still with me, eugene robinson and matthew dowd.threatening members of his own party again. his political analysis seems to be if you give biden this win, it will be heavily used by democratic candidates in 2022, so, i don't know, is that threat enough to scare republicans who know how popular this is with their constituents? >> i was taken by the serious substantive argument that he made in that text. >> what in particular, matthew? was there one part of it that really struck you? >> the whole thing struck me as completely unserious and nonsubstantive. but anyway, the president doesn't like to lose, right? and he's now suffering a series of losses. he can't even admit they're losses. the fact that he watched joe biden do this, is watching joe biden get this deal done including republican senators, which anybody that's been on a plane, train, or automobile in the last six months knows that we absolutely have to do something on infrastructure in this country. it's a pandemic problem of its own that we have to fix. so he can't face th

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thankfully still with us are cornell belcher and matthew dowd. chael was a congressman he was a congressman, jim jordan is mostly a performance artist, i think everyone can agree to that, so mccarthy made some and 's elections for his opening bid, does that necessarily taint the result or just add on to the workload of the serious members of this committee? >> well, i think he may representative selections to the committee which happens to be foreman and serious caucus, i think it is very representative who he pick and that is fundamentally the problem with this. putting jim jordan and the others on this commission, it's like putting bernie made off on the security exchange commission. i think the democrats can still do what they need to, do which is basically surface information so we are aware of who did what and who said what to whom and let the public hold people accountable, which i think is fundamentally important and where we're gonna be in 2022, and that's ultimately where accountability is going to come from. i think even with his invitat

still with us, eugene robinson and matthew dowd.e all kidding aside, what does it say about this republican party that more republican members of congress made that trip down there to see the former president today then voted for the one six select committee? >> it's everything you need to know about the party. i mean, first i don't think it's a coincidence it's appearances by the impeach president coincide with this ominous legal activity and indictments that are coming tomorrow. i guess it's a trump organization and weisselberg i think and i think this is going to be in his defense effectively against all sorts of legal action. i am conducting a political campaign and i'm being persecuted for political reasons and so he's out there doing politics. but what does it say about the republican party? it says that the party is basically a cult personality and that it is putting what it sees as short term gain, potential short term gain in 22 and 24 ahead of any principles if it remembers where principles are. >> matthew, christine o in

matthew, dowd former george should be bush strategist and founder of country over party.. jeanne, you wrote that. my question is, is what we're seeing an act of self preservation? a slow learning curve, what? probably all of the above. in part, it's an act of preservation and they saw they were trying to score political points with a kind of vaccine and skeptical stance that they were taking. they realize that, putting in constituent in the hospital and killing them, is not good politics. it is not a good idea. they saw these rising infection rates and realize that that is going to mean, even in red states, governors are going to have to impose mask mandates and lockdowns and things like that that people really don't like. these cases keep rising. i welcome it, whatever the motive. john kennedy from once the senator -- you >> are going to get it in the eyeball? >> i will take it in the eyeball if i have to, preferably not. i will certainly take it in the arm. >> so matthew dowd, to what do you attribute this republican shift in tone, and if you haven't already gotten the

matthew dowd is here, the former chief strategist for former president george w. bush. infrastructure and all that, i have to get your reaction to officer dunn who made it crystal clear in his testimony that what happened to him and other officers of color on january 6th was a racist attack. the abuse that he is receiving after sharing his story, racist. the big lie is racist. all the restrictive voting laws targeting cities with large minority populations, racist. where does this end, matthew? >> well, i don't think it ends -- first, great interview with officer dunn, and i -- for him just standing up speaking truth to power is phenomenal. this is what we need in this country. i don't think it ends until we till the soil and get the poison out of the soil of america because this has been something as great as america has been and as a wonderful experiment in democracy as it's been with our u.s. constitution, in our soil of our country has been racism. and until we remove that, scrape the soil and remove that poison from our soil, we're going to be dealing with this. we

bush, matthew dowd.n amazon. i'm waiting for the audio version, but i'm going to have to get the text so that i can read it because i really want to read it. matthew, thank you. i appreciate you joining. >> my pleasure. thank you, don. >> the gop is blasting this select committee, matthew, as partisan with the house minority leader responding with insults when asked about the two republicans who are on the committee. listen to this, and we'll talk. >> some republicans have been saying that the gop should play -- ball with this committee? >> aren't they pelosi republicans? >> okay. i think he thinks he's being cute there, right? pelosi republicans? republicans had a chance for a bipartisan commission and rejected it. did they misjudge how this would unfold? >> well, i think what they're doing is that what they're most concerned about is the truth coming out. every single thing they've done since january 6th has been evidence of people that are very scared of the truth coming out. and the funny thing is th

