people like tim scott. and bad from law enforcement in ways many of us never will. he remains committed to a justice system that is worthy of our highest expectations. senator scott has been trying to perfect our justice system, last summer he was left alone at bargaining table by kamala harris, she decided her -- was more important than perfecting our justice system, her political security of more important than your physical security. she got what she wanted, she is the vice president. we got historically high murder rates, now tim scott is left again, abandoned this week when democrats pulled away from the negotiating table a second time, media, of course, will blame the republican. they are only useful to the dc media when they agree with democrats. no criticism for kamala harris or other democrats who walked and away. i want you to imagine in quietness of your own mind, a black republican from the deep south his own life informed and instructed by interacts with police, willing to take on a difficult b

with tim scott, and i don't think my comments are partisan.sue is too important for us to suggest that because this round of toxic collapse, that civil rights -- the families of victims of police brutality are going to give up. it's time for the president to involve himself in these discussions. it's time for the leaders of the house and the senate to take this seriously. what happens when there's another george floyd event? commitments were made. there was a tremendous amount of good faith. while i am disappointed dog with the point that we are at this juncture, we are not giving in. final thing i'll say, there are certainly -- this is important. there are many, many things that local governments can do. on their own, with their own coverage, with their own conviction, to reform policing, and there are things that sit -- at the justice department can do and could be done by executive order. it's not in significant. as it would be bypassing a federal statute. we are at this juncture. then making a mistake about it, we are not giving and. or gi

tim scott knew this. the republicans knew this. and corey booker and congresswoman karen because who helped engineer it through the house and passed, senator booker was in the senate. they all knew this. the president met with the floyd family, with civil rights leaders so all of a sudden we are now told we're going to do this, this, this. a critical issue. they knew that was unacceptable. >> a sticking point? >> like sitting at the lunch counters, check in a hotel but can't sit in front of the bus. who's playing with this is those that are trying to reshape what this was in the begin jared goff either they never intended to do it and trying to run the clock or starting to get concerns about the reelection. this is unacceptable. >> i want to ask you because i'm stuck on something that senator tim scott said. he essentially said that this failed because democrats wanted to defund the police and what we have to talk about what is what it means to defund the police. according to my reporting people who use that term saying it is not t

tim scott and i have had both had horrible, personal experiences with police officers.families that should not go on in america. we know about the history of policing in this country. we know that there have been people tragically, over and over again, abused, beaten and killed by police officers in an unjust manner. so this work must continue. i will not give up. >> joining us now is a participant in this negotiations, democratic congresswoman karen bass of california. congresswoman karen bass, so many people on the sidelines were saying from the start, no way, it's homeless. there's cory booker, even after all of the setbacks he has had. and having, in effect now, given up on the negotiations with tim scott, saying that he will not give up. for those of you who do not want to give up, what is your next move? >> well, first of all, i agree with him 100%. i will not give up either. i have been fighting for police reform at the local and national level for many, many, many years. what we have decided to do, is to call on the biden administration, and you ask them to use

-- tim scott is a senator, also a black man.h had shared experiences about policing and shared fears and the conversation that you and i have talked about that you have had with your children. they all understand, like pretty much every black person in this country understands, what needs to be solved. if they couldn't solve this on a basic level after a year in which we have had civil rights type action in fact, we've had more people on the streets than we had during the civil rights movements of the 1960s. what happens next? how do we move forward on this? >> well, so two things. the first thing is, when you are listening to police groups like the fop and napo and the sheriff's association, great groups for the interest of police, but those are the interests of police. when you're not listening to the people and their interests, then, of course, you are becoming now complicit in continued police abuses. that's the first thing. the second thing -- so now here we are. what did we do? it's going to depend now, to me, on local and

today cory booker called his republican counter parts south carolina senator tim scott and said theyfficer. here is senator booker earlier today. >> it was clear that we were not making the progress that we needed to make to give america when i think the largest civil rights protests we've had in our country's history demands for substantive meaningful reform. when i couldn't get to a point where i can help families, tell them we were going to address the specific issues that put your family member in harm's way, it's just -- this is not -- this pathway now seems to be closed. >> democrats have been negotiating with senator scott in good faith for months. the sticking point was qualified immunity that shields police officers from civility for misconduct. the most recent version of the bill was slimmed down version that did not include qualified immunity reform. the excessive use of force warr. they urged democrats to bring the policing act to the floor for a vote so americans can see who is looking out for their com community's best interests. it been more than a year since it change

