i yield back to senator mcconnell. mr. mcconnell: madam president. the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 137, h.r. 5305. i further ask that the first amendment in order be the shelby-mcconnell amendment to the text of which is identical to calendar number 135, s. 2789, that there be two hours of debate equally divided between the two leaders or their designees, and upon the use or yielding back of that time the shelby-mcconnell amendment be agreed to. finally, upon disposition of the shelby-mcconnell amendment the bill as amended be read a third time and the senate vote on passage of the bill as amended with a 60-affirmative vote threshold required for passage. the presiding officer: is there objection? is. mr. leahy: reserving my right to object. the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: i've listened to this debate. i've heard my two dear friends from louisiana speak about the disaster recovery, and i support di

mcconnell: madam president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: over the past year and a half, senior democratic leaders decided the upheaval and hardship of a once-in-a-century pandemic was actually a

the former president is looking for someone to de-throne mitch mcconnell. >> good luck. >> mcconnell effective as a gop leader. he's been in that position in the senate for decades now. what is this really about? >> well, first of all, he doesn't like mitch mcconnell. it's vindictive and it's petty, and he's not going to find republicans eager to get up and challenge mitch mcconnell as "the wall street journal" pointed out. people believe he's been a very good leader. scott jennings knows a lot about mitch mcconnell and has been close to him. look, i think he -- he says mitch mcconnell said on the floor of the senate that i provoked the insurrection. mitch mcconnell didn't vote to decertify the election, right? he don't like him, and he wants to make trouble for him, and he's supporting candidates to run that mitch mcconnell doesn't run because he thinks that they would lose and that would endanger getting back a majority. the president is playing games here and i think given internal senate politics he's going to lose this one if he's real serious about it. >> scott, you worked with

that's all mcconnell cares about.ump because it doesn't serve his end to get republicans back in the senate. that's the discipline that is required to be a legislative leader in this environment. and it's the kind of discipline that trump never had when he was president of the united states. what trump said works for trump. it just wouldn't work for mcconnell or anybody who seeks to run the senate republican conference when they don't want it to be about you, they want it to be about unity and the team. . >> scott jennings, thank you very much. . >> thanks, john. >>> san francisco mayor london breed is under fire after video has come to light that shows her maskless, dancing and sepbinginn an indoor concert of tony, tony, tony. that is breed on the left. they say she violated her department's own masking order which came out in august and applies to the vaccinated like the mayor and the unvaccinated. here's what the order says. people may remove their well-fitted mask while actively eating or drinking, while dining in

or yelling back at the time the shelby mcconnell amendment to be agreed to on the shelby mcconnell amendment the bill is amended to read a third time and the senate vote on the passage of the bill as amended with a 60 affirmative vote threshold required for passage. i've listened to this debate. also my dear friends from louisiana speaking about the disaster r recovery there woulde no funds in the treasury to pay for the disaster recovery or for writing a check to the fire dome because it doesn't raiseis a det limit and by the vice chairman of the appropriations committee so shelby doesn't solve the problem in congress. ithe doesn't address the looming debt crisis facing the nation so it ignores that they exist. the deaths wrapped up by the responsible tax cuts championed by the wealthiest of americans and encouraging in the bipartisan fashion with multiple crisis, disaster assistance in the wake of hurricanes and because we don't come back to the climate change, covid relief to keep the country from creating headfirst into the pandemic. historic levels of support for the nation's military a

leader mcconnell was the majority leader of the senate and passed under republican leadership.is the debt we are paying in this bill. the legislation that funded this in covid relief was supported by more than 40 republicans and signed into law by president trump if they say that they are not talking fact but fiction. both sides have a responsibility for the debt we have already incurred in a bipartisan way. unfortunately, last week leader mcconnell announces senate republicans aresk inclined to deliberately turn their back on their obligations when asked if republicans would block an extension of the debt limit, leader mcconnell said republicans are united in their position to raise the debt ceiling. shame. the same leader mcconnell who urge democrats and republicans to support raising the debt ceiling and he always comes up as to why it's different but everybody knows it's not different. in fact democrats supported three times raising the t debt ceiling when trump was president and if my recollection is right at least one was when the house and the senate and theic presidency

