and everybody knows who this man is, eugene daniels, political playbook, coauthor. thank you both for coming to "the sunday show." so i want to put up on the screen this quote from hakeem jeffries, member of the house leadership, democrat from the great state of new york, where he says the extreme left is obsessed with talking trash about mainstream democrats on twitter when the majority of the electorate constitute mainstream democrats at the polls. adrian, you are -- you work with democrats. you're with the democratic party. does he have a point? >> well, i think the point that he was making, jonathan, is that elections are not fought and won on twitter. that is just not where the majority of voters spend their time. people like you and me spend a lot of time on twitter, but that's not where the majority of

shannon pettypiece and eugene daniels, forgive me, eugene daniels and i know you well, but i blanked. the women of afghanistan now fear the taliban takeover of that country, and already the women in taliban territories are living like prisoners in their own homes. kelly cobiella has the story. >> doctor. >> dentist. >> doctor. >> for them going to school is normal. you have many students. >> 2,402 students. >> reporter: and so is coping from the constant threat of men who don't want them to learn. they say you might die, but i keep the girls motivated to study, i tell them. under the taliban, the women and girls were banned from work and education, and shrouded and kept out of public life. but for 20 years now, they have lived out in the open, and many of them free to make their own choices. they have seen huge gains in education, equal rights, politics and simple things like shopping alone. all now at risk as the country could plunge back into the darkness of the taliban rule. politician and activist, she grew up under the taliban and envoy to the stalled peace talks and survived tw

eugene daniels, white house correspondent for politico, coauthor of each day's addition. political playbook. retired four star general gen. barry mccaffrey, decorated combat that veteran of vietnam. former cabinet member and member of the national security council. and dr. nahid bhadelia, an infectious disease physician and the founding director of boston university's center for emerging infectious diseases and policy research. good evening, welcome to you all. general, we'll begin with you with this urgent matter overseas. since you and i spoke at exactly this hour last night, the taliban has made incredible progress overland. i'm tempted to say that if paton's third army had moved this fast after d-day, idai would have come in two weeks, and europe. question to you is, what happens when they take kabul? and what, god forbid, happens if any americans are harmed? >> it could be a very tragic event for afghan people to start with. the consequences of summary execution, women and girls being forced into near slavery conditions, it's a sad event. we are out. we now can easil

that's what america is. >> i want to bring back in political white house reporter eugene daniels. ou and i have talked about the asylum system in this country in the context of what is happening at the u.s./mexico border. we are now having similar conversation as it relates to these refugees coming in from afghanistan. what is this administration up against when it comes to systems and structures if they are trying to expedite this process? >> i mean, you kind of nailed it right there, alicia, when it comes to the process and the things that the last administration did, it was no secret they not only wanted to stop undocumented immigrants from coming to this country but also tamp down legal immigration. when you talk to this biden white house what they say is they walked in and it was kind of if not in shambles a bit after mess and they've had to restructure and get things back to where they want them. that is what they're up against because now they've been in there seven months, obviously we've not been able to fix all of the issues they feel like were there. now they've hit this

eugene daniels white house correspondent for politico.ired four-star army general, decorated combat veteran of vietnam, former cabinet member and member of the national security council. and dr. badelia, founding director of boston university's center for emerging infectious diseases policy and research. good evening and welcome to you all. general, we are going to begin with you with this urgent matter overseas. since you and i spoke at exactly this hour last night, the taliban has made incredible progress over land. i'm tempted to say if patton's third army had moved this fast after "d"-day, ve-day would have come in two weeks in europe. question to you, what happens when they take kabul and what, got forbid happens, if any americans are harmed? >> it could be a cascading tragic for the afghan people. most of the country 40 million people are back in their control. with summary execution, women and girls being forced in to near slavery conditions. it's a sad, sad event. we are out. we now can easily protect and hold the kabul internatio

