people who worked with bannon in the white house and outside of the white house told me after all this went down that he couldn't be happier. all he wants is attention. they call him a gadfly. so yeah, if attention -- if he gets attention going to jail, that's fine with him. >> yeah. it's probably true. look, i mean, trump called him sloppy steve and within six months he's back trying to do trump's bidding. by the way, that is something that i don't understand about any of this dynamic. how he can unleash on people and yet, they still kind of come crawling back. but with steve bannon yeah, he wants the attention. it's the death of shame. there's no shame in it. he doesn't care if he has a criminal record. he cares if people listen to his podcast. that's what matters to him. podcasts and do i get followers on whatever he is using. so look, but it sent a very serious message, i think, to anybody else that is jeffrey clark, et cetera, thinking of denying the january 6th committee's legitimate ability to get to the bottom of what the american people deserve to know. and i think regardless,

the state has not along's tree of flipping against the party that controls the white house in congress. in comment, president george w. bush, won virginia by eight points, only for democrats tim kaine to win the gubernatorial race by five points. what was seen in the national committee comey to, -- and the disastrous handling of hurricane christina. the most visceral backlash came into thousand, i'd that's after democrats claim thousand 2008 elections including barack obama winning virginia by six points. which stunned a whole lot of observers. and then just a year later, following, year bob mcdonald went on to become governor of virginia defeating his opponent by a whopping 17 points. that's a 23 point swinging points in just one year. and to put it mildly, this was seen as very bad news for democrats. just listen to how nbc opened its nightly news broadcast the day after the election. >> good evening, a year ago, we were talking about a sea change in american politics. tonight we are reporting a small change which could also be anonymous development for the year old obama administrat

. >> and kristen welker, how's the white house spunning the outlook now? they have a tough challenge in the senate but noticed congresswoman jayapal with rachel saying we have pre-conferenced this. only thing that joe manchin did not agree to is family leave and we have hopes for that but congressional people, leadership telling me that whatever they can get they get. this is a deal that the progressives won't not play ball and that they think it is pre-conference and the senate was consulted and with the white house and that this has been precleared. is that too hopeful? >> reporter: look. you have top senators who are telling me as you point out this was all but agreed to and part of why progressives agreed to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill. because there was that agreement essentially to move forward on build back better including in the senate once the cbo score came out and you have joe manchin not responding yesterday directly when asked what his spet is on the cbo numbers and whether that hinder his ability to support this bill. so we'll ha

>> the race to the white house has now been called for pennsylvania. >> a confusing pennsylvania is going to be. >> president trump is still leading in that case by about 108,000 votes. >> it left everyone worried and stressed. >> philadelphia became ground zero. in the center was where the votes were being counted. you had trump supporters gathering outside. biden supporters facing off against each other. >> people were dressing up as the constitution, mailboxes, holding signs saying we the people. progressives, conservative americans, in one place, in the philly convention center. pam goes to address the crowd, and the count every votes protest right across the street turned up the music really, really loud. so you cannot hear a word that pam says because it's complet overwhelmed. >> every tweet and instagram you saw, people were arguing and it just was very uneasy. and then the phone call. >> my phone rang around 8:45 a.m. i was m a men's bible study in doils town, pennsylvania. >> hello. >> so i didn't answer. then my phone immediately rang again. so i excused myself and walked outsid

as the former president himself tries to shield his white house records so they won't be handed over to the investigation into the january 6th attack, today we got word there is a heavy hitting new addition to the legal team representing the committee that's carrying out that investigation. mary mccord is the former chief of the national security division at the u.s. justice department. as trump mounts this fight with the investigation to try to stop his white house records from being handed over to them, mary mccord has just joined the legal team for the investigation, for the january 6th investigating committee. and i don't know how the former president feels about that but i would not want to be on the other side of her in a case like this. they're still going for it, though. today in wisconsin, a pro-trump sheriff called for the arrest and for criminal charges to be filed against the whole state election board in wisconsin because they passed rules to help people vote in nursing homes during the pandemic. that's become the new fantasy in wisconsin of how the election must have be

it had gone past the party in power in the white house out of 12 times 11 things. mcauliffe is the one thing. that's because what tends to happen, and you see it in the midterms, in the new deal with fdr. right? that the party in power faces a backlash. and that is one of the -- it's almost like gravity. right? there's lots of things that can be done in individual races above and beyond that. but the thing that's pulling on all of these atoms as they circle around is that. >> in addition to the top of the ticket races in new jersey and virginia one thing to watch in virginia tonight, i mentioned this a couple of times, i want to sort of bring this home, is that every single seat in virginia's house of delegates is up for election tonight. there's 100 seats in virginia's house of delegates. they're all up tonight. before today democrats had a majority. 55. republicans had 45 of those seats. that means republicans need to take six of those seats tonight back to regain the majority. that should be noted the same number that democrats flipped their way just two years a

