house gop leader kevin mccarthy and other republican lawmakers blame one person for the recent surge in migrants. >> tennessee. congressman chuck fleischmann and louisiana congressman clay higgins stress border patrol agents are catching hundreds of people a night president biden and his minions created an environment causing the surge. you gain control of our border. to the cartels. the gop congressional delegation worries about a rise in drug and child trafficking and the spread of covid-19 in shelters, texas congressman tony gonzales calls on the biden administration to work with them border security. >> and illegal immigration go hand the department of homeland security announced over the weekend that fema will help process the high levels of unaccompanied migrant children over the next 90 days. we recognize this is a big the last administration left us a dismantled unworkable system. white house press secretary jen psaki says fema will help ensure migrants have access to medical care and shelters and place them with vetted families. this is one of the steps that the president fe

. >> oh, the gop is so concerned about dr. seuss. so, let's consider what democrats are focused on and what republicans are focused on. are you with me? okay. here's some more truth telling for you. democrats moving ahead on covid relief with zero support from republicans and moving ahead on voting rights in the bill that the house passed last night. the gop focusing on dr. seuss and defending neanderthals. seriously? well, i don't think they are. here's what president joe biden said yesterday about governors lifting covid restrictions too soon. >> the last thing -- the last thing -- we need is neanderthal thinking that in the meantime everything's fine, take off your masks, forget it. >> okay. and that's at the gop fake outrage machine into motion. yes, i said fake outrage machine, right into motion. they really, really, really want to make this happen. >> neanderthals are hunter/gatherers. they're protectors of their family. they are resilient. they're resourceful. they tend to their own. so, i think joe biden needs to rethink what

in the senate tonight a gop political opportunity to slow down passage of the relief package, forcing clerks to read all 628 pages out loud and it's taking about 20 hours. one of the women accusing andrew cuomo of sexual harassment speaking out if her first tv interview. we'll hear what she is saying. joining me now, evan perez and julia kayyem. good evening to both of you. evan, what are fellow investigators doing determine if lawmakers aid in the this attack knowingly or not? >> one of the things they have, don, are the devices of some of the alleged rioters that are facing charges and what they can do is from look about those devices they're able to see some had some connection, some contacts with members of congress in the days before and the day of the insurrection. and in some cases you have rioters talking amongst each other discussing that they had some kind of association with members of congress. in addition, we have that some of these rioters claim that they were acting as security guards for some of these lawmakers that were speaking at events around january 6th. so again,

what do you think about the state of the gop, especially the leadership right now? is it about -- is it about the policy of white grievance? >> well, i don't know what their policy is. i just feel that they're becoming more and more emboldened in what they're willing to say. the fact that the gop leadership does not respond to individuals within their caucus making these kinds of statements is just as difficult to contain myself about than the individuals themselves who are making the statements. the fact that there were those individuals in leadership on the gop side that were right there, who never said anything, who smirked, who listened to individuals not just grothman but other members of their caucus making outrageous claims and they're never checked on it means they have a level of comfort, in their entitlement, that needs to be checked. i did not intend to go on the floor to have a discussion about black lives matter, about black families. i was there to talk about how this rescue plan was going to lift up tens of millions of children out of poverty, that is

he must sense, though, that gop is trump's party. and look at it we had 261 republicans in the house and senate combined. 17 voted to hold trump accountable. even mcconnell did but he made that speech afterwards. so maybe he really feels like it's time to move on. he was partly dabbling in white supremacy. now you've got paul gosar going to white supremacist events. there's no backlash. the gop is a mix of white supremicism and a dangerous lies. that's a cocktail. maybe he's actually had enough. >> people get really mad with people like you and people like me say that, but prove us wrong. if you're not the party of white supremacy why do you keep letting them in and having a platform like donald trump? you have to explain to us -- >> just one more quick thing. as a muslim, these republicans demanded every muslim denounce any bad act anywhere. they are now silent in the face of paul gosar going to a white national event. they are silent as people like the proud bois and qanon are building a military group. they're complicit in the bud

what do you think about the state of the gop, especially of the leadership right now. is it about -- is it about the policy of white grievance? >> well, i don't know what their policy is. i just feel that they're becoming more and more emboldened in what they're willing to say. the fact that the gop leadership does not respond to individuals within their caucus making these kinds of statements is just as difficult to contain myself about than the individuals themselves who are making the statements. the fact that there were those individuals in leadership on the gop side that were right there who never said anything, who smirked, who listened to individuals, not just grothman but other members of their caucus making the most outlandish claims and they're never checked on it, means that they have a level of comfort that the last four years have given them a feeling of respectability in their entitlement, in some of them's raci racism that needs to be checked. i did not intend to go on the floor to have a discussion about black lives matter, about black families. i was t

