that's why mitch mcconnell is mitch mcconnell. he's done a really good job of beating back any potential people who are going to beat him in a leadership race. but what is worrisome for him is if this becomes a trumpian litmus test, there's races i n un the omicron variant expected today. we'll hear if current vaccines work when pitted against this new variant. >> plus, former minneapolis police officer derek chav sin set to appear in court. he's expected to plead guilty now to violating george floyd's civil rights. will that change his sentence. >>> and president biden on his way to kentucky to see firsthand the devastation from the deadly tornados there. we'll take you there live just ahead. ...so at at&t everyone gets our best deals. aren't others doing that? others say that, but not everyone gets the best deal. like what if i give you a lollipop... but then i give you our best lollipop. that's not fair. at at&t we think it's only fair that all customers get our best deals, and you get a choice of plans. she said everyone? it's

i think mitch mcconnell hopes something takes down donald trump.eal, but let's not give the majority leader too much credit. he's still about a 6 or 7 on if mccarthy scale of bowing to donald trump when he needs to. this is a minority leader who would gladly accept hershel walker, dr. oz from jersey or pennsylvania or wherever he is if it would elevate mitch mcconnell to the majority in the u.s. senate. i think personally he would wish donald trump would go away. but politically, he's not going to be the one to get rid of donald trump. that's obvious of him having it both ways throughout the first years of donald trump and now throughout the years after. >> i love reality checks. they're really helpful. who do you think is more powerful among republicans now? do you think it's still donald trump? mitch mcconnell obviously has a lot of power over his caucus, but with them fighting, who's in charge? >> yeah. this is an interesting dynamic, zerlina. i confess having run for the u.s. senate, we had some whack jobs during the primaries in florida. i can

he said he's the grim reaper and his tactics are often discussed in d.c. >> mitch mcconnell is a super-smartt constantly a strategic tack 'tis. >> i don't ever question mcconnell. i worked with him. you don't want to mess with him. >> a republican explaining you don't want to mess with him, independent analysts say this is what he does. he certainly has had some winning. not every narrative lasts forever. in september, he was vows a big fight over the debt. he said republicans would simply not help democrats avoid default. he said his was willing toe court crisis. start a global financial crisis if need be. >> they will not get senate republicans' help with raising the debt limit. >> fact check -- false. democrats got help from republicans. mcconnell blinked, then many on the republican right were upset. trump said mcconnell folded -- this is what's oz interesting. he said, well, okay, i won't do it again. told biden when it came time to avoiding the next default, i will not provide such assistance again. well, that's not true. the tactition doubled down on something, and then blinked over t

briefly we'll hear from the house chaplain, later house speaker nancy pelosi, senator mitch mcconnell, senator schumer, and then president biden as well will speak before a benediction by the chaplain. joining us is david gergen, who served a good number of presidents during his time and i know encountered the senator in your work. i wonder in moments like this, it feels like we have a eulogy for the man but also the eulogy for a time in washington where folks like this were able to speak to each other and work together. >> yeah. that's such a good observation. bob dole was one of the last warriors of world war are ii and that generation remains revered through this day as setting the gold standard for how people ought to work with each other across the ail, how we're all americans, and as the saying goes, we all came in different ships but we're in the same boat now. >> in the same boat now. i agree, put it so well, a eulogy for the time that so much has changed. david, give us some of your observations, too, of the late senator bob dole, what it was like to engage with him and how o

but in the face of all that, mitch mcconnell's not leading. house democrats are. >> i mean, you know, he's playing politics with democracy, with what this country was built on, with people's lives. lives were lost that day. that's just what's amazing. and we all know that people play politics all the time. david jolly, i'm sure you played a lot of politics when you were in washington, d.c. nonetheless, these are people's lives. we look ahead to the next election and to the election after that, and you wonder what's going to go down at that point. people are scared right now about this country and where we're headed. with that, jesse, i want to read the text messages that we heard from liz cheney. "we are under siege here at the capitol," all text messages to mark meadows, chief of staff. "there's an armed stand-off at the house chamber door. we are helpless. potus has to tell people to dissipate. someone is going to get killed." "mark, he needs to stop this now, tell them to go home. potus needs to calm this blank down." do you think mcconnell

