biden's infrastructure plan to pass with 51 votes. the parliamentarian ruled that chuck schumer can use the budget reconciliation process twice more this year. something we've never seen before in the senate. in a statement, chuck schumer said the parliamentarian's opinion is an important step forward, that this key pathway is available to democrats if needed. to pay for his $2 trillion infrastructure package, president biden is proposing increasing the corporate tax rate to 28%. today, he was asked if that would drive corporations to other countries. the president correctly told reporters that there is no evidence of that. >> the tax was 36%, it's now down to 21%. and the idea that that is bizarre, we're talking about a 28% tax that everybody thought was fair enough for everybody. the idea is, you have 51 or 52 corporations in the fortune 500 haven't paid a single penny in tax for three years. come on. get real. >> the president was off by one point when he said 36%. it was 35% from 1993 until the trump tax cuts of 2017, which heavil

. >> here's a thing about joe biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan. people like it a lot. a new poll out yesterday shows that 60% of voters support the plan, and support for the individual items in the plan are even more popular. even the one republicans don't count as real infrastructure such as care giving. 65% of voters said they support funding biden's plan through taxation of corporations. the person tasked with doing just that, the new secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg, who joins me now. great to have you on the program, secretary. let's start with the polling. do you think the popularity of this puts political pressure on republicans or have you learned from the covid relief package that they are viewed essentially as independent of that kind of thing. >> as we've learned, just because something has huge bipartisan support among the american public, doesn't mean the same thing is going to happen here in washington. i do think the latest numbers about the popularity of the proposals will be helpful in getting the plan through, especially the fact that it's

heritage foundation has a story about joe biden, scary tax plan, biggest ever. and you forgot to talk about the biggest tax cuts ever, at some point this has to balance out. folks have to stop voting their dreams and start voting their interests. i know you want to be out here and party with matt gaetz but there are consequences for that, you may have more in alignment with poor black or brown person or somebody that is in the south and you're in the midwest or in joe manchin's state. that means you have to vote in alignment with what is in your best interest, not what they're telling you. stuff they're telling you is not even true. shame on heritage foundation for the tweet today, and i hope that people start focusing on what is true and right rather than scaring people. fearmongering in politics has turned dangerous. it's been that way some time but going to see it increase if folks don't start walking in full knowledge of the truth. >> mississippi, a state starving for infrastructure and governor there is just cut taxes. they already have their taxes cut to t

this "n" word voted for joe biden. the people that were with them joined in and said this "n" word, fu, fu, voted for joe biden. boo. >> whoouk it means about the state of america, where we are today? how do you -- you've had a little bit of time now to process it. >>. >> we have a long way to go. we have a long way to go. >> in this hour, a long way to go. we got a long way to go. >> so in this hour we identified two key individuals the officer was just describing, describing what it was like from the police perspective. and then also look at a few key moments, there were certain critical turning point moments at the beginning when the rider peeled back the fence and they weren't stopped and able to approach the western steps. the scaffolding turned out to be a major factor. going through thousands of hours of tv footage and rioters on the cell phones videos and taking selfies, we were able to identify digital moments. so that's what we're putting together this sunday. >> amazing. nbc's richard engel, thank you very m

so again, a recurring theme we're starting to see here. >> and a lot of people thought that joe biden would be focused on domestic issues, dealing with the pandemic, the economic free fall, but foreign policy seems to be the top item on the president's agenda, certainly this week. not only with today's meeting, but the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan. you had the sanctions against russia. here are some of what the president had to say about his call with vladimir putin on tuesday. watch. >> i was clear with president president putin that we could have gone further, but i chose not to do so. i chose to be proportionate. the united states is not looking to kick off a cycle of escalation and conflict with russia. >> give us the big picture here. what are we learning about the overarching foreign policy view of this administration? >> yeah, i would add to your list that we had the start of talks with the iranians in direct talks last weekend that resumed this week. so it has been a very busy and symbolic period in foreign policy for the administration. it's also really driving

i'm joe biden, i like the middle class. that was emblematic of democrats wanting sound, particularly too white working class voters that they're the party of the middle class. they're not helping some undeserving poor welfare queen fantasy that the reaganites concocted. and that has shifted to. i spoke to for my piece in "the atlantic,," reverend william barber. and they said, they are talking about poverty, using the word poverty, installing these benefits for low-income parents and various others ways, and that's one example in which -- i think the terms of the debate have shifted. i don't think there's that much daylight necessarily between ramesh and my's diagnosis of how far this guy has gone. that's not what i'm saying. i am talking about -- even on this show, that argument that joe and i might have had about capitalism and government six years ago is different than the one we have today, because i think reality has changed. i think there's a growing recognition that the american dream is fantastic, but it's a shame t