. >>> up next, a major standoff on the hill right now as the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell to pledge that republicans will not support raising the debt limit with the deadline just weeks away. you're watching "meet the press daily." i've spent centuries evolving with the world. some changes made me stronger. others, weaker. that's the nature of being the economy. i've observed investors navigating the unexpected, choosing assets to balance risk and reward. and i've seen how one element has secured their portfolios, time after time. gold. an element so agile and liquid. a proven protector. an ever-evolving enabler of bold decisions. an asset more relevant than ever before. gold. your strategic advantage. in the romo household we take things to the max oh yeah! honey, you still in bed? yep! bye! that's why we love skechers max cushioning footwear. they've maxed out the cushion for extreme comfort. it's like walking on clouds! big, comfy ones! oh yeah! if you're 55 and up, t- mobile has plans built just for you. whether you need a single line or lines for family members, you'l

as to what mcconnell should do, i think mcconnell is in a fairly secure position.nk trump's hold on the party, though it is obviously quite strong, you know, every fever has a half life and i think that this fever has to break some time soon though it seems to be going a lot longer than i think i expected. >> you and i go back a long time. you were a rising star in the republican governor and became governor of south carolina and there's a path to the presidency. another rising star to the republican presidency congressman anthony gonzalez who will not run for re-election. he said he could have survived a trump primary challenge. he was among those that voted to impeachment president. if the president don't swear fealty to trump -- the latter won't go down well in suburban swing districks. again, my point you is say the fever has lasted longer than you anticipated. how do you break it when when number one the leader in the senate is being targeted by the former president and, number two, the young presidents who should be the future of the party are just deciding i

we will get to mcconnell in a minute. to advise democrats on the same kind of campaign discipline democrats are used to seeing from republican campaigns of late, how do they achieve their goal? >> well, brian, i will point out, the people in the country who think republicans are the best messengers and campaigners of all times tend to be democrats, but the democrats have the house, white house and senate so let's not give them too much credit. you have to lift up what is happening in the infrastructure bill assuming that happens, the recovery act, child tax credit. it's important that we have a third election cycle where democrats get good enough turnout to win. every district and state has its nuances. this notion that the republicans can get great turnout again is also a question. that's why i think trump poisoning the atmosphere, a lot of his stalwart fans say why bother. >> tim miller, let's talk about mitch mcconnell. a broad question i know you think about on regular occasion and that is where did this come from, ta

>> reporter: donald trump is trying to take his feud with mitch mcconnell to the next level. in the wake of the 2022 election even though mitch mcconnell did not vote to convict trump in the impeachment trial he strongly condemned him for his rhetoric and behavior leading up to january 6th and privately blamed trump for the pair of losses in the georgia senate races. now trump, who is known to hold a grudge and already on a revenge campaign, is actively trying to find someone who challenge mcconnell for gop leader, according to "the wall street journal." there appears to be little, if any appetite inside the republican conference to do that, even tommy tuberville, one of trump's top allies in the senate told "the wall street journal" he thinks mitch mcconnell is doing a good job and this is not a fight he wants to engage in. it speaks to a few points. number one, mitch mcconnell is widely viewed as an effective and respected leader inside the conference. keep in mind there is a 6-3 conservative majority on the supreme court because of mitch mcconnell and republicans know that

the dispute between mcconnell and trump goes back, really, to mitch mcconnell's refusal to undermineonald trump, really, and now trump is trying to oust him, trying to get him out of a leadership position that he's held longer than any other republican in the history of the party. the striking thing to me is that -- dana had a very good point here about trump holding onto this idea that he won the 2020 election because he didn't want to be called a loser, but there is no reason for him to give it up at this point because he's convinced 65%, 70% of the republican party that he did win. so while he's able to convince all these republicans that he won in 2020, what he can't convince anyone, or he hasn't yet, is to attack mitch mcconnell. one ally after the next, one trump ally after the next in the senate came to mcconnell's defense and said this is -- donkeys will fly before they vote the senate came to mcconnell's defense and said this is, you know, donkeys will fly before they vote mcconnell out. trump's endorsed candidates in the contested primaries in pennsylvania, north carolina,

that's what mcconnell is doing. mcconnell is -- >> isn't he winning that? if mcconnell gets democrats to do it themselves, isn't he getting what he wants then? >> i think he -- that's his play. i think he thinks so. then they're going to have to say democrats raised the debt limit because they're doing all this spending. i'm not sure the american people are quite that naive. i think the american people are going to look at, who is responsible? who averted an international economic crisis? they're going to -- so we'll see how sophisticated the american people are. >> do you, as someone who was a democrat in the senate, ever feel like mitch mcconnell was playing the game better than you as a party? >> yeah. i think that -- it depends what you mean by better. i think he has pretty much ruined the senate. let me explain. during the obama years, they filibustered more executive nominees than had been -- or the same amount that had been filibustered during the entire previous history of the country. it used to be rare that you had a filibuster. it was really rare

