joe biden or barack obama? barack obama i think beat him by 12 or 15 points, which when you look at their legislation, there's no comparison at this point. if you landed on earth and said, who is the more progressive of the two, if you look at what they've done in the first hundred days is joe biden. when you look at objective strategy, tone and manner, that's why he's getting it done. when you want to get something dramatic done, you don't scream, you whisper. and i think his tone has been so pitch perfect. >> joe biden held a drive-in rally yesterday in duluth, georgia. joining us now, the chairman of the democratic national committee, jamie harrison who was with the president yesterday. good to see you this morning. let's get your snapshot of these first 100 days from president biden. what he's done, what he's proposing to do, and the ambitious agenda that he's laid out. >> well, thank you so much for having me, willie. listen. it is so refreshing to be able to go to bed at night and wake up in the morning a

joe biden completely comfortable in his skin. really what stood out to me was the ambitious, almost transformational nature of what he talked about. obviously he had a lot of policy ground to cover given what he inherited, the american carnage really turned over by his predecessor, but when you think about what he was trying to get at, really a transformational approach to changing america, rebuilding and restoring america. there's been a lot of talk in the post-speech analysis about who and what was the model. and i think joe biden himself gave the game away, jonathan in the remarks. he cited one president by name. it was franklin delano roosevelt, and i think that is very much the man and the moment and the model that bidden is going for, very quick and active legislation to set a tone, set a momentum for the country. i thought he laid that out very well tonight in those hour and change for his fist joint session. >> tara, your reaction to the president's speech sm. >> i felt like the president was really making the pitch to ma

joe biden could have said we're going to stop clubbing baby seals. what is the strat of a patternpositivelily. that montage is really sent out to the approximately. we've seen polling from the biden and fchl. but yeah, you -- erin made a really strong point that leadership helps determine who bipartisan shop in. when you can't get lenls -- it shows the sun is up no matter what happens with part of the republican party nowadays. and the why this are product is so porcht where more of them voted for impeaching trump a second. >>> still ahead, you need a license to bblg a neempl. if you happen to be bad in any one of those jobs, you'll lose your ♪ yum yum yum yum yum yum yum ♪ ♪ yum yum yum yum yum yum ♪ ♪ yum yum yum yum yuuum yum yum yum yum yum yum yuuum ♪ ♪ yum ♪ ♪ yum yum (clap, clap) yum yum (clap) yum yum ♪ . >>> for many jobs in this country, you need a license. makes sense that you need a license to practice law or medicine or to teach, but even hairdressers need them, as do florists, strippers. in those jobs if you violate

i remember tonight joe biden was in full -- mode. they said don't underestimate an older american president who is there to reassure, really engage and divide partisan unity speech. republicans would probably have liked if he went more tribal, and he took that away from them. that's why i think i'm seeing joe biden now, how are we gonna beat this guy in shades of what gingrich once said about clinton? they've got a great opponent in a president. >> fernando, tara. thank you very much. we appreciate your time. >> still ahead, joe biden and his department of justice are putting a major emphasis on police reform. how the biden administration plans to take the lead on one of the most pressing issues facing the country. that's next. ountry that's next. because there are options. like an “unjection.” xeljanz. the first and only pill of its kind that treats moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, or moderate to severe ulcerative colitis when other medicines have not helped enough. xeljanz can lower your ability to

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

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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

a lot of what he said president obama said, but because joe biden is joe biden, an older white guy, it comes across differently to the country. it doesn't come across as super academic or whatever it is or it's not a black guy, right? i seem to understand every time he speaks why donald trump was afraid of him, why he feared that guy being the nominee because that is a very difficult politics to oppose. >> we're about one minute or perhaps less out from the republican response from south carolina senator tim scott. any thoughts from you before we hear from him -- >> he's at the table negotiating police reform. >> folks i'm talking with in south carolina even democrats who know tim scott and oppose him on lots of policies do believe he's sincere and believe he sees this as a chance to make his mark, something he hadn't done up to now. >> and with that the clock, by the way, started when joe biden exited the chamber. that is the exact 5-minute warning to the start of the response. as we've been saying it will be senator tim scott of south carolina. let's go to that now. >> good evening.

