caucus chair, pramila jayapal told politico that half of her 96 million are prepared to block the bipartisan bill if the reconciliation budget fails. so with all of those moving parts, and there are a lot of moving parts, you can see why it will be a busy two weeks that could ultimately reshape the role of government. joining me now, sahil kapur, nbc news national political reporter. juanita toliver, democratic strategist, elise jordan, time magazine contributor and former aid to george w. bush white house. she is also an msnbc political analyst. all right, sahil, you have been watching this very closely. tell me where it goes from here. alicia, they have a lot of work to do and not a lot of time to do it. they have to resolve a host of differences between centrist democrats and progressives in just the next seven or eight days, before that september 27th deadline. speaker pelosi has promised centrist democrats that the infrastructure bill that s passed the senate will get a vote i
that s what we re doing. reporter: now biden also talked about the victims of gun violence and families who lost loved ones in school shootings. but also the impact it s had on police officers who have had to deal with these school shootings and these children who have died. we re going to be hearing from a few more candidates including senator kamala harris as we ve seen gun control become a focal point in the 2020 race. fred? thank you so much. appreciate it. let s talk more about all of this. joining me right now is a time magazine contributor and white house reporter for the washington post. good to see you both. okay, so you have some democratic candidates who are, you know, placing blame on the president, even going as far as calling him a white supremacist.
prosecutor. former aide to the george w. bush white house and time magazine contributor and a former spokesperson for the house oversight committee and msnbc news contributor. senator, it is the day after. what is the next move for democrats? well, i think what nancy pelosi is trying to convey which is very important is there is still evidence they don t have. the white house is stone walling. i think they really need to turn up the heat and get these cases into court. the contempt of the witnesses that would bring don mcgahn in front of them, you know, that s the argument some are making for opening an impeachment inquiry because it strengthens their hand legally to get around executive privilege. so in other words, the courts would be more likely to give them all the information they are seeking if it was under the impeachment inquiry as opposed to just committee work. what do you think they should do? maybe open the inquiry and make it clear that is why
pushbacks on claims that she is a racist. this as tvland, hulu, and others have announced they, too, will pull roseanne s show, the re-runs, to be specific. and sanofi, the maker of ambien, isn t letting roseanne s claim that the drug influenced her behavior slide. earlier today, they issued a statement saying in part, while all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any sanofi medication. joining me now is elise jordan, a former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, a time magazine contributor and msnbc political analyst and also a woman, zerlina maxwell is former director of progressive women for the clinton campaign, and an msnbc political analyst and also an awesome woman, and nancy giles is a giles. sorry, i was so close. almost got this through that script. an emmy award-winning contributor to cbs news sunday
trump will fire special counsel robert mueller. do you really go to bed at night worrying that by the time you wake up the president will try to fire the special counsel? yes. i think the president s abrupt recent actions in how he dismissed the v.a. secretary, secretary of state, other key members of his cabinet suggest that this is something he is likely to do. what about that second special counsel? well, attorney general jeff sessions just denied a request from some republicans to appoint a special counsel to investigate what they call political bias at the fbi and justice department. i m joined to talk about it by time magazine contributor and an msnbc political analyst. and joyce vance. also an msnbc contributor. joyce, let me start with you there. sessions telling congress that the u.s. attorney in utah and the doj inspector general are going to be investigating these matters instead.