sinema, especially kyrsten sinema where there is some leverage? >> i don't know what conversations actually occurred between the president and kyrsten sinema and joe manchin. i know there was a lot of conversations going back and forth on the build back better agenda. i know there was side conversations always happening regarding voting rights. it would not be fair for me to make that determination. but also at the end of the day, it shouldn't be the president that has to be putting this pressure or actually, you know -- she should be listening and talking to her constituents. had she actually gone and meant in a nonscripted way with arizonans, they would tell you they're worried about january 6th, about what happened and the bills that are happening. >> to be fair, and you know arizonans better than i do. but we've had plenty of arizona voting rights activists on this show. they say we've done our bit. we've asked her in the streets. we've tried to get a town hall with her, a meeting with her, and we've campaigned. we've gone on hunger strikes. b

sinema, especially kyrsten sinema where there is some leverage? >> i don't know what conversations actually occurred between the president and kyrsten sinema and joe manchin. i know there was a lot of conversations going back and forth on the build back better agenda. i know there was side conversations always happening regarding voting rights. it would not be fair for me to make that determination. but also at the end of the day, it shouldn't be the president that has to be putting this pressure or actually, you know -- she should be listening and talking to her constituents. had she actually gone and meant in a nonscripted way with arizonans, they would tell you they're worried about january 6th, about what happened and the bills that are happening. >> to be fair, and you know arizonans better than i do. but we've had plenty of arizona voting rights activists on this show. they say we've done our bit. we've asked her in the streets. we got police called on us. we've tried to get a town hall with her, a meeting with her, and we've campaigned. we'

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there's a lot of things democrats want to do and the opposition from kyrsten sinema and joe manchin in these cases currently has them sort of chasing their own tail instead of what they want to be doing, which is getting ready for the election, uniting, having accomplishments to sell to the voters and so on. you have got the president having a press conference this afternoon and he is, he's got a tough job, to, because he has got slumping poll ratings, people worried about inflation and his own party trying to figure out what they are going to do next. so, there is a lot going on. host: our final minute, here, can you just explain the calendar here and how it plays into the democrat agenda, this being an election year. how much time do democrats have to turn to something else and what are the options for them to turn to before members start focusing just on reelection? guest: i think they have some opportunities here. they have to pass an omnibus spending package with a february deadline for other shutdown fights and negotiations on having a bipartisan package there. there is talk betw

kyrsten sinema certainly doesn't. how about long covid as we play down the threat from omicron? are we ignoring the dangerous after effects of this virus? also, an update on the hours long hostage stand-off at a texas synagogue. and my take on a dangerous rise in anti-semitism here in the united states. >>> good evening. i'm mehdi hasan. of the hundreds of people who have been arrested in the year plus since the january 6th attack on the united states capitol, the most important so far has been the arrest of this man. meet stewart rhodes the founder of the far right militia the oath keepers, a former army paratrooper who was honorably discharged after he was injured in a night parachuting accident. he then worked for libertarian congressman ron paul and went to yale law school. so far what would seem to be a kind of main stream conservative. according to the southern policy law center it's only when rhodes moved to montana that his believed turned a hard right away from small d democratic politics the justice department announced thursday it was charging rhodes and ten of his co

kyrsten sinema certainly doesn't. how about long covid as we play down the threat from omicron? are we ignoring the dangerous after effects of this virus? also, an update on the hours long hostage stand-off at a texas synagogue. and my take on a dangerous rise in anti-semitism here in the united states. >>> good evening. i'm mehdi hasan. of the hundreds of people who have been arrested in the year plus since the january 6th attack on the united states capitol, the most important so far has been the arrest of this man. meet stewart rhodes the founder of the far right militia the oath keepers. he is a former army paratrooper who was honorably discharged after he was injured in a night parachuting accident. he then worked for libertarian congressman ron paul and went to yale law school. so far what would seem to be a kind of main stream conservative. according to the southern policy law center it's only when rhodes moved to montana that his beliefs turned a hard right away from small d democratic politics the justice department announced thursday it was charging rhodes and ten of h

we cannot know if kyrsten sinema actually believes anything at all. but we do know that she did not support her position today with logic, intelligence or truth. senator sinema did tell us how she feels about the unanimous opposition to voting rights legislation by every republican in the united states senate. >> i share the disappointment of many that we've not found more support on the other side of the aisle for legislative responses to state level voting restrictions. i wish that were not the case. >> disappointed. she's disappointed in republicans. when kyrsten sinema ran for the united states senate, she did not say that she would bring all her legislative and policy goals in the united states senate to the republican leader of the senate and try to get republican approval of her agenda. that's not what she told arizona voters. but that is her position now. republicans have to approve everything kyrsten sinema wants to do, or she won't even try to do it. she will just stand at her desk in the united states senate and be disappointed. and she wil

