and then today republican senators, all 50 republican senators, voted to not even consider what joe manchin put forward. so, does this change senator manchin's mind about any of this? does it shift his idea that no voting rights bill should pass if it doesn't have republican votes? now that he sees the way that republicans are approaching this issue in terms of deciding what they're going to vote for, what they're going to vote to debate, what they're going to vote to hear, does this change his mind about whether or not a voting rights bill must have republican votes if it is going to be a legitimate approach to this issue that deserves his support? we don't know. senators leave at the end of this week to go home for a two-week-long -- oh -- july 4th recess. what senators hear from their constituents when they're at home about the importance of voting rights, that may be determinative here as to whether this is now over or whether there might be a next step. at home in phoenix, arizona, today this was the scene at the offices of democratic senator kyrsten sinema. she is the other conservati

what arguments do republicans have that's what texas republicans want to do. do any of my colleagues have voter fraud happens? we know what you're up to america knows we're up to. and not to debate this? are you afraid to debated? to have any good arguments? let's dispense with this nonsense there is no real principle behind these policies. they are not about election integrity or voter fraud. these policies have one purpose and one purpose only. making it harder for younger, poor and typically democratic voters to have to access the ballot. to give republicans an advantage at the polls making it harder for democratic to vote and those to stop people from voting that is not democracy. if you use an election is supposed to win those that you lost it is time to stop the other side from voting that tears and rips apart the very fabric of the democracy to disenfranchise americans is bad enough but there is an actual sinister component to voter suppression but is states like arizona, kansas arkansas in georgia republican legislatures are trying to give more power t

today, arizona republican cyber ninjas folks hosted more republican state legislators this time from georgia and also from alaska and so they can do something like this in those states to. they've got plans in the works apparently to host republican legislators from virginia next and wisconsin after that. i mean why not? they are mishandling ballots from a federal election and voting machines from a federal election so they can tell tales and cast suspicions on the election results that put joe biden in the white house. it might be illegal for them to do. it might be illegal for these organizations and these republican legislators to hand over federal ballots and election machines to uncertified, unqualified partisan actors like this in the way that they're doing but who cares if it's illegal as long as they're not gonna get in trouble for it, why would they stop? under merrick garland the justice department notify them to breaking the law and then they did nothing about it. are you noticing a theme here? letting all this stuff slide is not only not going to stop it from happening no

missouri republicans, you guys okay? because those are all republican state representatives serving in the state legislature this year. all of them. missouri republicans, you guys all right? because also look what's happening right now in the governor's office. i want to tell you a little bit of a story about a man named kevin strictland. he was convicted by an all-white jury, sentenced to life in prison with no possibility parole for 50 years. kevin strictland was 18 years when he was first arrested in conjunction with that case. he's about to turn 62 years old right now. for the more than 40 years that he has been locked up in the state of missouri, kevin strictland has repeatedly and consistently insisted he did not commit the crime for which he was convicted. "kansas city star" did an in-depth investigation into his case and found that the case against him was profoundly thin. there are two other men who admitted to being at the scene of the crime that night. they were both criminally convicted for their role in the

disrespect for election, broad strokes, but specifically to bolster republican efforts in all republicancontrolled states now to rescind a voting rights and make voting harder. there are going for a maximalist -- senate republicans in washington know that as long as the filibuster is there, democrats have no options in terms of backing a voting rights. clear on that, we put the republican party being clear on that in terms of whether there was going to be any federal protection for voting rights, including the field for republicans in the states to go maximalist and shameless, as far as they can on this issue. to target voting restrictions, and the administration of elections in a way that is maximally partisan to their advantage. and so, they proceed. unless democrats can figure out to get their heads around the fact that this is what they're up against and fight the same kind of fight on the same kind of terms. minnesota senator amy klobuchar is an original co-sponsor of the voting rights bill that stalled today in the senate. she says that her next move is to take the show on the road

