senator mitch mcconnell said i had "excessive expectations," but i don't think so. after seven years of hearing repeal and replace, why not done? >> there's a lashing out when things don't go his way. john mccain was the deciding vote, and so, you know, it was hard to understand how mitch mcconnell would be the blame of it, but, you know, that's the president's nature, as we all know. >> can you believe that mitch mcconnell, who has screamed repeal and replace for seven years, couldn't get it done. >> trump was using the most poweul weapon he has, which is twitter, to humiliate him repeatedly, to rake him over the coals, to let his followers know, "this is mitch mcconnell's fault. he's failed you, not me." >> mitch, get back to work and put repeal and replace, tax reform and cuts, and a great infrastructure bill on my desk for signing. >> narrator: mch mcconnell learned a lesson-- he had to keep donald trump on his side. >> mitch mcconnell is a very smart politician. i think he understood the trump base, perhaps better than most. and he understood that the trump bas

mitch mcconnell did not have 60 votes in his pockets. he had 51 but kmanged the rules ins senate to allow him to approve donald trump's appointees. and then passed a tax plan for the rich people with the same rules that democrats are using for covid relief. what's good for the goose should be good for the gander. democrats are staring down the possibility of seeing massive voter suppression laws. there have been 250 bills introduced since the election in 40 plus states seeking to curtail early voting, eliminate no excuse absentee balloting, particularly pointed at voters of color. democrats i think need to have their courage of convictions, being willing to get rid of the filibuster, pass democracy measures like hr 1, which just passed the house yesterday. >> you were the spokesman to senator schumer. can you speak to his approach versus mitch mcconnell's approach? >> well, i actually am quite optimistic, don, that the senate democrats are headed on a trajectory to get rid of the filibuster. they're not saying that right now, but if you

can you speak to his approach versus mitch mcconnell's approach? >> well, i actually am quite optimistic, don, that the senate democrats are headed on a trajectory to get rid of the filibuster. they're not saying that right now, but if you had told me two years ago that this is where we'd be two months into 2021, i would have been shocked. if you think back to the democratic presidential primary, elizabeth warren was out there calling for the elimination of the filibuster, but bernie sanders, who is arguably the most progressive member of the senate democratic caucus, was resisting that call. so you have the most progressive senator who was sort of not onboard at that time, like a year and a half ago. now at this point not only is bernie there, about you you have moderate senators like chris coons, tim kaine, amy klobuchar just yesterday putting this on the table. this is warp speed by senate standards. it's not sort of coming to a head yet because the bill that's currently on the floor, the covid relief package is one they are able to pass with ju

mcconnell mitch mcconnell was the one who shepherded those 3 through as opposed to trump he tossed the ball up in the air mcconnell got it and he ran with it as far as elder statesman chuck grassley who if you told him to act as a g. di you know he's still not sure that he's going to run again i mean what is. somewhere between $89.10 so who knows what he's going to do still since pretty sharp but he's going to be in mid ninety's by the time his term would run around

i mean we're so stuck in this tribal form of politics that someone like senate minority leader mitch mcconnell will say on one day that donald trump is morally and practically responsible for the insurrection and then turn around the next day and say, hmm, if he's the nominee in 2024, i will support him. this is like the brain rot that i am so frustrated with and that has to change because there has to be something more to the republican party than dr. seuss, mr. potato head, and donald trump because those are like the three wise men of the republican party right now. and i'm not here for it. >> amanda, thank you. bakari, thank you as well. i'll see you soon. we'll get your audio fixed. you look good, but you don't sound great tonight. >> thank you. >> thanks very much. >>> are senate democrats getting outmaneuvered by the gop, and should they be asking, what would mitch mcconnell do? >> we all know this will merely delay the inevitable. it will accomplish little more than a few sore throats for the senate clerks, who work very hard day in, day out to help the senate function. now he

