keystone pipeline a poison pill. two cars are driving down the highway and one has to blink first. i would have gone to the prom with you, al. i promise. you guys went to the same high school. that s just my sense. just a guess. we re very close. we re ten miles from each other. ten miles. that s true. i ve known this man since before you were born. 1995. 1995. exactly. but i think that the payroll tax cut and the pipeline is very interesting. first of all we have to remember, 54 democrats signed onto the pipeline before the environmental movement got going. and it is about 700,000 barrels of oil into the united states a year, which is half of our inported oil. so there is an argument for the pipeline. most of the best argument, though, is tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars to states. now, that doesn t mean that the environmental issues don t have to be taken care of.
i have my issues with mike bloomberg. but that s neither here nor there. i was rolling my eyes at that. but i also think that what s sort of remarkable to me about gingrich right now is that it s hard to think of a more widely we viled and polarizing figure than newt gingrich. the fact that newt gingrich has so much baggage, you could do a wire style series of seven seasons in which each one has its own distinctive narrative arc of sort of back room deals. that show needs to be on the air. coming up is president obama getting his groove back? we ll talk to reverend al sharpton later in the show. after the break, is rick perry still in this race. that s next on now. [ male announcer ] notebooks,
of opposition led by beto o rourke. our representatives here need to meet this crisis with the urgency that it demands. do whatever it takes to save democracy. this is coming just days before president biden is set to give a national address on voting rights. it follows a white house meeting with a group of civil rights leaders. in a moment i will talk to the reverend al sharpton who was in the meeting about what he wants the president to do as well. meanwhile, the former president set to take the stage this weekend at cpac. the latest effort by donald trump to stay in the limelight, looking for any platform to spread lies about the election, and much, much more. we re going to look at the hold he continues to have on the gop ahead. plus, signs of a painful past finally on the move. a statue of robert e. lee removed in charlottesville four years after a deadly far-right extremist protest to keep it in place led to deadly violence. we are standing in a park where this city i
hill. at the table the new york times political reporter nbc contributor, nick. he ran obama s reelection campaign and former white house deputy chief of staff is also here. jeremy peters, msnbc contributor, and reverend al sharp ton, msnbc and the president of the national action network joins us. let me start with you, garrett. what is the effort on capitol hill? what are they trying to get people to do? is there something that they re trying to get them to sign on to before, or are they still trying to explain what that something is? that s the million dollars question, nicole. i ve heard frustration from republicans today that they don t know exactly what it is democrats want, that they really think they can get at this point. it s unclear if democrats are still looking for a big picture deal that would include a solution for daca recipients, for dreamers, a budget deal, kind of a big heavy lift they
about it. mark breaks down the state of the gop. if i see a black kid in a hoodie and it s late at night, i m walking to another side of the street. did another nba owner step over the line. i have absolutely positively no problem whatsoever with what mark cuban has to say. geraldo, sandra, bernard debate the latest controversy. we will all of that, plus the reverend al sharp ton takes on his tell prompter at the end of the day. there is nothing there. welcome to hannity, earlier today while multiple standing plague administration u your commander in chief decided it was an appropriate time to apologize again. here is what he said during his commencement address this morning. america has rarely been