i think that mitch mcconnell is being extremely cynical. if it came down to it, let's just say maybe a couple of democratic senators had to go into covid quarantine and couldn't make the vote. mitch mcconnell wouldn't let the country default on its debt. we had this debate in 2013. i was working for people that wanted to have spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling which i still think is a pretty good policy because if we're going to keep spending this money, maybe we should get it under control. mitch mcconnell didn't want to do it but he crossed over and voted with the democrats to raise that debt ceiling. so he is being cynical, hypocritical, yes, but let's just call him a bare knuckled partisan because that's really how he's acting here. in my view. >> amanda, it's more than that because look at the rule that he is setting up. he is saying now, the majority party should have to raise the debt ceiling by itself without any votes from the minority party. that's what he is saying. but at the same time, the minority party sho

againd that is what mcconnell said when trump was president. we will nong doubt raise the det ceiling on a bipartisan basis. he said when trump was president, failure to do so would be a disaster. failure to do so now, leader mcconnell, is an equal disaster it doesn't matter who is president you still incurred the bills. so, i believe it should be no different this time around. the united states has never, ever defaulted on paying its fdebt. i can't imagine republicans would want to be responsible for the first ever default. we need to work together to reverse causing irreparable harm tode the economy. and i would say to the business community and the financial community, led leader mcconnell no stop playing games with the debt ceiling. one final issue mr. president, madam president. before the senate concluded the previous work period, republicans blocked multiple efforts to even debate voting rights legislation in the u.s. senate. let me be clear, republicans refusing to support anything on voting rights is not an excuse for democrats to do n

so this is what mitch mcconnell is prepared to do, apparently for political reasons.rstand his calculus here, i think the american people will hold him responsible if there is damage done. >> so what is happening here is that if the democrats -- if chuck schumer brings up a change to the debt ceiling, mcconnell is saying that the republicans will require a 60 vote threshold, they will block it. they don't have to do that. it used to be that no one would dare try to bring a 60 vote threshold to a must pass bill like a debt ceiling or other things in the senate. but now mcconnell is saying you will need 60 votes to do that, you won't get the republican votes to do that. and therefore he is in effect saying, democrats should just do it in the reconciliation bill. >> you are making a very important point, which is mitch mcconnell and the republicans should do, what they should do versus what they did during donald trump's term, which is to lift the debt ceiling. but if they don't want to do that, if they don't want to provide security for the country's economy, at the ver

i yield back to senator mcconnell. mr. mcconnell: madam president. presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 137, h.r. 5305. i further ask that the first amendment in order be the shelby-mcconnell amendment to the text of which is identical to calendar number 135, s. 2789, that there be two hours of debate equally divided between the two leaders or their designees, and upon the use or yielding back of that time the shelby-mcconnell amendment be agreed to. finally, upon disposition of the shelby-mcconnell amendment the bill as amended be read a third time and the senate vote on passage of the bill as amended with a 60-affirmative vote threshold required for passage. the presiding officer: is there objection? is. mr. leahy: reserving my right to object. the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: i've listened to this debate. i've heard my two dear friends from louisiana speak about the disaster recovery, and i support disast

so this is what mitch mcconnell is prepared to do apparently for political reasons.rstand the political calculus here because i think the american people will hold him responsible if there is damage done. >> what is happening here is if the democrats bring up a change to the debt ceiling mitch mcconnell is saying that republicans will actually require a 60-vote threshold. they will block it. they don't have to do that. it used to be that no one would dare try to bring a 60-vote threshold to a must pass bill like a debt ceiling or other things in the senate but now mcconnell is saying, you will need 60 votes to do that. you won't get the republican votes. and therefore he is kind of in effect saying, democrats should just do it in their reconciliation bill. >> well, you're making a very important point, which is what mitch mcconnell and the republicans should do of course is what they did throughout donald trump's term, which is to vote to lift the debt ceiling. if they don't want to do that, they don't want to provide security for the country's economy, at the very l

for mcconnell, mcconnell's got a losing hand here. nothing happens if we pass the debt ceiling. that is, there's no political consequences for either party. if we don't pass the debt ceiling, the republicans are aware of that in their elections in 2022. there will not be a republican majority in either house if the debt ceiling doesn't pass because the stock market will collapse, jobs will hemorrhage, mcconnell knows that. mcconnell is just bluffing as usual, and i wouldn't want to see this for the sake of the country, but from a political point of view, i hope he carries out his threat because we're going to have a much bigger majority in both houses if he does that. >> you're speaking to the kind of republican or mcconnell denialism on every type of policy whether you're talking about the covid issues which in some instances could feint disagreement and others have political ploys that are leaving people sick or dead. it would affect the banks and wall street and affect a lot of normal working people, mya. >> yeah. >> senator warren was talking about this. take a listen. >> wh

