mitch mcconnell. the last fully honorable thing mitch mcconnell did in the senate was in 2006 when he proudly voted to reauthorize the voting rights act. then with the obama presidency came mitch mcconnell's vow to block barack obama's re-election by trying to block every single thing on president obama's agenda in the united states senate. instead of using his powers as senate majority leader to tame donald trump, mitch mcconnell became trump's errand boy. long before tonight, mitch mcconnell had become the most dangerously malevolent senate leader in history. he fought to preserve the trump presidency in two senate impeachment trials when he knew donald trump was guilty as charged. it has been disorienting and inexplicable for those of us who knew the responsible, professional mitch mcconnell of his first 20 years in the senate to watch him destroy the senate as majority leader, destroy the senate. he did that. and so none of us were ready for the apparent reappearance of the old mitch mcconnell, th

for mitch mcconnell. the last fully honorable thing mitch mcconnell did in the senate was in 2006 when he proudly voted to reauthorize the voting rights act. then, with the obama presidency came mitch mcconnell's vowed to block barack obama's election by trying to block every single thing on president obama's agenda in the united states senate. instead of using his powers as senate majority leader to tame donald trump he became his errand boy. mitch mcconnell had become the most dangerously malevolent senate leader in history. he fought to preserve the trump presidency into impeachment trials when he knew donald trump was guilty as charged. it has been inexplicable for those who knew the response of mitch mcconnell of his first 20 years to watch him destroy as the leader. none of us were ready for the apparent reappearance of the old mitch mcconnell, the one we used to know. it happened last night when mitch mcconnell became one of the 17 republicans voting to proceed in the infrastructure bill. people wh

mitch mcconnell on the vaccine, though, has been very consistent. just like he has been on january 6th, as far as his views of what happened on that day, regardless of what he did on the actual commission. but on vaccines, very consistent. and here, even taking the dramatic step of using his own campaign money to advertise in his home state, telling people get vaccinated. get the rates of vaccinations up. stop listening to the lies. stop listening to the voodoo science. stop following your cult leaders. >> i'm going to use a sentence here not uttered often on msnbc airways, good for mitch mcconnell. this is something that is important. >> good for mitch mcconnell. >> and he is doing it. you're right. i think there are plenty of reasons, politically, to disagree with things that mitch mcconnell has done, and certainly people watching this network let's start with the supreme court, but this is someone who has -- he's been very consistent about this from day one, even though other voices in the republican party were very quiet about vaccines, it's bas

they know who and what mitch mcconnell is.heir 3.5 trillion, they're going to lose the bipartisan deal. are they cool with that? is that the route they want to take. they are not going to get both. >> reporter: they say for the $3.5 trillion bill, it doesn't matter. they know, there's a feeling in the senate and house, some of the progressives know that they're probably going to lose one if not both in 2022 in the election. they're saying we have to make sure we get that human infrastructure bill. they care about the infrastructure bill, hard infrastructure, but are focused on the climate change stuff, trying to pull kids out of poverty, all those things. a lot of progressives are okay with losing the hard infrastructure bill because for them, the focus is on the more expensive, expansive bill. and they said for months now that democrats and the white house should stop playing games with republicans, start negotiating with republicans and do what they can, prove to the american people when democrats are in power, things change

so this just seems to be mitch mcconnell's doing what he's always done, trying to obstruct, disrupt. matches. if you were to actually not support raising the debt ceiling, you would wreck the u.s. economy, even as you get close to that point, even as you were to pull the trigger on, it that could create lots of uncertainties and lots of damage in the economy. i hope other republican senators will rein him in, or themselves. >> this is usually something that people play around with, this is not usually the leader who is involved in it. let's talk about the infrastructure bill, the bipartisan bill that had a procedural vote that did not succeed, many did not expected to succeed, a group of senators from both parties were working on, it seem to think that this was not the end of the road for that. but where are we, there is pressure from progressives in the democratic party to not continue to scale back on the infrastructure deal, there's pressure from conservatives in the republican party to not put more into that infrastructure deal than feels like what we all know to be infrastructur

senate minority leader mitch mcconnell made these comments earlier. they write that congress suspended the debt limit for two years in 2019 as part of a broader agreement on overall spending levels brokered by then treasury secretary steven mnuchin and house speaker nancy pelosi. that suspension is set to expire july 31. the limit will be reinstated at roughly $28.5 trillion and the government will no longer be cap -- tap bond markets to raise cash to pay its bills. the senate minority whip, here's what he said yesterday on the floor. >> the crisis spending is for just that. a crisis. at least it should be. unfortunately, democrats have never met a temporary government dollar that they didn't want to keep spending. temporary government programs aren't really a thing for my friends across the aisle. and so as the crisis was waning and our economy was rebounding, democrats bound on the crisis democrats doubled down -- democrats doubled down on the crisis spending and passed a massive covid relief bill filled with unnecessary handouts. hundreds of billio