the white house will start the infrastructure package right away. democrats had been criticized for their lack of promotion after passing the rescue act earlier this year. joining us now, white house reporter for "the washington post," tyler page. tyler, great to see you. you've been following this as closely as anyone. it took a while, but it's done. president biden got a win. take us behind the scenes, will you, how the west wing managed light last week, and what role the president played himself. >> yeah. so the president was heavily involved as infrastructure talks made its way to final passage over the end of the last week as it became clear the deadline was approached, as the house was going on recess. many members were heading to glasgow for the climate conference. they made it clear if they wanted to pass the infrastructure bill and larger social spending bill, the build back better act, they'd have to move quite expeditiously on this. in the end it became a conflict over which bill would be first and how prose depressive the people would le

>> reporter:ss lyndsey, you'll e the white house really try to turn the narrator around. you show the president's job approval rating ticking down to 41%. in this poll, seven in ten americans say the president hasn't accomplished much in his first year in heoffice. thet president tomorrow will b really checking off two major campaign pledging delivered on. one is ade bipartisan piece of legislation. remember how much he promised to tryh to bring the country together to work with republicans. there will be republicans and democrats on the south lawn tomorrow for the signing ceremony. the other is, finally, as he's putting it, infrastructure week. he promised a big economic agenda to try to pass in the congress. as president, he's getting one piece of that tomorrow and will be hitting the road as well to try to highlight some of the specific pieces. tuesday, he'll be going to new hampshire to talk about bridge work thatir will be done there a bridge that's been rated as substandard in new hampshire. wednesday, he'll be going to a gm vehicle plant in michigan, talking about

>> the race to the white house has not been called for pennsylvania. >> confusing pennsylvania is going to be. >> president trump is still leading in that state by about 1-08 thousand votes. >> it wasn't a clear winner. it left everybody worried and stressed. >> philadelphia became ground zero. the convention center where the votes were being counted, crowds were gathering outside. trump supporters outside. biden supporters. they were facing off across the street. >> people dressing up as the constitution, as mailboxes, holding signs saying we the people. progressive, the slight conservative america in one place literally these two streets outside the philly convention center. trump's legal team turn up at the philly convention center. pam goes to address the count and the count every vote protest across the street turn up the music really, really loud. ♪♪ so you cannot hear a word that pam says because it's completely overwhelmed by the sounds of beyonce. >> everybody was fighting at each other. every post and tweet and instagram you saw, people were arguing and it just was very un

the white house has repeatedly made clear they would like to. they think he is not the man for the job. but the way it's structured, it's not the president who appoints that person. it's the post office board of governors who hires and fires. the president puts people on the board of governors but he can't directly do what they do. today, on top of everything else that happened today in the news, today in a surprise move, president biden made the changes to the postal board that apparently are finally going to clear the way to getting rid of that guy. "the washington post" broke the news this afternoon, explaining it in i think the clearest terms. they said, quote, president biden on friday, today, announced plans to nominate two new officials to the u.s. postal service's governing board replacing key allies of louis dejoy. the move was a surprise to postal officials and even to members of congress according to three people with knowledge of the matter. the move casts doubt on louis dejoy's future at the postal service and potentially gives the

for the former trump campaign manager and white house strategist was indicted today by a grand jury in washington d.c.. if you're having a moment of dÉjÀ vu, is not your magic nation, this is actually the second time that steve bannon has been indicted in the last 15 months. the first indictment was a doozy, you may recall steve bannon was arrested at sea by none other than an armed unit of u.s. postal inspectors. who knew the post office had a navy? they gave us such headlines. former trump advisor steve bannon was cruising the connecticut coast on a mega yacht when federal agents charged him thursday morning with embezzling border wall money. if you need a moment to digest that, it's okay. also there is this one. but 152 foot long yacht steve bannon was arrested on is for sale for $28 million. as far as we can, tell the yacht is still for sale, if you have 28 million lying in the couch cushion and you don't mind doing business with people like that, this may be your moment. steve bannon was indicted last year for raising money from unsuspecting trump supporters, ostensibly to fund

"deadline: white house" starts right now. ♪♪ >>> hi there, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. it is a phenomenon that is unheard of in modern american life, a disgraced one-term expresident solidifying his grip on one of the country's two major political parties. new developments, and a wave of fresh reporting highlight how the expresident and his allies have seized near full control of the american right. the "washington post" reports that a so-called maga squad of trump loyalists folks like congressman matt gaetz what is ensnared in an alleged child sex trafficking investigation and marjorie taylor green seized the spotlight within the house gop and are leading a push to purge their party of lawmakers who dare to try to get things done for their constituents by working with democrats on things that used to be uncontroversial, things like infrastructure, or those who acknowledge the truth, the reality of january 6th that the

