i realize kyrsten sinema is no longer a democrat. guest: i don't think there is an equivalent person there. it's an adjusting change in the democratic party, becoming summing more uniformly progressive. the house you may see a resurgence of blue dogs who take the majority but we have people like sherrod brown who's going to try to hang onto his seat in ohio, an uphill battle there. a swing sibling to a partner with republicans on certain matters. this is the end of an era. an interesting race in arizona. we will see how that plays out. host: independent, thanks for waiting. caller: good morning gentlemen. i have a question about the agenda for this coming week. they have a lot of stuff list it out that has to do with laundry, washing machines, air conditioning. something in there is the fourth amendment not for sale, number 4639. it looks to me like it's something to do with having a warrant. is this something that's possibly going to be tied into the pfizer reauthorization kind of like a backdoor approach for summing about warrants

because kyrsten sinema just signed the book.'s one of the key people we're watching, the book, she' the key people we're watching, right? >> reporter: that's exactly right. the people you should keep a close eye on are the group of people in the middle who often are the swing votes on issues like this. kyrsten sinema is one of them. she, of course, not a democrat anymore, she's an independent. she's also not running for reelection. she's got nothing to lose. she's also in a border state. those are all many of the reasons where she may have more of a skeptical eye as it relates to alejandro mayorkas than some other democrats may have. now, we don't anticipate a surprise from kyrsten sinema, but one of her trademarks is she doesn't forecast votes. >> there was jon tester from montana, another person to watch. he is running for reelection in what could be a tough race in a very red state. >> reporter: right. so jon tester is also someone who has not told us how he feels about this process. we have repeatedly tried to ask him about

question is, what is the republican margin because if it goes from 51-41, the swing votes go from kyrsten sinema to joe manchin to perhaps susan collins who are functionally more like independence. if republicans win a majority, then donald trump if elected would have much more leeway to confirm cabinet appointees and pass an agenda. host: this is mike in indiana, independent line. caller: i couldn't vote for a democrat or republican right now. they blame stuff on people and it is not true. the person when they talked about trump and election interference and this trial about him having these documents and biden having them, the one that is responsible for it is the people that take care of it, the cia, fbi, and they should be a reason when they do something like that, they should be the ones who go to jail. host: to the degree the former president's legal issues deep into the congressional race, what do you think? guest: it is not clear that they will or be front of mine with voters while casting ballots. when we look at the polling surrounding donald trump's problems, it 53% of voters believe

i would work out with kyrsten sinema. and the people that leave don't run for reelection is when they can't win. so, it's back in your own district whether you determine that. you're always going to have bipartisanship and because the bill says it's bipartisan, that doesn't mean it's good. i call a bill bipartisan all the time because i got one person on the other side. when it's designed to have compromise so what you really want, what i love-- i love the old schoolhouse rock. build the bill on all sides. and when i became speaker, open rules, several years. all four years of speaker pelosi and the time of paul ryan, never did a bill come to the floor when it bill came to have an amendment. you represent all of these people, why can't they have a voice? i think the structure is broken down. the reason why the names you said are not running were not rewarding that type of work. so, how we get our news i think is a big problem. so you would all sit here and i'd ask you who is your favorite people or what do you want in ele

i would -- i would look out with kyrsten sinema she's smart does an amazing job people move for a lotf reasons. but number one people leave or don't run for reelection when they can't win so -- it's back in your district whether you determine that. you're always going to have bipartisanship and just because a bill says it is bipartisan, that doesn't mean it is good. i call a bill bipartisan all of the tile because i got one person -- but to have compromise, right? so what you really want -- when i l when i love, old house rock i would to build a committee because you have the base on all sides. youl know i became speak or firt time in seven years we have an open rule which w you probably think happens w every day think about it seven years all four years of -- speaker pelosi -- and at the time of paul ryan. never did a bill come to the floor whereau any member in congress could offer an amendment. you have to represent all of these people. why can't they have a voice? and so -- i think it is more of the structure that is broken down but the reason why i think the names that you said a

