tweets of alyssa milano, who apparently influenced him, she was the boss on this one. how does he expect to stand up to donald trump, who has been a vigorously pro-life president to this point? that s right. look, joe biden is puppet boy. there is someone pulling his strings. it s pathetic. he has no conviction, no principles, no message. and the question is, who is pulling those strings? as you just noted, it s alyssa milano, a hollywood actress, it s a junior level staffers who reportedly convinced joe biden to reject whatever principles he has left. they are gone. they are out the window. this is puppet boy. it s incredible. 72 hours ago, i was over on cnn, and that first clip you played was really important. that was cedric richman, his national cochair, who just before i came o on, went on abot joe biden s faith, a religiousvi man, convictions, support the hyde amendment. in 72 hours, where did his faith
if the democrats take back the house after tuesday s election, there is unsettled businesses over who will win leadership roles? thursday the chairman of the congressional black caucus cedric richman said a black lawmaker should hold one of the top two leadership posts if house democrats win big on tuesday. now, that demand of sorts is seen as a potential threat to pelosi and minority whip who are expected to return for their former posts as the top house leaders, although there was a little bit of walking back, we saw on this issue on friday. i want to bring in cnn political analyst rachel joining us now. she s also the congressional reporter for politico. you have a deep dive this week, rachel, on pelosi and what she s been doing. how big of a resistance against pelosi as speaker is there really among democrats? i would say it s a lot smaller than people think it is. we ve been hearing for the past few months about this incoming democratic freshman class that would come in, ban t
jess schuel. no. marisa. i don t know who that is. brian parman. no. thank you. that had a certain smell about it. there are going to be members of congress that will do things that, i think, cross the line. but i think as an institution we will make sure that the mueller investigation has the independence, has the resources it needs to bring its investigation to a conclusion. the american people will demand that, and we have to make sure that that, in fact, takes place. i have confidence that we will protect the integrity of the mueller investigation. senator cardin, thank you so much. thank you. and coming up, civil wrongs. the white house tries to school john lewis on the importance of the civil rights movement. the head of the congressional black caucus cedric richman joins me next right here on andrea mitchell reports.
warmth and love gave us just incredible strength but you can imagine during some really, really difficult times. that is one more example of the power of prayer. something else i saw firsthand was not a surprise to me, but as the outpouring of love from you, my colleagues. both republican and democrat. i know right after the shooting, we were practicing on the republican side and the democrats are practicing too. my colleague and friend and sometimes archrival and baseball from back home in new orleans unfortunately the star of the game too many times, cedric richman somehow figured out which hospital i was sent to and got there, problynd his baseball uniform to check on me. so many others of you, again both re-publican and democrat reached out in ways that i can t express the gratitude and how much it means to me, jennifer, and our whole family. it really does show the warm
fellow democrat, but an african-american. cedric richman represents the city of new orleans and steve scalise represents the suburbs north and these men are on opposite sides of the aisle and get their close friends and are drawn together by not only their shared love of louisiana and new orleans, but by the passion for baseball. you heard the locker room talk there as scalise complains about richman s ability, he s a fantastic athlete and dominates these games with the democrats. these people we sent to congress, they get a lot of abuse, but they re serving our country and their serving at great sacrifice. some of the making financial sacrifices to be away from their families, and today we were reminded that sometes ty place themselves in harm s way