -- complementing you. people are quite taken by the epic. prof. morrow: i appreciate that. robert: from ron silver, i hoped to bring a group of students to paris next year. is there a particular place that is best for telling the story of eugene bullard? prof. morrow: i have spent a lot of time in hometown. i like to look out over paris and just relax. ironically, there is a statue on eugene bullard in dayton, ohio as well as the national air and space museum in washington. yes, montmarte would be the logical place because, i

but by that time, eugenics was in the air everywhere. most americans believe in eugenics. it was a question of what's that exactly meant. now, for sanger, what this meant was a kind of feminist eugenics. if you had birth control, and if all women it was cheap, it was available, we would have better babies. mothers could space their children and by the way, sanger was a great believer in spacing children and not having them to close together. mothers could pay more attention through their children. that was her version of eugenics at the beginning. perhaps some of you remember that 1927 supreme court case, buckley bell? raise your hand. i'm too attuned to the classroom, always asking people to raise their hands. but but vail involved a young woman from the virginia feebleminded and feebleminded is a word that this generation used often and applied to all kinds of different kinds of differences that americans might have hand in any case, the case -- virginia bill wasn't voluntarily sterilized and the case got to the supreme court and the supreme court ruled eight to one that

at the age of 10, eugene had run away from home, maybe more than once. at the age of 12 he stows away aboard a merchant freighter. i have to ask, john, how does this come about? at the age of 10, i was watching "the flintstones." eugene obviously had some vision of himself as outside of the sort of standard, you know, barn door, back door mode that you just outlined. how does that come about? talk to us. >> i think gene bullard strikes me, from a very early age, he seems to have had a very pleasant personality, got along well with people. but he also had a fiery temper, flash, especially with racial issues, as he got older. and his father, his immediate boss just kept bothering him. one day he had it him in the head with a bailing hook and scarred him. it didn't put the big man down, it just made him angry. he picked the foreman up and threw him three floors down the grain elevator. they thought he was dead. it probably broke every bone in his body. when his father came home that night he said there are going to be problems. he basically closed the door.

i mean, talk about tone deaf, eugene. while americans are trying to put food on the table, we've got a socialist democrat majority in the house who is literally trying to move something they call election reform that is going to take public funds to support their campaigns. and that's -- that's not the kind of reform we need going forward. >> something that we heard up until the georgia runoffs, that both republicans lost, which was actually pretty surprising, i think, for most of us. republicans are probably concerned that pushing kind of exactly what you just talked about, these allegations of mass voter fraud, it suppressed voter turnout in georgia. and republicans are worried it could happen again. for the help of the republican party and for the help of you guys, shouldn't president trump and the people pushing the quote/unquote big lie stop repeating it. it is depressing turnout, it seems. >> i trust our state legislatures to do the right thing, you yeen. i trust our state-based system to rebuild the confidence that

but eugene, here's the thing.s governor who has proven he can't keep the lights on in texas, was this just the most texas thing he could do by saying no masks, no problem? >> i think it was. i mean, look, he was not -- he was not doing that well politically given the disaster with the cold weather and the blackouts and the water problems. and so he just comes out and says let's have a big old texas party, you know? covid is over, he declares. when in fact covid is not over. the doctors say this better than i do, but we are at a great and promising point where vaccines are out, people are getting vaccinated. the number of cases and deaths and hospitalizations are all down. we're going in the right direction, and the last thing we need is to do things that would cause that decline to pause. still at a very high level of cases or turn around if that's what greg abbot has done. and it's stupid and inexcusable. >> stuart stevens, because i follow you on twitter i saw the photo you posted this week of apparently you as

and eugene robinson, pulitzer prizewinning columnist just to keep things fair over at "the washington post." good evening and welcome to you all. peter, because you have the most ears on the job covering the white house, you get to go first. and a question about where you rank this accomplishment today, this massive bill that's been passed with just democratic votes? and do we have it about right saying this is in a way a redrawing of the modern social safety net? >> well, obviously it's a big deal for president biden to come out of the gate and get what he needs to get through, what he promised to get through in the early weeks. remember there's a deadline of march 14th when expanded unemployment benefits was set to expire. he needed to get it done by then. he has the narrowest of margins in congress and yet still pushed it through. he didn't do it with any bipartisan votes which is something he hoped to do. and you're right this really three bills in one. one is to provide help in the pandemic and the other is to pump more energy into the economy. pouring $1.9 trillion into the econ

