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
loses, either the primary or the general election, all of the old school establishment republicans will try to take us back to the losing agenda that led to the emiss ration, the end in many ways of the traditional american middle class if trump can win and if he can pull outs a governing agenda over the next four years. what we have a chance to do is re-set the republican party. it s not shocking the old guard is putting hundreds of millions of dollars. the question is what do we do and we have to fight for it. laura: yeah. well, desantis message is very similar to trump s. if you listened to him in new hampshire today it was get rid of most favored nation status for china and, you know, there are a lot of good things there but, i mean, trump is just destroying the field right now, fascinating but charles koch is very worried. senator, great to see you. joe biden offers a shocking admission in a brand new interview and black voters aren t buying the white house line. raymond arroyo
loses, either the primary or the general election, all of the old school establishment republicans will try to take us back to the losing agenda that led to the emiss ration, the end in many ways of the traditional american middle class if trump can win and if he can pull outs a governing agenda over the next four years. what we have a chance to do is re-set the republican party. it s not shocking the old guard is putting hundreds of millions of dollars. the question is what do we do and we have to fight for it. laura: yeah. well, desantis message is very similar to trump s. if you listened to him in new hampshire today it was get rid of most favored nation status for china and, you know, there are a lot of good things there but, i mean, trump is just destroying the field right now, fascinating but charles koch is very worried. senator, great to see you. joe biden offers a shocking admission in a brand new interview and black voters aren t buying the white house line. raymond arroyo
ran on an agenda of election denialism, transformers, marauders taking over your city s, in hunter biden s explicit selfies. that agenda, the fox news agenda, underperforming so severely, and it is in a dicey situation. it is not a majority of the 2030 members, and it was getting together is holding kevin mccarthy process. that is what we saw play out last week. that is why we saw the secret deal, and it was there in the republican party. it is there to formulate a governing agenda, and it is a committee promoted to hunter biden s laptop. the not so hidden dirty secret is they have nothing new to offer. there is no big republican policy vision for the country. it is the same story to, the same when you know. they want to protect through rich people. could i arrested for smoot for rich people. cut spending for
last two elections. the midterm elections, particularly, last november, when they barely eked out a win in the house, defying historical precedent. that was due, at least, in part, to the fact that they ran on a bevy of fox news friendly causes, catering to the most fervent illusions of their base. they ran on an agenda of election denialism, transformers, marauders taking over your city s, in hunter biden s explicit selfies. that agenda, the fox news agenda, underperforming so severely, and it is in a dicey situation. it is not a majority of the 2030 members, and it was getting together is holding kevin mccarthy process. that is what we saw play out last week. that is why we saw the secret deal, and it was there in the republican party. it is there to formulate a governing agenda, and it is a committee promoted to hunter biden s laptop. the not so hidden dirty secret