mitt romney took offense to that change in tone. was it too harsh?, you know, voting rights is a crucial important issue. you're talking with mitt romney about shouldn't there be a floor, shouldn't there be a standard for elections. yes, there should be a standard that includes new york and delaware and new jersey. but that deals with some of these clearly antidemocratic voter suppression laws that are being passed around the country in response to the big lie about the 2020 election. so, yeah, president biden got worked up about, that and i get worked up about that, you know. i think it's an important issue. can't we unite behind the idea that everyone should be able to vote freely and have their vote counted fairly. >> andrea, has he done enough -- romney said he wasn't invited to a meeting on voting rights. i think he would have come to any meeting the president asked him to. >> that's the one thing about senator sinema's speech, and i had a problem with her timing, a freshman senator making that speech as the motorcade is warming up. it was so in

i want the hear from mitt romney.face reelection in 2024 and do what lot of moderate republicans. start sounding more conservative as his reelection comes. republican voters will remember exactly who mitt romney is. he can save it. the rest of us saw what was coming with joe biden and knew it would be a train wreak and it has been 52 weeks of that. >> harris: you took down everybody in there. something for everybody in that. what needs to happen next? we're in a hole. we know that. look at the cost of everything, bare shelves. what needs to happen next? >> you know what i would earnestly like to see is the white house start to realize the reality of covid, that we will have to live with it. it was never real they could crush an airborne virus. he can't say it. he says sit a pandemic of the unvaccinated which is not true. wear a mask all the time. now we know more about the efficacy of certain type of masks. they won't recognize natural immunity. they totally ignore therapeutics. a subtle pivot even in that getting awa

mitt romney's name would likely be on this list. here is what he said. >> the group of about 12 senators, republicans and democrats that are working on the electoral count act. he'll continue to work together. sadly, this election reform bill that the president has been pushing, i never got a call on that from the white house. there was no negotiation, bringing republicans or democrats together to try to come up with something that would meet bipartisan interest. sure, we could work together on almost every issue, where there is common ground. >> now i should preface this by saying phones work both ways. if he wanted to talk about voting rights, he could certainly call the white house. but i wonder if that is true, that they did not engage moderate republicans like mitt romney, is that a missed opportunity? >> no, i mean, let's have a conversation about what intellectual dishonesty is. the fact is mitt romney is on the record about where he stands on the john lewis voting rights bill and he's ben clear about that. but it should be n

i want to read an interview he gave during the 2012 campaign about mitt romney.r father must be so embarrassed about his son, he said in in reference to turn over 12 years of tax returns when he ran for president. he went on to claim a person who had infested with bain capital called his office, harry, mitt romney did not pay texas for ten years. okay, well it was proven. am i right? and reid revealed his real character. >> no regrets about mitt romney and some called it -- >> they can call it whatever they want. joining me now dinesh d'souza host of the podcast and victor david hanson. again, we are sorry to hear that reid passed, but this effort to prop him up in this way, is that warranted in any way? >> i think it is a little obscene to be honest. i realize a tradition when someone dies, a dignified silence, i guess al capone died, we would be combined to talk about the fact he made really good spaghetti and meatballs. they would say nothing about what this man's life was declined by appear the same with harry reid. he has been a divisive in american politics

due respect, it's why mitt romney lost his presidential election.t understand there's anger in this country. that there's anger with hedge fund buyouts and the offshoring of jobs, and to return the country to normal, you needed an agenda. you need an agenda that brings jobs, prosperity, manufacturing back to areas that have been left out and that speaks to people's economic dislocation. so what president biden is doing is ultimately trying to defeat trumpism, not just dealing with the symptom of trump, but the underlying economic conditions that may have liven rise to trump. >> we will talk more about the challenges of trumpism later in the broadcast. thank you, congratulations to your 49ers. it pains me to say it. thank you for coming on. >> thank you. have a good one. >>> amid the interparty fighting in the senate over president biden's domestic agenda, a bipartisan group of senators are currently traveling to ukraine to meet with the president and reaffirm the u.s.'s support for ukraine's independence. that meeting comes as the u.s. and our nato