i don't think that the republican party, i think people over over over the state where the republican party is. because keep in mind, we're barely 6 months into republicans not being out of power. so of course we're going to be in a wilderness. we're trying to find our way. but i don't think that the republican party itself is any real danger. and obviously hardy will lean towards the titular head of the party, who has donald trump. a lot of people want to dismiss donald trump's any rate them, but you can't do that with the one who was the president of the actual party. well, it's our of the united states, but head of the party. well, it's going to georgia in bay route. i mean the, the, the critics of, of the republican party and particularly of the former president. so, is it, this is a cult of personality. how would you react to that? it's very, very interesting characterization, because if you look at trump, like giving the nod to some kind of congressional race, even local races and state, say it today. he says picking people that were cited with him irrespective. but what their p

said ho reconciliation on the second part, so why does he even need, that's or republicans -- need republicans to pass this infrastructure bill? it is going to be one and the same. republicans cannot claim only the infrastructure part of the bill and get away with saying, we had nothing to do with the reconciliation. are they just doing this to give joe biden a pass of being over $4 trillion? i don't understand the endgame. he said he is not going to accept it. so why did they go through all of this trouble and this bipartisanship just for him to smack him in the face yesterday and say, well, thanks for your help, but, no, we are going to do this part? and he is so held hostage by the progressive party, he cannot do anything. they have him wrapped around their finger so much, he cannot do anything without the progressives writing a script and telling him what he is going to do. that is why he switched. in the morning he was on the television praising about bipartisanship and republicans, and then two hours later, after progressives yanked him a new one, he was on there saying, oh, but i will n

i challenge my republican colleagues, i challenge you, republican senators, come to the floor, defend these policies, tell us how they secure the vote. tell us how they prevent nearly nonexistent voter fraud. how does remove student i.d.'s as a valid form of evidence. do you have students showing up with fake student i.d.'s? >> come on show us. >> how is giving food and water to those in line fraud. got any evidence of that? >> what arguments do republicans have for restrictions on sunday voting. that's what texas republicans want to do. do any of my leagues actually have evidence that voter fraud is more prevalent on the day? not to debate it? are you afraid to debate it? let's dispense with the nonsense. there are no real principles, they're not about elections, they're not about voter fraud. this pole and have one purpose only, making it nonwhite and typically access to the ballot. making it harder for democratic leaning voters from vote. if you lose the election you're not supposed to stop them from voting. that's not democracy. you're to work harder to win over the votes that you

republicans held a seat on the u.s. supreme court open and empty for more than a year just so they could stop a democratic president, president obama, from being able to nominate someone to the court. that's how they created the first vacancy for trump to fill on the supreme court. that's why judge gorsuch doesn't shave in front of a mirror. could you look at yourself every day knowing that's how you got your job? he just takes an electric razor to the corner saying, i don't want to look at myself. he had remembered, right, what happened to merrick garland. he decided he wouldn't let that be the last of merrick garland's career, and merrick garland was confirmed to the attorney general of the united states. he was confirmed fairly easily. it turned out republicans didn't really have any substantive objections to him at all. there is a same sort of justice to that seeing judge julien neals being confirmed today. not forgetting, not letting that shameful treatment of that nominee by the republicans in the senate in the pa

it would begin with grave doubts among republicans and hostility among republicans because republicans, as we saw in the senate, see this primarily as something that will be used as a weapon by democrats in 2022 against them. they do not want the 2022 election to have anything to do with what happened during donald trump's presidency. the idea that we are going to have a select committee in many ways guarantees that issue gets front and center. having said that, i think there is still a lot to be learned about what happened on january 6. there is a lot to be learned about the role of the president and the people around him. just many questions that have not been answered. an independent commission would have been best situated. i do not know we will ever get to that point. the speaker held out hope that someday there might be an independent commission. the 9/11 commission was not appointed until 2002, so we are in a shorter timeframe here. everything is so much more partisan that getting to that independent commission, even some time out in the future, is not likely. host: we are talki

you need republican cooperation. democrats are considering a move that would get rid of that rule and they would in the filibuster. there are several democrats, including joe manchin, who is the most vocal, who don't approve of doing that. they want things to move forward in a bipartisan way. the voting rights bill, which is a big deal for democrats, the house is pushing the legislature forward for several years. now that the senate is in control by democrats, they think that now is our chance, let's try to get this through. joe manchin says if we reform the nation's voting laws, unilaterally, without any republican participation, that will divide the country. he is saying both parties should work together on something that is more of a compromise. he has said that a few times now in the past few weeks and he doubled down on it this weekend. the reason why it is important right now that he says it is the majority leader, chuck schumer, told us on capitol hill that he plans to bring up the voting rights bill this mont

