kamala d. harris on friday became the first woman to serve as acting president of the united states, as president biden was briefly placed under anesthesia for a routine colonoscopy. biden arrived longly before 9:00 a.m. and sent the letters to speaker nancy pelosi and patrick leahy. he spoke with harris when he resumed his duties at around 11:35 a.m. harris worked from her office in the west wing during this time the white house said today and so today on this friday, we had the first biracial black south asian woman president for 85 whole minutes and it was like totally fine. joining us is kenesha grant from howard university. congratulations to the howard university alumni kamala harris for being the first woman president of the united states. what is your thought on making history. >> it is a bright spot when i pass by the white house today, i smiled a little bit wider than i would. i think that there is a bit of space between what we tell children that they can do and what they actually ca

we know that if joe biden decides not to run, kamala harris will not be there. we know every single random senator, governor, member of the house, mayor, you name it male will try and throw his hat in the ring and leap frog a vice president and will have a pretty significant democratic primary situation but i think some of, you know, we need to be fair. some of these critiques may policy critiques may be something you want to look into especially if joe biden decides not to run in 2024 but we know the attacks john mccain was born in panama as far as i'm concerned. >> ted cruz. >> the birthirism, she's the immigrant of not one but two parents and a woman that's child free and married to a jewish american and the thing republicans fear and we see them resulting in really insidious insulting attacks that they've had since day one and unfortunately, she has to do her job while reflecting from that. >> and i wonder when you talk to sources do democrats understand the potential for huge backlash here? if the black woman gets left holding the bag, she should have picke

i love hampton university but as kamala d. harris would say, the vice president, the real hu is howard university so i had to say it at the top on this historic night, please stay safe. that is tonight's "last word." catch me every week at 6:00 p.m. on the choice from msnbc exclusively on peacock. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> good evening once again, day 304 of the biden administration and tonight kyle rittenhouse, the kid who brought an ar-15 to a protest as one does apparently is no longer a defendant in a case that became a flash point over gun rights and vigilantism and self-defense in our country. after 3 1/2 days of deliberations a jury in kenosha, wisconsin, found 18-year-old rittenhouse not guilty of fatally shooting two men, injuring another during that protest with police conduct back in august of 2020. that unrest erupted after the police shooting of black kenosha resident jacob blake. during the trial rittenhouse took the stand testified he was target the and attacked in the midst of those pr

so, in this very america kind of day, kamala harris became the first woman and first woman of color to become acting president for a grand total of 85 minutes, this afternoon? the vice president was in columbus ohio to sell the new bipartisan infrastructure law to voters. >> because of our work together america's moving forward, and ultimately that is what infrastructure is all about, it's about getting our nation moving. the way i see it, my definition of infrastructure i tell people, you know what think infrastructure is? i think it gives people what they need to get to where they have to go, right? and so that is about roads, bridges it's about broadband it's about making sure babies can drink clean water and getting the lead out of the pipes, and it will be when we pass build back better, and elder care, and childcare, and what we need to do to help families support their families. >> as the vice president was heading to her, while the wisconsin jury acquitted kyle wit and house on all charges stemming from the night he shot two people and injured another person in kenosha, wiscons

for more than an hour yesterday, agoing vice-president kamala harris did. it was a brief but history-making moment and underscores the vital role of the vice president despite reports of dysfunction and disarray and speculation that she is feeling underutilized, something harris whole-heartedly denied this week. >> you don't feel misused or underused? >> no, i don't. i'm excited about the work that we have accomplished, but i am also absolutely, absolutely clear-eyed that there is a lot more to do and we're oing to get it done. >> joining me now editor at large for the 19th and msnbc contribuor and politics and culture commentator and host of online with angela. both these ladies looking stunning this morning. you heard the vice president say she doesn't feel underutilized. let's take a look at her portfolio. she is handing the migration. humanitarian crisis. voting rights. fiibuster reform, the climate change policy. increased union membership, supply chain crisis, internet access, the digital divide. several successful foreign policy trips from france to

but president biden picked kamala harris to be a part of the administration. and that's not to put down pete buttigieg who has a bright future ahead of him. we shouldn't be so quick to dismiss the sitting vice president who should be the presumptive nominee. >> it wouldn't be a sunday without you guys, thank you so much, safe travels if you're out and about getting home. good to see you. >>> you can't blame the supply chain shortage for a shortage of a traditional symbol of the holidays. that's next. mbol of the holidays that's next. come here! i've got big news! now, nurtec odt can not only stop a migraine it can prevent a migraine as well. nurtec is the first and only option proven to treat and prevent migraines with one medication. onederful. one quick dissolve tablet can start fast and last. don't take if allergic to nurtec. the most common side effects were nausea, stomach pain, and indigestion. with nurtec, i treat migraine my way. what's your way? ask your doctor about nurtec to find out! align. fast acting biotic gummies ask helps soothes occasional ab