host: that was mitch mcconnell on the senate floor yesterday.he senators he was referring to, joe mansion of west virginia, who promised at the start of the year not to eliminate the filibuster. the reason mitch mcconnell headed to the floor yesterday to defend the filibuster idea by joe mansion, it included a change to the filibuster requiring senators to be present and talk on the floor if they want to actually block the vote. the talking filibuster is the one famously depict -- depicted in the film "mr. smith goes to washington." that's the story this morning in "the wall street journal." it is that idea of a talking filibuster that joe biden seemed to endorse in an interview last night, a wide-ranging interview with george stephanopoulos on abc news. he was asked about the filibuster in this is what he had to say. [video clip] >> aren't you going to have to choose between preserving the filibuster and advancing your agenda? >> here's the choice. you have to do the filibuster like it used to be when i got to the senate and the old days when y

mitch mcconnell refused to

i'm not personally slamming mitch mcconnell. it's not because i'm soft or i don't want the criticism. he's playing the game. >> and he plays it very well. >> that's right. now, that's all that matters to me. i don't know him. i don't need to know him. it's about his effectiveness. if the democrats don't find a way, and this talk from the left, the big shots on the media from the left, they have to figure out what to do next, you know what to do next. s 1 and hr 1 is next. if you don't get those done on your watch as democrats you're already a lame duck party. >> yeah. >> as soon as you lose this fight. >> you won't be able to win any elections. >> i don't know what to discuss against how to finesse the filibuster. >> that and gerrymander, if you don't take of voting, you may not be elected to a national office, democrats, ever again because republicans, they're better at this politics thing, they're better at this gerrymandering thing. >> staying focused. >> but suppressing the vote. >> that's their big vote. after obama it was

mitch mcconnell said last week, you should focus on how united we had to what the biden administration is doing. that's the approach they are taking. it's not about trying to govern with joe biden and his administration. obviously both parties are partisan but the difference is, kirsten just end katd, they are more series about governing than republicans are. and the offer they had was not close to what biden would work with. and republicans are trying to take whatever they can out of the democrats' hide while they do it. it's not a lot. >> listen, i have to move on. i just want to play this. it makes a point of what you just said, kirsten, about being on the side of -- you know, the big g bigots and all that. we we play the tucker carlson thing. watch this. >> you ever notice how the scary internet conspiracy theorists,

mitch knows me well. i would expect mitch to say exactly what he said.thing i did is last piece of legislation is so far left then you ought to take a look at his party. over 50% of them must be over that edge as well, because they support what i did. >> biden really making a difference there, david, between republican voters, according to polls. >> yes. >> and republican lawmakers. >> and he explicitly said i may not have a united republicans in the congress, but i've certainly united the country, meaning that -- and he said polling shows they support my initiatives. and i would say on this issue of the filibuster on some of these thorny issues we mentioned earlier, he needs 60 votes or doing away with the filibuster. he still has his budget reconciliation tool. he will roll out a $3 trillion package next week that includes a significant infrastructure investment. he could do that once again through the reconciliation process. now, you know, he would have to get manchin on board for that as well. that is the one tool that is left to him. and i think at

that's funny mitch. that's mitch bringing his humor. that's his humor a-game.t the biden folks have been doing, knocking on the door, hello, you want to talk to us? then you hear muffled, no, nobody is here. you've been approached by the biden administration, but that's what mitch does. he will stand there and look you in the eye and go, your fly's open, and you'll go, no, no it isn't, and no, it really is. it's all to get you to blink. the reality is it's just a play off the narrative. it's just that -- >> as you point out, mitch, that's the thing that -- he likes that it feels illogical. he likes that it sounds crazy, because it's just programming for him. >> that is it. >>> i want to get to another big story. headlines hitting governor cuomo left and right, specifically on covid. >> oh, lord. >> everything from insider access for special people early on, to those allegations, to the call about resigning. some of this involved even potentially helping his own family testing. take a look at him with his family, with his brother on cnn. take a look. >> some say

senate minority leader, so good to see you mitch mcconnell. on "the faulkner focus" today. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: portland, oregon seeing a surge in deadly gun violence this year. what prompted the rise and what the mayor is asking for now? so i only pay for what i need. 'cause i do things a bit differently. wet teddy bears! wet teddy bears here! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ keeping your oysters business growing has you swamped. you need to hire. i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlist of quality candidates from a resume data base claim your seventy-five-dollar credit when you post your first job at indeed.com/promo ♪ and a little bit of chicken fried ♪ ♪ cold beer on a friday night ♪ ♪ a pair of jeans that fit just right ♪ ♪ and the radio up ♪ get 5 boneless wings for $1 with any handcrafted burger. only at applebee's. in this family, everyone does their own laundry, but they all do it a little different. honestly, i add a couple of tide pods and