remaining with us eugene robinson, bill kristol.l, right off the top here i'm going to remind you and our audience what your good friend -- i'm kidding -- mitch mcconnell said yesterday and we'll discuss on the other side. >> no one serving on this chamber can even begin -- can even begin to imagine what a completely scorched earth senate would look like. this chaos would not open up an express lane to liberal change. it would not open up an express lane for the biden presidency to speed into the history books. the senate would be more like 100 car pileup. >> so bill, i'm not sure how much more scorched earthy it could ever get than under mitch mcconnell, but he's trying to argue be careful what you wish for. you had fascinating thoughts on this today and i'd like you to share them with our audience. >> i was just struck. mcconnell usually likes to keep his cards close and low-key, let his actions speak for themselves and he can be pretty effective. i think he's worried. he wouldn't have used that rhetoric if he weren't really worri

eugene robinson and bill kristol remain with us.ugene i was reading "new york times" story on local tinkering in georgia, changing local election boards that used to be bipartisan, giving them quiet republican control. just one degree off the last time we talked about this, are the democrats nationally and at state level up for this fight? >> i think they have to be, this is at existential, elemental question for our democracy, and has to be for the democratic party because the republican party is essentially trying to make it impossible for democrats to win, to compete, not to win but compete on a level playing field in crucial swing states especially, but in states across the country. and it is an outrage, what's going on. mitch mcconnell just told a flat-out, bald-faced lie when he said it's not voter suppression, that's the whole point, to make it easier for republicans to win by keeping democrats away from the polls. this has to be as close to a litmus test for democrats in terms of how they proceed in the senate as anything i

and eugene davis back with us. white house correspondent for politico and co-author of "the politico playbook." good evening and welcome to you all. mr. lemire, since proximity has privileges, since you were indeed in the room when it happened, and since you get at the associated press especially to write the first draft of history, talk about his approach tonight and his physicality, leaning forward, changing the volume, tone, tenor of his voice and delivery. did it meet the moment in more than just the room where you witnessed it? >> brian, the president's goal tonight was to do two things -- to blend a mix of remembrance and mourning those who have been lost in this year and acknowledge how american society has changed and norms of day-to-day life completely rewritten. and i will say there's no american politician who speaks better on the topic of grief than joe biden because of sadly his own personal experience with that subject. but he wanted to mix that with a note of hope dlifrks good news in terms of timeta

eugene daniels is her.tion and security policy at the department of homeland security and now the codirector of the republican accountability project. robert gibbs, i have to start with you and the one thing that isn't like all the others. the current president has a 60% approval rating. i'm old enough to remember when that was next to impossible. >> so am i. and i spent several years in the white house. no, look, i think the current president, joe biden's off to a terrific start. it will only get stronger tomorrow with the passage of covid relief. that is not going to stop, as you said, the kind of heat and light on the republican party's end being on the trump end of the political spectrum. and i think, you know, it has been remarkable to watch. as you said, it's been a bad week for governing wing. it's been a bad few weeks for the establishment wing of the republican party. and i think there's no doubt that regardless of the position that trump holds now, which is nothing in the structural sense in the r

. >> i'm joined by eugene daniels, author of the political playbook, and jelani cobb, a staff writer.h are msnbc contributors. eugene, mayorkas was out in full force. >> why the challenge at the border is as difficult as it is now, even though we're tackling it and will tackle it successfully, is because the entire system was dismantled by the trump administration and we're in the midst of a pandemic. so it makes the challenge more difficult, but we know how to meet that challenge. the personnel of the department of homeland security will and are meeting that challenge. and we will execute this successfully. >> eugene, a little later in the show, we're going to talk about the humanitarian challenges happening at the border, the real cost there, but i want to ask you about what is happening in washington as a lens through which to understand what's going to happen to these people at the border. your sense of what the administration believes it is up against. >> they have constantly said that, you know, telling people not to come to try to cross the border. they said that before they we