. >> one of the things was he went under anesthesia and made kamala harris president. >> donald trump did not do that. i remember donald trump apparently have learned, he had a colonoscopy. he left the white house and no one knew what he did. he did not put mike pence in charge while he was doing that -- it's really a huge difference of what he saw. he went for a few hours for the physical and he came back and talked to the media. it's a real difference in how these two men approach this. i cover donald trump for four years and you guys though this as well as anyone. he does not talk about his care. he talks about his health and being physically fit, he wants to portray that message and there is no part of him that wants to show any walk weakness. he thought that would show weakness if he went under that procedure. it's a huge contrast. both men put out a summary but how they approached it was very different. #. >> i enjoyed the 85 minutes where i can say the president is a woman for 85 minutes. anita kumar, thank you for joining with us. you are sticking around, stay where you are. >

that's how long, of course, kamala harris was acting president. she became the first woman and person of color to hold that role. but it's the recent criticism that's aimed at her that's now getting attention. we're going to explain in our next hour. this is the sound of nature breathing. and this is the sound of better breathing. fasenra is a different kind of asthma medication. it's not a steroid or inhaler. fasenra is an add-on treatment for asthma driven by eosinophils. it's one maintenance dose every 8 weeks. it helps prevent asthma attacks, improve breathing, and lower use of oral steroids. nearly 7 out of 10 adults with asthma may have elevated eosinophils. fasenra is designed to target and remove them. fasenra is not a rescue medication or for other eosinophilic conditions. fasenra may cause allergic reactions. get help right away if you have swelling of your face, mouth, and tongue, or trouble breathing. don't stop your asthma treatments unless your doctor tells you to. tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection or your asthma wor

but i would note that vice president kamala harris struck a very different tone. she told one of my colleagues in ohio today that she was disappointed in the verdict and that the verdict speaks for itself. that she has worked as a former prosecutor worked in the criminal justice system more often and it is clear that there is more to do. that was a very different tone that we heard from biden today. >> so carol leonnig, let me read you something from the new york times that speaks to both of the points just made a quote, republican politicians in search of attention and small donor campaign contributions, try tying themselves to mr. rittenhouse. accounts associated with the proud boys on the chatting up telegram were equally excited. and so carroll you see how this mesh is with the points that they were making, and to courtney's point the president is indeed an institutionalist and as a man of a certain era in american politics, he doesn't think of a jury verdict this way. this is advanced kind of fund raising combined with the new not elysium of the era we are li

the first from vice president kamala harris. this comes after a statement from president biden about 45 minutes ago. she says, we feel the weight of grief. i want to go now to kelly o'donnell, traveling with president biden in massachusetts. if you're with me here, tell us more about what the vice president had to say. >> reporter: it was very personal. the vice president saying in her statement that she shares in the grief that the parents of ahmaud arbery feel because of his death and the fact that he will be missing at this holiday time. she says the jury rendered its verdict and three defendants were found guilty of murdering him. still we feel the weight of that grief. nothing can bring him back to life. she says he should be alive today and nothing can take away the pain that his parents feel and says i share in that pain. she says that it these verdicts send an important message, but the fact remains that we still have work to do. the vice president says the defense council choses to set a tone that cast the attendance of

if i were kamala harris, if i were joe biden, i would -- who is the best communicator on the democratic party i would be all over west virginia. from west virginia state, two hbcu, to the commonwealth, to the university of west virginia i would be there selling this plan, and telling them why it is good. >> i think the weather. we can google that after. this >> i don't think so. trust me on this. it's [inaudible] >> i'm going to screw this up by thing my favorite bill withers is, who is he, and what is he? >> that's right. >> oh man. it will send you into orbit. why did a good stylist, a veteran of the u.s. navy here thinking on this veterans day night. don and tim will stand by, we will take a break. coming up, it might be a good time for a retiree teen sisters for the neighbors that he is -- the president to brush up on the felony known as the logan act. when we come back. we come back. you said that elections for republicans need to be about the teachers not about their grievances and trump putting on that statement that you've got an absolutely massacred. i think that we need to get