congress, this grow, senate has a disft ma different map, they need to win one seat, but manchin and kyrsten sinema not running for reelection, and senator danes has done a good job running senatorial committee, may attention in primary, you look at house, i have been leader for 5 years we won every cycle, when president biden was on the ticket, last time, it was the first time since 1994 that not one republican incumincumbent lost, i picked up 5 seats in california 5 in new york, oregon and arizona, but today, the numbers are better, it is easier to win/8 i -- win seats in the house this cycle than last year, democrats try to do redistrict new york they did not do well, north carolina had redistricting 3 democrat incumbents did not run for reelection, you pick up 3 sitseats we have competitiveness it looks chaotic in congress right now, only way that republicans in house down maintain majority or grow is themselves because of ka chaos, moneys that dropped that hurts, democrats have a money advantage now. larry: i think that it important, i think mike johnson is doing this, keep the focus on biden

i realize kyrsten sinema is no longer a democrat.st: i don't think there is an equivalent person there. it's an adjusting change in the democratic party, becoming summing more uniformly progressive. the house you may see a resurgence of blue dogs who take the majority but we have people like sherrod brown who's going to try to hang onto his seat in ohio, an uphill battle there. a swing sibling to a partner with republicans on certain matters. this is the end of an era. an interesting race in arizona. we will see how that plays out. host: independent, thanks for waiting. caller: good morning gentlemen. i have a question about the agenda for this coming week. they have a lot of stuff list it out that has to do with laundry, washing machines, air conditioning. something in there is the fourth amendment not for sale, number 4639. it looks to me like it's something to do with having a warrant. is this something that's possibly going to be tied into the pfizer reauthorization kind of like a backdoor approach for summing about warrants that

president biden, given the stances of kyrsten sinema and joe manchin and even with other democrats in power. no matter he the present to the president is you will have to deal with the congress and supreme court that you have. host: john, illinois. democrats line. you are up. caller: as far as who still supports marianne, my girlfriend and i were proud to vote for you in the illinois primary so i just wanted to say that. but we agree with everything that you've said policy wise. but as far as zach i think, your stance on israel could use a little tweaking. i have the belief that just getting rid of netanyahu is not enough. it is like changing the leadership is like trying to find a good slaveowner, the whole system is kind of bad. i do not see how the two sides, i think it would be better off without that. guest: people talk about a one state solution, who runs a? you're going to have israeli leaders next to hamas, what are we talking about? people on the far right and left say one state. the far left our deal of -- delegitimizing the people for israel and the people on the writer say

now, just a little while ago, shortly before our rehearsal today, arizona senator kyrsten sinema announced. how much are you going to miss her? >> senator sanders: not at all. >> stephen: elected as a democrat. tell me why. >> senator sanders: i want to make the point. way back when, i know it seems like a century ago. but in the midst of covid three years ago, working with the president, we passed the american rescue plan which went a long way to take us out of the terrible economic downspin we were in and help us address the pandemic. what we understood is that bill which was really consequential was an emergency bill. economic downturn, covid. we said "all right, let's deal with the structural crises facing america. the housing crisis, the child care crisis, the health care crisis. we can do better for working people. we work with the president for something we called build back better. we had zero republican support. we had 48 people in the democratic caucus prepared to transform this country on behalf of the working class of america. two people, sinema being one two people, sinema bei

, the senate seat there is another one that republicans would absolutely love to pick up with kyrsten sinemairing.p the republicans' senate candidate in arizona, kari lake, she does appear to live in arizona, which is a big plus for this crop of republican senate candidates. kind of a notable distinction, but in the case of arizona, you need more than that because this, for example, is the new ad that the democratic senate campaign committee just put out on kari lake as a senate candidate in arizona. and the issue of abortion righta in that state. >> i'm incredibly thrilled that we're going to have a great law that's already on the books. i believe it's arf-133603. it will prohibit abortion in arizona, paving the way and it setting course for other states to follow. >> this law passed the arizona supreme court said this is the law of arizona, but unfortunately, the people running our state have said we're not going to enforce it, so it's really political theater. p we don't have that law as much as many of us wish we did. she's not enforcing the law. we don't have that. the only people who c

taken over, taken some radical positions that most people can't look at and look at arizona, kyrsten sinema legitimate case to be truly an independent. she had to leave the democratic party and she got out of politics. i mean, there's no room for somebody to be an independent minded person like that and i think donald trump is doing exceptionally well with minority communities because it's about policy and they care about these things like inflation and the cost of life in america, safety, security, all of those things. that's why trump and i think republicans are going to do quite well. i don't think that democrats are going to course correct because every time they try to signal that, hey, maybe we should think about that, they just get pummeled from the radical far left part of the petter. maria: yeah. well, the biden campaign is out with a new ad in an you atempt to appeal to nikki haley supporters. watch this. >> i call her bird brain. nikki haley has made an unholy alliance with rhinos, never trumpers, americans for no prosperity. she's gone yeah he. >> i. sh-- she's gone crazy. she's