and scott served as an adviser for several of senator mitch mcconnell's re-election campaigns.h. kristen, you believe that mitch mcconnell might all of a sudden sew some ethics and end the filibuster. that's a big statement. tell us why you think that. >> i think he would do it if it was to his benefit. the only reason he wouldn't do it if it wasn't to his benefit. look, republicans they already have -- we already have judicial nominations which is what's most important to mitch mcconnell. republicans don't pass as much legislation as democrats do, so i think that that would be the only reason he wouldn't do it. but my point is, if it was good for him, as it would be good for the democrats to do right now, he would do it in a second. he wouldn't think twice about it. this idea also that joe biden has that it would throw things into chaos, like, we're in chaos right now. nothing is getting done. nothing has gotten done in a long time. and so, on very critical issues that the democrats need to move on like voting rights. and so i think that if it was mitch mcconnell he could do i

what is mitch mcconnell's legacy?osing campaign finance reform when john mccain wanted to pass a sweeping bill to rid our system of -- political system of money. you know, is that really a legacy? he blocked the supreme court justice, that nominee that barack obama pulled forward. >> i think he pointed that as his legacy. >> and he might do it again if republicans are in charge or get the majority. i think he's thinking about his legacy, but right now it's not shaping up to be something as influential as mike mansfield. >> let's talk about it. obviously he's allowed these republicans to enter into these negotiations or tacitly approve that process. ron portman is close to him. mcconnell says this is only going to happen if i sign off. what's the political calculation behind his thinking? is it we do this and that helps us in the midterms or is it i need to stand in the we of this or is it leaning toward i need to stand in the way of this in order to keep biden from getting win. >> i think you put your finger on the qu

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he might -- >> mitch mcconnell is not going to lose his seat over this. >> right. right. leader, he's going to have to make a calculation about should i whip my ten republicans to pass this or will that give biden a win and make the democrats look good and make the democrats look bipartisan. mitch mcconnell doesn't care about policy. he cares about judges and winning and that's it. so he might be the roadblock there. fox and the republican media ecosystem may not want to give biden a win on this. getting to ten republican senators on this first bill is still a lot. doubling that number is significant. and then if they can't get to ten, i think manchin doesn't want to break the filibuster if it's a 50-vote thing, would he break it for 57? 58? there's a long way to go on that part of the negotiation still in front of us, unfortunately. >> do you see the roadblock the same way that tim does? >> i think whatever mitch mcconnell whatever says with a grain salt. vote no and take the dough. you heard him talking to lawmakers in connecticut saying you're about to get a lot of mon

that's amazing. >> the total amount that'll come on our state. >> check out mitch mcconnell, you havehe tried to block money from his own people. tomorrow he'll meet privately with civil rights group on voting rights. it comes as republicans push new efforts to restrict voting. texas governor gregg abbott told republicans to revisit a proposal in a special session. bishop william barber is joining me now. keech chair of the poor people campaign. his organization is launching a new series of events. they're aimed at protecting vote rights. thank you so much for being with us today. i think that congressman jay powell represents the energy i got when it comes to putting pressure on this administration. i want to play this script and i want to get your thoughts. >> this is urgent. but in full view of the american people who are watching their rights to be stripped away. >> i take it that you don't think he's done enough publicly? >> he has a tremendous amount when he came in front of him. yes, i this hi he needs to do more on this issue. >> bishop, i want to hear about voting rights ever

if you have chuck shumer and mitch mcconnell voting for the same bill is one of them hasn't read it. em has read the bill because it hasn't fully written yet, mcconnell thought it was better politics to move forward and he's talking about leaving it with a robust amendment process that we'll see over the next week and then save his own political capital and his own conference to try to oppose that bigger reconciliation bill. the house politics of this are interesting. it's all a democratic effort and that's all of the votes that matter on the house side and what you saw was in the very minutes after this procedural vote passed yesterday. moderate democrats in the house coming out saying, great. as soon as this gets to the house let's vote on it and the progressive caucus saying great, when this gets to the house, let's wait and make sure that the partisan-only reconciliation bill comes along with it and that will be a challenge for speaker pelosi. she's going to be under pressure when that bill ultimately does make it across the rotunda over to the house side perhaps as early as the e