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so what's really behind this gop opposition? with me now is zerlina maxwell, senior director of progressive programming for sirius xm and author of the end of white "end of white politics". it is great to see you both. zerlina, "the washington post" editorial board points out two of president biden's top nominees have been subjected to baseless smear campaigns. judiciary committee chair senator durbin says only two senate republicans have even been willing to meet with gupta and the senate hasn't even scheduled a hearing for clark yet. zerlina, what does all of that tell you about republicans' opposition? >> well, i think that in line with what they did with neera tanden's nomination, basically attacking her for supposed, quote, unquote, mean tweets. the same thing, they're trying that same playbook with gupta's nomination. but i actually looked up some of the tweets because i was, like, what was so mean? you know, for example, she said that there was racism, xenophobia and lying at the republican convention in 2020. republicans

gop senator tommy tuberville ready it take the fight to unaccompanied kids. everything the republican party is doing at the border right now, everything the republican party is saying about the border right now is a performance from their fake outrage over how children are being treated to their attention-seeking rambo-style theatrics, it's meant to distract and enrage. they posted videos to their social media accounts of them crouching in the brush, in the dark, supposedly to hide from the evil drug smugglers at the border that apparently heckled them during their visit. so sad. senate gop decided to highlight this photo of senator ted cruz at the border wall. not in cancun at the time. the pose that he's striking, no comment really actually. there are lives at stake, not just vulnerable kids trying to cross into the border but the other brown-skinned people who already live in the u.s. are going to face a backlash because of this rising anti-immigrant sentiment. if we learned anything, it's that words matter and rhetoric leads to violence. ask an asian-amer

it's the same dog whistles the gop is trying to leverage here and it's outright wrong and why we need action from congress on bills like hr-1 that will protect people's rights to votes, that will remove barriers to voters and thwart the voter suppression tactics we see going on across the country. >> susan? >> i agree. voter suppression is i think the most important issue facing our country right now. it's the foundation, it's our democracy. voters should be picking their elected officials. elected officials don't get to choose their constituents. it doesn't work like that. and if republicans can't win votes based on competitive ideas and bringing good policy, then they shouldn't be elected and it's time to pack it up. you have to represent the people that elect you. if you don't want to have them, then get out. >> all right, i'll leave it there. juanita tolliver and susan del percio, thank you both as always. coming up, there's no other way to say it, the republican party got trumped and they're paying for it big league. first my colleague with today's top new stories. cori? >> today

trump is the biggest name in the gop, by far, and the rnc really is counting on that maga money, and so, it rejected the cease and desist demand from trump to stop using his image. the institutional republican party also really wants to try to keep trump happy, so now they're paying tribute. we learned yesterday the rnc is moving a portion of its spring donor retreat to mar-a-lago and will be paying trump's club for the use of the facilities. that was not nearly enough for donald trump last night. he explicitly told his supporters not to give money to anyone but him, telling the faithful to donate through his save america pac. that's s.a.p., for short. "no more money for rinos. they do nothing but hurt the republican party and our great voting base. they will never lead us to greatness. send your donation to save america pac at donaldjtrump.com. we will bring it back stronger than ever before." and then "i fully support the republican party and gop committees, but i do not support rhinos and fools, and it is not their right to use my likeness to raise image to raise funds. so much mo