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now joe biden won that county very easily in the 2020 election and he won the state of arizona overall. they refused to believe that and they say that there was a simple problem with the arizona election which is that the supported biden votes were all fake votes, so if you simply strip away all the fifth votes, particularly all of them in maricopa county than donald trump will be revealed to be the win of arizona and therefore he would be reelected as president and joe biden has to go back home to delaware. immediately following the election they pursue this theory, nine ways to sunday, arizona did an audit of the election results in maricopa, done by federally accredited firms, there was a second audit there, was a hand recount supervised by both parties, none of it showed any sham ballot any fraud, any fake anything, any change in the results. the board of supervisors for maricopa county, for members, voted unanimously to certify biden as the winner of the county and the state of our zone of. the clearly that is not enough, that is not enough, not for this republican party. not with

against, joe biden's a president, he got elected president. he can pass whatever bill he wants to pass. i'm just saying, for people that are looking at these bills, as we've been saying for the past several weeks, richard, it's not a surprise that a lot of republicans just said, hey, you know what? i can't put more money into the economy from the federal government than was taken out by this pandemic. >> yeah, exactly right. look, i understand why republicans don't have a whole lot of standing here, given what they did over the last four years, i get that. but that said, there's a lot of spending here that's not targeted, so the concerns are really two-fold. one is the inflationer expectations or pressures you're building in. it obviously contributes to the deficit and debt. but also what people like larry summers were saying, you didn't get a whole lot for this in terms of infrastructure, in terms of moving things in the direction of green technology, so now you need a whole separate piece of legislation to do that. which simply adds to the p

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

so again, if you're joe biden, that's what you're looking at. and in terms of bipartisanship, no one has been more bipartisan in his professional, political life than joseph r. biden of delaware. nobody. you can look at his record in the senate. he was always working across the aisle, so now he's president of the united states, and now he has republicans into the oval office to sit and talk about things that his administration wants to do, and he's met with some who would like to do it, but they are still the facts of life in that party, they are still enthrall and in fear of donald j. trump, and they are reluctant to say yes to something almost every american wants to have happen and they've become the party of no. that's what you're dealing with if you are president joseph r. biden. that's the deal as he would say. >> so ahead we're going to speak with our friend who's calling this the new progressive era and that president biden is, quote, almost magical in his ability to make progressivism boring. we're back in a moment. [sfx: thunder rumble

joe biden won maricopa county fairly easily, he also won the state of arizona overall. president trump and arizona republicans refuse to believe that. they say there was a simple problem in the arizona election which is that these supposed biden votes were all fake votes. if you simply just strip away all the fake votes, particularly all of them in maricopa county, then donald trump would be revealed to be the true and rightful winner of arizona and joe biden has to go home to delaware. immediately following the election they pursued this theory nine ways to sunday. arizona did an audit of the election results in maricopa, done by a federally accredited firm. there was a second audit then ordered by the state legislature. there was a hand recount supervised by both parties. none of it showed any sham ballots, any fraud, any change in the results. the board of supervisors from maricopa county, five members of, four of them republican, voted unanimously to certify biden as the winner in the county and in the state of arizona. but clearly that's not enough, not with this r

but now today joe biden is president and he has made the decision. it is a date certain by which u.s. troops will be gone. he said today, interestingly, that it was not a hard decision. he said it was absolutely clear. a war with the taliban, he argued today, is not worth more than the 20 years and thousands of american lives we have already put into it. that pulitzer prize winning journalist david rohde spent more than seven months being held by the taliban. in 2008 and 2009. he escaped and was able to write about his captivity. i thought about the military members who served in afghanistan and also about david rohde, now executive editor at thenewyorker.com. he joins us now. he is the author of "in deep." david, it's an honor to have you with us tonight, thanks for making time. >> thank you, rachel, i'm amazed by that introduction. thank you. >> well, i've always been sort of stunned by what you've been through and how you've put yourself together again and got up and continued with what has been an astonishing career. david, i just wanted to ask y

with president joe biden's decision this week to withdraw all u.s. forces by september 11th, they finally lost the battle. biden made the announcement from the treaty room, the same location where president george w. bush announced a month afternoon 9/11 that strikes against al qaeda had begun. >> we went to afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago. that cannot explain why we should remain there in 2021. rather than return to war with the taliban, we have to focus on the challenges that are in front of us. when i came to office, i inherited a diplomatic agreement duly negotiated between the government of the united states and the taliban that all u.s. forces would be out of afghanistan by may 1, 2021. just three months after my inauguration, that's what we inherited, that commitment. it is perhaps not what i would have negotiated myself, but it was an agreement made by the united states government, and that means something. so in keeping with that agreement, and with our national interests, the united states will begin our

