look at the republicans, the black republicans, hispanic republicans. they are catching on. the democrats need to find a new narrative. they need to stop trying to divide us and make us hate each other based on vaccinations or color. host: this is troy in sebring, florida. are you satisfied with the direction of the republican party? caller: good morning, john. thank you for taking my call. i am 100% dissatisfied with the direction of the republican party. i'm a lifelong registered republican and a vote in every election. -- i vote in every election. host: why are you dissatisfied? caller: there are 16 sitting sitters who voted in favor of voting rights in 2006 and not a single one will even open debate to discuss the voting rights bills coming before the senate. voting rights of the foundation stone of our democracy. host: what you think will happen in 2022 and 2024? caller: i expect there to be lies and overwrought people saying statements like the former president's anger are millions of people coming across the southern border. it's an outright lie and fabrication. i exp

the republican districts are -- not only is it going to be republican, it's going to be very republicanicts are going to be very democratic. >> reporter: will hurd is a moderate texas republican who left congress frustrated about the lack of bipartisanship. he says new gerrymandered maps in his home state and beyond will make partisanship in the house even worse. >> you have so many seats that are extreme in one direction or another. that means people are no longer forced to work together. >> reporter: more on that in a bit, but first a primer. the constitution says that every ten years after the census, state political maps are redrawn based on population changes. in recent decades, state legislatures in both parties have taken to gerrymandering congressional district. >> redistricting is simply the process of redrawing the lines. gerrymandering is redrawing the lines with the intent to benefit a particular party or group or individual. >> reporter: look at the map that texas republican legislature passed after the 2020 census. even the untrained political eye can see how jumbled and j

look at the republicans, the black republicans, hispanic republicans. they are catching on. democrats need to find a new narrative. they need to stop trying to divide us and make us hate each other based on vaccinations or color. host: this is troy in sebring, florida. are you satisfied with the direction of the republican party? caller: good morning, john. thank you for taking my call. i am 100% dissatisfied with the direction of the republican party. i'm a lifelong registered republican and a vote in every election. -- i vote in every election. host: why are you dissatisfied? caller: there are 16 sitting sitters who voted in favor of voting rights in 2006 and not a single one will even open debate to discuss the voting rights bills coming before the senate. voting rights of the foundation stone of our democracy. host: what you think will happen in 2022 and 2024? caller: i expect there to be lies and overwrought people saying statements like the former president's anger are millions of people coming across the southern border. it's an outright lie and fabrication. i expect

. >> but shortly thereafter house republican leader kevin mccarthy and many other republicans changed their tune. they followed trump's lead as he continued and continues to this day to push the big lie. that the election was stolen. it is a dangerous and false and deadly claim with very real life or death consequences. among those lost that day u.s. capitol police officer brian sicknick. his mother talked to us last may about her son's legacy. >> i can't believe i have a child that is going to be in the history books for all the wrong reasons. because he was such a good person. he was so good at his job. you know, he was texting all his buddies to see if they were okay on that day. while he was fighting. for four plus hours without any help. >> that is the very real loss on a personal level suffered on january 6th, 2021. there have also been ramifications beyond any one person, beyond any one family. over the next two hours we'll examine the state of our democracy in the united states. how the nation has been transformed by that day and since with two sitting house members from each

when you talk about republicans, i think there's no republicans out here that -- maybe one or two, 'cause i'll put a little space in there for possibilities. no republican actually believes the election was stolen. and the crazy thing is, 80% of the base does. it shows you that you have leaders that are afraid of their base. but i do think some recognize the risk, but maybe they don't understand. maybe there's a lot that don't understand, as i think i do, projting a year or two out, if there is not something that comes in between our current tribalistic passions and the future, if there's not a change in trajectory -- just take how far we've gone off the rails in the last 5 or 10 years. now do that again in another 10 years and another 10 years, and you tell me how a kid that is under the age of 20 today that's never seen politics as some of us that are slightly older remember, when you would call somebody a gentleman or you'd get along -- nobody has seen that example. how do we ever expect them to bring us back from the brink? when we have generations that are more consumed with fighting

