meanwhile, the white house, the current white house, president biden's white house said today that mark meadows does not have a legitimate claim to privilege and he should go ahead. so look, i think if you see bannon charged i think you will probably see meadows charged. i wouldn't assume that silence from the doj means nothing is happening. but i think again, until that happens you're going to see people doing things like this. >> jeff, what do you make of the silence from the department of justice on bannon? >> i find it baffling and it looks like dithering to me, frankly. this is a reasonable legally complicated question about whether this should be a criminal contempt case. but it's been almost a month now. it's been more than a month that it's been clear that this issue was coming down the line. they have a lot of smart lawyers at the justice department. the idea that it takes them this long is really pretty shocking to me and it is having a real material impact, as maggie points out. all of these witnesses are yanking the chain of the judiciary -- of the january 6th committee beca

you see in the white house do that this week a little bit. you see them talk about the immediacy and the urgency for their agenda getting past. if it passes, and 2022 you'll see childcare costs come down by eczema and prescription drug prices coming down for seniors by x amount. at least that starts to bring the conversation to the kitchen table that doug was just talking about. that's what this president does very well and he needs to get back to doing after couple of months where washington was just talking about a big pile of money. chris: i'm not sure that i agree because it seems whether the spending a huge amount of money or immigration or crime or what goes on in schools that there is an increase in perception out there and we certainly saw it play out in virginia and new jersey that democrats and president biden have moved to the left. first of all do you think that's legitimate and they feel that and secondly, do you take that advice and take them back to the center. >> i think this is a huge link space ahead of joe biden, questions

cecilia with us live from the white house. we were on the air this afternoon for this bill signing into law and you were saying the president knows this, the white house knows this, this victory was needed, especially given these new poll numbers this dismal approval rating for the president. >> reporter: david, 42%, he is currently under water as we speak. the president, the white house, democrats all know that he needs to now get out there and convince americans that this inf infrastructure plan will dire directly benefit them and their families. so, he is going to take this sales pitch on the road, he starts in new hampshire tomorrow, where he will be visiting a crumbling bridge. he will later in the week go to michigan, where he will be talking about electric vehicles. two key battleground states. >> cecilia vega with us tonight. thank you, cecilia. and we should note you heard the president there compare our inf infrastructure spending to china's. well, president biden tonight holding a virtual meeting with chine esesidt

house and the white house promptly called you and said sick the fbi on parents at school board hearings. >> i did not speak with anyone from the white house while i worked on this memorandum. this memorandum reflects my views that we need to protect public officials violence and threats of violence while at the same time protecting parents' ability to object to. >> i get that i have heard your testimony. >> i decided on this memorandum on my own. >> bret: as more time goes on, kimberley, we are getting more and more bits of information that not only the school board association but the white house and the doj, some interaction there in email exchanges and other things. >> yeah. well, it sounds as though, too the white house is acknowledging that it did give a heads up to the doj even though it didn't tell them what to do. i mean, you can take that for what you will. usually when you get a call from the white house people's ears perk up and they feel they need to move. there is a lot more to come out from this, but it certainly looks bad as though there was a lot of coordination and that

this was right in the white house. this was the white house chief of staff. this was one of his campaign lawyers outlining a very specific plan with dates and times that was all centering on mike pence obeying the orders of donald trump, and it was a plan that if pence had gone along with, would have resulted in a much bigger constitutional crisis than what we saw. and joe, what i found is that's just one example of where this could have gone off the rails and almost did go off the rails even in a more spectacular way than it did. >> yep. well, just one example. jonathan, a shocking example. a guy who was a member of the united states congress goes over to work for the white house, and he's actively working to overthrow the united states government. to overthrow the elected president of the united states. it's absolutely staggering. in your reporting, how widespread was the contempt that donald trump staff members had for the united states constitution, for the peaceful transfer of power, for political and constitutional norms? >> and i'll add one other, for

