even if chuck schumer back in the sum emer agreed to what joe manchin put forward on that larger build back better plan, they almost certainly would have caused a revolt in the house and perhaps would have blown up in schumer s face if they had done just that. it speaks to the real challenge to get so much through. they promised a lot. they got stuff through, infrastructure done, covid relief done, they ve confirmed more than 40 judges in their first year and could confirm a supreme court justice as well. a lot unhappy they couldn t do more. take a look and get the perspective. chuck schumer has one of the most difficult jobs in washington. it s a fascinating piece. thank you very much. coming up for us a senator s health scare highlights the fragility of the democrats 50/50 hold in the united states senate. tremfya® is approved to help reduce joint symptoms in adults with active psoriatic arthritis. some patients even felt less fatigued.
climate as a recession or depression and even more describe it as not good and pour despite the fact it s never been easier to get a job or a high-paying job. joining me is jen palm merry, former white house communications director for president obama, matt gorman joining us. let me start with you and the balance. obviously he ll lead with ukraine in some form or another. i think the question is how does he do the domestic messaing? we know he ll do some of it. how is it framed? interestingly enough, they are going to try to strike bipartisanship, you know, surprise, surprise. it hasn t worked out much too far. we got infrastructure done, but supposedly they ll try to talk about issues where they think that there s overlap between republicans and democrats and things that they can get done, kind of acknowledging, probably not tacitly, but acknowledging the fact that, look, they re not going to get all the stuff they
his confidence about how things were going to go, and he wouldn t turn over his cards, but felt like he knew something we didn t know, and i think he did on a bunch of things, how to get infrastructure done, other things. but tonight he just kind of admitted, nope, i don t know anything more about manchin and sinema than you know publicly about where they are on voting rights. lawrence, what did you think of him saying that between now and mlk day, two weeks and now, between now and mlk day there have been a vote, action in the senate on changing the rules so that voting rights can be approved with majority vote? i was surprised to see him put a date on it, say this is the date by which we re going to do it. what do you make of that strategically? he essentially said something similar in december, would be
clearly, you know, there s gambling in this establishment. candidly, as somebody who wants the president to succeed, i wish we would have passed the infrastructure deal two months ago. that would have given the president a big win and would have helped here in virginia. that being said, we will get them both done. we will get infrastructure done, i hope this week. we are going to get the second half that deals with childcare, climate, lowering prescription prices. i m up to my eyeballs in the details on that. we will get that done. timing-wise, if we had got infrastructure done earlier we got it done in the senate in july. we are where we are. senator mark warner of virginia from mcauliffe headquarters where everybody is watching the results as they come in. sir, thank you for your time tonight. i appreciate you making the time. thanks so much, rachel.
not letting people claim asylum. if you have democratic leaders at a critical time when they re trying to get infrastructure done, they re trying to get this big reconciliation thing passed, criticizing your own administration, that signals they re in big trouble. meanwhile, you have republicans very much latching onto this and they re going to use this in 2022 to flip the house. it s not just leader schumer. the biden/harris administration is is being criticized by biden and harris. take a listen to the vice president. what i saw depicted about those individuals on horseback treating human beings the way they were is horrible. i fully support what is happening right now, which is a thorough investigation into exactly what is going on there. but human beings should never be treated that way and i m deeply