kyrsten sinema and all the other people that disagree it's supposed to happen in the senate. you aren't supposed to shut people down. it is coming together and finding the compromise. instead it's chopping off heads which americans don't appreciate. >> martha: we've seen it work that way for republicans who have been disappointed by a couple of hold-out senators at times and democrats as well. as you point out they got a win for the filibuster with ted cruz yesterday. maybe they should think sinema for what might help them in another round. not a great kickoff to the new year and that also applies to the vice president. a recent interview has critics comparing her to characters like kramer from seinfeld and michael scott from the office. we'll show you what she said and why wasn't she prepared with a better answer for what was obviously coming as a question? we'll get into it with the power panel. >> she gave importances because she is not in the loop. she does not have a teamworking for her. several staffers quit. you can't name me one accomplishment from kamala harris. now

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>> i think this spells real trouble for kyrsten sinema. far long time she was on the national stage being ridiculed. now she is losing her base at home by the fact that the arizona democratic party, which is ground zero for debates of the democratic party in any state has issued this rebuke. so i think it spells real trouble for her. she's not in cycle this election, she'll be in cycle in '24. she's got some time to try to fix this and try to make good on being a democrat and change her ways in the senate. i think this spells real trouble for her back home. i think it certainly lines her up for a primary challenge in 2024. >> yeah, i mean, ruben gallego's name has been put out there and i asked him directly if he was considering it and he said i'm going to get through 2022 first. that's a name that's out there. do you honestly think that show should be primaried given her stance on everything? it's just your opinion, i know it's no official capacity. >> i mean, look as a democrat and somebody who has seen, you know, her obstruct some real

afterwards, we will hear from kyrsten sinema on why she opposes. >> uniting our people and uniting our nation. yesterday, that very same man delivered a deliberately divisive speech that was designed to pull our country further apart. 12 months ago, this president said we should see each other not as adversaries, but as neighbors. yesterday, he called millions of americans his domestic enemies. 12 months ago the president called on americans to join forces and stop the shouting, lower the temperature. but yesterday, he shouted that if you disagree with him, you are george wallace. george wallace? if you don't pass the laws he wants, you are bull connor. and if you oppose giving democrats on traveled control of the country, you are jefferson davis. 12 months ago, this president said disagreement must not lead to disunion. but yesterday he invoked the bloody disunion of the civil war to demonize americans who disagree with him. he compared a bipartisan majority of senators to literal traders. how profoundly un-presidential. i have known, liked and respected joe biden for many years. i di

, neither saying they will move, and kyrsten sinema reiterating last night, and manchin saying using the nuclear option is not in the cards for him. so getting a bill to the president's desk highly unlikely at the moment. >> highly unlikely and highly unusual for the president to be getting pushback from democrats as well, and voting rights champions, saying this is not where he should be right now, she be back in washington getting some sort of legislation passed. john harwood and manu raju, thank you so much. >>> this morning, covid-19 hospitalizations in the u.s. hit an all-time record. nearly 146,000 americans, most of them are unvaccinated, are now hospitalized with coronavirus. >> in harris county, texas, the spike so bad, they have now increased the coronavirus threat level to its highest level there, cnn correspondent rosa flores is at a mega testing site in houston. the houston health department says it administered more than 45,000 covid-19 tests in the first week of january, that's eight times the amount in the same period in november. so a lot more people are testing, cer

she's what's good for country. >> do you like kyrsten sinema? >> absolutely. >> yeah. >> absolutely. and manchin. in fact, i have sent emails to them encouraging them to stand up and do what's right for the people at arizona. >> reporter: those supporters in line for trump's rally saturday also in attendance a hodgepodge of election deniers like congressman paul coe czar and allie alexander, one of the main organizers of stop the steal, who went into hiding after the insurrection and was recently called in front of the january 6th house select committee. >> are you worried you might get indicted? >> thank you, arizona! thank you. >> reporter: trump here giving his support to two election deniers who were running to control elections in the state. kerry lake is running for governor. >> a few other people i'd like to send to the prison in florence. anybody who was involved in that corrupt, shady, shoddy election of 2020. lock them up. >> reporter: and mark fincham who says he was an oath keeper and is now running for secretary of state. >> donald