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mitch mcconnell is the republican leader of the u.s.tmatter mitch mcconnell is an instrument of the left. mcconnell knew that tim helped organize donald trump's political rally in washington. there was nothing illegal about that. it's a constitutionally protected behavior. the partisan lunatics on the january 6th committee objected to this and mitch mcconnell took their side as he has from the beginning. he convinced the dole family to cancel tim's contract and he made sure the story made the "new york times" and knew this piece would destroy tim's life and it will. it will mean no more corporate clients and no more business and no more income for tim. even by mitch mcconnell's standards of viciousness, this was a cruel thing to do. it was crushing the weak on behalf of the strong and for no real reason but simply because he doesn't like trump. this is hardly something that mitch mcconnell has done something vicious. going forward we will tell you about it. why wouldn't we? if you wondered why there is a massive disconnect between repub

mitch mcconnell needs to stop bailing the democrats out. mitch mcconnell is breaking his word. mitch mcconnell is lying to every republican, and he is scheming with pelosi and schumer behind the scenes and he is giving them a lifeline when they totally, completely, have kept republicans out of the budgetary process. he gifted them with more time to raise the debt ceiling after two months of saying he wouldn't, giving them a window to pass build back better socialism. he promised he would never do it again, and guess what, mitch mcconnell, now ready to capitulate one more time. he just needs nine other senators to help him. lindsey graham tonight was furious. take a look. >> to the leadership on both sides, like you. senator mcconnell has been a great republican leader. minority leader, majority leader. but this is a moment where i want to be on the record to say, i don't like this. what we've done is allowed the house of representatives to change a senate rule. no matter what the subject matter, that's not a good idea. we set in place a process that allows our democratic collea

what is mitch mcconnell saying about this probe into the capitol riot? ing na mcconnell is saying anything at all. one of the things i learned very quickly in covering the capitol is that the republican leader is extremely careful in the questions that he chooses to answer and very often just ignores us when we ask him questions he's frankly not interested in entertaining. on tuesday when mcconnell was asked specifically if he's had any communication with mark meadows on january 6th, he said no, but he said himself he offered this information up willingly, he said it would be interesting for the public to know all of the players that were involved on that day shining a light of legitimacy on this investigation. he continued to answer questions about it throughout the week including during an interview on thursday. take a listen to what he said. >> we're watching the investigation. it's occurring over in the house, reading about it like everyone else, and it will be interesting to see what facts they find. it was a horrendous event, and i think that what t

on this, did mitch mcconnell give up leverage ? >> let's keep in mind the debt ceiling is in a such devastating position because democrats have spent trillions already on things like, that $1.9 trillion spending bill that had nothing to do with covid but bailing out failed states and giving people money not to work. when donald trump was president, there were three different budget cap and spending and debt cap agreements that were reached between trump and speaker pelosi. you had a time when republicans and democrats work together to determine whether the spending caps we should have to control spending in washington and deal with the debt that goes with it? that has happened at all this year, democrats have been on a reckless spending spree, and not once have they sat with republicans to do with the debt that they are wrecking up. families know this every day, because if they are maxing out their credit card, they do not just apply for more and send a bill to their kids, they figure out how to put a limit on spending. that hasn't

leader if they take back the senate and so i think this is mitch mcconnell saying, oh, okay, well, let'sblem that frankly mccarthy and mcconnell are going to have, and mcconnell is just the more strategic player in all of this, is there's about to be a lot of republican primaries where some trump-endorsed candidates are going to lose, and if then they claim those elections are stolen and there will be a republican fight that is going to be relitigating in some ways 2020 where the election being stolen won't make a lot of sense in a lot of places. so i think mcconnell is setting the groundwork for that as well, and saying, no. our elections are fair. there is no lie, and so the republican primaries are going to move forward as well. >> meanwhile, yvette, you have this effort, actually this pretty strategic effort by trump to go after the people that stood up against him in challenging the election. >> mm-hmm. >> in 2020, not just the members of congress that voted to impeach him, but these officials, people like brad raffensperger and people repeating the lies about the election. >> retri