but i do vote republican religiously for city council in akron, i vote republican every time. however, when it comes to national politics, it is not that way. i cannot believe we have republicans in the senate and congress who worship trump. he has all the charm of a carnival barker. i've been to county fairs. they are nice people, when off the clock. but trump is never off the clock. he is a constant carnival barker. we have so many educated people in congress who fear his wrath. as far as hillary is concerned, i had to hold my nose to vote for her. host: we will leave it to the previous comment. natalie, as far as president trump's influence on the issue on republican members of congress, how would you describe that? guest: republican lawmakers who want reelection want donald trump's endorsement in this cycle. they want to make him happy in order to get that. that it -- that certainly overshadows what republican lawmakers are doing right now. host: from billy in new york, democrat line. caller: speaking from wall street journal, you get a lot of both sides. like choosing cho

another republican sign instead. we know at least one of those decisions was a matter of conscience and patriotism, from one georgia republican. we will see if we could find out about the others. now, as we reported here in december, there is an open question in this wisconsin, as to whether the forgery there is going to be pursued by the state election board, or indeed by the state prosecutors. those people in wisconsin said they were the state electors, and they were not, and they tried to pass themselves off that way. that would appear to be against the law in wisconsin, it is an open question if that will be pursued as a criminal matter by the state election board. this is new, in michigan, the detroit news just reported that the matter is part of an ongoing investigation by the state attorney generals office. here's the detroit news, a spokeswoman for the -- declined to discuss the legality of the republican certificate in detail, saying it was part of an ongoing probe. quote, that matter is part of an investiga

and whether republicans like it or not this is trump's republican party and he's interfering in republicanes all across the country you will and down the ballot discouraging some from running, elevating really problematic candidates they don't know if sort of the more moderate mainstream republicans agree with, and increasing a lot of this g.o.p. primary infighting. this refusal of chris to run in new hampshire, influx of republicans running for office statewide, and at the congressional level in places like pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin. and the in-fighting amongst the candidates are the latest demonstration of this trend. host: when you hear adam talking about a wave election what are your thoughts? guest: i think it's going to be a puddle not a wave. something that adam touched on was that it will be a rough road in the midterm for a sitting president with both the house and the senate and democratic control. i think historically that is right. what makes this midterm different is the impact of redistricting so we're all going to be running in new lines that we haven't seen the full imp

a republican. caller: yes. my main concern is why hasn't someone started an impeachment process to get biden out of office because i listen to his whole speech the other day and the poor man is so incompetent. host: what makes you say that? what do you point to specifically? caller: when he tried to tell you something he sits there and he stutters. you can look at the man's face, his eyes and tell that he is not there. host: ok. caller: anyone with any common sense at all can look at that man and know he is incompetent and ruining our country. he has turned everything that was good bad. and if we don't get him out of there, our country has gone to hell. host: angela in maryland, democratic caller, angela. we'll go to you. caller: hello. i also wanted to respond to that last rep carter. first he says talk about the democrats and immigration laws. paul ryan and the republicans controlled the house for the first two years of trump's presidency. and they voted down two of their own immigration bills. they could hav

and i would ask the republican leader, the republican senator from texas, and every other republican if the 2020 election was a successful, as secure, as safe as he says it was, then why have republican state legislatures rushed to make it harder for people to vote in the aftermath of the 2020 election and why can any republican cling to the view that the election was stolen, donald trump's big lie when john cornyn, my friend from texas is up there with a chart saying the 2020 election was successful and the republican leader said the same thing? doesn't that rebut donald trump? doesn't that rebut those who came to the capitol motivated by donald trump's propagation of the big lie? doesn't it rebut all the state legislatures who want to make it harder to vote if the 2020 election was successful? despite the republican leader's best efforts, i have yet to hear from my republican colleagues why it's okay for states like georgia to make it a crime to give food and water to people waiting in line at the polls when we hear that in minority areas and in urban areas, the lines are much long