it looks forward to provide an effective, truthful counter to the policies that joe biden and kamala harris are putting forward to the country. >> i want to rewind briefly to your choice to use donald trump dominated the party. what evidence have you beyond the anecdotal polling information in iowa, that leadership of the republican party, through mcconnell, through mccarthy and on down, are all trumpers. you would be in a party, were you to be successful, alongside confirmed proud insurrectionists. you've seen the portrait of the party that we've laid out just tonight, steve bannon live streaming his appointment with the fbi, that is the brand that you're trying to break or bend? >> that's simply not the brand brian, i understand that's the way you put together that package tonight. that is your prerogative. in the prerogative of your producers that do that, but glenn youngkin was elected governor of virginia. that's not anecdotal. that's real. he was elected governor of virginia, on a platform of reforming education, cutting the grocery, tax and eliminating in virginia, and by affi

person, a loyalty of a set of principles and beliefs that could be contrasted to what joe biden and kamala harris are proposing for their country as we speak. >> i was happy to read how many new jersey mentions were in the book, and it was shocking to read from you just how serious your illness was from covid more than the world knew in realtime. of course, medical privacy being what it is, the story as contained here. chris christie is the author of his new book "republican rescue." he has been our guest tonight. governor, thank you very much. >> brian, thank you so much for having me. good to see you. >>> coming up for us, our political experts are here to talk about today's big announcement in the world of texas politics. and the growing list of challenges facing the guy on the left-hand side of that picture. e left-hand side of that picture ts in a different direction, you might feel bothered by it. so talk to a urologist. because a bend in your erection might be peyronie's disease or pd. it's a condition that involves a buildup of scar tissue. but, it's treatable. xiaflex is the only

they're trying to use the same playbook again against kamala harris. one thing that's really important is we are all paying more attention. we've all learned a lot from how, you know, this far right group of people have treated women, holding higher office. they try to tear them down. they try to, you know, constantly, whether it's overtly, saying that ir not qualified, or, you know, subliminally saying they're not qualified. there's a whole playbook. we're in a better situation than 1991 and 1992 where they used this playbook against hillary clinton. the hours of testimony she gave in the -- hearing which was a sexist attack on her but we're more cognizant of it now. i think there is still a lot of sexism in the media. i think sometimes reporters don't quite realize that they're writing things that are sort of sexist. so we have to make sure we're calling them out and it's also really importantout. it is important that we play up the vice president's credentials when we do this. again, she's a person as we just talked about, a former d.a., former atto

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today, among a million other things, today for just about an hour and a half, kamala harris was the acting president of the united states. now, having an acting president, this is something that has happened previously between other presidents and vice presidents, most recently when george w. bush got put under, had anesthesia in order to have colonoscopies. dick cheney was acting president for each of those times for a couple of hours. under ronald reagan as well, in 1985, george bush sr., vice president poppy bush, was acting president for eight hours while reagan had surgery for colon cancer in 1985. today it was just under an hour and a half while president biden had a colonoscopy as part of his annual physical. the white house then released a long, detailed readout from president biden's doctor about his health and everything they looked at in his physical. we learned, or at least had confirmed as current, the fact that the president takes a blood thinner, also a cholesterol drug. he takes over the counter allergy medicine. he has a little bit of reflux he takes pepcid for. the doctor

. >> every time something is written about vice president kamala harris' political standing, you name seems to be in every one of those articles. has it at all impacted your relationship with the vice president, that it seems as if there's this narrative of a rivalry developing between the two of you? >> no, because she and i are part of a team that is disciplined and doesn't focus on what's obsessing the commentators. we're too busy with a job to do, she as the leader in this administration -- in her leadership role and i and the president and in the cabinet and across the administration are getting the job done. that would be demanding in any administration. in one like this where we've been assigned by the president to take on literally projects and legislation of generational significance, there's no room to get caught up in the parlor games. i'm proud to be part of the biden/harris team. >> i'm not asking you this as secretary of transportation. i'm asking this as a person who ran for president. what was your reaction to the kyle rittenhouse verdict? >> look. there's a lot of pai

look at simone sanders and kamala harris and others, people in the administration to get out in the hustling and tell the truth and the good things they are doing and got to bang their own drum much louder. in this day of retail politics you got to tell folk what you're about and doing to help them. otherwise it gets lost in the sauce. >> listen. well said. i totally agree to you. let's get to the book. first of all, explain the title. >> right. so entertaining is at least three ways to interpret. black people have to entertain. we have had to entertain the idea of race constantly. and thirdly we have to find ways to just like you talk about joe biden make interesting and entertaining ways to talk about race that don't sound like the same tried and true stuff that's been put forth. >> look. you yourself play many roles. you are a preacher. professor. writer, author, critic, talk show host and guest. how much does your experience influence this book? what do you want readers to take away from it? >> great question. a lot. because i have had to do a lot. as a minister, a professor, as an activ

