that biden doesn t care. he s not worried about those numbers. he s just working and he s ignoring the republicans and that s got to be driving them crazy. i think that his laid back approach has been good. i think that there was some bad casting around his approach early on that he ll be able to work with these republicans. no. on the right. look, i don t know if you heard the open of the show tonight but i m tired of this media baiting about mitch mcconnell. oh, he s threatening. if you get rid of the filibuster. why? why is the media all atwitter about this? what do you think he s going to do? it s not a threat, it s a promise. right. he will do you dirty and play power politics and beat you. always. again. always. that s what he does. you re going to not remove the filibuster because you re worried about what it will mean to mitch mcconnell. he will do it to you. he did it to you in 2017 with the most sacred aspect of super majority which is supreme cour
back, and we understand why. it s worked for him so far. but if he can get in front of the congestion in congress by going right to people and talking about what people want that is the origin of the bully pulpit as theodore roosevelt dubbed it. thank you very much for taking us inside the numbers, whiz. i love taking you inside, even without my glasses i go right inside the numbers. i didn t know you wear glasses. i don t wear glasses. lie to the audience. i didn t lie to the audience. i wish i wore glasses, make me look so much smarter. that s the least of your problems. see you back in the office. take a break, when we come back, teeing up the big show. you ve got the looks let s make lots of money you ve got the brawn i ve got the brains. with allstate, drivers who switched saved over $700 click or call to switch to support local restaurants, we ve been to every city. including little rock and even worcester. and tonight. i ll be eating the
this of course comes two days before the committee is scheduled to hold its first hearing featuring testimony from police officers who responded to the attack on january 6th, some of whom were beaten, tazed, and maced by the pro-trump mob. we are also expecting the committee to play video clips of the attack that day and body-worn camera footage from some of these officers. but, look, more broadly, the members that i spoke to said the mission here is to establish what happened that day. eventually, they re going to get into the facts of why this happened, but for now they are very much focused on countering the whitewash that s going on in the republican party and really just putting a set of facts on the table about what happened that day. fred? all right, melanie, thank you so much for that. joining me right now, the chairman of the u.s. house select committee on the insurrection, democrat congressman betty thompson of mississippi. i hope we really didn t lose
january 6th? the right would have lost their minds. and yet that s what 21 house republicans did earlier this month. or if aoc had refused to shake the hand of a capitol police officer who approached her in an elevator. can you imagine the attacks she d have gotten? and yet that s what gop congressman andrew clyde did when officer michael fanone, who was beaten and electroshocked by the pro-trump mob at the capitol on 1/6 approached him on an elevator earlier this month. i asked him if he was going to shake my hand, and he told me that he didn t know who i was. so i introduced myself. i said that i was officer michael fanone, that i was a d.c. metropolitan police officer who fought on january 6th to defend the capitol. at that point the congressman turned away from me, pulled out his cell phone. it looked like he was attempting to pull up like an audio recording app on his phone and again, like, never acknowledged me at any point. as soon as the elevators doors opened, he ran as quic