over the weekend, house gop whip steve scalise refused to say that the election wasn't stolen. and earlier this week, the chairman of the cpac, matt schlapp of the law firm, schlemiel, schlimazel and schlapp essentially doubled down on the lie >> it's still very important that we go back to the idea off legal voting and people should be legally registered to vote in order to vote. when voter fraud occurs, no matter who - >> no, but you have to have proof, matt. >> it should be fully prosecuted >> you have to have proof that it would have changed the outcome. >> we have it. >> you don't have it >> we have it. >> matt, why do you ignore that dozens of lawsuits failed on this why ignore it? >> you're right. they did -- they did fail. but guess what? you know this, you're a good lawyer, just because you fail in court doesn't mean you don't have a good case, it means you lost in court. >> seth: believe it or not, it can be both. you can lose in court and have a bad case, especially if you lose 60 times and your lawyer starts leaking from td like he mixed up the shampoo and motor oil

trump is the biggest name in the gop, by far, and the rnc really is counting on that maga money. and so it rejected the cease and desist demand from trump to stop using his image. the institutional republican party also really wants to try to keep trump happy, so now they're paying tribute. we learned yesterday the rnc is moving a portion of its spring donor retreat to mar-a-lago and will be paying trump's club for the use of the facilities. that was not nearly enough for donald trump last night. he explicitly told his supporters not to give money to anyone but him, telling the faithful to donate through his save america pac. that's s.a.p., for short. "no more money for rinos. they do nothing but hurt the republican party and our great voting base. they will never lead us to greatness. send your donation to save america pac at donaldjtrump.com. we will bring it back stronger than ever before." late today trump put out a new statement saying "i fully support the republican party and gop committees, but i do not support rhinos and fools, and it is not their right to use my likeness

now the gop is eyeing rollbacks in michigan. i'll talk to secretary of state jocelyn benson who is fighting back. plus renewed challenge. plus, new zealand takes action using compassion. why can't we do more of the same? that and more ahead. first to richard louie who has a look at the other big stories we're tracking this hour. >> good saturday to you. a major digging and scooping of dirt and sand started. the dredge dog free the shipment stuck in the suez canal. the almost sideways ship has been blocking the canal since tuesday some of the experts say every hour it is stuck holds up to $400 million of international trade. >>> myanmar security forces shot and killed at least 114 protesters today. it is the deadliest day of protests so far according to independent media outlet myanmar now. protests since the military coup resulted in violent crackdowns. and the colorado shooting suspect was moved to another jail because of safety concerns. he faces ten counts of first-degree murder. more american voices right after this break. r

you say you're clearly not leaving the gop either. is the gop party big enough for both of you? >> i think it depends. i're been a republican longer than donald trump has. he is a recent republican and taken the values we have and cloaked them in populism and fear and darkness and make them unrecognizable so i'm not going anywhere. we have room for people that supp supported donald trump, of course. people that thought he was a venue to get to a country with a stronger economy, a strong defense, if he says others aren't welcome i'm not sure there's room for the competing visions and that's up to the republican voter. do you want to be able to go on twitter and be angry or do you believe in an optimistic future prior to donald trump? that's where i think taking the message like i do on country first is so important to win this battle for the heart and soul. >> good luck to you, congressman. thank you for joining us. >> you bet. >>> we have news coming in from capitol hill right now. the u.s. senate confirmed miguel cardona as the education secretary and had bipartisan support. 64

. ♪ ♪ chris: the gop facing an identity crisis at the conservative political act conference in orlando. >> in the face of this mortal threat to our nation and our very existence, some prefer to fan the flames of the civil war on our side. that's foolish and it's ridiculous. chris: we'll ask florida senator rick scott, who's in charge of trying to win back the senate for republicans, about his call for party unity. >>> then, president biden's covid relief package passes the house. >> if we act now, decisively, quickly and boldly, we can finally get ahead of this virus, we can finally get our economy moving again. chris: but democrats face a big setback in their bid to boost the minimum wage. we'll discuss the critical week ahead with white house press secretary jen psaki. >>> plus, the president takes his first military action as commander in chief, ordering an airstrike on iranian-backed militias. we're joined by senate intelligence committee chair mark warner. then, mr. biden's moves on immigration face sharp pushback as he stamps out trump's policies. we'll ask our sunday panel about

