anybody that can t have a working relationship with president trump to be a team to come up with an american first agenda. just some of what we heard from senator lindsey graham last night as he threatened to withhold his leadership vote for mitch mcconnell if the minority leader doesn t have equal working a, quote, working relationship with the former president. earlier today graham was asked about his comments. mitch mcconnell has been one of the best leaders in my lifetime. he worked with president trump to get the court full of conservative justices, passed tax cuts pretty much by ourselves. but the elections are about the future not the past and you got to have a working relationship with president trump. you don t have to agree with him or cowtow to him but if he want to be a senate or house leader the most consequential republican in the country is donald trump. no matter who you are mitch or anybody else i think you got to show to us the rank and file you can work with pr
and bill kristol. donna, your reaction to those comments from graham? well, i think mitch mcconnell has done plenty to protect donald trump. he protected him in two impeachments. he put forward the tax cut that senator graham talked about. he s made sure to block the independent commission on january 6th. i think mitch mcconnell has done a fair amount to protect donald trump and the trump agenda and unfortunately for all of the rest of us we have to suffer the consequences. bill, of course i m sure you would like to o pine on that relationship. i will give you the space and time to do that but i want to bring in another element of the conversation which is you have the rnc threatening to bar its candidates from participating in debates sponsored by the commission on presidential debates. the washington post reports, quote, during the 2020 cycle then president donald trump
infecting our country. eliminating the 60-vote threshold will simply guarantee we lose a critical tool that we need to safeguard our democracy from threats in the years to come. the house has already passed the voting bills. it is now up to the senate. tonight democratic leader chuck schumer said while he had hoped to hold a vote by monday with hawaii senator brene shotz now positive for covid and an expected winter storm all voefts will be postponed until tuesday. the president is providing another part of his agenda that already failed to get through the senate. nbc news reports he is planning to sign executive action on police reform as early as this month. this was also the day the supreme court blocked biden s covid vaccine or testing mandate for large employers a major blow to the administration s plan to end the pandemic. the court did uphold a more modest mandate that requires health care workers at publicly funded facilities to be
these democratic divisions continue to doom his agenda. this is the second time in a month that a lone senator has sunk his legislative plan. that is the political reality of his margins in congress right now and what he has to deal with in order to get things done. the question is, is he setting the expectations too high especially as it is frustrating a lot of democrats particularly on an issue like voting rights that they see as so critical ahead of november. we ll talk about that issue a little later in the show. before we go i want to ask you six supreme court justices have blocked the white house s vaccine or test rules. can you walk us through the reasoning for this in the middle of an ongoing pandemic? what the majority says is that osha has over played its hand in terms of the rules it gets to implement. so congress delegates some power to osha. osha has the power to implement rules to protect workers from
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