which were led by senator cory booker represented the democrats and 10 -- and rent -- and senator tim scott representing the republicans and this is something that they tried to negotiate last year when president trump was still in office and republicans controlled the senate. with that being election year, that made it much more difficult to get anything done. this year they found thorny issues like qualified immunity which shields police officers from liability in lawsuits, that was something that they couldn't come to an agreement on. once again, police reform is at a standstill, and house democrats have passed legislation twice, this year and last year, to address police reform. they can't pass things by simple majority in the senate, they couldn't unilaterally pass that bill on their own and as long as there weren't also nine other republican senators in addition to tim scott who would agree to something, that is another thing that they couldn't get done. host: let's get one more call in, gary in maryland, independent line. caller: i think the $3.5 trillion bill is nothing but a democr

we'll ask senator tim scott. a leading house progressive washington represent pramila jayapal will also be here. can the president do a better job of handling crises that are avoidable? we'll get some analysis from john dicertional agenda, as the president promises a new era of relentless diplomacy, we'll talk with scott morrison and turkish prime minister ra recep tayyip erdogan. it's all ahead on "face the nation." ♪ >> brennan: good morning, and welcome to "face the nation." messy and confusing is how the "wall street journal"'s editorial board characterized the biden administration's booster vaccine plan late last week. but they praised c.d.c. director rochelle walensky for the right outcome. this is a reference to her decision to include frontline workers with a high risk of exposure among those who are now eligible to receive pfizer booster shots. along with adults with underlying conditions and those who are 65 and over. we go now to the c.d.c. director, dr. rochelle walensky. she is in newton, massachuset

it's hard for me to believe that senator tim scott, who is up for reelection, who has made this whole issue about the democrats wanting to -- how is congress expected to operate given the way the minority party is able to simply block everything and democrats falling for these good faith negotiations? >> it is in completely bad faith, right? that's why we all wish that there was a good faith republican party. i mean maybe sort of, are they or are they not that good? in theory, you wish that as the president says that you can work with these republicans. but he's been in office so long, these been in politics so long, maybe he hasn't just how right wing our country has shifted, right, just how uneven the playing field is. especially on police reform, this is an issue where there is such a gulf between congress people and are supposed to represent us and americans every day who are overpoliced who are seeing their communities turned into war zones when they want to peacefully demonstration. it's so sad this was a framework. this was like a nothing. it was like maybe we could have some a

tim scott and i have horrible personal experiences with police officers.ur families that should not go on in america. we know the history of policing in this country. we know there have been people tragically over and over again beaten and killed by police officers in an unjust manner. so, this work must continue. i will not give up. >> joining us is a participant in the negotiations. bass of california. so many from the sidelines were saying from the start no way. it's hopeless. there's cory booker. even after all the setbacks he's had and having, in effect now, given up on negotiations with tim scott, saying he will not give up. for those of you who don't want to give up, what's your next move? >> i agree with him 100%. i will not give up either. i have been fighting for police reform for many, many years. what we have decided to do is to call on the biden administration and to ask them to use all of the powers at their disposal to continue to move the needle forward. and so, we have to continue and the legislative side and continue to try to put at leas

and it's also killed a police reform, which failed this week, mainly because republican senator tim scott kept moving the goalposts. now, for weeks, democrats remain hopeful. continually precinct scott and claiming that his actually negotiating in good faith. watch. watch. >> i'm grateful on both sides of the aisle and senate that we're doing this with a sense of urgency. >> i know that there is a strong sentiment in the senate and in the house, and amongst sheriffs, to do something about this. >> i think that senator booker and senator scott have been good faith partners. they've been honest brokers. >> at the end of the day, senator scott and i had a gulf between us that we could not close. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> in the end, honestly, as many could have predicted, the south carolina republican senator, who's actually up for reelection, rejected all of their offers, and the talks died. now, without reform, that is the way just about all the legislation seems destined to end. it is crazy. and it proves that the filibuster simply must go for the sake of our democracy and getting anything done. let's dig