bill, mitch mcconnell stood on the senate floor and defied donald trump today. the final vote was 67 to 32, 17 republicans voted for the bipartisan bill and, as i said, the one senator who was absent, republican mike bronze, also supports the bipartisan bill. in itself rhetorically press conference after the vote, republican mick romney said this, >> sometime ago, ted kennedy made a line about the celebration like this, he said something of this nature, all applied in this way, when chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell vote for the same bill, you know one thing, one of them hasn't read it. but in fact, both of them have, both of them have been very involved, we let them know what's going on in this process -- >> mitt romney is a first time legislator. almost all the senators who negotiated this bipartisan bill had never really legislated before in the united states senate because the leadership of both parties in the senate have taken all the legislative powers away from most senators. none of the committee chairmen have the kind of power that they used to have, an

>> i take whatever mitch mcconnell says with a grain of salt.heard him talking to lawmakers and connecticut about, hey, you're about to get a lot of money! i didn't vote for it, but you're going to get money. suspended. he wants investments and kentucky. i think tim is right. and you are right. he's not going to lose a seat over this. but there are other senators who could be facing a challenge if they were not to be able to deliver something like this, a single legislative bill that they support in their own states. >> can a republican sell this by saying we do this for you, our constituents, but we held them off on the egregious spending, the way they see it, of the second bill. >> you could see some of that. again, in the key senate races not to get to in the weeds here, but wisconsin and pennsylvania is an open seat, as ron johnson will run in wisconsin to make bipartisan deals with democrats? that's not the ron johnson i've been watching. on an individual basis, might everyone or to republicans that make that case? absolutely. ten? ten is a

mitch mcconnell stood on the senate floor and defied donald trump today. the final vote was 67-32. 17 republicans voted for the bipartisan bill. and as i said, the one senator who was absent republican mike brown also actually supports the bipartisan bill. in a celebraory bipartisan press conference after the vote republican mitt romney said this >> some time ago ted kennedy said something of this nature, i will apply it this way, when chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell agree on the same bill they haven't both read it but in fact they have and know what's going on in this process. >> mitt romney is first time negotiator almost all of them had never legislated in the senate because the leadership in both parties in the senate have taken all legislative powers away from most senators. none of the committee chairman have the kind of power they used to have. so senators are not experienced legislatures any more. it is wrong to use the word legislature only to mean the people elected to positions in legislative bodies. the reality is the staff, the senate and ho

mitch mcconnell is now making threats about the debt limit just days before the government's borrowinges. quote, i can't imagine a single republican in this environment that we're in now, this free-for-all for taxes and spending to vote to raise the debt limit. they need to put it in the reconciliation bill. funny how that republican leader didn't share that same concern when a republican was in office or when he and his republican colleagues cut the corporate tax rate. joining is now is democratic senator chris van holland of maryland. you were, in fact, the member of the ranking committee during the time the taxes were cut and we had to do these things. explain this to me in a way that i'm having trouble, senator, explaining to my viewers. it's the same thing. if you cut revenue because you cut taxes on the wealthy or you spend money elsewhere, it's all the same thing. the debt ceiling is paying bills you've already incurred. >> reporter: that's right, ali, and mr. mcconnell is trying to have it both ways. this is a cynical and reckless statement he made today because, you know, when

follow mitch mcconnell. okay?interesting -- interest of more than just his next election and by what -- by the way, it's probably a good-election play, also. you don't want to be on the wrong side of a pandemic. now, the numbers behind employers requiring people to get vaccinated. what do we see? >> yeah, i mean, to me, this is a potentially politically risky move, right? because should employers require employees to get vaccinated? just 51% of american adults say that employers at the average company should, in fact, require employees to get vaccinated. but look at this. if you focus in on employees, look at this. employers at your company, just 37% say they should or they already have. 61%, the clear majority, say -- of employees -- that they do not want their companies to require the -- to require them to get vaccinated. and that's why i say this is politically risky, right? because we know that, already, more than two-thirds of american adults have been vaccinated. but when it comes to requirements that they,

you remember brian he said his number one job is to make barack obama failed presidency, and mitch mcconnelld that about biden as well. he's 100 percent focused on stopping joe biden, joe biden's agenda. but i would like to see democrats do, mcconnell is gonna try to stop this because he thinks it is in his interest to do so, because it would work for hen. -- you begin to see this from the biden white house. they should dare mitch mcconnell and senate republicans to kill a bipartisan infrastructure bill, that depending on what pulling you see has as much as 16 approval, when americans know their bridges are crumbling, the roads are crumbling, they know they need infrastructure to compete with china, on the global marketplace. and they know that this is a bill that will create millions of blue-collar jobs. quite frankly, from a political standpoint i would dare senate republicans to kill a bipartisan bill that the vast majority of americans want. i would like the president to go on the road and make them pay for it in a way that the obama administration did not take it to the street and made