senator mitt romney this morning praising the house committee's work. >> there's no question but thathey are finding things that we didn't know. and i think that's appropriate. look, there was an attack on the united states capitol. there was an effort to try and prevent the peaceful transfer of power. that's unacceptable. and we need to understand why there was not a rescue effort launched well before what finally came. and they're delving into that. i think it's an important and legitimate effort. >> and i suspect my next guest agrees, that being arizona congressman ruben gallego. welcome back, it's good to see you, congressman. >> good to see you too. >> first let's get to your reaction to mitt romney. are you surprised, a, a republican is speaking out so so vociferously in support of the 1/6 committee, and are you surprised it's mitt romney? >> the fact that we have to highlight one republican tells you what's wrong with the current republican elected senators. they're turning a blind eye, so they can ensure they keep getting the trump votes. that endangers our elections even more

i don't believe mitt romney himself if we passed voting rights act would vote to repeal that. who would vote to repeal that. when you have fundamental legislation that is good and just repealing that becomes difficult. we saw the republicans couldn't repeal even the affordable care act and that is less fundamental to democracy than voting rights. >> sure, but look what they've done with the supreme court, look what's happening with abortion rights. what gives you such confidence and faith in doing the right thing? that's certainly not something that mitch mcconnell considers a top priority. >> stephanie, look, there's always a risk. i'm not going to say that there is no chance that a bad outcome doesn't happen. guys my view is this, i never thought growing up that i would get to congress and that in the year 2022 would be having to fight for voting rights. i thought that was settled in the 1960s. we have a moment where there are less ballot boxes in places that have african-american con stitt wednesdayees, where people are being thrown off the roles, where the fights that john

>> obviously mitt romney has his head in the sand.ere is the reality, we're seeing bills passing laws in states like georgia and texas and by the way it would be law here in pennsylvania as well but for the veto pen of our governor making it harder for people to access the ballot box and don, let's be clear, they're trying to make it harder for black and brown folks to vote here in my state and other states and rig the system at the state level to work against our democracy. federal action is needed to try to stop those efforts in the other states. thankfully here in the state, i'll continue to fight back and win as a.g. we have a governor to veto the bad bills but we can't count on that in every other state. we have bad actors in mitt romney's party who are working over time to under mine our democracy. that is why federal action is needed. that's why i'm so disappointed that we've got these senators who have decided that they'll stand with the filibuster instead of standing with our democracy. that is just flatout wrong and doing re

michael steel, it's also very possible to look at what mitt romney said about steve breyer.i could see a mitt romney supporting a highly qualified candidate. >> oh, sure. >> joe manchin has already said the politics and ideology is not what's important to him in this case. it's temperament, character. >> i agree with you, andrea. i think that's exactly right. i think you will see some republicans move in that direction. i was listening to a reporter report earlier this morning something about all this is going to be a very difficult process. i'm sitting there going no it ain't. name me the democrat who's going to vote against the first black female to the supreme court. name that democrat of the 50 in the senate, name the one who's going to do that. so, this is not going to be a difficult process at all. i think we need to just bring the temperature down on this. put the hype aside and let biden put his nominee forward and the country applaud that opportunity. >> well, i think the bottom line is that in a 6-3 court, it's not going to change the divisions on the key issues of

you know, mitt romney is part of the reason to believe we have joe biden is folks like mitt romney thisld trump thing i can't do it. let's give the establishment the normal people a shot. now he is groveling 52 weeks too late about that. what has changed if anything about the republican party that gives you annual assurance that should you get power in 22 or 24. those people shifting in that direction will see a fulfillment of those promises. >> well, i agree that joe biden has not just had a bad week he has had a bad 52 weeks a lot of what you see now are the chickens coming home to roost of joe biden's bad decisions going back a year. look at inflation for instance this didn't just start in july or august or september it started on the first day of joe biden's presidency when he began to impose more red tape on businesses trying to produce the goods that our economy needs or when the democrats spent $2 trillion wastefully last march or look at vladimir putin massing hundreds of thousands of troops on the border of ukraine. that didn't just happen in a vacuum it happened in the context

get a response from mitt romney on a subject like this, i wonder if anybody in the white house thinkst may be they could have handled this differently. let me play you what romney said. >> he said that the goal of some republicans is to, quote, turn the will of the voters into a mere suggestion. and so president biden goes down the same tragic road taken by president trump. casting doubt on the reliability of american elections. this is a sad, sad day. i expected more of president biden who came in to office with the stated goal of bringing the country together. >> right now we know mitch mcconnell is on the senate floor excoriating the president on that speech. but, kelly, my question is to this i can't recall a meeting of mitt romney, lisa murkowski, susan collins, rob portman, you see where i'm going here at the white house on voting rights. on whether there was something -- there clearly is a working group here on something. the power of the presidency is two-fold. the bully pulpit and the power to convene. we haven't seen the power to convene used on this issue on the other side

