tremendous offense against the constitution and our country. well, speaking of which, you and i are both pennsylvanians. republicans in pennsylvania are launching their own unnecessary taxpayer funded review of the 2020 election results. they re subpoenaing or trying to anyway the personal information of millions of our fellow pennsylvanians. senator, you ve long been on the record as you just stated again that biden won the election. he won pennsylvania. what do you make of this effort by republicans in pennsylvania? i have enough work with my day job that i don t scrutinize carefully the legislation that s being passed in harrisburg, but i do want to make a point here, jake, and that is, you know, in pennsylvania, sadly, we have a rogue supreme court that is lawless, has chosen repeatedly to violate the law and take into their own hands powers that belong in the legislature, and they did that in the election
under trump. not that trump should be personally blamed for the spike in murders. there are any number of reasons behind this spike as criminologists are now studying, ranging from increased domestic violence due to covid to policing challenges after the murder of george floyd. as a policy matter, it s complicated, but as a human matter, of course, it is tragic. mack i think it s important to look at the numbers confronted with family members destroyed, humans eradicated from the face of the earth. her first impulse seemed to be, how can i use this information to attack a politician i do not support? and that is an impulse we see all too often. you can strain your neck watching some commentators go from attacking joe biden for not evacuating afghan special immigrant visa applicants quickly enough to attacking joe
believe when it does come to the floor that we will have the votes. you know, i don t believe any democrat or small faction of democrat also vote on infrastructure on 2 million jobs a year for hard working men and women of labor and to fight climate change and vote against it. it s a key part of the president s agenda. i don t buy at the end of the day that folks will vote against it and i think it s right to say for them to hear from people like me and others that we are completely committed to getting a reconciliation package done. i ll tell you, there s so much in there and helping to fight climate change, child care to reinstating the tax deduction to make life more affordable. yes. things like that are so important. i m completely committed to getting both done. let s talk about that. you threatened to vote against the budget reconciliation bill unless it repeals the so-called s.a.l.t., state and local taxes deduction cap, which would move essentially, give hundreds of billi
negotiations again, because it has to be passed. she wants you to go back to the table. again, i have talked to her and i have talked to many other members, i m never going to stop until we get something substantially done. the problem is, at some point this negotiation was not getting to where it needed to be, especially if you can t get donald trump what he thought should be done memorialized. i have been in this town eight years. i have worked with lindsey graham, chuck grassley, donald trump and jared kushner to get change that many people said couldn t get done, lowering sentencing, getting rid of the ban for reoffenders. i know how to get things done and we re not getting anywhere. this is one of those moments two good people, both african-americans who had awful, awful experiences with police, we couldn t get it done that way. i went to the white house a day or two afterwards, talked to president biden, who was very connected to these negotiations in terms of watching what
senator manchin obviously represents west virginia, historically a coal mining state. he says a lot of the climate change provisions in the bill will hurt people in his state. i think this is going to be one of the haor places for us t negotiate but most important. the president made a commitment. he s going to go to cop26 and said we want to be a leader in cutting emissions and getting to the goals he set forth for 2035. if we re going to do that, we ve got to put some really stringent standards in place, and put some tax credits and incentives in place. that is what the clean electricity standards are and we ve got to be able to do those. so let s see where that goes but i agree, that s going to be a big sticking point. a point we have to work through. it s been a really intense few weeks as i don t need to tell you. in the oval office last week with president biden your staff has been talking about this. yes. i m not talking out of school about a moment that was ve