. >> joe manchin and kyrsten sinema buck chuck schumer's on the filibuster just a f couple years ago.so i don't know,w, that might be democrats who actually care about the constitution, too. but if they're allowed y with this tabling or dismissal, -- >> and let's be clear, the question, what difference is a make me it on a thursday afternoon? either one of you covers capitol hill. you are aware on thursday afternoon senators rushed to the airport to fly to other he wanted to go away quickly. the advantage of starting the week with it is it enables the senate to focus on it. we ought to do our job, and i will say the question a minute ago that was asked, given that the vote to understand what you say when you save when we don't have the votes. you were saying that you know that every single democrat senator does not give a damn about what evidence might be presented when you listen to the evidence, would be open to any evidence come doesn't care about the people being killed, doesn't care about the 100,000 americans who died of drug overdoses last year, doesn't care about little boys a

kyrsten sinema from a border standpoint. she will not run for reelection this year.wild card in this boat? >> you know, she could potentially, but as you say she decided not to run for reelection. she is somebody who generally has worked with the department of homeland security and alejandro mayorkas think to the beginning of the year december, november, she was part of a group of senators along the democratic chris murphy from connecticut and james lankford be republican from oklahoma who they put together to try to get some sort of a border package together. so whether or not she would try to do something here to stretch this out remains unseen. >> it is razor tight in the senate as we know. and a vote this or that way could really set us off in a whole new direction. standby will get the results of this boat after a quick timeout we will continue our coverage right after this. boring is the unsung catalyst for bold. what straps bold to a rocket and hurtles it into space? boring does. great job astro-persons. over. boring is the jumping off point for all the un-bor

the democrats had chris fermi and kyrsten sinema joining in the effort and brought to the floor or prepared to bring to the floor a measure that was a bipartisan approach to solve this problem. why is that necessary? because in this body you need 60 votes. if you don't have 60 votes, you're wasting your time. we needed something bipartisan. and so this measure was headed to the floor. and at the last minute, former president trump announced that he wanted to stop the process. he did not want to even attempt to sof the problem -- solve the problem with bipartisan legislation. he said you can blame me if you want to. and i blame him again. yes, he did that. an unfortunately, the republican senators were complicit, most of them, in that effort instead of respecting what james lankford had achieved and what a bipartisan bill would have made. so you can say what you want and make all the speeches about bodies and suffering and i'm sure some of that is true, but the bottom line is when you had a chance to do something about it with the bipartisan gang of eight bill, you voted no. and when you had

mitt romney, kyrsten sinema, jon john chester might be on the rock who knows. my point is even though we are a very polarized country right now politically on the face of things, these members of the senate have been pushing through a lot of bipartisan legislation which might stave off the decks of polarization and the actual body at what you think the future bipartisan legislation looks like in the senate once these members leave? >> i like everybody talk about i would work out with distance and met she's very smart does an amazing job. people leave for a lot of reasons for the number one thief don't run for reelection is when they can't win. back in your own district when you determine that. you're always going have bipartisanship. just because a bill says it's bipartisan does not mean it is good. one designed to have compromised. so what you really want, what i love i love schoolhouse rock but want the bill to go to committee. when i became speaker it was the first time in seven years we had was called an open role which you probably think happens every day

lake is the republican nominee, or she is running for senate to fill the spot being vacated by kyrsten sinema. she still says the election was stolen. she says her own defeat in 2022 was also stolen. she has been sued for libel by the chair of the maricopa county board of election, she has basically agreed to not contest that. there is adjudication of the penalty. this is within the republican party. some of whose officials are named in this indictment. just handed down about. -- hour ago. thank you, that was great. >>> mary mccourt spent several years -- he litigated the case against the wisconsin fake electors. currently co-host the webby award podcast -- tom joslin was a senior staffer on the jetway six committee. and they both join me now. mary, i think you all had a little time to look over this indictment. your thoughts on what you read. >> it is very familiar conspiracy to meet. like you mentioned, having been part of a team of lawyers that litigated against the wisconsin fraudulent electors and two truck attorneys. one of the things i was looking for in there, case resolved with the s