and, and if joe manchin and kyrsten sinema hold and i hope and pray to do it would protect this is a dish. the democrats protect this institution, i think the republicans should well. and to be clear, we did, the republicans have the white house, the senate, the house. with every available to do it's like what chuck schumer wants to do right now and the republican party didn't it. this is a power grab but it's not just a power grab. it's a power grab to enable a polygraph. what schumer wants to do it on is a takeover of elections. what's interesting, the rhetoric the democrats use on this is jim crow. you know, jim crow laws were written i elected democrats and there were designed to prevent the voters from voting democrats out of office. that's what schumer is trying to do today. this is jim crow 2.0 of democrats once again try to take away the ability of the voters to vote them out of office. it's wrong and it's an abuse of power. >> this is all really about the divide -- and how you handle it. [inaudible] the reporters are have mass, student half-mast, i know it's a personal decis

democratic senator kyrsten sinema and her words, just an hour before the president arrived on the hill to meet with democrats. did she, along with senator joe manchin, halt the president's efforts to protect voting rights? and now late word of a meeting tonight. >>> and breaking news coming in now on sirhan sirhan, the man who killed robert k. kennedy. what california's governor has just now decided. >>> and the father who stood up. his two little boys amazed. you'll see it right here. definitely america strong. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on this thursday night. and we begin tonight with the supreme court blocking president biden's vaccine mandate for large companies. the vote 6-3, the conservative justices against it. they did allow for the rules to move forward for 17 million health care workers at federally funded hospitals and facilities in this country. the supreme court decision coming late today. the conservative majority saying 0 th 0 that does not have the authority to enforce the rule. this effects some 80 million employees across the country. th

kyrsten sinema is an approved target because the president put a target on her back. pelosi put a target on her back. other leading democrat members put targets on her back because there were 45 other democratic senators that filibustered in response to the attempt by the republican senators to sanction the russian pipeline. remember that? this was a couple days ago. it was okay for him to mock and that disgusting manner sinema and manchin because they are the ones that are the approved, what was that movie with the kids on the island, the pink one? lord of the flies. >> harris: you are so smart, emily. even when you do a metaphor, wait, gosh, i don't think she is talking disney. dagen, take us home. >> dagen: stephen colbert deserves all the disdain he gets and the revulsion people feel toward him. he's not a comedian. he hasn't been a comedian forever. he's not funny. look at the joke about kyrsten sinema. it's not funny because -- i am a mcdonald's expert. she doesn't look like the hamburglar. the show belongs on msnbc. he is so painfully unfunny. the dancing vacci

sinema to senator. >> the irony is kyrsten sinema is being attacked for serving in the tradition of senator, as joe bidden, senator john mccain concurrently. >> by the time he ran for president, he said, i'm not going to give you where i'm at on the filibuster. but he held the same position sinema did about three years ago. this is a censuring motion now in the democratic party? >> it used to be a criminal violation, someone who did something to children, someone who did something to a spouse they shouldn't have done. now republicans are voting against infrastructure -- i'm not saying it's not important, i'm just saying the motion -- >> i need a clarification, though, because in arizona if you ask democrats in arizona, they will tell you that this goes back to senator sinema voting against the minimum wage in covid-19, voting against it is things she said she stood for in the party. i think it's a little more complicated, it's not as black and white. >> nationally it's going to look like, oh, the democrats are kicking up the middle. i get what you're saying but it's what this pictur

democratic senator kyrsten sinema and her words, just an hour before the president arrived on the hill to meet with democrats. did she, along with senator joe manchin, halt the president's efforts to protect voting rights? and now late word of a meeting tonight. >>> and breaking news coming in now on sirhan sirhan, the man who killed robert f. kennedy. what california's governor has just now decided. >>> and the father who stood up. his two little boys amazed. you'll see it right here. definitely america strong. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on this thursday night. and we begin tonight with the supreme court blocking president biden's vaccine mandate for large companies. the vote 6-3, the conservative justices against it. they did allow for the rules to move forward for 17 million health care workers at federally-funded hospitals and facilities in this country. the supreme court decision coming late today. the conservative majority saying osha does not have the authority to enforce a vaccine or testing rule for large companies. this effects some 80 million em

kyrsten sinema supports these two voting rights bill. but she doesn't support ripping up senate rules. so to discuss all this i'm joined by representative reginald bolding, the arizona house democratic leader and co—founder of our voice, our vote arizona... thank you forjoining us on the programme. as things stand at the moment, this looks as if it has a pretty slim chance of getting through.— has a pretty slim chance of getting through. you know, first of all. _ getting through. you know, first of all, thank _ getting through. you know, first of all, thank you - getting through. you know, first of all, thank you for i first of all, thank you for having me on. it does look like this is going to be an uphill battle for democrats in dc and thatis battle for democrats in dc and that is unfortunate because right now what we are seeing across this nation is in republican held states there is a systemic attack on people having the ability and the right and the freedom to vote, and quite frankly we need federal legislation and this was kyrs

