then barack obama gets re-elected easily two years later. this is the ebb and flow of american politics. i'm not saying it's great. i'm just saying, this is the defining feature of our time, just like, you know, for large chunks of the 19th century we had really, really crappy presidents. >> there are a couple of things. steve really kind of points them up for us. the first is understanding that, you know, 2016 is -- and '20 are presidential cycles. in between, you have the local races. so you have this national phenomena, where everybody is focused on a big name for president. then it becomes very local, which is what these governors races really reflect. and what this race in virginia says, and i think that, you know, youngkin put it right when he says, "i want to change the trajectory of the commonwealth," and he is going to focus on the local issues to help do that. he's not springing in national issues. that's what mcauliffe tried to do. he tried to tie youngkin and trump together. he tried to create this national synergy of, you know,

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obama, larry summers has been talking about inflation for months and a lot of people worry when you take an inflationary overheated economy and you have $3 trillion which is what these 2 billion bills would do, 3 trillion in government spending you will make it worse and there's a lot of economic experts that say pass or not pass it, inflation will continue well into 2022. >> let's break this down, long-term and short-term, that is definitely true 17 nobel prize-winning a economist are those that we talked about doing things to allow americans to get back to work, putting money in their pockets and making childcare more affordable will help with inflation in the long run, there is a short-term transitory the ones that we are already seeing slow down a little bit but very mindful because that's impacting americans. that is a consequence of the economic effects of the pandemic. there are so many things that are happening in our economy, distortion, disruption, things in our supply chain that are affecting crisis, a clearly direct consequence of the pandemic which is why the best thing

remind everyone on the panel barack obama and bill clinton lost midterms and both came back to be elected. this white house needs to regroup, reset and call on congress to pass the legislation in front of them. >> bret: you know i said last note to martha eventually because of this win that glenn youngkin was going to be whispered about the presidency at some point. i just didn't know it was going to happen wednesday with the panel. ben, your thoughts. >> we follow your lead, bret. >> i think when it comes to what harold is saying there, there is a lot of truth to it. one thing clear forever the democratic coalition going forward you cannot continue agenda when we lose the an election america is racist. somehow yesterday america proved that it was racist again or something like that. glenn youngkin was smart enough to run take arrows for it and reject it we will find he was rewarded by hispanic voters, by asian voters, by other voter continues in virginia that made the difference for him ultimately. we cannot continue this kind of race-based agenda that create the hierarchy for children i

barack obama was elected twice. while barack obama was in office, democrats lost, i believe, 1,000 legislative seats nationwide. the consequences of that for the party have been devastating. so if you're sitting out there and you want to get engaged, you want to make a difference, don't just look to congress. this is whether you're a republican or democrat, whoever you are. look to the state legislatures. by the way, the state legislatures, this is so important, we're talking about the big lie. we're talking about january 6th. do you know why that festered? because we were still counting wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, and georgia weeks later. now, leading up to the election, we said on this show time and again, and others said, those legislatures, in order to stop any questions about the legitimacy of the election, should do what the state of florida does. yes, ron desantis, governor of the state of florida, and past governors have done, and that is count all of the early votes before the polls close on election

the, about culture work with barack obama in virginia using plan youngkin, raising these issues, that was on top of a lot of between criticism including terry mcauliffe thing glenn youngkin was running a race campaign from the lincoln project as a white supremacist and i think this james was leading to ridiculous things in los angeles. larry elder, african-american radio commentator hailed as a candidate white supremacy. same thing in virginia, the, first african-american woman to win a statewide office, she's hailed as an advocate for white supremacy. it shows more they don't have an argument and they want to bully people into silence and i think the public is responding. i think most of the public that saw the mcdonald's ceo statement would have the reaction that monai and kim had talking about responsibility and also saying you can't say that and i think most people sympathize with that and they see the people bully offstage. paul: kim, any signs the democrats will move off of this? >> the fact that they are actively saying we are not really engaged in critical race theory and oh,