they were starting to get close negotiating this bill between kyrsten sinema the independent from arizonachris murphy the democrat from connecticut and of course to james lankford at the republican from oklahoma and that was blown up by conservatives in the house and mike johnson some of the conservatives might criticize mike johnson but they did not want that bill. he is on the first people out there saying we are not going to consider this at all. even though they came legislatively to some kind of agreement the conservatives killed that pretty quickly and that never even came up in the house or senate. so it does come down to the reality of what the numbers are bird michael johnson, if you look at the totality of what he wanted to do. help israel because it they did not help ukraine they're not going to look at the aid to israel. that was punctuated and augmented by the events of last saturday when they had the airstrikes for this have got to get israel done, guys. bill: speaker johnson's conservative critics are going to say that by giving the democrats what they want here, 60 billion

i do believe that all of the democrats and independents that would include kyrsten sinema and joe manchin and the whole crew that caucus with the democrats. i believe all of them will vote to dismiss this when the appropriate time comes. i think it will be interesting to see if they all vote to determine that, in fact, this first article is on its face unconstitutional because it does not allege a high crime and misdemeanor. >> and then where will we go from there, ryan nobles. we should say, they have not started that vote yet. they will be voting on a point of order on the constitutionality, as claire just said of that first of the two articles that are laid out in this impeachment. what happens? >> reporter: so we'll get this vote. in my ways, it's a point of order, it doesn't tell us anything about whether or not there's going to be a motion to dismiss or table or convict or anything along those lines. it's basically just establishing a fact for the record. but it will, as senator mccaskill point out, be very telling if it gets the 51 votes or more, and if we see republicans voting fo

you could have voted for that bipartisan hard-fought compromise that senator james lankford and kyrsten sinema and chris murphy put together just a few months ago yeah. meantime, there's a whole other fight over a border bill that's being added to foreign aid bills on the house sayyed, a lot going on to say the least on capitol hill, lauren fox, thanks so much for the uptick. >> and let's discuss this now with to cnn senior political analyst, gloria borger and ron brownstein, and also with us constitutional law professor at unc chapel hill, michael gerhardt. he's the author of the law a presidential impeachment. it's great to have all of you, michael, i want to start first with you because constitutional experts have said, look, this does not reach high crimes and misdemeanors, which is the threshold in an impeachment as someone who literally wrote the book on this how did we end up here well, we ended up here for reasons that are probably clear to every american that is, this is a political stunt that republicans want to put on a show about how bad president biden's immigration policy has bee

kyrsten sinema and christmas josephine, just my cousin, just because it was just because it was negotiated by a republican doesn't i mean, that it was right. i mean, i have plenty of republicans that i serve in the house with that, i don't agree with everything that they do either. and i think that parts of that that bill had had good good stuff in it, but there was some of it that we just could not i don't think we looked at it as a solution, but more of a surrender where we should have started was her2. if the senate was truly looking to secure our border but are and make changes along, our southern border than it should've started with hr to, but it did it. >> okay. let's put that to the side because right now immigration is on any legislation is on ice because it's just not going anywhere on capitol hill. this is what you guys are voting on tomorrow. and speaker johnson, there are now three republic bookings who signed on to this effort to oust him over bringing this, these foreign aid bills to the floor. >> but there's just three of them in a conference of 218. >> is the republican pa

white house and a republican-led senate, i mean, would you not be worried because kristen said kyrsten sinema said that's a slippery slope. if we get rid of the filibuster we'll look a look at where we are right now >> and let's be clear when the republicans get to that point, they will do that. they've clearly been abusive of all the processes in the past. and by making this a national issue, then we will repugnance will have to deal every election cycle. where are they going to do this or not and have to answer to the women of this country. and clearly when the women speak and they vote and their allies men, that are in support of abortion rights his past at every sticked. so i think this is an issue that we can be proudly supportive of when it comes to women having a right to an abortion and i don't think we have to run away from it. >> congressman ruben gallego. thank you for joining on. so it's big news in that state. >> thank you. >> ahead. you're up tonight, president biden's former chief of staff, openly questioning his messaging as he is running for reelection. wilson dropping an f b