and, and they're trying to brand the republican party. and from what i can see, this is back firing remarkably against the democrats. because essentially what they're doing is they're basically trying to dismiss half of the population. that is the reason for people to go out and vote ok. they people go out because they're got to vote because they're angry and they're being smeared and being characterized in ways that are completely completely untrue and unfair. and so if this is that kind of cultural issue that i was mentioning, the 1st part of the program, i mean it, they like to play it, but it seems to me, this is going to backfire on them very, very dangerous. it's almost like, you know, i'm a deplorable everybody will have the country will say, yeah, i'm a deplorable and they embrace it. what do you think? i mean, i agree, i just think it's, it's going to be an extreme challenge this time around because the january 6th issue lingers and there's a palpable fear over something to the exponential of january 6, resulting and possibly not

and i do believe this to the core republicans. they cannot move their agenda forward the way the base wants them to with the current leadership. mitch mcconnell, the word is he is not going to uh, service the senate majority leader anymore. but what difference does it make if he passes it down to john thune, who is basically his groomed on number 2, that is not with the republican base, is i do though, thank that this year. it's not just that the advantage is so big. it's that how the presidency of donald trump ended in the mood put the republican voter in plus the national mood, which appears to be significantly favoring republicans. they have a unique opportunity here to make some real changes and there are some very different candid it's running. now, it takes a lot to throw in a convent out of office, but if republicans are going to do it, and if they're going to, you know, re brand their party if they're going to change the face and the policy of their party, this would be the year to do it, peter, you know, and i, as an x on

republicans today can't and won't. not a single republican has displayed the courage to stand up to a defeated president to protect america's right to vote. not one. not one. we have 50-50 in the united states senate. that means we have 51 presidents. you all think i'm kidding. i'm pretty good at working with senator myself career but when you have 51 presidents it gets harder. any one can change the outcome. sadly, the united states senate designed to be the world's greatest deliberative body has been rendered a shell of its former self. it gives me no satisfaction in saying that. as an institutionalist, as a man who was honored to serve in the senate. but as an institutionalist, i believe the threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills. debate them. vote. let the majority prevail. and if that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster for this. you know, last year, if i'm not mistaken, the filibus

this is not about democrats versus republicans. this is about making washington work regardless of who is in the white house or who controls the senate. to remain relevant and effective as an institution, the senate must evolve to meet the challenges of this modern era. i have no doubt to my republican colleagues will argue that the fault is ours, the democrats fall. i can say from experience that no one's hands are entirely clean on this issue. but today, the important distinction is not between democrats and republicans. it is between those who are willing to break the gridlock in washington and those who defend the status quo. is the senate working now? can anyone say the senate is working now? i don't think so. today, democrats and independents are saying enough is enough. change the rule regarding presidential nominees will apply equally to both parties. when republicans are in power, the changes will apply to them just as well. that is simple fairness. and it is something both sides should be willing to live with.

the republican districts are not only going to be republican, they're going to be very republican.ry democratic. >> reporter: will hurd is a moderate texas republican who left congress last year, frustrated about the lack of bipartisanship. he says new gerrymandered maps in his home state and beyond will make partisanship in the house even worse. >> you have so many seats that are extreme in one direction or another. that means people are no longer forced to work together. >> reporter: more on that in a bit. but first a primer. the constitution says that every ten years after the census, state political maps are redrawn based on population changes. in recent decades, state legislatures in both parties have taken to gerrymandering congressional districts. >> redistricting is simply the process of redrawing the lines. gerrymandering is redrawing the lines with the intent to benefit a particular party or group or individual. >> reporter: look at the map that texas republican legislature passed after the 2020 census. even the untrained political eye can see how jumbled and jagged the n

and for years and years, republican donald trump and republican politicians have spread lies about the integrity of our elections. last january 6, republican president backed up by republicans right here in the senate provoked a deadly insurrection at our nation's capital. and in the intervening years, republican leaders have refused to accept evidence of president biden's 7 million vote victory over donald trump. instead, they have fed conspiracies and lies that further undermine our democracy. yes, american democracies under attack. and today 50 democratic senators agree on the right to response to this tactic the freedom to vote act would guarantee that every american citizens can easily vote and get their vote counted. the act would defend against attempts to overturn the will of the people. the act would reform our broken campaign finance system and help root out dark money, and critically important, the act would ban partisan gerrymandering by either side. the companion bill, the john lewis voting rights advancement act, would restore historic protections against state laws that