>> they cleared the house vote. and when they went to the second floor, bedroom they discovered a white male, with the cellphone -- self inflicted gunshot wound. >> was it him? maybe, maybe not. >> detective george navarro had dispersed tear gas. and then he in the fbi man, went in with the camera. the space looked more like an apartment, than in both. >> we went upstairs without touching anything, and we had booties, on and gloves. we went on, and looked at him. >> and they knew, after staring up pictures of that face for so many days, it was certainly andrew cunanan. >> we were very excited that it was over. we actually high fived each other. we were happy that nobody else was going to die. >> the police camera captured cunanan's his exit seen. >> what did you have in? their >> books and magazines. he was out of food. he was out of magazines. >> actually the house will give me the sense that he lived like a trapped right. >> in the living room, a spread of glossy magazines, with their high fashion ads, and reminde

we heard in a readout from the white house afterwards that dr. fauci told the president what we heard him say publicly, it will take a couple of weeks before we know the full picture, how transmissible it is and how the vaccines hold up to it but the vaccines should provide a degree of protection against the new variant. what the white house is likely to do is talk about the importance of doing what they were already stressing the american people needed to do, get your boosters, if you're able to. if you haven't yet, get vaccinated if haven't yet and at a time to get the message across for those eligible for boosters, perhaps this is a moment to remind americans of the urgency of doing so. but we're also going to see something that we don't see often at the white house, we're going to see two different sets of remarks from the president at the white house. yes, this morning talking about the coronavirus. but later today after a meeting with ceo's from the top retailers, dealing with some of the economic issues, this is a white house that wants to

i am sure the speaker of the house is frustrated as people at the white house. jonathan lemire, you have actually people saying oh manchin has not agreed to this or that. he and biden shook hands, he won 1.5. biden says i need two. they shook hands. manchin told cnn, he agreed on the 1.75. he agrees generally with the 1.5. i have said along they have been patient. they get something done and they pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill that's been there to be passed for a long time. they're debating the details now. what's the delay? do democrats just want to lose for the next 20 years? what's the delay? why can't they take yes for an answer? >> we are underscoring the levels of distrusts. we have heard from senator manchin, one of the reframes we heard is that we heard from some progressives in the house who says we need an explicit endorsement from sinema and manchin that they'll back the reconciliation package and in order for us to do an official vote on the infrastructure bill. now we are hearing and white house age is growing confidence. we heard from congre

former white house chief of staff mark meadows. the panel has been trying to get meadows to comply after he defied a subpoena, citing trump's claim of executive privilege. today the committee indicated it may be ready to ratchet up pressure. >> we are in the final stages of what we will be doing for these next steps here. but mr. meadows is a notice, and he knows very well what we want and the questions we want to ask to him. and there has been discussion with his legal representatives. and so he just continues to stonewall. and i think we've shown very clearly what happens when individual stonewall. his conversations about stopping a free and fair election, about criticizing and stopping the counting of electoral votes, about his coordination with campaign officials, on private devices that were not turned over. all of those issues are not privilege worthy. and he has some explaining to do. the committees other subpoena or deny, or trump ally steve bannon, is continuing to fight his contempt of congress charges. >> today his lawye

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four years later, biden is in the white house and you see the same dynamic. we don't have finalized results in all these races yet but it looks like both virginia and new jersey voted 10 or 11 points more republican in this year's gubernatorial elections than four years ago. the swing was very similar. the reason why youngkin won and murphy won in new jersey is you had a split there just because new jersey is a little more democratic than i think new jersey is. i think these specific issues are important, but this was a really bad environment for democrats which put republicans in range of being able to win at least in virginia if not new jersey. >> so important. i mean, phil murphy pulled it off, by four tenths of one percent. thank you both, appreciate it. >>> up next, an analyst who contributed information to the so-called steele dossier arrested by the feds. we have the reporter who broke that story. >>> also the covid controversy swirling around one of the biggest stars in the nfl. riders, the lone wolves of the great highway. all they need is a bike and