so people kind of blamed reid retroactively for his change that allowed mitch mcconnell to change it, is dumb because the universe in which mitch mcconnell does not bend to give neil gorsuch and kavanaugh on the court simply doesn't exist. reid prestruck by changing the filibuster for court appointments. and, as you say, that is why biden and as a first-year president, has appointed more lower court justices in his first year than any other president in american history other than george washington. so, there you go. >> linda, reid obviously had a very, very long career in washington, was really like a creature of the u.s. senate in the way that fewer and fewer politicians are. i don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing. although one thing i have learned about covering the senate is knowing how the senate works confers a lot of power. and actually not a lot of senators do. harry reid and mitch mcconnell, for instance, are two people that really understand how the senate works at a deep and granular level. that really does give you an edge. >> my favorite harry reid quote was somet

so mitch mcconnell has been on both sides of the argument here. but i'll take it. i'll take it. we do need reliable accounting of what happened from january 6th. if he is willing to say he is watching closely, it helps. >> you know who else may be surprised? donald trump. cnn has reporting that trump is annoyed with meadows and was blind-sided by his book and the materials he handed over. he writes a book where he makes all kinds of revelations and also hands over all kinds of documents and trump is surprised. >> apparently mark meadows is surprised that trump was upset by it. this is a man who demands ultimate loyalty from everyone. nobody knows that more than mark meadows, who sat by his side throughout january 6th. one thing we don't know is whether mark meadows took to heart the pleas from donald trump's son, laura ingraham, sean hannity and tried to make the case for trump. there is still a lot we need to learn about mark meadows. why would he be surprised that donald trump is displeased? >> i wonder what meadows thought was going to happen? i don't see a clear strategy her

so tim, let's remind our viewers what mitch mcconnell said back in february. let's listen. >> january 6th was a disgrace. american citizens attacked their own government. there's no question, none, that president trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. no question about it. >> and now, tim, mcconnell seems to be all for uncovering what caused that riot. what's going on? >> well, chris, first i see the jackson state sweatshirt don's wearing. it's i big recruiting week for them at jackson state this week. very timely. here's what's going on with mcconnell. if mcconnell over the christmas break stumbled upon a magic lamp and a genie came out of the lamp and he had three wishes and no one would know he had those wishes. the first one would be to take stephen breyer's seat and be able to appoint another conservative to it. that's what he cares most about. the second thing he'd wish for is that donald trump would just go away. mitch mcconnell understands that what donald trump precipitated on january 6th was horrible. it was

amid all the stonewalling even mitch mcconnell now says the investigation into how the u.s.ant professor in u.s. history at the university of chicago, and author of "bring the war home" the white power movement and parliament military america. professor, thank you first of all for joining us tonight. we wanted to have you on for sometime so you can illustrate the link between what happened on january 6th and the documented growth of white supremacist terrorist groups and activity in america certainly since 2016. but before i get to that in ernest, i want to start with the premise many of us saw in that "the washington post" op-ed this weekend. three retired military generals all saying we saw an attempted coup in january and bad as it was it was practice for 2024. your response, professor? >> this is an alarming editorial for anyone. i think regardless of your politics when we have commanding generals sounding the alarm about problems in the chain of command, about infiltration of armed services by militant right and white power activists intent on overthrowing the united st

of course, that was then wielded by mitch mcconnell and donald trump to stop the jgs. and we should also note has led to a record amount of judicial appointments in biden's first year. it has sort of done it for both sides. i wonder what you think the legacy of that decision is. >> sometimes you have to be concerned about the end state. i think reid gets unfairly maligned for changing the filibuster rules and have mitch mcconnell turn it around on him and change it for supreme court appointees. and remember they're all there in a filibuster-free world. if there were a filibuster there none of these people got 60 votes. so people kind of blamed reid retroactively for his change which allowed mitch hk kaunl to change it, which i think is dumb because the universe in which mitch mcconnell does not bend hell and hurgt to get neil gorsuch and kavanaugh on the court does not exist. as you say that is why biden as a first-year president has appointed more lower court justices in his fir year than any other president in american history besides, you know, george washington. so