judy: the two of you are obviously for, the white house very much for it. mayor whaley, we know most members of the republican ohio allegaon voted against this. i am coding republican davison, he says it is pork laden and not narrowly tailored, it is reckless spending. how do you answer? mayor whaley: senator portman, an ohio republican, spoke today, and he went through how this happened. i think what makes it so difficult in washington, d.c. is things get mired in partisanship. 63% of americans support this info structure bill. that is a huge number. it does have bipartisan support across the country. what i think is frustrating for us as mayors trying to get stuff done is a lot of times when it comes to this town, everybody gets in their corners. i was happy to see on this bill, we saw bipartisan support, the first time in a long time. we saw senator portman or congressman gonzalez an ohio vote yes. judy: mayor holt, your party, republican party, much more opposition. polls showing bipartisan support republican support seems to be sliding. the entire okla

it is in my similar 2010 when democrats control the house, the senate and the white house and they continue to push radical proposals even after the 2009 elections. it seems were on a very similar path this time. the agenda is bad for america, but the outcome politically for republicans will be getting 2022. bill: that brings us to the ultimate question. they have essentially doubled down. how much concern is there if at all that too much spending is just too much for voters? >> what you see in recent weeks as we talked about these bills, they try to focus the attention away from the topline cost and what did the bill and how they will pay for it. things like tax credits, prekindergarten and childcare. certainly this debate is not going away. i think we will see that in the coming weeks. moderate democrats are looking for the congressional budget office present a manageable proof he in the senate has expressed concerns about the cost of the social spending plan and what happened to some of these programs at their extended in the long-term. bill: mark, you had a prediction, do you do that 12

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the white house deputy chief of staff. trump's person a the white house deputy chief of staff. trump's personl assistant. they got subpoenas today. each passing day, of course, is more proverbially pregnant with the question of whether the justice department is actually going to see to it that these subpoenas are enforced. the justice department is still currently mulling whether they're going to bring a prosecution, a contempt prosecution against any trump aides who defy the subpoenas. there was a criminal referral made to the u.s. justice department over steve bannon defying his subpoena from the january 6 investigation. the justice department has received that criminal referral. but they have not acted on it one way or the other. we don't know whether or not this investigation will effectively be allowed to proceed. more trump folks get subpoenas. six yesterday. ten today. they all upon receiving these subpoenas, they all decide whether or not they will comply with them. that justice department decision about whether or not steve bannon will be prosecuted for contempt, for d

we're following that breaking news from the white house. president biden addressing the nation this hour after a second meeting with his covid response team in just two days. highlighting the urgency the administration is feeling to learn everything they can about the concerning new coronavirus variant omicron with confirmed cases already at our northern aborter in ontario, canada. there are still a number of things we don't know about this variant with the white house releasing a statement sunday saying dr. fauci believes it will take up to two weeks to get answers on omicron's transmissibility, severity and other characteristics. the big question for nearly 200 million fully vaccinated americans, will their vaccine hold up against this new strain. fauci this morning urging eligible americans to not let fears over omicron's impact stop them from getting their booster shots. >> i would strongly suggest you get boosted now and not wait for the next iteration of it, which we might not even need, we're preparing -- the pharmaceutical companies

and this was a formal briefing in the white house. three days later, the russian investigation was launched. and then in september, you have this meeting with the indicted clinton lawyer, sussmann, and jake sullivan and others. and then it was shortly after that in october that sullivan released this public statement that there was this covert serving trying trump to moscow something completely fallacious, but he put it all over the media. when he was asked later by congress sort of what's going on here, i mean, did you know the basis of this? the source of this? he said no. he even denied that sussmann, the roles of sussmann and clinton general counsel mark he will i can't say in creating these allegations. now, keep in mind, also, that sussmann was indicted for denying the role, his connection to the clinton campaign. mark he willous was accused by others of also denying the connection between the clinton campaign and dossier. it wasn't until after the election that they admitted that they did indeed fund the dossier. >> bret: that'