the gop for now seems to be pushing back against that. but up until now so far the republicans ceded to donald trump's will and it will make it difficult for people who oppose his policies to run and fund raise. >> yeah, it really is astonishing when you think about it in the context of history and how we normally treat presidential office holders, others in the context of our civic life. donald trump is clearly talking about it in terms of corporate life and money in a way that just feels so incredibly different than the way people have conducted themselves in the past. kimberly, thank you very much for getting up early with us. appreciate it as always. >>> and still ahead here, buckingham palace responds to prince harry and meghan markle's explosive oprah interview. and why it may have piers morgan searching for a totally different career. ♪ and a little bit of chicken fried ♪ ♪ cold beer on a friday night ♪ ♪ a pair of jeans that fit just right ♪ ♪ and the radio up ♪ get 5 boneless wings for $1 with any handcrafted burg

and, sure enough, gop state legislators across the country have responded to their thumping in 2020, by adopting new policies that appeal to a majority of americans. sorry, i mean, unleashing an unprecedented tidal wave of voter suppression laws >> across 43 states, more than 250 new voting laws have been proposed they include efforts that would limit mail-in and early in-person voting. as well as election day voting with constraints such as stricter i.d. requirements, limited voting hours and narrower qualifications for absentee ballots. >> seth: my god, 250 laws in 43 states? republicans are really not being subtle about it. i mean, wouldn't it be easier and more honest to propose just one bill that would replace every ballot in a democratic precinct with a shredder you know, i have a sinking feeling that when i said that, mitch mcconnell sat up in bed, and chuckled like a battery powered halloween doll [ laughter ] "i like that idea. ha-ha-ha back to bed. all this is motivated, of course, by the big lie the deranged conspiracy theory pushed by donald trump and his supporters that

maybe the gop should use the image from your book and he'll be happy and won't mind. listen, does this go beyond money, tim? how much of this is about holding the party's pursestrings and making sure that they stay tied to him even after his 2020 loss and incitement of an insurrection? >> i think it is that too. it's always multiple things with him. i think it's his desire to exercise control over the party, to -- there's very few things that are on his mind as frequently as vengeance. and he has got a lot of revenge planned for members of the republican party who didn't support the insurrection he incited on january 6th. and of course democrats. but i think what he really wants to do is get into red districts and back candidates who are opposing candidates that people like mitch mcconnell are going to put up. and he knows that he'll be able to do that effectively, he's going to need money. but if he can't get the money as you noted, he's going to also throw as much sand in the machinery as he can. >> yeah. always a pleasure, tim. let's put the book back up. >> thank

in that has not been -- anthat has not been challenge the entire leadership of the gop has bought into this ideology. i don't think in assault weapons ban is going to happen under this administration, not unless the democrats do extremely well under the midterms. yes, removing the fibuster would eliminate a barrier with republicans coulcome up with other ways to impede legislation. the problem is the democrats have finally got to the point where they put will gun reform -- still years away from getting it. amy: frank smyth, thank you for being with us, longtime investigative journalist and author of "the nra: the unauthorized history." democracy now! is lookin . >>> welcome back. thank you for joining us again on nhk "newsline." we start this hour with a developing story. the japanese government says north korea launched two ballistic missiles on thursday morning. officials say they were launched around 7:00 a.m. japan time. they believe the debris fell outside japan's economic zone and say there is no immediate

. >> some in the gop like florida senator rick scott have urged states to reject the stimulus money. what would be the purpose of doing that, hayes? >> i can't really think of one except for boosting the republican party's national standing. one of the most interesting things about the run-up to this bill passing is you saw the biden administration reaching out to republicans who aren't in washington, to mayors, to governor, to people who actually will need the funding that this bill provides. we had a year where the gop nationally was saying no, we are not going to give out more money to states because it will just go to wasteful, big, blue, democrat-led states and cities. and that's not the case. this bill is not, despite what rick scott said, a democratic or very partisan bill. it doesn't funnel money to just democrats. it is a bill for the entire country. and it's something that i feel like republicans are having a hard time trying to sell to the rest of the country. that's why a majority of republicans believe that the bill was either the right size or too small. this $1.9 trill