republicans may even block that. >> there is a rot at the center of the modern republican party. donald trump's big lie has spread like a cancer that they don't even want to debate it because they are afraid. >> what's more hypocritical and cynical that invoking minority rights in the senate as a pretext for preventing, debate about how to preserve minority rights in society. >> that's just some of the passionate debates we have been seeing on the senate floor. republicans expected to block all of this with the filibuster. this is that jim crow era relic that i just discussed with nicole. if you want the numbers, this is what's going on out there. 14 states, 22 new laws all running against your rights to vote. if you tally up proposals that's up to 300 bills going on this largely gop voting crack down. that's a map of america but it is also a map of how widespread it is to make voter suppression policies. republicans for their part say basically those proposals, the map you saw basically does not exist. >> there is no widespread effort to stop voters from casting a ballot. there

or does he appoint a pro-trump republican? something that would be scrutinized lt, right and center all day long for -- until election day in 2022. and so it's going to be a very uphill battle for a commission to be formed. and i just don't see it happening at all, yamiche. yamiche: that's -- it's all fascinating what's going on on the hill. and we want to go to another former hill lawmaker, this week, former vice president mike pence who had to be ushered to safety during the insurrection spoke about how he sees january 6. >> president trump and i have spoken many times since we left office. and i don't know if we'll ever see eye to eye on that day. but i will always be proud of what we accomplished for the american people over the last four years. yamiche: annie, waibt to -- i want to come to you. what does it say that former vice president pence is kind of showing daylight between himself and the former president and is this an early test possibly for him running for president? annie: well, it's been so interesting to see h

republican senate leader mitch mcconnell blocked it. republicans in the senate never took it up. so taney still sits there. now that democrats are in control of the senate -- not mitch mcconnell there anymore, it's chuck schumer, who is the majority leader in the senate. now that it's democrats in the house and senate, major roger taney is going to get downtime. maybe we'll stop the ongoing honor at the united states capitol. see if somebody else will get a turn. the vote tonight in the house for the second time in two years they've take then vote, but the vote tonight in the house to take down the roger taney bust in the u.s. capitol was 285 to 129. 120 members -- republican members voting no to keep him up, the dred scott guy. and speaking of the idea of the confederate flag inside the u.s. capitol, tonight we learned that republicans in the house are whipping the vote, telling their members in the house to vote no on the creation of a select committee to investigate the attack on the u.s. capitol on january 6th. the attack where supporters of former president trump violently a

when you only look at republicans or republican -leaning independents that are about two thirds of those won only because of fraud. olivia troye is a former adviser of mike pence and the accountability project. and cornell is an nbc political analyst and they both join me now. cornell, let me start with you as a pollster. sometimes the polling results i wonder are we getting a real look and peoples belief system? are they basically saying i don't like joe biden by other means, right? by answering that as a way of sort of emotionally effectively signaling that. what do you think about this polling data? with does it mean and what does it say? >> well know, chris. because this is different. this is fundamentally different than what you've seen historically. even when your candidate doesn't when you don't have a majority of people and other parties saying it's fraud or it was stolen. there's other ways to emote your disapproval by saying this approval of their job or you're not favorable to them but this goes a little bit deeper. i think it's more fundamentally problematic in the data becau

it would begin with grave doubts among republicans and hostility among republicans because republicansw in the senate, see this primarily as something that will be used as a weapon by democrats in 2022 against them. they do not want the 2022 election to have anything to do with what happened during donald trump's presidency. the idea that we are going to have a select committee in many ways guarantees that issue gets front and center. having said that, i think there is still a lot to be learned about what happened on january 6. there is a lot to be learned about the role of the president and the people around him. just many questions that have not been answered. an independent commission would have been best situated. i do not know we will ever get to that point. the speaker held out hope that someday there might be an independent commission. the 9/11 commission was not appointed until 2002, so we are in a shorter timeframe here. everything is so much more partisan that getting to that independent commission, even some time out in the future, is not likely. host: we are talking with da