i know mitch well. mitch knows me well. i would expect mitch to say exactly what he said. but this is a matter of making sure that i would like republican elected republican support, but what i know i have now is, i have electoral support from republican voters. republican voters. that agree whey i'm doing. and so, unless mitch says the last thing i did, the last piece of legislation is so far left, then he ought to take a look at his party. over 50% of them must be over that edge as well. because they support what i did. >> okay. where am i, here? let me see. kaitlyn? >> thank you, very much, mr. president. i have a question for you but first i'd like to follow-up on a question from yamiche -- >> that counts as a question. but go ahead. >> i'll make it quick. >> no, no, you can. >> regarding the filibuster, john lewis' funeral president barack obama said he believed the filibuster was a relic 69-of-the jim crow era. do you ay glee? >> yes. >> if not, why not abolish of w era? >> successful art of politics is the art of possible. let's figure out how we can get this done a

even before january 6 and even before mitch mcconnell trashed donald trump after his 2nd impeachment acquittal republican senators were retiring and several republican house members were already tweeting disturbing messages and social media john in your view who is winning this civil war now painfully under way in the republican party yes you're absolutely right it is painfully under way and before january 6th and i look at what kissinger had to say and i think that that's probably spot on from a lot of middle of the road conservatives conservatives in the republican party which used to stand for lower taxes less regulation and a lot more free enterprise when sure we want conservative judges i mean that was their montreal and acts the way it was up until the time of donald trump and he has in my opinion radicalized the republican party and he's created a fissure and i thought that at the last impeachment after january 6th that they would vote to convict simply because that would allow them to rid donald trump from running again and that would open it up for 2024 for the rubio's on th

progressive pushing to take a battle axe to mitch mcconnell's instruction. live to the shooting in atlanta. the top story in washington tonight is democrats going hard after mitch mcconnell with signs that with biden's covid bill passed, the next senate fight could be about the senate itself. with more top-elected democrats joining. this is big tonight. they have long argued this institution is broken, that right wingers broke it and that you can't even pretend to tackle america's tough problems if you won't clean up the system. today newly elected georgia senator raphael warnock used his first floor speech to invoke the pitched battle over americans' right to vote arguing senators' right to vote should not be vetoed by republican minority abuse of the filibuster tactic. >> we are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we have ever seen since the jim crowe era. it is a contradiction to say we must protect minority rights in the senate while refusing to protect minority rights in the society. colleagues, those se

mitch mcconnell is still top republican in the senate. if any ilgotten gains from his wife's alleged corruption made way back to the family, at least we know they're staying close to the most powerful people in republican governance even today. just incredible. we'll have more with reporters who broke the most lurid facts about elaine chao coming up. >>> we expected the senate to take first action on the covid relief bill. didn't happen because of procedural items in the senate. but we do know that mitch mcconnell and the senate republicans are going to string it out as much as possible, pull out all the dirty tricks to muck it up. forcing the clerks to read every word of the bill out loud and every word of every amendment and can offer infinite amendments. can take infinite time, going to try to slow down covid relief as long as possible with 20 and 30-hour marathon stunts on the senate floor. because it's not like the american people are in any hurry for covid relief. no need to rush the funding for vaccine distribution or reopening sch

it is quite clear mitch mcconnell does not want donald trump to be the nominee in 2024, but mitch o'connell works best when he works quietly -- mitch mcconnell works best when he works quietly and he wants to make sure a party not including trump emerges. that is how we can reconcile those statements. host: who has the potential to emerge if it is not going to be the former president? guest: i think there are a lot of people who have the potential to emerge. the second-place finisher in the cpac straw poll, governor ron desantis, is currently the hot topic in insiders. he is somebody who has a sophisticated demeanor but also one who is not afraid to mix it up with the press. conservative but not excessively so. over the next few months, he is one percent people will be taking a look at. people will look at marco rubio, tom cotton, former vice president pence, ted cruz, kristi noem. there are others who will put themselves forward and will have their day in the sun and we will see how they do. host: don is in traverse city, michigan, independent line. caller: the republicans have a bad probl