he and the gop have been trying to explain it away with all of these lies. now, republicans across the country are trying to he restrict voting rights based on the lies that they have spread. do they know that they can't win fair and square and that's why they are doing this? >> well, i think, don, you know, as you fully explained, it's just an amazing thing to watch, where you have an election historic turnout. more people turned out than any time in our history before. it was deemed the most safe election, secure election. no wide spread voter fraud and the gop spreads the lie and because the voters believe the lie, we have to do the restrictions because the voters don't trust it and you and me, are with people just like that, everything is calm and great and they stir up trouble and they say, we have to fix the trouble. and what they don't understand, they are the problem that stirred up the trouble. this is an amazing thing to me that you have a major party in the country, and if you look at the history, we have a major party in the country who is seekin

he and the gop have been trying to explain it away with all of these lies. now, republicans across the country are trying to he restrict voting rights based on the lies that they have spread. do they know that they can't win fair and square and that's why they are doing this? >> well, i think, don, you know, as you fully explained, it's just an amazing thing to watch, where you have an election historic turnout. more people turned out than any time in our history before. it was deemed the most safe election, secure election. no wide ved votespread voter fr the gop spreads the lie and because the voters believe the lie, we have to do the restrictions because the voters don't trust it and you and me, are with people just like that, everything is calm and great and they stir up trouble and they say, we have to fix the trouble. and what they don't understand, they are the problem that stirred up the trouble. this is an amazing thing to me that you have a major party in the country, and if you look at the history, we have a major party in the country who is seeki

how devoted does the gop seem to be toward trump right now? >> reporter: wolf, there is no question, this is still the party of trump. we saw that on display at cpac. he gave a dangerous speech to close out the cpac down in orlando. you know, he was using some of the same rhetoric that sent his supporters off to storm the capitol on january 6th. he repeated the big lie, as you said, say ing he won the election. at one point, he sounded like an ousted authoritarian autocrat, chastising the supreme court for not having the courage. although he put three justices on the court. and the most disturbing part of the speech when he ticked off his enemies list, in a pure nixonian fashion, he ticked off the list of those lawmakers who voted to impeach him and convict him earlier this year. >> the democrats don't have grandstanders like mitt romney, little ben sasse, richard burr, bill cassidy, susan collins, lisa murkowski, pat toomey. and in the house, tom rice, south carolina. adam kinzinger and, of course, the war monger, person that loves seeing our

those are the issues that move the gop coalition. but two things, one, while they're focused on that in practical terms between now and 2022, i think this means the democratic moderates are going to feel much more comfortable supporting biden on a very aggressive economic agenda, and less fearful of being tagged with big government. and second, one thing we know from past generations, this is not the majority agenda. in he 7-8 elections it's never happened before in the modern party systems since 18 2k8. and you see you've been reporting that rather than trying to craft a majority agenda, they're looking for ways to make it tougher for that majority to vote and that's why beyond covid, clearly the biggest decisions democrats face is whether they will pass hr-1, democracy form, and voting rights act, which will require them changing the filibuster. >> always fascinating. ron, thank you. >> i wish i had a poem back for you. >> we'll work on it later. >>> up next -- biden said his rescue dogs will come back to d.c. after being back in d

donald trump at fotis using a possible 2024 run, the past and future of the gop. joe consciousand pastor robert jeffress were here for a preview and they are back live. welcome to fox news at night. we begin with breaking news on a third accuser to come forward with accusations of inappropriate behavior by governor cuomo as we go to aishah hasnie live in new york city with the details. >> reporter: scandal surrounds the governor as a third woman has come out with her own story of alleged harassment. >> reporter: caught red handed. in this picture published by the new york times she says andrew cuomo can be seen grabbing her face a wedding reception in 2019. she tells the paper cuomo asked if he could kiss her recalling i turned my head a and didn't have words in that moment, joining two former raids accusing the governor of sexual harassment. charlotte bennetts tells the new york times the governor questioned her about her sex life and asked if she had ever had sex with older men. while governor cuomo's first accuser claims the governor kissed her on the lips and