we need to start thinking about how to stop republican violence and take on joe biden and kamala harris directly on issues, on policy. if we do that, we'll win a lot of elections in 2022 at the governors level and in washington. >> think of it as violence between friends. my wife is here. she has a question for you. friend-on-friend violence. >> i've got a couple of questions. >> hi, mika, how are you today? >> great. >> good. me, too. >> so, i think it's a little convenient to not talk about the past, actually. and i'm just wondering do you accept that donald trump embraced anti-democratic values that damaged democracy? >> what i accepted, mika, he has not accepted the results of the election and that undercuts our democracy. there's no doubt, i say that very clearly and plainly in the book. i said that on election night 2020. i didn't wait for weeks afterwards. on election night on abc, in 2020 i said the election was indefensible, if you didn't have evidence to support the allegation that the election was false. maybe that's the old prosecutor in me, but that's the way i feel about i

all this means that power will briefly transfer to vice president kamala harris. what more can you tell us about this? >> yeah. and this is an unusual moment, but not unprecedented. we have seen presidents do this in the past. like president george w. bush most recently. when the president is incapacity tated in one tomorrow form or another, they can temporarily transfer power to the vice president under the amendment and the constitution. that's what we're seeing go on is a transfer of power from the president to the vice president while president biden undergoes this colonoscopy where he's under anesthesia as part of this routine physical going on right now. we do expect the president to be back in the white house this afternoon. he has a turkey pardon to attend. we anticipate seeing him there and potentially hearing some remarks from him following really a milestone day and quite a split screen between this vote in the house and the president having to go his routine physical. >> yeah. we certainly have to get him back to the white house in time for the turkey

if i'm kamala harris and joe biden and the best communicator in the democratic party i would be all over west virginia. from west virginia state, the hsbcu to the university of west virginia to basketball games. friday night lights. i would be there selling this plan and telling them why it's good. >> i think bill withers is from beckly. >> i don't think so. it's either -- oh, man. don't test me on this. it's a two-word town. >> i'm going to screw this up by saying my favorite is who is he and what is he to you. >> to you. that's right. >> oh man. just -- send you into orbit. what a great stylist. a veteran of the -- i believe, u.s. navy who we are thinking of on this veterans day night. don and tim will stand by. coming up, might be a good time for a certain retiree insisting he is the president brubing up on the felony known as the logan act when we come back. kevin, where are you? kevin?!?!? hey, what's going on? i'm right here! i was busy cashbacking for the holidays with chase freedom unlimited. you know i can't believe you lost another kevin. it's a holiday tradition! earn big time

officer for raices, and the director of immigration hub, former adviser on immigration to then-senator kamala harris. erica, i think when i describe it as a massive move, you will take issue with that, and i do want to get to that moment. sergio, can you just walk people through the measures that are currently in this bill and the impact they would have, and then from there we'll talk about what needs to be done in addition. >> great. first of all, just really happy to be here and still so excited about this big win of immigration being included in the bill yesterday, the most transformative policy since the new deal under fdr. the immigration provisions in the build back better act would include protections for over 7 million undocumented immigrants and families living in this country. this includes dreamers and farm workers and tps holders and many undocumented immigrants who were essential workers and have been essential workers to help keep our country going during one of our darkest moments these past two years. it would include work permits, protections for deportations and the ability

i made the conscious decision that i want to spend my time combatting the policies of joe biden and kamala harris and trying to help governors win the house in 2022. i will not get back and forth with donald trump. when i ran in reelection, i have the percent of the vote but when he ran against joe biden, he lost. >> wow, what do you think about that? >> i am going to say you have horrible taste in ties. that was chris christie throwing a great counter punch and we know all along and you want to ask his ability to throw a counter punch, ask marco rubio, he's clearly ready to mix things up with donald trump. he's not going to back down. chris christie was dying to say something like that. that's the practice rehearse come back line that you work on with your campaign strategists, he delivered it. to me that tells me you will clearly see chris christie run for president and there will be potential fireworks with former president trump and now we have to wait donald trump sending out a statement criticiing him. he's no longer on twitter. >> chris christie is trying to stake out the lane. hans