eugene daniels, white house correspondent for "politico." nbc's vaughn hillyard, gentlemen, thanks very much. >>> coming up. the fight -- a fight against time in the suez canal. a jammed cargo ship is delaying $400 million of goods per hour. have they made any headway? we will have an update from cairo. >>> and later, the britney spears' conservatorship fight is exposing some big issues with cases like hers. now, california lawmakers say they are ready to take action. we'll explain why conservatorship may be ripe for reform. but first, richard lui is here with the headlines. >> hey, joshua. good evening to you. >>> police in los angeles have cleared out a large, homeless camp in the neighborhood of echo park. reportedly arresting residents who refuse to leave and at one point, nearly 200 people lived in the public park. officials saying the park will be closed for repairs. >>> dozens were reportedly called in myanmar on the deadliest day there since last month's military takeover of the country. international condemnation resulted. multiple

we're back with eugene robinson and sam stein.r paper, eugene. >> yeah, it is stunning, and it is ridiculous, and you know, how many times do we have to have this discussion? you know, this young assailant allegedly that day decided to -- on tuesday, went to a sporting goods store and bought himself a gun and then allegedly committed this rampage, killing eight innocent victims, and it's the most familiar story that we tell here because it happens again and again and again. it is so ridiculously and obscenely easy to obtain a gun with no effective background checks, no -- no effective barriers whatsoever, and that, you know, that has to change. how are we going to change it? maybe now with democrats holding power, we'll be able to focus and concentrate on this. tougher gun control laws are something, especially background checks, universal background checks. something the american public supports by, like, 80%, yet it doesn't get done and it's not just frustrating. it's beyond frustrating. it's just tragic. eight innocent lives. h

so maybe we will in this case see him testify. >> eugene, as we go back to your beat, let's talk about the reason why there is but one chair in the courtroom for a revolving member of the floyd family, and that is our current pandemic. the white house is surging vaccines to the american public. as we've said before, they're in a foot race with these new variants. they're in a foot race, contentious, with these states opening up. how frustrated are they at the moves being made to counter this effort? >> yeah, i mean, they're intensely frustrated, right? they are working obviously extremely hard. the american people are giving them high marks on the pandemic but also the actual relief plan that they just pushed through. and you saw the cdc director the other day kind of talk about how terrified she is, getting emotional talking about, you know, telling all of us to just hold on, right? we're kind of at the finish line here and all of us are frustrated, right? like, i hate being at my house still all the time not being able to leave, but what the health experts and the members of the admi

eugene, what shape is the bill in right now? >> well, it's passed the senate and this will be headed to the house. it was a -- there was some drama that we weren't really expecting. we weren't really expecting to see this long period of kind of waiting on saturday because joe manchin was kind of -- was playing kingmaker here a little bit. he was talking to both senate republicans and democrats on exactly what was going to be in the bill. it's passed, it will head to the house. something that i think is really interesting and going to be interesting to watch is that there's a lot of frustration within the house with how this worked out in the senate, that it was democrats that almost -- that felt like it might taint the bill at some point. a lot of that anger pointed at joe manchin himself. that frustration is going to continue and it's going to test chuck schumer and president biden's ability to keep this democratic caucus together and how that happens with a lot tougher bills, this is a bill that is probably the easiest one out

the pandemic relief, as eugene said, these are issues still affecting american people. was a bit of more urgency there whereas these nextgislati about his priorities, his legislative priorities. >> 100% i want to pick up on that with you, eugene. the president is expected to unveil the second phase of his economic agenda. expected to address a number of issues. infrastructure, education, but the cost, it could be anywhere from $3 to $4 trillion. according to "the new york times," the plan is to raise taxes on the rich, help pay for all of this plan. so, how do you think they plan on selling this? and is it likely to pass the same way that the covid-19 relief bill passed? >> well, i think first they're trying to split up this idea of infrastructure. something that we're seeing with this white house is that no bill, no plan is just about one thing. the infrastructure bill is also about an economic and jobs plan. it's not just about roads and bridges and hasn't been, right? they're framing it in that way. on wednesday we'll hear more details from president biden on what he