way that mcconnell? yes it continues.republican leader mitch mcconnell, who founded the center in played a key role in pushing through her confirmation, in the last days of the trump administration. barrett spoke at length about her desire for others to see the supreme court as non partisan. yes both xi and mcconnell are not dumb in they both knew what they were doing. remember amy coney barrett's nomination was so rushed that the company white house held a super spreaders ceremony announcing her selection. before justice ruth she voices concerns that she was introduced by mitch mcconnell who completely blocked barack obama from appointing -- only to push barrett's nomination through in the waning days of donald trump's first term. just bear expressed concern, people might think the court has become too partisan. imagine the. here is the justice correspondent -- senior lead opener and correspondent of sleet. they both join me now. i feel like this was designed to produce the reaction we're going to. get so i feel a little

mcconnell: the senior house democrat told us

following his remarks mitch mcconnell talks about federal spending and tax policy. this is about 20 minutes. text yesterday speaker pelosi and i put in motion to pass a continuing resolution that in one fell swoop would accomplish for theory important things. it would keep the government open through december 3 of this year end avoid a needless and dangerous shutdown. it would provide emergency funding to help resettle evacuees. it would prove tens of billions of dollars in disaster aid funding. and it will suspend the debt ceiling until december of 2022, commencement with the time necessary to cover the debt of the bipartisan $908 billion emergency covid relief bill passed at the end of last year. now, today i want to spend some time focusing on the last of these items. addressing the debt limit to avoid a first ever default in american history. throughout modern history, addressing the debt ceiling has consistently been done on eight bar partisan basis but let me repeat that, throughout modern history addressing the debt ceiling has consistently been done on a bip

wit, that mcconnell. >> oh, yes. it continues.e center and played a key role in pushing through her confirmation in the last days of the trump administration, barrett spoke at length about her desire for others to see the supreme court as non-partisan." yes, both she and mcconnell are not dumb. they both know what they're doing. you may remember amy coney barrett's nomination was so rushed the trump white house held a covid superspreader ceremony announcing her selection before justice ruth bader ginsburg had even been buried. and barrett voiced these concerns at an event where she was introduced by mitch mcconnell, who of course completely blocked barack obama from appointing a supreme court justice ten months before his term was up, only to turn around and push barrett's nomination through in the waning days of donald trump's first term. justice barrett expressed concern people might think the court has become too partisan. imagine that. elie mistal is a justice correspondent for the nation. dahlia lithwick is a senior editor an

let's talk about mitch mcconnell. you, when i pretty much know you think about on a regular occasion. that is, where did this nihilism come from? take the case of mitch mcconnell, a guy who is a complete product of the system. where did it come from that he now is okay burning the system down? >> well look, the situation here brian is a feature not of -- for mitch mcconnell. i don't think this came naturally for him out of birth. it came from the fact that this is what republican voters want from him. he realized that he could be nihilistic and get what he wants, just powerful power sake. you know, if you roll back the clock to the garland debate, the fact that mitch mcconnell got away with that and was able to essentially steal a supreme court seat demonstrated him that he suffers no political penalty for acts like this. the only way to get mitch mcconnell the changes actions is to ensure that he suffers a political penalty. i think you saw him change only temporarily, but somewhat after the loss in georgia to speak

will fly before they vote mcconnell out. endorsed candidates in the contested primaries in pennsylvania, north carolina, georgia. her shall walker wouldn't be running without trump. refused to weigh in and say whether or not he would vote for mcconnell for another term as leader. the party should be figuring out how to take advantage of the numbers. >> dana, mcconnell will hold on to his power, do you i >> no question about it. no question. even those as michael reported, who are as loig as yal as they donald trump, they will be more loyal to mitch mcconnell. and they want him as their leader. >> more breaking news next. what we're learning about another u.s. official falling victim to that mysterious and possibly deliberately inflicted so-called havana syndrome. without my medication, my small tremors would be extreme. i was diagnosed with parkinson's. i had to retire from law enforcement. it was devastating. one of my medications is three thousand dollars per month. prescription drugs do not work if you cannot afford them.