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that the texas gop is a cult of death. they're sacrificing lives of texans. big box storms, home depot, target, kroger, still way the mask. use common sense. your reaction to beto o'rourke here? >> beto o'rourke is way off the reservation here. to your point what texas governor greg abbott we'll not have a statewide mask mandate. it is up to people to choose whether or not to war it. businesses can enforce on customers and employees. be clear here, 17 states currently do not have a statewide mask mandate. including my state of florida, we never had one. doing best in minimizing death and maximizing openness. florida and texas show the way you can open up safely and the data and science says it is a good idea to do it. >> florida's covid-19 death rate per capita is lower than the national average. what texas senator john cornyn called president biden calling texas and mississippi neanderthal for lifting the mask manage date. listen to senator cornyn. >> he has a crisis at the border calling a challenge not a crisis. dismantling all immigration laws and protect

that's the phrase the gop is using to describe children. as if teenagers aren't children. >> this isn't about politics, and it isn't about playing games. it's about the humanity of these children. it's respecting their dignity, and it's about empathizing. >> did you know a delegation of democratic lawmakers, including representative omar there, also traveled to the board they are past week? no. maybe it's because they didn't have a gun boat. we laugh, but unfortunately, they're succeeding in frame thing awful and so-called immigration debate. on thursday, fully a third of the questions joe biden faced at his first news conference were about the border crisis. which means the republicans are winning. their talking points are driving this latest panic. for more, let's turn to congresswoman omar who you just heard there. congresswoman, thanks for joining us on the show tonight. >> glad to be here with you. >> you were at the order on friday, and you met with kids in detention. what did they tell you about why they're coming here and how they'r

and then "i fully support the republican party and gop committees, but i do not support rhinos and fools, and it is not their right to use my likeness to raise image to raise funds. so much money is being raised and completely wasted by people

trump named names blasting gop leaders who voted to impeach him or who were in favor of a conviction for his role in triggering the deadly capitol riot, some congressional leaders on the enemy list richard >>cassidy susan >>trump also attacked republican lawmaker adam who didn't speak at the conference but tweeted about the former presidents of end that included life-sized images of him golden statues the congressman wrote idol worship is a conservative hashtag restore our gop inside trying to solidify the conservative movement. as donald trump's movement which is ironic because donald trump is quite honestly one of the for the saints from a conservative any speakers at this year's conference in orlando included possible 2024 hopefuls who encouraged the fractured party to rally around the former commander-in-chief despite the fallout from the capitol insurrection is the leader of the conservative movement, he's a leader of the america first movement and he is the leader of the republican party. >>and i hope and you know i hope and like i said yes, i hope on january 20th 2025 the seas

the gop playbook has been to describe democrats as radical. the problem is no one believes president biden is radical. it just won't stick. >> well, they couldn't sell the biden is your dictator merchandise even at cpac because no one can buy that stuff or even believes it. but i think astead is on to something. i just want to explain what they're doing. it's become a white, christian, nationalist party. so that is signaling to their supporters, signaling to their donors that they're going to block women and they're going to block minorities, and they're going to champion in the stuff they think that's going to get them re-elected. remember, lindsey graham said it. we're going with trump-plus. so that means they're going to dig up as many people as they possibly can inside their base. you know, remember in the old days, don, if you were trying to expand your electorate, you would seek independents or right-leaning democrats, but not these guys. they want to go very hard core into the white christian nationalism, and they believe that they can

>> swallwell said meet the new mccarthyism, to deflect gop leaders support for qanon. they are concerned with his ties when alleged chinese spy who raised money for uswallwell and placed interns in his office before leaving the country in 2015 was mccarthy points to this question which asks about close contact with a foreign national in the last 7 years. the house judiciary chairman says it could happen to any politician. >> do we know everybody's association? do we know of someone in the campaign as a spy or a thief or whatever? >> reporter: adam schiff expressed his support for uswallwell writing i have confidence in congressman swallwell's fitness to serve as an exemplary member of the intelligence committee with all the trust that entails. i will pose this transparently political effort. >> it is not about politics. it is about members know what intel committee gets to review. he doesn't rise to that occasion. and unfortunately he should not serve there. >> reporter: democrats are expected to offer a resolution seeking to remove freshman congresswoman marjorie tayl

but -- there's always a but -- the gop doubling down on being obstructionists, the party of no. they're still enthralled to a disgraced, twice-impeached, one-term former president. and today here's what we learned. we learned more about just how far that twice-impeached, one-term former president -- disgraced president -- how far he's willing to go to hang on to power. we just discussed that. a never-before-heard call the second trying to push a georgia official to find non-existent fraud to overturn the election, pushing his big lie. the call obtained by "the wall street journal." >> something happened. something bad happened. i hope you're doing that to stop because if you're -- i hope you're going back two years as opposed to just checking. that would just be sort of a signature check, it didn't mean anything. but if you go back two years and if you can get to fulton you're going to find things that are unbelievable, the dishonesty. >> listen to that. can you believe that? always scheming. always a scheme. always a scheme. can you imagine hearing a call like that from the cur

