yamiche: good evening and welcome to "washington week." this week matched one year since president biden took the oath of office. challenges abound. covid is surging. inflation is at a 40 year high. his approval rail test rating is sliding he held the longest presidential press conference in history. one hour and 51 minutes. he touted progress on fighting covid, but admitted that more could have been done. >> should we have done more testing earlier? yes. but we a doing more now. yamiche: he called out republicans for former president trump's continued grip on the gop. >> did you ever think one man out of office could intimidate an entire party? where they are unwilling to take any vote contrary to what he thinks should be taken? fear being defeated in a primary. yamiche: a day later, republicans blasted the president. >> we have an economy that is damaged, cities and streets that are dangerous. we have adversaries who feel emboldened. yamiche: joining me tonight to discuss the president'a some ultra's year and what is to come , the white

yamiche: president biden gets a supreme court pick. president biden: the person i will nominate will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. yamiche: justice steven breyer announces his retirement. and president biden vows his replacement will make history. >> i'm going to give the president nominee whoever that may be a fair look. yamiche: setting the stage for a nate debate ahead of the midterms. plus -- >> we're acting with equal focus and force to bolster ukraine's defenses and prepare a swift united response to further russian aggression. yamiche: tensions over russia and ukraine intensify. next. announcer: this is "washington week." corporate funding is provided b. additional funding is provided by the estate of arnold adams, koo and patricia yuen through the yuen foundation committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities, sardinha and carl delay-magnuson, rose hirschel and andy shreeves. robert and sues be rosen palm. the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions t

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yamiche: it is an unusually dangerous time. you immediately began reporting about how rioters broke in. what have we learned about the possible role of lawmakers or president trump in this attack? >> i immediately began getting leads from my law enforcement sources. i really had no idea. what we have learned is so important. there was great investigative work. things that the january 6 committee is now corroborating. they are making it admissible evidence. so is the fbi. donald trump was sitting on his hands for more than 2.5 hours watching gleefully as his supporters broke through a police line. as they took bear spray inta radios and other weapons and began attacking police. his only concern came when he found out things had gotten violent. and someone had been shot. she was breaking through the glass into speak -- speaker pelosi's lobby. that is when president trump became concerned that this did not look so good. now lawmakers say it was just a tourist holiday. it was a calm group of people who wanted to support the preside

judy: hello to the three of you, to amna, to lisa, to yamiche. we don't get many opportunities to have a conversation like this one, but what a week it has been. i wanted to hear from each one of you about what it was like as we experienced this day that is going to be in the history books. um, and-and lisa, let's start with you. um, you were inside the capitol covering what was supposed to be a relatively routine, although this one was going to be a little different, set of procedures for counting the electoral votes, but that's not the way it turned out. lisa: that's right. i walked in there, judy, thinking it was going to be a historic day, but maybe a pretty long and boring one. i didn't really, i thought all the drama was what you know would be speeches. and um instead, you know, shortly after that electoral session began, you know we got notification that one of the house office buildings had been breached by... at that time we called them protesters, but they clearly became rioters. and then a second house office building had been breached

yamiche: a racial reckoning. you had better respect my choice. yamiche: an ongoing pandemic. >> first inflation, then gas prices, and shipping. yamiche: 2021 was a historic year that further divided th nation and tested those managing newsrooms across the country. coming up, leaders from some of the top news organizations discuss writing a first draft of history for a fractured nation,. --, next.

yamiche: president biden gets a supreme court pick. president biden: the person i will nominate will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. yamiche: justice steven breyer announces his retirement. and president biden vows his replacement will make history. >> i'm going to give the president nominee whoever that may be a fair look. yamiche: setting the stage for a nate debate ahead of the midterms. plus -- >> we're acting with equal focus and force to bolster ukraine's defenses and prepare a swift united response to further russian aggression. yamiche: tensions over russia and ukraine intensify. next. announcer: this is "washington week." corporate funding is provided br

there are 12 million open jobs, and as yamiche said, 1.5 jobs for every person out there. we're seeing a lot of start-ups, jose, among individuals who are launching their own businesses and so we're seeing a huge divergence between what we see in the household survey and what we see companies telling us. and neither one of those two factors will address the ethnic component of this. the federal reserve is trying to work on ways to create a more evenly distributed jobs picture, if you will. but they don't necessarily have the tools to do it, even though they're quite conscience of it. >> and yamiche, before i let you go, i want to kind of touch base with you on haiti, real quickly. over the holiday, haiti's prime minister survived an apparent assassination attempt, coming just months after the country's president was assassinated. why are we seeing all of this turmoil right now in haiti and it's so, so sad. >> it's so sad. and why we're seeing so much turmoil is such an historic question. there are so many layers to the problems that people are facing in haiti. but right no