i want to start with you, tim miller, on mitch mcconnell. i think you and i have had this conversation. i welcome anyone's enthusiasm for the investigation into the deadly insurrection on january 6th, but mcconnell, who is so stingy with his public pronouncements about anything, and who is so deliberate and who is so studied and who really doesn't care at all what the press says about it surely knows what he said to spectrum is a complete reversal to his public pronouncements before about investigating january 6th. >> i think so. you know, he's started to lean into comments like that a little bit more recently, not being as direct as he was in spectrum. here's what i bit on, i think everyone in washington knows -- i think it is the worst-kept secret in washington that if mitch mcconnell had access to magic beans that would make donald trump disappear he would take them. i think mitch mcconnell is sick of donald trump. i think that mitch mcconnell wishes this he could get rid of donald trump. he just knows that he can't be responsible for gett

the joke in washington mitch mcconnell is owned royalties for you.s not getting a penny. >> not even ten to cents. was one of the extent to shoot grappled with gender. you not only had a presidential campaign you grappled with throughout your life. talk but the presidential campaign there is one section in the book you write about you have i would love to see some day. i too with female political reporters. we were all on this one paragraph with your book over the weekend she sends this paragraph around. we are all commenting on it. so i just wanted to read it to you. hope you could unpack this. it's a moment when you are thinking about getting into the primary. you sure you're going to do it. i think you decided in your heart you're going to do it. your thinking about what it's going to take in what is going to look like. it's a few sentences but you write i would do more. i put my unflinching determination on display. sounding the call for the fight against some of the most powerful people and corporations in our nation. it also put my full heart t

what mitch mcconnell has done is incredible. away our biggest and strongest bargaining chip. we could have gotten rid of the build back worse bill as i call it and that is what it is, we could have won everything and he gave up. the best chip that we had. it's not even the debt ceiling ship. it's not even believable what he did and he ought to be replaced as the leader. he leads by handing out campaign contributions to senators. what he did by giving up on the debt ceiling and by the way i know plenty of democrats, the democrats cannot believe they got it and he got nothing for it. he would have been able to absolutely kill that. now they are going to use it for the supreme court and even worse than that they are going to use it for the voting rights which is a disaster for our country and disaster for the republican party. laura: i don't think that's going to pass but arizona and west virginia, your message to the voters in both states because kristen sinema seemed a little stronger on the spending side of things than joe manch

mitch mcconnell says they won't release a legislative agenda going into the midterms.epublican donors and operators arguing the party should release a positive outline but mcconnell adamantly rejects this idea. he is rejecting the idea of having ideas or, if you want to be technical, of telling people what their ideas are. just a year ago, under trump, the republicans broke with a long standing tradition in all recent american politics across both parties which was to just not even put out a party platform at the convention. in fact when they checked, that hadn't happened in over 150 years. the mood then was, it was whatever trump wanted. but trump's not going to be on the ballot in the midterms. indeed, sometimes it's republicans and conservatives who say that some in the democratic party are fixating on trump and trying to make it all about him and they want to run on their own version of republicanism. now they won't say what it is. it used to be said as well in congress that some republicans were focused on policy. they would insist in the trump era that they had t

mitch mcconnell voted for it. he was back home touting its benefits.evin mccarthy was actively urging his members to oppose it. part of the reason for the split is the different nature and makeups of the conferences. mitch mcconnell dealing with a 50-seat minority. he has been forced to cut deals. on the house side, the minority party is rarely needed for votes. the other big factor as you alluded to is donald trump. mitch mcconnell and mccarthy have completely different views about the party. they see trump as crucial to winning back the majority but winning speaker one day. they are likely to vote against the bipartisan infrastructure deal. some republicans are starting to sound the alarm about the two gop leaders being on opposite pages. listen to what a texas republican told me yesterday. he said, quote, we better stick together. it's imperative that republicans all march in one direction. this is training for, hopefully, next session. so clearly this divide between mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy could foreshadow governing challenges if republi