white house reporter jonathan karl on the sick and twisted world of donald trump, which carl writes about in his new book. >> okay, so he's talking about how awful all these republicans were that betrayed him if mike pence had more courage and did what he wanted to do he would be a president still and the terrible things bill barr and mccarthy and mcconnell didn't fight for him and got him excited. >> you'll hear from professor anita hill that talks about sexual harassment against women decades before the me too movement. >> what we're doing is accepting violence, accepting the precursors to violence and we're telling girls that they should accept it, too, and not complain. >> also huma abedin talks about her years at hillary clinton eastside and how abedin's life was shattered by the scandals of her husband former congressman anthony weiner. >> in every one of those instances, joy, i really tried to make the best decision for my son, for myself until i got to the point where i just couldn't do it anymore. >> and the one and only jordan klepper talks about his adventures from maga land. >

the white house, i have reached out. i have not heard back for what they're going to say about that moment caught on camera, but that's one of those things that will certainly be captured, criticized by some and noticed by others, it is one of those things whenever you're in public those moments are seen and scrutinized. regardless of all of the circumstances and the reasoning behind it, the president has certainly -- he flew this morning from italy to scotland and has a busy schedule. so we're following the substance of what's happening here as well. the president urging leaders to get on board with action, especially those countries that have not taken official steps. the president also hoping that his domestic agenda back home, which has more than a half trillion dollars of climate related spending will be codified soon by congress as he urges leaders to step up as well. >> and kelly o., just want to note i remember back in the day when ronald reagan with the cameras rolling and a very, very busy schedule going from c

hill for us and white house correspondent mike memoli. he's traveling for the president on this birthday weekend. you le, we know the senate will likely send a bill that looks a lot different than this one. how confident are house democrats that they'll be able to agree with the senate's version and the final one? >> well, it depends on what it looks like, right, senate democrats are going to have to make significant changes to this bill, both in terms of adding provisions to the bill, and taking some away. and that's because there's currently disagreements amongst some key senators, of core senators joe manchin, senator sinema and a progressive leader in the senate bernie sanders who wants medicaid expansion in that bill. there's only money for hearing aids. he wants vision and dental back in and that, of course, will tick up the price of the bill. the cbo, we're sticking to sports terms, the nonpartisan scorekeeper of this whole process, they said this bill already adds over $360 billion to the deficit. that's a big concern for senator

i obviously don't work in this white house, but i worked in a white house. it is so paper driven that the idea that all the paper, even from the president trump white house, could be in the hands of the committee is -- is so much bigger than it would be at any normal workplace, bus the white house still issues paper schedules. the white house still staffs the speech on paper, all the changes and all the notes are on paper. it's my understanding that is still the practice. talk about what could be in these documents. >> we know there is a draft executive order that was related to quote, unquote, election integrity. who drafted that executive order? how close did it get to trump's trump? why didn't trump sign it? what executivings played a role in that order's journey through the white house? it is going the raise questions for the committee about the scope of executive power and whether or not whatever action trump's team could have mulled would have lawful. or whether there should be some sort of legislation to try rein in the executive's authority when it c

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the former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, former department of justice official, jeffrey clark, they both stonewalled the committee during their scheduled depositions. congressman bennie thompson, the chairman of the january 6th committee, has threatened to hold meadows and clark in contempt, as well. but so far he hasn't done anything about it. we'll see if that changes in the coming days. congress is back in session this week. the senate will take up the build back better bill, which was passed by the house just before congress went on recess about a week ago. democrats have remained optimistic about the full passage of the second part of the president biden's agenda, but we haven't heard much from senators joe manchin or kyrsten sinema. they're the two main holdouts on the democratic side whose votes remain critical in the evenly split senate. meanwhile, the debt ceiling fight will be reviewed again. if you feel like it's deja vu, it's because we just went through this in october. democrats opted for a short-term extension which would avoid a shutdown of the government. a sh

house or whether white house officials are coming to the hill. we asked and that's an open question for the rest of today and tomorrow. >> we're watching the door there. we're awaiting an update from speaker pelosi as to whether or not the vote is going to be held. as we know when it comes to speaker pelosi, she will not hold it unless she has them. >>> we're following breaking news from the justice department. a senior doj official confirming to nbc news an analyst who was a key source for the steele dossier was arrested this morning. that dossier contained allegations about former president donald trump. it is coming in connection with special counsel john durham's probe into russian interference into the presidential election. ken dilanian has more. bring us up to date on this. what do you know? why now? >> we know very little. we do know federal authorities have arrested this man this morning. he's a russian-born analyst living in the united states. and he was interviewed back in 2017 by the fbi about his contributions to that christopher ste