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okay, so then the white house puts out a readout about the meeting and it says this. on taiwan president biden underscored that the president remains committed to the one china policy. united states strongly opposes unilateral efforts to change the status quo or undermine peace and security across the taiwan strait. that's definitely what he said. china's readout on this question bearing on enchina's sovereignty and territorial integrity there is no room for compromise president biden admitted committed ited to the one china president and does not support taiwan independence. they have had a clean up on aisle 4 on u.s. policy on taiwan. what do we make of it. >> well, i don't know who to make of it except that the president talks all over himself at times. what was actually said we'll have to actually find out. i think a lot of people are concerned that they talked for three and a half hours and beyond that didn't really seem to say much. i mean, americans are concerned about human rights, about intellectual property, about the hypersonic missile and most especially a

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

tension inside the white house so the criticism of the vice president there? ♪♪ vice president kamala harris facing increasing scrutiny assert job approval ratings drop in criticism of handling immigration and voting rights. vice president communications director resigned this week amid reports of dysfunction within her circle tensions between her office. white house press secretary jen psaki suggested this week criticism of the vice president is motivated by racism sexism. >> i think there's no question the attacks on her, certainly think the first, she has many times over as part of my she is the first african-american woman from a hormone of color, indian american woman from so many first, it's a lot on her shoulders. paul: we are back with bill mcglone, kim strassel and jillian. the racism and sexism's accusations, the last refuge of scandals but are the criticisms of the vice president fair? >> and some ways they are. she has one job a month the border and she's not doing it. on the other hand, she has a very weak hand. the kamala harris crisis is rea

saying listen to us at the white house. don't listen to judges in whichever circuit are hearing these challenges, so, once the president lands back here in washington, and they start having briefing's again tomorrow and he has some events about the supply chain i would suspect if they continue talking like they have been to hear more of that just do what we have said with these vaccine requirements we think it's really important regardless of what a judge says, bret. >> bret: law factors in there. peter doocy live on the north lawn, thanks. stocks plummeted today. the dow sank 652. >> the s&p 500 lost 88, the nasdaq fell 245. major drug makers are testing to see if their covid-19 vaccines are being effective against the omicron variant. correspondent jonathan serrie tells us where things stand tonight from atlanta. >> it could take two weeks for laboratory tests in real world surveillance to determine whether the omicron variant is more resistant to current antibody treatments and vaccines. but researchers are concerned abo

phil, one of the arguments that you just heard from paula reid, the white house, the biden white house argument is an argument based on planet earth where this january 6th insurrection was an extraordinary, horrific thing. but as we know, there are a number of republicans in the house of representatives who do not currently reside on planet earth. they live on this trump world where the insurrection was on election day and there was all this election fraud. all these things that are not true. so the biden people can say, well, this is just extraordinary circumstances and future congresses, future majorities in congress will respect that. i don't know what world they think those people live on, though. >> yeah, well, obviously it's a world in which the full weight of the government, you know, levying criminal charges against someone is seen as preferable to donald trump as we're seeing in the case of steve bannon. trump's gig all along has been deny, deny d, deny, don't compl. that was from day one, that was the approach he took here. and that's what he's clearly demanding of people who

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

>> get those members the white house out there. there are so many gifted messengers in the white house. i mean so many smart communicators. there are so many people in the white house who should be out there. they should be put mayor pete on fox news. get them out there. explain what they're doing. show the legislating they're doing. >> thanks to both of you. a pleasure to have you both on tonight. thanks. that's tonight's last word. don't fert to watch my show saturday and sunday from 8 to 10:00 a.m. eastern. the "the 11th hour" with brian williams begins right now. >>> good evening once again. day 314 of the biden administration. the country braces for another new variant. in the nearly two year-old pandemic now. the centers for disease control is strengthening its recommendation for boosters. now saying all adults should get a booster shot, period. more on that just ahead. in tonight's broadcast. also this evening, this week that will bring us december brings us on the verge of the next confrontation. between that house committe