mitch mcconnell is threatening to scorch the earth if democrats get rid of the filibuster. later i'll be joined by the perfect guest to discuss the intimidation tactics, harry reid. he has a lot to say about mitch. we begin with ron johnson continues to dig a hole for himself. he's doubling down on his experiment in making the quiet part really loud. last week when he said he would be more afraid if the violent insurrection on january 6th was led by black lives matter protesters. >> on january 6th, i never get threatened. i knew those were people that loved this country and truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break a law, and so i wasn't concerned. now, had the tables been turned, this could mean trouble. had the tables been turned and president trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of black lives matter and antifa protesters, i might have been concerned. >> it's no surprise that the remarks provoked justified accusations of rracism. here's senator bob menendez today. >> i get no one likes to be called racist, but sometimes there's ju

hawley senate more than the mitch mcconnell senate at the moment. >> yeah. i mean, it's really -- i don't think -- it's hard to overstate the significance of the shift, to have all of these members on their way out while their replacements coming in just have completely different tone and tenor and approach to the job. i think it's really going to change the way things are done. jake, let's talk for a second about the covid relief package. the vote seems to be sliding by a day as they try to get the text together for it. do you see any challenges on the horizon getting this back through the house? i mean, progressives have been critical of joe manchin for essentially forcing them to negotiate with themselves, lowering that unemployment number. do you see any problems? i mean, i have a hard time imagining someone's going to stand up and say, yeah, actually, i'm going to stand in the way of democratic president's first major priority. >> no, i mean, if it was republicans, they probably would, and they would hold out for that last $100 a week in unemployment in

the trump come back and make people like mitch mcconnell feel with him capitol hill isn't he the soft a figure of the donald trump would still need and he seems to be funnily eliminated when donald trump was president mitch mcconnell passed into office by a by the senate about 250 judges transforming our judiciary mitch mcconnell knows the game and if he gets a president on his side he'll play the game if he gets a president opposed to him like biden he'll play the game so i don't think that's the question the bigger question alex is i think we've seen now a true transformation in america the parties are separating and the republican party has a claim still has to be sort of worked on but a claim for working americans a claim for the noninterventionist wing of the republican party that's a new for us right that in the last 25 years republican party has been the party that fought to fight the wars and change the world so donald trump shifted on immigration on china the republican party has a stark set of positions that are different than they were or maybe more solid in a certain sense

with all due respect, mitch mcconnell talking about scorched earth, ask merrick garland if mitch mcconnells nominated to be a supreme court justice. ask the senators who have quit having the opportunity to debate and amend bills over the last five, six years because mitch mcconnell basically shut down the senate. he's already scorched the earth. now it's time to make people show where they stand, and let the public see where they stand, and if they're on the side of the majority of the public, them the republicans will win in 2022. but if they're not, we're going to pick up wisconsin, we're going to pick up pennsylvania, we're going to continue to build a majority towards the values that so many on the left are so anxious -- and i get it, i am too -- to get done. >> you're making a case that the talking filibuster is essentially a form of transparency. it's like you want to oppose, you have to show your work. many is that a fair way to -- a transparency reform? >> absolutely. and start voting on stuff. start having committee votes on things. start exposing that this is some mon linlic bloc

mitch mcconnell has not shown any concern for the traditions.when it came to the bipartisan traditions about supreme court judges. he used every tactic he could to steal supreme court seats. so he is picking and choosing which issues he wants to call for in terms of bipartisanship and senate traditions and which ones he doesn't. and this can't be tolerated. when it comes down to it, as you were talking about, from stacey abrams to others, the fact is this voting rights issue is pre preeminent. it is more important to protect the voting rights of americans than to preserve the filibuster in its current form. as senator warnock said, the new senator from georgia, the idea that you have to protect the rights of the senate at the expense of the people throughout the united states is an absurdity. if this is a democracy, you have to protect voting rights first. if the filibuster can be preserved in other ways, so be it. there may need to be an exception made, at least with regard to voting rights, which are the foundation of the entire democracy. the