tim scott said he couldn't agree with you because democrats want to, quote, defund law enforcement.der of police and the chiefs of poe lows and other law enforcement leaders there was significant money, hundreds of millions of dollars, to help with the challenges of the profession. we have police officers that are put in mental health pressure cookers without the kind of supports that they need. we need to be doing a lot of record collection that we're not. we can't federally mandate that without providing resources for that transparency. so my work product in these nine months speaks for itself. we want to get resources to our police, make the profession stronger and better. that's why the fraternal order of police came onboard. they would not have endorsed a bill that was defunding the police. it's absurd that this has to stop. >> so tim scott is now saying that the fraternal order of police are supporting a bill that defunds the police? it's such outrageous language, such bad faith language. it's shocking. despite having plenty of agreement, democrats said no because they could n

joining us right now is senator tim scott. allies. iron dome has saved thousands upon thousands of lives just recently, over the last decade, i can't even count the number of lives that have been saved because of iron dome but more importantly, think about this way, brian. iron dome prevents deaths which then allows for us not to see a war in the middle east because if you start killing thousands of israelis, they have to respond. it is their ability to defend themselves that reduces the likelihood of war in the middle east and why would we not stand by our allies, it feels akin to the afghan crisis, now an iron dome crisis, it's just dead wrong. brian: it is. it's a dangerous time to be an american allie from france, to nato, on down. we're seeing -- >> it's amazing. brian: i want to pivot to spending. this is a big a couple of weeks as there will be for the biden administration. they are looking to get the bipartisan bill passed with 19 republican senators and then get a 3.5 trillion maybe 4.5 trillion on a reconciliation si

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. >> i had a quick conversation with tim scott.ore meaningful progress on establishing really substantive reform to america's policing. the effort from the very beginning would be to get police reform that would raise professional standards, police reform that would create a lot more transparency, and police reform that would create more accountability. we could not come to an agreement on those three big areas. >> republican tim scott provide statement that read in part, quote, i offered to introduce a bill that included our areas of compromise, a bill that activists and law enforcement alike could have supported. despite having plenty of agreement, democrats said no because they could not let go of their push to defund the police. senator scott's office said the provision to withhold grants from departments who do not support abuse encounters cut off the stream of funding. we'll hear more from senator booker about this a little later on when he joins "morning joe." >>> many haitian immigrants who spent days living under a bridge

tim scott said from the beginning that qualified immunity was a nonstarter.ut holding an agency accountable without individual officers. we've heard just lip service. the president and his vp have forgotten the people who put them in office. look what they're doing on the border, sending out flights of haitians, seven to nine a day. it's disgusting how, you know, they are treating us and how they are feigning that they want something done. everyone is clutching their pearls. but the attorneys representing the family named this bill after george floyd understood with this the $27 million history breaking settlement after that and a chauvin conviction little more would be done. >> as we look at this on the heels of this and congresswoman karen bass said is next step is the biden administration needs to act in whatever way they can even if that that's executive order. what is the reality of that happening? what do you think the white house would do even? >> the white house and the justice department have some latitude to move in terms of executive action. that's

tim scott claiming that crime will rise because democrats walked away from the table, meantime presidentublicans saying, quote, regrettably, senate republicans rejected enacting modest reforms which even the previous president had supported, while refusing to take action on key issues that many in law enforcement were willing to address. we're joined this morning by someone who deeply understand the need for police reform. gwen carr became an activist after her son eric gardner was choked to death by a new york police officer in 2014 for selling loose cigarettes, author of "this stops today, eric garner's mother seeks justice after losing her son." good morning. we appreciate you joining us. as someone who has fought so hard on this issue, i'm wondering what your reaction was? what went through your mind when you heard that these talks fell apart? >> well, actually. good morning and thanks for having me. actually, once i heard that they went -- that there was no deal and that the politicians could walk away from the table and flat leave it, i just thought, you know, after all of these mo

i spoke to south carolina senators tim scott and lindsey graham yesterday and they raised some flagson of the bill, listen. >> bringing in ushering in socialism in a way that's going to be unravel. it's hard to unscramble an egg. whether a they're doing with this $3.5 trillion package, the content rushes us towards socialism. >> this is the biggest threat to the way our government works and biggest step towards socialism in my lifetime. >> brian: but the real obstacle is facing maybe from her own party. the democrats who are skeptical of the plan, they have some moderates and those way to the left. so pelosi decides to take it to the media over the weekend to voice hers concerns. this will be paid for. so when some say oh, well, what about inflation? it will be paid for. and that's the beauty of it. let's not talk about numbers. let's and dollars, let's talk about values. >> brian: okay. i'm sorry for getting caught up in the trillions. it sounds like even pelosi doesn't know who is paying for all of this. she is more concerned about values, not costs. aren't we all? don't worry, ms.

