at the time, the republican congress set to work the basic freedoms that have long been ed denied to them. these were in the 14th and 15th amendme and the right to to all citizens of color. today these amendments rank as the greatest and accomplishments in congressional history. living up to theh> founding the work. but both chambers refuse to offer a single vote for any of the put forth. not one vote.they argued they represented nothing more than the partisan they said from but that didn't stop the majority of expanding basic freedoms meant going at it alone, that was something that th willing to do. today, we feel the same way. to those after the civil war this wasn't partisan. it was patriotic. and american democracyau is better off today because the patriots in this chamber at$ were un- detoured by minority obstruction. again today we feel the same wa the senate is how we will find a path he fabric of the democracy unravels before our very eyes. i will yield the floor. >> to discuss the bipartisan infrastructure building and the social economic agenda. this was his first visit o

at the time the republican congress set to work on granting newly freed slaves the basic freedoms that had long been denied to them. these freedoms were eventually enshrined in the 14th and 15th amendments granting due process and the right to vote to all citizens, regardless of color or race. today these amendments rank as some of the greatest and most revered accomplishments in congressional history. they are proof that our country is capable of living up to its founding promise if we are willing to put in the work. but at the time the minority party in both chambers refused to offer a single vote for any of the civil rights legislation put forward during reconstruction. not one vote. not one vote. they argued these bills represented nothing more than the partisan interest of the majority, a power grab they said from vejful northeastern -- vengeful northeasterners but that didn't stop the majority. if expanding basic freedoms meant going it alone, that was something they were willing to do. today we feel the same way. to the patriots after the civil war, this wasn't partisan. it was

republicans in congress raised the debt three times when donald trump was president. each time the democratic support. now they won't raise it. even though they are responsible for more than $8 trillion in bills incurred in four years under the previous administration. that's what we would be per -- that's what we would be paying off. even though default thing on the debt would lead to a self-inflicted wound that takes the economy over a cliff and risks jobs and retirement savings, social security benefits, salaries for service members. benefits for service members and so much more. it will call into question the willingness of congress to meet the obligations that we already incurred. not new ones, ones that we have already incurred. this would undermine the safety of treasury securities and threaten the reserve status of the dollar as the world's currency that the world relies on. the american credit rating will be downgraded. interest rates will rise for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards, borrowing. you should know that this is the republican position. they won't

republicans in congress raised the debt three times when donald trump was president. each time with democrat support. now, they won't raise it. even though they are responsible for more than $8 trillion in bills incurred in four years under the previous ministration area that is what we would be paying off. they won't wait -- the previous administration. that is what we would be paying off. defaulted on the debt would take our economy over a cliff and risk jobs, retirement savings, social security benefits, salaries for service members, benefits for veterans, and more. a failure will call into question congresses willingness to meet our obligations we have already incurred. this will undermine the safety of u.s. treasury securities. it will threaten the reserve status of the dollar as of the world currency. the world relies on the american credit rating will be downgraded. interest rates will rise for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and borrowing. folks, watch it at home. -- folks watching at home, this is the republican position. they will not vote to raise the d

but the bigger threat is with the republicans in congress is divided _ with the republicans in congressit. and the third level out is really what is the republican party now? the last time. _ the republican party now? the last time, under obama, mitch mcconnell said his _ time, under obama, mitch mcconnell said hisjob— time, under obama, mitch mcconnell said hisjob was time, under obama, mitch mcconnell said his job was to make time, under obama, mitch mcconnell said hisjob was to make him a failed — said hisjob was to make him a failed president. and he's doing it again _ failed president. and he's doing it again he — failed president. and he's doing it again. he means to slow everything down _ again. he means to slow everything down and _ again. he means to slow everything down and make things unpleasant so that in— down and make things unpleasant so that in the _ down and make things unpleasant so that in the midterm elections, the democrats — that in the midterm elections, the democrats look like they are not getting _ democrats look like they are not getting anything done. then thi

ceiling has been raised dozens of times over the last 60 years including multiple times by republican congresses during the trump administration. >> yeah, a good reminder. laura podesta in new york. thank you, laura. >>> so today a federal judge will hear arguments over whether texas can leave in place its new abortion ban. the texas law is the strictest in the nation, and it bans abortions after six weeks once cardiac activity is detected. the biden administration called the law unconstitutional and sued texas last month. it's unclear when the judge will make a decision. >>> and today is the four-year anniversary of the las vegas music festival shooting. the deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. history. 58 people were killed. public events will be held in las ves toemr the responders. in 2017 stephen paddock opened fire from the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay resort on thousands of people attending the route 91 harvest festival. he killed himself before police reached him, and his motive remains unknown. >>> officials say thousands of tourists are flocking to a hawaii volcano to watch it erup