as far as mitch mcconnell goes.rican people well, it's quite an active week for them. meadows' texts have really caused a stir and investigators as well. it appears they also caught the attention of mitch mcconnell and republicans in the senate. >> mitch mcconnell does not acknowledge the house of representatives exist. the fact that senate republican leader is paying attention what's happening over there is interesting and telling. we should not give him the pass. he cold have investigated the january 6th attack that was scuttled by republicans in the senate last year. the other thing about mcconnell is there is always a political calculation. there are a few people in washington better than that than him. he's good at this. what angle is he seeing here? he wonders if this is a way to highlight what happened of course on the 6th if it's possible a way to separate the party a little more than donald trump. we know mcconnell and trump did not get along. mcconnell was grateful of what trump did. but, mcconnell we reme

they have authority over the house, but the majority leader in the senate dente, mitch mcconnell. if you want to be politically fair, if you want accountability about vulnerabilities on january 6, it would be both speaker pelosi and mitch mcconnell. when i hear republican members make that argument, i hear democrats responding committee want to investigate nancy pelosi, you would have to investigate mitch mcconnell as well. they looked into this. we expect other committees to take up this issue, but they have kind of taken over the domain of exploring what happened that day. host: let's go to karen in alabaster. caller: good morning. i have a few points to make. president trump said he wanted people to peacefully protest. he never said to storm the capital. the prisoners in the district of columbia, they are in solitary confinement. they are not given any bail. we are not seeing any cash bail. most of these people were charged with trespassing on federal property, yet they get no bail? on the day of january 6, there were a lot of things that happened that we see videos of. before

mitch mcconnell suggests support for the committee's work. >> the fact finding is interesting.g it. it was a horrendous event and i think that what they're speak seeking to find out is something the public need to know. >> back with me matt dowd, ripe barber, a justice correspondent for insider. ryan, what do you make of the text believed to have been exchanged between the former secretary of energy rick perry and former white house chief of staff mark meadows? >> we saw with a lot of texts related by representative liz cheney that mark meadows, was they showed how it's not just cabinet official rick perry but several others looked to trump had a singular authority to be able to call it off, to call it quits, to urge this angry pro-trump mob ransacking the capitol to stand down. who we saw the way that liz cheney framed that and the reason she relayed all those text messages that they received through mark meadows' partial cooperation up until a point was she was talking a lot about how trump's action or inaction contributed to the capitol. so what those texts all served to sho

. >> sandra: mitch mcconnell will be our guest and will weigh in on that and more. first the fox team covers on biden's next move. >> mike: now to our congressional correspondent on capitol hill. >> progressives are feeling the pressure. put out a statement calling on the president to take action. i will read part of that now. they say executive action will make it clear to those who oppose the legislative path and put hurdles ins it way that the white house and democrats will deliver relief for people. progressives do not have any leverage left right now. even if leadership says the bill is alive it is hemorrhaging. the bill is going through the senate rules process that could strip large chunks out of it. the senate killed immigration 3 times! the white house wants to keep working with senator manchin. the progressives don't trust him. they want a vote immediately even without manchin a yay. schumer is on board. that would force the democrats up for reelection in purple states who have been hiding behind manchin to get on the record with this bill. the question is

. >> the house freedom caucus today appealed to mitch mcconnell in a letter asking that he help them out by blocking any temporary, to enforce vaccine mandates, mcconnell appears to be resisting so far and has that a shutdown is not an option. as all that was going on, or in front of the supreme court building this morning protests were underway as the justices sat down to hear oral arguments on a mississippi abortion law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. for two hours the justices questioned the legality of the statue and the possibility of letting it stand. what >> liability it seems to me doesn't have anything to do with choice, but if it really is an issue about choice, why is 15 weeks not enough time? >> it doesn't seem to me to follow that pregnancy then parenthood are all part of the same burden. >> if you think about some of the most important cases, the most consequential cases in this course history, there is a string of them where the cases overruled president, >> now the sponsors of this bill, the house bill in mississippi, said we are doing it because we hav