in addition to avoiding any more labs offending the mcconnell cr includes funding for israel, release for hurricane stricken states and support for afghan refugees. and deserves bipartisan support and i yield the floor. i note the absence of a quorum. the clerk will call the roll. >> the senator from maryland the mac i asked a quorum call be lifted. >> without objection. >> thank you mr. president. the united statesyo of america has always paid its bills on time. always. the unbroken record that dates back to our founding, a 232 year streak in that unbroken record has helped the united states become the anger of the global financial system, and the many benefits that brings to every american in our country. now as we have heard on this floor over the last two days that senate republicans are threatening to and the unbroken record. senate leader mcconnell has said that they would vote against increasing the debt ceiling to allow less to pay their bills due and owing that likely vote on that measure all together and that would destroy our economy and cause the loss of millions of jobs a

you know mitch mcconnell cares about, all that dark money deference those. elections and gets where that money comes from? it doesn't come from mom and pop, down the corner got drugstore. it comes from major corporations in this country. and i can assure you he is going to have a moment where his stomach will clinch over whether or not he is going to be able to get the money he needs dark money to take the senate if he does this to the economy. eugene, give me an on the fly column of 60 seconds or so. reminding everyone that joe biden was elected having been there on his experience and competence. and while folks like us have learned never to draw conclusions about a moment in time, because tomorrow everything can change, if time stopped tonight, what's your column say? with his agenda frozen? what happened? is there a leading reason, to you? >> well, i guess i am not quite sure about the premise. it's unclear to me that the agenda is frozen. if time stopped tonight, we wouldn't know how it ended, right? we wouldn't know what eventually happened. and my posi

the person who broke it was mitch mcconnell.dented step of blocking a nominee, refusing to even have a hearing, refusing to have a hearing on a nominee by the president, and he received no punishment for that. democrats didn't punish him. voters didn't punish him. the court itself didn't punish hichl him. neil gorsuch didn't. mitch mcconnell will continue do his court-breaking political maneuvers, and until the democrats grow some kind of -- i don't want to say backbone because it sounds like i'm pulling things out of the air. there are concrete things democrats could do to depoliticize the court. one would be to expand the number of justices on the supreme court so each individual confirmation bat sri lanka not a life-or-death decision. if one goes down, that's a huge political ideal. if there were 19 justices, 29 justices as there are on the ninth circuit court, they could do it in a bipartisan position, you get five, i get five. they won't do that, so mitch mcconnell is going to keep winning the street brawl as long as we let

democrats should call mcconnell's bluff. kill the filibuster >> so professor how is that not the answer? and how is this not an engraved implication for the democrats? >> look brian, i am an institutionalist, and i have always noted whether the filibuster should be taken away. but over the last couple of years i would say over the last i was seen that time is change too much. to where the filibuster had a reason of being in the congress of 30 40 50 years ago, and beyond. we are no longer there today. today's not yesterday, and i think that the time has come. because of the inability of congress is an institution, it is completely failed, when we're talking about our feeling democracy, it really is at the heart of congress. so i [inaudible] the representatives argument about the filibuster but the reality is kirsten cinema, joe manchin, other more moderate democrats are not going to let that happen. so while yes this would be a great solution, not just to the issue that we're facing right now, but the debt ceiling, but also w

that's what mitch mcconnell is doing right now.is doing right now. they're telling americans they're going to let the country default on its debt, which would be economically devastating because they're not going to pay their own bill. >> first of all, we would need barnacle's help even to get in that club. you and i can't get in on our own. >> true that. >> i think the argument democrats have been making correctly this was debt racked up under president trump, debt from both parties, and republicans voted to raise the debt ceiling repeatedly, when a republican was in office and democrats have done that when a republican was in office. so there's the extraordinary and accurate claim of hypocrisy here, the nation could default for the first time. we heard the warnings in the financial markets. we her treasury secretary yellen say how devastating this would be for the u.s. and its global reputation and economy at home were this to happen. simply, it's the republicans. we all who do this in washington and new york and watch this, we s

>> tt's clearly what mcconnell is tryingo achieve.erse about it, from his perspective. we have, as we know, joe manchin and kirsten sinema, what's the rush here, they said? thisebt limit hostage taking and reckless behavior, what it does, on the part of every republican senator, o has joined with him, it ds an gency togetting that reconciliation packagedone. i would assu that today, when president biden met with sinema and manchin, he let them know that this is not just about a kind of negotiation over what we do with these two bills that affect different kinds of infrastructure. it's also out whether we crash into a deerecession or something worse, and have long economic effects. so mcconnell has done this before, ing the debt limit as a hostage. this may have a perverse impact, if in fact we get this taken to a point where a deal with it in reconciliation. and i want to make the point, lawrence, that if we do it that way, let's end this ridiculous thing once and for all by adopting the wonderfully named mcconnell rule, meaning the p

mitch mcconnell has amazing nerve. mean, the republicans did this three times during trump, they raised the debt ceiling. and i think it's time to do away with this. you know, it seems to me when you vote to spend money, you are voting to raise the debt sealing because that's what they're defending. that americans won't understand what this is. it sounds like to americans that they're raising the limit on their credit card. no, they're not doing that. all they're doing is paying their bills. that's all they're doing. so, the notion they want to play political gains with america paying its bills is astounding to me. that they are trying to withhold every single vote. democrats always gave them votes on the debtd ceiling, always. >> so, eugene, tonight, among other things, we're thinking of george floyd. so much for the most impactful summer of protests thinl history of this republic, being the imitous for police reform. if you ask senate negotiators, not so much. and so it ends with a whimper. >> and one of our major po