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some are calling hypocrisy after the house gop objected to the electoral college count on january 6th. joining me from davenport, iowa, my nbc colleague diane caldwell, part of the second district there. from the very beginning, i have not understood the rational for bypassing the state process here the way democrats have done. they wanted go down this path. it seems like it was always a politically precarious path. the last time this was used like this one could argue the house has neff been the same since. >> yeah, well, chuck, republicans are extremely happy to have democrats challenge this in the house of representatives, especially after democrats continuously pouncing on republicans for trying to overturn the election results on january 6th of the former president donald trump. so they are using this as a very, very big political fund-raising component. they are happy to talk about it. meanwhile, democrats, speaker pelosi said, this is a law. there are many challenges each congress to election results for congressional elections, which is true. it happens multiple times a year.

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gop leader, mitch mcconnell, accusing democrats of overreaching. listen to this. >> it's one of the most despicable things i have seen, in all my years. shame, shame, shame. instead of doing what you should be doing, when you lose an election in a democracy, attempting to win over those voters in the next election. republicans, instead, are trying to disenfranchise those voters. shame on them. >> states are not engaging in trying to suppress voters, whatsoever. this is, clearly, an effort, by one party, to rewrite the rules of our political system. >> majority leader schumer joins me, now. senator, i thank you for joining. i should say majority leader, don't mean disrespect. >> it's okay. >> what was your plan to get this voting legislation passed? because republicans are d ddead set against it. >> first, i said this is despicable and for mitch mcconnell to say on the screen that we are trying to change the rules? no, it's republican legislatures across the country that could take away the rights, according to "the washington post," of up to 10 mil

these are the new mainstream gop. there isn't a reason or incentive not to be even more extreme or more ridiculous because if you view yourself as a moderate conservative, you are now officially outside the party's mainstream. and there are maybe only a handful left in all of congress. that's important for democracy to have two functioning political parties. i would like to see more. but right now we don't. not in the traditional sense. this is serious. it needs solving because it does effect us all. don't think if you're not a republican that this isn't your problem, that the republican party is disintegrating. joining me now, opinion writer for "the washington post," jennifer rubin. 12 of her recent pieces dive right into this, develop propaganda, and stop giving racists the benefit of the doubt. and joining me now is rina shah. thank you to both of you for joining us. jennifer, i want to underscore what carol leonning was talking about, that there's a choice that all republicans need to make right now, particularly

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and will remain in the gop. instead, promising to fight alongside his supporters. the largely maskless crowd cheering him on, while taking aim at president biden. the former president largely out of sight after his impeachment for inciting the riot that killed five people, including a capitol police officer. several top republicans notably absent, including former vice president mike pence and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. and not all republicans want him to be the standard bearer for the party. mary alice parks leads us off. ♪ >> reporter: tonight, former president donald trump returning to center stage. >> well, thank you very much. and hello, cpac. do you miss me yet? do you miss me? >> reporter: addressing a largely maskless crowd at a conservative conference in florida, teasing another run. >> and i want you to know that i'm going to continue to fight right by your side. i may even decide to beat them for a third time, okay? >> reporter: telling republicans he still wants to lead. still pushing the lie the election was stolen. it is his first speec