next to you, apoquel is a dog's best friend. >>> we're back now with matthew dowd. ion really boiling over right now. almost everybody's upset about the guidance we're getting on masks. you're going to have to mask up again for different reasons. the people who never wanted masks are losing it, some even burning them. and the vaccinate folks who wanted to get back to normal are angry that it didn't help. so what's going on here? where do we -- we're divided on everything, even mask wearing. >> well, i think all of these things are related. what's happening on voting rights, what's happening on democracy, what happened on january 6th and what's happening in our public health. and it has to do with this, don. democracy is basically supported by two pillars -- the common good, the ability to get to the common good, and a common set of facts. and we're in the midst of this pandemic and we can't get people to agree onto a common set of facts. namly the republicans with a common set of facts of what statistics say and medical science says. and an inability to get to the co

matthew dowd, you may sense my frustration with the inside game here.lks watching tonight are in the same place. over orrin the competition in cincinnati they did a piece on the spence bridge. that is all cincinnati wants. the thing is going to fall down one of these days. billion dollars in trade goes across that span every day. chris matthews remind us the democrats of old back when spines were standard equipment would take this on the road, go state to state, city to city, remind people of the stakes. what infrastructure money could buy. so are you as frustrated as i am that we're losing track of what is at the heart of this? >> i think i'm more frustrated than you are. i think you and i haven't judged each other's temperatures in a few days on this. i think the democrats are still in a reality that no longer exists. i think chuck schumer and joe biden to a degree and some of the other united states senators are still acting as if the republican party is somehow the republican party they worked with 20 years ago or 15 years ago or even ten yoers ago.

. >> eugene robinson, columnist not "washington post," and matthew dowd, founder of country over partyhe was chief strategist for the bush/cheney president campaign in 2004. matthew, you are in texas. you're watching this. i want to just show our viewers some of the things that are in texas bill 3, adding i.d. requirements for mail voting, banning drive-through, early voting, adding criminal penalties to certain election processes, and empowering partisan poll watchers. it does bring to mind the idea of a solution in search of a problem and, boy, they're searching for that problem. government officials there are turning over every rock to find it. it's not really there. >> no, it's not at all. i think they found 16 instances of a registration with an address wrong on it. they spent $20 million, the attorney general spent $20 million on 16 instances out of 11 million votes cast in 2020. so it's not a problem. this fundamentally goes to the issue of the republicans know the electorate is changing. they know the policies they have been passing, whether it's rolling back roe v. wade, wheth

still with us eugene robertson and matthew dowd.rado had this to say about this. biden had deployed his needle nazis to mess a county. the people of my district are more than smart enough to make their own decision about the experimental vaccine and don't need coercion by federal agents. did i wake up in communist china? >> eugene, these claims get more and more outrageous by the day. it's crazy. >> every word of that is a lie and every word of that is crazy, every word of that is deliberate and designed to appeal to this sort of crazy, tribal attitude that has developed that has been encouraged to develop against vaccination. this was the scene -- vaccination is a very good thing for you. it's in your best interest to get vaccinated, in everybody's best interest for everybody to get vaccinated. nobody is forcing anyone to do it, but if you think about it for five minutes in any sort of rational way. you see that it is a good idea, it's certainly not anything out of nazi germany. it is just amazing that we're at this point when deal

>>> we are back, now, david axelrod, matthew dowd. analysis of the president's answers on key issues at cnn's town hall rlast night, including his relationship with police officers in america. david, you are going to start this off but first, i want to listen to president biden pushing back on the idea that republicans want to portray him or his party as anti-police. here it is. >> how do you respond to republicans who try to paint you and your party as anti-police? >> they're lying. no, look. never once. we have to change police conduct. we have to have rules where things are open. we have to have rules, where you can be able to determine what the background, how many times a cop has violated the rules. and be able to have access to what's going on in police departments, so the justice department can get involved in whether or not they have to change the pattern and practices. i have always said that. >> what about defunding the police, though? because there's -- >> no, i never, never said defunding the police. look. i don't know any