barack obama when he was president his last year, illegal crossings were at a 50-year low. just stop and think about that for a second. illegal crossings were at a 50-year low. and in the obama/biden administration, they skyrocketed under donald trump. they are continuing to skyrocket now. obviously joe biden needs to figure out exactly what worked when he and barack obama were in the white house before and duplicate that. >> there's that, but as they celebrate the bipartisan infrastructure bill today, i would also suggest that they look at the many different crises facing this administration and think about like a supply chain czar. there's a couple different things american consumers and this is what -- this is what's going to impact the way they vote. that are impacting them right now. they can celebrate a bipartisan infrastructure bill about what's coming. that's great. but what's happening right now? like, massive shortages in supply chain issues and that's going to stay with us for months and months. >> mika, the 60 minutes piece last night on the supply chain, crisis

barack obama and michelle get ready to depart washington and get on marine-1. did you speak to them since then? >> well, not much. initiately right after i took office i did. one or two times. i spoke to them before taking office. that's a ritual. it was 15 minutes and it ended up being quite a bit long tore put it mildy.e it was an interesting conversation. he told me about north korea and the problems and that was the greatest problem we and i to it a large extent solved it. we got along great with north korea after the rough first patch but then they understood we were not playing games and we got along great. not very much.e >> sean: you once told me that you thought we were on a path towards war with north korea? >> i did and so did president obama and that would have been a nuclear war. we met in singapore and in vietnam. we had great meetings and we established a great relationship. i liked him and he liked me. we had some interesting conversations. >> sean: we got back the remains of our soldiers. >> we did. >> sean: i was at both summits. he stopped th

the only time the pattern was broken in 2013 when a leader after barack obama was reelected president and some guy named terry mcauliffe was elected governor of virginia and then the pattern went back to the same as it always been. one party wins the white house and other party wins virginia's mansion. youngkin has history and momentum on his side. what mcauliffe has on his side is math. the fact that this has been a bluer and bluer state and so the question is, do enough democrats come out to vote for mcauliffe? does youngkin motivate republicans in a year when trump is not on the ballot which plays both ways. right, trump is in a lock box. we'll not know until tonight how this works out. i think anybody tells you they know how this is going to play is wrong. we just don't know yet. i don't rule out the possibility that other candidate could win convincingly either because of the momentum or the math. let's see. >> let's put sam stein in the position telling us how this is going to play out. >> white house senator for politico. sam, how is it looking in virginia, any polls giving you

bush hundred 20006, and he said there had been a thumping of this party and barack obama percent in 2010, there had been a shellacking but present biden deflected these questions whether or not he was responsible pretty. reporter: we're just talking about the importance of the white house press corps, that room being full of people who are able to ask tough questions is somewhat scandalous and that the only questions about this usually important border policy will only ask by peter ducey and david - and there should be dozens of reporters asking these tough instead of what we suffer people like is like what can we do to help the democratic party going forward pretty. >> they did asked do you bear personal responsibility and present biden said well yes fix it whenever and so just sort of well i don't know the infrastructure built it would help or not. >> i don't thank you so much on the part of present vitamin there also have not been the same type of tenacious question asking and asking a question without tough follow-up is not really that notable is really only one instance in the entir

they did not rebound as well as barack obama did. you combine that with solid turnout above presidential level numbers for glenn youngkin in rural areas and that was a politically deadly combination for terry mcauliffe. judy: we could show our viewers a graphic that shows glenn youngkin pulled in 53% of suburban voters in virginia compared to former president trump, 45%, just last november. james, looking at these results of your party, what went wrong? james: what went wrong was stupid wokeness. look at buffalo, minneapolis, seattle, washington. this defund the police lunacy, take abraham lincoln's name off of schools, people see that. it has a suppressive effect across the country. some of these people need to go to a woke detox center. it is language people don't use and there is a backlash and frustration at that. you are right, suburbanites in northern virginia and northern new jersey pulled away a bit. you never ran any ads against biden. what he did was let the democrats hold the pin and watch the grenade go off. we have to ch

the house held eric holder, the attorney general for barack obama and contempt in the obama administration and obama justice department refused to prosecute that case. there is politics all over these cases. >> sure, i do think, you already alluded to this in your earlier conversation. what happens with bannon may be different than others. bannon was not there, he was not in the white house. he talked about this on air video before. there is no way to make the executive privilege claim whether or not others are successful that will play out whether or not you're indifferent, that will play out but this sends a very strong message that they're not playing around and that they want to get to the truth. this is unprecedented it is going to be treated as such. chris: were talking about the reasons of the banning cases but there is talk in washington concerning that it could open up a dangerous precedent in seeing the willingness of the biden administration to go after steve bannon and potentially to go after people with a stronger case like the white house chief of staff mark meadows that this