mitch mcconnell is still the top republican in the senate. if any ill-gotten gains made their way back to the family at least we know they are staying close to the most powerful people in republican governance, even today. we will have more on that story later this hour. we were expecting the senate would be taking their first action on the big covid relief bill. when that he do debate they are going to string it out as long as possible forcing the clerks to read every word of the bill out loud and every word of every amendment. slowing down covid relief as long as possible. no need to rush like the funding if for vaccine distribution or relief checks to the people that are unemployed. on the other side there is a rush on, a surprise late in the day announcement from the house today that they are going to be staying late and taking votes tonight on their big election reform bill. h.r. 1 as well as the big policing reform bill. they decided to rush to do both of those tonight, essentially so that the house would not be in session tomorrow. the

don't be afraid of mitch mcconnell because mitch mcconnell isn't afraid of you. truth.ou very much for coming back to "the sunday show." >>> coming up -- we'll get instant reaction to what we've covered thus far. voting rights and changing the filibuster. keep it right here. let's listen to this. louder. take these guys? i mean, there's room. maybe next time, fellas. now we're talking. alright. let's. go. kevin bacon here. you know me from six degrees of well... me. but it's time to expand. see, visible is wireless with no surprise fees, legit unlimited data, powered by verizon for as little as $25 a month. but when you bring a friend every month, you get every month for $5. so i'm bringing everyone within 12 degrees of me. bam, 12 months of $5 wireless. visible. as little as $25 a month. or $5 a month when you bring a friend. powered by verizon. wireless that gets better with friends. ♪ freshness and softness you never forget, with downy. >>> welcome back to "the sunday show." joining me now is zerlina maxwell and dan balz, chief political correspondent at "the washing

i didn't like when mitch mcconnell got rid of it for supreme court judges, but nothing's getting donewhen mitch mcconnell yesterday said, okay, if democrats do that, when republicans get elected, we're going to pass all of our priorities. we're going to toughen the border, we're going to pass gun laws -- and i thought, okay, well, great. let's do that. because that would mean elections have consequences. right now, elections do not have consequences, because as you said, there is no middle left in the senate. and everybody is just blindly voting the way their party wants them to vote. and a great example of that, i was hoping would have this more moderate center that could get significant legislation done at the beginning, because there are moderates out there, conservative/moderates. but you look at a bill thatted a 76% approval rating with the american people, had 56% approval rating with the republicans. not a single republican voted for that piece of legislation. not one. and they can't say that they spent too much money after their shameful record on deficits and debts. and the s

i mean isn't he threatening that if you do this mitch mcconnell will continue to be mitch mcconnell?hat had a lot of popular support. he might oppose them, fair enough but he wouldn't even put them on the floor for a vote. mitch mcconnel is so afraid of the american rescue plan that he keeps looking for diversions, one after the other. and this is one of them. we're not going to be diverted. we're not going to be deterred. we're going to go forward because we know the american people demanded, need, want bold change. and we're going to do it, and mitch mcconnell can do all the threatening and bluster he wants. it's not going to stop us. >> stephen: is it empty, could he grind things to a halt as a minority leader? >> look, you know, i'm not even going to give these blustery threats credence. we're going to go forward. period. >> stephen: senator, thank you so much for being here. >> nice to be here with you, stephen. >> stephen: senate majority leader chuck schumer, everybody! we'll be right back with academy award-winning actor jared leto. ♪ ♪ ♪ ifif you're shshopping for a cocompac

oil, mitch knows me -- mitch well, mitch knows me well. i would expect mitch to say what he said, but this is a matter of i would like republican, elected republican support, but what i know i have now is i have electoral support from republican voters. republican voters. they agree with what i'm doing. unless mitch says in the last piece of legislation i did was so far left, well, he ought to take a look at his party. over 50% of them must be over that edge, as well because they support that i did. ok. where am i here? let me see. >> thank you, mr. president. i have a question for you, but first, i would like to follow up on a question -- pres. biden: that counts as a question, but go ahead. >> i will make it quick. regarding the filibuster, at john lewis' funeral, barack obama said he believed the filibuster was a relic of the jim crow era. do you agree? pres. biden: yes. >> if not, why not abolish it as a relic of the jim crow era? pres. biden: successful electoral politics. let's figure out how we can get this done and move in that dir