chevrolet. >>> white house adviser steve bannon appeared in court. he pled not guilty today, judge accepted his plea. trial date is yet to be set. the january 6th investigation continues to be the focus of so much of what's going on in terms of congress and its oversight responsibilities, but the other big select committee investigating a massive thing in american public policy is the committee that's looking at the trump administration's disastrous response to covid which potentially cost hundreds of thousands of american lives. the committee today subpoenaed top trump white house adviser peter navarro. the subpoena came after the committee had requested documents and information from him in september. they accompanied that request by releasing e-mails showing how integral navarro was in the early trump white house response to the pandemic including taking advice from a fringe outside adviser. they also released emails showing navarro inexplicably pushing the use of hydroxychloroquine. he publicly denounced anthony fauci as evil. he wrote an op-ed i

in part because the white house is really felt the pressure on this. they wanted to not erwin, maybe before the virginia governor's race. we know that is gonna last for democrats. but really there is a continued push, here, and we're going to continue to see this gain pressure from progressives, who can't afford to lose momentum that they have here. they have now lost their leverage, because they voted on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, this is now all about the social spending package. when they were working those two bills together, progressives had a lot of leverage there. now though, it's all about the personalities they've been focused on in washington, joe manchin, kyrsten sinema, we know activists of that continue to follow them. even though they haven't been here on the hill for a day or so. but this pressure is only going to continue. recess week is good for them. but they are probably going to use this time to do, frankly, is go home and sell it to their districts. because the right now the message has been process, processed, process. yo

joining me now is political white house editor sam stein, jonathan alter, republican strategist susan and university of michigan law professor and former u.s. attorney, barbara mcquaid. good to see you all of you on this thanksgiving day. when this goes to the d.c. court of appeals, barbara, what is your expectation? >> i think one thing that's really interesting is they just gave notice to party to say be prepared to answer this question: do we even have jurisdiction as the court to resolve this dispute? or is this, instead, a political dispute between the executive branch and the legislative branch? that signals to me a strong legal position for the legislative branch here for the production of these documents. i think, even aside from that, this claim of executive privilege is very weak in this instance. it is the sitting president who possesses the executive privilege with the weight to assert. donald trump can give his recommendation. but because joe biden has already waived it, i think it is a strong and likely result that we will see the committee get those documents. >> barbar

what is this the start of for the biden white house? >> reporter: a big welcome back to you, katy, we missed you while you were aware. americans are hoping americans will forget some things as the president is trying to drive home for people exactly what's in this bill and how it will affect their lives directly. you'll see the white house starting today in new hampshire, and tomorrow when president biden travels to detroit trying to localize this, trying to say, here's what you are getting in each individual state out of this massive bill that so far has been this kind of nebulous thing being tossed around in washington. here in new hampshire, for example, they've got more than 200 of these bridges that are in poor condition, have needed for a long time, frankly, to be rehabbed or completely rebuilt. they haven't had the money. now some of that money is on the way. but here's the problem politically, katy. this is not the kind of thing you can do overnight. the money for highways, for transportation in this bill is divided over five ye

look at the statements released from the white house by the rittenhouse verdict. it's difficult to say something meaningful and at the same time not set yourself up for fire from the other side. you know, i mean, it's really open to them. you asked about public safety earlier. let's stop and think here. i would have loved to hear more from her because i think she has a message to deliver that only a prosecutor who is a person of color could deliver. and then it's, folks, let's be reasonable about keeping each other safe. i think she can say, i respect the jury's verdict, but we have a long way to go. i have heard several statements from officials celebrating the loss of life. elected officials should never do that regardless of how they feel about the victim. >> kristen, kamala harris is a favorite of the right to beat up on. i think there are some that think maybe that enthusiasm on the right is what makes her more cautious. what makes her more of a magnet to attack than president biden? is it just race? >> i think -- take a look at the portfolio she's been hande

now the chief science officer for the white house's covid-19 response. dr. kessler always an honor to have time with you. particularly tonight on a night when so many americans have basic questions about this new variant. >> fire away, rachel. i'm ready the answer all your questions. >> all right, thank you. let me ask you the first question i canned. we have had it described to us, this new variant, as having a very large number of mutations, a large number of mutations specifically effecting the spike protein, which has been a real target for the development of our vaccines. can you tell us why a large number of mutations is worrying and why that's bad, why the spike protein mutations might be worying or bad? >> we have some experience with some of these mutations because we've seen some of those mutations in other variants, and those mutations can affect transmissibility and they can affect how well our vaccines work. look, there is a lot we still need to learn. we need to learn about transmissibility against delta, the severity, how well the vaccines and

why does the white house believe the bills will do that? >> the president tried to make this indication yesterday at the port of baltimore. his infrastructure plan which will become law as soon as he signs it has $17 billion reserved for ports to ease some of the congestion. all of this is tied together and intertwined. some of the goods and demand and supply and challenges are connected because of the pandemic and what we're seeing. the supply chain disruption contributes to the rising inflation numbers. the president came with a sympathetic tone, acknowledged americans pain, the families going through this action seeing this on the shelves and pocket books and saying i think this plan that will be a reality very soon will help in this regard. he tried to make the pitch for his second part of his economic agenda, the build back better plan because he's arguing that if people have help in things like child care and elder care, that that will also ease some of these worries. they're watching closely that will happen with the pandemic and the

