the jazz age is about warren harding.m together because -- i'm going to give an opinion here. left-wing historians have destroyed these presidents. by the way, they tried to destroy grants, although i think it was you who told me grant is starting to move up the list again. host: on the c-span quadrennial list of presidential rankings, grant has been moving up steadily. guest: deservedly so. not only did he win the civil war on the battlefield, but as i said to you yesterday, grant was the guy who tried to reinforce construction. grant was the guy who took on the complex plan. grant ended the civil war income tax and restored the value of the dollar to stop the civil war inflation. liberal historians don't like grant, they don't like warren harding, they don't like calvin coolidge. they just do like ronald reagan, but so much material has come out, reagan and his own hand, they realize reagan was quite a policy intellectual. let's go to the gilded age. the gilded age -- i'm going to define it as kind of like 1870 to 1910

the jazz age book is about warren harding .ut i want to group them altogether because i'm going to get an opinion here. left-wing historians have destroyed these presidents. and by the way they tried to destroy grant. although i think it was you who told me grant is starting to move up the list again. >> on the quadrennial list of presidential rankings, you di ulysses grant has been moving steadily . >> deservedly so. not only did he win the civil war but as i said. to you yesterday, grant was the guy who tried to enforce reconstruction. grant was the guy who took on the ku klux klan and by the way, grant and the civil war and restore the value of the dollar, stop the civil war inflation . liberal historians don't like grant. they don't likewarren g harding. they don't like calvin coolidge . they used not like ronald reagan but so much material has come out, written in his own hand, they realized reagan was quite a policy intellectual. so let's go to the gilded age. the gilded age was, i'm going to define it as kind of like 187

liberal historians do not like grant.li they do not like warren g harding. they do not like calvin coolidge.th they used to not like ronald reaganom. they realize reagan. so look, let's go to the gilded age. the gilded age -- i'm going to define it kind of like 1870 -- 1910 or something. we'll give me some running room on that. it actually going to include u.s. grants into this. grant was present from 68 -- 76 by the gilded age was a second industrial revolution. the gilded age was a nominal period of inventions, or railroads, across the country. airplanes, oil, the applications of oil, i just brought a list. gosh i was hoping we could go into the stuff. electricity, telegraph reruns, telegraphs, airplanes, the red cross, i mean come on. they're badmouthing everything. out to be villains base about social climbing and stuff like that. they completely missed the big picture. this is unheralded prosperity for the united states. america became the greatest country in the worldme economically during the so-called gilded age. as a second industrial revolution. my

within the possible exception of warren harding -- [laughs] i think.t gerald ford, they all decided they wanted to be president at some point. that intention is what links them together. but, of course, for these ladies up to this point now, ladies, they don't have that. there was this great moment, where in the showtime series, where they are fighting. we saw a little bit. he says, you know what you are in for. well, in the scene and she says, no, i didn't. because, nobody marries a guy, and says, this guy is going to be president, with the possible exception of hillary clinton. who knows which he thought. if anybody thought, it was hillary clinton. >> she thought she would be president. >> you know, you marry either a politician, or a tailor, and some guy in business, and then you find yourself, as you have eleanor roosevelt saying, this is my circumstance. so, they are an interesting group of people because nothing really, intentionally links them, except they all find themselves in this position. >> yeah -- >> i'm sorry. i will just say, that one t

with the possible exception of warren harding thing and gerald ford, they all decided they wanted to be president at some point. i mean that and that intention is what links them together, but of course for these ladies up to this point now ladies, they don't have that. i mean there's this great moment where in in the showtime series where they're fighting and we saw a little bit. he says you you know what you were in for well in the scene she says no i didn't because nobody marries a guy. and says this guy's got to be president with the possible exception of hillary clinton. was what she thought you marry either a politician or a taylor or some guy in business or something and then you find yourself as you say have eleanor roosevelt saying this is my circumstance. so it's so they're an interesting group of people because nothing really intentionally links them except they're all find themselves in this position. i think you know, i think i'm sorry. i was just say the one thing that sort of connected all of them for us was this look at where women's were were women's history was at t