i'll ask this question of yamiche. yamiche, what's your sense, think about this now from the standpoint of an investigative reporter, where do you think the dots that we have, what are the connections that you still want to be able to see in order for this committee, if it is trying to demonstrate that donald trump did something immoral, unethical, illegal, what are the dots that need to be connected by this committee? >> it's a great question, and it gets into the heart of what the committee is doing. there's a team looking at the money, who funded this rally, who was involved in getting people the financial aid they needed possibly to assemble? there's also people looking at the arm of the trump campaign, whether there were people in trump's orbit who were talking to these rallygoers. the number one thing is how much help, how much collusion, how much coordination was going on between the white house, congress, and these people who ultimately became the insurrectionists who broke into the capitol and tried to stop an

and yamiche alcindor, who was at the white house. the four of us spoke last year in the days following the insurrection for our podcast "america, interrupted," and when we sat down again earlier this week, we talked about how the country hachanged in the year since. lisa, let me start with you. you were inside the capitol, i remember it vividly, as the rioters broke through the glass in those doors. you were eyewitness to the worst attack on the u.s. capitol in 200 years. from a-- from a political standpoint, sa, it looks like a much more partisan even place what does it feel like from the inside? >> desjardins: i didn't think that the capitol could get more partisan than after the 2020 election ended, in 2020, but it has, and-- and i also have to say, a year ago, we all felt these palpable, very raw emotions from lawmakers right after january 6. and i knew they would continue. i thought they would continue february, march, april. democrats just seething with anger. democrats who don't usually express this kind of anger, were saying

yamiche, let's start with you. we're going to hear for the president tomorrow, the president has given us a preview. they say that they are going to lay the blame for january six squarely at donald trump's feet. but this is a tough line for the president who got elected. he ran and got elected on the idea that he is going to be a unifying near of some sorts. >> that is right ali. but when it comes to january six president biden has always been crystal clear. he saw the attack on the capital as a state on our democracy. he sees it as a real threat to american democracy. and he has always said that the people who are responsible should be held accountable. he has been very clear that he wants to be independent of the department of justice's investigation. but we can expect that tomorrow on the anniversary of this terrible day where we saw white supremacists and all sorts of hate groups and all sorts of people who were fueled by the lies fell to them by the former president trump, that he is going to president biden i

like me and yamiche get on the phone and this is the story for the month. that's not the case, right. we're all constantly talking to, especially black voters who are like, where is kamala, what's she doing? what's happening? and they don't want her to overshadow the president, so that's one. covid has happened so she hasn't been able to go out and kind of explain the kinds of things she's doing. there is also a 50/50 senate, she's the president of the senate having to be here if they're in session. so there are things they're going to try this year where she's doing more interviews, basically re-introducing herself, though they hate that word every time i use it, but re-introducing herself to the american people because it is something they feel like they don't know her yet. she hasn't been in d.c. politics that long. so this is a chance for that, they think to turn that around. >> well, the thing is with rona cron being more manageable, it is my hope the vice-president gets out there because she is her own best advocate. also, let's not forget every time

ali vitali, yamiche, carol, stephanie, thanks to all of you. chuck, you're going to stick around because this isn't the only investigation we are talking about this morning. >>> in georgia the fulton county district attorney is requesting a special grand jury. she wants help with her office's investigation into former president trump's attempts to influence the vote count in her state. now, one key piece of that, the phone call from then president trump to the georgia secretary of state just days before the vote was certified. >> so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. >> i want to bring in the political reporter for the atlanta journal constitution. greg, this investigation has been going on for nearly a year now. where do things stand? where does this grand jury potentially fit in? >> this was a significant development because the district attorney wants a special grand jury to help bolster her investigation. she said the move was needed because there is a significant number of wit

yamiche, donald trump was clearly obsessed with georgia. if you remember, on 1-6 in this rally on 1-6 in that now notorious speech, he now mentioned -- have a listen. >> we are leading pennsylvania, michigan, georgia by hundreds of thousands of votes. and then late in the evening, or early in the morning, boom. georgia, georgia, they defrauded us out of a win in georgia. georgia, georgia, georgia. they missed georgia that much. i love georga. and that do. it's a corrupt system. georgia, georgia, georgia. >> georgia, georgia, georgia. given all of that, we know that the 1-6 committee is looking to overturn the election at the federal level. do we know whatever the committee is making at the local and state level in places like georgia? >> well, thanks for having me on tonight. really, we do know that lawmakers who are on the january six house select committee, they have a team of lawmakers and aides who are looking specifically at former president trump's effort to try and influence local elected officials and local election officials to try