johnson might order grant to shut down congress. >> during this period, grant's conflict with johnson is becoming more visible. grant is seen more and more by republicans as someone who will defend equality. brett: they both needed granted and agreed to give him a fourth star and promotion to general of army of united states, only george washington held such a rank, washington was the . >> johnson consulted grand before he fired his war secretary. >> andrew johnson triggered a battle royal with congress when he fired stanton, secretary of war, that violated tenure of office act that congress passed dubious constitutional grounds. brett: congress impeached johnson for violating the law, everyone knew the real issue is who would control the fate of the fried slaves -- free slaves. >> grant is a war hero, but in 1868 he is not a political partisan, yet republicans nominate him. >> he is the war hero. >> the obvious leader to become candidate in 1868, the military leader, he is in the eyes of the people successor of lincoln. brett: grant's resolve in aftermath of war created conditions for once unimaginable change. blacks making up majority of some convent

that's going to cause tremendous damage. us republican congress, one as acute twitter of censorship, offers official account was suspended. it happened after you cool. the nation's 1st from was gender forestall general rachel, live on a man. a twitter said jim banks account violate that fateful conduct. policy. was late to delete it back in 2018 twitter update that it's policy and prohibited content roles to include mr. rendering transgender individuals. almost one banks has lashed out at the suspense and saying, cooling someone who was born and lived man for over 50 years. the 1st female for star officer is an insult to women. my treat was a statement of fact big tech doesn't have to agree with me, but they shouldn't be able to cancel me if they silence me. they will silence you for the 1st time. so it is drawn ire for spending a high profile politicians. of course, former us president and own trump's account was permanently blocks in the wake of the capitol hill, unrest, journalist and culminated chadwick more believe technical and so actually shutting down open discussion. well, w

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you get a republican congress in 2022 and a second donald trump term. they have on the one-inch line of a massive bipartisan infrastructure bill. got 69 votes in the senate. they could pass that. they should have passed that last week. putt that on joe biden's desk and then messaged it. you know? in contrast they're fighting with one another right now and the mess anding is terrible. people don't know when's in the bill. they're not having public hearings on it and votes on it. they should call it the american family plan opposed to reconciliation bill. so i do think that people need to understand, really sobering, what the consequences of a democratic civil war right now. >> to be fair, emily, the progressive caucus is essentially saying if we allow the vote on africa then we won't get anything done with reconciliation and passing these things in tandem at least the priorities in reconciliation can get done. and now it seems that the president is even on board with passing these things in tandem. charlie makes a valid point as he would but that is what

they can't vote for this on the merits. >> bannon has said some pretty bad things about republican members of congress and i can't repeat those either. he once called a gop mega donor and other establishment figures republican scumbags and referred to republican leaders as "c" words, and now they are trying to protect steve bannon? >> that's right. it's unbelievable. he hated paul ripe. he hated john boehner and hates mitch mcconnell. he used the "c" word to describe the house republican leaders. i mean, wow! you want to protect him why? i mean, it's -- it's almost inexplicable. >> republican house leaders claim that congress has oversight power to secure needed information in order to legislate but not to conduct investigation or issue subpoenas outside of that scope, and ketch mccarthy says this bannon subpoena is invalid. is he wrong? >> yeah. i think there's very strong arguments that the january 6th committee is conducting a valid investigation. they have both an oversight responsibility and they have a legislative responsibility, and if somebody is looking for a legislative hook, there are bills

okay. natal date, they are going to the check republican congress will a member so old dad will be a lot of in the john russia. yes, in unit is for the bible. and unfortunately it broke to be not that we wouldn't exchange, i will correct that. it'll be my wife. now. unfortunately, it was not only the where the, the nato russia council $99.00. when the western governors, the russia sustained the all the walk, all the one with me for a few months, or if you my okay, so unfortunately it's a very bad creation. when a neighbor rush there is instead will be the last last thing to do different medically it's usually the and tell us whenever there is a tension between the 2 and russia, you just need to really look a little bit further west to the united states of america, and see which way the wind is blowing and this time under trump, i think there was a sense of ambiguity above under biden, and his message about strength and ties with nature. do you think that this is something that has emboldened nature to take an aggressive stance against russia? no, i don't think it. nato is taking an a