mitch mcconnell says if this collapses, we tried, we tried.iberal socialist, insert talking points in the house, made a big giant spending plan and then walked away after we tried. important chapter, but early. >> you know, it seems like we are -- certainly we can make this about trump, right? and if his influence is maybe waning, i think that's an open question. i want to ask you about, you know, what we've seen here in the last day or so when it comes to the commission or the committee on what happened january 6th and just the fact that we're living in almost this post-truth era. we actually have some sound from elise stefanik who is in republican leadership. let's listen to this. >> it is a fact that on -- that in december of 2020, nancy pelosi was made aware of potential security threats to the capitol, and she failed to act. it is a fact that the u.s. capitol police raised concerns. and rather than providing them with the support and resources they needed and they deserved, she prioritized her partisan political optics over their safety.

. >> you know you ain't got to lie about mitch mcconnell. we all know who won the election. republicans are not letting it go. cornell, this is something equally disturbing. we see republicans running across the country as secretary of state. they are seeking secretaries of state positions in the hopes of overturning any election next year. i am an academic and you are a pollster, we get beat up with our predictions from time to time. what does it mean that we can have an election. we already saw what happened to brian kemp two years ago. what does it mean that we have a whole bunch of corrupt elections? does that mean all pollings are out the window? >> it means our democracy ends. every american and look congress and hats off to congressman lieu and what they are doing. it is enhancing millions of americans who don't believe the lie and are far worried about paying their kids' tuition and struggling with healthcare costs and infrastructure than donald trump being in power. also understand, my friend, this idea of this election being stolen, it does make sense to them withi

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democrats, of course, look at that and say that is mitch mcconnell. democrats obviously know where he has been and where republicans have been all along on this issue. the big question still remains, the filibuster and what joe manchin would do on the filibuster. he has been steadfast in saying he doesn't want to have a sort of special carveout on voting rights on the way they did with judicial appointments as well as cabinet officials in 2013 and 2017. that's been the big question. you saw joe biden, he's remained silent on the filibuster, essentially not wanting to come out and say it should be scrapped, a special carve-out for voting rights. you have democrats wanting him to do more. they were pleased with his speech. a lot of progressives still want him to use the filibuster word, right, and push joe manchin along and prod him to up end the filibuster when it comes to voting rights. if it's this serious, if he's using this language about the civil war, everything needs to be done to prevent something like the civil war, then why isn't he coming ou

this is state republican chair kelli ward, nicknamed kim trail kelley by mitch mcconnell, calling supervisor clint hickman on behalf of trump. >> hey, clint. it's kelli ward. i just talked to president trump, and he would like me to talk to you and also see if he needs to give you a call to discuss what's happening on the ground in maricopa. give me a call back when you can. thanks. bye. >> rudy giuliani also left a voicemail for hickman. then on the night of january 3rd, the day trump's call with georgia's secretary of state was published, the man in charge of the maricopa county election got this voice mail. >> hello, sir. this is the white house operator. i was calling to let you know that the president's available to take your call if you're free. if you could please give us a call back, sir, that would be great. you have a good evening. >> trump has never stopped that pressure campaign. it was a multi-pronged effort that included pressuring elected officials, storming the capitol, and now passing restrictive

but much more specifically, they were protecting the lives of kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell.ings they suffered in order to try to protect the lives of those republican members and the democratic members and everybody else, and all the principals and the processes, but specifically, they put their lives on the line for kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell and they go on television yesterday and i'll say just basically the same metaphor, they're just basically spitting on the men who laid their lives down to save the lives of kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell. they go on television and say we couldn't be bothered to listen to these guys give their testimony for history, where what they're going to testify to is how much pain their endured to try to save those republican members' lives. no, we couldn't be bothered to watch them. it's essentially the same thing as what the cable hosts are doing. they're bastically looking at these guys and spitting in their faces. i find it beyond disgusting. it's -- again, i said before, it's moral depravity of the highest order. >> coming up, as

because might mitch mcconnell next year say well we have the midterms coming. it is been so watered down over time, this idea of the president appointing and the senate advising on this. but could he potentially block next year, a biden appointment? >> well, it will depend on what power mitch mcconnell has. right now he's the minority leader. if something happens to the one vote margin that senate democrats hold right now, and suddenly mitch mcconnell is in control again, everyone will remember even more what he did in 2016 when he blocked an appointment by then president barack obama of merrick garland to the court. so people are so aware of mitch mcconnell's interest in the courts and they do not want -- the democrats do not want him to be in charge and that is why they're hoping that justice breyer does go maybe next year. >> we'll see. joan, great scoop. thank you. >> sure. >>> still to come, a top u.s. general's bombshell and that word doesn't do it justice. just remacably significantly important comments about former president trump. general mark milley f