no republican votes. i have barely heard a word from republicans about that package twice as big as the stimulus. two trillion dollar package that passed in the party line vote in the senate. i've never heard a word except to praise aspects of it they want their constituents to take advantage of it. there's nothing there to mind. what's riles of the republican base now is fear of multi racial democracy. counsel culture. george floyd protests. black lives matter, centering dr. seuss, critical race theory. constant moral panic about those other people, why they don't look like you or share your values taking power and wielding power in the way that they dominate the institutions of american life outside of politics. that's what it's about. that culture war, whose culture it is, who's america it is is what the based cares about. they could give about inflation or taxes or even welfare. all the stuff that's been tried and true republican reactionary rhetoric for literal decades, all the rhetorical fire has mo

mostly it is the republican wind. now he thinks he has to be republican because our state did a thing after 84 years went republican and now we are positively dark red. it is a shame that that is where our state is. i am so discouraged that i cannot put up with it anymore. i've just about quit trying. i call his number tried to leave a comment. he will not even answer the phone anymore, his staffer him, either one. host: that is milton in west virginia noting the state is a deep red shade, went for president trump in 2020, 68.6%, joe biden getting 29.7%. joe manchin has been elected three times in west virginia to the u.s. senate. also the former governor. not up again until 2024 for his next reelection if he chooses to run for reelection. no reason to think he will not. voters will not get a chance to vote on him in 2022. dan is next out of washington. what you think of joe manchin? caller: i am 74 as well. i am relieved joe manchin is exercising his rights to follow his conscience. i do not understand the question o

missouri republicans, you guys okay? because those are all republican state representatives serving until the legislature this year. missouri republicans, really? you guys all right? look what's happening in the governor's office. want to tell you a little story about a man named kevin strickland in missouri. he was convicted of capitol murder, the shooting deaths of three people in 1978. he was convicted of an all-white jury, sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. he was 18 years old. he's about to turn 62 years old right now. for the more than 40 years he has been hocked up in the state of missouri, he has repeatedly and kinley said he did not commit the crime for which he was convicted. kansas city star found the case against him was profoundly thin. there are two other men who admitted to being at the scene of the crime. convicted. they both say kevin stickland has nothing to cowith the crime. they're out now. he's still in. at his trial, again, when he was 18 years old, there was one key witness,

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the republican party of the tax cut. the republican party has changed positions on many issues. richard nixon made it into an international party. it is just going through a different iteration right now, trying to decide what it stands for. some of the parties have been more consistent. the democratic party has been the party. it has been the party of big government. it is interesting. a lot of reagan's policies and proposals. that was part of the reason why he was elected and was thinking about tax cuts. the democratic president before the congress and said the era of big government is open. he was flexible, which is good in politics. host: our guest is craig shirley. he has written many autobiographies. -- autobiographies for ronald reagan. let's get to the democrats line. caller: speaking of reagan, seeing megan on a phone call recorded, reagan was a monster and increased payroll taxes on the middle class repeatedly. he did/the top bracket. reagan was crushing the middle class. he was talking out of both sides of his mouth on election issues. on one hand, biden was legitimat

republican voters in favor of the for the people act. the republican party, their only interest is put -- you're not going to scare america by talking about the lady who goes on npr and writes books and lives in georgia. that's how desperate they are, trying to demonize this. the democrats plan, we're going to keep doing it over and over until you break or kyrsten sinema breaks or joe manchin says i'm sick and tired of coming to d.c. to vote for the same bill, that seems like the same strategy. i have issues with a lot of joe manchin's proposals, but it's better than nothing. it might hold the fort for 2022 to be a fair election as opposed to a joke of an election. >> that's the point, claire. if democrats can get through even mandating early voting in all these states, they can live to fight another day. let's put up the polls jason was talking about, 71% backed making it easier to vote early in person. 80% back requiring photo id. 350% back making it easier to vote by mail. al franken and norm ornstein have a proposal that would force