kristen welker joins us from the white house. ali vitali joins us and john bresnahan, co-founder of purple bowl use. kristen, talk to us about the message the president will be taking on the road because bipartisanship is really important. but when it comes to what people care about, which is how do our life get better and stronger today? >> reporter: that's right, steph. it's going to be the president's bipartisan infrastructure bill and now the work begins. so, he's going to be appearing at a bridge in woodstock, new hampshire, later today. a bridge that has been on the red zone list since 2013. of the bridges that need attention. that need to be rebuilt. and so the president will argue that with this new infrastructure package, the largest investment in the nation's infrastructure, in a generation, that projects like that will get under way. this is just one in a series of stops that you'll see from the president, his top advisers, the first lady, as well as the vice president, and the second gentleman, they're going to be cri

the white house trying to balance the equities as they work with the w.h.o. on the most effective way to get as many shots into arms as possible. >> do you expect to see the president at all today, josh? >> reporter: we do, based on something that the first lady jill biden said yesterday, we expect that the bidens are going to attend a christmas tree lighting here on the island of nantucket. i was just out a little bit ago if town. you could see the secret service already starting to get prepared for that setting up a mag ne to him magnetometers to screen people. we will see him with his family if everything goes according to plan on this day after thanksgiving. >> josh letterman, thank you, claudio, thank you. dr. susannah hill, we appreciate your expertise. ron insana, thank you very much. >>> we will have more on president biden in nantucket. plus stricter voting laws over the finish line in michigan who ut the democratic governor's approval. >>> black friday sales are up over 12% over last year. are shoppers able to find what's on their list? and next up,

and that is a hard job for nancy pelosi, chuck schumer and the white house. they've been so focused on making that happen they have forgotten that most americans don't even know what's in the bill. they know something about climate change is in there. i think they're beginning to figure out universal pre-k is in there. childcare. expansion of health care. hearing assistance for medicare. they need to start talking about what's in it and quit talking about who agrees with him and doesn't agree with him in the democratic party. >> all right. lawrence o'donnell, your reaction thus far. as we look at the board in the studio i a quick note to our viewers, our characterization of the new jersey race has changed as it had to from too early to call to too close to call. so in that case we're covering two barn burners side by side here. lawrence, over to you. >> brian, there's always a risk of overinterpretation of governor's races and what they might mean for washington. when you look at virginia, it's such a peculiar situation there. you have -- it's a one-term stat

interesting to see the white house approach to both this week. saw senator sinema getting a prime speaking role at that bill signing ceremony at the white house and monday and saw pete buttigieg at her state doubling down, congratulating her. a big part of negotiating that. with joe manchin, quieter, behind the scenes. seen a shift in messaging around the white house to emphasize the fact in their view this will actually not only deal with inflation, actually brings down costs for millions of americans, eve than cbo score, white house putting spin on it despite ma the cbo found economists say this will reduce the deficit. a message aimed squarely at joe manchin. expect the white house and top officials and perhaps the president himself to be in touch with both of those senators as we move ahead, but obviously taking a bit of a breath to celebrate his birthday, the holiday, before they get back to worth. >> could use his birthday as a strategy. call both saying it's my birthday today. what i'd really like as a gift from you? go from there. that's

kristen, the white house was beginning its sort of distancing itself from terry mcauliffe's loss, not really expecting or realizing that this isn't about virginia and terry mcauliffe and glenn youngkin, this is a much bigger problem because we're still waiting to see what happened in new jersey. have they reassessed, what responsibility they hold for this disastrous night for democrats? >> reporter: well, i think they're in the process of doing that right now, chuck. there are a lot of meetings going on here behind closed doors as they figure out what if any messaging they're going to be putting out today. but i think what you saw overnight was an attempt to start spinning the results that we all witnessed last night. that you just mapped out. and you're absolutely right. the finger pointing started days ago with the democrats saying that terry mcauliffe shouldn't be running a campaign, but it's just about running against former president donald trump, that he should have something to run on. overnight, the white house essentially ramped up its calls for the president's agenda to be p