>>hat's clearly what mcconnell is trying to achieve.bout it from his perspective. as we know jmanchin and kyrsten sinema said, what's the rush here? let's take our time with this. what this debt limit hostage taking a reckless bavior does on theart of every senar adds an urgency to getting that reconciliation package ne. i would aume today whe president biden met with sinema and manchin, he let them know it is not just about a notiation over what we do with these two bills that affect different kinds of infrastructure. it is also about preventing recession or something worse. socconnell has de this before, using this debt limit as a hostage. that may have a preverse impact if we get this taken to a point where they deal with it in reconciliation. and i just want to make the point, lawrence, that if we do it that way, let's end this ridiculous thing once and for all by adopting the wonderfully named mcconnell rule, meaning the president raids the debt ceiling. congress could disapprove. he could prevail at any time. no more of these host

right next to mitch mcconnell.-senate majority leader, mcconnell invented one precedent in 2016. he refused a hearing on merrick garland's nomination because it was within eight months of an election. he then reversed that precedent in 2020 to rush amy coney barrett to the supreme court less than one month before an election. yes, she chose that setting, next to mitch mcconnell, to complain that the supreme court is unfairly viewed as partisan in this country, believe it or not. to help viewers understand why this outrage lasted all week, we thought it would help to use two different references. now, for viewers my age and perhaps older, you see what amy coney barrett said is kind of like this clip. >> i'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. >> your winnings, sir. >> oh, thank you very much. >> if you're a younger viewer and have no idea what that reference was, this is more like it. >> i'm going to throw a hot dog shaped car through the window. >> the driver's gone. >> somebody call the cop

former president trump trying to oust mitch mcconnell.ng this morning? >>> a big night at the emmys for one of our favorite shows here on our show, and that is "ted lasso". we will break down all the winners and losers coming up. it's another day. and anything could happen. it could be the day you welcome 1,200 guests and all their devices. or it could be the day there's a cyberthreat. get ready for it all with an advanced network and managed services from comcast business. and get cybersecurity solutions that let you see everything on your network. plus an expert team looking ahead 24/7 to help prevent threats. every day in business is a big day. we'll keep you ready for what's next. comcast business powering possibilities. [sfx: radio being tuned] welcome to allstate. ♪ [band plays] ♪ a place where everyone lives life well-protected. ♪ and even when things go a bit wrong, we've got your back. here, things work the way you wish they would. and better protection costs a whole lot less. you're in good hands with allstate. click or call for

mitch mcconnell. he was able to push through 300 federal judges on the bench, during the trump administration. we the democratic party, are the only group that never talked about the. course and mitch mcconnell knew with this was going. that's why he has three supreme court justices, and that's why he's that is over 300 federal judges. we are in trouble if the democrats cannot get kristen cinema, and joe cinema on board. our democracy is weaning, coming to its and right now, and that is not me being hyperbolic, that is absolutely the truth. no voting. no democracy jonathan please stick around we're just getting started, thank you for pulling that triple duty forest. good to see my friend. coming up after america's 20 a war in afghanistan, there's a lot to unpack. nbc's new york angle joins me here on set, the head of a special edition of an assignment airing tonight, on msnbc at 10 pm. and when we come back traditional philosophy, versus political party, while some are calling justice amy caliber's la

. >> senator mitchne mcconnell what is on your reading list these days? >> not surprisingly i tend to go towards american history, much of it political. but actually, one book i just finished was not about politics. it was about the history of the polio epidemic. from the beginning to the end. it came out in 2006, actually won a pulitzer prize. as a polio victim myself, i have always had a special interest. ii thought with the pandemic going on there are some lessons that are particularly in regard to vaccines and one of the things we been preaching lately is get vaccinated.en of course one of the big differences between the situation we find ourselves in now and polio is that it took 70 years, 70 years to come up with two effective vaccines for polio. our marvelous country enter marvelous pharmaceutical came up with three vaccines in less than one year to give us an opportunity to get past the pandemic. one of the most interesting things about the polio. was fdr came down with polio and 39. most people thought it was a children's disease. but it did hit

