my panel is back with me, alencia johnson, xochitl hinojosa and kurt bardella. at party in america is actually the party of cancel culture, there is your answer for you. the republican party is so afraid of education and information and historical context and facts that they are willing to literally burn books that tell the truth about our american story. and i think this is something that democrats need to start seizing on here. one of the things that we've seen in recent month thes is this idea that republicans can hijack the issue of education and make it about something that it's really not. what we are fighting for, what we want in our classrooms and for our children is an honest telling of our story, and it is an imperfect story, and there's nothing wrong with that. there's nothing to be ashamed about that. we are a country that should be always striving to get better. we are trying to form a more perfect union. that is a pursuit that never ends, that never stops, and it shouldn't. and the only way that we can get there is if we tell the truth about how we

and kurt bardella, adviser to the ccc and dnc. kurt, your reaction to the idea that republican voters are now electing people who participated in the siege, quote/unquote stop the steal rally. they're rewarding them with office, both statewide and local. >> it tells you how dangerous it is that the big lie not only took place in the days leading up to the 2020 election, the days after the 2020 election, leading up to the insurrection, but the big lie continues. it's very dangerous. it's very harmful to democracy. that is why i'm so proud of the january 6 committee and the work they are doing. i had the chance to talk with jamie raskin as we were voting on the floor tonight, knowing i was going to be joining you, joy, and got my usual daily or weekly update from him on the extraordinary good work of this committee. and what he told me is the quiet story is the number, the tremendous number of people who are cooperating with the committee, who recognize that january 6 was an insurrection where americans attacked americans, where amer

attorney and kurt bardella, adviser to the dnc and the dccc.d of question for you, joyce, at what point this playing footsie with insurrection cross the line into any crimes? what do they have to do to cross over that line? >> it's a deceptively difficult question because it has to be asked on an individualized basis in each situation. joy, you and i have talked about this before. i think the minute former president trump makes phone calls into georgia asking them to find him the number of votes he needs to win that state, that he has committed the georgia crime of soliciting election crime of trying to solicit the results of that election. who is going to finally step up and prosecute it. >> and also whether or not the select committee can even really fully investigate. stay with me for a second, joyce. this appeals court. three judges on this appeals court have now put a stay on what had been a victory for the 1/6 panel to get these records in the archives of donald trump. now that stay is in place. we're talking about between the end of nove

. >> kurt bardella, it's nice to see you, my friend.ost trump of how emails he sent out tonight. essentially taking credit for glenn youngkin's victory. glenn youngkin was working hard that mary teresa was talking about, to benefit and not have the trump stink as jonathan said in the last hour rub all of on him. is this a new republican tactic, and could it work? >> yeah, i mean, the one person i didn't hear glenn youngkin thank tonight was donald trump which was not an accident, that was by design. the reason -- there's obviously -- glenn youngkin didn't share a stage with donald trump. that was by design, that's going to be a big blueprint for republicans in 2022. and it underscores for democrats going forward, it's not just donald trump we have to define the republican party for what it is. the republican party has spent two decades running a brand offensive against the democratic party. labeling them as socialists, that the green deal is extreme. describing everything as being socialist, being afraid. democrats now need to invest ti

discuss is scott jennings, columnist at "usa today" and former adviser to mitch mcconnell, and kurt bardellar to the democratic national committee and democratic congressional campaign committee. great to see you both, gentlemen. thanks for making time for us. kurt, let's start with you. who bears the blame for what happened on tuesday? and how does the party move forward? >> well, i think that what we saw on tuesday was an overall problem that democrats have had, the big challenge when it comes to branding the democratic party and our policies. for too long, we have allowed republicans to hijack a number of issues, from infrastructure to the price tag to the bill that just passed, to education, to the green new deal. to voting rights. you name it, democrats have had a hard time getting their message out in a way that connects tangibly to everyday working americans. hopefully now with the passage of the infrastructure bill, they can have the tangible deliverables to convey to the american people every single day between now and the midterms what they're doing for you. the conversation about

secretary, democratic strategist and former spokesperson for the democratic national committee, and kurt bardellabert, i'm going to reach out to you first here. as a former press secretary, take a look at biden's remarks and what did you make of them? the way he presented everything, the tenor of things. talk about that. >> well, look, i think he has reason to be excited, to simply proclaim that we finally achieved infrastructure week is probably in and of itself an accomplishment. i think he understands the importance of this. he's put a lot of stake in this in his presidency. he understands that it will build jobs, create jobs, that it's going to create the infrastructure of tomorrow for things like electric cars. i think it's a huge win, and i think it's an important first step. alex, the process of this has overwhelmed the substance at nearly every step thus far, so his remarks today are incredibly important, and they've got to be repeated constantly between now and the midterms elections so that we get away from the coverage on the process and get an understanding of the substance so that th