after republicans in the u.s. senate blocked the creation of a bipartisan expert independent commission to investigate the attack on the u.s. capital on january 6th, to block the certification of the election results. today house speaker nancy pelosi made good on her promise to make sure there is a thorough investigation into that attack anyway. she tonight revealed legislation that would create a select committee to investigate the january 6th attack. congress of course has tons of standing committees that take foreign affairs committee, the oversight committee, the judiciary committee. all sorts of standing committees that take on all kinds of investigations and inquiries all the time. a select committee is a rare bird. it means congress will create a new committee just for this purpose and to do this investigation. it is made up of members of congress, not outside experts. it will have a dedicated staff that will work just on this investigation. it's chair will have subpoena power to compel the production of ev

that's what the republicans would do if the republicans had the majority. i don't say that speculatively. say i that because we know it for a fact. that's what they did. this was 2018. >> if you look at the amount of work that we have to do, it's inconceivable to me that we can't use these weeks. we have this backlog of nominations. to sum it up, i think we have enough work to do for the american people that we should be here during these weeks. everybody should anticipate that we will be here as i announce today. >> everybody should anticipate we will be here as i announced today. what he had announced -- this was 2018, trump was president. republicans were in control of the senate. what he announced is they were cancelling the august recess. they shortened it. they took a single week off instead of the whole month off. they did it because they could. because mitch mcconnell and the republicans had the majority. they wanted to use it to do stuff, even if their summer reading lists were going to be neglected. they didn't actually even have legislation they

they might get republican support on the.ter, xochitl, what do they do about this? in some point doom met manchin and sinema come around to the idea that we have to do our horns about bipartisanship. no one else is interested. >> everybody knows that there are two years to get things done. democrats want to make sure as they have the white house, the senate and the house, we want to make sure they're getting as much done as possible, so that they can go in to the midterm elections and in 2024 and two out. that we don't know what will happen in the midterm elections. i believe that if republicans continue to not come to the table, that democrats will use it against them, and that actually will hurt them in the midterm elections. but i think that what we will need to happen is a come to jesus talk with those two senators, to talk about listen, we're talking about voting rights here. we're talking about immigration reform. we're talking about things that are critical to our nation's future. and in order to get anything done on t

you're saying some republicans.ublicans, at least lawmakers, are saying that. >> yeah, here is what i would say. a filibuster is a filibuster. now, back when donald trump was president in 2017, 31 democrats signed a letter. a total of 61 united states senators signed a letter saying we should never get rid of the filibuster. the democrats filibustered on police reform and didn't have a discussion. >> we're talking about filibuster, that's something else. >> no, what i'm saying to you is -- no, what you're saying is they don't want to discuss it. that's what a filibuster is. they're filibustering that bill. so we have to talk about the filibuster because i think that there is a distortion here. now people say legitimately we can have a legitimate debate whether you should have a filibuster or shouldn't, you can't have 31 democrats saying in 2017 we shouldn't get rid of the filibuster and now they turn around and say we have to get rid of the filibuster. you know what it is? it depends who is in power. who is in power

republicans are not. i will say, though, i think republicans are worried about the messaging, the show of force they showed last week, more than a dozen senate republicans coming together to hold a press conference. senator mcconnell having two press conferences in one week is unusual. in washington. he doesn't like to go in front of the press in washington that much. and so to see him do this, they are concerned with how they are being perceived on this issue. >> but meanwhile, you know, as we were just talking about whether there were divisions among democrats, there are on infrastructure. on this issue of infrastructure, a lot of pushback from folks like alexandria ocasio-cortez who is saying what are we doing here in trying to compromise with republicans? >> are we passing a deal that makes the most jobs? are we passing a deal that brings down the most climate emissions? are we passing a deal that raises wages and actually improves our infrastructure for the next generation? and if a bipartisan deal s

republicans do not want to look into. it they will not vote for any inquiry, even nonpartisan, bipartisan, select inquiry. what happened, there they don't hear it. i love the beltway press. they still maintain that republicans are going to come along and vote and save benefit can numbers for joe biden's infrastructure bill. or bipartisan police reform efforts. or anything that the democrats and joe biden want to do. they were not instigate a crime committed against themselves, not that the democrats wanted. republicans are not interested in doing things with the democrats, big stuff, small stuff, they don't want it. president biden was in lacrosse wisconsin tonight. talking about his infrastructure plans. talking about how his plans would be the biggest in u.s. infrastructure since the fdr era, which is true. it's true whether democrats are going to have to pass that alone, or with any republican support, that will be true. but this is just one in those things, when the past just looms, right? even as everybody is trying