had been assistant secretary of the navy in warren g harding's cabinet and the harding had died, but the teapot dome scandal involving oil leases in the navy department had broken and ted junior was really in no way involved. but eleanor who was a loyal democrat by that point toward the state of new york in a campaign car rigged up with a paper mache teapot. you know implying something about about ted junior. well since the rose since theodore's children had grown up with with eleanor the reaction of allison ted and other members of that branch of the family was how could she do that to us? but maybe this is just my personal opinion, but maybe there was an undercurrent this idea that oh, well, you know my father is up on mount rushmore and yours was a falling down drunk, you know, maybe this was this was eleanor's way of asserting a little a little something. um, no, addie buy said, oh here we are. right. eleanor is more bohemian friends were not to her aunts liking either. quote, i just hate to see eleanor. let herself look as she does by wrote to her niece. karin robinson alsop. qu

another person who followed this practice was the president of the united states warren g harding. he had been a senator so he just moved his catch of liquor from his house to the white house, and it was widely suspected that when he ran out of it the justice department started supplying him with stuff that had been confiscated. he didn't serve alcohol at formal white house events, but his wife was the bar maid at his several times a week poker parties where they would drink themselves silly. of course, the fdr was lost the race for vice president during that election that elected harding and coolidge. he got polio the next year. so one a couple of winners he spent on his houseboat tooling around the caribbean where they would enjoy grog every night. now what was in the grog? i don't know, but i think probably it may be another name for a martini and then also at the little white house where he was said to have had a bootlegger who supplied him with moonshine. so the government was making efforts to control this out of control criminal activity, but they were so outmanned and so ou

it was warren grc. harding. >> i covered that, by the way. >> you won your first pulitzer prize.nce then we don't investigate former presidents. they're gone. this is the first time we've investigated a former president and it raises the challenge because this is a former president who may run again. it's sunomeone who is still a political player. i just want to play this to give con context. this is merrick garland in the interview with lester holt. watch this. >> we pursue justice without fear and favor. we intend to hold everyone, anyone, who is criminally responsible for the events surrounding january 6th for any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another accountable. >> okay. david axelrod, do you think the d.o.j. would take that leap? >> i don't know, don. this is such a hard question on the one hand, if you believe in the rule of law as the attorney general has said and that no man is above the law, including the president of the united states and you have incontrovertible evidence, a clear case beyond a reasonable doubt, what

it was warren g. harding.was he was gone, he was already dead. >> i cover that, by the way. >> you did a great job. you when your first pulitzer prize. >> -- ageless. but i mean, since, that we don't investigate former presidents. they are gone. this is the first time we have investigated a former president, and it raises the challenge because this is a former president who would run again. so it's not just investigating a former. it's somebody who is actually still a political player. >> but let's talk about that, david, because focusing on trump is a far cry from actually bringing charges. i want to play this to give context. this is merrick garland just yesterday in the interview with lester holt. watch this. >> we pursue justice without fear or favor. we intend to hold everyone, anyone who was criminally responsible for events surrounding january six, for any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another, accountable. >> okay, david axelrod, do you actually belie

and i will never forget this but, last week we even had senator elizabeth warren coming out incredibly hardpacific they saying that a washington d.c. insider will never meet this moment. >> you know, i just cannot agree more. >> yeah, and britney, this is part of the challenge. because you and i tweeted text about this all day, part of the challenges that we are laying out the horror of white supremacy on the people that have never been on the receiving end of it. biden believes in the inherent goodness of people, because he says i've never experienced the blunt force of white violence. he's an institutionalist to says things like, i'm going to work with republicans, not to i am going to be this republicans. so, for those of us who are feeling the brunt force of that looks like, and we are descendants of the people who felt the bloody bruises of what that looks like, how can we relay that message like, hey go hard or go home slim, because now is not the time for bipartisanship we don't hear that. we want to hear how you're going to beat this man, not your how you're gonna work with him. >>