, and said, you and me, we have to do this, mitt romney isn't going to turn down that meeting. he may not agree with everything the president says. i'm not saying that president biden has to give a speech that appeals to mitt romney all the time on voting rights. but if you lose mitt romney, you've got to ask yourself if you're doing it the right way. >> i ask you that because there are a number of republican senators who have not bought into the big lie and have publicly not bought into the big lie. we had mike rounds the other day, senator rounds, saying that joe biden won the election. there were others at the time who said very publicly. there were others that voted to impeach donald trump or to convict donald trump. those republicans, i mean, i wonder, joe biden came in with this -- andrea, with this idea that he was the great unifier, and he could reach across the aisle, he knew everybody in the senate and had worked with them for so long. he was able to do it with some legislation, the bipartisan infrastructure bill. but considering the time that we're in right now, i me

meanwhile, mitt romney was critical of the president's speech on election reform and white house secretaryponded to that, it is getting criticism. take a listen to this. >> i expected more of president biden, who came into office with stated goal of bringing the country together. >> press sect. psaki: there has been a lot about the offensive nature of the speech yesterday, that is hilarious, these people sat for the former president. >> carley: mitt romney far from silent over criticism of the former president. >> joe: yeah, i believe he voted one article of impeachment against donald trump, to say mitt romney has been violent, it is ridiculous. thank you, we like fact checks and i apologize for the error. she said mr. biden used objectively true statements on republicans trying to take away legitimate right to vote, at least that is what she claims. his speech was likely panned, including by his own party. he got four pinocchios. here is bottom line. his approval clocked 33%, stacey abrams in florida, voting rights thwarted by members of his own party in a matter of two or three days, not

i wonder, though, you heard from mitt romney there saying he did not hear from the president. you even heard from some democrats, dick durbin saying the president's rhetoric criticized those who voted against voting rights went too far. do you think the president went too far and doing so alienated allies? >> people focus on what's said as opposed to what should be done. we should be ensuring that all americans' right to vote is protected. think about this, if we as certain the will of voters in the state of georgia the state legislative body can overturn the will of the voters, people standing in long lines and illegal to provide water. why do we have long lines in the first place? carrying out the safest election in our history according to a trump appoint gee in 2020. over 60 lawsuits filed, all meritless. >> with record turnout as well we should note. as you heard there, there is a bipartisan effort now for electoral count act reform. in the briefest est terms to h prevent a scenario mike pence then vice president with the perception of a power to overturn electoral slates

now mitt romney is some kind of, you know, hero? he beat find saint hood. show some dignity on the left once in a while. >> pete: yeah, we were told we might see joe 2.0. man, if that is joe 2.0, the white house has got some serious problems tonight. dan bongino, thank you very much. appreciate your time. >> thanks, buddy. >> pete: all right, well, tonight, as you may have noticed, our back drop looks a bit different. we are live from the greater richmond convention center in downtown richmond, virginia where tomorrow morning starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern time we will be live on fox nation for the miseducation of "america live" summit. i released five part series miseducation of america fox nation. tomorrow on the stage you are looking at right there. we host a live summit that will amplify that steer series and further expose and dissect the 100 year progressive takeover of our classrooms as well as outline some solutions for taking back our schools. more on the fox nation series later in tonight's program and i hope you join us tomorrow morning on fox nat