>> get those members of the white house out there. there are so many different messengers in that white house. i mean so many smart communicators. they are so many people in that white house who should be out there. put mayor pete on fox news. get them out there. explain what they are doing. show the legislating they're doing. >> thanks to both of you, it is a pleasure to have you both on tonight. molly john fast and eugene robinson. thanks to both of you. that's tonight's last word, don't forget to watch my show velshi saturday and sunday from eight to 10 am eastern. the 11th hour, with brian williams starts now. williams starts now. well good evening once again day 314 of the biden administration, as our country braces for yet another new variant in the nearly two year old pandemic. now the stutter for disease control is strengthening its recommendations for boosters, now saying, all adults. they should get a booster shot, period. more on that just ahead. more on -- also this evening, this week that will bring us to december, will b

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

no longer at the white house. bill, thoughts about her answer and where she is kind of positioned. >> yeah, look. i don't think the vice president has a lot she can point to what she has done she seems to be terrified going to the border. we saw the real border czar the president of mexico not the vice president. i will say for kamala harris. the kamala harris problem is not a kamala harris problem. it's a joe biden problem. they are looking at this, you know, the things that joe biden can count as an achievement, passing his infrastructure bill or the covid -- those are washington achievements. people want to see improvements in their own lives. and i think what they see is not just the president going in the wrong direction, but looking incredibly incompetent. certainly that's what we saw in afghanistan first they dismissed inflation. everybody in the administration telling us not something they should be worried about. they didn't predict it would be here at this level today. i think it's very hard to come up w

the list included trump's former white house press secretary, kaley mcennenny. also his body man, body man is a weird term but literally means a person hired to carry the president's papers and physically move him around to the door and stuff. that body man is johnny mcatee. and ultimately when everybody else started quitting, trump put johnny mcatee in charge of white house personnel. and the new book excerpted in the atlantic magazine, johnny mcentee is playing the role, playing the role essentially being deputy president of the united states. being deputy president to trump, in fact, running the white house in the final weeks of the trump administration. again, he was hired to carry the papers and open the doors. jonathan karl's book also described john mcentee with a direct role, pressuring mike pence that he needs to subvert the count of the electoral votes and there be throw out the election results on january 6th. mr. mcentee reportly participating in that event. it's unknown in jon karl's book about whether the team wants to talk to him specifically but

and from the white house. that actually mapped out and said this is how much it cost, this is what the investments are, this is what the revenue will be. and what they said is, we just want a few more tables, actually verifying this information that we got. what are written agreement says, is that, the written statement says this, as long as it turns out to be approximately ballpark with the white house is already given us, that they will be fine. if there is a discrepancy, they will work expeditiously with, us to fix that discrepancy. the president committed that if there was a discrepancy, he would work very quickly with us to fix it. and to make sure we raise the revenue, but rachel. everyone i've talked to, i don't think we would've made this deal, if we thought there was going to be a discrepancy. everyone we have talked to has said, the cbo, whatever these tables are that we're going to get, are going to be the same as what the white house is represented the costs and the revenue to be. i feel confidence

they want to lose more house in the house and senate and more in the and perhaps the white house in 2024. we have to work together. big programs have already gone to the wayside. one of which senator sanders will not let go of you have 15 democrats very vulnerable in the promised lower drug prices and something manchin doesn't like and sanders requires and he definitely heads the progressive caucus. >> bret: mark, the president is facing pretty bad poll numbers in recent days. you look at nbc poll his approval stands at 42% approval. disapprove 54%. on the eternals of that poll all kinds of questions where republicans are really up. if the marist poll election confidence better chance of winning 2024, biden at 36%. someone someone else at 44%. here's the president talking about polls this weekend. >> polls have going to up and up and down. look at overrer president. same thing happened. >> that's why i ran. i didn't run to determine how well i'm going to do in the polls. i said that i would make sure that we were in a position where we dealt with climate change, where we moved in a direc