the reason he was able to do it because all too many of republican leadership and the congress didn't turn out to care anything about anything they said they cared about. one of the frequent questions i get from constituents and others around the country is do republicans believe what they say publicly when you talk to them privately. the answer is no, they don't. they don't believe in the ideology they profess or conservative values or family values. it turns out they only believe in their position of power. that's what power has revealed the last four years and to me was a terrible epiphany that these members that i work with, not mccarthy per se but others who i respected, some of who i admired because i believe they believe what they were saying and turned out not to believe it at all. to me, does not matter how brilliant the constitution is or how crafted our laws are. if as you play in that clip from the impeachment trial, if people don't get content to the provision of the constitution, if they don't live the spirit to which they written, if they don't apply right and wrong and

preclearance and don't have to deal with the freedom to vote act and they know that because republicans in congressard to ensure republicans will have control when those two new districts and they again, eliminated even a majority minority district already there. so now they're going from eight to seven and what is frustrating is that democrats are seeing this and just watching it happen and not using this to rawl up and motivate change. i don't know how to explain it. i'm losing my mind over here, joy, because it's soblatant and clear and not only about rigging elections but resources that go into the districts because for the next ten years, this will impact federal funding, schools, hospitals. you name it and all at the expense of the black and latino voters that prompted the growth in the state. >> and it's the irony of the parties having switched signs and now it's the southern republicans who are the new dixiecrats and not pretending they're not. history is full of irony. staying with us because up next, we'll put a big bright spotlight on one southerner in particular joe mansion and his role

durable as possible and not risk it if republicans take over the house, probably even the senate next year. all of this is consistent with four parties in congress, liberal democrats, centrist democrats, centrist republicans and more conservative republicans. that's why when you do get the majority, as nancy pelosi is experiencing now, it is difficult. this is not different from what john boehner and paul ryan went through some years ago where the freedom caucus would call for more, never settle for anything. and a lot of times everyone got nothing. obviously republicans paid a heavy political price. i think what speaker pelosi is saying is let's be smart about this, let's give ourself the best chance of getting what we believe is good policy and not ruin our chances to hold the house in 2022. >> what do you see as the relative risk here if democrats do get nothing? you've got debt limit, infrastructure, government funding, the budget bill. the only people who like deadlines more than reporters are members of congress. but is there substantial risk if they get jammed, this congress funds the government, pushes back the debt ceiling somehow and e

but it's also republicans going on the record with their true views about how disposable congress really is. 202 republicans don't think that congress is thing on the same level as donald trump in exile at mar-a-lago. and i wonder if you can answer a question that i asked just about everyone. can a single party protect this country from a radicalized party sort of high on misinformation, disdainful of their own institutions authority and prerogative? >> that's the question of the age, nicole. the good news is we had nine members of the republican caucus do the right thing today, do the principled thing. when we saw the last impeachment of donald trump we had a number of republican senators, many of whom are suffering the attacks of donald trump because of that, stands up and do the right thing. but, no, it is not at all clear that one party, abiding by the norms and the rules -- i have got to tell you, this is really hard for me to say. because i am kind of a norms and rules guy. i am sort of a traditions guy. but when you have a president who is willing the violate every norm and every

but the bigger threat is with the republicans and congress is divided 50—50.they won't do it. it gives them huge leverage. some are not interested in biden's agenda and are willing to stop it. and the third level out is really what is the republican party now? the last time, under obama, mitch mcconnell said his job was to make him a failed president. and he's doing it again. he means to slow everything down and make things unpleasant so that in the midterm elections, the democrats look like they are not getting anything done. then this backdrop of donald trump and the republican party, who believe joe biden is not the legitimate us president. i think trump is running again. it's a much tougher environment to get anything done, and biden is playing by the rules that he has to play by, which is old—fashioned horse trading in washington to get anything done. i think his assumption was if you can get these big packages done, there would be a recovery from covid, things would look better, happy days are here again and the democrats would be ok in the midterms and

does congress need to get involved, and they're going to work through republicans on the commission.ry to work that. and, you know, whether they're successful or not, i can't tell you. the sec does have a lot of power particularly in matters considered securities. less if it's considered a currency. but it gary gensler has to go up to congress and republicans control the house and the senate, he has to go and explain this stuff every week. liz: well, do you think that coinbase could be in dangerous territory by doing this? i mean, each individual commission does not want to cede or give up any of what they already control. >> yeah. i don't know. i mean, here's what i would say, i think coinbase smells the change in the political environment. they smell that the republicans are probably going to pick up the house, very good chance they'll pick up the senate. if that happens, that's a huge check on gary gensler, by the way, huge check on him. and everything he wants to do, market structure, cryptos, you name it, it's not good for him. liz: charlie gasparino. coinbase up 5.4%. big move