one, holding firm on the administration's commitment, and here's president joe biden just a few hours ago. >> starting today, if you're fully vaccinated and you're outdoors, you need -- and not in a big crowd -- you no longer need to wear a mask. the cdc is ability to make this announcement because our scientists are convinced by the data that the odds of getting or giving the virus to others is very, very low if you both have been fully vaccinated, and out in the open air. so go get the shot. it's never been easier. once you're fully vaccinated, you can go without a mask when you're outside and away from big crowds. >>> the bad news is that the biden administration is now rowing against a two-headed monster on the disinformation and polarization front. it's important to stop right here and tell you that, back when donald trump told people to inject bleach, there were people who took that to heart, who listened to him. in a story just this week out of brayden ton, florida, and man and his three sons were indicted by a federal grand jury for selling a bleach formula they claimed was a

mitt romney has a version of it that's actually as generous as the one that joe biden has proposed. he's got different pay-fors but there might be the basis for a bipartisan agreement. but poverty costs this country a trillion dollars a year, not to mention the lost opportunity for kids as a result of it, so i think the best investment we could make would be to make it permanent. with regard to the filibuster, what i would say about that is we cannot go through the mcconnell obstruction that we went through for a decade or almost decade that barack obama was president. i'm not saying we democrats, we americans can't go through it. the challenges are too intense. the president did a very good job last night talking about the challenge from the chinese government's mercantile policies. that's not what we were facing in the 1990s. and the concept of climate change, these are real issues that we'll find out if democracy can work. i think it can work, but it's not going to with the obstruction by mitch mcconnell, and we'll have to find some way to come together and overcome that. >> the

joe biden democrats are going to have a lot to say about how they helped accelerate that. and republicans for the most part didn't cooperate with that, even though a healthy share of their voters support things like the infrastructure package. so yeah, the sort of politics of grievance and culture war and not cooperating, the hypocrisy that claire talked about putting them in a challenging place. this is a closely divided political country, so we still have a lot of close elections but right now, you see joe biden answering the mail of americans every day. they want focused on vaccinations, opening up schools, opening up the economy which is what he's doing. republicans nowhere to be found because they're under the throne of donald trump. it is more of a cult than a political party and if anything, that's intensified since his loss. >> i do wonder though, claire, with this infrastructure bill, obviously, there are legitimate questions that can be asked there, legitimate discussions that can be had about the price tag and how this money should be spent and where it should g

he has invented a way to make joe biden no longer the president. to reinstate donald trump as president of the united states.e we are today at 100 days into od the joe biden presidency, president was in georgia today to celebrate the accomplishments of his first 100 days, including the historic big legislation he was already able to pass, thanks to georgia voters picking two democratic senators to send to c washington to work alongside president biden to give him the majorities he needed in both the house and senate, to get the big covid relief act done and to d hopefully in the administration's eyes, to get the infrastructure bill, the voting rights bill, the policing reform bill, the american families plan, and all these other things they want to get p passed. tonight, we're going to be talking history in terms of just how ambitious biden's agenda is, as laid out in the state of the union and as we have seen over the first 100 days. when you compare that with other modern presidents, when you look at the markers from other modern presidents about

while joe biden hits his 100-day stride. while we top well over 200 vaccine shots delivered in 100 days, with the covid bill passed, with the infrastructure bill on its way, with voting rights reform, with policing reform, with the american families plan on its way, we're supposed to be a country that has two parties, two major parties competing with competing governing visions for the nation. with what the biden administration and the democrats are doing here at 100 days, do not sleep on what is happening on the republican side right now. because one of these two parties is not like the other. as absurd as it is, it is the center of what they're trying to do in american politics right now. mark my words. susan rice joins us live next. stay with us. clothes rub against you all day. for softer clothes that are gentle on your skin, try downy free & gentle. just pour into the rinse dispenser and downy will soften your clothes without dyes or perfumes. the towel washed with downy is softer, fluffier, and gentler on your skin. tr