, trump's daily schedule, white house visitor log, and call records. trump's lawyer justin clark arguing the requests are overly broad and failure to block them would open up the door for the partisanship of document requests and blowing a hole in executive privilege that should concern everybody. wh whoil the judge asked clark to dial down the rhetoric a bit she challenged lawyers on the house committee on the breadth of documents requested saying some of these requests seem very narrowly tailored but some are alarmingly broad. and there has to be some limit. the national archives says it intends to hand over the trump documents next friday unless the judge blocks them which she did not appear willing to do. this is such an historic case with implications for future presidents it is likely whatever decision the judge makes will be appealed. we also learned today that the committee has interviewed over 150 people so far in its investigation. >> thank you so much. let's talk to somebody who knows a little bit about executive privilege, john dean, white

so the pieces are being put together by this committee to see to what extent the white house and the trump campaign had some sort of preplan to march supporters to the capital that day, it's a key component in getting to the bottom of what happened. >> what if he just plays this out the way he did, a tax fight the way that they did, the way that they did for a couple years, and then the midterms happen, and if the democrats close troll, lose subpoena power, they go away, and this whole thing could fizzle out. >> and no one is above the rule of law in this sound try. so the indictment is incredibly important because it shows you're not above the process including the president of the united states. he doesn't have executive privilege when he tries to overthrow the constitutionally elected government in this country and we have to figure out what happened to make sure it doesn't happy again. if we just go through the process, then it is okay to do these things, and it's not okay. we have an absolute responsibility and congress should move as fast as they can do get this thing done and

fox news radio and jeff mason washington correspondent for reuters at the white house. guy, let me start with you, by the way you are in studio here which is a new element. >> very exciting. i forgot what this felt like. >> bret: welcome back. baby steps. we are going to get one panelist at a time. >> i'm delighted to be here. what a treat. >> bret: when you look at the poll numbers and see where the president is, what do you take from 30,000 feet? >> the president is extremely unpopular. i mean, to be in the 30's with 21 points under water at this stage in your presidency, that's not a great place to be. and that final number that you flashed up on the screen about sort of enthusiasm about another biden term or another biden run is obviously not great news for him, but let's just say a lot of the these people say nothing we are not into round two of joe biden a lot of them are actually democrats who are not terribly excited about the prospect of nominating him for a second time. so then you start to wonder okay, who would be waiting in the wings potentially who is the

it wasn't quite clear from the white house. you did hear cedric richmond say there just aren't the votes. will there be? >> well, i would say-- i would say cedric is wiles not to completely predict what 50 democratic senators will do. as you know, this bill will get zero republican votes, just like the american rescue plan in march that produced such good benefits for every zip code, no republicans would support it. and this bill won't get republican votes, either. so what will 50 democrats agree to? i am a strong supporter of paid child and family leave, but remember this, margaret, everybody who cares about paid child and family leave also cares about the child tax credit. they care about affordable child care. they care about prekindergarten. and in that bucket of issues that matters to family and children, without being able to predict that everything everyone wants will be fully funded for as long as we want, that bucket of issues for family and kid is going to be so powerful, i think this will be the biggest pro-child bil

. , >> hydrogen will be joined by white house chief of staff in a moment. we're also be joined later in the hour by pramila jayapal. and we now know that when congresswoman jayapal appears on the rachel maddow show, joe biden watches. he watches, and he calls her. and tells her how great she was, talking to rachel. that has now been reported, that's one of the phone calls she has gotten from president biden. >> that's very unsettling. i mean, i don't, that makes me feel self conscious. >> yeah, he's watching. >> yeah, i have to bleach my brain and forget this ever happened. and never think of this. again >> president, of the united states, is watching. he stopped watching now because it's 10 pm, but he was no way tonight, he's busy with the china summit tonight. so don't be offended if he misses some of your show tonight. >> you are trying to undo me lawrence o'donnell. you know how to do it. you have figured it out and now you are putting it into action. >> whatever you do rachel, don't think about it. okay. just don't. when chris say is says, good evening

i'm told by white house sources the president and top white house aides will contestant to engage with lawmakers. they're trying to make the cases in what lawmakers, including senators manchin and sinema, this should a bill they could get behind, it does not add to the deficit. adding back paid family leave, critical to people across the country, especially women of color, and also men as well who are going to be able to take care of a sibling or family member if they're going to be on medical leave. today the president has a message for democrats as relates to the bill, five words, get it on my desk. the president is urging his party to get on the same page. it's anyone's guess whether or not the president will be able to get this together. lisa is saying it could be weeks, maybe days for the house vote. at the white house there is a feeling the president is trying to be the closer in chief. he has not been able to get there, but the white house is watching all this very closely. >> woodruff: the drama continues. yamiche alcindor at the white house, lisa desjardins following it on the

