correct that the house and house leadership had the opportunity to vote to extend the moratorium and there were many, a handful of conservative democrats in the house that threatened to get on planes rather than hold this vote. we have to really just call a spade a spade. we cannot in good faith blame the republican party when house democrats have the majority. steve: and speaker pelosi adjourned for recess on friday before the moratorium ran out and blamed the republicans but it s clearly the democrat because the democrats who hold the majority couldn t figure out what to do. pete: there are enough sensible democrats who say you can t just continue extending eviction bans forever there are landlords out there. there is rent to be paid there sun employment money that s out there. and ultd 3459ly what it is it is socialist democrats who want those covid protocols. steve: more, more, more. ainsley: we watched her interview and we re going to play a clip of this. you might want to set thi
good to see you in person. of course. so you ve been warning this eviction deadline was coming for weeks. yes. democrats control the house, you control the senate. you control the white house. nothing aggressive was done by leadership until a couple of days ago. who s to blame here? well, you know, i think there s a couple of issues here. first of all, you are absolutely correct in that the house and house leadership had the opportunity to vote to extend the moratorium. there was many, frankly a handful of conservative democrats in the house that threatened to get on planes rather than hold this vote. we have to really just call a spade a spade. we cannot in good faith blame the republican party when house democrats have the majority. now there is something to be said for the fact that this court order came down on the white house a month ago and the white house waited until the day before the house adjourned to release a statement asking congress to extend a moratorium. this
they didn t get this done before leaving. what are they saying? that s right. there is no clear look forward that they will get this done either. speaker nancy pelosi sent a letter to her colleagues late last night saying that the house left because the republicans wouldn t support it. and that is something that representative alexandria ocasio cortez said, it is not the republicans fall this time. it s actually democrats fault. she said that this morning on cnn. let s take a listen. there was frankly a handful of conservative democrats in the house that threatened to get on planes rather than hold this vote. and we have to really just call a spade a spade. we cannot in good faith blame the republican party when house democrats have majority. we cannot kick people out of their homes when our end of the bargain has not been fulfilled. speaker pelosi also noted in that letter that the senate needs to act in order for both houses of congress to pass this and get this to the presid
looked at the same. millions of americans are now at risk of being removed from their homes after the federal eviction moratorium expired overnight. some progressive lawmakers led by congresswoman cory bush have been protesting on the capitol steps demanding the house come back into session to extend it. earlier today congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez expressing frustration that house democrats weren t able to take action. there was frankly a handful of conservative democrats in the house that threatened to get on planes rather than hold this vote and we have to really just call a spade a spade. we cannot in good faith blame the republican party when house democrats have the majority. we cannot kick people out of their homes when our end of the bargain has not been fulfilled. on the covid watch this hour nbc s josh lederman at the white house, vaughn hill erdogan in in vaughn hillyard. what are we hearing from the
peace of mind when they go back to work. congresswoman chu, i want to talk about the eviction moratorium while i have you but i want to play some sound of senator manchin talking about the timing of this infrastructure bill and pairing it with reconciliation that you re speaking of. there was frankly a handful of conservative democrats in the house that threatened to get on planes rather than hold this vote and we have to really just call a spade a spade. we cannot in good faith blame the republican party when house democrats have the majority. we cannot kick people out of their homes when our end of the bargain has not been fulfilled. all right. so that was obviously not joe manchin, that was alexandria ocasio-cortez on cnn talking about her support in pairing the reconciliation with the infrastructure bill. but obviously joe manchin was on cbs face the nation and i want to read for folks what it