with at least one other senator, a democrat, maybe chris murphy, of connecticut, and perhaps kyrsten sinema, why not get them together to make significant policy changes to the border to give the president more authority to stop the crisis that we face? why don't we call that for consideration on the floor of the senate? and why don't republicans back t that? that is exactly what happened. we've been through this exercise, james lankford, and i respect him very much, did what he was asked to do, represent the republican side of the aisle, move forward with a proposal that was bipartisan. we have to be bipartisan in the senate. you need 60 votes for anything serious and we have a 51-49 majority. bipartisanship was built into the package. what happened? why didn't that become the law of the land? why didn't that become the change in the border policy we're all looking for? the reason is one man, his name is donald trump. he said i'm instructing my followers to fill this bipartisan effort from senator lankford on the republican side. then former president trump said and you'll hear from people

changed down there is what is embodied in the legislation that jim langford, chris murphy and kyrsten sinemapro-border security bill. the fact that republicans in congress seem to have pushed it aside in favor of the politics, because they would rather have the issue to campaign on. >> trumpet said blame me for everything that happens bad at the border, because this will help joe biden. >> the bill fixes the asylum adjudication system and deals with the backlog, it lowers the bar on the front end. it is very easy to establish edible fear when you first enter the country, which serves as a magnet for illegal immigration, more border patrol agents, more judges and emergency title 42-like authority when the numbers reach a certain level. this was a hard negotiated bipartisan bill that appears to be going nowhere because it is an election year and donald trump does not want it to happen. there are people in these committees across the border, here in new york and elsewhere in crisis right now because of this situation. i do not know why more members of congress, including republicans are not say

i wanted to ask, when we think about mitt romney and kyrsten sinema, all of the people leaving, who isg up the mantle in your place? >> there are so much talent on both sides of the aisle. the reason that i've always been bipartisan in my life, i did everything working with people who sometimes agreed and sometimes didn't agree. i was 35 before i got into politics. i never thought that i was always right or you were always wrong. i was looking to make something better. coming here, i thought it is the big leagues. the united states senate. the house of delegates, secretary of state, and governor, now i'm moving up getting into the big leagues. then i saw the squabbling going back and forth and everyone trying to identify the other side as the enemy. i've always tried to work together. the filibuster is what makes the country different than any other place in the world. >> who else has that attitude that you described? >> i was entrenched in what i believe so strongly. i am not a party person, ok? if you are democrat or a republican, i looked at you as a person elected to represent the

we know that chris murphy, senator lankford and store kyrsten sinema have put forth a border negotiation, aboard a package that was negotiated a few months ago and obviously that was shot down. it did not go forward. .. and republicanses on the issue. >> host: we talked a little bit about this, but senator patty murray takes the position of preside ising officer here. what's the job for her today? >> guest: her job is to make sure that all senators are maintaining decorum, that they're taking the job seriously are, that they're not speak out of turn and that they're taking their oath very, very seriously. so she's going to be looking for anybody that's not paying attention, anybody that's speaking, muttering and just making sure that it goes very, very smoothly and and that it has the seriousness of a courtroom, because that's what the math is being turned into today. >> host: samantha behrmann, find her work at the national journal web site. thanks for your time. >> guest: thank you for having me p. >> host: as you heard our guest say, we, again, moments away prosecute start of this tri

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the democrats had chris fermi and kyrsten sinema joining in the effort and brought to the floor or prepared to bring to the floor a measure that was a bipartisan approach to solve this problem. why is that necessary? because in this body you need 60 votes. if you don't have 60 votes, you're wasting your time. we needed something bipartisan. and so this measure was headed to the floor. and at the last minute, former president trump announced that he wanted to stop the process. he did not want to even attempt to sof the problem -- solve the problem with bipartisan legislation. he said you can blame me if you want to. and i blame him again. yes, he did that. an unfortunately, the republican senators were complicit, most of them, in that effort instead of respecting what james lankford had achieved and what a bipartisan bill would have made. so you can say what you want and make all the speeches about bodies and suffering and i'm sure some of that is true, but the bottom line is when you had a chance to do something about it with the bipartisan gang of eight bill, you voted no. and when you had