tim scott believes the month-long negotiation with democratic lawmaker has collapsed because their proposalsalled for reducing funding to law enforcement in his interview with cbs news. scott who's been conducting talks with democrats for the past year said that many of the proposals would have required him to agree to limit or reduced funding for police. he said i'm not going to participate in reducing funding for the police west virginia we saw a major city defund the police. that's just some of the latest back and forth. the end goal seems to be that those talks have collapsed. caller: exactly. look at what he had talking. tim scott doesn't represent anybody he doesn't represent the black population. we all think he's something else that i can't say. we didn't say defunded the police the media took that phrase and went to town with it. what we said is we don't want people show up every time black people protest with tanks and armors and i mean, like ferguson. look what they showed up. that's what they do every time. when we, black people protest they want to shut us down. they don't want

tim scott says he wants to continue working but talks have fallen apart. >> woodruff: lisa desjardinsu very much. >> reporter: you're welcome. we spoke to a key figure in congress' efforts around reconciliation and infrastructure-- democratic congresswoman fr washington state anchair of the congressional progressive caucus, pramila jayapal. congresswoman pramila jayapal, thank you very much for being with us. you have laid down what has been described as an ultimatum that, unless the senate passes this $3.5 trillio reconciliation bill, you and other members of the progressive caucus will not support the infrastructure legislation which we know there is support for in both parties. why not? >> well, judy, thanks so much for having me on. the key here is we are willing and able and ready to vote for both bills that deliver the entirety of the president's agenda to his desk. that is both the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation bill. but the agreement was made in the senate and, in fact, just today, 11 senators put out a statement saying that the only reason they voted for the bipa

talks between cory booker, tim scott, karen bass, to try to come to some bipartisan agreement on some kind of police reform legislation that could pass both chambers, have collapsed. bass and booker have spoken to reporters. they said they decided to pull out of these talks after it was clear they couldn't get to yes with tim scott and republicans. bass told me she would like to see the president take further action on this issue. and booker says he's not going to stop trying. and geoff, this speaks to, again, the challenges of trying to work with these really narrow majorities and how important this reconciliation effort is because on all the issues in which democrats have tried to negotiate with republicans, police reform, guns, voting rights, they have got nowhere. the other alternative is to do what you can with just your party through reconciliation. and we'll see where that track goes. >> garrett haake, monica alba, jake sherman, appreciate you all for starting us off this hour. >>> top cdc advisers are meeting right now on the big question affecting so many of us, who needs cov

i'm not going to cast stones at republicans or tim scott. that's not constructive.continue to work to get real transparency on policing in america. we don't even know how many people have been killed at the hands of police in this country because we don't collect it. >> there's no database, right? >> yes. these are things we need to require, require them to be done. of course, if you're going to get a federal grant, you have to show transparency in what you're doing. this is stuff that's not way out of the norm, what we were asking for. i was surprised we got leaders of law enforcement to say absolutely yes. they understand we're at an inflection point in america. we have in the state of new jersey applications for the state police are down 90%. law enforcement leaders understand it. that's why we have a lot of agreement with them. we need republican partnership leadership to get it done and americans deserve to get this legislature done. >> i was talking to secretary mayorkas earlier about what was going on at the border, especially with the haitian migrants. we he

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republican senator tim scott told pbs last year that he supported police departments losing federal funding if they didn't make reforms. now he seems to be calling that defunding the police. did he flip-flop? is police reform in congress doomed, valerie? >> i surely hope not. i think it's incumbent on all the members of congress to recognize we have to provide some broad parameters at the federal level about what is acceptable in policing. to give local law enforcement the tools that they need to do their jobs in a fair and equitable way. so in some cases that might require them to receive more resources, but those resources should have strings attached. they have strings attached that show that these police departments are actually going to implement change so that black families don't have to teach their children a certain way to interact with the police that the rest of the country doesn't have to do. and that's in everyone's self-interest, don. >> you mentioned it a little bit, but we didn't talk specifically about the obamas breaking ground on the obama presidential center in chicago.