practically went blind the amount of time he spent blurring swear words or derogatory comments toward kamala harris. so what i started to see was that the majority of these people here were buying into the fun of these rallies but more so the conspiracy side of it all. i think once you buy in to the quote unquote big lie and you don't believe the results of the election then you're looking for what's next. what i started to see was that january 6th didn't happen or happened but it was because of the cia or it happened and it was partially because of the fbi or january 6th isn't even a date on the calendar. like once you cross the threshold of reality, you're just getting hungry for more thresholds to cross. >> 100%. look, i was in cleveland at the republican convention and was shocked at seeing people who looked like girl scout leaders and somebody's mom wearing trump can grab my starts with a p shirts and thought that was totally normal and buying them for their moms. for the grandma. but you talk about january 6th. i want to play a little bit of a video, because this is not funny. this is

the washington parlor game right now is comparing pete buttigieg and vice president kamala harris, who's up, who's down in a potential nomination fight were president biden to not seek reelection in 2024. leaving that aside, clearly buttigieg now has a chance because of the way that transportation dollars in particular are generally doled out by the federal government in grants to states or in big chunks where states and individual projects are given money at the discretion of the transportation secretary and his department. that makes pete buttigieg quite a power broker for the next several months with more than $125 billion to get to dole out. the other thing we're seeing pete buttigieg do that's so interesting, you know, i covered his presidential campaign for two years. he struggled all of that time with african-american voters. he has been making very clear in his public comments since this infrastructure deal passed that a big portion of this is designed to try to effectuate change in communities where highways have dissected communities, marparticularly communities of color over t

don't think the age thick -- i think it's overblown and i think a lot of the nonsense i'm reading about kamala harris's staff is overblown. but we'll take care of that another evening. thank you, michael and elise. >>> coming up. american workers rise up for better wages and benefits. it could be a sign of things to come. >>> and later, as much as the right loves to talk about the second amendment, it doesn't seem like they've actually read it. i'll explain why they might want to rethink kyle rittenhouse as their new poster boy for gun rights. >>> but first, my colleague richard lui with today's other top news stories richard. >>> rev, a very good sunday to you. some of the stories we are watching for through hour. the international olympic committee says they spoke on a video call with missing chinese tennis star peng shuai. >>> also, today, chinese-run media said they released purportedly a -- a -- some e-mails and pictures of three-time olympian at a youth tournament. peng has been missing since early november after she leveled a sexual assault charge against the former number two communist

kamala harris had a bit of a different take. she said in a tweet yesterday, today's verdict speaks for itself. i've spent a majority of my career working to make our criminal justice system more equitable. it's three there's still a lot more work to do, and there's a lot of outrage from some people about that and looking forward at some reforms that may need to take place or may take place because of this verdict. alex? >> okay. liz mclaughlin in kenosha, thank you for that. >>> an ed terrill no today's "wisconsin journal" sending a chilling message to wisconsin and the rest of the country. goes on to say the disappointing verdict is sure to embolden militant people who seek to take the law into their own hands. speaking with reverend al sharpton an potential for a rise in vigilantes in just a few minutes. >>> meantime, breaking news and a statistic in the coronavirus pandemic. number of covid deaths in this year surpazzed total from all of 2020. according to federal data and johns hopkins university. total number reported death

vice president kamala harris reminded members of congress today's bill signing that their work is not done. >> now this bill as significant as it is, as historic as it is, is part one of two. to lower cost and cut taxes for working families. to tackle the climate crisis. at its core. congress must also pass the build back better act. the work of building a more perfect union. did not end with the railroad or the interstate. it will not end now. so on this historic day, let us all continue to believe in our people. believe in our country. and believe in what we can do when we work together. >> tonight house speaker nancy pelosi said that the other part of the bill will be passed before thanksgiving. and she said today at the white house that it could be passed this week. she did of course use the word hopefully. >> so happy that hopefully this week we will be passing the build back better. to get tax cuts to america's working families. to create millions more jobs. to lower healthcare costs. and all of it paid for by making everyone pay his or her own fair share. >> joining us now. whi