one stay-at-home dad and part-time lyft driver in arizona became convinced that barack obama and george soros had packed ballots boxes with fake ballots. he left messages saying that the secretary of state would hang from a tree. and georgia, saw for rudy giuliani, he left a voice mail for the fulton county director telling him he better rung or he would be hung and face firing squads. a 42-year-old night staffer, worked at a youth treatment center in utah, he said his anger boiled over after he watched an election conspiracy theory event hosted by the my pillow guy mike lindell. he messaged an election official saying i know where you sleep. be afraid. you will die. this is by a real person who is findable, traceable, reuters called them. reuters spoke to nine of these folks, believing they believe they didn't do anything wrong, saying election officials deserve these threats. most of the people reuters spoke to, part of the reason they're so cocky and not running from this, there are no consequences for it. most have never heard from police. even though law enforcement alerted officia

obama and i were like hiding out, cooked all this up and then got south africa -- it's nuts. >> nobody believes just one conspiracy theory. you got to collect them all. >> what's so damaging about this, too, beyond the multiple falsehoods in that one tweet is that he does have the title of doctor. doctors, nurses, medical professionals are broadly, widely regarded as they are trusted by the public. there's a reason why earlier this year or some time last year republicans -- the republican doctors caucus did kind of a psa add encouraging people to get vaccinated because the public trusts doctors. when you have that additional title on top of elected official, on much to politician, it's egregious for him to be spreading these conspiracy theories. >> beyond obviously the falsehoods in that tweet, what it seems he's trying to do here are sort of hone in on two things. one, you know, voter fraud which we know not to be true. in 2020. but what we're seeing from republicans as they think this motivates the base. we're seeing him sort of go after that. and then also there's clearly an exhaust

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trying to change that trend is valerie jarrett, the ceo of the barack obama foundation and board care of civic nation and part of the made to save coalition, working to make vaccination more acceptable in communities of color. valerie, thank you for what you're doing. >> thank you. good afternoon. >> you've got 28 million american children eligible to be vaccinated and you're trying to make sure children of color in particular get that shot. what are the challenges you're facing? >> absolutely. well, first of all, nothing is more important from the parent's perspective than the health of our children. we want do everything we can to keep them safe. there's been a lot of misinformation before. so part of our goal is to reach out across a broad network of organizations across our country, meet people where they are, give parents the information that they need that will convince them that it is safe for their child to get vaccinated, encourage them to talk to their pediatrician and health care providers and build this network of support that moves the needle forward, with no pun intended

the republican base slash fox news audience naturally hated barack obama, it naturally hated hillary clinton, it naturally hated biden and harris. pumping out lies all year, including straight-up deception like you see, and they've succeeded. they're taught their base to hate joe biden. joining me now, david plouffe, 2008 obama campaign manager as well as a former senior adviser of president obama. he is here to discuss. first of all, that really is like, even by their standards, pretty egregious with the disappearing hand in the middle, to do that. how much of an effect in the sort of -- the space of american politics, and the amorphous thing we call public opinion, how much effect does that one network have? >> enormous. first of all, chris, you're smart to call this out, because i think we believe there's no bottom at fox. this was a new and meaningful and dangerous moment. maybe it was a trial balloon. but this is a new front in their war. so yeah, i mean, they basically pollute up to probably a third of the electorate and then that third of the electorate spills over into, you k

in they brought in barack obama, stacey abrams and it doesn't seem to have moved the needle. now, maybe we will find out that it did. that they brought out all these blue voters that wouldn't come. looks like a race between the candidates. glenn youngkin attached himself to real bread and butter issues. literal bread and butter issue 2.5% tax on groceries, education which is now the top issue. i would but the it this way, i think if glenn youngkin doesn't win, in this environment, facing a bad candidate with a lot of breaks that have gone his way it's hard for me to see any republican winning statewide in virginia. i think it will just be a blue state. >> bret: that's exactly right if that's what turns out. here are some sound about expectations tonight. >> i think virginia is a very important canary in a coal mine. biden has handed control much the agenda over to the radicals over the bernie sanders and aoc and elizabeth warren and i think people are horrified. i think virginia is aspect of that. >> there is a comfort level with terry that's positive. the little dynamic in t