mitch mcconnell literally introduced.standing alongside the man who promised to blockade anybody picks and claimed that justices are not political actors. come, on the only thing that is surprising to me is that a lot of mainstream media outlets continue to report these at face value. and we have local justices like justice breyer having the same taco points on this. he has a book out now that claims that the court has to be viewed as and a political institution. those claims by breyer are just belied by rulings like the ones in texas. i think that the public increasingly sides with the view of people like justice sotomayor who in her dissent said that this ruling showed a fundamental disregard for the rule of law. that is what is going on here. the curtain is being pulled back. the conservative justices are going to -- win a polling came out two days ago that showed that the courts approving rating is at a low that we have not seen in decades. >> and to that point, senator mitch mcconnell, he already said he was going to

this is a pure political calculation by mcconnell and by the other republican senators. mcconnell has indicated that if democrats were to put forward just the spending measure, the budget measure that would insure the government stays open in decouple it from the debt ceiling question, that they would win republican votes for that measure so the first step of course would be for republican senators to make good on that and, you know, agree to pass whatever it is the democrats come up with in terms of just the clean spending bill for later this week to avoid the shutdown but looking forward, this is all going to be a political game and mcconnell is trying to basically trap the democrats and show that they can't govern competently, that they have these majorities, thin majorities as they are, but majorities nonetheless, and yet they brought the country to the brink of a shutdown, and they're having trouble passing these signature agenda items of the democratic president he is trying to use that to the republicans' advantage to try to then of course win back the senate majo

mitch mcconnell literally introduced her.who has threatened to blockade any future biden picks and then claiming that justices are not political actors. come on, the only thing that's surprising to me is that a lot of mainstream media outlets continue to gullibly report these. we have liberal justices, he's got a whole book tour out claiming that the court still needs to be viewed as an apolitical institution, and assertions otherwise are off base. i think those claims while justice briar are belied by the rulings like the one in texas. i think the public sides with the views of justice sotomayor, who in her dissent showed a fundamental disregard for the rule of law. that's what's going on here, the curtain is being pulled back. the conservative justices are going to get their come up pans, there was a poll that came out two days ago that showed the court's approval rating is at a low we haven't seen in decades. >> and to that point, you know, senator mitch mcconnell he already said he's going to block any nominee that presid

donald trump was president mcconnell was majority leader, mccarthy was republican speaker. but the debt ceiling was resumed. bipartisan. to not do so to otherwise and to do otherwise not doing the bike's debtceiling in a bipartisan way has been considered unthinkable because the consequences for the economy, for the american people and for our standing on the world stage would be too severe . senate republicans and the republican leader however are again engaging in fantastical feats of sophistry to justify why this time is somehow different. he knows it's not, we all know the truth. democrats and republicans both had a hand in the spending we almost face. look, we know the republican justification for forcing a default. we know the republican justification for forcing a default is totally dishonest. plain and simple.don't ask me, just look to the wall street journal. here's what it said. progress is still needs raises the debt by this fall even if no new major spending programs were enacted . this idea that they don't want to raise the debt ceiling to deal with future spen

coming from mitch mcconnell and his republican band of brothers in the united states.ched a political war, that could hold our troops paychecks hostage, threatening a government default that could stop military pay. threatening the security of 1.4 million active duty troops. the people who fly the skies, course the se, and run towards danger. to defenand protect the united states. military families using who struggle to get by in the best of times. cut off from their pay in the middle of a pandemic. hey mitch, knock off the politics andpay our patriots. >> vote eventto take us off the air, and with that our tuesday night broadcast with us on behf of all our colleagues at the network of nbc news, goodnight. we >>tonight on all in, the anti-vaccine grift, why would a political movement do so much to sicken its own supporters? >> the sign and shows that the vaccine will not necessarily protect you. >> maybe it doesn't work and they're simply not telling you. that >> tonight blockbusters news reporting from the daily beast on who is getting rich from sewing vaccine. fears

this debt five and half trillion was all under trump when mcconnell was majority cc leader. but some republicans recklessly irresponsibly so overwhelmingly politically seemed eager to push our ug economy to the brink of total catastrophe by suggesting there will oppose any effort to raise the debt ceiling. and rather than urging his colleagues to drop this reference idea the republican leader shame on him seems to be giving it his blessing if not promoting it. if the united states defaults on its debt it will harm every single american in this country including potentially those who rely on social security and the members of our military . the consequences would reverberate around the world and it would cause irreparable harm to the global economy a time when we're all working to lift mi ourselves out of a once in a century pandemic so let any efforts to play nasty political games with the full faith and credit of the us is reckless, irresponsible, despicable. it could cause permanent damage to the us economy and is a complete nonstarter. in america, it's time to pay the bil