today we have got proffitt investments ceo eugene prophet with us as will.d sliding in the final hour of trade, mike, particularly the tech stocks once again we haven't seen the dow hit fresh session lows but we have seen the tech-heavy nasdaq go to session lows what is driving that. >> heavy all day a giveback of yesterday's bounce in terms of the big tech bounce. there was commentary from facebook's ceo an hour and a half ago suggesting that in a reopened economy with a vaccine that maybe some of their growth might be diminished just because they were beneficiaries. now that's not a remarkable statement except in a market that's harvesting all of the 2020 winners fang and social media stocks, tesla, if you look at the spacs and the ipos, the market showing maybe they have had their fill of some of those plays for the short-term. >> bonds have been at the center of the action. today scott minerd joined the exchange and discussed his outlook for rates. listen. >> the models tell us we are going to have a ten-year yield that's negative. the mean expectation i

>> well, it's interesting, as eugene and a.b.where it's really animated the republican base but you also saw in this last presidential primary the way that it animated the democratic base as well. that's why we have those clips that you played ahead of this where biden was at these forums, moms demand action, mike bloomberg put a lot of money into these forums and really elevated the issue among democratic primary voters to press candidates on these things. so, i also think it's kind of polarized, you know, both sides are sort of heading in different directions. so, i do think that biden now does have a struggle and eugene was alluding to the filibuster, which makes it even harder to imagine, but you also have to get all the democrats, even if you got rid of the filibuster, and joe manchin right now is not even on board with the house legislation that was passed, much less something much more ambitious that biden wants to do on an assault weapons ban or gun buyback programs, other things that he ran on that are politically imprac

today we've got eugene profitt here as well we'll kick it off with the broader market we are making newing interest rates hitting big tech the nasdaq on pace to snap a three-day win streak here's the low for the dow on the day, 182 technology weighing us down. financials the only sector in the green. the nasdaq is now down more than 400 points or 3%, mike interest yields are higher but off the session highs. we got higher than 1.75. it's just a real loss of momentum into the close. >> they applied enough pressure and the huge cap stocks did create a weight all day. the other thing is, and this has been an issue for a while, whether there can be this seamless rotation indefinitely you had industrials, home builders, energy, banks, all up 7% to 10% month to date coming into today so it's a matter of how much more can those groups give you we're still above the lows of a couple of weeks ago in the nasdaq and nasdaq 100, so it's trying to absorb this rise in yields ultimately if it becomes a flight away from risk in general, it is going to hilt the broader market and maybe cause some dip bu

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have a very hard time keeping the presidency, which may then go to strange conspiracy theorists. >> eugenecause birthdays make us take stock, however much we don't like them when they come around, take stock of this past year of the pandemic. we marked a year of it this week, lost year of the coronavirus pandemic, but this is the week we also learned help was on the way. help us put it in perspective. >> this is a -- this is the first moment i think when we can really have some optimism, when we can really not just know intellectually that yes, we'll get to the other side of this, but we can almost see it, we can see the vaccination rates picking up, and numbers of vaccinations, there have been -- we passed 100 million shots in arms, some double, some people twice vaccinated, but 100 million, that's a marker. we -- cases are still low, not low enough, but we want them lower. we have the relief plan, package, going to start immediately producing effects and results, and so we can look ahead to the fourth of july, we can look ahead to a fall that's not completely normal but that's much close

susan, garrett, again, welcome to eugene daniels. have a good weekend if it's at all possible. >>> coming up, ever since the night the lights went out in texas after that winter storm, it's been an embarrassing time for the governor there. he got back on brand this week, telling his state, no masks, no problem. but it's a big problem for the mayor of austin, who is standing by to talk with us. >>> and later, the great divide within the party formerly known as republican. as the former president pipes up again. "the 11th hour" is just getting under way on this friday evening. (announcer) do you want to reduce stress? shed pounds? do you want to flatten your stomach? do all that and more in just 10 minutes a day with aerotrainer, the total body fitness solution that uses its revolutionary ergonomic design to help you to maintain comfortable, correct form. that means better results in less time. you can do an uncomfortable, old-fashioned crunch or an aerotrainer super crunch. turn regular planks into turbo planks without getting down on