so i am calling on all democrats and republicans in congress to work with us to save americans from this imploding. obamacare disaster predominantly republican, the house of representatives passed the reform bill. mister johnson, i he had one last obstacle to hurdle the vote of the senate, which was much more divided. they needed every vote that they could get to undo obamacare and john, the k, whose conservative republican was the last one to vote. and he voted by lifting his hand and threw in thumbs down. ah, the eyes are 49. the names are 51. motion is not agree to the members not agree to . he decided to do something different and that's fine. and i say we still have a chance to go, we got to do it eventually when obamacare couldn't be reversed all at once. then the trump administration worked on a variety of other tactics to take it apart, piece by piece. ah, donald trump's side, multiple bills into law, each targeting a different aspect of obamacare, you think will help you. yeah. you know, one thing i really learned is i learned with you as you would have started with infrastructu

he's also accusing republicans of playing russian roulette with the u.s. economy. congress is now facing a deadline of october 18th, two weeks from tonight, to increase the country's borrowing limit, or the nation could default on its debt for the first time in history. so let's discuss now. paul krugman is here. he's the author of "arguing with zombies." paul, good evening. thank you for doing this. i appreciate you joining us. >> good evening. >> so listen to the president and how is slamming republicans over the debt ceiling and saying this. then we'll talk. here it is. >> a meteor is headed to crash into our economy. democrats are willing to do all the work stopping it. republicans just have to let us do our job. just get out of the way. if you don't want to help save the country, get out of the way. >> so, paul, if the u.s. defaults on our bills because, as you have put it, republicans are committing political sabotage, what's going to happen to our economy and americans' pocketbooks for that matter? >> well, it's kind of scary. actually, of course, nobody knows, but i

by the time the russian investigation was over the republican party and its leadership in congress would be broken. the ukraine misconduct was the logical consequence not only of trump's belief that he escaped accountability and lying about,a but his recognition that the republicans in congress would never confront him, never nf constrain him. they had been fully and successfully cowed. the die had been cast. and as we saw during his first acquittal, each further proof o gop acquiescence in his immorality would lead to further abuses of his power. this new book from congressman adam schiff, "midnight in washington," it's a stunning look at what the trump years have done tohe us as human bein, and congressman schiff's argument about where were go fr here is that it is only human agency, the willingness of individual people to be brave and speak truth to power and bear the consequences of it. that is the only thing that will get us out of what remains an existential danger to us as a democracy. the book comes out tomorrow. congressman adam schiff joins us next. stay with us.tr cs >>> i fel

congress than we have seen before. and when someone openly defies a subpoena, this isn't just about democrats and republicans. it is about a disrespect of congress, a house of government, and its authority to compel people to testify. and someone who thumbs their nose at that ought to pay a price for it. that's what we'll likely see. >> they should. but, elliott, we have seen this movie before the last several years. trump administration was expert at playing the delay game, right? and it works. don mcgahn, we waited two years and we did, but it was after trump left office, right, and long after people really remembered why it was being brought in. >> couple of things there, number one, the parties, political and individual, are just different now. and when you have a republican congress and/or republican president, they're less likely, sadly, to pursue subpoenas. the other thing is that even though some of these legal and criminal proceedings may outlast this committee, at the end of the day, the criminal process, if it starts will still happen, he may not go to jail before the end of the next congress, but c

so on behalf of the now 11 republican members of congress representing california and washington d.c.ay her respects on a daily basis. we will not ever forget what we came from. we will ever forget the sacrifices needed to make sure this country remains the best country in the world in the history of the world and continue the legacy of the reagan's throughout our lifetime. thank you for having us. [applause] thank you congressman if you would remain on stage for one more minute. remaining participants were join us on stage to wish us a happy birthday that would be karen, and lisa, governor and mrs. wilson. [background noises] [background noises] ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ happy birthday dear nancy ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ [applause] enjoy the rest of your. featured speakers via steve forbes and the third period. >> good evening everybody, thank you all so much for joining us today. it is my pleasure to welcome everybody to today's event, a celebration of the 40 year anniversary of the reagan tax cuts. i am matt dickerson director of the program for f