the gop may have an aging senate minority leader in mitch mcconnell but also legislative younger elected officials who are energetic, conservative and smart. whether or not trump decides to run again the main point is that the gop actually has a very deep bench, the democrats are trying to put a good face on all of this but they know they are going to need to replace biden and they know running kamala harris would be like getting a root canal without novocain only you lose the tooth at the end. [laughter] the laura: without people buttigieg? we still have mayor pete. former mayor of south bend is plan b you better be in favor of running joe again even if he can't form a sentence. will way felt was super weak,

congress, senator mitch mcconnell's office, senator rand paul's office reached out to me offering assistance. as we move forward we will probably be reaching out to those folks to get all of the help that we can get because we will need it here. the national guard came on site this morning, and i think that was about 10:00. they have been doing some point control and helping us to provide some security in our community. we have not had much of a problem with looting at all, thankfully, but we have the national guard here to help with that point control and even with cleanup. we are fortunate and grateful. >> curtis mcgee, i am thankful that your family is okay, and your daughter and son-in-law and grandkids, your entire family that may have been affected, i am thankful they are doing okay, but i am sorry for the loss of your friend and the loss in your community as a whole and i know you need the thoughts and prayers of this entire country.

may have an aging senate minority leader in mitch mcconnell, but it also has a slate of younger elected officials who are energetic, conservative, and smart. whether or not trump decides to run again, the main point is that the g.o.p. actually has a very deep bench. if the democrats are trying to put a good face on all of this, but they know they're going to need to replace biden and they know that running kamala harris would be like hitting a root canal without novocain, only you lose the tooth at the end. [laughter] >> slow down, everybody. [laughs] >> laura: what about pete buttigieg? liberals will say god, pete is our answer, we still have mayor pete. well, if the former mayor of south bend is your plan b, you better be -- you better be in

mitch mcconnell also says democrats are basically calling manchin a liar.e milla jayapal told me in "the situation room" earlier this week that democrats can't trust manchin's word. you know washington well, you know capitol hill well. how does this relationship get pulled back from the brink? >> i think it's got to start at the white house, with the president. i was surprised myself when joe made the statement on sunday. but i'm somebody, as you well know, that tries to respect everybody that i work with, keep relationships open. the person that you're mad at today you're going to need tomorrow on the next bill that you're working with. i think this christmas break came at a good time. the pandemic has been going on for two years. people are tired, they're working hard. everybody needs to take a deep breath. there are a lot of things that we need to deal with. many of them in the build back better bill. we'll come back in january fresh, come back to the table and figure out how we're going to help people that need us to be there for them. >> senator manchi

mitch mcconnell was the one who held open that seat anthony scalia pass when he passed away. arguing they should wait until the election. adds a result of that, that seat went to neil gorsuch. if he ends up voting to uphold the mississippi rule or overturn roe v. wade that's a startling different result you would have with merrick garland who was president obama's choice for the seat. 6-3 case, may not make that big of a difference, but a culmination of a half century of work on the path of conservatives so overturn or at least, you know, take a out of a lot of the fundamental tenets of roe v. wade. >> sam stein, because so many of these nine justices are at times so nakedly political, i feel less gross asking a nakedly political question, and that is this. we heard the phrase over and over today, a lot on social media, elections have consequences. will the democrats be able to convert this? >> that's a great question. the conventional wisdom would say yes, the country, if you look at the opinion polls still by and large supports a right to choos about whether you want to hav

i guess mitch mcconnell was a slow stone, slows down, slows down.eeds is the country is behind it. it's one of those things that is so interesting to me. all this talk about labels and the progressives and so on. but the truth is that progressive rescue package that joe biden led in congress passed, it's really popular. and the pieces of the infrastructure plan and the childcare plan, and a wealth tax those things are really, really popular as well. so it seems to me the folks who are out of step here are the elected republicans in washington not republicans across the nation but the guys in washington. and joe biden, my job as a senator his job as president to do the things the american people need us to do and want us to do. and do it now. so what i was running of time from one last question for you. that comes from my father spoke closely over there he was struck as many americans were the first watch having. [inaudible] , hundreds and hundreds of people thousands of people did he ever nip anybody question expect note not bailey. i do it to make

