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still with us, eugene robinson and bill crystal. ne, the concept of the senate taking up and voting on rules reform requires 50 senators to be on board and at the moment, krysten sinema and joe manchin are not supportive of changing the rules of the senate. >> at the moment, they are not. and i mean, there has been a group of moderate senators who have been working to try to see if there is some formulation, some carveout around the filibuster or some piece of legislation. we're talking for example in the john lewis act of provisions that are basically the same provisions that in 2004, 2005 they voted to extend. the provisions in 1982 even thurmond voted to extend. we'll have to see if they're able to convince mansion and frankly cinema that would be a tougher nut to crack on this. she's made the more sherman like statement about it and she's tougher to read than manchin. >> you said there is someway to do this that gets it through congress. what is it that you think can get through the senate and how? >> yeah, i think that's the key

again, including but not limited to my friend with the pulitzer prize, eugene robinson, eugene you are one of the founding fathers of this. you and i have shared so many late nights, sometimes resulting and understandable votes. absolutely right, listen, let me just throw it off the rails yet again because i just have to take this opportunity to thank you. thank you for the opportunity of working with you, on this broadcast on election nights where you given us all step ian banquets a bad food. on the big occasions. you have created and you're great producers have created on 11 hour a show that's really about the human comedy in a way that embodies the phrase all of life and all the commotion and all of what we're doing. you have this unique ability, to see, not just the tragedy and events but also the comedy. also the sardonic committee. it's a broadcasts that leaves viewers knowing a lot more about their nation and their world. and feeling a bit better, a bit more prepared to face the coming day. that's a tremendous achievement. to have been even a small part of it i just say thank y

still with us, eugene robinson, bill kristol. eugene, is there a path forward? do you see? well affordable care act was passed. so it doesn't all have to have been in the first calendar year of the presidency. when in fact it does take time. my distinct impression from the president in recent weeks, and from the last couple of weeks was that he is more focus than he had been before on the voting rights question. i would not be surprised to see that move to the top of the agenda. especially since it now appears that it is going to take time to get the build back better agenda, or as much of it as he can in both houses of congress. they might be in pieces, and it may take some time. i still believe that if not all of, it most of it will be a very big deal when he gets it. but he may focus on voting rights first. >> optimism. okay. i also want to talk about the call between biden and vladimir putin. you'll they had this to say in the bulwark about russian ukraine this. week i would still say that a new offense is not inevitable, but all the pieces are in place. what is most wo

with us this evening, two of our friends, the aforementioned eugene robinson, and mike murphy veteran republican strategist co-director of the center for political future at the university of southern california, also cohost of the hacks on tap podcast. eugene, i know you made a point this week that roe v. wade has been unifying for this country, but then there are the politics of it. i would like to read you this from kyrie berman tonight, never forget that mitch mcconnell blocked merrick garland eight months before election then confirmed amy coney barrett eight days before election when 65 million had already voted so she could take away reproductive rights and voting rights from millions of americans. tonight, on fox news, we got a glimpse eugene, from the other side saying the quiet part out loud on the air, that this is the court in effect they have paid for. >> if we have six republican appointees on this court, after all the money that has been raised, the federal society, all of these big fat cat dinners, i'm sorry, i am pissed about this. >> yeah. >> if this court with six j

with us tonight to discuss eugene robinson, pulitzer prize-winning reporter. ll crystal, author, writer and thinker. he is a veteran of the reagan and bush administrations and editor at large at the bulwark. mr. eugene i turn to you first. he says that they can bridge their differences. progressive democrats are saying they want it to stay in session until they get build back better passed. how do you think this is going to play out? >> i don't think the senate is going to stay in session. i think manchin feels a little pressure at this point. universally it seems some part of the build back better are popular. if it is your number one priority, though some senate suppose you, you can bargain and obviously dropped parts of the bill. it would be wise to do. there are some sensible parts of this bill that don't go in effect until two or three years. so i think that -- >> like what? >> -- i don't think that they are in good shape. now >> what is not sensible in it? >> a lot of it goes into effect at different times. universal pre-k. they have -- i was looking at i

