desperately needs, and it is what democrats will deliver on in the coming days. so up next, the bill still needs to survive a rare weekend session, a parliamentary review and a senate vote-arama. more on that coming up. assuming it passes, it would send democratic members home on top of another win on top of the kansas abortion vote that fired up the base and great jobs numbers today as well. it also adds fuel to the already frenzied pace of midterm campaigns escalating to levels we rarely see today. nbc news now predicts election denier and trump acolyte kari lake is the winner of the republican primary for governor of arizona. she repeatedly claimed election irregularities but now says her supporters, quote, outvoted the fraud. among those endorsing lake, the conservative group cpac, which is now meeting in texas and where the keynote speaker was hungarian prime minister victor orban who was welcomed with a standing ovation. the washington post described it as, quote, a
his thumb is working! i do like this coin toss thing. why stop with the debate side? let s have the coin determine who wins the election. yep. it would be so much less stressful than five months of campaigning. just flip the coin! heads, it s trump. tails, it s biden. if the coin bounces and rolls into the sewer, it s rfk jr. i say he ll come out all jacked up, right? all jacked up. yes, all jacked up on metamucil. trump says he wants them to both submit to a drug test before the debate. do you have any idea how long it takes to get a urine sample from men close to 80? i m 74 and the only time i i don t have to pee is when i m pee ing! the great marty short filling in for jimmy kimmel this week. not a bad substitute. we are two days away now from the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle. we will have the latest what we are learning about president biden s strategy for dealing with two different versions of donald trump. primary day in new york and colora
where the keynote speaker was hungarian prime minister victor orban who was welcomed with a standing ovation. the washington post described it as, quote, a trump rally with a hungarian accent. we have seen what kind of future the globalist ruling class has to offer, but we have a different future in mind. the globalists can all go to hell. i have come to texas. we ve got lots to discuss. i want to bring in nbc capitol hill correspondent allie vitaly. betsy woodruff swan, an msnbc contributor. matthew dowd is founder of country over party and msnbc political analyst. allie, it will be a busy weekend on the hill. talk about what is in store for this massive reconciliation bill and what is a vote-orama anyway?
documents that he claims are protected by attorney/client privilege. joining me capitol hill correspondent, allie vitaly, host of the talking feds podcast harry lipman and professor at the university of alabama law school, joyce vance. good to see all of you. joyce, for everybody who witnessed what happened on january 6th and thought this isn t legal, does that development that we re hearing get us anywhere in terms of actually seeing criminal charges? so, what this brief suggests is that the committee ultimately will make a referral to the justice department on these charges. there s a conspiracy to defraud united states charge and an obstruction of justice charge. and it s important, chris, to note that this brief is a serious legal endeavor. the lawyers who filed it are not the cracken lawyers. this includes former white house lawyers, former u.s. attorneys,
merrick garland and change his independent judgment. that s hard to see. that doesn t mean he s not going there, but the fact he receives with parallel evidence from the january 6th committee will be a big move for him. he ll just make an independent judgment. and by the way, it will be a while. this is just a brief. the referral itself ought to be a few months away. so we re always talking about time line, allie. what should we look for going forward? reporter: the time line has been the critical metric operating in the background here. the committee knows they re up against the midterm calendar and we are squarely in 2022. it s why, over the course of my conversations with the lawmakers on the committee, we ve seen them try to put out the fact that they want to do public hearings. we know that was supposed to happen in the first half of this year. initially we expected it for february or march. now it s looking like it will be the springtime, potentially april or may.