mitch mcconnell needs to go. he's not a leader. here with action, john kennedy.september, senator, we were told every republican that you wouldn't help the democrats have not allowed any republicans to be a part of the budget talks, mitch mcconnell said they're not going to help democrats raise the debt ceiling. at the last minute he caved. now he's going to create a new senate rule. is he going to get nine other republicans to reach cloture? is that going to happen? >> well, they won't do it with my support. my position hasn't changed. we each have one vote. let me tell you what my position is.te senator schumer and president biden and speaker pelosi want to pass and implement the build back better spending taxation and debt orgy. i don't agree with it. and to do that, to pass it and implement it, they have to borrow money. maybe as much as $3 trillion. and they need my vote to do that. now, why would i give them my vote if i don't support the bill? they say well, you're going to default on america's debt. you're voting to do that. no, i'm not. senator schumer b

mitch mcconnell says it should not happen.ll is not visibly at this point in time helping to make sure that that default does not happen. we'll see. but the boebert issue is an important issue, islamophobia, anti-semitism, racism, are all critically important issues that our country must get over, must oppose and must exercise from our public quality, if you will. and we'll have to -- we'll deal with that, but right now we're dealing with extraordinarily important issues and we need to get those done. >> i would be remiss if i didn't give you a follow-up on that. you say you're having conversations on this boebert issue. do you anticipate a vote on that front? >> i don't anticipate a vote certainly this week or possibly next week. we've got to deal with these issues that are critical to the welfare of our country and our people. but we are seized of an issue that boebert has raised, as others have raised, and we're going to continued to be seized with that. >> thank you so much for being with us, leader hoyer. we appreciate yo

i don't think mitch mcconnell is nervous. he actually is interested because if you listen to his speech right after the impeachment trial, the first half of it he basically goes off on the former president. on the former president in spite of the insurrection. no doubt about that. i think mitch mcconnell really does want to see what the evidence shows and i think it deeply troubles him that you got elected officials and also appointees of the president who were engaged in this attempted coup. >> all right, congressman ted lieu of california, thank you for being on with us. i suspect we'll talk again. >>> coming up a former minnesota police officer on trial for manslaughter could be taking the stand in her own defense. the central question that could determine the case. >>> as we go to break, you're looking at president biden touring mayfield, kentucky, meeting with officials and residents after that deadly tornado. more of this when we come back. (vo) for fourteen years, subaru and our retailers have been sharing the love wit

politico, liz cheney said meadows will be deposed next week. >>> senate senate minority leader mitch mcconnellching a new bill the build back better bill that mcconnell is focusing accomplishments on the sole democrat that many believe may scuttle it. >> we all know it may take one democrat to attack it. most of us feel the single best thing to fight inflation right now would be to kill this bill. and only one democrat could do that. are we hopeful that one will step forward? absolutely. senator manchin loves to talk to everybody. he talks to you. he talks to us. we had a great discussion. i enjoy it. joe's company, our stakes are similar. our viewer, part of our responsibility is to look at what most people refer to as flaw of our country. there's no question that today's democratic party in washington is oriented towards the high population coastal areas of the country. so, i admire senator manchin. i think he's in a really challenging position and a party that has dominated sort of the east coast elitism views of what america ought to look like. i pull for him every day and pray for him eve

rinvoq. >>> only eight days left for lawmakers to raise the debt ceiling, but this time, senator mitch mcconnells a complicated proposal worked out by mcconnell and senate majority leader chuck schumer. now, mcconnell just met with senate republicans to try to sell this plan, but so far, some of them are not buying it. cnn's manu raju joins us now from capitol hill. first, what's the plan? what's been worked out here? >> reporter: well, it is complicated, and it all underscores the lengths to which republicans in particular will go to raise the debt ceiling, avoid a default, without actually having to cast the vote to raise the debt ceiling because under the rules of the senate, there needs to be 60 votes to avoid any filibuster, but there are only 50 republican senators and 50 democratic senators, so what ten republican senators would move forward to raise the debt ceiling? that doesn't exist at the moment so they created this complicated one-time process that would require new legislation, a new law to create a fast track process that would allow the debt ceiling to be increased on just a simp