. >>> republican senator tim scott is blaming the democrats for the failed negotiations in the reform bill. there were nationwide protests after the death of george floyd. scott said democrats walked away from negotiations. >> we have about $1 billion in grant money that goes to police. when you start saying in order to receive those dollars you must do a, b and c and if you don't do a, b and c, you literally lose eligibility for the two major pots of money, the burn grants and the cop grants. when you tell local law enforcement agencies that you are ineligible for money, that's defunding police. there's no way to spin that. >> again, it's unfortunate. you remember on this saga we got the head of the fop and director of fop, iacpd, some of the biggest agencies in law enforcement to go with us on a lot of common sense reforms. those folks don't want to defund the police. this is a billion that would have had millions of dollars for police departments. >> the biden administration is expected to defend its pullout from afghanistan this week. the secretary of defense, the commander of u.s

senator tim scott joining us with live reaction.ederal judge blocking florida from enforcing its ban on sanctuary cities. doctor nicole saphier, general jack keane, nancy grace and because it is friday, geraldo. a busy 3 hours pics of 17 minutes from now on the channel you trust, back to the twelfth floor. todd: del rio, texas, new reports show border agents reported extra resources in june but they are stepping up enforcement as dozens of buses filled with patient migrants make their way to a mexican border town. >> flying to other parts of the country, that is open border, they are allowing haitians to go through america without covid testing without any vetting whatsoever. >> here is mark brnovich. nikki haley mentioning, you soon this administration over its vaccine mandate saying this violates the equal protection clause by requiring us citizens to get the vaccine. to decline to get the vaccine. let's play lawyer here, textbook discrimination in constitutional law. what rebuttal could the biden administration have to this? >> y

. >> south carolina senator tim scott is blaming democrats for congress inability to pass police reform saying their effort to defund police is causing the breakdown. take a listen. >> all big blue cities run by democrat mayors and supermajorities on their counsels decided not to act on behalf of their most vulnerable communities. so yes. they've all tried it to defund the police we want to refund the police because public safety is job one. president joe biden recently slain republicans claiming they reject modest reforms. the world health organization is reportedly looking into -- looking to revive its probe into the origin finance that covid-19 pandemic. wall street journal reports the new team is being assembled and follows the w.h.o. initial inquiry into first outbreak in wuhan new team main maybe charged whether is originated from a lab despite pushback from chip on the theory. i can answer that one. [laughter] for the w ohio. congratulations to us the u.s. beats europe to take home the ryder cup. [inaudible conversations] dave mcafee. >> brian reaching green off that 3 0 yard ope

. >> everyone thought, oh, senator tim scott will be the difference. he's going to help. he's going to make it. but he was asked by cnn today about the breakdown in talks. he kept bringing it back to defunding the police. listen. >> it was really whether or not the penalties for cooperating or doing what was mandated, those were takeaways. so in other words, they were going to -- you were going to lose grant money. i'm not going to be a part of defunding the police. >> it's -- what do you make of him talking about defunding the police. is he distorting what these talks are all about? that's not a tenet of democrats, right? >> no, senator scott knows that neither senator booker or i support defunding the police. what he is referring to was actually a part of the trump executive order which basically said, if a police department went along and instituted reforms such as having a database or accreditation, et cetera, that they would be able to keep resources that they had. this was proposed by president trump. the trump executive order is actually still in effect. the bill w

but today the lead negotiator and the senate that would be cory booker, democrat of new jersey, tim scott republican of south carolina, well they announced they would be no deal. white house said they would look for other world to hold our nations police department more accountable. but as the wall street journal points out tonight, and i quote without legislation the administration is relying largely on the justice department in its efforts to change american policing. >> meanwhile the pandemic continues you know the stats we've been losing just north of 2000 souls a day. most of the estimates are 95% or so of the patients in icu beds are unvaccinated in the hardest hit states. today, during a virtual global summit on the virus, the president announced the u.s. will donate half a billion doses of the pfizer vaccine to other countries around the world. with that, let's bring in our stellar starting line on this wednesday night peter baker veteran and our chief white house correspondent for the new york times, claire mccaskill former democratic senator from the great state of emergency, eu