i would've said it would be impossible for mitch mcconnell to go along with someone like donald trump explain it to you, lawrence. i don't know. i'm with you. i worked closely together when i was in the senate and it's like watching a different human being, he's confident, he knows how the senate operates, he knows how to get things done. he has become way too much of a toady to the former president. >> one of the things that fascinates me about it, not just with mitch mcconnell but with others is the collapse of the male ego, which i always thought was a very powerful force in the united states senate for, when we were there didn't matter what the president wanted, it mattered but the chairman of the various committees wanted, they wouldn't necessarily publicly break. it was very hard to get these people to get in line with trump, it looked effortless. >> independent of trump lawrence, the power has been shifting, and that's because of the fund-raising committees, the rnc sees, these are four committees, they're raising money to impose people that you are working with, when you and i

l let's listen. >> mitch mcconnell loves our program. he told me he wasn't going to get a single vote in order to allow me to get with the help of everybody here and 1.9 program for economic growth. look it up. he's bragging about it in kentucky. it's great thing for kentucky. it's getting 4 billion dollar to help. it's amazing. check out mitch mcconnell. >> reporter: that is president biden's latest attempt at calling republicans out for really taking credit for a lot of these ideas in the bill, particularly, those child tax credits. widely popular among families of all partisan stripes here. we know what the outline of this fight is. it's a democrats only bill. democrats have to sure up sochl their own as well. >> let's talk about the location. crystal lake, illinois. is that a republican stronghold and why did he choose that? >> reporter: it is mchenry county, illinois. last week the president was in wi pi. this st a blue state but we're in a red county. this is one area represent bid two democrats. the president over the last couple

do you think that -- do you agree with mitch mcconnell?o groups primarily that haven't been vaccinated. and that's very right-wing conservatives, as you mentioned, but also minority groups. and obviously they're not traditionally right wing. so, i think we've got pockets of the population out there who just really don't understand the vaccination process. pam, before covid-19, i never took a flu shot in my life. it just wasn't something that i did. i'm not anti-science, i don't have conspiracy theories, i just never took a flu shot. so i think there are a lot of people out there especially rural americans that just, you know, before have never taken the shots they weren't required to take. the shots that you're required to go to public schools we've all had and we've all been vaccinated. but when it comes to flu shos, it's just not something that a lot of americans did. and that's something that we in congress need to continue to educate people on. and i think that another problem has been when the johnson & johnson, which is the shot that

the question really is what mitch mcconnell is up to.g the great philosopher yoga beara, it is dejavu all over again. i saw this for eight years under obama where you'll remember he said his number one job is to make barack obama fail his presidency and mitch mcconnell has basically said that about biden as well, saying he is a hundred percent focused on stopping joe biden's agenda. what i would like to see democrats do in particular coming from the white house right now, mcconnell is going to try to stop this because he thinks it is in his political best interests to stop it because he thinks that stopped for him under obama, try to make him a failed president so if you go into the midterm they say they've accomplished nothing. but i think the -- you begin to see this from the biden white house, is they should dare mitch mcconnell and senate republicans to kill a bipartisan infrastructure bill that depending on what polling you see has as much as 68% approval when americans know their bridges are crumbling, roads are crumbling. they kno

he called mitch mcconnell stupid. a person who didn't have smarts.lican party that he essentially believes he's responsible for getting re-elected because he recorded a message of support. called mitch mcconnell a lot of things but stupid is probably not one. he's pretty cunning tactical strategies and been successful in his agenda. so it was pretty striking. but to donald trump's mind, mitch mcconnell and many other very smart republican leaders failed him. >> you know if you know anything about washington and certainly about capitol hill, you know mitch mcconnell is one of the wiliest, sneakiest -- dare say brilliant strategies there is on capitol hill. phil, there is somebody who donald trump seems to really like. i want people to listen to who donald trump really likes. i'll talk to you about that on the other side. >> i get along great with him. i like him. he liked me. we had a great relationship. i said there's no way we would ever vote to impeach me. i was doing a great job. he said i've done the best job of any president he's ever known. he