>> i mean, look, it tells you that the gop is skittish about spending all this money. there were quite a few amendments that were either trying to supplant the entire bill or limit the funding or tie different aspects of funding to policy measures like that rubio amendment, schools having to reopen to receive those funds. it also tells you the gop will continue to try to fight out their policy arguments whenever budget bills come up. look, in a senate that's effectively deadlocked, it's been true before this particular 50/50 split that when you've got trouble making bipartisan compromise, the money bills are the place to find your niche, to put your really important measure in, try to get that policy issue and ride it all the way. the gop demonstrated overnight they're going to do this on a number of measures, everything from trains to schools to mask mandates, et cetera. that is also a sign that that is likely going to continue down the line as we consider these really, really huge spending packages that have to do with either reviving the economy or down the line, po

is this what the gop is about now? go, kirsten. >> it is what the gop is about now, and i just want to echo what john said. i think that the white house is and democrats are happy and should be very happy because i think this is a huge achievement very early in joe biden's term. in terms of the republicans, i say this every time we talk about this, but it really is true. they're not a serious governing party, and you just showed the contrast. you just went right to them with this silliness over dr. seuss, where they're complaining that dr. seuss has been canceled when the estate of dr. seuss decided to not publish six books, right? i don't even know how many books there are of dr. seuss, but there are a lot of books. >> and then they're buying the books. i think they're on the best-seller's -- so they're actually helping the people who, in their words, canceled. it's mind-boggling, but go on, kirsten. >> but the thing about it is, the serious part of it is that the reason that some of these -- the estate decided to pul

and meantime despite a tax on police and calls to hang vice president mike pence on january 6th, gop senator ron johnson said he didn't feel threatened by the capitol rioters but might have if they were antifa or black lives matter. how does the gop need to deal with this sort of messaging and how will it play with more moderate republicans? it goes to the heart of what i was saying. i have written on cnn.com i believe the extremist wing of the gop has grown too big for the party main stream to confront. and, really, to me the most significant part of senator johnson's remarks was not the open racism where he said if it was black lives matters protesters i would have been afraid. it was normalizing this white nationalist and said i wasn't worried about these people. he described them as law-abiding and they loved this country. to me it's another marker, like the house republicans refusing to sanction or excommunicate marjorie taylor greene that we're seeing a process, ab incremental process of razing. i think it's too big a part of the coalition for them to truly confront. it raises

she said that he had no future in the gop. it became very clear that was not the case once the initial shock of the insurrection passed, and then she kind of came around trying to appeal to him. she has accused the media of trying to start a gop civil war. what do you think about all of these various positions she's taken? >> i think -- i think nikki haley is done, brianna. you can't -- when it comes to trump you can't straddle the fence. you're either all-in or you're all-out. you're either with him or against him. she tries to have a both ways every day, and she's pleasing neither camp. you've got to be either loving trump or opposing him. i think she's done politically, because of that. >> you have called the gop a shrinking, dieing, political party that will become trumpier by the day. is there any way around that? is there any other figure that the party could unite around? >> i don't think so, brianna. again, maybe my view is skewed, because every day i'm beating up by trump supporters, and i hear from thousands of them

. >>> the next big gop live, let's talk about the vaccines. why won't trump step up to sell the vaccines that he wants all the credit for making. the white house says they have a handle at the situation of the border. what does it mean for the record number of unaccompanied minors who are now in u.s. custody flooding our border. he was worried about the an anti-asian attacks. now, the owner's dark prediction had come true. let's go "out front." good evening, i am erin burnett. out front tonight a new lie. it is a lie being pushed on republicans by republicans that jeopardizing the whole nation. the lie is that the vaccine is not working. the lie is working right now. according to a new poll, 49% of republican men say they won't get the vaccines. the number of trump supporters overall who say the same, 47%. >> who can turn this around? >> the people who are committed to president trump and his leadership still matters a great deal. it is important for former president trump and as well as the vice president to encourage all followers to get the

did the gop get rolled? they just haven't realized it yet? >> yeah, i think this bill is so massive. we pay attention to the $1,400 checks because that's what we think of as covid relief, but man, you look at the details of this bill, joe biden got a lot. this is practically fdr level type of reform he's getting. there's $86 billion union pension bailout. there's a complete transformation of the child tax credit, so it becomes sort of a direct payment in the form of a monthly alilowanceallowance. there's expansion of obamacare. when you talk about it it's not just the checks going out. there's so much for details. because the republicans chose to pass this with a 50-vote threshold, they essentially took a pass. like, where was the debate on all of these other details. we were talking about dr. seuss. i think it's going take them many weeks to realize how much they got rolled by choosing not to engage in this debate. >> you mentioned dr. seuss, and they're complaining and calling this bill socialist, but instead of trying to amend it they were