and matthew dowd, political strategist and founder of the group, country over party.e new book, "revolutions on the river." good to see all of you. priscilla, get us up to speed on what's happening in texas today. democrats stopped those efforts in may with a now famous walkout but what are their options now? >> yeah. well, chris, they're certainly going to try to stop it again, but in a state where the gop controls both chambers of the state legislature, democrats know that they are in for a fight here. we now have the two bills that have been proposed in both the house and the senate, those new voting bills, and we see that they include many of the same measures that democrats pushed back against in the regular session, so things like a ban on overnight and drive-thru voting, also creating new criminal penalties for election officials. meanwhile, bolstering protections for partisan poll watchers. now, there were some small concessions on the part of republicans. they reinstated those early sunday voting hours and also created a new process for curing ballots but at

let's get straight to matthew dowd. he's the former chief strategist for george w. bush.e's the author of the book revelations of the river which can be pre-ordered on amazon. we'll talk more as it gets closer. good evening to you. we have seen so much covid misinformation from the right and their media allies, but this is from sean hannity. >> please take covid seriously. i can't say it enough. enough people have died. we don't need any more deaths. research like crazy. talk to your doctor, your doctors, medical professionals you trust based on your unique medical history, your current medical condition, and you and your doctor make a very important decision for your own safety. take it seriously. you also have a right to medical privacy, doctor/patient confidentiality is also important, and it absolutely makes sense for many americans to get vaccinated. i believe in science. i believe in the science of vaccination. >> okay. anyway, so i'm not sure what doctor/patient -- anyways, what do you think of hannity saying tonight that -- oliver darcy pointed out that tucker car

matthew dowd, it is your state.ictions with the wind of the conservative majority of the supreme court at his back. talk about today in texas. >> well, great to be on. i mean i think you have to couple what he is trying to do on voter restrictions with what other things he has done in the last legislative session, the governor and the republicans, and he wants to do in this because i think they're fundamentally connected. what they're doing is trying to restrict votes so people can't hold them accountable in the process of voting next year in 2022 when he is up for election. because they have passed policies that are highly unpopular with the texas electorate, but whether it is permitless carry on guns, abortion restrictions, restrictions on women's choice, and then in this legislative session along with the voting restrictions, i don't know if you are aware, he wants to aim discriminatory practices at transgender people. he wants to go after critical race theory. he wants to do more choice restrictions for women in

here's the political hack matthew dowd stirring up fears. >> there are 300 million guns in america thatacross the country. and that really concerns me. in the immediate, i am concerned that january 6th was just a preliminary event for more loss of life and it's scary. >> this shows how paranoid they are. what is your take? >> well, since when were progressives against mass violence? i recall last summer, every city in the country was getting burned down and they fanned the flames. they had celebrities who were tweeting and bragging about paying the bail money for the rioters. we had media activiy who told them to cut it out. i can never take it seriously when they claim to be against violence especially after what we saw last year. >> yes? >> there was a princeton study. there was violence if 48 of the 50 largest city in 2020. at least 11 americans were killed participating in the riots and another 14 died. where is the concern? >> yes, you had kamala harris just last year working on bail these people out and put them back on the street as quickly as possible. cnn jeffrey had the most i

jason: let's go to the next one, matthew dowd on domestic insurrection fears. >> there's 300 millionca that we have spread across the country and that concerns me. i'm concerned january 6th was just a pulmonary event for the worst thing that could happen for loss of life, a very scary thing. >> this shows how paranoid doubt and the rest of the media elite are. what is your take? >> since when were progressives against mass violence? last summer nearly every city in the country was getting burned down and these guys were literally and metaphorically fanning the flames to the best of their ability. they even had celebrities tweeting and breaking about paying bail money for the rioters. we had thousands of accuracy in media activists who tattletale to their parents on some. we called there agents and publicists and send emails and told them to cut it out and they did but i never can take it seriously when these people claim to be against violence after what we saw last year. >> in terms of what happened there was a princeton study, violence in 48 of the 50 largest cities in the united s

clearly, the guy is unwell, as sick as matthew dowd, but no one cares, he's no political hero.c spewing nonsense about 9/11. not only do they not care about the suspects, the media creates a narrative that it's a deadly insurrection caused by the big lie, but the big lie was actually there for years pushing of the russian collusion delusion. when an unarmed protester gets killed, that's par for the course. imagine if it was a blm protester and not a trumpet. holy. it's not surprising how the media places, squeezing as much juice out of one event while ignoring a crime wave. the rise in crime implicate the media and the dems, they can't talk about it, they deny it. to some even laugh it off. >> democratic cities are in chaos right now. is this what you want from joe biden? they're going to take your country away, they are taking down the stretch use. crime is rising, it's so bad. they're defunding police. it's like -- >> greg: the only time this idiot was right about something, and he was being sarcastic. by the way, i wonder if they get a royalty every time i play that segment.