hard to fire a fed chairman. having said that, you're quite right. elizabeth warren didn't blame anything on the administration. generally that doesn't help an inflation problem. at least give jerome powell credit for saying he botched it. it was president transitory. janet yellen has acknowledged the same. a lot of people say it's hard to orchestrate a soft landing. the fact of the matter is, rarely have we seen it in history and always the fear that in tightening to stamp out inflation, you stamp out the economy as well. >> martha: that's the tricky spot. that's is soft spot we're in right now. that's what matters. thanks, neil. happy monday. >> you too. >> martha: one of the most widely red stories calls for the president to quit his job. a few folks out there seem more than ready to sweep right in. gavin newsome, j.p.prisker and the vice president trying to straighten her approval numbers when we come back. fishing helps ease my mind. kinda like having liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. woah! look out! [sfx: submarine rising out of water ] [ sfx: minion spi

hard. and we know that when they get elected, in those states, and we need to keep warren knocking -- make sure that the john lewis voting rights bill gets done, and that is why it is so important. folks have to understand this rev.. fighting for democracy, and protecting democracy is not something you just do in one election. it took republicans 50 years to really chip away roe v. wade. we've got to be just as relentless. we cannot give. up we cannot say just because we voted in one election, that's, it i can take a break. because the other side is not taking a break. and we can't either. >> they took some losses in those 50 years but they never stopped and they never turned on what they want to. mister chairman, voter advocates are alarmed in arizona, that's goes there. they are alarmed that the supreme court ruled this week. in a conservative majority 63 opinion to a poll state election laws that have some critics have called indiscriminatory and in violation of the voting rights act. with one law rejecting ball x ballots tasked in the wrong precinct, the other restricting anyone but fa

warren. and what can be done is to bring charges against him. it was hardse it's like, yeah i want him to stop. but do i really want to be that person to step into those shoes? >> but as she thought about those little girls. sisters, cousins. innocence. she knew, leaving the got flds to save herself was not a love. >> i said, you can't sit by and let this happen. if there was a way i couldn't stop the, and i didn't. i don't know if i could live have lived with myself knowing that. >> so rebecca, and especially her brother. knowing that elissa had a strong case, urged her to file charges against her husband allen steed and warren jeffs to stop the abuse. >> i had known for a while that both arizona and utah were searching for a witness. that they were hoping that i would come forward. ultimately, coming forward was a choice that i made. i realized, whatever the pressure, whatever the cost, then i owed it to myself in the future of other girls to speak my truth. >> and so, you came forward? >> i came forward. >> so in 2006, elissa, by then cut off by family m

warren hughes and writing a book report. not as if i've ever done something like that in college. but, it is really, really hard for us to do what they, have what they are sharing, with the justice department has and how they are using. it i think we have to keep in mind two things. one is that the committee is doing a good job presenting a story, a tale, right? the events of what happened before, during and after january six. i commend them for that. and, to, whatever the justice department is doing, and we only occasionally get a glimpse of, it it is a very different mission. because they would ultimately have to prove their case in federal court, to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. so, you, know committee is doing a fine job. it has been good television. it is an interesting hearing. but, we have seen only a tiny fraction of what they have acquired. >> let's talk about the george of prosecutor investigating trump for possible 2020 election fraud -- excuse, me election interference. yesterday, lindsey graham was issued a subpoena and he has no promised to fight it. watch for the set. >> nobody wants to come

hard it is for normal americans. >> john: the question, if not biden, who else, some of the names, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar, pete buttigieg, gavin newsom, or ocasio-cortez, can any of them beat desantis or trump? >> it's always too early to say, but the numbers and because of the fundamentals would be hard to beat any republican. the republican party needs to be unified and they do well when they are unified, so any attempt to disrupt the republican party or divide the republican party is something that would help the democrats. >> john: the one person who is acting more like the president than anybody is joe manchin right now. >> he's helping the party a lot. there are a lot of democrats who would like to pass another trillion dollar spending package, would make inflation worse and hurt democrats even worse. >> john: i don't think the squad likes him too much. >> sandra: mystery is growing in the case of a missing texas mother of two last seen leaving for work more than a week ago. police say they have no evidence of a crime. so where could she be? >> john: america's top health experts are q