kaitlan collins is out front live at the white house tonight. i want to start, though, with manu raju, who is on capitol hill with all these breaks developments and, manu, this story is literally changing by the minute. both bills going to be voted on. then, all the sudden, jayapal is hard no. where do things stand now? >> yeah, after a standoff earlier today with moderates who are hold ug up that larger $1.9 trillion bill, now there is a standoff with the progressives who are holding up that separate $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. but the pressure is on. the president and the speaker are trying to urge the progressives not to hold up that bipartisan infrastructure bill. and vote yes, send it to his desk tonight. now, we are learning that joe biden has called into a meeting with the progressive caucus and put his -- he was on speaker phone. urging them to get behind this. now, i also was told that biden spoke directly with pramila jayapal, the leader of the congressional progressive caucus but she will continue to vote no and at that same me

white house physician dr. kevin o'connor said in a letter advising routine surveillance and another colonoscopy in seven to ten years, when biden will be in his late 80s. two areas of observation outlined in the president's physical included keeping an eye on his frequent throat clearing and noticeably different gate compared to last year. while the white house dr. initially deemed him healthy, vigorous and fit to ask to get the dash he is the oldest president in american history and fox news poll showed that half of voters think the president ages interfering with his job, including 49% of voters over 65 and 28% of democrats. and when the president heads back to the white house next week, there will be a renewed emphasis on getting his nominees confirmed, including his pick for the office of management and budget, if confirmed, she will be the first black woman to hold that office. mike buried >> mike: jacqui heinrich live in nantucket. jacqui, many thanks. a new variant has been detected in south africa. sci

phil mattingly over at the white house, thank you very much. former president trump by the way still hasn't made an announcement on his potential 2024 presidential run but his grip on the republican party clearly remains stronger than ever. listen to trump's former white house chief of staff mark meadows. >> i would love to see the gavel go from nancy pelosi to donald trump. you talking about melting down, people would go crazy. as you know you don't have to be an elected member of congress to be the speaker. wouldn't you see, she would go from tearing up a speech to having to give the gavel to donald trump? oh, she would go crazy. >> let's discuss with our chief political analyst gloria borger and cnn's senior political commentator the former republican governor of ohio john kasich. governor, what goes through your mind hearing meadows suggest a that former president trump should be the speaker if the republicans become the majority after the midterm elections in the house? you were once a member of the house. >> i think he hit the nail on the

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the group got white house briefings. the group ended up becoming a celebrated cause in the conservative media. even as their bizarre claim about fake cures for covid were being taken down by facebook and other social media platforms, fox news in the trump white house was promoting them like they were actual experts. the group's founder, doctor name gold, she allegedly took part in the general six attack on the u.s. capitol, she was arrested, and charged with violent entry and disorderly conduct. she has pled not guilty to those charges. nbc news time magazine, several outlets, several other outlets, published reporting about how the america's frontline doctors fiasco morphed from that and nichelle's sort of launch into, what appears to have been, a very lucrative telemedicine scam. in which, they marketed and prescribed another fake covid cures. the anti parasite drug, ivermectin. which is a drug that has real uses, both in livestock and in humans. it treats your scabies. but it is an anti-parasitic drug. it doesn't trea

house -- at least from what they are saying -- a disconnect from what the current white house a saying about their understanding of this situation and where they see it headed versus this ser pension that as you said, you have a president literally asking members of his party, do this, i need this. and we are drifting on several hours now. >> david -- >> anderson, here -- here -- here is the thing. anyone who believes -- any democrat who believes that they can somehow separate themselves out from a president of their own party and be successful if he is not viewed as successful, hasn't studied history. if -- if -- you know, one of the problems on tuesday was that joe biden's approval rating was down there at 42, 43%. and that's a significant headwind for candidates of his own party. if that is the case a year from now, and it may not be. the economy could improve. we could be through the virus. things can change. but -- but certainly, passing these bills would be part of making that change. if -- if -- if we're -- we are in a year where we were on tuesday, a lot of these members are no