it's not working for republicans. >> it can't even govern. >> what the hell happened to republicans? good evening. america may never have lived through a political era as troubling as this one, a sitting president, donald trump, tried to hold on to his office even after he lost the election. an american president incited an angry mob to attack the u.s. capitol. donald trump is gone, but the simple truth is, it may just be for now. much of the gop believes that big lie and is busy trying to make it harder for americans to vote. what on earth happened to the republican party? the only way to find the answers is to go back to the beginning of this story. a hot july night, 1964. san francisco's arena built to show case capital, packed tonight with herds of republicans. thousands of rowdy delegates here to choose the gop candidate for president. >> i have never seen a convention like i'm seeing at this time. >> at the podium stands strong breed but one on the road to extinction. >> well, i don't believe there really is such a thing as a liberal republican. >> actually, there were many lib

the question is, will it get enough republican support? and two of the biggest names in tennis withdraw from wimbledon. will we see them at the olympics? it's "way too early" for this. >>> good morning. welcome to "way too early," the show that is serving up a busy hour of news ahead. i'm kacie hunt. we'll start the news. a conservative dominated supreme court dismissed the latest attempt by republicans to eliminate obamacare leaving intact insurance coverage for 31 million americans. by a vote of 7-2, with justice stephen breyer writing for the majority, the case was dismissed on basically the procedural basis of lack of standing. the court held that a texas led coalition of gop controlled states as well as two individual plaintiffs hadn't suffered any injury and, therefore, they had no right to bring a lawsuit. trump appointees voted in the majority on a ruling that leaves in place the entirety of the affordable care act. yesterday's ruling was the third time that the supreme court has effectively saved the law. the first was back in 201

congressional republicans tried and failed to repeal obamacare, at least 70 times before republican senatormccain of arizona, quite dramatically shut down the last major effort to repeal it. and replaced it with nothing. but they did not just try and congress they also took it to the supreme court where it was shot down multiple times in 2012 chief justice roberts surprise everyone in sided with the more liberal justices in a 5 to 4 decision upholding the law. and then again in 2015, it survived another challenge. but the margin extended to 6 to 3 when donald trump became president, he made repealing obamacare his number one policy goal. even after senator mccain's late night thumbs down, trump and the republicans, they kept trying to find new ways to dismantle the law. they landed on getting rid of protections for people having pre-existing conditions even in the middle of a pandemic, a pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of americans. it is why donald trump nominated amy coney barrett to the supreme court. and it is also why republicans rushed to confirm her only weeks before t

those are code words for essentially trying to fix the next election cycle for republicans because republicanst the state house level. anderson, one of the things that mike pence did not talk about during that speech, he did not talk about how his own president tried to strongarm him into overturning the election results. the disagreement that exists over january 6th is not just about january 6th. it is about what led up to january 6th and how donald trump for days and weeks, really, trying to overturn the results of the election, calling various state officials and so on, and then trying to strong arm his own vice president into going down to the capitol and overturning the election results. and so the former vice president there is just glossing over what happened around january 6th and it's unfortunate to see. obviously he wants to put that behind him because he thinks it's beneficial for him to get right with president trump, former president trump, for the 2024 cycle. >> kaitlan, one wonders how long it's going to be before he makes a pilgrimage to mar-a-lago for the same kevin mccarthy p

you have to make sure that republican county boards, republican state legislatures, even republicanslify an election unless there is a supermajority which would require both parties to agree on that. otherwise you'll have partisan overturning an election as a threat. >> mark, your latest piece entitled "liz cheney's likely journey from gop royalty to public outcast," you write in part this. beyond the daunting politics, ms. cheney's predicament is also a father-daughter story, rife with dynastic echoes and ironys. an unapologetic prince of darkness figure throughout his career, mr. cheney was always attuned to doomsday scenarios and existential threats he saw posed by america's enemies, whether from russia during the cold war, saddam hussein after the september 11 attacks or the general menace of tie pomerantz and terrorists. ms. cheney has come to view the current circumstances with mr. trump in the same apocalyptic terms. the difference is that today's threat resides inside the party in which her family has been royalty for nearly half a century. she stood alone with the republican