there's a 50/50 tie in the senate that democrats break with kamala harris' tiebreaking vote. pennsylvania is a seat they hold now and senator toomey is retiring next year. the republicans that i talked to what we heard is that they're looking for ways to try to, you know, convince him that this is not good. he should possibly be looking for an exit plan here. if the judge rules against him in the custody hearing, it's going to be even worse. one democratic, i'm sorry, one republican strategist i talked to he brought up we're in this era where we say nothing matters but accusations about hitting your wife and hitting your kids, those do matter. and real interesting part here is the trump world continues to stand by parnel. we talk to the people in and around that orbit about this and they're standing with him right now. they want to see what the judge has to say. as long as he has it, something that differentiates him from the four, five or six other candidates in what was already a crowded field. another interesting thing, you're hearing two other candidates could get into th

they naturally hate kamala harris. an old white guy, joe biden, i think a -- project. they kept at. it pumping lies all day for more than a year, including whatever means, including straight-up deception. they have succeeded, they've taught their base to hate joe biden as well. joining me now, david plouffe, 2008 obama campaign manager, former adviser to president obama. he is here to discuss. first of all, that is, even by their standards, pretty agree just with the disappearing hand in the middle. [laughs] . to do that. how much of an effect in this sort of -- the space of american politics and the amorphous public opinion, how much effect is that one network have? >> enormous. well, first of all, chris, you are smart to call this out. because i think we believe that there is no bottom at fox. this is a 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 that third of the electorate spills over into maybe 40% of the country. it's not just fox. it's

to steve's point, people who don't have a high approval rating with the voters in virginia, biden, kamala harris, all these people, he's bringing at the national level and youngkin has tried to keep it as grassroots as he possibly can which i think is a really smart strategy because here in virginia it's been decades since we've had a republican governor and that's building up frustration not only in virginia but at the national level as well. >> you both think your guys will win, right? >> yes. >> of course. >> it's going to be a long time tomorrow. >>> ahead, the strictest abortion law in the nation goes before the supreme court. what today's arguments signal about the future of the near total ban in texas. >>> also ahead, world leaders and the royals convene for a climate summit in scotland. can president biden convince other nations the u.s. is ready to lead before it's too late? knows everyone's unique. that's why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. oh, yeah. that's the spot. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ ♪

vice president kamala harris, also released a statement that read, quote, these verdicts ended imported, message but the fact remains that we still have work to. do the defense council chose to set a tone that cast the attendance of ministers at the trial as intimidation and dehumanized a young black man with racist tropes. the jury arrived at its verdicts despite these tactics. also tonight, there is a new report about the progress of the select house committee that's investigating the capitol riot and insurrection. in the four months of the inquiry. the committee has issued over 40 subpoenas, they held one public caring. they have interviewed about 200 witnesses. and they have held one steve bannon in contempt. washington post reports, quote, chairman bennie thompson has previously said that he hopes the investigation wraps up in early spring of next year. as the midterm elections approach, it's a one step forward, two steps back dance that may take longer than democrats want to yield real results. >> meanwhile the right house grappling with the public that is increasingly alarmed at

. >> that's why there were riots in kenosha, because people like kamala harris supported. >> it was a victory for self-defense and for the second amendment. >> joe biden, that prosecutor who should never prosecute another case tried that case as a political trial. >> and there's news breaking about how tucker carlson embedded with rittenhouse during the trial for a fox news project, his crew riding in a car with rittenhouse moments after the verdict and after the time together nabbing the first interview since the verdict. the entire piece has not been released yet. so no one knows the entire content. here is some of what was released early. >> our documentary team was in kenosha when it happened. they've been together for -- they captured rittenhouse's first moments outside the courtroom after being acquitted. >> it's the stuff that keeps you up at night. once you do get to sleep, your dreams are about what happened and you're waking up in a dark, cold sweat. >> we are viewing in real time the circle of content here because it is a lot of the misinformation that has driven some peopl

and we're seeing plenty of revealing background scoops, some suggesting vice president kamala harris is unhappy, others questioning the health of the commander in chief. people want to know whether biden, who just turned 79, will run for reelection in 2024. the white house insists he will. and frankly they are beginning to get annoyed at that question. but if biden doesn't run, what will that do to the tenuous and very fragile democratic coalition forged between the progressives and the moderates, which will be tested again this week, particularly given the fact that donald trump has consolidated more and more power over his party after the violent january 6th attack on the capitol? all of this remains top of mind as congress gets back to work tomorrow. what happens in the next week will tell us a whole lot about what we can expect to play out over the next year. so let's start with looking at where things stand with the build back better bill. for that we are joined by elina trini, a congressional reporter. when we spoke about build back better before the holidays, it was just after