kyrsten sinema just sort of nailed the coffin on this. vice president harris as you have just alluded to, jonathan, with craig melvin in that really strong interview had this exchange on voting rights when craig asked the vp why is it taking democrats so long to convince their own? >> why has the administration not been able to get senate democrats on board? >> we are not giving up. >> but the question was why has it taken this long? >> but you're acting as though it's over. >> i mean, you -- >> it's not over. >> so it's going to happen by monday? >> i am saying it's not over and we don't give up. we don't give up and we will not give up. >> brandon, is we don't give up and we will not give up a good enough answer for where the strategy is? >> well, this is remarkable about today. what kyrsten sinema said on the floor should not have surprised anyone. we have long known where she is, we've long known where joe manchin is. so they ran head-first into this fight with no chance of winning. i don't even know if those two are the only two that

on the ground for us in phoenix with more for us with kyrsten sinema. also with us, michael cruz just in ohio covering one of the inner party fights on the right side. this one for governor of ohio. and the president of voter latino, that is the group that plans to launch a new campaign for kyrsten sinema in 2024. let me start with you on the ground there on the discord over sinema and what it means for 2022. she's not up until 2024. there is a democratic senator up in 22 in mark kelly. i have to think what the state party did only put him in a tougher spot. what are you learning? >> well, they definitely tack different approaches to this filibuster vote regarding voting rights. senator mark kelly said he voted to change the senate rules last week. something that senator sinema did not do. it was interesting. people note that senator kelly is the one that came out with the new position. not that he had a position before. but he was undecided. and senator sinema has been mostly consistent on this idea of the filibuster. at left a for the past three years

the democrats, joe manchin, and kyrsten sinema. the arizona democratic party apparently taking a page out of the gop's playbook, officially voted to censure kyrsten sinema yesterday, adding it is unsure if the party will back her in 2024, because sinema voted against eliminating the filibuster as a mechanism to pass voting rights legislation. which might be satisfying to democrats in the short-term, but censuring members of one's party should be reserved for transgressions, not for policy differences. for more on this brand-new polling, i am joined by my esteemed colleague jonathan capehart, host of "the sunday show," which starts in about an hour. this polling is deeply alarming, deeply disturbing. i guess the silver lining in the very dark cloud is that most americans do believe that democracy is in peril. >> right. i was blown away by that 76% number who said that, you know, it was a threat to democracy and majority rule is something that concerns them. that says that -- that explains why voting rights and election integrity, i

we're going to have a lot to say about kyrsten sinema's tearful performance. a very interesting day. thank you. have a great evening. >> thank you. >> cheers. good evening, everyone. we begin "the reidout" tonight with a major escalation in the january 6 investigation. for the first time, the department of justice has filed seditious conspiracy charges related to the insurrection, charging 11 people, including the leader of the far right militia the oath keepers stuart rhodes. now sedition conspiracy is defined as if two or more persons conspire to overthrow, put down or destroy by force the government, or by force to prevent, hinder or delay the execution of any law, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property." now in plain english, this is the first time our government has called some of the events that happened on january 6 a conspiracy to use force to prevent the presidential transition. it's important to understand who we're dealing with here. now unlike the randomly thuggish proud boys, the oath keepers are an organization largely of current and

that is my problem with senator kyrsten sinema. stephanie: -- david: we are in violent agreement on this. [laughter] judy: we only have about 30 seconds so there is no time to ask you about the supreme court decision about the vaccine mandate and inflation, but we will come back to that next friday. you have a whole week to think. thank you both, jonathan capehart and david brooks. have a good weekend. ♪ judy: the best mens tennis player in the world has been caught up in a legal battle in australia. as the first of this year's grand slam tennis tournaments is poised to begin. novak djokovic is not vaccinated, he is a skeptic. australian officials are not and demand proof of vaccination to enter the continent. more from nick. >> he is one of the world's most famous athletes, but almost-- also one of its most famous vaccine skeptics as he told serbian athletes on a facebook live. >> i am opposed to. i'm curious how we can empower our own immune systems to defend against imposters like covid-19. nick: he celebrated by walking aroun

kyrsten sinema and joe manchin apparently do not see it that way, so what else can be done? leading off our discussion tonight reginald boulding, a democratic leader of the arizona house of representatives and also running for arizona secretary of state. representative boulding, thank you for joining us this evening and good evening to you. i want to read to our viewers something important you said after kyrsten sinema's speech on the floor of the senate. you said senator sinema defends the antiquated gym kroe era filibuster by arguing any right granted by passage of a new voting rights act under regular order could be rolled back in future years if republicans gain power. you go onto say i challenge her to step outside the d.c. bubble and take a closer look around her state and her country. those rights are systematically being rolled back here and in state legislatures around the country. your point here is she's missing the point. >> yes. first, thank you for having me, ali. absolutely. in these four days we have already seen legislation that would limit ballot box, make