>> the filibuster from the mitt romney s and joe manchins of the world is historically wrong.ter isn't in the constitution and not a constitutional principle and not always been here and critically and i've written about this. i wrote about this a year ago a lot. the issue that we have right now we have a procedual filibuster as opposed to a talking filibuster. back in the day when the filibuster was still doing its work of propping up segregation, you basically had to earn it. stand up and hold the floor and they change that rule. democrats in fact changed the rule to make it a legislative all you have to do is check a box and you don't have to earn it. i've yet to hear a joe manchin or mitt romney explain to me why -- screw taking away the filibuster. why going back to the filibuster in the 1970s, going back to a talking filibuster is somehow worse than the current legislative filibuster. joy, joe manchin doesn't take my calls and go on your show. he'll not defend himself to the people he's unwilling to defend but if one of these other reporters could please just once ask ma

a lot of republicans said he didn't even try, mitt romney said he hasn't gotten a call from presidentone republican you would have thought he would reach out to on these issues. is it worth still trying to make any bipartisan progress or do you just give up and look for a different way? >> he might get mitt romney, murkowski, who knows, but can he get ten republicans to vote alongside him? because that's what he needs, ten republicans to pass major legislation, unless they're doing it through reconciliation. all right. so in talking about the numbers, again, and approval rating, and how americans are feeling, rev, when you're talking to other civic leaders, who is getting the blame for what's happening in washington? is joe biden getting the blame? after all, he did sell himself as somebody who could bridge the gap. or is it the other party? >> i think the other party gets a lot of the blame. but i think that a lot of people feel, including me, that joe biden should have used his bully pulpit earlier and stronger. we have been pushing all summer for him to come out against the filibus

greg: another thing on the unity thing how he praised mitt romney, he said he's a great guy and this who biden said with put back in january. >> mitt romney said the other day he hadn't talked to anybody from the white house december. it's disingenuous. i'm a news guy from a couple things here. there turnout in this last election, it's higher than we've seen in 140 years and then for polling, they thought 94% of americans were satisfied because it was easy for them to vote. i wrote back down, i wrote down five things. greg: this is not the five. >> is one failure is not getting republicans into the game and making things better for the country. name me one thing fairport. and racist. i've not overpromise at all, i probably got the forms. [laughter] on the front is not cause for panic. testing kits, russian and ukraine, i do think it's a significant story. a minor incursion -- one thing if the minor incursion. vladimir putin may have gotten the green light we will look back and think that was not good for the world. inflation, everything to do with the supply chain. no mention that co

. >> republican senator mitt romney rushed and to support senator rounds, on twitter. truth, knowing that our republican depends on. republicans like governor hutchinson, baker and hogan, senators mcconnell johnson, bush and cheney plus 60 plus courts and even the right-leaning wall street journal editorial page agree, joe biden won the election. well joining us now, is claire mccaskill former democratic senator from missouri, she's an msnbc political analyst. senator casca, thank you for joining us tonight. there is mike rounds. saying, joe biden won the election. that provokes the predictable donald trump attack, that then sends mitt romney into defense of senator rounds. and we are watching what seems to be a phenomenon that refuses to ends, this republican attack on republicans about who won the presidential election. >> the interesting thing, is my former colleagues, more than just mitt romney and mike rounds, if all the republics did what mike rounds did yesterday, if all of them spoke up, there would be a sea change in this country. because donald trump would th

mitt romney a year ago did a video of him saying that he supports the talking filibuster.hat threshold so he could get three supreme court justices through. joe biden the president is being honest with what he says. we heard mitch mcconnell say during the obama administration it was his job to say no and to stop and prevent and to block and obstruct everything obama tried to do. no difference now with joe biden as president and mitch mcconnell hoping to be senate majority leader after the midterms. >> bret: all right. panel, thanks so much. nice, quick analysis of that news conference just before the show. i appreciate it we should point out the white house press secretary jen psaki will be on "america's newsroom" with dana and bill tomorrow. when we come back, honoring a sports and cultural icon. ♪ some of my best memories growing up were cooking with mom. so when she moved in with us, a new kitchen became part of our financial plan. ♪ ♪ find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com your shipping manager left to “find themself.” leaving you lost. you need to hire. i need i

mitt romney over the weekend said he's not even gotten a call from the white house on this bill.there are at least a dozen good-faith republican senators who want to see people who should have access to voting able to vote, able to do it easily, but we have some different policy viewpoints than the democrats. this is where the hard work of legislating and governing comes in. you have to sit down and talk to people on the other side of the aisle and say, what are you able to get on board with and what do you need to see from us? i think there's actually a way there would be a transf transformational voting bill that comes out of this, but it 100% would require some buy-in from republicans, otherwise it's going to seem cheap and partisan. and that work has not been done by the white house to date. >> so i hear you on what mitt romney said, and he said just yesterday, right, there are more than a handful of republicans willing to work on the biden administration with this but his complaint was, but i haven't gotten a call from the white house. but, i mean, it goes both ways. republi