yesterday, kamala harris, the vice president, talked about individual stories of union workers, who would have different kind of jobs when it came to rebuilding infrastructure. we have to personalize this for the american people. so that people do understand what it means to them. i think we learned lessons from the affordable care act that we can't say it once, we have to be repeated over and over again. so i like those opportunities like the one today in woodstock, new hampshire, to put in real terms what this will make in terms of a difference for the people of new hampshire and for the american people. >> donald trump is aware of how critically potent infrastructure could be. he never got it passed. he talked about it for four years. they launched infrastructure week that resulted in someone from his campaign getting indicted. i want to ask you something you alluded to. there was a lot of pressure to get this messaging right and to get it out there? just talk about how long nature takes to see the fruits of? >> well, it does. >> sorry. >> yep. >> i was going to say, i'm not sure how m

eastman wrote an article saying that kamala harris was ineligible to serve as vice president because her parents were immigrants. and between that and his now eastman's pence memo, i'm pretty sure that this guy just stays up at night making up random things that a vice president can and can't do. i mean, what's next? he's going to write a memo saying the vice president can't, like, enter the west wing without a hall pass? this guy is preposterous when it comes to constitutional law and the idea that anyone let alone the president of the united states would be taking advice from this guy calls i think that former president's judgment into serious question. >> yeah, i think that's fair. then you have the clash that we relied on your expertise for that you've been guiding us and viewers through, which is this executive privilege claim. here's what we're now learning that the trump folks actually want to try to hide a record of the president's movements, phone calls, trips, briefings, meetings, and activities. that's the range of it. what does that tell you? >> i think it tells me a lot,

constitutionally than the president or vice president, like he'll be, you know, he'll be junior to kamala harris if he wants to be speaker of the house, so i, you know, i kind of doubt it. >> it's always been interesting to me, too, in terms of mccarthy's position among house republicans. he doesn't really have any constituency, you know what i mean, like on the house side, nancy pelosi, not just through seniority, but through longevity, and through the work that she's done, like democrat wills sing her praises and talk about her as a good leader, even those that disagree with her on some things or aren't idealogically in the same place. i have never heard a republican of any stripe say i'm team mccarthy. he has the position by dent of the way the line of succession went ahead of him, but it does feel like people would be pushing on an open door if he was in fact going to be potentially shoved out of leadership. i guess we shall see. >> and that's a great contrast with nancy pelosi which crow just made, which i hadn't thought of before with mccarthy. nancy pelosi has a specific and person

. >> that, of course, was vice-president kamala harris making an appearance on capitol hill, stopping to take a question, at least one from reporters who have gathered to speak with her. congressman kildee, thank you for your patience again. >> no problem. >> really would only do that for two people, the president and the vice-president here. and i want to ask you about something the vice-president just said, but i just want you to finish your thought as it relates to what we were just talking about. the election in virginia, the nrcc, i should say, as you know i think put out a note this morning saying in a cycle like this, no democrat is safe. basically trying to frame this as a wake up call for democrats. >> well, we've known this all along. the nrcc is going to come after us. they are going to attack our agenda. they're going to come after our members. that's the way this process works. we were in the minority we'd obviously be doing the same thing. but that's politics. and you know, obviously that has a place in the conversation, but the focus for us has to really be on the speci

then the presidents, or vice president, he'll be junior to kamala harris. so i kind of doubted. >> it's always been interesting to me too, in terms of mccarthy's position, he doesn't really have any constituency. you know what i mean? on the house side, nancy pelosi, not just through seniority, but through along jeopardy and through the work that she has done, democrats have's saying to present and talk about her as a good leader. even those who have disagreed with her and who aren't i deal logically in the same place. i've never heard of anything, any stripe, who have said i'm team mccarthy. he has the position by the line of succession went to ahead of him. but it does feel like people will be pushing on an open door if he was in fact going to be, potentially shut out of leadership. >> and that is a great contrast with nancy pelosi, which i haven't really thought about before. nancy pelosi, has a specific and personal relationship with every single democrat in the house. from the most moderate to the most liberal. and the closeness of those relationships

vice president kamala harris released a statement saying the fact remains we still have work to do. the defense counsel chose to set a tone that cast the ministers of the trial as intimidation and dehumanize a black man with racist jokes. also tonight there's a new report about the progress of the select house committee that's investigating the capitol riot and insurrection. in the four months of the inquiry, the committee has issued over 40 subpoenas. they've held one public hearing. they've interviewed about 200 witnesses, and they've held one steve bannon in contempt. "the washington post" reports, quote, chairman bennie thompson has previously said he hopes the investigation wraps up in early spring of next year. as the midterm elections approach, it's a "one step forward, two steps back" that wants to yield results. they're increasingly alarming with inflation, even with signs that the economy is appearing to recover and the job market appears to be strob. weekly jobs claims fell. that's the lowest level in over half a century, but that doesn't help with what people are paying