. >> joining us now, white house correspondent for politico and co-author of the playbook eugene danielsand he's right here. glad to see you on set, my friend. let's start with that biden call. first is that he talked about how voting rights are the defining issue of our time. yet some say he has not done enough to advocate for their cause. and the democrats' goal is over fears, lies, and promises. >> i think those things stand out. i think also -- every time they talk about voting rights, everything we keep coming back to is almost none of the rhetoric matters if you can't get a bill passed. so he has to be able to convince those moderates and tell them you need to get rid of the filibuster because that's the only thing that's going to challenge anything. that's what i'm hearing from civil rights leaders and activists. the president has been speak out more and more. >> let's turn to the moratorium. we us in that briefing we heard from gene sperling. it seems in the last few days, the white house, democrats and republicans have been working on issues, but not this one. it seems to be fal

let's bring in our lead-off guest, eugene daniels, writer at "politico." julie pace, assistant editor for the associated press. and republican strategist. there is a 12% drop in joe biden's approval rating when it comes to handling covid. 53% approved now, it was 65% in may, just three months. since january, the biden white house has become kind of entwined with this whole premise, right, of handling the pandemic. in fact, even before that he ran on it. what do they do now at the white house? >> i mean, that is the number one threat that they said when they walked into the door, right? they said that is their number one focus, that it was the first bill, the first big bill that was signed and pushed out. they talked about the covid relief plan over and over and over again, so they know this is the thing they have to get under control in this country. you know, they -- when you talk to folks even behind the scenes in their own background, they don't feel scared, they feel sober about what's happening right now and what that means for the political future, b

this is not over. >> all right, frank figliuzzi well, eugene daniels and susan page, thanks for your time. we will get a update on the potential powerful hurricane ida. and benghazi like investigations could happen at home on the kabul explosion. and louisiana icu beds and morgues in florida are crowded. we will have an expert standing by. tandin by and there you have it— -woah. wireless on the most reliable network nationwide. wow! -big deal! ...we get unlimited for just $30 bucks. sweet, but mine has 5g included. relax people, my wireless is crushing it. that's because you all have xfinity mobile with your internet. it's wireless so good, it keeps one upping itself. switch to xfinity mobile and save hundreds on your wireless bill. plus, save up to $400 when you purchase a new samsung phone or upgrade your existing phone. learn more at your local xfinity store today. baaam. internet that doesn't miss a beat. that's cute, but my internet streams to my ride. adorable, but does yours block malware? nope. -it crushes it. pshh, mine's so fast, no one can catch me. that's because you all

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politico white house reporter and playbook co-author eugene daniels is with us.gn at this point that she has enough to get something done? >> reporter: not right now she does not, aaron. the vote is not right now. it's next week. she and her team are working feverishly to rally democrats around a unity point to move this forward. let's take a step back and look at what will happen next week. they'll vote on this so-called rule, this process that sets up a series of votes, including the john lewis voting rights advancement act. that should pass easily without much of a problem. democrats are united on that. next they move to a budget resolution that begins the process of the $3.5 trillion budget bill that biden wants to pass. this is where pell owescy struggling to get moderates on board. there's a lot of discontent, many of whom are in swing districts, about the fact that she's holding up the infrastructure bill until this budget resolution can move forward. many moderates are insisting that the infrastructure bill come to a vote, they pass that, send it to presi

eugene daniels who us correspondent at politico and co-author of the politico playbook. ruth m-columnist, editor at the “washington post” with a article on jeffrey clark. >>> joining me now the pennsylvania senator. casey. i talked to you about stuff this congress and legislative priorities. but i have to ask you about this. because so much happened since the last time you and i talked where we have discovered that this -- in pipe dream of donald trump's to undermine the election was substantially more than a pipe treem. it was a plot. >> yeah, ali, i think what you heard in the last discussion is there is a lot of activity to hold folks accountable but there is still a lot of work to do to make sure that in the aftermath of a national election that a former president and his allies would be perpetuating this lie and misleading people. and that can -- and leading up to that, that fateful day of january the 6th and the new administration coming into office on the 20th, there has to be a measure of accountability we haven't seen yet. and it can't just be accountable impose