a republican. go ahead.aller: joe manchin is one of the two people in washington that has any backbone. i do not know whether it matters if you're a republican or democrat if you have a thought on what's right you do what's right. that is what he is doing. i thank you very much. host: have you voted for him in the past? whether his governors race or one of his three senate campaigns? caller: i did not vote for him the last election, that i have voted for him before and will vote for him again. host: because of this? caller: yes, because of this. host: that is bill in west virginia. this is gloria, upper marlboro, maryland, good morning. caller: good morning and thank you for c-span. with joe manchin, there is too hypocrisy in his version of democracy, whether he is democrat or republican, he is elected to serve the people. what he thinks is right is balderdash. if eight out of 10 west virginians is for the bill, he just got a front row seat in the hall of shame. one has to wonder why he does not want baker a

, and that is a litmus test for republicans today.t march in step on the big lie and if you march in step on the big, let you cannot vote for the democratic voting rights bill >> that's right because absent massive voter fraud, why would you want to fix voter fraud. both guests are staying right where they are. coming up, as we fit in the break, it's the gop's latest strategy. the politics of spreading fear. we will talk about it. we will talk about it. need long-lasting freshness? try new febreze unstopables touch fabric spray. it doesn't just eliminate odors... simply shake and spray to unlock the breakthrough power of touch-activated scent technology. that lasts, even hours later! that's because febreze touch stores scent in your fabrics so you get bursts of freshness with every touch. your whole world will come alive. welcome home to fresh with new febreze touch. >> we had the multiple crises under president joe biden. >> the crisis at our southern border. >> the economic crisis. >> the work crisis. >> national security crisis. >>

i think both of them are republicans. both of them or conservative republicans. both of them are real about what had happened on january 6th. a speaker would do well to bipartisan champ and giving -- >> so don, who earned the man, you heard bill before the congressman talk about risk versus reward on appointing one of those two names they were republicans that democrats seemed to like. >> great question. it's very important that we consider the speakers force usual powers here. as you said the speaker can represent eight members, the minority leader has to represent. five it's important, a little word that you presented at the top. the minority leader is to be consent said with, but it doesn't require his consent. therefore, not even the five republican members required the speakers consent. the speaker here is making sure she can say this was a truly bipartisan process rather than giving the republicans just platforms to talk crazy and filibuster on this thing. they can take their own time, one of the democratic spots to spit democratic talking points at this ti

republicans are certain to filibuster that. some have agreed on a bipartisan framework on infrastructure. progressive democrats are taking a dim view of the deal. yes, republican senator tim scott says he's cautiously optimistic about passing a bipartisan police reform bill. but no, there is no guarantee that this like previous signs on police reform will hold up. >>> president biden has been remarkably silent on these issues. soon enough he'll decide how to move forward and where to as shert pressure. now that the overseas trip is in the veer view mirror, the road ahead is much more politics than it is putin. >> -- bipartisan plan, do you have any reaction to that? >> i'll tell you when i get a copy of it. >> after a whirlwind trip abroad, president biden returns to high-stakes political controversy at home, spending their political capital to push his agenda through congress. a bipartisan bill on infrastructure, 11 republicans supported in the senate, enough to clear the 60-vote hurdle if it doesn't lose democratic votes. >>

either republicans are engaging in good faith, which is to say there are a handful of republicans, people like susan collins, mitt romney and others who are sincerely negotiating in good faith and are willing to make a deal. or they are not. maybe they are stalling and this is a ploy to drag out, run out the clock on joe biden so that he cannot accomplish things. we might be about to find out. i do not know the answer to it. i hope that republicans are just holding to their principles. i shared concerns about the price tag on some of these things. i think joe biden had about six trillion dollars in mind. you do not think that there are going to be problems with the budget and inflation and other externalities? they have a defensible point about wanting to control. i think -- we do need infrastructure. i am curious as to how this plays out. if republicans do this whole lucy pulling the football away from charlie brown at the last minute act, that might persuade someone like joe manchin to go ahead and support the democrats, if they act unilaterally. >> 19 6 -- color: i remember a man went