a state that voted for kamala harris overwhelmingly a year ago. this state didn't turn into an enlightened blue state to a racist state overnight. this reminds me of 2008, when some people, every time barack obama won a primary, it was the most enlightened state ever. every time hillary clinton won, they'd literally start with, "racism rears its ugly head in kentucky tonight as hillary rodham clinton" blah, blah, blah. that's how losers talk. that's how losers think the morning after the election. you call voters racist, even though they voted for barack obama and kamala harris. >> they voted last night for a new lieutenant governor. historic jamaican immigrant, a united states marine, who will be the lieutenant governor of that state as well. a jamaican-american woman. jonathan lemire, let's talk about the man you cover every day, president biden. he had to be feeling as he got off the steps of air force one coming home from the long trip with his big piece of legislation in front of him. if you're a moderate considering whether or not to vote fo

idea there was to spread the idea that he wouldn't really be in charge, that other people like aoc or kamala harris or socialists, people who were less popular than joe biden at the time, would be in charge. and that's the underlying point. >> you know, donny, it's funny to watch trump and to have those questions again about what he brought to the office of the presidency while he was our nation's commander in chief. it's freaking terrifying. but this whole vein is really, really unseemly. i mean, ageism, the sort of veiled swipes by nikki haley who sees herself as sort of a polished trumper. what do you make of it? >> yeah. first of all, i just have to go back to the trump thing because there are elements that we do miss. i got to tell you, i literally -- i have tears coming out of my eyes. you can't believe it's real. we lived through it. we got numb to it on a daily basis but when you go back to some of the greatest hits, the ones that are kind of at least not as dangerous as some of the other ones, you can't believe it. nikki haley, there's a word that probably doesn't come up a lot on t

. >> that was vice president kamala harris reacting today after the jon lewis voting rights advancement act, a major priority of democrats in the senate, failed to reach the 60-vote minimum required to break the filibuster. that vote coming after a bipartisan group of senators includingly lisa murkowski of alaska. what we saw yesterday in virginia that had passed numerous voting rights bills that improved enhanced ballot access of the past year is that these measures allowed for huge gains for republican turnout over the state. after the big lie to enact restriction law, we wondered today republicans might notice the voting expansion legislation has spent the past two years blocking and fighting actually benefit them? joining our conversation, ari and eddie. your thoughts on that, ari first. >> well, i think you're right, nicolle. that virginia shows that republicans can win in states that make it easier to vote. that there's no bias for democrats when you make it easier to vote. there's a bias for democracy and that's how democracy should work is to open it up and then let everyone com

> i was interested to see, in 2017, more than half of senate democrats including now vice president kamala harris signed a letter and send it to senate leaders urging them to preserve the fill bust ere. dave and buster. >> the question that i have, the racist history of filibuster and being used left or right nchlt it was true but also true in 2017. is this an argument about political convenience or an argument about morality and ethics. >> i remember kyrsten sinema in the senate saying guys, you may want to think about this because republicans could take back powering washington and then you know let's think about all the things that we have used the filibuster to stop during the trump's years, cutting funding for sanctuaries that don't enforce federal immigration laws. this could come back to bite democrats if they do go down this path. >> well, ilt actually will come back to bite democrats. heather, this is what i don't understand. >> i guess i am being a broken record on this. >> harry reed, he passed filibuster reform for federal judges. mitch mcconnell did the same thing, he got rid

i saw it firsthand and later with kamala harris where they had to deal with the race yichlism of general society. the only way they can exert themselves was by belittling women. i think black women showed that in this fight. she's also right that we need the build back better bill plan. if i know joyce beatty that's going to bring it to the crux of the finish line in terms of this bill. black women are the strongest of this country in terms of the electoral and democratic party. >>> come up, we'll move to covid-19 now. scott gottlieb, board of director was very optimistic yesterday after pfizer announced on friday incredibly positive results of its new pill that helps decrease covid hospitalizations and deaths. >> we are close to the end of it. we have said two of the events that would mark the end of this pandemic was able to vaccinate our children and have a or rally assessable drug that could treat coronavirus at home to prevent people from being hospitalized of dying. >> helping is the approval of the vaccine of children ages 5 to 11. nearly 300,000 children under the age of 12 have