eugene daniels, thank you so much as always.lking to you, appreciate your reporting, and it does seem, sam stein, they're not going to get the five. they're not going to get ten republicans on john lewis's bill. probably aren't going to get five. the question is are they going fo find a procedural way to get through there, doing what they do with supreme court justices and having an exception to the filibuster for civil rights legislation. >> that seems to be the actually only vehicle or only way forward is to make a carve out essentially for civil rights, voting rights legislation from the filibuster. we'll know one thing, it used to be there was bipartisan consensus on voting rights history. that has not been the case in recently times. you see a vote of 219 to 212. people say this is a partisan piece of legislation. it used to be that you would have a huge number or not huge, but a fairly robust number of republicans who would support extending the voting rights act. >> so sam, before we let you go. i know you at politico hav

eugene daniels. he's also an msnbc contributor. eugene, thank you so much for being here. how do you match up comments that we heard from national security adviser jake sullivan when he said he believes taliban officials when that group does not, shall we say, have the best record at keeps promises. >> yeah, that's a nice way to put it. we do know that the taliban has lied often about the things they're going to do especially when it comes to holding up their end of bargains. those comments are aspirational at best and naive at worse for some of the critics because we know the taliban doesn't keep their word. talking behind the scenes, this administration polly ann-ish about the trust. and jen psaki said there are consequences of the full weight of the united states military if they don't allow the evacuations to take place that. but what i think is happening, in front of the cameras, they're trying to keep things calmer, they don't want to the say, you know, as they're verifying and all of those things but it's really important to remember that the taliban wants to be tak

with that, let's bring in our lead off guests on this wednesday night eugene daniels, julie pace washington bureau chief in assistant editor for the associated press. and susan del percio, a veteran republican strategist. great to see you all tonight. eugene, this is new poll out finding that there is a 12% drop in joe biden's approval rating when it comes to handling covid. 53% approved, now 65% it was in may. since january, the biden white house has become entwined with the whole premise, right? of handling the pandemic. in fact, even before it, he ran on it. what do they do now at the white house? >> what do that is the number onet they saw when they walked into the door. it was the first big bill that was signed and they have talked about the covid relief plan over and over again. they know this is the thing to have to get over -- under control. if you talk to folks, even behind the scenes, they don't seem scared. they feel really sober about what's happening right now, and what that means for their political future. they also try to keep politics out of it. i know that sounds polyamoro

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research fellow at the foreign policy research institute and an msnbc national security analyst and eugene danielsco-author as well as an msnbc contributor. guys, this is massive. this is massive. eugene, i'm just going to start with this. i saw the list of what was requested. it was like filling out an eharmony application. it was everything. have you ever seen a congressional committee ask for this much information from the white house? is this normal or are we really seeing something unprecedented here? >> i mean it would be hard to find another investigation like this one, you know, with so much politics, so much danger that happened on january 6th and all of the implications, especially with how much president trump is responsible for, right? and so this is something that feels, at least to those of us watching who have watched things like this happen before, something new, something different, and more importantly something that is expansive, right? something that we -- you listed all of those people on that list and it is -- that is not -- that's just the beginning, right? they have just st

. >>> let's bring in our leadoff guest, eugene daniels, susan page, and frank figliuzzi. frank, what sticks out to you about this strike against isis-k tonight? are you surprised by how quickly this happened? >> i'm encouraged by how quickly it happened, and the fact that it happened while we're still on the ground evacuating citizens tells me that there's some degree of confidence that the military can stave off and deter another attempt. here's why the military event today is so much more than just a single drone strike. it is a projection of power, it is a message from the united states government that even though we're leaving, we're not done with counterterrorism operations, even though we'll have to do this over the horizon, from remote locations, and it's going to be far more challenging, we can still do it. one of the mysteries that i think hopefully will get solved soon is whether or not today's strike involved a partnership with the taliban. whether or not intelligence sources involved the taliban helping us. sometimes counterterrorism makes for strange bedfello

and host of "the political playbook, eugene daniels is us.utors. betsy, start us off with your reporting. >> these e-mails are really revelatory and surprising to read. it is almost like reading the script to a fictionalized movie about just how crazy things can get within the justice department. we have three extremely senior law enforcement officials essentially duking it out over one of the wackiest episodes in recent american political memory, which was this viral video that came out of atlanta, being almost immediately debunked by the top election official in that state. but despite that, getting the attention of the outgoing president and getting the attention of state legislators in georgia. so the doj officials had to decide, do we continue investigating this video and perhaps in add vert ently give credence to this very bizarre situation or do we say, this is debunked and it doesn't rise to the level of something that deserves the fbi's attention. what these e-mails show is that bill barr himself specifically handed down orders that