. >> eugene robinson, your latest is headlined "the january 6th committee needs to get louder. ch louder." made me think of the good trouble admonishment from the late great congressman john lewis. eugene, they have been previewing more. they have been telling us publicly what they have in hand already. there will be televised hearings. is that what you're talking about or something way more aggressive? >> it's not for televised hearings. i think there should be hearings. i think they should be making more noise. and they have started to do that. they have started to tell us more. but, you know, for many americans who are not paying close attention, this isn't, i fear, registering the way it should. and this is so important. it is so important to get to the bottom of what happened on january 6th. i think everyone on the committee understands that. so, say it loud. bring in the television cameras. make it impossible not to pay attention because it is -- it is -- this was a rupture in our democracy, the likes of which we have never seen before. and there has to be accountability.

still with us eugene robinson, bill kristol. eugene, is there a path forward? do you see it?>> well, the affordable care act was passed, so, you know, it doesn't all have to happen in the first calendar year of a presidency. and in fact some of these things sometimes take time. my distinct impression from the president in recent weeks and certainly the last couple weeks is that he is more focused than he had been before on the voting rights question, the voting rights issues, and i would not be surprised to see that move to top of the agenda especially since it now appears that it is going to take time to get the build back better agenda or as much of it as he can through both houses of congress. it may be in pieces. it may take some time. i still believe he is going to get, if not all of it, most of it. and i think it will be a very big deal when he gets it. but he may focus on voting rights first. >> optimism. okay. bill, i also want to talk about foreign policy. biden has the call tomorrow with vladimir putin. putin asked for it. retired general ben hodges had this to say

and eugene robinson, msnbc political analyst. ved at the voting rights moment in the united states senate, obviously in early january, according to chuck schumer. and here's the president of the united states publicly lining up with, yes, change the senate rule in whatever way you have to to get voting rights passed. it's been a long road for joe biden. initially very reluctant to talk about changing senate rules. now he's ready. he's out there using all of his years of experience in the senate to urge on the democrats in the senate to just do it. >> yeah. lawrence, first of all, let me say merry christmas and happy holidays to everybody. >> merry christmas to you as well. >> safe, peaceful, and joyous holiday season. yeah, that is big deal, actually, because joe biden is, as you know a creature of the senate. having almost literally spent the bulk of his adult life in the senate. he is a great respecter of senate tradition and senate customs and mores, and for him to say, no, this is important enough to change the filibuster rule

explaining why he is guilty of criminal -- last, week eugene robinson said that the committee, quote, needs to be louder. much louder. jeanne robinson pointed out that the most important investigative work has been one revealed in televised tearing. and he suggested, that the committee needed to find a way to make news on television even if they are not able to question some of the most important witnesses in the case. and tonight, led by our first guess. what benny thompson, broke its most important news yet on live television. beginning with the chairman's announcement of upcoming televised hearings. what >> we are making self-progress. and before too long, we will be out in the open. we will have public hearings. we will tell the story to the american people. but we won't do it -- we will do it when we can tell the story all at once from start to finish. not leaving anyone guessing. and not allowing it to fade into the memories of last week's news. this story is too important. sticks are too high. we have to do this job right. >> chairman thompson, then gave republican vice chair,

. >> and joining us now is eugene robinson, pulitzer prize -winning for the washington post. he's also an msnbc political analysts -- eugene, big surprise jim jordan was the author of one of the most clearly criminal plots sent over to mark meadows. >> that doesn't surprise anybody. i think he is the usual suspects. it just happens that jim jordan's house to be [inaudible] >> he, in a cowardly fashion is going out to [inaudible] . >> and there's a complaint about this whole ridiculous nonsensical part of the matter with the press conference. which is that mike pence should've overthrown the [inaudible] >> and that was the importance of it. >> and everyone who knows that they are the author of these text, they are all hiding. and they all must be living in fear of this committee. >> yes. i think they are. this committee made more noise by releasing some of these [inaudible] . it certainly caught my attention. and it does really highlight urgency of voting rights legislation. and these two things have been happening simultaneously. creating this kind of energy that gives new mom