. >> that's the political strategist, matthew dowd.coring why texas democrats traveled to d.c. and "the washington post" writing, the direction of texas' anti-voting measures reflect a lack of confidence in their own popularity, and a toxic disdain for democracy. joining us, eugene robinson and mike murphy. gentlemen, good evening and welcome. eugene, i want to get your reaction, i want to put another quote on the pile from "i alone can fix it." liz cheney describing being alone with jim jordan. while these maniacs are going through the place, he said we need to get the ladies away from the aisle. let me help you. i smacked his hand away and told him, get away from me. you, the word is, f-ing did this. eugene, if there's a quote you need on a subject about the unraveling of the trump west wing, it's in here. >> yeah, it's in there. as you know, i've said before, the first rule of column writing is, you know, don't go for the hitler analogy. don't go for the nazi analogy. but the fact that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff went

matthew dowd is here, a former chief strategist for president george w. sh, cnn political commentator amanda carpenter here as well. good evening to both of you. matthew, it's not every day that a former president's company is criminally charged. what does that say about where we are right now? >> well, i think it's imminently predictable that donald trump is who's lived this life in this exceedingly corrupt manner and who everybody around him seems to constantly get indicted or plead guilty to various crimes. he's had the most indicted or guilt ridden white house since we've had probably since teapot dome, much more since watergate. so it doesn't surprise me at all. i think the question remains is, you know, in many ways weisselberg the little fish, are you going to get the big fish? and the big fish is obviously former president trump. he's managed to escape for four decades on things. will he still escape through this, and that's still an open question. >> the trump org cfo hauled off to jail in cuffs. hundreds of insurrectionists facing charges. but th

. >> matthew dowd, always a pleasure. thank you, sir. >> thanks. >>> 17 republicans supporting president biden's $1 trillion infrastructure plan. plus, the pandemic of the unvaccinated is surging with hot spots all around the country. companies mandating covid vaccines. one saying employees will be fired if they're not vaccinated by labor day. and elizabeth warren joins me. the final vote, 67-32, it's not easy to get 67 votes for anything. but you don't think this bill goes far enough. why is that? >> look, this is only a sliver of the infrastructure that we need. it's a part that some folks wanted to make sure was bipartisan. that's fine, long negotiations over that. but we still need a lot more. we need child care. people want to go to work, you need roads and bridges. parents also need child care. we need home and community based care. we need to make sure that we're fighting back against the climate crisis that is bearing down upon us. we want to do an infrastructure package, it has to have that in it. it's time to ex

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. >> that's a political strategist matthew dowd a friend of ours who happens to be a texans who underscoredngress to pass protections against restrictive voting measures. washington post editorial board is on the board with this, the direction of texas anti voting campaign and the fig leaf excuses with which republicans justify it, reflect a lack of confidence in their own popularity, and the toxic disdain for democracy that should offend every american. strong words. with us again tonight eugene robinson, pulitzer prize willing columnist for the washington post and mike murphy veteran republican strategist, could director of the political future of at the university of southern california, also happens to be cohost of the hacks on tap podcast. gentlemen, good evening to both. eugene, i just want to get your reaction, i'm gonna put another quote on the pile from the new fill rucker carroll lending book i alone can fix it, this is liz cheney describing being together with jim jordan during the siege of one six. while these maniacs are going through the place, i'm standing in the island he sa

going to political white house reporter eugene daniels, msnbc analyst and strategist toliver, and matthew dowd, who is the author of the book "revelations on the river: being a prophet for your own path." there is both the legend of what happened on january 6, there is what happened on january 6 and now there is the long tail of denial this party is still a part of. >> i think that's a great percent to look at it with because i think history is going to judge the republican party and all the republican leadership exceedingly badly at this time. if you can imagine if what happened on january 7 at pearl harbor, we had the same reaction by one political party with what the country would think and what we would write in our history books. the problem that we have, which we are constantly going to, is who is writing the history books? because at this moment in time, it seems objective to me that the republicans on this insurrection has been bad, but there's been some attempt in some states and some schools to excise history. who writes the history books? objectively it's bad. >> matt, stay with me,