. >> taking aim at republicans. >> what are republicans for? what are they for? >> this morning we kick off our "meet the midterms" coverage. >> i think we should go back and look at how he can't pick. >> i'll talk to bernie sanders and moderate representative slot kin. what democrats need to do next. plus, no breakthroughs with russia. with russia poised to invade, the british government now says moscow is plotting to install a pro-russian leader in ukraine. my guest this morning, the secretary of state antony blinken. also covid peaks and plateaus. >> my hope is this is the beginning of the end. >> hospitalizations are down in the northeast but rising in other places. >> we've definitely seen an increase in our critical care patients. >> the question now, who do americans trust for information about covid? joining me for inside analysis are nbc chief correspondent kristin welker, carlos krr or -- corbella. it's sunday morning and it's "meet the press." >> announcer: this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> a good sunday morning. president biden's news conf

republicans haven't either. i've got not brief for how the republicans have acted.ing the way to make the best advantage for their narrow partisan benefit rather than thinking about themselves as leader of the whole country. and i think that's the real problem about trying to deal with the reality of the trumpian threat is actually identifying the problem and dealing with the real problem rather than trying to turn it into some sort of omnibus excuse for your entire wish list. >> yamiche, this feels like we may be in a cul-de-sac. >> it feels like we're in a cul-de-sac, and it feels as though we're in this sort of polarized moment where the lie of the election and the president, former president trump claiming that he won, that lie has just metastasized, and it's a cancer that's essentially taking over the gop. i am thinking about representative thompson talking about the fact it took 187 minutes for former president trump to speak out. and in that time, i remember standing on the white house lawn and talking to sources, and everyone, including republicans, they wer

house republicans, senate republicans holding news conferences to mark the one-year anniversary. here's our senate republican chair john barr aso in wyoming. [video] >> joe biden said he'd come in and unite the country but it's divided and he's left behind all the major issues the american people care about. of course, number one is inflation. what happened, on day number one he killed the keystone exxon pipeline and attacked, oil q gas and coal and made us more reliable on foreign industry and people are paying more a gallon of gasoline than it was the day joe biden became president of the united states. they then did a covid relief bill, $2 trillion added to spending and added to the debt which brought about inflation. we said it would happen and they said it would be transitory and for eight months in a row it would be transitory, it's not been transitory. we're at a 40-year high of inflation in the united states. people are paying more for gas, for goods, for groceries and a result they've had to change the way they shop and eat and the way they drive. it's impacted people. a

but we have been blocked each time by republicans. time by republicans. we brought commonim sense proposals for times and only once did one senator lisa murkowski to her credit agreed to even begin debate on voting rights on all three other votes not a single republican joined us. everyone voted to debate on voting rights so today we are changing this by using a message from the house and that's just a step. but it's an important step moving forward and that we will finally debate this one issue that is so central to the american people, to our history and to our democracy.e as we debate these measures the senate will confront political questions. the members of this chamber do whatt is necessary to pass these bills and bring us closer to the president's desk? today we have just taken the first step that will put everyone, everyone on the record. much has been said over the past few days about the prospect of passing voting rights legislation in this chamber. senate democrats have no illusions that we faced difficult odds especially when virtually every s

president, is claiming that republican senators and republican legislators in states and republican statevoting laws are so-called jim crow 2.0, when your very own state's laws in terms of voting are some of the most restrictive in the country. this is a narrative i hope our friends in the media will keep an eye on during the debates this week. what am i talking about, mr. president? well, first and foremost, i'm talking about majority leader schumer and joe biden and their states -- new york and delawaref the most restrictive voting laws in america. let me repeat that -- some of the most restrictive voting laws in america come from the majority leader's state and the president of the united states' state. and yet, listen to their rhetoric. listen to their rhetoric. republicans in republican states are, quote, jim crow 2.0. mr. president, i was on the floor last week talking in particular detail about my state's laws. we're all different states here, but i know my state's laws. i know them well as it relates to voting rights. and here's one thing i said last week -- in some of the most cr