and mitch mcconnell saying do not listen to the misinformation. urging the unvaccinated in this country to get the shot. >>> new concern with just three days until the tokyo olympics. at least 71 people in the olympic bubble testing positive. what the olympics chief acknowledged today. is there any chance they would consider calling the games off? james longman is there. >>> back here at home, in new york, the deadly house explosion. seven other homes damaged. what we've learned so far. >>> the wildfires exploding across 13 states tonight. and the noaa satellite image, showing the smoke from the west reaching all the way to the east. affecting air quality across the country. >>> and the joke tom brady cracked at the white house today, drawing laughter. and how the president responded. > 's to haveou wh us rian cases in the u.s. the new headline, on the one-shot vaccine. could it be less effective against this variant? what we know. and important context just ahead. >>> but we'll begin tonight with the history in space. jeff bezos' private rocketsh

it passed with every democrat and 17 republicans including minority leaders mitch mcconnell signing on. >> despite the popularity of it and the need for it, washington hasn't been able to get it done. this time we're going to get it done. >> it's a matter of building a relationship and having trust. i trust each one of them with my political life, i really do, because i know we want the same thing, what's best for our country. >> this group of senators is proposing to the olympic committee that the next new olympic sport be closing a bipartisan infrastructure deal, and i think tonight we -- what's it called? stuck to landing. >> one step closer. >> one step closer sticking to landing. >> i'm not entire liar sure that joke worked. still they need to clear final votes in the senate and house. president biden celebrated by saying, quote, this deal signals to the world that our kmoc democracy can function and deliver and do big things. not everyone is agreeing to it. during trump's tenure in office he was unable to finalize an infrastructure deal and it became a running joke on this show a

i have to compliment republican senate minority leader mitch mcconnell.hadn't made it political. he's encouraged people to get vaccinated, and he continues to do so. his state is in pretty good shape. alabama republican governor kay ivey spoke out on vaccination and even commentators on facts belittling this for a long time -- some haven't, but many have -- are arguing get vaccinated. look, this is not about red states and blue states. it's literally about life and death. >> turning to the debate over voting rights on capitol hill, a group of house democrats is launching an internal push on new voting legislation. 35 house democrats elected in 2018, many of whom are now facing tough re-election fights sent a letter to house speaker nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. some push for a new tailored version of a voting bill to reinstate protections and eliminating proposals not directly related to ballot access. according to "the new york times," democratic leadership will meet with president biden today on the issue amid passing infrastructure bills. it comes as

the message out in his district. >> mitch mcconnell wears the mask. >> and mitch mcconnell has been ahead of all the other republicans, taking this seriously. so this isn't -- like joe biden said, this isn't a republican and democratic thing. this is an issue of life and death. >> and one of those republicans, joe, said this is tyranny what's happening to them with the masks. tyranny. >> i wonder if they think it's tyranny that children have to get vaccinated before they go to kindergarten. again, why are we just starting to hear about this? you talk about this hyper individualism with no personal responsibility, you actually have people that are snow flakes that melt, that crumble, that collapse if they have to wear a mask inside, tyranny? you're in the house of representatives. you make laws for the united states of america. you have some personal responsibility to your constituents. do what mitch mcconnell is doing and stop making stupid political statements. and doing those stunts. >> i'd like to point out, joe, a couple of those republicans, some of them went and tried to defy

you mentioned mitch mcconnell.ittle of what he had to say. >> these shots need to get in everybody's arm as rapidly as possible. to ignore you'll these other voices that are giving demonstrably bad advice. >> if you hear things from the media that suggests it's dangerous by that vaccine, they are not serving you well in that media. >> what has the driving force, the gravitas that can have the ability to prompt people who are vaccine hesitant to actually get a shot? >> you know, i think that's a good question. it's, frankly, a real question whether or not republicans are going to listen to someone like mitch mcconnell and what we are seeing now is really two americas. we often talked about the red america and the blue america. now we have the unvaccinated america and the vaccinated america. and there are two strains of the republican party as well. there are is main stream republicans like mcconnell who want people to get vaccinated, who are speaking out, who are urging it. but there are the populist trump republica

any minute, mitch mcconnell could pull the roll rug out.ven just that first step is not guaranteed. the budget resolution is going to be a bear to get paths. and that's just the easy part, doing the budget resolution. because it won't have all the details in. and then that final reconciliation bill, if you think about it, democrats have ten, 12 years of pent up things that mitch mcconnell has successfully blocked. and this is their one chance to do things that mitch mcconnell can't veto. so, every group out there who has something they want to do, on immigration, on the environment, on climate, on health care, i'm pre-k, on all these things -- this is your one shot. the thing is, nobody really knows right now, including joe manchin, how much he is going to let through that keyhole. this could very well extended three or four months before they get that final package written. ag writ>> i think that's the import scheduling thing we establish with john yarmuth tonight. this is not happening before the august recess. jonathan alter, steven dead