but in the last three years, joe biden, mark kelly, and kyrsten sinema all won the state. it's why he's back now. >> welcome to arizona, mr. president. >> reporter: he is trying to lift up a supporting cast running in 2022. individuals who could help him in 2024, including kari lake, a one-time well-known news anchor here. she's now trump's pick for governor. >> anybody who was involved in that corrupt, shady, shoddy election of 2020, lock them up. >> reporter: and this is mark finchum. he was outside the capitol on the day of the insurrection and is now trump's pick for secretary of state. >> the arizona election should be decertified. >> reporter: in arizona the governor and secretary of state must both certify their state's election results, meaning in 2024, if biden were to win again, republican election officials could possibly keep electoral votes from going to washington, dc. >> you're fake news, get away from me. >> reporter: if mark finchum wins, he could oversee arizona's 2022 election. why should folks trust that you would certify the 2024 election? >> they hate

you were out there for 2018, for kyrsten sinema. what is your message here today? >> yes, we worked really hard in 2018. our members from our union knocking on thousands of doors to get her elected, and we ask that she listen to her constituents. she listen to the people of arizona that are urging her to pass voting rights legislation to protect us voters here in arizona and across the country. >> reporter: mari, marco, appreciate the time. this is sort of what the conversation is going to be looking like here, yasmin, in these days ahead is now with kyrsten sinema standing by the filibuster here, where do these federal protections potentially go from here? >> so let's expand on that, thank you for that excellent reporting and that interview, my friend. jonathan, talk more about the big picture here as we take a look at this thing. we're talking about, obviously, kyrsten sinema, specifically, also because of arizona. there could potentially be another holdout when it comes to a filibuster foldout. that is of course the other name that is often associated with kyrst

home state. >> god bless kyrsten sinema and what she's doing, you know? >> kyrsten sinema, good for her. she's our representative. she represents the state. she's not along party lines. she's what's good for the country. >> you like kyrsten sinema? >> absolutely. and manchin. in fact, i have sent emails to them encouraging them to stand up and do what's right for the people of arizona. >> reporter: those supporters in line for trump's rally saturday also in attendance a hodgepodge of election deniers like my pillow ceo mike lindell, paul gosar, and even ali alexander, one of the organizers of stop the steal, who was recently called in front of the january 6th select committee. >> ali, are you worried you might get indicted? >> thank you, arizona. thank you. >> reporter: trump giving his support to two election deniers who are running to control elections in the state. carrie lake is running for governor. >> there's a few other people i'd like to send right down to the prison down here in florence. anybody who was involved in that corrupt, shady, shoddy el

sinema. this all comes down to changing the filibuster. do you see a way of convincing them to do that? >> zerlina, we're working night and day to find a way to get agreement to move forward on making this work as it's supposed to work. when you go back and read our founders, hamilton and madison and so on, they never meant for the majority to get it done. it was the power to the minority. i mean it's all about majority

all members of the democratic voted for her, including senators kyrsten sinema and senator joe manchin. republicans susan collins, lisa murkowski and lindsey graham also joined them. susan collins today weighed in on breyer's retirement. >> there is no need for any rush. we can take our time, have hearings, go through the process, which is a very important one. it is a lifetime import appointment after all. >> funny, she didn't say any of that when it was amy coney barrett. and senator lindsey graham, still on that committee, issued a statement that read in part, quote, "if all democrats hang together -- which i expect they will -- they have the power to replace justice breyer in 2022 without one republican vote in support." in a moment i will be getting live reaction to the breyer news from congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. but first let's bring in our lead off guests. philip rucker, pulitzer prize-winning reporter for the washington post, coauthor with carol leonnig of "i alone can fix it". alexi mccammond, a reporter from from axios. and harry litman, former assistant attorney

what are the odds that kyrsten sinema changes parties and leaves the democrat party? >> i don't know what those odds would be. but what i do know is this: i'm grateful for common sense democrats. we've got common sense democrats in tennessee who are looking at this democratic party, and they're saying my party left me. and i'm not welcomed there. i don't agree with them. and they're beginning to be more independent-minded. and they're agreeing with us. when it comes to the issues on the economy, i had one the other day talk about how they really miss the policies of president donald trump because life was better. their bank account was fuller. and they do not want a federal government that is going to try to control them. they like to 24/7 monitor their bank account, run their small business, take control of their children and the education of those children. they do not want that, and people are very concerned about what they see happening on the international stage. with russia, china, iran, north korea. maria: yeah. from economic policy to foreign policy, an epic f