republicans in michigan and republicans in arizona also created forged documents after the election where they tried to pass themselves off as the real electors for those states. when in fact they were not the real electors for those states. and again, they didn't just prepare these documents for, you know, home scrapbooking, how i wish the election had gone. right? they actually prepared these documents, made them look as official as possible. cited u.s. law, proclaimed themselves officially to be the legal representatives of the state. and they sent these things in to the government to be counted. pretty astonishing thing. we first got the forged documents from wisconsin last month. and last night, we showed you similar forgeries from michigan and from arizona as well. now, if you watched last night's show, do you remember how i said, when i was talking about this story, raise your hand if you think there will be more of these? yeah, that didn't take long. turns out there's more. and let me show you this at the outset. this is what the real one looks like. this is what the real document

it's the republicans, right? >> i can't believe there isn't one republican -- i can't believe there isn't one republican who is not for, um, securing voting rights for -- for people -- you know, for everyone. and i -- i got to get max in. max, you know, you mention the republicans. president biden said today that the gop was not nearly as obstructionist during the obama years. i'm not sure that's true. um, you know, because remember mcconnell said -- they said the same thing. one-term president. kill joe biden's presidency in its infancy. obama, one-term presidents and senator mcconnell previously vowed to block the biden administration 100%. he was elected on bipartisanship but is he dealing with the reality of the republican party? >> i think the scales are falling from joe biden's eyes and i think a lot of people have been suggesting for the last couple of years that he had very romantic, rosy-eyed views of the republican party. i mean in some ways, don, frankly, this reminded me of donald trump's conceit beca

running with republicans.icans largely running for their lives, and maybe the republicans were faking it. maybe they wanted to walk, but they felt like they had to run. i don't know. i wouldn't put anything past them at this point, but how does something from which you run to safety become something that you don't come back a year later and thank the folks who rushed you to safety? how are we where garrett describes? >> well, i think there's only one for it, nicole, which is a kind of cowardice, right? i mean, just play out the scenario in your head here, right? we talked about this a little earlier in the hour. you know, the -- as you know, i was up there that day, and we watched, you know, all the stuff that played out and then we saw the congress get reconvened and we saw members of the house walk back in and we saw matt gaetz stand up and say that, already on the floor, that night, got up and started spreading misinformation about what the nature of the riot at the capitol was and about whether there might

giuliani was on the phone with republican u.s. senators on january 6, even after the mob stormed the capitol, still trying to get them to stop or delay the certification of the election. they were still that night even after the mob attack on the capitol trying to find a way to falsify the election results and keep trump in power. the investigation's letter to jenna ellis specifically mentions two legal memos she prepared reportedly to show how vice president pence should reject or delay accepting the electoral votes from certain states. states that had submits false slates of electors. they never did succeed in getting republican state legislatures and states joe biden won to send in official alternate slates of electors for trump. as we've been reporting on this show, nevertheless, republicans in multiple states did sign forged documents claiming to be the real elector, claiming they were the duly elected electors from their state and that trump won. which was all bull and may be prosecuted now as a crime. it all appears to have

host: republican line, good morning.aller: merry christmas, how do you feel about the rights of a late-term abortion. the left-wing is always concerned about women's rights, what about the rights of the fetus and to continue late-term abortions? guest: basic questions that could take us all day to discuss. i agree that two lives are always at stake in the abortion question, the life of the mother and the life of the child that is emerging and growing. that's an issue, an ethical issue that all of us have to deal with. i think most americans would favor something that is different from the extremes. i really think there are two lives at stake here. i'm not a catholic in the catholic tradition, there is a consistent ethic of life where human dignity extends to poverty , the death penalty and includes abortion as well. i think late-term abortions are a problem. i think that's a fair question to raise. how do you balance to lives, woman's life and the life of the child? we have to bring that together and find a very compassi