senator minority leader mitch mcconnell voting tonight to advance the bill. that is a positive sign. but some senators may still try to force some changes. then it will need to go over to the house, where democrats hold a razor thin majority and already some progressives have indicated that this deal is not big enough. david? >> rachel scott with us with the breaking news from capitol hill tonight. rachel, thank you. >>> now to team usa in tokyo and gymnastics star simone biles withdrawing from competition for a second time. tonight, what biles says is behind this decision and her teammates already rallying behind her. support, in fact, from all over the word. also tonight, american swimmer katie ledecky's gold medal win in the pool, and what was historic about thi particular win. james longman again tonight from tokyo. >> reporter: tonight, another shock from the greatest gymnast of our time. usa gymnastics revealing that simone biles will not be competing in the all-around, her most anticipated event, saying she is doing so "in order to focus on her mental

. >> mitch mcconnell loves our program. you see what mitch mcconnell says? look it up. man.it is getting $4 billion to help, that's amazing. >> the total am that'll come into our state 4 billion. >> check out mitch mcconnell and you will even see it on tv. >> not a single member of my party voted for it. >> politically this could backfire republicans, $4 billion to help people sounds pretty good to me. the question is what can democrats get done on housing education guns and more. joining me now is eugene daniels, msnbc's contributor. >> this monologue and the dark knight, oh, we should introduce a little chaos because chaos is fair. here is the thing. chaos by the republicans is not fair in this instance, right? there could be millions of people across this country who lose their healthcare access and unemployment benefits and don't have access to hospitals if they decide they don't want to do anything for the next 18 months. you are at the white house and at the capitol, are there any republicans in the blue states that are worried this tactic will harm their chances next

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you see what mitch mcconnell said? >> so you're going to get a lot more money. i didn't vote for it. but you're going to get a lot more money. >> he told me he wasn't going to get a single vote in order to allow me to get, with the help of everybody here, that $1.9 trillion tax cut -- excuse me, program-to-for economic growth. look it up, man. he's bragging about it in kentucky. >> kentucky will get close to 7 or $800 million. >> it's a great thing for kentucky, getting $4 billion to help poor. it's amazing. >> if you add up the total amount that will come into our state, $4 billion, my advice and members of the legislature and others, local officials, spend it wisely. >> white house correspondent for nbc news, monica alba was with the president in illinois yesterday, and she joins us now. i take it the president is selling the plan to the american people, what was the response? >> reporter: this was part two of this major pitch on the road. last week we saw the president traveling to michigan and wisconsin to tout the bipartisan framework which does enjoy some

particularly, these advertisements put out by mitch mcconnell. we have a clip from one.ung boy, i faced a different disease. polio. it took decades for us to develop a vaccine. this time, took less than a year to develop three highly effective covid vaccines. nothing short of a modern medical miracle. every american should take advantage of this miracle and get vaccinated. the only way to defeat covid. >> let's compare that to the other senator from kentucky, rand paul, tweeting, quote, no. the government doesn't decide who gets vaccinated. you do. do not submit to the fear mongerers. which message wins out here, kirsten? >> well, i don't know which message is going to win out, and i think that it would have been helpful, also, if republicans would have been putting this message out sooner than they're putting it out, but what mitch mcconnell is saying, contrary to what rand paul is alenlegallegi exactly what rand paul says you should do. you decide to get the vaccine. he's not saying that the government's forcing people to get the vaccine, though if the government did f

mitch mcconnell. republican from kentucky is in focus now. great to have you on the program and a bit of breaking news as well so let me get to this. senator manchin in the last six minutes is speaking said we want to work in a bipartisan way to get a spending bill done. how genuine do you think that is and how far do you think he can take it? is it possible? >> i assume he is talking about the possibility of a infrastructure package moving separately. with regard to this deal they announced yesterday it is a wild tax and spending spree completely inappropriate for the country, which is already suffering from dramatic inflation right in line with what it was 40 years ago based on what they've already done on a single party line vote earlier this year. this is wildly inappropriate for the country. totally out of bounds for what ought to be done and that's why it will generate zero republican support and hopefully there will be a few brave democrats who understand that running the country into the ground with taxing and debt is not a good idea.