and kyrsten sinema will never win elective office again. senator sinema will never win elected office again. that is not the kind of thing i would have expected to hear from ezra leven, but not the only practically grounded person in democratic politics who w.h.o. seems to feel that way. over the weekend, the arizona democratic party made an incredibly, took an incredibly rare step to rebuke senator sinema. they officially censured her for her role in helping republicans stop that voting rights bill. the head of the arizona democratic party said in a statement, quote, the ramifications of failing to pass federal legislation that protects our constituents' right to vote are too large and far reaching. while we take no pleasure in this announcement, the arizona democratic party executive board has decided to formally censure senator sinema as a result of her failure to do whatever it takes to ensure the health of our democracy. we do not see this from democratic parties. we do not see this very often at all from state democratic parties about

sinema took to kyrsten sinema took to the senate floor, reiterated her opposition to changing senate rules that would have allowed rights bills on their own, arguing the filibuster promotes bipartisan ship. >> while i continue to vote these bills, i will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country. >> reporter: sinema expressing frustration that no republicans backed the voting rights bill but also delivered this critique about her democratic colleagues. >> i wish there had been a more serious effort on the part of democratic party leaders to sit down with the other party and genuinely discuss how to reforge common ground on these issues. >> reporter: but leading democrats countered that tonight saying they tried to get republicans onboard for months meanwhile, the other moderate hold-out joe manchin praised sinema. >> she did an excellent job. >> reporter: tonight the other senate democrats frustrated and demoralized. and the white house just announced that manchin and sinema are meeting with president biden tonight. lester >> pe

>>> arizona democrats send a loud and clear message to kyrsten sinema continue to obstruct the biden agenda at your own peril, political peril. the state party chairwoman joins me and tonight's absolute worst says email me but he doesn't want to chat, he's looking for dirt on your kids' teachers. and hey, guess what? i'm going to be on the late show with stephen colbert tonight. it will be a lot of fun. tune in. "the reidout" continues after this. in. "the reidout" continues after "the reidout" continues after this keeping the leaks only to his eyes. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you. you could be working with someone outside your company and wait for back and forth e-mail, or a call to be rescheduled for the third time. orrr... you could use slack. and work faster with everyone you work with, together in one place. slack. where the future works. (burke) this is why you want farmers claim forgiveness... [echoing] claim forgiveness-ness, your home premium won't go up. just because of this. (woman) wow, that's something. (burke) you get a whole lot of something with farme

sinema took to kyrsten sinema took to the senate floor, reiterated her opposition to changing senate rules that would have allowed democrats to change the voting rights bills on their own, arguing the filibuster promotes bipartisan ship. >> while i continue to vote these bills, i will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country. >> reporter: sinema expressing frustration that no republicans backed the voting rights bill but also delivered this critique about her democratic colleagues. >> i wish there had been a more serious effort on the part of democratic party leaders to sit down with the other party and genuinely discuss how to reforge common ground on these issues. >> reporter: but leading democrats countered that tonight saying they tried to get republicans onboard for months meanwhile, the other moderate hold-out joe manchin praised sinema. >> she did an excellent job. >> reporter: tonight the other senate democrats frustrated and demoralized. and the white house just announced that manchin and sinema are meeting with presid

joe manchin and kyrsten sinema stood with 50 republican senators all together representing just 45% of americans to deny voting protections to all americans endorsed by the democratic president of the united states who the majority of americans voted for in 2020. perhaps that's why republican senators were so eager to shake senator sinema's hand after last night's vote. so for deciding that when it really counted to stand with every republican and deliberately choosing the wrong side of history in blockading voting protections for all americans in the name of minority rule and sinking president biden's agenda yet again, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema are indisputably tonight's absolute worst. >>> and up next, where do we go from here? stay with us. from here? stay with us ♪ limu emu and doug.♪ and it's easy to customize your insurance at libertymutual.com so you only pay for what you need. isn't that right limu? limu? limu? sorry, one sec. doug blows several different whistles. doug blows several different whistles. [a vulture squawks.] there he is. only pay for what you need. ♪l

it was a big deal. >> good for her, for standing. >> kyrsten sinema, good for her. you know, she's our representative. she represents the state. she's not along party lines. she's what's good for the country. >> reporter: so there you have it. even some arizona voters there telling us they would consider voting for sinema, those trump supporters. important to point out, of course, that sinema says she is supportive of these voting rights bills but doesn't want to change senate rules to get them through. look, guys, i think it is important to point out here that on saturday, we started our day at an event with the king family. there was a march for mlk day weekend for voting rights in arizona. people we spoke to there, african-americans, many of them have a real fear about what is happening with voting rights in this country. that is a real fear based on history, based on the president. some of them see echoes of jim crow in what is creeping in. in the afternoon and evening, we went to this trump rally, where people, some people are genuinely fearful. some of them kn