republicans and democrats, to a safe space. i remember being told as i was running through the tunnels, take your pin off. the pin we should be proud of, take it off because those who stormed the capitol won't care if you're a republican or a democrat. they're coming after you. they're chanting "hang mike pence." it is extraordinary that we spent that time in the safe room. i thought and said to members, republican and democrat, don't they know these lies have gone too far? and so i was proud that we went back. liz cheney, hakim jeffrey said to us in that safe room, when there was no clarity whatsoever as to what was going on, they said "we will go back and do our duty." but in the time since, stephanie, i have to remark to you, that for the most part, it has been very difficult to work with republican members of congress who continue the big lie. i no longer ask do they believe it. i only say now, check their motivation. is their motivation to retain or to gain further power? so we have to reject the big lie. that's why i'm de

trying to force a republican state legislature. but without naming them, president biden repeatedly put all of the pressure of his jury repeatedly on these two democratic senators. they have not had that moment before. so tonight, they are senator sinema in discussion about how can the rules possibly be changed in the senate to do this. >> looking at the transcript of the presidents beach will you are doing that. do you want to be on the side of dr. king, or george wallace? you are on the side of jonge louis -- you to be on the side of abraham lincoln, or jefferson davis? those are not open questions in modern american life. they cannot be, for anyone who is in public service. to put it that starkly and just laid out in those terms. that has the ring. if your sentient and you are elected official, the hasse during free. and i imagine that is one senator klobuchar just said, some of the drama tonight. meeting on u.s. capitol hill right now >> seems like it is going to move fairly quickly to the senate floor, possibly as early as mon

one of the republicans who voted in support of it was the senior senator from kentucky, now the republican leader, who said at that time when he voted for the reauthorization of the voting rights act in 2006, quote, this is a piece of legislation that has worked, close quote. well, let's make sure it can keep working. i hope that my colleagues will come together in a bipartisan fashion and join us in supporting the john lewis voting rights advancement act as well as freedom to vote act. join us in defending american democracy. mr. president, i yield the casek unanimous consent -- ask to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. casey: thank you, mr. president. rise tonight to speak about the voting legislation that we're debating on the floor and, like so many of my dy democratic colleagues, i rise alopping with those -- along with those democratic colleagues in calling for comprehensive federal legislation to turn back the avalanche of voter suppression legislation in various states. all of it, all of it animated by the big lie about the 2020 election. we'll t

under the republican control and with republican votes only. it was pretty clear my democratic colleagues that wasn't a good outcome. i thought for the country but i guess for them. we signed a letter april 7th, 201761 signatures, 28 republicans, 32 democrats, one independent and the letter sent to senator mcconnell who is the majority leader and the minority leader senator schumer at the time urging both leaders that no matter what differences we've had regarding executive nominations and judges we should preserve the minorities right under the so-called legislative filibuster. apparently it made perfect sense to my democratic colleagues that the senate not change to accommodate donald trump and his wishes. i was assuming that the statement of my democraticst colleagues was about the institution not just about the trump presidency and at the times of which we lived in 2017. apparently i was wrong. except for a handful and to senator cinema and manchin, you have led from the front, not from the rear. you've taken your fair share of criticism as

the other side saying the republican party left me. i didn't leave the republican party. a lot of thoughts. >> the problem is the latter camp grows smaller by the day. look at donald trump's re-election campaign which failed. he lost. he got more votes than 2016. you say, well, the view should stop looking and you are right about that. the reality is we live in a country where a big chunk of the population with tens of millions of people still support trump and think joe biden was not fairly elected as president. still hold nonsense views about democracy and science and masks and vaccines and climate. the reality is that people in the quote/unquote liberal media want to appeal to these people. you have the problem where it is not just the view, but sunday morning political programs and panel shows and npr. trying to do both sides in a world where one of the two sides is completely bonkers. >> i think it is a good thing they brought on the right leaning women. i hope they continue to. it is important for viewers to see there are other viewpoints out there. that does belong

the democrats sabotage the republican majority. the republicans sabotage the democratic majority.but under the public filibuster, not only is the public involved, but the minority has to maintain continuous debate which can be hard. so they have an incentive to negotiation. and the majority has seen the time burned up they need for other things, other policy bills and other nominations, they have an incentive to negotiate. so you get amendments. you get the public involved. and most important, you recreate an incentive to negotiate. that is the reinvigorated filibuster strategy, the talking filibuster. i'll call it the public filibuster or just call it extended debate on final pass annual of the bill. whatever you call it, it is better than the paralysis and partisanship that are destroying the senate's ability to address the questions that face this nation and there is no more important question than defending the right of every citi of that liberty and justice for all. and we have to do that. and that leads us to where we are today, mr. president. we have got to stand up and say