joining me now, politico white house reporter and playbook co-author eugene daniels and also with us ker. good to see you. eugene, first and foremost, we know lives are at stake in kabul. but as a political issue, how big a challenge, how important are these next five days for the president? >> it is huge, right? because is this a president who one of the reasons that he is pulling out of afghanistan is because he wants to focus on domestic issues, he wants to focus on china, on russia. and so what this does political capital is basically everything in washington, d.c. so the less he has, the less he is able to get done here at home. we're already seeing some democratic lawmakers saying -- kind of going against the president here's needs them to pass the rest of his agenda. we're seeing him take a hit in the polls because you also have an entire pandemic that is starting to ramp up in a lot of places like you covered in your last block there. and i think those are the things that we're watching, right? covid and afghanistan are the reason that the president's poll numbers have been pu

. >> i'm going to add to our conversation our coverage, eugene daniels, co-author of "playbook" and lucky for us an msnbc contributor. the president is also answering dr. redlener's question. they're announcing boosters. they're recommending that eight months after the second vaccine that anyone received that was either pfizer or moderna people go in and get a booster shot. it was described to me by senior white house officials an added layer of protection. they laid out in the briefing today a lot of protection still from those two vaccines but to get back up to those 90, 92% levels the booster shot is requiring. the president said i disagree with people who think i shouldn't use those to protect my country and the citizens here. i think that is absolutely what we should be doing. again, this president saying it is my choice, it is my decision to have enough supply for a booster for every american. eugene, we lost you. i'll come back to you because that was your point before the president's speech. dr. redlener? >> yeah, so i -- first of all, i understand where the president is coming fr

white house reporter eugene daniels is the co-author of playbook and a msnbc contributor. sonam sheth and tia mitchell is from the atlanta journal constitution. friends it gs to see you. tia, every weekend i say this is the weekend it could happen and every sunday, we say will this happen before we get off air. so right now it is just after 6:00 p.m. eastern. where are we at getting this bill passed? >> well, it's more not if, but when. as you said. >> which, by the way, tia, i think maybe what you told me last weekend or the weekend before that so it feels like we're stuck in a little bit of a vortex. >> a little bit. you know, it is government runs slow. we talk about the sausage making. so that is what the senate has been in the thick of, the sausage making of governing and in some ways that is refreshing. they're doing what they're sent to washington to do. to sit out and work on amendments and compromise and get the bill to the finish line. because of the senate rules, one member could slow things down and that is what we've seen in the last few days. so as late as tu

. >> and joining us is our colleague from politico, and eugene daniels as well, and so i will urge tofrastructure week, but walk us through what we will see on this bill, and when we could see some votes on this. >> sure. the bill is to be roughly $555 billion, geoff. we are waiting for the final score, and this is a nonpartisan scorekeeper around here who does that vote. and so the work could begin on the amendments as early as today, and the question is how long they start and when they end. you played the sound from schumer and mcconnell and there is shadowboxing there. and schumer wants to get it going, and start the process of the trillion dollar bill, and mcconnell is looking at the caucus of the people who wanted to vote to have it going, but the most are opposed. so they want to offer the amendments so they are not feeling steam rolled. now, my team and i have spoken to suggest that there is enough support in the caucus to defeat any poison pill amendments that some might want to add in an effort to defeat it. but like mcconnell, they are not in a rush, and so thursday, the ti

some common people have any concerns regarding the rapp eugene from daniel. then my potential refuge is from the dentist and do you plan to take any measures and disregard? thank you. at the good one because i've got to initially set the nickel creamy lot for relation. tell i would like to come back to the meeting of the month of the crimea platform that this one, the minister lover of march. and i would like to ask, i would like to address this question to you, the president of hungary control issues because they are talking about the aggression of the superpowers. the why do you think about this mistress yard to about the fact that given president talk, does it reflect the point of view of the entire government? because on the next question that was on my on thank you, mr. labrems. yesterday that says that not be more than he talked with my daughter them said newspaper balance backs in the balance, but need to be and we talked about the 2 days. well that was when there will be an agreement on manufacturing. this could be baxon and hungry, who can get where