she turned the lens of it to mitch mcconnell and saying look what mitch mcconnell has done to the court mcconnell blocked merrick garland as president obama's appointee to succeed the late justice antonin scalia and then 2020 with only a few weeks to the election that donald trump lost, he sped through the appointment of amy coney barrett. she used the word manipulation. that's a word that plenty of democratic senators would use. what they fear is that if justice breyer waits too long, the senate could flip and have a republican majority and, once again, we would have these maneuverings. justice breyer has heard this. and he has heard it before. and right now his head is in a different space. he is the senior liberal on the left now because of the death of ruth bader ginsburg and has more of a chance to influence the internal debate and i think he's feeling pretty good about where he's at. >> your interview was fascinating about is driving the conversation. but people are people. he's looking at this through a personal lens to some extent. how is that in and out outweighed in even his m

mitch mcconnell -- you all need to remind people of this every day, representative -- mitch mcconnell said do me a favor, do not do it. let me say this. any time these same people were in that chamber who saw what went on that day, whose lives were threatened, and they still do not want to investigate? people do not care about their lives. another comment i have is, there were 150, 140 officers that day. six bullets in each gun. how in the world did they not shoot in the air or do something to deter those people instead of them getting beat up, killed? i do not understand that. 150 police with six bullets and only one bullet was shot. if it had been us, they would have shot up the whole 10,000. host: we will leave it there. guest: the insurrection on january 6 was tragic to be sure. it is hard to second-guess the capitol police officers who were clearly overwhelmed and underprepared for that day. why that happened, that is something the select committee will answer. so we can prepare the capitol police in the future. the last thing anyone wanted was to see further bloodshed take place

mitch mcconnell the senior senator from kentucky is opposing the bill that will fix that bridge, which was built in 1963. here is what president biden thinks is going to happen when the senate debates and votes on the bipartisan infrastructure deal. >> i think it's going to get done. you may find in the amendments that take place on the detail, the detail of whether or not -- and i'm the guy that wrote this bill to begin with and so i've had to compromise, to make changes in the bill. when i say i, i campaigned on this. >> a new national poll by the associated press released yesterday found that 59% of americans including 50% of republicans approve of president biden's handling of infrastructure. the poll found that 83% of americans including 79% of republicans favor an infrastructure package that includes funding for roads, bridges, and ports. and that is exactly what is in this bipartisan infrastructure bill in the senate. nbc news is reporting that the bipartisan group of senators, quote, say they're on the brink of finalizing a huge, bipartisan infrastructure deal. on wednesday a r

undercut their fellow republicans, including someone who is close to mitch mcconnell. i have to tell you, lawrence, he's perfectly willing to do so if he thinks it's for the greater good and he's more willing to undercut if he thinks he can score some political points heading into the next election cycle. >> and john ham, an infrastructure used to be the old-fashioned way of getting reelected. whether you individually got an earmark to get that bridge of that project in your district or just in general you delivered your party and your congress delivered massive infrastructure spending and fusions around the country. that was always thought of stage one reelection campaigns for congress. so if the democrats managed to say, do the democrats only bill eventually and the republicans participate in none of that, how does the republicans go into the next congressional election with zero contribution on infrastructure? >> well, i think number one, lawrence, it's not clear to me that the politics of this if this bill fails, the bipartisan bills that the politics don't favor d

mitch mcconnell already has sort of gone out on a limb here. now if there are some things where republicans are, like, you're sneaking something in here, you know, it's possible. but i would be very surprised at this point. mitch mcconnell sort of said where he stands, and he's going a lot of cover to his fellow republicans that want to get this done, because, honestly, all of these lawmakers, because infrastructure is popular, a lot of these lawmakers can go back to their districts, cut ribbons at bridges and roads, and just -- it's a big political win. if they can get past this, like, final 10 yard line. >> katie, your first time on the program. thank you for joining us. hope you'll come back. alex is a regular. great to have you both. >>> next a big week for texas democrats. where does their fight for voting rights go from here? we're going to ask texas representative nicole collier next. >>> and new developments with federal eviction protections ending at midnight tonight. eight progressive democrats led by congresswoman i anna pressley and

and i tell you what's irresponsible, mitch mcconnell.an effort to protect our most sacred right, as americans, the right to vote. listen. no matter what your political affiliation and your background. the right to vshould be protectd for republicans, democrats, independents. for all americans. and guess what? you should be able to vote freely. all americans, not restricted. i actually think it should be a day off. so that everybody can get a chance to vote. they can't say, hey, i got to go to work. give everybody the day off. let everybody vote. and mitch mcconnell would have you believe that is some kind of champion for bipartisanship. and we, all, know that that is bs. the guy who said that he is, 100%, focused on stopping biden's agenda. bipartisanship. okay. the guy who begged republicans to block the bipartisan january-6th commission, as a personal favor to him. okay. bipartisanship. the guy, who said this. >> as you look to what the majority leader has in mind for june, it's pretty clear, the era of bipartisanship is over. >> sorry