but now what you've seen is among congressional republicans, senate and house republicans su.like a cult. here is president biden talking about trump. >> did you ever think that one man out of office could intimidate an entire party where they're unwilling to take any vote contrary to what he thinks should be taken for fear of being defeated in a primary? we have to break that. it has to change. >> i mean, that wasn't true with nixon but true with regan. it gotten worse and worse and worse. are there republicans who are weary of it on capitol hill or is everyone in on it and not everyone in it is retiring? >> joy, it's definitely the latter. the president laid out would you think a president could do this, hold a grip on a party like this? you should probably add to that. would you ever think a president could almost over throw the american democracy and encourage people to break into congress in a violent and deadly insurrection and still have that power? that's the sort of second part of that question and joe biden is expressing essentially his surprise again at the idea tha

called the republican party.ee with both christina and juanita. i have a hashtag on twitter hashtag #saythis,notthat. it would be to say call them domestic terrorists, call them violent. don't say they're protesters because they're not. don't say misinformation, say lies. call it what it is. and that's what senator cruz was doing, and of course you can't do that in the republican party. they do not accept truth anymore. they are rejecting it. >> and jill, what happens if the supreme court decides to reverse the d.c. circuit's ruling rejecting trump's claim of executive privilege? >> i think that the supreme court will reject his executive privilege claims because they have no basis in fact or in law, and we have known since watergate that the president is subject to subpoena and to turning over documents, and so that isn't going to work. what's going to happen is the national archives will turn over the material to the senate -- i'm sorry, to the house january 6th committee, and you'll have even more evidence of

the latest and republican candidates. republican -- mike pence with just under 7%.e pence recently with what might be ahead. >> we showed what it takes. to get this free market economy rolling. under the leadership of president donald trump. we cut taxes across the board. we rolled back more federal regulations in four years than any other. we unleashed american energy and made america energy independent. we fought for the free and fair trade that puts american jobs and american workers first. 7 million jobs created and wages rose at their fastest pace in more than a decade. household incomes sword to a new record. unemployment plummeted. we had the lowest unemployment ever recorded for african americans and hispanic americans. 10 million americans moved from welfare to work. before the pandemic struck our country, we were experiencing a level of prosperity we had never witnessed in our lifetimes. we made it stronger than ever before. host: to show you the aggregation of the polls, republican candidates -- here is a cap potential democratic candidates and their poll

for this republican party.eone like glenn youngkin, who ran, quote unquote, for all virginians and is now telling people to love thy neighbor, has really rejected that kind of compassion and empathy in favor of, you know, identifying yourself by your enemies, not your friends, rooting out heretics rather than seeking out converts. these are the things that define the republican party right now. and glenn youngkin is right in lock-step. >> you know, texas -- pair texas and virginia with governor ron desantis is doing in florida, right? he is backing bills that limit what kids can learn when it comes to the facts of history or sexual identity, claiming it's all about parental freedom. but isn't this all -- it seems big brotheresque to me. what happened to the gop being the party of small government? >> it is big brother. i mean, that's almost the lost story in this. and i'm glad you brought it up. because while it's censorship and it's terrible and it's ignorant, it's also big government. it's empowering the gove

there are still some moderate republicans.oming midterms. but the reality is when a new president is elected the upcoming midterms are generally a disaster. and this one looks like it could be a tsunami for the republicans -- for the democrats. and the republicans could really take charge. and if their goal is to stop things like voting rights and fixing the country's infrastructure, they are clearly not working in the country's best interests. for 200 years there was a world called comity, c-o-m-i-t-y. which refers to the need and responsibility to mutually help each other as part of the government. republicans and democrats have to play nice together occasionally or things break down. that's what's happening. and it's a consequence of trump's term in office, wherein all he did was break things down. he didn't really create anything and that wall has never been finished. >> and that's the thing, is it does require people -- we're living in the same house, right? everyone's living in the same house. so democrats and republican