i'm joined here by eugene robinson, also with us jonathan alter.him on capitol hill, as we see his casket being carried down the steps by the military pallbearers, to the escort and, of course, then we'll go to the world war ii memorial. jonathan, he was also a man who was a patriot first. he cared most about the country. >> absolutely. and he understood the importance of the peaceful transfer of power. so even though he stuck with donald trump a long time because he was a very partisan republican, he did not agree with trump's challenging of the election returns. and it reminds me of what dole said on the day following his defeat to reporters, for the presidency in 19 76. this was a line he used whenever he lost. he asked how he felt, and he said i went home and slept like a baby. woke up every two hours and cried. and to me, that kind of summarized not just the wit of bob dole, but his understanding that we are in a democracy. you don't win them all. and when he would lose in the senate or when running for higher office, the bitterness that he so

there were some grumblings at the end of last week, primarily from eugene robinson, about why isn't this committee making news on tv instead of making news in print by the print documents that they were releasing? well, tonight was the real live tv newsmaking night for that committee. >> absolutely. it's not like they're not making news in print. the contempt report they put out over the weekend was full of news. when they made those remarks, the televised hearing at 7 p.m., it blew me away. i want to get out of here so you talk to bennie thompson and liz cheney. go. >> thank you. tonight mark meadows became the second white house chief of staff in history to be accused of a crime. before mark meadows, the first and only white house chief of staff accused of a crime was also a republican. in 1974 president nixon's criminal chief of staff bob haldeman, was charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury. he was convicted and sentenced to federal prison. mark meadows was a years old during the first criminal prosecution of a white house chief of staff. so mark meadows learned n

eugene daniels and jim robinson. eugene, to you first.rights if they want to do away with the filibuster? you can't have one without the other. >> no, you can't have one without the other. there is only one republican senator, lisa murkowski, who is willing to have the senate debate, the mildest, the least far-reaching of the voting rights legislation that the democrats have been posing. it has the civil rights act of 1965 that republicans used to routinely pass but passed unanimously for the time it was reauthorized in the senate. but today's republican party simply just doesn't believe in it anymore and doesn't believe in voting rights the way they used to, so yeah, they're not going to have 60 votes in the senate any time soon, and if you're going to protect voting rights, you are going to have to do a carve-out around the filibuster, maybe not nuke it for all time but find some way around it if you're going to get it done. >> then given that, bill, do you see any path for voting rights legislation in the near future? >> i do, and they

eugene robinson, thank you very much joining us tonight. appreciate it. >>> coming up, the lieutenant governor of kentucky will join us after president biden surveyed the tornado damage in her state today, kentucky's senators mitch mcconnell and rand paul did not accompany the president in kentucky today. that's next. and ask your doctor about biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in certain adults. it's not a cure, but with one small pill, biktarvy fights h-i-v to help you get to and stay undetectable. that's when the amount of virus is so low it cannot be measured by a lab test. research shows people who take h-i-v treatment every day and get to and stay undetectable can no longer transmit h-i-v through sex. serious side effects can occur, including kidney problems and kidney failure. rare, life-threatening side effects include a buildup of lactic acid and liver problems. do not take biktarvy if you take dofetilide or rifampin. tell your doctor about all the medicines and supplements you take, if

which is why now i say thank you, eugene robinson and libby casey, thank you both. joining me now is dr. rochelle walensky, director of the centers for disease control and prevention. it's a busy time. thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me, ari, good to be here. >> omicron is in six states. is it the cdc's view it might go across the nation or might it still be contained and not go everywhere? >> good question. yes, we have a new variant that is with us now in six states. the first thing i want to do actually is back up and say while we are watching omicron carefully right now, that we have 86,000 cases a day right now in the united states and 99.99% of those are the delta variant. so we already have a problem here right now with delta. and we have all of the tools that we know about to attack delta, and that includes vaccines, that includes boosters, masking in indoor settings. but we're watching omicron very carefully. as you noted, we've seen it in about six states. we have the tools to monitor for this. we may very well see more omicron in more state

eugene robinson, as always, thank you both so much. i want to turn now to democratic congressman jones of new york. congressman, thank you for being with us. first off, does manchin's no on build back better surprise you? >> it doesn't surprise me. as you will recall the progressive strategy has to link both bills together both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the larger build back better act. we had indication after indication the senator from west virginia is not someone who can be trusted to follow through on his word. in that respect this is not surprising but in another respect it is. here is what i mean by that. this is someone who has signed off on the vast majority of what is in the house version of the build back better act. this is an individual who has been showered with attention from the president of the united states himself who reports that senator manchin as recently as a few days ago made a counterproposal to the tune of approximately $1.8 trillion. all of it fully if not more than paid for in revenue. that would