you remember in 2009 when barack obama came out with his then-roughly $800 billion stimulus bill, smaller than this -- smaller than both of these bills and republicans even many elements of that bill were very popular. republicans ran against it saying this was big government run amok, too much spending too fast, and every single republican in the house voted against it in 2009. they ran that, and the opposition health care into a big victory into the midterm elections in 2010. that's what they're trying to do here. >> it's inflation now with that panel, how do democrats handle that? >> that's why republicans feel that they can go against this bill even though the elements of the bill are popular. they will point to inflation which everybody senses and everybody feels. it affects every household, and they will say, inflation is because of what joe biden and the democrats have done. now the economics of that may not be accurate at all, but they will push that argument and they will push it relentlessly. between now and next november. >> you see the white house trying to address that, right

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. >>> my next guest predicted this senate setback teamed up with joel bennenson a poster for barack obama, together they did a research project that warned democrats they are misjudging which issues voters care most about, especially independent voters. just before the election, they found the issues that independents care most about, the economy, inflation, jobs, immigration, and border security, and covid-19, the pandemic recovery and they warned that the number of independents who said the country was headed in the wrong direction was 70%. what does this mean for democrats in next year's midterms, neil newhouse joins me now, the cofounder of the republican polling firm, republican opinion strategies. welcome back. james carville said certain among us, they need detox from wokeness, one narrative that's come out of virginia is that this was all explained as a rejection of wokeness. is it that simple? >> no, it's never that simple. this is -- it's a typical kind of midterm election where voters respond to the party in power. i think the message they sent. joe manchin was right about the

president barack obama's first off-year election. republican bob mcdonald won the gubernatorial race in virginia by more than 17 percentage points. and chris christie became a national celebrity by winning in new jersey, despite that, democrats passed the affordable care act in 2010 and president obama was re-elected in 2012. based on that history, should we be careful to draw any major conclusions from just a handful of races? >> rev, if i were the democrats, i wouldn't talk about it anymore. there was a huge vote that passed for americans, especially in certain districts where those democrats need a win, they got one on infrastructure. who cares about virginia and new jersey anymore? that's yesterday's news. i really think that it's important -- yes, you want to do a recap of what happened and perhaps where things went right, where they went wrong, but move forward. this infrastructure bill is all about not just bridges and tunnels, but you got clean water, you got the electricity grid. you just spoke to a congressman from texas. t

president barack obama, appointed general powell, to the federal reserve in 20 2011. and in 2017, donald trump appointed him to be the chair of the federal reserve. president biden announced that he will anomaly him to serve a second for your term as chair as the federal reserve. >> someone no doubt questioned why i'm renominating jay. when he was a choice of a republican president. i'm not picking a democrat. why i'm not picking fresh blood? or taking a fed in the different direction. directly, at this moment both of the enormous potential an enormous uncertainty for a comedy. we need stability, and independents at the federal reserve. >> if these three democratic senators, including elizabeth warren, announced they will vote against the paul nomination. but that is unlikely to change the outcome in the senate and the majority of democrats, and almost every republican senator voted to come from paul four years ago. when the senate vote was 84, to 13. today he became president biden's fuel general in the fight between inflation. >> we know that high inflation takes a

it is same america that elected barack obama twice, you have donald trump right after that. how do we process all of this? >> yes, this is a question i all-important get from students, i try to remind them that i think we are part of a very long story. and so this story of bright spots followed by darkness, or bright spots together with darkness, are part of our long history, in addition to the things he talked about in politics we can think about slavery in reconstruction. so these things tend to go together, but i think it's important for us to do use those bright spots, to take them and find joy in them as we continue the work. it's important that we don't get bogged down and start to celebrate the price phosphine they happen, because it's necessary to hold on to that kind of thing, when we need to continue to work and we do those work from residents ration and the turnout, when we're fighting against redistricting we were just hurting about. and battle in against covid, we can do those things with a smile on our faces we remember the good times. >> i just want to end on