. >> let me ask you also about what mitt romney had to say on "meet the press" the will to rewrite the electoral college law, the rewrite to stop future vice president from invalidating legitimate votes as former president trump was pressing mike pence to do. this is what romney had to say. >> the group of about 12 senators, republicans and democrats that are working on the electoral count act will continue to work together. sadly this election reform bill that the president has been pushing, i never got a call on that from the white house. there was no negotiation bringing republicans and democrats together. >> so what about his complaint that there was no bipartisan effort? >> reporter: there may not have been from the white house. from the senate perspective, the strategy here for democrats after joe manchin didn't support the original for the people act, this is how we got into the second phase of voting rights bills. the bill that is being debated now is one that's sort of designed and approved by manchin who was then supposed to go out and shop it to republicans. he was essential

republican party doesn't want to embrace in america first foreign policy, they want to go back to mitt romney they could lose this incredible offense they have. kennedy: they've squandered in the past, there's no doubt about that, i think both parties are on their own identity crises but you are right, teachers in chicago essentially declaring themselves nonessential workers, shutting down schools in chicago for four days, you think the parents aren't sick of that? just weights, it's just the beginning and they don't have an answer on that, they don't have an answer on the virus, on inflation but you know, low-grade opportunity. is there a way to fight aging and live forever? the answer could be just and times for drugs to slow down the aging process, the average lifespan. pills that could boost life expectancy from 77 to 150 years, not likely anytime soon, researchers say 10-20% increase in lifespan is conceivable but you want to live to be 150? guy. >> do i get to grow old with you and dream together? that sounds appealing. this is what i'm trying to figure out -- true, fact check true, if

. >> and mike, you once worked for mitt romney.do you see a problem when republicans like mitt romney vote to confirm this pick? republicans like murkowski, collins, is there a reason for them to make a big deal about the democratic nominee? like their party did with merrick garland? given that they have a 63 lock on the court already? >> a couple may. and i will explain why. but i disagree with gene a little bit. i don't think that the issue will be that big. it's not about changing the ideological makeup. it's about replacing a good center-left justice with another. and the democrats have the votes. so if you are the republicans, the choice you have to make is, do we raise a lot of hell and with the nominee from president biden through to kavanaugh to a grilling? and gin up base democratic voters and spend a lot of time not talking about inflation? or do we decide, let's score ideological points quickly and whoever the justice is, try to resonate the old defund the police stuff? that has some legs. the biden white house, if they

president biden tweeted mitt romney's foreign policy was straight out of the 1980s. you will recall the hillary clinton reset button debacle. so much politics mixed if here and just last year the president lifted sanctions to allow the nord stream pipeline to proceed giving a whole lot of geopolitical power right to putin. admiral john kirby pentagon press secretary with me now. thank you for being in "focus." when you hear former secretary pompeo say it, you hear republicans say it and others take the politics out of it and get to the brass tacks here why haven't we responded to the massive build-up of troops and estimated 127,000 that putin put on the border with ukraine. why haven't we responded before now or at all? >> harris, i have to tell you i'm not sure i agree with the idea we haven't responded. we have just approved another $200 million of weapons assistance. they are arriving as we speak including lethal assistance in the form of javelin anti-tank missiles. we have put an additional 8500 troops on alert yesterday to have to go perhaps maybe. haven't been