mitch mcconnell doesn't scare anybody these days. on to his leadership of his republican conference. he is dusting off the playbook that they ran against barack obama, and that is obstruction and gridlock, grind everything to a halt. prevent progress. there is a mood in the country right now for results and good government. and let's get specific about what that means. that means 75% support for its stimulus bill which, thanks to voters in georgia, is projected to nearly double u.s. economic growth and add a full percent to global economic growth this year, returning us to prepandemic plimt early next year, broad bipartisan public support. there is broad bipartisan public support for action on infrastructure and the climate. there is broad bipartisan public support for the defense of voting rights. mitch mcconnell should listen to the people, not to the lobbyists whispering in his ears, not to the pollsters whispering in his ears, to the people. and should get on board with the program and play a constructive role in passing this leg

go big and mitch mcconnell resisted. now they're going big. what do you think? >> well, i think a lot of people like you said, neil, they just don't know. there's a lot of georgians, we've been sounding the alarm down here and a lot of governors have as well about this package that it's going to benefit new yorkers and californias more than hard-working georgians. unlike what president trump did where he treated all of the states equitably. this bill treats the cities across the country equitably. punishes states that have low up employment rates because they have been winning economically and gives a win to states that are losing economically, which to me is ridiculous. it needs to be changed. be fair and equitable. you certainly argue about the size of the package. i'm in your camp. i think it needs to be more targeted. look at georgia. really contradict a lot of what your last guest said, we've had construction workers working the whole time through the pandemic. building is booming in our state. our forestry industry

mitch mcconnell, reacting to that today.e of the world's most ineffectual bodies. it has become -- >> nobody serving in this chamber can even begin, can even begin to imagine what a completely scorched senate would look like. we want to just erase every single -- we would strengthen america with all kinds of conservative policies with zero, zero input from the other side. >> bret: so, senator mcconnell, trey, is making the line in the sand here. you go down this road, there is not going to be a lot like it's done in the senate. >> yeah, there are two points. if you go way back in history like two years, the democrats said this will destroy the senate and worse yet, the greatest of all, it will turn us into the house. it will just be an older version of the house and it will trample minority rights. that is what they said two years ago and now in a 50/50 senate, and this is the second point, 50/50 senates don't do transformational change. it's just not going to work. so, if they blow this up, i don't think they are going to c

who wins that fight, mitch mcconnell or donald trump? >> well, you'll remember this, kasie, but lisa murkowski won a write-in campaign back in 2012 for the senate. >> she did. >> i think you and i were working together at that point at politico. seems like aeons ago. but listen, i think that donald trump and -- mitch mcconnell has been a savvy political operator. he has been savvy in protecting his members, his republican members from these kinds of challenges. and i think mitch mcconnell's goal is to get people into these races that can win. if donald trump starts going into races and targeting incumbents, that's an expensive and complicated proposition. i'm not sure -- and i was talking to a lot of republicans about this yesterday -- i think we noted this in punch bowl news yesterday morning -- i tend to think that he's not going to have the sustained interest which he needs to get this done. i don't think that -- i think that if he does this, he could be blamed for losing majorities or hurting republicans' chances across the board, to

elaine chao famously is married to the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell. the widespread and quite towering allegations of corruption against secretary chao while she served as transportation secretary, they were -- you may remember, 2019, these scandals were reported one after another during her time in office. at one point in 2019, there were like five separate corruption scandals all raging around her all at the same time, most of which dwarfed the other concurrent trump cabinet member corruption scandals, and that's really saying something, given the levels of corruption at the highest levels of the trump administration. but it's interesting. senator mitch mcconnell and his wife, secretary chao, never really seemed all that worried about any of these scandals, about any of this public reporting. they never seemed to sweat any of it. mcconnell, in fact, frequently joked about this as if it was no problem whatsoever and they didn't have a care in the world about it. well, now we may know why. tonight, the inspector general at her department, the transport

but look, i know mitch well, mitch knows me well. i would expect mitch to say exactly what he said, but this is a matter of making sure i would like elected republican support. but what i know i have now is i have electoral support from republican voters. republican voters agree with what i'm doing. and unless mitch says the last thing i did, the last piece of legislation was so far left, then he ought to take a look at his party. over 50% of them must be over that edge as well, because they support what i did. okay. where am i here? let me see. kaitlan? >> reporter: thank you very much, mr. president. i have a question for you, but first i'd like to follow up on a question from yamesh. regarding the filibuster, at john lewis' funeral, president barack obama said he believed the filibuster was a relic of the jim crow era. do you agree? >> yes. >> if not, why not abolish it if it's a relic of the jim crow era? >> successful politics is the art of the impossible. let's figure out how we can get this done and move in the direction of si