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 administration. republicans were elected governor last night, two important states, but other than preferred both candidates to the democrats, were voters across the country last night trying to say something else? there is evidence of an angry electorate out there. >> that was not wrong. we remember what happened in the midterms in 2010, that night with brian williams referring to -- they were bob mcdonald and new

my friend and the man about whom, president barack obama once said, everybody who speaks after michael eric dyson, pales in comparison. that is why i am speaking before michael eric dyson, his new book is titled, entertaining race. professor dyson. thank you very much for joining us tonight. let's begin with your title. please explain the title. >> thank you for your graciousness in your wonderful spirit of openness. entertaining in three ways. first of all black people from the very beginning of soldiering america has had entertained the dominant white culture. from the slave ship to the plantation. to the stage of performance. number two we've had to entertain the idea of race. constantly we are negotiating between him betwixt. segments of our society, that mandate that we address explicitly or implicitly, the issue of, race and thirdly we have had to find ways to be entertaining while talking about race. how do we think about race in ways that are not those old freezes that seemed to be ruthlessly clichÉd for some people. we have to find new and inventive ways to try to speak, new

you know, barack obama and nancy pelosi also back then passed an awful lot of legislation that, quite frankly, saved this country from disaster, certainly from going off the economic cliff, and then we turn around and got drubbed in the midterms as well. i think democrats have to do a much better job of connecting their legislation to the real world and real lives and aspirations and concerns of americans. they've been very good at passing legislation. democrats historically have not been very good at selling that legislation. they've not been very good at the politics of the legislation, although i will say, lawrence, and i know biden has taken a lots of hits about this and democrats took a lot of hits about this, but even if they passed the build back better and the infrastructure bill, i don't think it would have made much difference in the election results you just saw in virginia, and history says that. it probably wouldn't make that much difference because the base of the party just isn't energized as well as the base of the republican party is. >> it seems infrastructure is esp

they didn't abound as well as, say, barack obama did. but you combine that with solid turnout, above presidential numbers for glenn youngkin in some of the rural areas, and that was politically a deadly combination for terry mcauliffe. >> woodruff: quickly, we can show our viewers a graphic that shows that glenn youngkin was able to pull in, what, 53% of suburban voters in virginia compared to president and former president trump, 45% just last november. james carville, to you, looking at these results, your party, what went wrong? >> what went wrong was this stupid wokeness. don't just look at virginia and new jersey, look at long island, look at buffalo, minneapolis, even seattle, washington. i mean, this defund the police lunacy, this take abraham lincoln's name off schools, people see that. it's had a suppressive effect across the country to these democrats. some of these people need to go to a woke detox center or something. they're expressing language people just don't use and there's a backlash and frustration at that. the suburba

obama and george soros had packed ballot boxes with fake ballot boxes from china, he left expletive filled messages for arizona secretary of state. saying she would hang from a tree. georgia real estate investor saw a presentation from really giuliani an election fired in georgia, he left a voice mail for the full and county elections director, telling him that he quote, better run, because he would be hung. or he would face the firing squad. a 42-year-old night staffer, who works at a youth treatment center in utah, he says his anger boiled over after he watched an election conspiracy event hosted by the my pillow guy. this utah man, the one that works at the youth treatment center, he message colorado's top election official and told her quote, i know where you sleep. i see you sleeping. be afraid, be very afraid. i hope you die. that was sent by a real person, whose find, -able traceable, raiders called him, writer spoke with nine of these, folks all but one of them were happy to go by record and by name, admitting to their cause, saying they believe they hadn't done anything wro

barack obama and nancy pelosi also back then passed an awful lot of legislation that quite frankly save the country from disaster. and certainly from going off an economic cliff. and then we turn around and got dragged into those midterms as well. democrats have to do a much better job of connecting their legislation to the real world and realize, to the aspirations and concerns of americans. they've been good at passing legislation. democrats have historically not been very good at selling that legislation, not good at the politics of that legislation. although i will say, lawrence, and i will say that biden has taken a lot of hits, as have democrats, about this -- but even if they had passed build back better and the infrastructure bill, i don't know that it would have made that much of a difference, quite frankly, in those results you just saw. in virginia. and history says that it may not have made that much of a difference, because the base of the party just is not energized. as well as the base of the republican parties. >> it seems that infrastructure is especially challenging fo