and i would ask the republican leader, the republican senator from texas, and every other republican if the 2020 election was a successful, as secure, as safe as he says it was, then why have republican state legislatures rushed to make it harder for people to vote in the aftermath of the 2020 election and why can any republican cling to the view that the election was stolen, donald trump's big lie when john cornyn, my friend from texas is up there with a chart saying the 2020 election was successful and the republican leader said the same thing? doesn't that rebut donald trump? doesn't that rebut those who came to the capitol motivated by donald trump's propagation of the big lie? doesn't it rebut all the state legislatures who want to make it harder to vote if the 2020 election was successful? despite the republican leader's best efforts, i have yet to hear from my republican colleagues why it's okay for states like georgia to make it a crime to give food and water to people waiting in line at the polls when we hear that in minority areas and in urban areas, the lines are much long

of course, we have republicans, republican operative just told me today that he was going to -- he wase republicans are happy that mandela barnes is the front runner because they can just paint it as too far to the left. remember, wisconsin is ground zero for a lot of what we saw, we were talking about -- you mentioned police reform. well, kenosha, right, we have a kenosha riots here, you had kyle rittenhouse's very national trial and all the implications there. there is already an effort to tie mandela barnes to tony ever's decision, the governor's decision in how he handled the kenosha riots. if you recall at the time there was a lot of criticism around too slow in moving the national guard out. that was, you know, front and center at the time. so too far left in wisconsin, well, you know, medicare for all, the green new deal, these are some of the things that they're trying to pin on mandela barnes. what we're seeing from our new reporting today is the issues that alex lazry is tackling are really interesting. he is looking at inflation. >> right. >> he's looking at -- he's looking

none from the republican side of the aisle.hasn't just been a day of remembrance about what happened then, it's also been a day of reckoning about what's happening right now to our democracy. as the former president and the lies that incited the riot itself have grown stronger within the republican party not weaker, a lot of us were wrong about that. virtually every elected republican with the exception of liz cheney and adam kinzinger have chosen to ignore what happened a year ago. it's also a reckoning for the current president as he declared today in the most forceful terms we have heard from him so far as president that he is going to fight back. in an address to the nation this morning he said, i will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy. and he didn't dance around the source of the threat, either, former president donald john trump. >> the first time in our history a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the capitol. he ca

joining me is republican adam kinzinger, one of two republicans on the house committee investigating. congressman kinzinger, welcome back to "meet the press." >> good to be with you. >> i'm a pretty cynical guy. i've been doing this a long time. on january 7th, 2021, i think -- i'm guessing you were there, too. i really thought, okay, this is it. this is the breaking point. lindsey graham, enough is enough, count me out. that, it all felt like a moment. how did a year later we go to a republican party that is more in the grips of donald trump than what it was on january 7th, 2021? >> you know, i think we can probably spend a half hour on it. i'll give you kind of the most recent. there's a lot of stuff that led up. but the most recent is january 7th. i'll tell you within my republican caucus there was a lot of discussion. something happened two weeks later, which was kevin mccarthy went to mar-a-lago. it caught everybody off guard. everybody was shocked. in the picture he had with donald trump -- kevin told us something like, oh, i happened to be in florida and he wanted to meet so i

interests, a view shared by 63% of republicans.auliflower crust pizza even counts as real pizza. my hot take it's definitely not real pizza, and anyone who tells you it is lying. which brings us to tucker carlson because he's made no secret how he feels about vladimir putin's aggression towards ukraine. watch. >> the fact is ukraine is strategically irrelevant to the united states. no rational person could defend a war with russia over ukraine. why is it disloyal to side with russia but loyal to side with ukraine? they're both foreign countries who don't care anything about the united states. kind of strange. >> yes, that's right. that's the current standard bearer for the republican party siding with an authoritarian over a fledgling democracy. tucker's isolationist views are out of sync with the mainstream republican party but his influence is being felt around the country. axios is reporting that republican campaigners working on the 2022 mid-terms are worried about alienating the base if they commit to a strong response to puti