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celebrated historian michael beschloss, "presidents of war" and eugene sullivan, pulitzer prize winner at "washington post," and most importantly kindly agreed to spend waning moments of his birthday evening with two of his closest friends and in extension our viewing audience tonight. welcome to you both. michael, the president quoted fdr today. this has been called a rooseveltian achievement, johnsonian achievement. what do you call it? >> i call it both, and before i do, happy birthday, gene, thanks for being with us, tonight. >> thank you. >> it's not roosevelt's or johnson's birthday but it is gene's. i think you have to look at what happened this week and say this is a moment we'll be reading about and learning about for a long time and so will our grandchildren. because here's a moment where joe biden has to deal with crises and challenges of a kind almost no other president has had to deal with. a pandemic killing more than half a million people. an economic problem that's caused people to starve and be without their jobs, all at the same time as terrible racial division, only

eugene mcgrain, lowell alum na and real estate developer and so great for all three have you to take time to share with us today. julie,ly start with you. how has the the the scapegoating asian students. >> it wasn't just the tweets but at every school board they have shut down parents and a group that is supposed to list on it their constituencies they have shut down certain parents. as you know, the asian school district is over a that becomes really problematic. now we've seen the effects of this. >> i know those of a rally today felt that the tweets were the latest. i aassume hearings were over admission policies. >> it would be the renaming of schools. it would be taking away the washington high school murals and that requires public input. that is the role of a body not just to rule in a vacuum. so parents really feel shutout, especially when their children have to study at a distance now and they don't even know what's going on and they don't even know if there will be a school open. the school board isn't focusing on education for all students >> i know that's something all t

and eugene, the insurrection happened a couple of months ago.officers, chanting hang mike pence. what is going on with senator johnson? >> he's a trump man through and through, right? he can't say anything that goes against our former president, donald trump. i think what is interesting, you just talked about this. you were at a lot of those rallies, and they were always violent. there was always this sense of violence. when you're not the media, when you're not a person of color or a protester at those rallies, you're not someone who would be scared. ron johnson may not have been scared when he was there, when mike pence had to be ushered out, because they wanted to hang him. or when they were creepily yelling for nancy pelosi. he may not have been scared of that. but the vast majority of people were, because we saw exactly what happened. an officer died, other people died that day. so it is this kind of disconnection from reality which he's trying to push, this idea that had it been black and brown people, it would have been the same thing. an

joining me now is nbc news capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell and eugene daniels. eugene, when we're looking at this bill and the progress it has made, first off, is there any chance it doesn't pass? and if it does pass, how quickly are people going to get those stimulus relief checks? how quickly is that money going to go out? >> i wish we were all getting $1.9 trillion checks in the mail. >> if you say it, it will happen. >> think it into existence, exactly. there is a lot of anger with joe manchin. he's the reason there was that drama and the waiting game and that's happening in the house. we had one congresswoman say that she was disgusted and wasn't sure anymore if she would be able to pass the bill. however, like bernie sanders said, progressives know this isn't a huge pill to swallow. there's nothing in here for them to fight against so hard that the bill doesn't pass. leadership in congress and the white house seem very sure that it's going to pass, they're very bullish about that happening and they wouldn't do that if they didn't think they had these folks

. >> joining me now, gabby orr, white house reporter with politico and eugene daniels, co-author of ". does the speaker have a point? will republicans be allowed to have it both ways? >> it's a great question, and i think the fact that we've seen somewhat minimal pushback to this bill so far among republicans in congress indicates that they are reluctant to go after something that is so broadly popular among the american people. there was a poll released yesterday by cbs that showed that 71% of americans believe that this stimulus package will indeed help the american middle class. how can you message against that if you're a vulnerable republican heading into a midterm cycle? and i think there's also the georgia factor here. a lot of republicans think that they lost both senate races in georgia because they didn't give aid to americans when they needed it most and that they were critical of efforts to do so. and so they're somewhat biting their tongues this time around and it is going to be difficult for them to campaign against this when they go back to their districts. >> i finding