, the senate and the white house. part of the exasperation is the democrats have the moral high ground, the facts on their side and they control the levers of power. >> i think partly, in the dna of democrats we believe in government. we believe in good government, good policy in order to help the american people. we believe that's what people sent us to washington, d.c. or state houses to do, not to play politics, not to do the other things. but we can't forget that we are in a political situation. there's a push and pull that comes along with that as well. you have to be willing to throw the elbows as well and be frank and honest and calling the republicans out for the lies that they have. we know that this is a party, the republican party is a party of fascism. we've seen them turn their backs on america with just the january 6th events alone. i'm ashamed of some of these members of congress that used to have so much confidence in and even though i disagreed with them on policy, i thought at the end of the day they

house and the senate. but trump and the republican party made gains with latinos that cut across a wide range of states. nationwide trump won 38% of latino voters. ten points better than he did in 2016 and 11 points better than mitt romney, the 2012 republican nominee. until trump won that bigger than expected share of the latino vote nationwide in 2020, the voting habits of a group long seen as a reliable democratic voting bloc rarely received the kind of attention that ever elusive independent and swing voters do. but that may be about to change. if democrats are smart. joining us now are stephanie valencia, co-founder of equs labs, and maria teresa kumar, president and ceo of voter latino and an msnbc contributor. thank you both very much for being here. stephanie, i mean, i just talked about this in the intro. republicans hit a high mark in 2004 when george w. bush, then president, got 40% of the latino vote. donald trump got 38% in 2020. but i look back at 2012. the previous republican nominee, mitt r

they claimed they thought he was burglarizing houses in the neighborhood. that's when mcmichael chased off aubrey in a white pickup truck and the neighbor william bryan started behind. bryan started to film what happened when arbery tried to run past mcmichaels. he got out of the truck and after a brief struggle,ing shot ahmaud arbery. but when police arrived at the scene, this is how they treated travis mcmichael. >> do you have anything on you? >> if he would have stopped -- >> that's fine, that's fine. like i said, just take a breath. you got your i.d. and all that? no, no, don't get blood all over yourself. i get it. look around. do what you need to do, man. i can only imagine. >> police did not arrest travis mcmichael after he shot and killed ahmaud arbery. they had been explicitly told not to arrest him by the district attorney because travis' dad, the one chasing arbery, was a former investigator in the d.a.'s office. that d.a. has since been indicted for telling the police not arrest travis mcmichael. she's also accused of violating her oath of offi

the white house right now, we know we talk to the white house aides, the president is in the residence on the phone all day, he was supposed to head to roe v. wade his home in delaware today, it's not clear whether he'll travel there tomorrow or not. he and the vice president are both lobbying members to try to get this across the finish line, as ali noted, it looked like with some help from the republicans still get there. the white house has long said that, the longer we go on the reconciliation part of it, it is going to change quite a bit in the senate, i don't think anyone is taking joe manchin support for granted. the white house but does believe that when they cross the finish line, here, that the messy sauces making process of this will have been worth it. this will be something that will transform governments relationship with its citizens and really help americans with their everyday lives. and, politically, give too late for terry mcauliffe, and give them something for next, year for those midterms. really bolster the presidents legacy, and to give democrats something to sho

that's from the white house. i am confident the white house will be able to deliver and will get this over the finish line. >> so, how do you and i played jared bernstein one of the economic advisers to the president. i know you tweeted about this. how do you rebut manchin's charge build back better will negatively affect it. elaborate for us. >> well, it's going to actually lower costs. it's going to bring down prescription drug costs. it's going to bring down child care costs and elder care costs. then even from an economics perspective, larry somers, who has been the biggest voice warning against inflation, says the build back better plan should pass because it's fully paid for. it's over ten years. it's not inflation spending right now. so economists have said this is not going to cause inflation and common sense tells you that it's going to lower costs for the working cas. >> well, let me play for you if i can larry somers on with my colleague andrea mitchell predicted the stimulus package could set off infl

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so far we have not heard from the white house. the phrase "let's go brandon" has become a right wing code for expletive joe biden. in alabama, a driver named andrew brown was being interviewed by a sports reporter. a nearby crowd was chanting something that was difficult to make out, and the reporter suggested they were chanting, "let's go brandon," meaning the driver, but it was clear they were saying something else, blank joe biden. really, joe, the fact that a code phrase for profanity toward the u.s. president is being used on guns and ammunition suggested the raze on january 6 of is not subsiding. >> ken, thank you for your reporting and for joining us. >>> more now on our breaking news from the supreme court where justices seem to indicate they would be willing to allow a challenge of the highly restricted abortion law in texas to move forward. here with our interview before these arg umts formed. one of today's plaintiffs. thank you so much for joining us. what are you hearing from some of the lawyers on this case? are they

