and the $15 minimum wage that the house voted to include in the covid relief bill. but even with democrats in control, the possibility of any of this becoming law is nowhere near guaranteed. and without a change to the filibuster, much of this progressive to-do list will die. joining me now is senate majority leader chuck schumer of the great state of new york. leader schumer, thank you very much for coming to the sunday show. good to be with you, jonathan. the old days back in gotham. so, listen, you were able to get the senate to pass the covid relief package, and as a result it became law. how do you hold your razor-thin majority? how did you hold it in order for all of these progressive to-do list items to get through passage? well, first, it s such a major piece of legislation. it s the most significant change for middle-class people, for poor people, people trying to get into the middle class in decades in a very long time. and it has amazing things in it. the c
Fbi before he fired him last february. Setting off a new round of questions about whether the president s actions amount to Obstruction Of Justice. Well, if you take the president s own statement, his tweet that he knew Michael Flynn was lying to the fbi when he fired him, which means that he knew Michael Flynn had committed a felony when he asked comey to stop the investigation. And when he fired comey when he refused to do so and when he fired sally yates and when he called Michael Flynn in april to tell him to stay strong. All of these acts are to impede and obstruct justice. A source close to the white house acknowledging the severity of the misstep to the Washington Post which writes a person close to the white house involved in the case turned the saturday tweet a screw up of historic proportions that has caused enormous consternation in
to in legal circles about whether or not a lawyer would have sent a tweet or even dictated a tweet like the one that came from the president s f
that s all about conformity and compliance and intolerance of anyone who doesn t agree with what their mission is. chairman steele? [laughter] i don t know i only have a masters degree. however, it seems to me she just gave the definition of what they were doing. it is a cult. yes, the thing defines itself. i was like, okay, i saw that, and yeah [laughter] you want to see that, april ryan? if she can t get it out chairman steele is rendered speechless. this is a rarity, folks. [laughter] [inaudible]
with what s happening at the u.s. supreme court, the actions and admissions case. we are waiting for this decision at any moment. we are in the midst of a rollback when there are persons who are very concerned about radical america, and the black community is the bulls eye and the target. pull back from affirmative action, pullback of the eye, the pullback of our history. what s next? chairman steele, do you agree with april? are you among the 51%? i think the number is higher than 51%. i think people were being polite because we are polite. [laughter] the reality is i think that number is high, and why wouldn t it be? it doesn t take me a lot to hit me inside the head when i see white folks running around, saying, and saying, doing the stuff they re doing. there is a very scary video i
michael steele. both black americans, worried you or someone you love would be physically attacked because they are black? 59%. i would argue chairman steele in april, to your point, that number is higher too. i am definitely among that 59%, and i never felt that way until june 16th, 2015, when donald trump came down that escalator, and within two minutes of his announcing that he was running for president said that mexicans were rapists and it only went downhill from there. april? agreed. at the end of the day, at the end of the day, all of us know who we are. we are people of, descendants of the african diaspora. but at the end of the day, we can be on this esteemed panel, but when we take off our makeup, our jackets, we walk outside, we are black people in america. we still haven t come to grips, in terms with who we are as people. we are still considered less