. >> joining us with the latest nbc news correspondent morgan chesky from dallas and eugene daniels, correspondent for politico, co-author of politico's "playbook" and most importantly, brand-new msnbc contributor. welcome. i turn to you first. you're at the dallas convention center, one of theites where unaccompanied minors are going to be moved. tell us what's going on down on the ground. >> steph, good morning, i can tell you preparations are under way to house up to 3,000 migrant teenagers here inside the dallas convention center. we know red cross workers and volunteers have been seen going in and out of the building. there's no official word on those teens' arrival. when we did ask hhs, we were told they would arrive around or wednesday of this week and have yet to see the first buses pull up. we're told it could be the first 300 of 1,000 that could stay here up to 90 days. we've asked hhs repeatedly to take a look inside to see the conditions they will be kept in, and those requests have not been granted but i spoke to an immigration attorney who said it was like what you woul

. >> and joining us now, reporter for the "washington post," eugene scott. eugene, good morning. it's great to see you. >> good morning. >> a little bit of a difficult start to this friday, quite frankly, listing through all of those stories about the rhetoric and where we've come. why the lack of acknowledgement from republicans of the difficulties that are clearly facing the asian american community? i mean, our reporting, the motive in georgia is clearly under investigation, but there is no question that asian americans across the country are feeling on edge, are feeling worried, are feeling scared because of what's happened. >> well, the reality is that's where the republican party is right now in terms of not being willing to alter their language or their rhetoric or their ideas when it comes to issues affecting other communities negatively, despite members of these communities, often in their own districts, saying that your words actually do hurt us and actually do cause harm. this is something that started before the trump era, but this is something that we certainly have

. >> well eugene, i have to admit.e, when i look at some of the things that are supposedly in this infrastructure package. like, free community college is not roads, tunnels, bridges, airports, seaports. that feels like the kind of thing that is a bit more of a stretch. especially, since infrastructure is, kind of, the joke in washington for bipartisanship, writ large. like, what can we do together? bridges? like, what's that we say when we don't know what we can do together. >> right. you're -- you're -- you're, 100%, right. it was kind of a joke during the trump administration, right? that infrastructure week was coming and it never actually came. and so, here we are. you know, not even 100 days into the biden administration and they are attempting to do this. and the thing that, you know, we -- we saw it happen with the covid relief bill. is that when they say bipartisan, they don't always mean republicans in congress, right? they are talking about whether or not something they want to do is popular, within the -- t

eugene, so great to see you this morning. i want to get to covid relief in a second, but first, i really think we need to start with the potential for violence on the hill today. we have these warnings. the house has left town, partly, at least, because of this. experts are saying that the chatter is not necessarily the same way that it was heading into january 6th, that they don't have the same level of alarm that they should have had on the sixth, that that doesn't necessarily apply to what's going to happen today. but still alarming. what's your expectation of what may unfold today and how worried are lawmakers about this? >> yeah, i mean, i think after january 6th, everyone is on edge, right? and that's exactly why you're hearing from lawmakers that they didn't want to be at work today if they didn't have to be. march 4th is, for those that aren't history nerds like a lot of us, is when presidents used to be inaugurated before 1933. and so, that, for people who believe in a qanon conspiracy theory, that former president t

. >> the chatter, eugene, about another possible capitol attack tomorrow is because of this qanon conspiracyanged idea that trump will actually be sworn in as president again tomorrow. it's crazy, but people believe this. even after fbi director wray said yesterday there was no widespread voter fraud in the election that the fbi or department of justice knew of. mike pence is out with a new op-ed in the conservative w website the daily signal where he writes, falsely, after an election marked by significant voting irregularities and numerous share with millions of americans about the integrity of the 2020 election. what's going on here? what's the political calculation that he's now siding with the people who were trying to hang him? >> yeah. i think he wants to stay relevant in the republican party. you have to agree with former president trump to do so. what he's missing when he says he agrees with those millions of people, the millions of people believe that because then president trump stood in front of cameras early, early in the morning on election night and said there was voter fraud.