i can tell you with regards to eugene robinson's column i said similar things to the committee. at some point they have got to talk about what they are finding it cannot just come in leaks if they want people to trust their finding. the answer i have gotten back time and time again is that those public hearings, the public reveal will come at a time of their choosing. liz cheney is talk approximating doing weeks of hearings when they feel like the time is right. much to the frustration of those trying to cover this committee and those waiting their results are likely closely trying to pull the image out of what is out there. they will make their reveal when they are good and ready. >> i understand that, and i understand that, dan goldman, but i think that one of the catastrophic consequences of the mueller investigation being conducted the way robert mueller wanted it conducted is that, one, no one has any idea what was in volume one. two, to the degree they know what was in volume two it looks like donald trump got away with obstruction of justice whachlt do you think about not

eugene robinson has a piece out saying it's too slow and this tidy and calm response and the committee i'm sure is doing great work. they're interviewing lots of people. is it taking too long and do you think that strategy is effective, that it's not on tv every minute the way republicans did benghazi not in your face pushing. do you think that's a mistake? >> i'll get to that. i want to object a little bit to one point you're making, it makes the voter intimidation thing worse, i don't know there is proof the more people vote helps democrats. the biggest non-voting demographic this this country is working class white people. that's the biggest by raw numbers of people who don't vote. if everyone voted there would be more working class white voting -- >> to be more specific, tim, it's poor white people. you know who doesn't vote? poor white people. not even working class white people but poor white folks. they trying to appeal to say don't think about what you can get from government, just think about being white. think about the fact that non-white people are trying to take over the c

mark, i want to read you something our mutual friend, eugene robinson, has written.e about georgia. we'll talk about its applications beyond georgia after this. the republican party has lost both u.s. senate seats to democrats and stands a real chance of losing the governor's mansion as well. and all of this reflects the gop's into a cult of personality devoted to a former donald trump. mark, you're going to say something along the lines of our mutual friend may be right about georgia, but in other places it sells and it sells big. >> well, but the splinters are starting erupt, brian, in interesting places. georgia is a really good example of that where donald trump is now endorsing david perdue to run against brian kemp, and steve bannon's endorsing kemp over purdue or at least he's saying purdue is a ridiculous candidate and doesn't fit the mold at all. so he's crossed trump on the georgia race. and then dan crenshaw taking on the taylor greene, most of the the freedom caucus saying they're a bunch of performative artists. are you conservative or just kissing donal

today" washington bureau chief and native kansan, susan page, and "washington post" columnist, eugene robinsone bipartisanship that bob dole did represent, working in 1983 with pat moynihan on the social security compromise, working with george mcgovern on nutrition and agricultural help, the food lunches. working, of course, with tom harkin from iowa on the americans for disabled act, a time long gone. >> andrea, it certainly seems like it is a time long gone. bob dole was a combination of many things, as a human being. he was certainly a partisan, a partisan republican, but as a senator, he knew that the role of people in politics was to try to make life better for people who needed that and he was prepared to work across the lines of politics in order to get those things done. and that is quality that is missing. and on a day that we remember bob dole's service, not just as a presidential candidate, but as a veteran, it behooves us all to think about whether there is a way to get some of that back that we have lost. susan page, what does this mean to the man who returned to ruffle, kansas.

joining the conversation we have peter baker, eugene robinson from "the washington post."i were in the white house right now, i would be -- >> santa. i would be bumper stickers out, peter baker, talking about the white house who saved christmas. joe biden is santa. >> whatever happens to that supply chain thing? we keep on having ups trucks and fedex trucks showing up to our place for presents santa is bringing them of course. >> there is hardly any blimp and two days later numbers came out to confirm that our supply chain is working great. >> prediction of a great crisis turned out not what it's. a lot of work have been done in order to obvert that. a lot of people putting in a lot of work to get things up to speed. it reminds me of the obama presidency of the oil spill in the gulf would be able to kill them. it turned out not to be politico had predicted. keep these predictions with a grain of salt. everyone posted on the internet about my newspaper and an article of this young radical and germany got, hitler in pained by prison. that's a pretty bad one. >> jesus. >> we