joe biden is in the white house because of black voters, and black women in particular. when their families are at stake, their livelihoods, their communities are at stake, black voters and black women especially have always gone out to vote. and if terry mcauliffe does not win, the damage isn't just to black voters and black women, it's to virginia. because what could come with a glenn youngkin administration, you know, you need only look to texas and georgia to see what the template might be for virginia. >> jonathan capehart, mark bergman, thanks to both of you. it will be a fascinating day tomorrow to watch. that's it for me today, but tune in tomorrow at 2:00 eastern. i'll be reporting from virginia. . ♪ there are beautiful ideas that remain in the dark. but with our new multi-cloud experience, you have the flexibility you need to unveil them to the world. ♪ like many people with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's disease, i was there. be right back. but my symptoms were keeping me from where i needed to be. so i talked to my doctor and learned hum

kavita patel, msnbc medical contributor and former policy adviser in the obama white house. kristen, what's behind this troubling rise in infections in vermont? >> reporter: it's a good yes, andrea. and we just got the latest numbers in. 517 cases. that is the second highest daily total in the entire pandemic. so something going on in this state where we have more than 90% of people 12 and up vaccinated. 18% of kids 5 to 11 have gotten their first dose. so the most vaccinated state. a few things going on according to health officials. one, this is still cases predominantly among the unvaccinated. also, they're seeing efficacy waning. these are people who got their vaccine way back in the spring, now they're beginning to see it waning and they are getting more breakthrough cases. here's what a local infectious disease doctor had to tell me. >> we're a bit of a victim of our success. unlike new jersey and new york that had pretty high percentages of their citizens who got infected, something like 3% of vermonters got infected. so that means that there are very few people who h

protest outside the white house. but it was a direct action protest for congress to please act to protect voting rights. today in oklahoma kids walked out of school, the capital rotunda was filled, pastors chained themselves to the fence outside the building to try to avert the planned execution of julius jones tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. there are serious questions about his trial and literal guilt or innocence. the oklahoma par ton and parole board voted twice he should be spared from execution. the oklahoma governor has thus far not been moved. people moved their feet today in oklahoma to try to get him to call that execution off. today we got closer to the end of the trial in georgia where three white men are being tried for chasing down an unarmed black man named ahmaud arbery, chasing him down in trucks and shooting him dead for the grave crime of him jogging near where they lived. today one of the defendants took the stand in his own defense. he neglected to mention he had intended to citizen's arrest ahmaud arbery.

just a few hours ago, he spoke at the white house about how he was finally able to pull this off. listen to what he had to say. >> i've been doing this thing any whole life. i've been able in the senate to put things together when people said they couldn't be put together just by making the overwhelming point that you can't have all you want. it's a process. there's no one piece of legislation that's going to solve everybody's problems. the fact that it has too much where you don't want and more than -- not enough where you don't want, just let's -- let's be reasonable. let's take a look at this. let's do what we all agree at a minimum is in the interest of the american people. >> reporter: alex, the president there used that speech to really take a victory lap to tout this bipartisan infrastructure bill, and we expect him to continue to highlight this going into next week. he said in that speech that he has plans next week to go and visit some ports, presumably those will be ports that will benefit from this infrastructure bill. we also expect him to hold a signing ceremony at th

the white house will be taking a number of questions today. and of course, chief among them are going to be, is this fair. is it fair to ban travel to these nations? these nations say it's going to be a hard economic hit on them. i think that the united states is absolutely among the nations that people are looking at, to see whether or not they change their mind on this. >> and yamiche, over the weekend, we learned that former florida congresswoman, kerry meek died at the age of 95. she was one of the first black floridians to be elected to congress since reconstruction. she was an extraordinary person. her legacy will be remembered forever. >> that's right. she was, as you said, a giant, an icon, someone who was a trailblazer. she was the granddaughter of enslaved people who then rose, as you said, to be the first african-american elected to represent florida in congress after reconstruction, and she really was someone who was seen as an advocate for immigrants, an advocate for african-americans. i can tell you, growing up in miami in the ha

what can a white house do? you've advised a president. what does sort of american leadership, if it's even a possibility, look like? >> i think you can speak about this. you can give voice to this. the chinese government does not want attention on this woman and her allegations. and so you can provide that attention. they are trying to sweep something under the rug in front of the entire world. and you have the biggest megaphone in the world in the white house to speak out against it. and to speak out -- the ioc's, look, supposed to be responsible for the safety of athletes. how can they guarantee the safety of athletes at the winter olympics if athletes are disappeared like this inside of china? i think you want to bring as much attention to this issue as possible. >> it's an unbelievable story, john heilemann. >> well, it's an absolutely unbelievable story, although unfortunately, if you look at the record of chinese human rights abuses, it's not unbelievable at all. it just happens that this woman, this level of prominence, chinese abu