they also have the signs of eugenics behind them. it is very mainstream at the time. this was before the holocaust. and people are literally ranking in assessing different ethnicities and saying you are italian, you are of the italian race, they would use that word in this context. you are more prone to criminality. we studied who is in our mental institutions, and people from these countries tend to be, here and other people are not here. so they are studying these ethnicities like a science, they are looking at genetics and eugenics. so they passed this law because they say first of all these people are changing our democracy to quickly. and look, there is the signs that says that these ethnicities are less desirable than others. we are not being racist. we are looking at the science. we studied the data and this is what we have determined about different ethnicities. so they basically passed a law that says, we don't want people from eastern europe anymore. we don't want people from asia. they can't assimilate. and we need to get back to what our country was from t

in his column tonight, eugene robinson of "the washington post" writes, remember that chauvin is the man on trial, not floyd. the only reason police approached floyd in the first place was that they suspected him of a minor, non-violent offense. remember floyd's desperate pleas that they're going to kill me as he's dying. remember, that the u.s. criminal justice system is on trial as well. and remember that quite literally the whole world is watching. back with us tonight, jason johnson. campaign veteran, professor of politics and journalism at morgan state university, and contributor to the bulwark, tim miller. good evening to you both. proof of why our friend eugene has the pulitzer prize, i want to also play for you some comments from ben crump. we'll discuss on the other side. >> we all know, we can never take for granted that a police officer will be held accountable for killing a black person unjustifiably. even though we think the video is very compelling, that we understand that this is a referendum on can black people get equal justice in america. >> professor, i'm going to

that was a thought by army senior leaders. >> so eugene, there was a concern about optics.e flynn's brother. mike flynn pardoned by donald trump before he left office and held an event, like a rehearsal dinner, if you will, for the insurrectionists the night before where he was advocating and inciting the violence that took place the next day with very much the same calls for fighting that rudy giuliani and donald trump used at the eclipse on the day of the insurrection. optics were of concern when the insurrectionists were trump supporters waving trump flags but optics were never a concern for the pentagon over the summer. explain. >> absolutely not. when you look at the difference between how protesters, peaceful protesters were treated in the summer, you know, when they were protesting against racism in this country and there were smoke pellets thrown at them, shot with rubber bullets so that then president trump could go take a picture in front of a church with a bible in his hand, that is the complete opposite of what we saw. the idea is the benefit of the doubt would

eugene daniels, thanks so much.njoy the week. >> thank you. >>> so "the wall street journal" is reporting a third former staffer to new york governor andrew cuomo has come forward with accusations of inappropriate conduct. according to the journal, ana liss says the new york democrat made unwanted advances toward her. she says she never filed a complaint but later asked for a tr fe transfer to another office. a photo shows cuomo's hand around her waist. in response to the claims, senior advisor to cuomo issued this statement, reporters and photographers have covered the governor for 14 years watching him kiss men and women posing for pictures. at public open house mansion reception there are hundreds of people and he poses for hundreds of pictures. that's what people in politics do. now, remember, there are two other women that have accused cuomo of sexual harassment earlier this month. the governor apologized for making people uncomfortable and denied touching people inappropriately. >>> police in colorado are call

eugene, good morning it is always great to see you here on "way too early." why don't we start with these cabinet nominees. there is a lot going on with neera tanden including someone who had been close to hillary clinton, close to ron klain, but she had been very critical of some progressives like bernie sanders on twitter and of course of republicans. what is next for her and does the fact that they had to pull this actually in a way give breathing room to any other nominees that might be facing challenges? >> it certainly could. we know the reality is that neera tanden was a bit of a lightning rod for some on both the right and left. but what we know based on that statement from biden, that she will find a place in the administration. and when i spoke with her on my podcast, she made it clear that she had a lot of interest in seeing what the biden administration would do to restore the economy which has been devastated as you know for many different groups due to the coronavirus pandemic. and it is possible that she somehow could lend her expertise and her