president biden, given the stances of kyrsten sinema and joe manchin and even with other democrats inower. no matter he the present to the president is you will have to deal with the congress and supreme court that you have. host: john, illinois. democrats line. you are up. caller: as far as who still supports marianne, my girlfriend and i were proud to vote for you in the illinois primary so i just wanted to say that. but we agree with everything that you've said policy wise. but as far as zach i think, your stance on israel could use a little tweaking. i have the belief that just getting rid of netanyahu is not enough. it is like changing the leadership is like trying to find a good slaveowner, the whole system is kind of bad. i do not see how the two sides, i think it would be better off without that. guest: people talk about a one state solution, who runs a? you're going to have israeli leaders next to hamas, what are we talking about? people on the far right and left say one state. the far left our deal of -- delegitimizing the people for israel and the people on the writer sayin

abortion protections in the constitution, and arizona is one of the key battleground states, with kyrsten sinema office, we are going to see a hard-fought battle between congressman ruben gallego and kari lake, and that race could ultimately decide who controls the senate with senator joe manchin stepping down, democrats have 50 key seats that they might end up with, so that will be a key factor there and abortions and it is sure to have a big impact on the race. host: alex rouhandeh with newsweek, you can find his reporting at newsweek.com. thank you for joining. next, jared bass of the center for american progress and christian cooper of the foundation for research on equal opportunity discuss president biden's revised student loan forgiveness plan and, later, lisa curtis, the program director of into pacific security discusses the japanese prime minister's trip to the u.s. and the security alliance between the two countries amid threats from china. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ >> c-span now is a free mobile app featuring your unfiltered view of what is happening in washington, live and on-deman

question is, what is the republican margin because if it goes from 51-41, the swing votes go from kyrsten sinema to joe manchin to perhaps susan collins who are functionally more like independence. if republicans win a majority, then donald trump if elected would have much more leeway to confirm cabinet appointees and pass an agenda. host: this is mike in indiana, independent line. caller: i couldn't vote for a democrat or republican right now. they blame stuff on people and it is not true. the person when they talked about trump and election interference and this trial about him having these documents and biden having them, the one that is responsible for it is the people that take care of it, the cia, fbi, and they should be a reason when they do something like that, they should be the ones who go to jail. host: to the degree the former president's legal issues deep into the congressional race, what do you think? guest: it is not clear that they will or be front of mine with voters while casting ballots. when we look at the polling surrounding donald trump's problems, it 53% of voters believe

that jim langford, chris murphy and kyrsten sinema negotiated. to have pushed it aside in favor of the politics because they'd rather have the issue to campaign on -- >> and they say it out loud. trump has said blame me for everything that happens at the border just blame me because it will help joe biden if it passes. >> i don't want it fixed unless i'm president, but the bill fixes the asylum adjudication system, lowers the bar on the front end it's easy to establish credible fear when you first enter the country which serves as a magnet for illegal immigration. more border patrol agents, judges, and emergency title 42-like authority when the numbers reach a certain level. and this was a -- you know, a hard-negotiated bipartisan bill. that appears to be going nowhere because it's an election year and donald trump doesn't want it to happen. meanwhile, there are people in texas, arizona and the communities across the border and here in new york and elsewhere that are in crisis right now because of this situation. i don't know why more members of

senator murphy, along with republican senator james langford, republican independent senator kyrsten sinemaarizona got together and worked for months on bipartisan legislation that this house said it wanted. they rejected it and said they would impeach the homeland security secretary. kind of exposes their motives here. >> it was pretty obvious that months of hard work and frankly chris did amazing work here getting everyone on the same page for some tough border reforms, especially in the area of asylum, and some of the things that, chris, you put in that legislation. you know, i'd love you to just give us a view from your perch on foreign relations. with the idea that we have gotten to the point, i thought it was rich listening to cruz talk about precedent and how we need to do things how we've always done them. we are now on the brink of losing a speaker because he has the nerve to allow members of the house to vote on aid to our allies in the midst of a war. that is, i think, probably without precedent in this country. speak to the view in the senate as to what is going on in terms of t