of bills that you can t they ve been enacted too fast. 22 signed into law. this legislation is the only one. if you see senators feeling the heat from both parties in their home states do you think that changes the conversation? it should because i believe that this former backer is former backer is a former republican. right? yeah, yes. the very people that propelled senator sinema into office as the not traditional democrat are saying you are screwing up american democracy. this is what is key and every person with an opportunity to talk to or interview senator manchin or senator sinema should be saying. okay. you don t want to eliminate the filibuster. fine. but reforming the filibuster is something that is well within reason and that s where i think
out the hypocrisy of rubio being in the capitol on january 6th, first acknowledging trump did bear some responsibility, then deciding he doesn t want to know anything else about what happened. let s bring into our conversation juanita toliver. jason s still here. she s a really powerful member of congress who would make a great senator for that state. she s also making one of the most important arguments that the country s going to hear in the midterms, and that is that the republican party is a danger to our security. you think it s going to work? i absolutely think it s going to dig up some ground in florida, and this argument about the insurrection is going to only be compounded with the argument about covid relief, which we know marco rubio also opposed and really telling that personal story, telling these deep connections that the impact of those decisions that he is making every time he cowers to trump, every time he does not put people first, is going to be a cornerstone of he
lawmakers to bring mcgahn to testify, not just before lawmakers but before the american public on exactly what happened. donald trump tried to expand the applicable law of executive privilege so far beyond where it was intended that it really served to stall this long enough to, again, allow him to evade responsibility. and that is at the center of this series by the globe s editorial board. if there were other levers of accountability in place, and there were, but many of them were toothless, donald trump managed to expose every one, and so it lays out all the ways that congress needs to act and the department of just needs to act to close those loopholes, to force presidents to be held accountable because if accountability is an if there is that deterrent, then this won t happen again. but as long as things remain as they are, it absolutely could,
denounce his comments. president biden set to assert himself on the world stage against one of our adversaries is where we start this hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. retired u.s. navy admiral james, former in the supreme allied commander joins us. also joining us, frank figliuzzi is here, former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence, host of the bureau podcast. and the newest member of our family, tim miller, writer at large for the bulwark, now an msnbc contributor. admiral, i want to start with you on what russia has done ahead of this meeting, and they seem so belligerent. i asked ambassador mcfaul this question last week. they seem very much on the offense in terms of the brazenness of russian criminals and their hacks that affect our meat supply and our gas supply, but one that took place during the presidential transition that attacked executive branch agencies, including some with
who are not the only democrats taking this position and time for the leadership to get very serious about passing something. i guess i m into one basket of one piece of legislation that s too big and i don t think designed to pass the senate but the need to pass something is urgent for the reasons you have been describing. one of the things we wrote about today is that democrats really do need to address the counting of the votes. hr 1 and the john lewis bill don t address the elephant in the room which is how electoral votes are counted and i do think that at some point we need to go back and say what s the worst-case scenario of 2024 with the legislatures overturning the popular vote or congress refusing to certify electoral