all members of the democratic voted for her, including senators kyrsten sinema and senator joe manchin. republicans susan collins, lisa murkowski and lindsey graham also joined them. susan collins today weighed in on briers retirement. >> there is no need for any rush. we can take our time, have hearings, go through the process, which is a very important one. it is a lifetime import appointment after all. >> funny, she didn't say any of that when it was amy coney barrett. and senator lindsey graham, still on that committee, issued a statement that read in part, quote, if all democrats hang together -- which i expect they will -- they have the power to replace justice breyer in 2022 without one republican vote in support. in a moment i will be getting live reaction to the breyer news from congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. but first let's bring in our lead off guests. philip rucker, pulitzer prize-winning reporter for the washington post, coauthor with carol leonnig of i alone can fix it. reporter from axios, -- and former assistant attorney general, he helped prepare justice breye

let me ask you about the moderate democratic senator, kyrsten sinema. she says she supports voting rights legislation but she will not budge on her intent to preserve the senate filibuster. she has once again defended her stance. she's take an lot of heat for it. let's take a listen to what she said. >> eliminating the 60-vote threshold on a party line with the thinnest of possible majorities, to pass these bills that i support will not guarantee that we prevent demagogues from winning office. eliminating the 60-vote threshold will simply guarantee that we lose a critical tool that we need to safeguard our democracy from threats in the years to come. >> that last part in particular, what are your thoughts on this? what's your reaction to what she's saying? she's looking long-term. >> look, i think we have an immediate issue and a long-term issue that the way that the other party, the majority of the other party wants to win is by suppressing the vote and election subversion. so, you can't say we're trying to protect our democracy for the long-term by pr

you cannot blame it on kyrsten sinema. you have to blame it also on the republican party and probably biden also because he is a little far to the left. he's asking too much. they need to meet in the middle somewhere and come up with something that is useful. host: all right. dolores in tennessee, democratic caller. hi, dolores. caller: good morning. how are you? host: i'm fine. caller: can you hearing? -- hear me? host: we can. caller: two big stories this week. kristin sentiment -- kyrsten sinema and joe manchin will not vote to stop the filibuster. on another thing, i'm 71. i can remember standing in line. white people come up in the dairy market and you would have to move back. i remember riding on the back of the bus when i was six years old. my mother was taking us downtown, to mainstreet. she put me on the bus first. when my mother picked up my little sister, a man told us to get to the back. i remember this. -- in order for us to vote. joe manchin don't care, kyrsten sinema don't care. when you are taking bribe mon

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no blow more severe than joe manchin and kyrsten sinema refusing to kill the filibuster on votes rights legislation. >> while i continue to support these bills, i will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country. >> manchin says filibuster plays important role in protecting democracy from the transitory passion of it is majority and respecting input of the minority in the senate. i cannot support a perilous course for this nation, yet the president vows to fight on. >> president biden: i hope we can get this done, i'm not sure, if we miss the first time, we can come back and try a second time. we miss this time, we miss this time. >> griff: white house press secretary does damage control. >> we could propose legislation to see if people support bunny rabbits and ice cream, that wouldn't be very rewarding to the american people. the president's view, we will push for hard things. >> griff: unicorns apparently didn't make the cut. where do things stand? majority leader schumer postponed action until next week citing covid and snowstorm

senator kyrsten sinema. fallout also from bombshell new reporting involving a draft executive order that would have had donald trump ordering the military to get involved in his effort to overturn the election. >>> the january 6th committee is also turning its focus to a fake elector scheme and rudy giuliani. >>> we're also keeping a close eye on the ukraine border where some experts say an invasion is imminent. >>> from a picture of a teacher taping a mask to a student to a mother's threat to bring guns to her school if kids are forced to wear masks. the debate over covid and schools boils over. >>> plus, later this hour, the man whose case led to the legalization of gay marriage is announcing a major new chapter of his life as he takes on politics in ohio. he joins us live. >>> we'll begin with the breaking news out of arizona. the state democratic party's executive board has voted to censure senator kyrsten sinema over her support of the filibuster. in a statement, the board characterized her protection o