mitch mcconnell. >> well, there you go. they've been in conversations a lot lately. and they've been working together on raising the debt limit, so they have been having conversations. >> the old mitch mcconnell was very much like bob dole and what mitch mcconnell did on the debt limit was very much like a bob dole. this was from the day before bob dole announced in 1999. i asked which value guides you? you get a good deal, something you can live with. that was his greatest strength. it was a weakness as a presidential candidate because he had a long rivalry with george h.w. bush, but he would say people want the vision thing, people say i don't have it. that's what dole would say and h.w. bush said. they became friends. they were fierce rivals, but he was a deal maker. there are people out there watching saying we don't want that. that art is lost in washington in part because in our polarized politics, it is what you see there, mitch mcconnell talking to chuck schumer, viewed as blasphemy. >> there will be a world war ii memorial ceremony. suzanne malveaux, walk us

ladies and gentlemen, the honorable mitch mcconnell republican leader of the united states senate. senator mcconnell: on april 14 1969, senator bob dole delivered his first floor speech. he said, quote, the task ahead is monumental. and this was before bob knew he'd end up leading a conference of 53 senators. years later, after he had become leader, bob described his senate management challenges with his trademark wit. if i'd known he said we were going to win control of the senate, we'd run better candidates. [laughter] i swear, bob could have made it as a stand-up comic. but in that speech, bob was earnest. he was already championing a signature cause, helping americans with disabilities. the task ahead is monumental, he said. but i'm confident there are forces in america ready and willing to meet the challenge. bob dole himself was certainly proof of that. that made yerch speech came 24 -- that maiden speech came 24 years to the date that he sustained his combat wounds in italy. bob had already risen to a monumental task. he'd taken the fight to the nazis, and he nearly paid for

>> look, mitch mcconnell cannot stand donald trump. yet his cowardice has enabled this moment and this is someone who didn't vote for a bipartisan commission to really investigate january 6th. and i have yet to see him really stand by adam kinzinger and liz cheney and all the attacks they have received by the republican party and people in their own home state in the way they've been treated and the threats to their family. where was mitch mcconnell then? he still has not condemned it or said anything on that. this is a man who knows the truth. he lived it. he knows what happened on january 6th, and he wants the truth to come out. he wants it to come forward so everyone can see it. and then he'll figure out how to navigate in the space afterwards. but i think, you know, mitch mcconnell needs to be doing more. he should've been doing more in the past couple months. he should've been actively pursuing the truth himself. instead of leading in the party, he continues to be a coward and he fails it. >> meanwhile, the republican national com

thank mitch mcconnell as well. the baseless lawsuits, perhaps the most fundamental we have, the rule of law points back to natural equality, yet the progressive left is willing to jettison the rule of law when it does not serve as policy goals or achieve its preferred social outcomes. loan forgiveness is given to farmers, so long as they are not white. radical george soros prosecutors simply refuse to enforce a lot all. indefinite detention for those charged merely with trespass in the january 6 riots while piland -- violent blm insurrectionists get off scott free. or kamala harris nelson out of jail. [applause] unfortunately, the corporate media and increasingly these days the board room is eating the corporate left. those who criticize or oppose ideas are often silenced or canceled. if you say for instance that the wuhan coronavirus just might, perhaps maybe came from a lab in wuhan where they researched coronaviruses, i know it is crazy. the corporate media will say you were spreading lies and conspiracy theorie

mitch mcconnell's very smart. it and manchin likes the attention. it's clear. >> tara, i'm going to forgive you for putting the image of mitch mcconnell showing a little leg into my head. that's something that made me throw up in my mouth a little just now, but plouffe, you've taught me over the years, you said perception isn't reality. reality is reality. in this case, we had some reality that seemed to look a little unavoidable. let's listen to jen psaki here when asked about the relationship between joe biden and joe manchin. >> i would just note that the president considers him a friend. he believes they share values about a range of things personally, but also about why they're in public service. which is to make life easier for working people across the country. to give people more breathing room. to lower costs of childcare, healthcare, to fight for good paying union jobs. that's been a common topic of discussion of course between the president and senator manchin. >> david, the whole thing on capitol hill