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we should say the reason joe biden is doing this is because joe biden has just astonishingly good approval numbers right now. i have no idea the last -- i'm surprised how high they are not only on the covid response but general job approval and this -- all of these proposals are popular even taxish corporations on the wealthy to pay for infrastructure it's popular among republican voters and trump voters. in a moment of crisis at the beginning of his presidency, joe biden is making clear he's willing to go for broke because he believes this is popular and has a window to do this. where it will break down as peter eluded to is among his own party if he's trying to use a narrow process to get through a party line vote, i think that talking point for republicans later this year and as we get into an election year next year, look, joe biden never included us in any of these negotiations, he's just ran through and incredibly ambitious agenda items without taking proposals or seeking votes that's more powerful than this paying for all of this needed infrastructure with tax hikes is a non-starter

you know joe biden. is this the same joe biden that you knew back in the obama administration? >> yeah, absolutely, alex. i mean, i think the decision that he made recently on afghanistan, again, echoed a lot of what i heard sitting in meetings in the situation room in late 2009 around that issue. i think in many ways he's very much the same person that i knew back then. i will say i think that if you look at some of what is happening around infrastructure and climate change, i think it's also a president that realizes that a lot of these problems have lingered far too long, and they're not going to get better if we keep kicking the can down the road. and i think you've seen really bold infrastructure plans, big plans around cutting emissions that contribute to climate change because he understands, quite frankly, we don't have four or six or eight years to waste on this topic. so, i think both he's steady in what he's believed, and i think as the vice president said, he's using that experience, but i also think he understands the moment in time that he sits in that oval office

biden and his family. the times notes, quote, at issue is a key question. did giuliani go after yovanovitch solely on behalf of trup p, who was his client at the time or was he also working on behalf of the ukrainian officials. >> fbi warned giuliani in 2014 he was a target of a matter of circulating disinformation about biden. the warning was part of an extensive effort and conservative outlet that they faced a risk to use further russia's attempt. last summer, the fbi also gave what's known as a defensive briefing to the republican senator. johnson confirmed the bureau warned him he was a target of information but disagreed with reporting on the nature of the briefing. okay. >> and on fox news last night, giuliani attempted to discredit. the federal investigation surrounding him. >> what have they said to you about what they are looking into? >> they haven't said anything. they haven't said what they are looking into for two years. no, just come in and talk to us. tell us about your whole life. that's ri

what does joe biden do in 2021? if he sends even more troops into ukraine? outside of the crimea area. >> well, what we can't and we shouldn't go to ukraine's defense directly. that would be a war. we don't have that kind of commitment. we don't have the capability of the geography, joe. we can perhaps send some more anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons to ukraine. one thing we should think about on the sanctions front, which is ironic given that it's earth day, is that there's energy. if the united states were suddenly to restrict some of the restrictions we set on ourselves for oil and gas production, that would bring the price down in the world. that would hurt putin, where it hurts him most, which is on the one part of his economy that's still functioning. that's something the administration need to think about. >> richard haas, thank you very much. i'm sure we'll be talking to you once again very soon about this. let's bring in national correspondent at politico, betsy woodruff, who has new reporting this morning on an investigation into new suspected ru

biden who ran on the concept of childcare as infrastructure. the care economy as a thing. it's a great opportunity. but now he needs to make it happen. and by putting it in the second plan, i'm afraid there's a suggestion that the things in the first plan are, quote, about jobs. and the things in the second plan are, quote, about family. the white house's own terminology. i would like to see childcare be in the first plan. i'm eager to see it come out and when it does we need to make sure it is not a second class policy position in is a top priority just like infrastructure. period, full stop, we have to make the investment. women are participaing in the workforce at the lowest level since 1988 since i was in eighth grade. that will hold back our economic recovery. if you care about our economy, if you're a ceo. someone that never has kids and never wants them, and i would not blame you at this point in the pandemic, you still need to speak up to support childcare investment. >> i didn't listen to your last answer because i was just thinking ab

we talked a little at the top about what candidate joe biden wanted to do and really he has made some promises before the coronavirus pandemic became as large as it was about what he thought he was going to do on day one of his presidency, if elected. take a look at what the promise was on the company trail last year. >> my first day of office, i will send a bill over to congress repealing the liability protection for gun manufacturers, closing the background check loopholes and waiting period. >> reporter: so that's not something that the president was able to do. again, he said he wanted to focus his first few months in office on covid relief and getting that across the finish line, but now we are getting closer to his first 100 days as president, he wanted to do more common sense gun control actions and has to take these unilateral steps, because there doesn't seem to be a lot of hope on the hill. the president was asked in his news conference and he said it's about timing and priority. for him right now, that appears to be the infrastructure plan. >> monica, thank you. >>> our nex