so i actually put that in joe biden's hands. in terms of police reform, that is something that i would really hope could happen. and this is an area where we actually have seen in the past some bipartisan work done, right? even donald trump was able to work on criminal justice reform. obviously, this is something that tim scott, the south carolina senator, is passionate about and has talked about in the past. so that -- i see some cause for hope here, without being too naive or quixotic. >> all right -- >> jonathan lemire, on the question of bipartisanship, it's something that president biden has actually been striving for, hasn't achieved it, obviously. he's brought in those republican senators, first on the covid relief plan and then on this infrastructure plan. no votes yet. is hope dwindling that there actually might be a breakout of bipartisanship under president biden? >> well, willie, i think we saw some small signs of progress yesterday on a few different issues. certainly this, josh hawley aside, on this covid hate crim

joe biden was there to announce the end of that war. >> we cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in afghanistan hoping to create ideal conditions for the withdrawal and expecting a different result. i'm now the fourth united states president to preside over american troop presence in afghanistan, two republicans, two democrats. i will not pass this responsibility on to a fifth. it's time to end america's longest war. it's time for american troops to come home. we went to afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago. that cannot explain why we should remain there in 2021. rather than return to war with the taliban, we have to focus on the challenges that are in front of us. i'm the first president in 40 years who knows what it means to have a child serving in a war zone, and throughout this process, my north star has been remembering what it was like when my late son beau was deployed to iraq, how proud he was to serve his country, and the impact it had on him and all of us at home. we already have service members doing their

remember, they were working with giuliani to dig up dirt about joe biden in ukraine. what is amazing about this saga, is that there was a russian disinformation to discredit joe biden. some of that information was finding its way to rudy giuliani, the president's lawyer. apparently that element of saga is laws and was paid by foreign sources to potentially lobby american officials. but the larger picture here is that there was a disinformation operation to try to discredit joe biden. the russians wanted to interfere in our election and rudy giuliani was deeply enmeshed in that, andrea. >> and joining us now, ken, former u.s. attorney, top official chuck rosenberg. chuck, what is your take on how big a deal this is? >> it's a big deal, andrea, to put it into technical terms. it's a big deal when the justice department gets a search warrant based on probable cause to search any lawyer's office. but remember, mr. juli is not any lawyer. he was the president's personal lawyer. and so when they go to a federal judge and seek permission, they have to convince that judge, th

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

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

donald trump lost and joe biden won, and today the federal government is getting back in the game. joe biden's attorney general announcing an investigation into derek chauvin's police department. >> yesterday's verdict in this state criminal trial does not address potentially systemic policing issues in minneapolis. today, i'm announcing that the justice department has opened a civil investigation, to determine whether the minneapolis police department engages in a pattern of practice, of unconstitutional, or unlawful policing. the department of justice will be unwavering in its pursuit, of equal justice. , under law. attorney general merrick garland will be heading that new pattern practice probe, along with his newly confirmed number three at the justice department, anita gupta. now the associate good tierney general of the united states, that you just heard speaking about those needs for the investigations. they show the dire need of change in the administration. this is one policy tool we do have to reform police departments that are pro can. democratic congressman -- in fergus

but i think joe biden's calculus is, best i can tell, to confront and offer a hand to cooperate where we can. i think that is what we will see. i think that's the new strategy. focus on top targets, current and future, not past, and to minimize the use of the wrong resources. like military resources where there is no operational threat to the u.s. but we will make it clear that u.s. diplomacy is available and we will work with allies and alliances to help in places like afghanistan. >> so let's turn to china, then. how, in your view, does the threat coming from china, the china they represent, differ. there is massive differences, but there are many additional challenges around how to use and be prepared to take on a possibility of a hot conflict or an escalation of cold conflicts with china? >> russia is a difficult problem just in terms of chaos. china is a real problem and a real opportunity in terms of it's size and it's markets. it has huge markets for u.s. goods and all of our asian allies. so what do we do about china? it seems to me we have to confront china. such as human rig

and not just in states that joe biden won. obviously that, is ground zero for the effort. places like georgia, arizona, michigan this is where they're most desperate to enact the restrictions on voting. they're pushing them in states like florida and states he won comfortably like montana, and iowa. they're all marching off the same playbook. the laws they're passing to restrict voting rights are similar across the country. for example, georgia passed a bill that criminalized giving food and water to people in line. that is a controversial provision. well, similar bills have now been introduced in florida and in arkansas. criminalizing election administration. that is happening not just in georgia but in iowa in, florida, in other states, in texas. and so really, not just -- they're not just trying to make it harder to vote in all the states. they're trying to make it hard to vote in all the same ways in state after state after state. >> there is an ohio story i saw today about the -- that they have judicial elections that democrats have done pretty well in. and they don't