let's discuss now, matthew dowd, former chief strategist for george w. bush joins us. good evening. speech that president biden gave. it was impassioned. he was clear. he says we're facing the most significant test for democracy since the civil war. what we didn't hear is any mention of changing the filibuster. if democracy is on the line, how can the president avoid that? >> well, don, thanks for having me. as you know, you and i have had this conversation for well over a month where i talked about it being a most perilous point since the civil war, and i'm glad to see the president has come to that position, the real reality position of where we are. this is the way i see the president right now, and much of the administration and probably most of the senate democrats is they have been going through the stages of grief of what the republican party fundamental is. it took them a while. they were in denial. they thought donald trump was the bad part, he'll be removed, they'll go back to normal. they didn't. then you go through bargaining. we can bargain. we can figure it out. then i

matthew dowd is here. the former-chief strategist for president george w. bush. litical commentator, amanda carpenter, here as well. good evening, to both of you. matthew, it's not every day that a former president's company is criminally charged. what does that say about where we are right now? >> well, i think it's eminently predictable donald trump's lived his life in a seemingly corrupt manner. he's had the most-indicted or gu guilt-ridden white house that we have had since probably teapot dome. it doesn't surprise me. i think the question, still, remains is, in many ways, weisselberg is a little fish. are you going to get the big fish? and the big fish is obviously president trump or former-president trump. and i'm -- he's managed to skate for four decades on things. will he, still, skate through this? and that's still an open question. >> so, amanda, the trump org cfo hauled off to jail, in cuffs. hundreds of insurrectionists are arrested and facing charges. but the man at the center of it all, being protected by republicans to the point where they don't eve

. >> matthew dowd, always a pleasure. thank you, sir. >> thanks, don. >>> the senate voting tonight to advance president biden's bipartisan infrastructure bill. 127 rep 17 republicans supporting the $1 trillion plan. plus the pandemic of the unvaccinated is surging with covid cases and hospitalizations rising in hot spots all around the country. corporate america is responding with multiple companies. as i just said, they're mandating that employees get their shots. one of the largest real estate developers in new york city telling employees they'll be fired if they're not vaccinated by labor day. joining me now democratic senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts. good to see you, senator. >> good to see you. >> thank you so much. let's talk about the advancing of the infrastructure bill. you voted to advance it, the bill tonight. the final is 67-32. it's not easy to get 67 votes for anything these days. we're going to put it up on the screen about what this bill will do. but you don't think this bill goes far enough. wh

. >> let me stay with you, matthew dowd, on the texas democrats. eugene has an ear to the ground, as does donna. and really what everyone is reporting and analysis amounts to is the senate democrats will not touch the filibuster. they value it too much. claire mccaskill said it is a bulwark against the republicans doing bad things when they have a slim majority. i am of the view that the republicans will do bad things that they have a slim majority if democrats are nice to them and the republicans will do bad things if democrats decide that voting rights are worth protecting in the same way that republicans decide judicial appointments were worth blowing up the filibuster. it is really on your spectrum of stages of accepting what this party is, and you have to get to that one. and i wonder what you make of the new variables. the filibuster decide is where it's been but you have these texas democrats who are in the state. they're used to -- there is a long history in that state of trying to work things out. not in this moment, but historically speak

or matthew dowd describing events of january 6th as worse than 9/11 and add to that there is no end ton tv and come on and say the republican party is -- you know that is what happened so let's not pretend this is deeper than that. he is a superficial hero with nothing going for him. who is on that - the chinese spy guy, a panel on msnbc, the chinese spy guy, and the chinese spy on the battle, and i give up. >> i thought isis and al qaeda from my keyboard, national security guy. >> leading the charge. >> student actions summit as well, give us a preview. >> can't wait to see you guys down there. whenever i get in front of young college kids i made the point to thank them. it is hard to be a conservative. you've been going through it as long as i have for decades. it is hard to be in this movement. i always tell them they are the real renegades, the real misfits, the real tough guys now. it is hard to be a college kid on college campus. i want to make the point teddy atlas said truth comes to people in many ways but it comes real quickly in the ring. we are under fire, all in the ring,