and as vice president joe biden led the obama/biden administration's efforts to reduce gun violence. we were just reminiscing that he and i talked back then about his work because i was attorney general back then in california. his work worked from expanding the loophole to other things. president biden has great determination and greater empathy. he has seen the grief of all of those who have lost a loved one to gun violence. it is for them, for all of us that he will never, ever give up on this fight. it is now my great honor to introduce the president of the united states, joe biden. >> thank you kamala, madam vice president. we are joined today by eric garland, attorney general, who i have asked to prioritize gun violence. it's good to see the second gentleman is here and the first lady dr. jill biden who cares about this issue deeply as well. i look out there and see so many members of congress who have led in this fight, so many of you who have never given up, so many of you who are determined to get this done. we have a long way to go. it seems like we always have a long way t

then they were mad about joe biden's big meat ban, even though joe biden is not banning meat. that was totally made up. one fox news anchor, to his credit, yesterday did run an on-air correction positively -- apologizing for the fox newschannel saying biden would ban meat when that's not in the proposal at all. there was one reporter apologizing in front of america for hyping that story. for the last few days, republicans have been all over that. they've also been hyping a totally different, also totally false story that all kids detained by immigration authorities at the u.s. border were being given a child's picture book written by vice president kamala harris. the implication was they were giving the book to migrant kids at the border. that is totally made up. it is not happening. it is literally a story made up out of whole cloth. never proposed. but that's the latest one. it's become yet another new, animating, totally fake grievance in conservative media and among republican politicians. the byline was on the fake kamala harris story. that reporter resigned tonight sayin

what do you know given joe biden's long career on capitol hill, how well he knows how everything works and his association with capitol police, what kinds of conversations have there been about moving forward, about what they're going to do in terms of not just security at the capitol but what might happen in terms of the capitol police, the staff there, the morale there? >> president biden having four decades of service as a lawmaker in this country and now, obvious, as president of the united states, is very, very familiar with the role of capitol police. he was a senator for a long, long time and also someone who has a long history, a long experience with tragedy so we are awaiting what i'm told will be a statement shortly from the president who is still at camp david and will talk about not just how to keep the country safe but the idea that this is a country the mourning. it is 86 days since the capitol was breached by that mob and the nation hasn't been the same since. everyone is on edge including the u.s. capitol police and expect the president to talk about security and traged

that's what joe biden said he was going to do to more than 62,000. and now he's saying that's not going to be possible in the short term. we got a sense from the national security adviser, jake sullivan, who was on the sunday shows this morning really trying to defend the administration's bungled rollout of this policy by trying to push back on the criticism that this was a reversal. take a listen. >> the president wanted to go with this in two steps. the first step was to change the allocation so people in africa could literally get on planes this week. and the second would be to raise the cap as we were fixing the system in its processing. he took the first step this past week. he will take the second step in the weeks ahead. and i think there was some misunderstanding on friday about the import of his decision friday morning, which was focused on the allocation, not on the cap. >> so the white house is arguing because the process is ongoing, there is still time essentially for the president to make this right, but a lot of democrats and groups hav

only in the states -- here's the thing, joe biden flips arizona by just over 10,000 votes. maricopa county officials have already completed multiple audits and views of the election at the secretary of state's office said that the results were certified and this review won't change that. and here we are -- they hired this cybersecurity firm, lots unheard of the guy associated with it tweeted stop the steal and now they are trying to recount donald trump maybe to a pretend win. meanwhile, the widespread lie about a stolen election which is settled in the psyches of millions of republicans conservatives has resulted in republican state houses introducing voter restrictions and more than 40 states. the latest bill from florida who's already with the state senate and they were filled with drop boxes and limits on who can collect and drop off ballots. it criminalizes handing out food and water to those waiting in line to vote. two people will beat trump in the courts, the ballot box are fighting this fight too. they'll join me after the break. e after th break. advanced gum rest

would there ever be real trust between joe biden and vladimir putin? and when it comes to holding vladimir putin accountable if navalny dies, it would seem that accountable has eluded vladimir putin in the past. is there anything that conceivably could be done to vladimir putin to hold him accountable in the world's eyes if alexei navalny dies? >> it's hard to see what that would be, that at least the united states would be willing to do. america, under presidents obama and trump, have from time to time imposed sanctions or expelled diplomats but have held back from pulling the trigger on truly punitive economic actions that would genuinely get his attention. they have not done things to expose his sources of his own personal wealth, something people talked about doing but not really followed up on. there's a lot of things america has not done in the interests of not escalating, as president biden put it. the question is how far can you go to get his attention without escalating it into a conflict you don't want. can you find ways to work with russia?