. >> in a statement, republican senator tim scott accused democrats of taking a partisan approach, writingquote, despite having plenty of agreement, democrats said no because they cot not let go of their push to defund our law enforcement. the final option of the bill left out more contentious clauses such as qualified immunity. joining me to discuss where we go from here, carmen best and law enforcement analyst brittany pat nick cunningham is with us, host of the podcast undistracted and msnbc contributor. let me start with this. he was not asking to defund the police. having said that, you were part of barack obama's task force on 21stst century policing. you have a deep understanding of how these go. were you disappointed? were you surprised? do you think it can go somewhere from here? give me a take on where you stand? >> i'm certainly not surprised. in this moment, two things -- at least two things are true all at the same time. one is that chances to get even what president biden called modest reforms to policing, those chances are waning. those midterms are going to be an uphill bat

cory booker made that clear in a private conversation with republican, tim scott. jessica dean is on capitol hill. j so, what ended? >> well, at this point, we're told it wasn't one major issue, but just a variety of issues. in fact, congresswoman karen bass telling my colleague just moments ago that it really came down to when they had been meeting with cory booker and he had been meeting with the fraternal order of police and with the sheriff, sorry, the chief of police union and they had come to a deal, but that is when scott backed out of that deal and that's when things went awry. but again, we know in following months and months of this, i've been here for all of these minutes and these moments, that they were very close to a deal. and it suddenly just fell apart. that they had tried to bridge the gap on things like qualified immunity and various topics, but they just could not do it and now we know that these talks have broken down without a deal in place. now here's what senator booker said in a statement a few moments ago. he said unfortunately, even with

widespread support after the killing of george floid, but after cory booker, democrat of new jersey, tim scottrepublican of south carolina, well, they announced there would be no deal. white house says it will look for other ways to hold the nation's police departments more accountable. but as the "wall street journal" points out, quote, without legislation, the administration is relying largely on the justice department in its efforts to change american policing. >>> meanwhile, the pandemic continues. you know the statsz. we've been losing north of 2,000 soul as day. most estimates are 95% or so of the patients in icu beds are unvaccinated in the hardest hit states. today during the virtual global summit on the virus, the president announced the u.s. will donate half a billion doses of the pfizer vaccine to other countries around the world. with that, let's bring in our stellar starting line wednesday night, veteran journalist and author, chief white house correspondent for the "the new york times" and former democratic senator from the great state of new jersey and eugene robinson, pulitzer

juanita, briefly, please, was senator tim scott negotiating in good faith or trying to run out the clock? >> absolutely run out the clock, rev. when democrats went to him with the bare minimum, which did not include ending qualified immunity, no knock warrants, he still said no. it just goes to show he was not planning to reach a deal with democrats at any point, so all eyes need to be on senate democrats as well as the white house to take action because nothing with republicans seems feasible, rev. >> we're definitely going to keep the pressure on because police reform is absolutely necessary. juanita tolliver and susan del percio, thank you both. >>> coming up, the trump presidency is over, but the former guy is still finding fresh ways to stoop to knew lows. >>> but first, my colleague richard lui with today's top news stories. richard? >> rev, a very good saturday to you. stories we're watching for you this hour, the united states reached over 42 million covid cases. the death toll peaking over 690,000. a federal judge temporarily blocked new york city schools from enforcing a vaccin

. >> president biden and vice president harris soon to be pointing the finger at senator tim scott.o cory booker said they basically just reached an impasse. have you ever spoken to those senators? >> i have not spoken to him personally, but i would just ask the senate to think for a minute and just imagine that george is your family member who was brutally and senselessly murdered in broad daylight on the street by a police officer. and if you can imagine that, i mean, that should be enough for anybody to make a decision that's worthwhile in this case, because if that doesn't do it, i don't know what will. >> what's your biggest disappointment? do you know how it fell apart? >> i don't know canexactly how fell apart. my biggest disappointment is i'm the mother of two boys, ages 9 and 14. and one of my biggest fears is they will encounter the same fate that george did. and what i do know is that without this bill, there is no accountability. and as long as there is no accountability or consequences, the police brutality is going to continue. so this bill is needed. >> i've spoken to