mcconnell: yesterday senate democrats blocked a vote on a claimed government funding piece of legislation. senator shelby and i put forward legislation that could pass the senate easily and keep the government open. we were ready to avoid a shutdown, get urgent relief to louisiana, help vetted afghans who helped america, and continue supporting israel's iron dome which saves innocent lives. senate republicans were ready, and house democratic leaders say they'll act on whatever c.r. we send them. but democrats blocked the senate from even considering our legislation. instead the democratic leader held a vote that he knew would fail on a bill he knew was a nonstarter. game playing instead of governing. so look, mr. president, for more than two months -- two months -- republicans have explained that the unified democratic party government will not get bipartisan support for a debt limit hike while they write a partisan taxing-and-spending spree behind closed doors. it's as simple as that. bipartisanship isn't a light switch that democrats can switch on when they need to borrow money and flip

coming from mitch mcconnell and his republican band of brothers in the united states senate.ould hold our troops' paychecks hostage, threatening a government default that could stop military pay, threatening the security of 1 hadn't 4 million active duty troops, the people who fly skies, course the seas, and run toward danger to defend and protect the united states. thank you don for joining us. won a criminal complaint is filed in a case like this,

and mcconnell won't. he says his party will only support a clean stopgap funding bill to avert a shutdown. what does that mean? look, it's going to mean what they want it to mean. and we're going to have to see. and that moves the ball over to the democrats. first, to give you an idea of what's at stake, if the ceiling isn't raised, salaries to federal workers, payments to medicaid recipients, social security checks, military paychecks, monthly child tax credit, among other things. now, the democrats. they are creating problems of their own, potentially. the house, until very recently, was -- well, they are, they're still debating this massive infrastructure bill. they had a caucus meeting and we'll have news on that in a second with somebody who's a big player. it already passed in the senate, okay? and this is a huge bill also. it's going to affect how you and i get from place to place. the roads we drive on, the bridges we cross, the internet we surf. the only bridge this bill can't address is the one

mcconnell: decided on behalf of his members and with president trump during the trump-mcconnell presidency how senator mcconnell handed these companies a windfall. mr. brown: their executives turned around -- i remember senator mcconnell when he walked down the haul here doing his conversations with his lobbyist friends, i'd walk down the hall and stand with the then-majority leader and the tax giveaway is part of the reason he is no longer the majority leader. but he would say that that's going to trickle down and workers are going to get raises and companies are going to expand and benefits are going to go to the whole economy. not affect what happened. when he handed them that windfall, the executives that were lobbying him, the executives that were contributing to the campaigns ashes the executives who controlled the wall street editorial board, you no he what they did? they turned around, plowed that money right back into stock buybacks which meant, lo and behold, right in their own pockets much the largest u.s. companies in 2018 right after the tax giveaway, over a trillion dollars,

president, republican leader mitch mcconnell this morning, once again reiterated the republican partyill not vote to lift the debt ceiling and in an extraordinarily irresponsible manner, republicanse have indicated they will not pay the debt incurred under the trump administration. in his statement as he has done time and time again senator mcconnell implies that this debt ceiling has something to do with future spending. it does not. like anyone who is a credit card the payments that are made are for past spending and in this case, spending incurred under the trump administration. let us be clear. if united states, the largest economy in the world, default on its debt, it will plunge, not only our country, that the entire global economy into what could become a severe economic depression. that means massive unemployment, higher interest severe reduction in government services, and possible cuts in such programs as social security and medicare. the responsibility of the n republican leadership is not just something that i worry about. according tots press reports former republican sec

i mean, look how many times senator mcconnell voted to raise the debt ceiling.s saying, yeah, the debt ceiling will be raised but it'll be democrats who -- who is doing it and he doesn't want to raise it. mcconnell has introduced his own bill to fund the government but not to raise the debt ceiling despite him being in favor of it, before. he is also blasting biden's handling of the border. i mean, he certainly doesn't mind turning the screws. >> i mean, and look what they did just reflect back not long ago on merrick garland. i mean, they wouldn't allow merrick garland until the democrats ended up having, you know, two or three supreme court nominees in the -- in the case of this because mitch mcconnell just abandoned it all and did what -- did it anyway and the democrats in many ways allowed that to happen and didn't fight back in a strong enough way. so we have already seen that -- that mccarthy and mcconnell will do anything for power's sake and anything to achieve their ends. anything. democrats, i'm not saying they'd do anything but they can play -- they c