this is president joe biden, dr. jill biden leaving the residence of carters after visiting them in georgia earlier this afternoon. this was just captured moments ago and see there mrs. carter on the front porch walking them out. from here, the bidens will travel to a drive-in car rally to commemorate the 100th day in office. former vice president mike pence seen here in the capitol riot is stepping back into the political arena. he'll be speaking tonight to a crowd of evangelical voters at a gala in south carolina. his first public remarks since leaving office. pence is expected to take aim at president biden's first 100 days in office, contrasting them with former president trump's first 100 days and argue that the way forward for the republican party is to unite around an agenda rooted in conservative principles. the justice department releasing new body camera footage from the january 6 insurrection showing the moment when rioters spray an unknown chemical substance at brian sicknick and other officers. he later

. >> i really feel that joe biden had the temperament to help heal our country. >> how do you feel about him now? >> i think he is trying very, very hard to unite the country. >> is there anything of the last 100 days of president biden that you have discomfort with? >> the situation at the border. he he just hasn't come up with the right solution to the problem yet. >> her view of the president, high marks on unity, hesitation on immigration, reflects how many americans feel 100 days in. our new nbc news polling shows seven in ten voters approve of how president biden is handling the pandemic and more than half say he is doing well on the economy and uniting the country. but only about three in ten voters approve of his work on immigration, with a record number of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the border, an issue relevant in arizona, a state that flipped blue in 2020, partly because of voters in maricopa county. >> i was probably build the wall guy. that's obviously not been the answer. has it? >> larry lives there and had never voted for a democrat for president until novemb

>> when it comes to gun reform and gun safety, lindsay, this is something candidate joe biden pledged to do on his first day in office and that is not what happened after he was elected because the coronavirus pandemic worsened so intensely over those last few months before he took office, of course, and so instead in the midst of the first 100 days, this was something that he wanted to propose as common sense gun control in his own words, but it was in the wake of those mass shootings in colorado, georgia, and california that the biden white house felt more urgency to act and this is what the president himself concedes is not an issue that will be solved overnight and that is why he has asked his justice department and his attorney general to take a look at rules that would help to eliminate what's known as ghost guns. these are weapons that don't have serial numbers. they're untraceable and they're very concerned about the prolive ragsz of those and they're also asking the doj to take a look at putting forth other model language on things like ret flag laws and it those who are seek

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biden. [ cheers and applause ] >> joe biden will be the fifth president to address a joint session of congress with congressman james clyburn in the room, but joe biden will be the first president who knows when he looks down from the podium and sees congressman clyburn, that he would not be standing there as president of the united states without jim clyburn's crucial support in the south carolina primary which took joe biden from losing presidential candidate to winning presidential candidate. joining us now is house majority whip, congressman jim clyburn of south carolina. thank you very much for joining us tonight. the night before joe biden's first address to a joint session of the congress as president. i know when you endorsed him, you publicly relied heavily on the advice of your late wife emily, and i have to wonder, what would emily think of these first 100 days of the biden presidency? >> she would be ecstatic. you know, joe biden made it very clear upon his election that he was going to be laserly focused on covid-19. as you know, my late wife battled for almost 30 years w

joe biden is running 13 points ahead of the previous president and the latest nbc poll that shows joe biden's approval rating 13 points higher than the previous presidents approval rating at this exact point four years ago. the trouble for republicans is that the most popular person in their party is the person who lost the presidential election to joe biden. and that means republicans now believe they simply cannot win. republicans believe they cannot win presidential elections if those elections are held fairly. and so instead of trying to counter joe biden's popular policies with their own policies, republicans are now lying about biden policies. for example, republicans are now claiming that joe biden wants to ban the consumption of meat, which is a complete and total lie. republicans find it easier to tell that lie. instead of arguing against policies like say the increase in the corporate tax rate that joe biden will describe wednesday night as part of his infrastructure package, which now has the support of 68% of americans. cnbc reports. the stock market is performing the best