do you think that we will see another bipartisan signing event at the white house anytime soon? >> i do. i mean, i think it's a matter of getting folks together that want to get to yes as we did with this infrastructure package. and i will tell you what the piece of legislation's going to be. it's going to be a toxic ex-e exposure -- piece of legislation on toxic exposure to allow the va to give burn pit victims the kind of benefits that they have earned and i think that it will be a bipartisan -- it already is a bipartisan bill and i think it will get passed with a bipartisan majority. >> so, let's talk about the voting rights that both of you have worked on together. leader abrams, a new "washington post"/abc poll shows 51% of registered voters, right now, say they would support republicans for congress if the election was held today. 41% said they'd support democrats. that is the biggest lead for the gop in 40 years. and i will translate that. that's the entire history of that poll question. so, it's never been a bigger gap than now. are you concerned that the democratic infi

here is white house correspondent peter doocy. >> what do democrats call trillions of taxpayer dollars meant to address climate change? a start. >> it's fabulous. it's great. it's big. but it's a good start. we have more to do. >> they claim their build back better plan also solves rising prices. >> if you want to fight inflation, support build back better. >> republicans aren't so sure. >> what they are talking about doing now with this next massive and reckless tax and spending spree is going to aggravate and accelerate this inflation issue even more. >> none of the republicans who supported the president's infrastructure package are on board with the new social spending plan. >> the hardworking men and women of this country cannot afford to be guinea pigs in a socialist experiment where democrats try to inflate their way out of inflation. [tires squealing] >> the president continues promoting his proposals today at electric vehicle plant in detroit. >> jump in the back. >> progressive biden allies believe they can pass the build back better plan by the end of this year. >> i'm dream

peter doocy is at the white house with what the biden team is saying about that today versus what the president said yesterday. but we begin with congressional correspondent chad pergram on capitol hill with where things stand at this minute with the spending legislation. good evening, chad. >> good evening, bret. democrats are stuck one senior democratic leadership aide described this as a, quote, blank show and that's not the term they used. this could mean the house doesn't vote any time soon. house speaker nancy pelosi does not go to the floor and lose. if she had the votes, the speaker would have called the vote. >> do you expect the vote tonight and is it possible that you might just vote on the infrastructure bill considering everybody seems to be bought in and saying it's ready for a vote? >> no. >> what are the big hurdles you have to overcome. >> i will let you know as soon as i wish to. >> the hurdles are the math. pelosi only has a 3 vote margin in the house. moderate democrats demand a final cbo score on how much the bill would actually cost and more time to read it one h

. >> we'll be joined by white house chief of staff. and later in the hour by -- and we now know that when congressman appears on the rachel ma dow show. joe biden watches and he calls her and tells her how great she was. talking to rachel. that has been reported that's one of the phone calls she's gotten from president biden. >> that's very unsettling. i mean. that makes me feel self-conscious. >> yeah. he's watching. >> yeah. don't -- i have to bleach my brain and forget this ever happened and never think of it again. >> president of the united states. is watching. he stopped watching now. it's 10:00 p.m. he was watching. no wait tonight he's busy with the china summit. don't be offended if he missed some of the show tonight. >> you are trying to undo me. you know how to do it. you have figured it out. you are putting it into action. >> whatever you do, tomorrow night don't think about it. okay? just don't -- when chris hays says good evening rachel. just do not think joe biden is watching. just don't. >> lawrence. you can never unsay

white house correspondent peter doocy joins us from the north lawn. a good evening. >> officials around here are clear, there is no overnight fix for inflation. they admit that it's a problem, but still today, they did not say anything about it here at the white house or in paris. >> also apparently quiet on the inflation, constituents with democratic representatives. >> they're not talking about inflation, they are talking about i don't have enough money in my budget to pay for the things i need to pay for. >> critics charge that's out of touch. i understand much of limousine liberals living in new york or washington may not worry about these things, but for working-class americans having to pay an extra dollar or dollar 50 a week for a gallon of gas is making the budgets tougher and tougher to meet. >> rising gas prices are on the president's radar. >> have you ever pay this much for a gallon of gas? >> good question that has critics pointing fingers at a president in office for ten months. >> nine months ago, former obama white house economist warn