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

. >> what happens next to the american worker also depends in large part on whether joe biden can make the democrats the party of the american worker again. counter the fake populism of the republicans who pretend they're the party of the worker. the house just passed a pro act. and now there's biden's $2 trillion infrastructure bill. it sounds like a lot of money but it's spread out nearly a decade. some on the left say it isn't enough. >> i have serious concerns that it's not enough to realize the very inspiring vision that biden has advanced. we know that there is so much more opportunity here. and in order for us to realize this inspiring vision, we need to go way higher. >> let's turn now to senator bernie sanders, who we just heard from when he met with amazon workers in bessemer, alabama. he's the new senate budget committee chair who seems to be at the height of his influence. we spoke earlier today. senator bernie sanders, thank you for speaking to me. we're expecting a result from that vote. maybe as early as tomorrow. what will a yes vote mean? not just for amazon and labor

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

he was very vocal of the criticism of joe biden. of course, general petraeus commanded forces in afghanistan for a long time and said the endless war doesn't end just because we leave. to your point, we may have to go back and clean up what we leave behind. katty kay, obviously, 2,500, nearly 2,500 americans have lost their lives over those 20 years. about 500 offer allies from the uk as well have lost their lives. this is not a celebratory moment, just talking to veterans yesterday and people who served there, they're thinking about the friends who they lost there. they're thinking about the long-term damage to their own lives. and they worry, frankly, about what joe was just talking about. leaving, yes, they want to go home, but they worry that they may have to go back. >> the irony of the u.s. forces in afghanistan compared to iraq is that the u.s. forces are actually welcomed by the afghan people. they recognize that they depend on them to preserve some sort of quality of life. we had an interview yesterday with a taliban leader

joe biden, now, i've traveled the world with joe. i hoped he lost. i prayed he would lose. he won. he's the legitimate president of the united states. >> but their comments that day were too little, too late. they did nothing to stop the momentum or consequences of the lies. and when those lies turned to violence, turned to chants of hang mike pence, to grizzly attacks on capitol police officers, republicans did nothing to stop it. in fact, in the hundred days since the insurrection, members of the gop have continued to spread misinformation, casting doubt on the election results still and downplaying the events of that day. the big lie now is being used as a weapon at state capitols all across the country as justification for new legislation designed to make it harder for people, mostly minorities, to cast their ballots in future elections. and new reporting from nbc news shines a light on how dangerous the threat of extremism stoke bid trump's disinformation really is. quote, they're the most elite, lethally trained members of the u.s. military. widely considered the best of the

>> well, joy, joe biden has made no secret he believes it's time to bring the troops home. he was advocate of that in obama administration as well. as president with wide array of threats and challenges on his plate, he wants to do that. made the decision after i understand a long and lengthy debate among the national security agencies to make the decision to bring them home. joe biden understands there are no attractive options in afghanistan, there are risks in terms of full withdrawal of u.s. forces. hopefully we're going to be able to offset diminishment of intelligence and counterterrorism activities with regional resources. at the same time i fear that some of joe biden's toughest decisions on afghanistan are yet to come. what happens when the taliban advances military momentum toward kabul, what happens with psychological impact of the security and military forces of the afghan government? might it collapse? i'm sure they have plans for it. we're going to main embassy with personnel and others. this is something they're going to keep a close focus on despite they've

but now today, joe biden is president. and he hasn't made that decision. and it's a firm decision and it's not conditioned. it's a date by which u.s. troops will be gone. he said today, it was not her decision. he said it was absolutely clear. a war with the taliban hey, our view today, is not worth more than 20 years and thousands of american lives we've already put into it. pulitzer prize-winning journalist david rohde spent more than seven months been held hostage by the taliban. he escaped, he wrote wrote about his captivity. today, hearing the president speak i thought about the service members and military families that i know who have served in afghanistan, how they're feeling today. i office also thought of david rohde. david rohde joins us now. his most recent book is in deep, the fbi, the cia and the truth about america's deep state. david, it's a real honor to have you with us tonight. thank you for making time. >> thank you, rachel. i'm amazed by that introduction. thank you. >> well, it's always, i've always been start of stunned by what you'v