and despair, vote for sleepy joe biden. and boredom, you know the great thing, i always say someday these people -- look at all those -- look at all those cameras. you know what i say? someday they're going to get smart. they're going to endorse president trump because if you have sleepy joe, nobody's going to be interested in politics anymore. that's going to be the end of that. >> during his re-election campaign, donald trump repeatedly tried to paint joe biden as the boring option, but that sounded pretty good to a lot of americans who voted to elect biden by a margin of over 7 million votes. you know what? boring really isn't that bad. here we are in just the 73rd day of joe biden's presidency, and even though covid cases are, again, spiking in states across the country, this time there's a plan. biden has communicated the importance of waiting to reopen the country and the need to keep wearing masks, and today we saw a record number of vaccinations, nearly 4 million. there have been 20 million shots administered in the

joe biden has become even more ambitious. when he launched campaign how cautious he was, seen him become more progressive and ambitious because of pressure from bernie sanders, elizabeth warren. and climate goal he put in place wouldn't have happened without the young people of the sunrise movement. and progressives will keep pushing him i hope on health care in particular. you need that counterweight. you have the republicans, joe manchin and kristen sinema, and you have people who want business as usual. i discussed with chuck schumer, i put that to him, idea he's opinion on a journey like biden, veteran centrists the target of progressive ire now pushing most progressive agenda of our lifetimes. >> thanks for the time, mehdi. see you back here top of the hour for "the mehdi hasan show," only on msnbc msnbc. >>> 2020 deja vu, votes being counted once again in arizona. what are republicans doing? talk to ruben gallego. you have questions about the pandemic, we have two experts, dr. anthony fauci, raul luis, latinos and the c

so there's so many things that joe biden, his administration wants to get done, and they don't -- joe biden really does want to do things in a bipartisan manner. people have a hard time believe it, but what we're seeing with the infrastructure bill, they're having meetings. what i've been told in those meeks, the meme there are more serious and they're not having these screaming fights. they are having these conversation but the cameras aren't there, right? so because of what then president trump has done with the republican party, making it about politics of contempt, when you get in front of the cameras, these same people act different live. that's something hard to counter act when you have to get legislation done. >> or when you get off camera, it's hard to walk back and say i didn't mean any of that. eugene daniels is sticking around. errin, thank you. and david jolley, congratulations on your wonderful news. it fills our hearts with joy. is anybody sleeping? >> no, no, but you used the word jody. a few times in life you get to experience joy. we nope happiness and excitement, bu

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we started wednesday morning with the president of the united states joe biden giving a tribute to this organization national action network as he spoke to us on his policy, but this is what he said about the national action network. >> this organization has always been an essential voice, but never more essential than it is today. upholding and advancing the security and prosperity of health and well-being, dignity and possibilities of all black americans. >> we also heard from the majority leader of the u.s. senate, chuck schumer and the speaker of the united states house of representatives nancy pelosi, but then we heard from the mothers of the move am, the mother of trayvon martin and the mother of michael brown from ferguson, missouri, the mother of stephon clark from sacramento, california, and the mother of eric gardner in new york city, citien island, as we talked about the policing act and attorney ben crump led that panel. we had faith leaders. we had business leaders and some of the top business leaders in black america and youth activists who on their own, many of them, have

and things that joe biden said during the campaign that he would undo and redo, and and he is doing a whole bunch of them all at once this week. so yesterday for example, we get president biden announcing the and to the longest war, the american military has ever fought, for nearly two decade in afghanistan the war will end. all u.s. troops will be brought home before september 11th of this year. interesting ali, that today, the day after that announcement about ending the war, president biden sent his secretary of state, anthony blinken, on a surprise trip to afghanistan to go meet with the afghan president. basically to show that even though u.s. troops are leaving afghanistan, but he was government is still committed to supporting the afghan government, and supporting the nation of afghanistan and other enduring ways. so, the tight scheduling -- biden announces the pull out of all u.s. troops from afghanistan yesterday, on wednesday, on thursday anthony blinken is in afghanistan talking about the enduring commitment from the u.s. government to the nation of afghanistan, which nobod