and white house correspondent for politico and co-author of the book eugene daniels.district. what should we takeaway from what we saw there in ohio? >> i believe anybody who believes in the progressive movement is going to fold up its tent and go home after this is mistaken. you listen to what nina turner said last night where she's essentially calling her opponents evil. that's an indication of fire that burns inside of the insurgent left right now. that said, what yesterday proved is that the appetite that voters have, voters in democratic primaries have for that kind of burn it all down talk is limited. and a vast amount of resources from the left that went into organizing people to come out and vote for nina turner. and they didn't, apparently, because they were swayed by the message that democrats -- establishment democrats, washington leadership democrats pushed that if you elect somebody like her, you're going to have to worry about her. you're going to have to worry about what she says. it's too much drama, and we had enough drama after four years of presiden

. >> let me bring eugene daniels back in. to claire's point, the kinds of members who would have the hardest time being re-elected if the 389 voter suppression and nullification laws -- the only one i've read about being blocked is the one in wisconsin. 22 have been signed to law. the kinds of democrats that won't come back in two years or four or six are the moderates. those are the states where these laws -- that's why the first laws passed in georgia, pushed in florida and pushed in the swing states first. is there an awareness of that? how cognizant are the democrats of that dynamic? >> i think they are, but the exact same people that the senator is talking about, they fundamentally leave those moderates that they shouldn't get rid of it. when you talk to them about you are a person who may lose out if that happens and what you hear back from them often times is that they feel it is getting rid of the filibuster will break the senate or something like that. that is where the frustration comes for people like these texas d

of punch bowl news, and eugene daniels, coauthor of politico's playbook and msnbc political contributor best people in washington to talk about this, what's happening. >>> okay, anna, when are we going to see the text of this bipartisan bill? >> i think it's still tb d. we have been hearing every day for the last several days that this bill was going to be out. we continue to hear that this morning with members saying they expect the legislative text later today. i do think it's going to come sooner rather than later, but when exactly it's going to drop is anybody's best guess. they've been still scrubbing the bill all weekend. staff has been working. we've been talking to them. i think this process is just, you know, it's a 2,000-plus page bill. so it's a little bit more complex than, say, just the typical kind of legislative language that we wait for in these types of things. >> eugene, what y'all hearing? you got a time -- you got a time on when this text is going to drop? >> we don't. anna's right. they're doing a lot of the grunt work right now trying to figure things out. and it's

eugene daniels. and helene cooper. tell us what you know about this u.s. kabul, the united states military carried out a drone strike just about, you know, a short distance from kabul airport. defense officials tell me that they hit a vehicle full of suicide bombers, who they believe were intent on striking the airport. they say that the strike was successful. that they destroyed the vehicle and everybody in it, but they also say that there was so much explosives in the vehicle that it may have had other repercussions, as well. we don't know yet. the pentagon said they're not tracking civilian casualties but that is something that probably will become more clear as time goes on. now you know that president biden and the state department and the pentagon all yesterday said they had credible and specific threats surfacing for kabul airport and i think that's going continue over the next two days. we are in what the administration calls the most dangerous part of the mission now. that's the last two days that american troops have to continue the evacuation an

who lost loved ones or themselves kidnapped or forced from their homes. eugene this with the for the fall leader with regal daniel, better known as tim jenko, admitted that his group had been responsible for killing civilian victims, which he said was a part of the conflict. he was beginning to hate to look at his control aloud. i can't find the words to match the pain suffered by the victims. unfortunately, there are no words for such pain. i've said it before and i'll repeat that i am proud to be one of the protagonist in this peace process. going as honest parmesan, but much of what they said was confirmation of what had long been allege. i guess this is salvatore mancuso in action with right wing paramilitary forces, speaking now from prison in the united states where he serving time for drug trafficking. he said his group often worked with the columbia military and police to track down what they perceived as a common enemy. so i'm to go see and i'm very conscious, there's no way to turn back time that we can't get rid of the scars. we can't bring back the dead or wipe from our memories, the displacements, th