hard to imagine anyone surviving it. >> ready for our second twist? it's one that needed neither garrett's family nor the gunman saw coming. this is garrett warren god i'm still here. i was really fortunate. i was very blessed. >> to the surprise of a doctor treating him, garrett pulled through. and he lived to tell the story of the night he was almost murdered. >> a flashback as vivid now as it was then. well here's bullet one. >> to be honest with you, one a bullet hits you you don't really know that it hits you. it's not like you see in the movies. and i slip to the side and it sent it, went right in front of my chest, passed by my heart, and isn't right now stuck in my ribcage, it's still there. >> then bullet two. >> so i looked down i look back up and here come another one, and i slip my head to the side and when that happened the bullet went into my neck instead of my back. >> followed number three. >> then i realized that this is for real, and i went to close the door and he shot center mass at me, and when he did i turn sideways and hit me in the hip and went through my back, that one hurt, it hit my bone. >> if that sounds gruesome? th

buttigieg, elizabeth warren, they all want to run, and of course kamala harris was part of that field, and became vice president. but listen, i think democrats would have a very hardme -- if president biden were not to run, they would have a very hard time rejecting the sitting vice president, obvious successor, plus the first vice president who is a woman of color. it would be very hard for the democratic party to say we're going to pick somebody else. >> alicia: while this is going on, the republicans are sitting there behind the scenes also wondering when the former president is going to make his decision about running and when it is going to be made public. >> we have been hearing some gossip and rumors out of trump world that perhaps donald trump will announce sooner rather than later that he's running for another term in 2024. that would really throw an x factor into the midterm races. i think a lot of republican strategists would rather that not happen because they want their clients' races for the house and the senate to be about the house and the senate and not all about donald trump, and donald trump tends to make whatever he's doing all about donald tru

warren -- warner for his contributions and senator wicker for his team for the many advancements in this legislation. i would be remiss if i didn't thing eddie bernice johnson and frank lucas who worked hard to craft the legislation before us. i want to thank on my staff lila helms, melissa porter, mary gunther, nicky tushell, christie barnhart, johnny bellish, rosemary bays, erica holman and emma strothman for her help. on senator wicker's staff, james masell and many other people. senator schumer's staff, john cardinal, mike hikeman and megan tira for their hard work. but no one deserves more focus and attention than richard wayne chambers from my staff who worked on the last competes bill and then worked on darpa, knows seriously the challenges we face in getting this legislation done and getting it over the goal line. so i urge my colleagues to support this important legislation. we don't know exactly what innovations will come out of this, but we do know this, america will be more competitive because of it. and we do know this, that we will be able to grow our economy for the future because of the investments that we made today. i thank the president, and i yield the floor. the presi

chairman brown, senator warren and i have called on hud to stem the flow of family homes to institutional investors and help level the playing field. in this kind of market, it's hard fosh everyone, especially first-time buyers. over the last two years the federal government has made substantial investments in affordable housing, helping people experience homelessness and keeping people staibly housed -- staibly housed, without the measures we adopted, the housing situation for millions of americans would be worse. i was part of the bipartisan working group which was part of the cares act which was keeping people safe, protecting public health and preventing affordable prices from becoming an evicn kroises, but -- crisis wasn't enough. now we have an influx of more than $46 billion in emergency rental assistance to help renters who struggle to pay their rent and utilities during the pandemic. those funds have also been used to help with housing stability, particularly for unhoused individuals. in total, emergency rental sentence has helped over 34,000 families in rhode island alone. and i also worked with colleagues to deliver nearly $10 billion under the homeowner