mitt romney is pleading, reach out to more republicans, govern from the center out, and that's what you promised in your inaugural speech. you are hearing various ideas of what people think he should do. i think the bottom line -- the other shows, like don't get mired in congress. he should be summoning people through the white house. you know, be the president, don't be the senate leader. look, they are all nibbling around the edges here, and obviously the biggest problem the president faces is the covid fallout, and the inflation issue is hurting him. james carville said if it's 7%, it doesn't matter what the president does or says, it's not going to be good for the democrats in the mid-term. you have to focus on what you can focus on at this point, and i think that the biggest issue is covid has been basically a wet blanket arguably over the entire agenda. >> i want to turn now to former president trump. he had his first rally of the year yesterday in arizona. for people who might not know, trump is endorsing nearly 100 candidates for the 2022 elections, many of whom question the val

mitt romney knows that. mitt romney knows that.him voting even to debate changes in the rules, even to debate making our voting rights act sanctity and strengthening it. we don't see that t all from any republican. we've successfully labeled trump's false claims about the election the big lie. you know, he gaslights. they all gaslight. they say, oh, democrats are doing the big lie. we're not doing any lies. everything we've pointed to that state legislatures are doing is happening and happening right now. so i am disappointed, deeply disappointed in mitt romney, being that partisan when the facts, not the issues, the facts, not the ideology, are the other way. it's all republicans in legislatures without a single democrat. in a highly partisan move, taking away the voting rights of people of color, of young people, of older people, of people who live in urban areas. it's a decimation of our democracy. >> senator schumer, al sharpton. one of the things -- >> yes. hi, rev. >> hi. one of the things i think was brought to bear yesterda

if you had to pick two people, two peas in a pod, meat loaf and mitt romney. thoughts are with his family today. >>> growing legal peril for donald trump. the district attorney in fulton county, georgia, has requested a special grand jury to investigate the former president's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. this phone call that we have all heard now could be exhibit a. >> i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. >> the d.a. fanny willis has been investigating for yearly a year now. her request to seat a special grand jury might suggest she's seriously pursuing criminal charges against trump or his allies. >> it began when new york's attorney general announced she had uncovered significant evidence of fraud inside the trump organization. she wants to question the ex-president, daughter ivanka and son don jr. on wednesday, the supreme court cleared the way for records that should auto shed light on the events leading up to and of course during the insurrection. we also learned january 6th panel subpoenaed and ob

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and two of the least excitable senators in washington are mitch mcconnell and mitt romney. and both of them have council to the floor in the last 24 hours or so and absolutely lit up joe biden for saying what he said. bill asked who is this joe biden? it's the same joe biden that told a black audience in 2012 that mitt romney and paul ryan might reenslave them if they won the election. he sometimes has this streak and, bret, i went back earlier today and i rewatched part of president biden's then president-elect biden's victory speech after he won the election. part of what he said was this, quote: we are not enemies. we are americans. this is the time to heal in america. what is our mandate? meaning him for after his election, i believe that it is this, he said: americans have called on us to marshall the forces of decency. they want us to cooperate. that's the choice i'll make. that's how he campaigned. that's what he said when he won. and here he is screaming about racism and segregation and enemies of the country. it's disgusting. >> bret: just before the show, at the w

biden: i talked to mitt romney on other occasions and i reached out to the minority leader as well. at the time that he made his speech. i have no reluctance to reach out to any republican and i have made it clear i have now had the opportunity to travel because of funerals and eulogies i have made and attended and congressman and senators have come along with me. somewhere between 20 and 25 senators and congress persons have traveled with me. you should ask them, i have said for the hours that we have flown together, sit back in the conference table and talk to them. ask them questions, they asked me questions. i learned a heck of a lot. as president, you don't have the ability to do that is much as i would like to be able to do it. one of the things that i do think that has been made clear to me speaking of polling is the public doesn't want me to be the president senator. they want me to be the president and let senators be senators. i have made many mistakes. if i've made a mistake, i am used to negotiating to get things done and in the past, i have been relatively successful at

mitt romney gave a speech in defense of the filibuster today which was very good.ning for governor on the democratic side, morgan, did not show up for this event today. the president was asked about that. take a listen. >> stacey abrams had a scheduling event. her car is getting a tune-up so you can understand. >> she is realizing georgians aren't buying what he is selling she is try attorney general void him because of his faltering poll numbers. >> she also agrees with the civil rights groups who all think this thing is phony. >> we're all on the same page and everything is fine. >> are you insulted she is skipping the speech. >> i'm insulted you asked the question. i spoke to stacey this morning. we have great relationship. we got our scheduling mixed up. >> bret: scheduling mix-up. if the president is coming, you fix the schedule, don't you, morgan? >> listen i have it on good authority stacey abrams called something called bidenitis that's a political allergic reaction when you are running for governor especially in the state of georgia. i kid. but that is wha