you push them to investigate the bidens, joe biden and hunter biden, his son, which, of course, started the chain of events that led to his first impeachment, and also some of this was covert and outward efforts by these russian officials, those close to russia, and other times, it was just, how internalized this had all become, that for so many republicans and the conservative media where suddenly vladimir putin, who, for years, of course, was considered enemy number one for republicans too. let's remember, mitt romney in 2012 said that he was the greatest threat, russia was the greatest threat, international threat the united states faced. but because of how trump changed the conversation, the way that he allied himself and spoke so fondly of putin and the way, of course, that they wanted to hear this disinformation that the russians provided, these attacks on whether it was obama or clinton or whatever democrat it may be and then eventually biden that they just were willing to go along with it. they sort of accepted the kremlin's talking points. even if they didn't necessarily realiz

i will not pass this responsibility on to a fifth. >> president joe biden is pulling all u.s. troops from afghanistan by september 11th. the 20th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks that led to u.s. military intervention in that country. that decision ran counter to the recommendations of his top military commanders, who said it could undermine security in the country. joining us now, president of the council on foreign relations, richard haas, and staff where you are for the new yorker, dexter filkins. joe, you may take it away now as you tap the table. i think you need to say something. go ahead. it's all right. >> i'm a little frustrated. >> why? >> with the decision. >> that's okay. it's been made. >> well, dexter -- >> yes, it is. >> richard haas is going to tell us how we can live with it. >> and that's great. dexter, so, i think about you often and what -- the number of times you've been on our show. i remember you talking about how terrible things were in iraq in '07, '08. i remember you coming back on in 2010, saying you didn't even recognize the country, becaus

joe biden has called vladimir putin a thug. he says he was a murderer but that he wants a stable and predictable relationship with russia going forward. give me 30 seconds on what stable relationship looks like. >> joe biden said it should be possible to walk and chew gum at the same time. one of the key issues, of the forthcoming personal meeting between president biden and vladimir putin, should be the issue of political prisoners and the top of that list is alexei navalny, who is now as we speak entering the third week of his hunger strike in protest at deliberate denial of medical care. navalny just a few months ago was poisoned by russian security services. he is being denied medical care, and this should be among the top of the issues on the list when biden and putin meet this summer in european. >> you put a lot into a short amount of time. we'll continue discussing this. the one thing you remind us we should always be reminded of, we're not talking about the russians. we're talking about the administration and the regim

so one of the biden voters whom our pollster spoke to said the best thing about joe biden was that he didn't have to think about him every day, a departure from his predecessor and the biden supporters may not be as rabid or loyal when the going gets tough. >> that's a real concern, but i think people are still connected into a lot of what is happening with this administration to both points recently made that hey, folks want to get it done. stephanie's got it right. folks want to get it done and the difference is for me that if you're going to compare and contrast this leadership, when you look at a president who rolls his sleeves up and sitting down next to the neighbors and sitting down next to conversations with everyday folks about this is what we're going to do, i think people are responding to that, and so i know republicans want to look at this through a strictly partisan lens and they want to make this out to be a moment in which they can demagogue on socialism and culture wars and all of that, but folks want to put the kids back in school. folks want to get the vaccine. folk

right now joe biden leaned into that last night. he really detailed the case while it's big to meet the scale and the challenge and the problems, why would you want to go small at this moment. that's the other thing i wanted to play, as mentioned, being at the white house and their optimism. this is jen psaki, i think the viewers know, and the director talking. we have more sound than we got to use talking about their approach to the speech. now that we heard it, let's take a look. >> the most important thing is for people across the country not feel like you're talking down to them or, you know, speaking in some, you know, arcane sort of industry technology that doesn't matter to the average person. >> he wants to make sure my mother and his cousins understand what he has to see. >> i want my mother in scranton to know exactly what i'm talking about when i talk about this. >> your view, bottom line, did he meet that standard of clarity last night? >> i think he did. i really do. i think he has for some time. i think he has brought

so, mister secretary, joe biden when -- every time i hear him say climate change, somewhere very close to those words i hear the wood jobs. that is a new approach to presenting this issue to voters. next to her job to make the case that this is about jobs. how do make their case to members of the senate members of the? house >> it is about jobs, there's no question about it. when i was the chair -- if i was the mayor in the city of boston, and we're talking about climate change. it was about jobs, and resiliency. it was about creating opportunities, and with what the president is talking about, he wants to reduce carbon emissions by 2030 in a way that is by building great infrastructure, clean infrastructure. creating opportunities. there is no other way to look. at it it's how he's looking, and it puts a lot of the time we look at reducing carbon emissions, and having a clean economy, or a clean environments. but the way that you get there is by having people working in these sectors and we've already in the american rescue plan invested money in training veterans for green jobs. we a