this is a county that has constantly voted for a democratic presidential candidate since barack obama but at the same time keeps elected a republican congressman. for all these reasons, we'll dive into the issues that matter here in washoe county. >> very hard for democrats to win a race without carrying washoe. finally shaquille brewster in duval county, florida. shaq, the endangered species, the swing county. tell us about duval. >> good morning, chuck. duval county, essentially jacksonville, florida, is a sprawling suburban area that is as purple as purple gets. it wasn't always that way. this is a traditionally republican stronghold that democrats flipped in 2018 and president biden won in 2020. now it's the source of a major battle between both political parties. republicans are trying to reverse the trend they've been seeing, pointing to issues like immigration, inflation, and the labor shortage, hoping moderate voters will end upcoming home, and democrats are pointing to congress and pleading with them to pass president biden's agenda saying inaction could threaten the trends t

obama twice, you had donald trump right after that. how do we process all of this? >> yeah, this is a question i often get from students and try to remind them that i think we are part of a very long story and so this story of bright spots followed by darkness or bright spots together with darkness are a part of our long history in addition to the things you talked about in politics we could think about slavery and reconstruction and so these things tend to go together but i think it's important for us to use those bright spots to take them into find joy in them as we continue the work. it's important we don't get bogged down in the dark spots we celebrate the bright spots when they happen because it's necessary to hold on to that kind of thing when we need to continue to work and doing the voter registration and turnout and fighting against the redistricting we were just hearing about or figuring out how not to get covid and can remember those good times. >> i just want to end on a positive note. what does it mean for a howard alumni

at the same time, we often hear president biden talk about how barack obama chose him to be the front man on the recovery act years ago and how pivotal it was. he didn't choose the vice president do that for infrastructure. pete buttigieg is part of that. mitch landrieu has been brought in, others. he did give her volatile topics like immigration and voting rights, which right now don't have the votes to move in legislative ways. so those are all magnets for more criticism from the right. so she has a portfolio that makes her perhaps drag in more criticism, and she's trying to not outshine the president, and at the same time she is struggling with that noise. they say she's going to focus on working, she's going to focus on a good relationship with president biden. could he do more to help her? perhaps he could. >> david, you seemed to imply earlier when we were talking off camera, you think it's harder to be a candidate of color today running for office than ten years ago. >> absolutely, chuck, for the reasons we're talking about right now. look at the statements released from the wh

obama or donald trump. neither of them ever went below 20. biden is at 15. so, why? well, one reason many americans are unhappy with the president according to the poll is the economy. 58% don't believe that he is paying attention to the nation's most important problems, and the biggest of those? well, you know, it's the economy. that's according to more than a third of americans, and that is -- they say it's a bigger problem than any other single issue, including coronavirus, including immigration, economy. nothing else bigger. so, what is president biden doing about it? well, according to biden himself, one remedy is the bipartisan infrastructure bill that finally passed the house on friday after months of democratic infighting and negotiations. >> we did something that's long overdue, that long has been talked about in washington but never actually been done. there'll be jobs in every part of the country. >> yet, as of tonight, nearly three days after the house finally passed the bill, the president stil

the days when i thought it would be terrible if barack obama was replaced with mitt romney, are you kidding? these folks, some of them, are a threat to the republic, to the nation. >>> finally from us today, be sure to check out the homes for our troops fifth anniversary celebrity ebay auction. among the great items, two tickets to a future marvel film premiere offered by don cheadle. a replica of the bar sign from brooklyn 99. you can buy a zoom call with "people" magmagazine's newly crowned sexiest man alive paul rudd. and i'll also be on that call. all proceeds go to build sp specially designed homes for severely wounded veterans of iraq and afghanistan. ebay.com/hfot, homes for our troops. bidding closes on tuesday. until then, follow me on facebook, instagram, twitter. tweet the show. if you ever miss an episode listen to "the lead" wherever you get podcasts. our coverage continues with mr. wolf blitzer right next door in "the situation room." see you tomorrow. >>> happening now. breaking news. a bombshell day in the kyle rittenhouse trial. rittenhouse sobbing on the stand, insisting h

president barack obama appointed jerome powell to the federal reserve board of governors in 2011, and in 2017, donald trump appointed jerome powell to be the chair of the federal reserve. president biden announced that he will renominate jerome powell to serve a second four-year term as chair of the federal reserve. >> some will no doubt question why i'm renominating joy when he was choice of a republican predecessor. why am i not picking a democrat? why am i not picking fresh blood or taking the fed in a different direction? put directly, at this moment both of both enormous potential and enormous uncertainty for our economy, we need stability and independence at the federal reserve. >> at least three democratic senators, including elizabeth warren have announce they'd will vote against the powell nomination, but that is unlikely to change the outcome in the senate since a majority of democrats and almost every republican senator voted to confirm powell four years ago when the senate vote was 84-13. today jerome powell became president biden's field general in the fight against infla