but i'm just saying if we had a serious republican congress and a serious republican partisans, we'd to a balanced budget in 5-7 years because there's so much waste, so much incompetence in the current bureaucracies, you could get rid of huge chunks and it would actually work better, not worse. there are 240,000 people in the department of moment security. that's inconceivable! going to give you a good example on the border. we went back to the trump model of the border and allow the border patrol to actually do its job, we would dramatically cut the number of people to illegally come into the united states within 48 hours. so i'm an optimist. not with the current gang. because the current gang, they want illegal immigrants to come in. and you'll notice, by the way, in california and vermont, they are starting to allow illegal immigrants to vote. now, that tells you part of the democratic party's model. they can't win with regular americans, they sure can't win with people who come here illegally from these countries because all most every person i meet was come from a foreign countr

but the republicans in congress at the time, many black and white pendant while the first civil rights movement in the north not to mention many black southerners who are convening in meetings republicans in congress understand a bond beyond abolishing slavery we need to do something's going to establish a regime at the federal level civil rights are going to be protected looking specifically at race quite honestly think about black people of newly freed and free african-americans in the north. so the civil rights at the test establishes for the first time the principle of birthright citizenship. it's better to part of the 14th amendment but it first comes up in the civil rights act which says all people born in the united states except for people under the jurisdiction of a foreign heavens and native americans not tacked are citizens of the united states which is a very clear statement that black people born in this country are citizens no matter what their status slave or free was in the past. then it says all citizens are entitled basically to the same civil rights as white citizens

meantime here, for folks who are not familiar with the workings of congress, why not just do it without republican support, joe? >> i think ultimately democrats will pass this eventually, because we'll do the right thing. we'll be responsible. i -- this issue has been for congress over and over and over again. it's like a broken record. and democrats have helped republicans in the past pass the debt ceiling. i was there when republicans refused to help and we had to have democrats help republicans pass it in a massive way. we won't let the deadline pass. it's too important to the people we care about. and we're still dealing with this pandemic. and yet, we want to add this to the problems of the american people. it's preposterous. it's sad the republicans will not help democrats pass and do the responsible thing there. craig, this is old debt. this is money that they expended during the cares act and other even expenditures during the trump administration. so it's completely irresponsible for republicans. it's not new. and democrats when pushed will have to do this. >> it really is quite odd. the

this is designed to pay for things the republican congress already allocated under president trump. so stop this gamesmanship, stop holding the american economy hostage for partisan political games. >> kirsten, we talked about it before. i think the term you liked to use is owning the libs. that's what most republicans are doing. we're talking about paying bills, as john just pointed out, that have already been approved to be spent. and this isn'is maisn't mainly december debt -- or i said that wrong. it is mainly trump's debt that they're refusing to pay. >> yeah, but for the bottom line for them, they don't want to do anything that could possibly be helpful to joe biden, even if it's in the country's best interests. instead, they're willing to put us on this collision course with financial wreckage. and this in light of the fact that we've had this really awful period in our history where obviously it's been terrible because of all the people that have died, it's also been very difficult financially for a lot of people. and the economy took a huge hit from it. so the idea that you

it's a way to set political traps down the line because then there is a republican congress that saysbate and you saw this happens last week and the week before. stagger the timelines and lower the timelines on how long it will be funded. it's a way to cram $3.5 trillion spending into 1.5 or $2 trillion, whatever the final number is going to be. >> okay, you just told me not to talk about time but i am going to do it. do you expect any kind of progress this week? >> it's like the sun. don't look at it and don't think about it. don't look directly into it. there will be progress this week. there won't be a deal. i can be over here 20 or 30 minutes if someone announces they are a deal. axios have been reporting that manchin has been talking about 2022. a couple of weeks ago we recorded that he told a town hall, let's do this in 2022. what was interesting about that letter that popped and his agreement, the four corners contract with schumer, $1.5 trillion. he says let's not talk about this in october 1st. he didn't expect to make real progress throughout the summer. and negotiators have

the republican congress is ignoring it almost completely. the united states that's the authoritarian wave breaking over. take a look at canada and the man who runs that country, justin trudeau. obviously a lunatic and a buffoon. but in his public statements, a picture of our future. we'll have that next. by the way, right now you can get the new book. amazon.com. gets nothing! like saying that. after the break. ♪ ♪ >> t >> tucker: donald trump and alex jones and aal whole lot of people are no longer allowed on twitter, but justin trudeau is. the prime minister of canada. that's unfair come out. way crazier than any of the people who have been banned from twitter, but you can see him think and reveal in real time. he just sent this out. "people across the country are lighting candles to honor indigenous women, girls, and 2 sl gbt qi a+ plus. that's group so-called community -- as people who got nothing in common with each other and know each other, they aren't real communities, they are constructs and politicians. but whatever. what the hell