the investigation you're seeing with the january 6th committee, eugene robinson has a piece out today saying it's too slow and that the sort of tidy and calm response -- and the committee i'm sure is doing great work. they're interviewing lots of people. but is it taking too long and do you think that that strategy is effective, that it's not on tv every minute the way the republicans did benghazi, it's not in your face, they're not pushing? do you think that that's a mistake? >> i'll get to that. i sort of want to just object to one point you're making, that it kind of makes the voter intimidation things worse. is i actually don't know that there's proof that the more people vote that necessarily helps democrats. the biggest non-voting demographic in this country is working-class white people. that's the biggest by raw numbers. the people who don't vote. so if everyone voted there would be more working-class white people voting -- >> to be more specific, tim, it's poor white people. it's not even working class people. it's poor white folks. but i think what the right is trying to do

let's bring in eugene robinson. ed luce, mara gay and jonathan lemire is still with us., i thought what manchin said was a real tale. last week he came back of the child bill that took up the majority of it. for months the parliamentary has to approve this. he talked about and again the fact that you look at how they cobble this together. another program will start six years in. he's talked about budget gimmicks. at the end of the day, i don't think he believed the numbers. he's been telegraphing that and yet i have got to say, democrats, the white house and liberal bloggers this is going to be done in the next week or so and wrapped under the christmas tree with a nice tdy bow on it when nothing joe manchin said publicly that's going to suggest it ever going to happen. >> he's right there is a lot of budget gimmicks here. >> the reason why democrats resorted to this was he opposed the revenues and tax increases and opposed all measures that would have helped fund this bill fully. i think for manchin to say, well, you have done what i have asked you, and now i am going t

msnbc political analyst, eugene robinson and msnbc contributor, the great mike barnicle.king for the last hour about the passing of two american icons, harry reid, the former senate majority leader, and john madden, the great john madden. two big losses for this country both in politics and popular culture. >> boy, that's true, willie. it's incredible. harry reid, i mean, the idea that harry reid is gone from the united states senate still hasn't sunk in i don't think to a lot of existing united states senators. and as soon as i hear the news, one thought struck me more than anything else. why aren't democrats as tough today as harry reid was when he was the head of the senate? i think it would be a different country, a different political party, and a different negotiation back and forth between all these conflicting issues if a harry reid was still there. and john madden, what can you say about john madden? everybody in america knows john madden. he's the guy at the end of the bar that you go to, the restaurant that you watch the game at. he's just that guy. everybody k

michael steele, eugene robinson is joining us. adrienn alrod. will geist just got in from clubbing at 4:00 a.m.? >> maybe we need to go to finland and interview some of the leaders over there. >> this reminds me when we were doing the show in the early '80s at studio 54 with liza and myck, we would be out until 4:15 and 4:30. fun. >> fun memories. bianca would be on top of the horse and i am like what are you saying about inflationary pressure? it was very hard to figure that out. >> i could not understand half of what david bowie was saying. it was loud. >> halsten was on top of the news though. >> and his hair was perfect. it was wonderful. we had so many memories willie and i. we really spanned. >> you are looking good. >> 15 years is enough. can you believer we are on year 15, guys? that's pretty exciting. >> let's get to -- you are going to interrupt? i am waiting and i am seeing it. i would like to do and if this is okay what we call in the football business and audible. just for a second. >> you may. >> do you have those phone numbers bef

welcome back with "morning joe," it's friday the 3rd, joining us eugene robinson, peter baker and congressionalanuary 6th should be held accountable at the attack at the u.s. capitol. she did not name trump. she referred to his remarks when she describes the goal of those leading the rally. those efforts quote "deliberately stoked the flames of fear and discontent and explicitly encouraged to go to the capitol to fight for one reason only to make sure the certification of the election didn't not happen. judge amy berman jackson is the second judge that faults trump on the attack of the capitol. the rioters should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. mark schwartz made the comment while talking to podcast host david axelrod. >> i don't believe the president would want physical harm. it's hard to hear those people are just expressing their first amendment rights or those people of the in-house pay patriots. when we condemn the black lives matter protest and say those people who destroy business should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, we have to be consistent. these people were