there were a couple of statements, including one from mitt romney, who wrote we ignore the lessons of january 6th at our own peril. democracy is fragile. it cannot survive without leaders of integrity and character who care more about the strength of our republic than about winning the next election. well, every republican should be out saying that. i mean it shouldn't be controversial. this is the united states of america, right? they should all understand the grave nature of the attack on january 6th and the danger to america's democracy. but instead they turn a blind eye. and in his speech today, biden called them out. >> you can't love your country only when you win. you can't obey the law only when it's convenient. you can't be patriotic when you embrace and enable lies. those who stormed this capitol and those who instigated and incited and those who called on them to do so held a dagger at the throat of america and american democracy. >> and that dagger is still there because a disturbing number of americans now, right now, think it's okay to rise up against their government. a

it doesn't seem as if mitt romney is for it or susan collins.he electoral count was what, in many ways, led to the activities on january 6th because there was this false narrative that somehow mike pence could override and stop the certification of the election. the fact there's bipartisan support makes a lot of sense. the fact my republican colleagues have said harassment of independent election officials. nobody is going to want to be a poll worker if they are harassed on a regular basis is a good step. these steps are not a substitute for the need i believe we have to take for electoral reform to make sure there is fair and equal access to the polls. we have a long way to go to convince our colleagues. when we have 16 of us talking in a place, as you know, chuck, one team or another on these issues, i think that's a step in the right direction. >> i'm curious of your thoughts on the state democratic party in arizona censuring kirsten sinema, and if that at all, what you make of that decision, appropriate? whether you think this is sending --

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saying that he'll be deeply missed. >> mitt romney and meatloaf.tough story. in new york city police are searching for a woman that's accused of shouting anti-smemitc comments at three children before spitting on one of them. cnn's brin. what can you tell us about this terrible incident? >> i want to get right to that video because police are wanting to know who this woman is. take a look at this. they release ready a surveillance video of her while this alleged aggravated harassment happened and of course, afterwards she walks away. the nypd says the woman walked up to a group of children, one of them an 8-year-old, and made anti-jewish statements and a source telling me she made a reference to hitler and told the young kids she knew where they lived, before spit is on them and walk ing away. and the kids weren't physically hurt but another instance a possible hate crime here in new york city, which we know has been on the rise in this pandemic, and we know just a fug huge focus for law enforcement. it's important to mention yesterday manhattan's

mitt romney. ben sass. family on the eve of an election where he was losing in the polls. this weekend, this weekend donald trump struck out against his vice-president and said his vice-president should have overturned the election. i just ask you two, mitt, i love you, i love your family. i think you're a great man. i think you're a decent man. i think you're an honorable man. i think i can say the same about ben sass. i don't know him as well as i know mitt romney. i voted for mitt romney. i was sorry he lost. i think he would have been a great president. i really do. so, why does he compare joe biden to donald trump? now, listen, you want to compare joe biden to mitch mcconnell, you want to compare joe biden to -- i don't know, compared to any other republican, don't compare it to a guy who has declared war against western democracy. don't compare joe biden to a guy who is assaulting madisonian democracy. you know that's wrong, and it is dangerous. it's moral relativism. and in this case, you know, you k

he worked on many reublican campaigns, including from mitt romney in 2012, but has since written theit was all a lie. how the republican party became donald trump." and gary abernathy is a contributing columnist at the washington post. we welcome all four of you to the program. thank you so much. let me just lay down the basics. what words would you use, george packer, to describe what happened on january 6? and how much does it matter that we get to the bottom of it, that we hold those responsible accountable? >> at the time, i thought it was an insurrection, and i still do, directed by the president. and i still think that. but i underestimated it. i thought it was a kind of wild shot that nearly hit its target, could have been fatal, but that we dodged. that's not how i see it now. i think it was actually a warning shot and almost a searching for the target that did miss but that found how to get the target next time. and in the year since january 6, what we've seen is efforts by both national republicans and state legislatures and major figures in the party to figure out how to u