i mean, to yamiche's point, the idea of the big lie as kind of a campaign issue, as a cultural issue in the republican party, has worked its way all the way down from former president trump to state legislators to congressional candidates. it is everywhere. and that's what the next crop of republican lawmakers in both house and possibly senate are going to look like. so this isn't going anywhere in the capitol. >> and, brandy, look, you spent a lot of time covering miss information. this is -- this is so embedded. paint a picture for us now in this misinformation firehose that the right is getting. >> i mean, it's an interesting time to study misinformation because what we saw in the run-up to 2020 was trump create this sort of not just a pipeline, which is how we had been used to seeing, but sort of a feedback loop, which was where he primed his base that the election would be rigged, and then he literally sent out a call to his digital soldiers, which is what he called people on the internet, to sort of throw spaghetti at the wall, to choose your own adventure of misinformation or

yamiche alcindor the white house correspondent for the pbs news hour and moderator of washington week. also on pbs jonathan carl is the chief washington correspondent for the abc news, author of the new york times best-seller, betrayal, the final act of the trump show. and katie benner is the justice reporter for "the new york times." the white house has given us a bit of a preview. they say he's going to lay the blame for january 6th squarely at donald trump's feet, but this is a tough line for the president who got elected. he ran and got elected on the idea he was going to be a unifier of sorts. >> that's right, ali. but when it comes to january 6th president biden has always been crystal clear that he saw the attack on the capitol as a stain on our democracy. he sees it as a real threat to american democracy, and he's always said that the people who were responsible should be held accountable. he's been very clear he wants to be independent of the department of justice's investigation. but we can expect that tomorrow on the anniversary of this terrible day where we saw white supre

yamiche alcindor, the moderate of "washington week" on pbs. nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent, garrett haake. johan goldberg, editor in chief of the dispatch, and nbc news senior reporter brandy zadrozny, who reports on misinformation for us. jonah, i want to start with you 'cause i want you to help translate for some viewers that may be frustrated, shaking their head about the peter meijer interview and this idea that, well, the republican party may be stuck with trump and, well, the democrats are polarizing us too and that's -- you know, what about this, what about that. is that any way to get trump out of our democratic cross hairs? >> not necessarily. i substantially agree with some of what meijer said. i think one way to think about this is that we have elite failure in this country. and the failure of republican elites is pretty fricking obvious at this point. they've been feeding themselves one bite at a time to the trump alligator for five years. they've wrecked their reputation in all sorts of ways and their legacy in all sor

your podcast is always so, so good, of course, with yamiche, even better. it's interesting, right, because yamiche kind of ended there or, you know, that kind of stopped at voting rights. i thought it was fascinating because i feel like to a certain extent, many of us feel like voting rights or the passage of voting rights is doa. because of the joe manchin and kyrsten sinemas of the world. the question is, if in fact he can't get voting rights across the finish line, what has the president so far done for black america, black americans, especially when he made the pledge that he did? >> yasmin, it's been really tough for black americans, to put all their effort and faith in this administration, and so far, not get what they paid for in so many ways. when you see the all-out assault on voting rights all across this country targeting black americans, black folks are looking to the administration to push something through. certainly, the white house can't do it on their own. but then what about the promises of student loan forgiveness and higher federal minim

has come to embrace the insurrection in many ways, at least in terms of trying to down play it. >> yamiche, last night former trump official peter navarro talked to my colleague ari melber, and he did not exactly deny attempting a coup. attorney general merrick garland is speaking later today. what does your reporting tell you about where the doj is here? i mean, a lot of people are frustrated. if people are basically saying, yep, it was a coup attempt and they don't get in trouble, that certainly seems like the coup worked. >> based on my reporting and in conversations with white house officials who have been very clear that they want to be independent of the doj's investigation, the sense is that the doj is taking this very seriously, that attorney general merrick garland, that he sees january 6th as a scene on american democracy, that he sees it as one of the most serious threats to the preservation of our democracy. i understand from reading articles, talking to folks that merrick garland is going to come out and be very strong about sort of taking this very seriously. i also think tha

j ling kent, yamiche alcindor, and an msnbc political contributor. a few more joining us in a couple of minutes. thank you all for being here. i have to start with you. you are in that position, right in front of the white house. we're 20 minutes away from this news conference. help us set the tone, set the stage here. >> the president will try to set the tone and talk about initially what he would like to discuss. and according to white house officials, that's what he sees as progress over the past year on his agenda. those things that you just noted. he'll talk about legislation that he's passed, including that bipartisan infrastructure bill. he'll talk about the economy and focus on the good parts of the economy, where the unemployment rate is going down. he'll talk about how overall, over the past year, they've created new jobs and they feel good about that. and at the same time, say that there are things that he still wants to get done that he believes that he can bill on what he sees as progress, so far, or a foundation in the economy. and that

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