trump did more than 50 in the same time and barack obama or than 100. now, we get to the papers real gripe about biden, he's not set for interviews with the associated press, "new york times", reuters, washington post, "wall street journal" or "usa today", how day-- how dare he. biden doesn't stir things up on his twitter feed and the conventional wisdom is that his aides don't want the boss wandering off script or making mistakes. whether that is true or not his low-key approach , you know what dealing with the press is part of the job. i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz". ♪♪ howard: ahead, kyle rittenhouse rips the media's sickening coverage of his trial we will talk to brian kiilmeade about that and abc jonathan karl on his interview with trump about the last year of his presidency. and the media complains about jen psaki says president biden takes more questions than his recent predecessor, just not and press conferences and hear some of the brief exchanges he has had with reporters or not in the last couple of weeks >> us mean that all th

>> i remember after the affordable care act passed that barack obama owed nancy pelosi flowers for the rest of her life, and i think joe biden joins that now with pelosi's ability to get the votes. this was a really tough passage. we saw all of the division within house democrats, those who didn't want to vote on this until the build back better was actually linked and didn't want to vote on the early infrastructure, the hard infrastructure bill until this bill was going to pass as well. there was a lot of dissent amongst progressives in her caucus. she had to deal with moderates in her caucus at various stages. it was not a pretty process, but she got it, and she got both the hard infrastructure bill voted on and she got the soft infrastructure bill voted on. and we've always said no one can count votes like nancy pelosi, and even when it was looking rough for her, democrats in the white house and on capitol hill were reminding us when she gets these votes through, people won't remember what it looked like getting these votes through. they'll just remember that they passed. now of cou

barack obama wins and that's the end of the world as republicans know it. there is no way, two years later the tea party. . >> that happens. >> it's the way it works and it goes back and forth. look at wikipedia, people. >> exactly. >> back and forth. >> especially this century, we have seen a wave of 2006 and '14 and we saw a wave in '18. this thing is going back and forth with huge swings. every time this happens, people think they are dead and buried in decades. >> i know we got elected in '94. we talked about the permanent realliancement. i remember u.s. news with buzzards circling around. >> we are going to find the next big thing out there some where. >> parties always find a way and so it's interesting. but willie, anyway, now we blink and the democrats who lost virginia and a lot of other races in virginia almost lost in new jersey, we are not getting anything done and pass the historic infrastructure pill that spike the fact that people in the house are allowing their heads to blow off their should ers. it's a bipartisan bill. last night or this mo

. >> barack obama was a tough campaigner and bill clinton was a tough campaigning. mario cuomo, he goes after reporters, that's a stupid question. i mean there had been -- bobby kennedy, a tough, tough liberal. where do those tough liberals gone? >> it's a great question, joe, one of the things that disturbs me is only the lincoln project, former republicans plus one best selling author, don winslow, who were throwing up these web ads seeing which ones went viral. they were tough ads. they should be posting hundreds and dozens at least of very tough negative ads online, see which ones go viral and soo which one of the attack messages work and they can let the market decide if it gets 20 million down loads. they know that's a pretty good tough message. they're not doing that because they're thinking of communications in yesterday's terms. if we get child care, let's go to child care center, have the president go there and do a photo-op. that's yesterday. they need to rethink this and jen psaki is terrific and they have other smart people in the white house. they need

also when we think about you know barack obama feeding jay-z, that's coming full circle. obama was made president because of a guy like a jay-z opening up space for young white people to believe that a highly authoratative black man can speak intelligently and black man can be a leader and white fox can follow a person like that. that created a political space for obama to manage and escalate himself and to elevate the ladder of success. in both of that census opened performances for black people in this country. >> i want to ask you, you started talking about the power of music, i can speak from my own experience as a white kid in the suburbs listening to hip-hop, it started with a good beat and all of a sudden you are listening to the lyrics of nwa or public enemy and you are hearing the stories of what's happening in their lives and community and you are listening and paying attention and understanding. what was the power of that early hip-hop as it started top move from the inner cities and spill out into the suburbs and as you say open some space for other people to