your vice president was like if a rice cake went to bible school [ laughter ] republican senator mitt romneyd in a new interview that russian president vladimir putin is attempting to weaken the nato alliance and re-create the soviet union oh, thanks, mitt [ light laughter ] mitt romney is like a dad who wanders in while you're watching harry potter and says, "that voldemort fella looks like bad news to me." "we know, dad! get out! [ laughter ] directv announced on friday that it will drop the far-right television channel one america news from its service once its current contract expires, or sooner if it rains really hard [ laughter ] thought that was going to be a joke about oan, but we went after directv. [ laughter ] a florida republican who lost a congressional special election last week by 59 points is refusing to concede the race but eventually, he'll have to go back to his old job as florida's math teacher of the year [ laughter ] hopefully, people watching this on directv got some really hard rain before that joke. [ laughter ] and finally, according to a new study, playing a tape r

they knew how even supposedly nonmaga republicans like john roberts, mitt romney, really have as a coreinorities to vote, and it should be harder for all u.s. citizens to vote and the history of jim crow simply isn't applicable here. that is a core republican belief that is something that republicans have believed for many years, and democrats knew this, and the problem is, is that we quite frankly as a party have failed to have an effective message and combat all of the disinformation about this legislation in a way that is remotely effective. >> when you see chuck schumer say in writing, look, we're going to do this on mlk day, and you might be in a more moderate or red state, but you're still a democrat and you're still going to get caught up in the intensity of today of the civil rights movement and substance of it, and whether it's at the level of democratic donors who align with some of these issues or civil rights supporting democratic voters, then that just evaporates. what message is it sending politics to someone like senator sinema that even when chuck schumer says you're goi

some republicans who may be open to major changes on voting rights like mitt romney, he says he never even received a phone call from this white house. why not? >> i -- look, mitt romney is a straight guy and one of the things that we're doing, i was trying to make sure we got everybody on the same page in my party on this score. and i didn't call many republicans at all. the fact is that i do think that mitt is a serious guy. i think we can get things done. i predict that we'll get something done on the electoral reform side of this. but rather than judge what is going to get done and not get done, all i can say is i'm going to continue to make the case why it's so important to not turn the electoral process over to political persons who are set up deliberately to change the outcome of elections. the -- allison harris, please. >> thank you, mr. president. speaking of voting rights legislation, if this isn't passed, do you still believe the upcoming election will be fairly conducted and its results will be legitimate? >> well, it all depends on whether or not we're able to make the ca

mitt romney during my time. there and i've said this. i think it's true. i spent a lot more time telling people about mitt romney than i did about barack obama because you just can't represent half your flock. you have to represent your whole country. that's the right thing to do. >> in your state, the republicans dominate the legislature. i think you have what, 90% or so of the seats? do you need to be bipartisan in your state because you can get anything done without going to the democrats? do you say them good-bye. or do you call them up and say, we'd like you to support this? >> you know, we do have -- it's a very red state, all of our federal delegation, the republicans in the legislature as you pointed out, the super majority of republicans in there and the answer is i have a lot of friends that on the democratic side and they vote with me many times. and my door is always open. i have a policy that if any legislature want as meeting with me, they've got it. and this's whether they're democrat or republican. it's one, you know, i tried to include the

lawmakers like senator mitt romney ran from the advancing crowd.others inside the house chamber took cover, the doors barricaded, police officers' guns drawn. the day's first fatality came when insurrectionists tried to break through the speaker's lo lobby. rioter ashli babbitt was shot by an officer and died from her wounds. outside, our cnn team was moving to the north side of the capitol when we were attacked. >> fuck cnn! get out! >> reporter: we tried to get out as quickly as possible. >> who are you with? >> there's more of us than you! there's more of us than you! >> reporter: we were physically unharmed, others not as lucky. when rioters poured into a tunnel blocked by police, they sprayed officers with pepper spray before dragging out a d.c. police officer, tasing him and beating him with a flagpole. >> they were screaming out, "kill him with his own gun." i remember yelling out that itch kids. >> reporter: officer daniel hodges was pinned down from a crush of bodies. >> ripping my mask off. he was able to rip away my bay toton and beat me