biden had indicated he was supporting. so what the press secretary had to do yesterday was put out a rare statement where she did allude to that confusion and then she did ultimately say because of all the blowback, even just from democrats, allies of the president who were so upset that the president had not fulfilled this promise, she said they expect the president to set a final increased refugee cap for the remainder of this fiscal year 15th. we will expect more details. what's notable is we don't expect that to be raised to 62,500. she called that unlikely. this is a political stumble for a white house that has been very, very careful about all of its policy rollout. we should point out that public polling does show when it comes to things like covid relief and infrastructure, the president is enjoying quite a high approval rating, but on areas like immigration, this is where there are more pitfalls and kwied. this division was met with fierce blowback not just by progressives and activists, but moderate democrats and

if prime minister joe manchin has his way it's definitely on the menu. prince of appalachia unequivocal about his opposition to changing the filibuster and made it clear he was done with budget reconciliation as a workaround for democratic legislation. senator manchin wrote that the filibuster is a critical tool and no circumstance i will vote it eliminate or weaken the filibuster. former member of alec, shadowing organization, told cnn the january 6th insurrection solidified his opposition. >> something told me, wait a minute. pause. hit the pause button. something's wrong. you can't have this many people where they want to go to war with each other. >> seeing a hoard of trump fanatics lay siege to your capitol made the people want to work more to those in the senate? huh. remind you manchin tried this act before the in 2013. he and republican pat toomey tried to pass a watered-down gun bill. fell six votes short of 60. trying again. this time with a republican party controlled by, as former speaker of the house john boehner put it, a bunch of whack job

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joe biden is aware of that. and he knows. he will make whatever relational deal he needs to make on the back end with whomever he wants to make it with, whomever is willing to ache make it with him. he's moving forward. despite the obstacles, the president has led and has stood firm in his leadership and i think that's reflected in all of these polls you see, whether they like the man personally or believe he's uncle joe or whatever, they're buying what he's offering the country right now. for republicans, it's hard for them to come pack and say, you really don't want that. what? you don't want infrastructure, covid shots? you don't want to open up your communities again? tell me what it is you don't want. and i don't know how you make that an easy-winning narrative with americans when they're liking what they're hearing from joe. >> the wide shot, of course, that we're seeing is underlying the -- undergirding the strangeness of what it means to have this big chamber with all the social distancing and covid protocols with so

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>> we heard, you know, something that, frankly, joe biden is really good at, right? joe biden is someone who we talk about this all the time, because it's so important to understanding how he and his white house administration approach issues of grief and death in the way they think about this country. so you heard him consulting this family. this is a family that he has talked to and had a relationship with for months. one of the very first trips that he took as a candidate during the election after covid, after they started traveling a little bit was to meet with that family. he also shot a video for george floyd's funeral. so what he and kamala harris promised the family was some kind of action, right? there is literally a bill that has passed the house in the name of george floyd, as you said, the george floyd justice in policing act. they promise that they are going to do more. and, you know, that is something that, for this white house, while they were in transition, while they were on campaign, racial equity and issues of racial justice were one of the top fou

stood out to me, percentage of republicans say they disapprove of joe biden's presidency so far. a lot higher than the percentage of democrat whose said it for president donald trump and republican whose said it about former president obama. that tells you a lot where our country is at this particular moment. and the challenge that president joe biden faces in the next 100 days of his presidency where arguably he'll have to face some of these other challenges on issues like immigration, on guns, i'm sure we'll get to in a minute. >> a very united country for sure. ununited country. michael, from a historical perspective, give me a sense how important the first 100 days are as a measure and how does president biden stack up in your mind? >> well, it's not a bad measure, alex. i thought francesca said it well. you know, the thing is that this all comes from early 1933 as you know when franklin roosevelt came in and did a lot of things like, you know, saving the banks and getting people relief and doing things to relieve the suffering of the great depression, and about 100 days in,

this n-word voted for joe biden. f-you, f-you, boo. >> what do you think it means about the state of america, where we are today? you've had time now to process it. >> we got a long way to go. we got a long way to go. >> reporter: hundreds of rioters charged with crimes linked to the capitol assault. some face up to 20 years in prison. >> that was nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel. catch the entire special later tonight. he provides us with a view of the attack through the lens of those who carried out. tonight 10:00 p.m. eastern only on msnbc. >>> finally this hour, health experts are ringing the law of a certain group of americans hesitant about wearing masks. u k don't settle for silver #1 for diabetic dry skin* #1 for psoriasis symptom relief* and #1 for eczema symptom relief* gold bond champion your skin gold bond kevin bacon here. you know me from six degrees of well... me. but it's time to expand. see, visible is wireless with no surprise fees, legit unlimited data, powered by verizon for as little