the white house just today and the cdc director and dr. fauci were trying to encouge people to have a good thanksgiving, 2021 is not 2020, but the level of uncertainty is pretty high. this time last year, everyone was looking at these vaccines coming, thinking maybe the vaccines will be the end. then it turns out they weren't the end. the biden white house is having difficulty messaging what the future looks like, in part because it is really hard to predict what the future is going to look like, so they haven't built -- not everything is about messaging, but a lot of people just want answers and there aren't answers. >> we had a look at what normal was going to look like and that is almost harder to recover from than just slogging through and saying eventually we will get to the end. we had this glimpse and then it was taken back. i think that is the bigger overlying thing. you can't discount the inflation piece, which is a really big piece of all of this. amna: i want you to quickly weigh in on we had the president's reaction to a court

bottom white house which supported the release. walk us through this critic we know former president trump was trying to keep the papers from being accessed by the house committee. tell us why this federal judge load at she did -- ruled as she did. yamiche: the federal judge in d.c. has ruled former president trump, his request to holdback these documents is denied. that is in fact a win for the house select committee trying to seek these documents related to january 6. what is important to understand is this is a judge that issued a 39-page decision. i want to read you what she wrote. she wrote president trump is not present -- she said he retains the right to assert his records are privileged but the incoming president is not constitutionally obliged to honor that assertion. there you have it. this is a judge taking the idea about pres. biden,, who has said he would waive executive privilege because thessues related to january 6 are extraordinary. the former president. . asserts executive privilege. this is a large number of docu

that's something you hear from white house officials. why they are going to focus on this so much in the days and weeks ahead. this has tangible benefits that people will be able to feel and they want to make sure people know those benefits are on their way. >> phil, you're right. there was not even that subtle. the message that he was trying to send. again, not just to republicans but to democrats saying too often in washington we focus on getting everything we want with this law. we focus on getting things done. but, phil, you mentioned all of the details of what is in this new law. i want to bring in diane on that particular issue. there are hundreds of billions of dollars for roads, bridges, infrastructure projects, public transit, passenger and freight rail. broadband infrastructure, airports, electric vehicle chargers, it goes on and on and on. so diane, my question for you is, if i'm sitting at home watching this, i'm wondering, when is this actually going to get going, and will it really affect me and help my life in the short te

what is the white house doing to push this decision? yamiche: as you said, the president really wanted this to be passed, at least one of these bills. he wanted it passed while in europe, the bipartisan infrastructure bill. even though house speaker nancy pelosi was pushing lawmakers and saying, let's give the president a vote of confidence from congress, when that did not happen, thehite house continued to engage. the president and top white house aides will make the case this is exactly what lawmakers including senator manchin, senator sinema, should be able to get behind. they say it does not add to the deficit. they are adding things back progressives wanted, like paid family leave, something critical to families, including women of color and men, who may have to take care of a family member if they are on medical leave. the president had a message for democrats as it relates to these bills, yet it on my desk. -- get it on my desk. it is anyone's guests if the president will be able to bring this together. it could be weeks or days

it's a big win for the white house. the president hits the road today to new hampshire and tomorrow michigan. as work continues on the hill for the build back better bill. >> jackie, more on part one. the white house is making sure they celebrated that when and everybody saw it. it looked like a party there. america can work in a bipartisan way, believe it or not even after all we have been through. talk more of what yesterday sill symbolized and also now does part two gets more aggressive. what are the plans moving forward. >> you are right. if we are looking at this, president biden got what he campaigned on and exactly what he's been agitating for a year now since the american rescue plan. everything he has claimed that he has good at and why the entirety of his presidential campaign. 19 republicans signed onto this piece of legislation and are already campaigning on it. we have susan collins tauting the $245 million that maine is going to get. you had mitch mcconnell toting the same. >> he's one of the republicans t