secretary, joe biden, when every time i hear him say climate change somewhere, very close to those words, i hear the word "jobs." that is a new approach to presenting this issue to voters. it's your job to make the case that this is about jobs. how do you make that case to members of the senate, members of the house? >> well, it is about jobs. there is no question about it. when i was the chair of the u.s. climate change mayors or mayor in the city of boston and we were talking about climate change, it was about jobs. it was about resiliency, creating opportunities. the president came up with a goal today to reduce carbon emissions by the year, cut them in half by 2030. the way to do that is by building a green infrastructure, clean infrastructure, creating opportunities. there is no other way -- there is other ways of looking at it, but we look at the issue of climate and reducing carbon emissions and having a clean economy and environment, but you get there by having people work in these sectors. in the american rescue plan we already invested money in training veterans for green jobs.

i mean how stark of a contrast is it between joe biden's deliberate focus, strategic tough approach to russia. no tweeting, no bluster, no chest pounding compared to donald trump. but, you know, listen, the signals were there all along, right? we have known for a long time that russia is a threat to us, that they have been attacking us, that they have been meddling in our elections and they haven't been doing so equally. that they have favored donald trump for a very long time, which raises the question to why. the answer to why is because he was soft on them. he allowed vladimir putin to do whatever he wanted. plus you add to that that donald trump was able to accomplish something for vladimir putin that vladimir putin was never able to accomplish on his own. as he brought chaos and dysfunction to our government and to our society that vladimir putin couldn't have dreamed of ever bringing on his own, so it would make sense that he would meddle in this way. >> i have to ask do you think that this was a failing of the mueller report that they didn't pursue this line of reasoning. they a

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

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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?

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

it was then senator joe biden at 33 years old, first senator to endorse him in 1976. he said he wanted to get down to plains to say hello much i asked how the former president is doing. he has had an on again-off again battle with cancer for years. president biden said president carter was doing as well as could be expected. the conversation spanned about 25 minutes. and dr. biden joined us toward the end as well. >> that is extraordinary, so many topics you have covered. let me point out with you that this is important for the president to point out separately from the way it used to be done under president trump, that he stays out of all justice department affairs. that was something very important from his perspective. >> indeed. >> craig melvin, we will be watching tomorrow on "today." you can see the interview tomorrow on the "today" show and right here. mr. biden pointing to his response to the coronavirus that big government can be effective. >> democracy still works, government still works and we can deliver for our people. we are vaccinating the nation, creat

what will joe biden do with that. will he take that 25%, pocket the victory and move on, or will he push for the 28% in his initial proposal? everything we're hearing from the white house and pretty much all of my conversations is, they're focused on getting a deal, they want a negotiation. there aren't hard red lines anywhere here for the white house. they were very clear on what they wanted for the $1.9 trillion. but on this infrastructure and tax bill, they want to have congress be in the driver's seat and they want to make sure that something, something gets across the line. kasie? >> you guys are also writing about the so-called g-20 in congress. ten democrats, ten republicans who in theory could do big things. but the challenge is, nobody really believes that there are ten republicans who are willing to vote to advance the biden administration's priorities. i mean, is this all just a pipe dream or is it real? >> well, right now, i don't think anyone knows. i think you're asking the right question, right? i think

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

cynthia timerman is a lifelong republican and she voted for joe biden. her husband is high risk and her two daughters got severely ill from covid-19 and darryl ross is a restaurant owner whose community has been hard hit pie this. take a listen. >> it's been wonderful to see the biden administration actually come in late to the party, but develop a distribution and come in here. >> coming into the obstacles he came into, i don't know what he could have done better and again, i think he's put his actions where his words were. >> stephanie, i have to tell you, the relief i heard in darryl's voice when he talked about his staff, his employees at his restaurant getting vaccinated, it was incredible. under the trump administration, the business side, he was doing fine. the trump white house took better care of businesses than people and now he's happy to see some relief coming on both fronts. steph? >> doctor, i want to talk about people who are not getting vaccinated. it's not just about hesitancy from those who are concerned about the effects or don't have