and joe biden taking sides with labor more than he did in past decades. he's pushing the new multitrillion plan with major planks for jobs, racial justice and addressing climate change. now whether it's correlation or causation, biden at times can sound a bit like the new bernie. >> we need a lot more, and that's true for the other 49 states. china is building high speed rail all over the place. we are not. >> we have to improve our infrastructure. china and other countries are eating our lunch. >> is biden simply revealing his own values now that he has this power? or is he channels sanders? an obama campaign veteran says it shows the new era of progressive politics that's much closer to bernie sanders of radically distributes america's wealth downwards. sanders himself wants more direct climate action in that new biden bill. and biden has not been with liberals on a plan to wipe out student set up to $50,000 or go to the matt fully on minimum wage in the senate. but as he argues and some liberals have been arguing for years, the democratic's party's bas

he occasionally unofficially advises president joe biden. and award winning historian professor and writer kiesha enblain, associate professor of history at the university of pittsburgh. but let's go now to the murder trial of derek chauvin. the former officer decided against taking the stand yesterday. he invoked his 5th amendment right passing up his final chance to give his side to the story to the jury. >> have you made a decision today whether you intend to testify or whether you intend to invoke your 5th amendment privilege? >> i will invoke my 5th amendment privilege today. >> with that decision, the defense rested its case. let's bring in professor of law at georgetown university paul butler, an msnbc legal analyst and former u.s. attorney now an nbc news law enforcement analyst, chuck rosenberg is with us this morning. good to have you both. >> gentlemen, thank you for being with us. paul butler, was it just too much of a risk for the defense to put the defendant on the stand? i mean -- and were you expecting this? was this a surpri

and i think joe biden is the person that can do it. he has the ability. the fact that he's a while meat, the fact he has a sensitivity. i was in the room when he met with george floyd's family when he was running for president, and some said, don't go do that. he went the day before the funeral. he has a sensitivity, and he has the knowledge, and he has people like judge garland, like those that are bringing -- being brought into the justice department, like gupta and like kristen clark. they need to be able to use all their wherewithal. when i was a kid, lyndon johnson was at this same place, and he had the same set-up. and lyndon johnson was able to pass the civil rights act and voting rights act because people pushed the administration. we're going to push, and i think we're pushing people that will get it, but we've got to do our side. martin luther king said there are two types of leaders. there are thermometers. and they are thermostats. thermometers judge the jump, thermostats change the temperature. i'm going to stand with these families until we

we need to leave this aside, really leave in peace, the fact that joe biden won the election. and also, make a point that as we move forward with this audit, it is just auditing the top of the ticket. nobody is auditing the close races in the arizona house of representatives, or in the senate. so it is very clear that they have an intention to create a mistrust with our voting systems. so that is why we are fighting really hard to make sure we protect arizona voters. i want to make it clear, we are not just protecting democrats, we are protecting every arizona voter. >> all right, raquel teran, from the purple state of arizona thank you for getting up early with us this morning. >> thank you so much for having me, have a good one. >> coming up, the presidents joint address to congress will be the most exclusive ticket in town. what we can expect from biden's much awaited, invite only speech, as he approaches 100 days in office. days in office (vo) ideas exist inside you, electrify you. they grow from our imagination, but they can't be held back. they want to be set free. to ma

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she's president joe biden's nominee to lead the justice department civil rights division. since january, right-wing voices have sought to cast clark as a left-wing radical. even yesterday at her confirmation hearing she was accused of being anti-semitic and a champion of cop killers, that's despite support from the jewish council and current police chiefs. "the new york times" editorial board lays it out like this. the real reason some conservatives want to take down ms. clark is that she's been an effective champion of voting rights for black, brown, and poor people. that's why she was nominated and that's why people like tucker carlson are grasping at straws to tank her nomination with lies. joining our conversation is mara gaye, katie benner is still here. mara, the right wing has taken this weird step in doing what i think ashley parker first coined, the quiet parts out loud. they're now smearing and trying to scandalize an incredibly competent and impressive nominee as an extense of their effort to sort of not have any obstacles in their campaign to suppress voting ri