. >> and censuring kyrsten sinema. arizona's democratic party leaders coming together in a unanimous vote siting the senator's voice to protect the filibuster over her constituents' right to vote. congressional democrats reacting. >> if you are a democrat and you can't uphold the fundamental right to vote for all citizens, regardless of race, then there's a problem. >> arizona's party chairwoman will join us and break down what went into that decision. plus, just hours from now, these streets are going to look a lot more crowded, with up to 20,000 people marching against vaccine mandates at our nation's capital. police are warning it could be a target for far-right extremists with groups like the proud boys promoting the protest on social media. >>> good morning, everybody. it is sunday, january 23rd. we've got a team of reporters and analysts following the latest this morning from washington, d.c. to tampa, to overseas. this morning we are following breaking developments on the escalating crisis in ukraine. the britis

he is not convincing kyrsten sinema. we heard again yesterday from joe manchin saying there are rules changes we could make to make the senate work better. eliminating the filibuster is not the one to do it. he said for months he's not changing his mind, and the speech yesterday didn't do it. >>> we have a lot more to talk about on this. a lot of questions to address. still ahead on "morning joe," chuck schumer is our guest. >>> plus, the january 6th select committee subpoenas a pair of strategists said to have communicated with donald trump jr. about the rally that preceded the capitol attack. but what about rudy giuliani? >>> also ahead, dr. anthony fauci passionately connects the attacks senator rand paul has levied against him to the death threats he and his family have endured. then senator paul fundraises off the moment. we'll show you that. >>> more proof coronavirus vaccines protect from severe illness, even as u.s. hospitalizations hit a record high. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. we'll be r

while senator joe manchin and kyrsten sinema apparently can't seem to wrap their heads around it, the cold reality of it shivering all over the news today. in michigan, the attorney general answered questions from local reporters about her reasoning in asking the u.s. attorney's office in michigan to bring a federal criminal investigation of 16 republicans who signed and submitted a forged document. she reiterated the argument she made the day she made the referral to federal prosecutors saying she believes this makes the most sense as a federal investigation. but interestingly, speaking with local reporters today, she also clarified that if the federal u.s. justice department chooses newt pursue a prosecution in this case, her office does absolutely believe there's plenty enough evidence to prosecute these 16 republicans under michigan state law. >> at this point, do you think there's enough evidence, if you wanted to, to bring charges against these electors under state law. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. okay. >> and then second question, have you interviewed, or are any of these ind

said democrats should give democrat senator kyrsten sinema the back of their hand. you look that up in the dictionary or any synonym it means to slap somebody. he has since deleted the tweet, what is your reaction to this? >> my reaction is he should be careful on two levels. one, who's doing what so often importuning many of the democrats do, particularly the progressives do. they will look at you and basically say do is i say, not what i do. for him it's okay to say that. for him it's okay to do that. but the second area if i were he i would be careful because quite frankly you put him and kiersten in a ring for a few rounds on a slap fight i think she's going to take him down. linda shut up and really think about what he's doing. elizabeth: we do not want to endorse any violence. but he has not apologized for this imagery. he's blaming the media for distorting what he said. and for misinterpreting his remarks. why didn't he say rebuke bird by nisei joe manchin he cited a woman here. >> it so wrong and he is basically saying i like to say all these talking points

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trey: you know, senator that say reference, i think that joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. i remember this is how old i am, i remember when the media used to love mavericks, on the republican side. they loved republican senators they thought were mavericks and bucked party. but they don't have this same reaction to kyrsten sinema and joe manchin. >> john mccain was their hero, he would buck the party sometimes. if you are kyrsten sinema or joe manchin, they are so mean to them, because they are not allowing them to have their radical agenda done right now, we have a 50/50 senate, only thing that would break it, it the tie breaking vote by the vice president. and republicans could have done this, we didn't do it, because when trump was elected we controlled house and senate. and they democrat signed -- saying you can't get rid of it, it would be the end of democracy, every one of them, but one has said no, it is now the end of tim democracy if we don't get rid of filibuster, they are such hypocrites, i could not believe what hypocrites the democrats were, whatever narrative

home state. >> god bless kyrsten sin sinema what and she's doing. good for her. she's our representative. she represents the state. she's not along party lines. she's what's good for the cou country. >> reporter: do you like kyrsten sinema. >> absolutely. and manchin, in fact, i have sent e-mails to them encouraging them to stand up and do what's right for the people of arizona. >> reporter: those supporters in line for trump's rally on saturday. also in attendance, a hodgepodgeover election deniers like mike lin dell, congressman paul gozar, and one of the -- and was recently called in front of the january 6th house select committee. are you worried that you might get indicted? >> thank you, arizona. thank you. thank you. >> reporter: trump giving his support to two election deniers who are running to control elections in the state. kari lake is running for governor. >> there's a few other people i would like to send right down to the prison down here in florence. anybody who was involved in that corrupt, shady, shoddy election of 2020. lock them u