senator tim scott declares america is not a racist country. vice president harris echoes, we are not a racist country have to do with our racism. okay. another kind of moment, critical race theory as a catchall phrase for the kind of work that you do, the kind of work that even room does. this effort to re-narrate 1619 project, right? all of these are a tense to kind of tell a different story about our beginnings, about who we are, confronting our wrongdoings and the like, and we see the depths of the vitriol. we see the intensity of the response. reading "nice racism," we see it broadly across the country at large. bring the two together, talk about "nice racism" and talk about we are as a country in this moment which is supposed to be, supposed to be a moment of profound possibility and transformation trick to precisely because it is a moment of profound possibility we are seeing incredibly amplified efforts to stop it from being that moment. so carol anderson so beautifully argues in white rage, every inch a black progress has been met by w

we have just seen it again with police reform now that republican tim scott rejected the final offerthat is dead. we are seeing them with votes against the bipartisan infrastructure framework. bipartisan ship is lovely. but if it doesn't help with caring for an aging parent or child without losing everything, it doesn't matter. it's the process. . >> he doesn't need bipartisan ship to get this $3 trillion bill passed. he is really stuck between the two factions of his own party. he has the majority in the house. he has enough votes in the senate. it seems he would be more likely to attract all democrats than he would be to win over any republicans. i do want to ask you. we are seeing lines drawn by both of these factions. we had congresswoman jayapal on yesterday ahead of the caucus. she said essentially it's a red line. how serious is this ultimatum that progressives are putting out there in the house that either pass it all, both the bipartisan bill and this big bill only by democrats, or get nothing. how real is that? >> i think anything that results in doing nothing for american

with tim scott having to pull out on negotiations because they don't want real reform. chauvin choking a man to death. but i think we have seen the republican infrastructure be really exposed here for being disingenuous. they don't want serious police reform. >> don calloway and bill crystal, thank you very much for staying up with us. and what we heard about the cdc director today about going against an advisory panel on booster. shots booster. shot every day, coventry helps people get cash for their life insurance policies they no longer need. i'm an anesthesiologist and a pain physician by specialty. i was trying to figure out what i could do with this term life insurance policy. i'm sorta stuck because i can't just go out and buy more insurance, because of my diagnosis. i called coventry direct and everything clicked. there actually were a lot more options that i thought there ever would be. coventry helped michael like we've helped thousands of people sell all or part of their life insurance policies for cash. even a term policy. there probably are a lot of people

the three lead negotianegotiato congresswoman bass, senator booker and tim scott from the republican party basically making it official, calling it quits today. a key sticking point is something we've reported on from the start. many experts and blm movement activists said you need to reform qualified immunity that shields police. if you don't do that, you don't get anywhere. here's how senator booker put it. >> the effort from the very beginning was to get police reform that would raise professional standards, police reform that would create a lot more transparency and then police reform that would create accountability and we're not able to come to agreements on those three big areas. >> that is being very diplomatic. before i bring mya back in, i want to put our news context on this for you. it's been 485 days since a police officer murdered george floyd. congresswoman bass is out with a statement calling on president biden to step up and do the rest of this through executive orders. i bring mya wiley back in on the conversation. an expert on these issues including someone who's b

you don't want republican supporters potentially looking at de santis for 2024, kristi noem, 2024, tim scott2024, you want to keep them on team trump p. you keep people interested. he got wall to wall nonstop coverage when the sitting president of the united states. former presidents don't get the same amount of coverage. he wants to keep his base engaged so if and when he decides to run, they're with him. and if he decides he doesn't want to run, then he can play king maker on the republican side. howie: even yesterday 9/11 ceremonies he told a group of new york police officers that knows what he wants to do but he can't say because election laws but you'll be very happy, he said. he said i believe they're going to desert phi the -- de-certify the 2020 election. will there be media resentiment despite the hints and everything, turns out to be a head fake and he doesn't announce any time soon or is the press wanting this because they miss trump and the ratings. >> look at our competitors. they were thriving under president trump and now with president biden they are down in the dumps and so