and when you listen to mitch mcconnell, all he wants to do is stop things. biden inviting mitch mcconnell over. why would he? all he's going to do is say no. >> certainly during the obama administration, president obama cracked that joke about, okay, you go have a drink with mitch mcconnell. biden seemed to be more willing to do it certainly, than his former boss, but i do take your point. so, here's -- i mean, the one challenge that i have here is that, in the course of the last 10, 15 years that i've been covering congress, we have seen control swing back and forth. when i first started, it was all democrats. they had, basically, 60 votes in the senate, which was incredibly remarkable at the time. just a few years later, the house flipped, then the senate flipped. the danger in getting rid of the filibuster is that, especially, i think republicans point to things like abortion policy that could change in the event that power shifts. do you see any risks to changing the filibuster now that could potentially come back to hurt democrats later? >> no, because

i know mitch well, mitch knows me well. i would ask act mitch to say exactly what he said. this is a matter of saying that i would like elected republican support, but i know that what i have now is electoral support from republican voters. republican voters agree with what i am doing. unless mitch says the last thing i did in this last piece of legislation is so far-left, will take a look at his party where 50% of them must be on the edge as well because they supported what i did. calen -- caitlin? caitlin: i'll make it quick. regarding the filibuster. at john lewis's funeral, president barack obama said he believed the filibuster was a relic of the jim crow era. do you agree? pres. biden: yes. >> then why not abolish it? pres. biden: let's figure out how can we -- figure out how we can get this done and move in the direction of changing the abuse of the filibuster. there has been abuse since the time it came into being and an extreme way in the last 20 years. >> it sounds like you are moving closer to a limited eight -- eliminating the filibuster, is that correct? pres. b

mitch, i've got 30 seconds.audience here? >> i, you know, i'm going to go back to apple. i think it's gotten beaten up, and, you know, i was talking to an investor today, and i talked about every other phone when it comes out, and he says, no, i've got five watches in my drawer. [laughter] and i do think the upgrade that we saw today from ubs, it speaks volumes. charles: right. i was going to mention that as well. i think apple's a buy here as well. mitch roschelle and michelle, thank you both very much. liz claman, golly, an exciting last hour again but even more so today. liz: yeah, i agree. you know, and because of what's happening right now, that's why we are seeing near record highs for the s&p. breaking right now, president biden should land at pittsburgh national airport within this hour. he just did wheels up at 2:35 p.m. eastern from joint base andrews. he is taking that $2.25 billion infrastructure bazooka along for the ride. so with the s&p up 29 points, it does need to be up just 16 points for a reco

mitch mcconnell is coming up with harris.rican government and affect every aspect of your life. >> dana: "the faulkner focus" up next. >> harris: thanks so much to bill and dana, appreciate that. new warning now from former president trump as he points blame directly at his successor for the worsening crisis on our southern border. i'm harris faulkner and you are in the "the faulkner focus". the white house is still down playing talk of a crisis even as dhs is warning the migrant surge is on pace to hit a 20-year high. as federal agencies struggle to house thousands of migrant children with border facilities overwhelmed. remember, this is a disaster. former president trump says the progress he made while he was in office is now in jeopardy. >> it is a crisis like we've rarely had and certainly

. >> harris: and making news now moments ago, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell telling me on thee focus" is denying it. >> my definition of a crisis is when you send the management agency which only goes to emergencies down at the border. it's by definition an emergency. this is a crisis, i don't care what the director wants to call it. it's a crisis. that they created. this administration. >> harris: you are watching "outnumbered." my cohost emily compagno, host of kennedy. joining us on the virtual couch for the first time, former white house press secretary and fox news analyst kayleigh mcenany, new member of our family and in the virtual center seed, even the virtual couch is crowded. "washington times" opinion editor charles hurt. welcome, everybody. i will start with you. wouldn't it be nice to ask the president about these things? maybe next thursday the white house press corps can have at it. >> absolutely. and they should. what i watch this morning, i was stunned. we are the fact-checkers? when they said apprehension was up, there is a article that will detail all the fe