going to mar-a-lago and kissing the ring of donald trump. kevin mccarthy has always and will forever remain, be someone who cares about power. and right now for him, doing whatever donald trump wants, he believes is going to lead to a situation where republicans will retake the house and he will get the speaker s gavel. that is what this is all about. jim, i need you to check my political homework on the senate on what i think is going on there. this looks like possible win/win/win for chuck schumer in the following ways. he brings the bill to the floor. either you get enough republican votes, or the republicans by the way, they don t have to mount a 60-vote threshold challenge to it. but in any event, it passes the senate and you get your commission investigating january 6th, and that keeps some focus on january 6th, which is not politically helpful to republicans.
for senator manchin? then, how concerned for the country will senator manchin be? will senator manchin be disheartened in concerned enough, to be willing to join all of the other democrats in the senate and changing the senate rules to eliminated the 60 vote threshold in all, or some, senate votes? if the 60 vote threshold remains in the senate the entire biden harris legislative agenda, beginning with infrastructure and voting rights, will face the impossible hurdle of trying to find ten good solid patriots on the republican side of the senate. patriots oleading off our discun tonight are jim manly, a 29 year veteran who served as perry reed and senator kennedy. also wishes jonathan kaye party. host of an msnbc.
will forever remain, be someone who cares about power. right now for him, doing whatever donald trump wants, he believes it is going to lead to a situation where republicans will retake the house and he will get the speakers to count. that s what it s all about. jim, i need you to check my political homework on the senate on what i think is going on there. this looks like a possible win, win, win for chuck schumer in the following ways. he brings the bill to the floor. either you get enough republican votes, or republicans by the way, they do not have to get a 60 vote challenge to, it they can go without challenging it procedurally. in any event, it passes the senate. and you get your commission investigating january 6th, and that keeps some focus on january 6th, which is not politically helpful group for republicans, only for democrats. on the other hand, if chuck
washington post and host of the sunday show with jonathan capehart on msnbc. and, jim, you know how seniority works in the senate. on msnbc, seniority goes to the anchorman. so, jonathan capehart, we will begin with you. the anchor men and women. jonathan capehart, here we are. the test vote of what is possible in the united states senate will turn out to be the vote on a bipartisan commission, a completely bipartisan idea, a bipartisan commission to investigate january 6th. we are going to find out in that vote exactly what is possible in the rest of the senate votes this year. you know, i thank you for giving me the seniority. it really should go to jim manley because he knows basically all of those characters there on capitol hill. but you re right, lawrence. this is going to be the first big bipartisan vote, and we re
you know how seniority works in the senate, jim. seniority goes to the anchorman. we will begin with you, the anchor men and women. jonathan kaye part. here we are. the test vote of what is possible in the united states senate will turn out to be the vote on a bipartisan commission, a completely bipartisan idea, a bipartisan commission to investigate january 6th. we will find out in that vote, exactly what is possible in the rest of the senate votes this year. you know, i thank you for giving me the seniority. it really should go to jim manly. he knows, basically all those capitals here on capitol hill. this is gonna be the big bipartisan vote. we are biting our nails over whether this will be a