compromise may have the support of all 50 democrats and senator manchin has been working on bringing republicans along with him. so who have you lined up so far, joe? well, we ve got senator murkowski. we ve been talking to quite a few different republicans who are very interested in doing something that makes sense. now, i m no expert in math, but 50 democratic senators plus alaska republican senator, lisa murkowski, makes 21. that s still nine shy of the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster and i hope you ll forgive my skepticism of any of the republicans who are very interested will ever sign on the final bill. just say i wasn t born yesterday. but why, you ask, do democrats continue to need 60 votes? because of senator manchin and his ludicrous insistence on protecting the filibuster. so will he finally get the
consciousness of where the boundaries are here. yeah. they seem kind of worried about being exposed at doing this. and, you know, it s pretty inconsistent to say that you re only giving general characterizations and yet you re trying to be helpful. i mean if i was on the white house legal staff, that s not helpful to me. you re just giving me general ideas of what s happening. i need specifics for my strategy. and to carrie s point, there s no allegation of their mishandling classified information, but on the other hand, who knows? you have to give it classified information has to be given to somebody authorized to receive it in a secure place, so it s troubling. look, we re taking their word for it that they re abiding by the rules. we don t have anyone else s word on this. david gergen, i wasn t born yesterday, but they re saying they have only been talking about things that have been publicly reported. i m not saying they did this. i just know that it does happen in washington
none whatsoever. you re riding this horse all the way to 2024? even nixon lost his own party eventually when republicans decided i just couldn t back the president any longer. but these republican lawmakers have decided to put one man, donald trump, before everything else. trump before country. trump before the office of the president. trump before their own party s integrity. but when trump is long gone what will they be left with? in shielding donald trump what are they costing themselves? believe it or not michael cohen may have said it best this week. i m responsible for your silliness because i did the same thing that you re doing now for ten years. i protected mr. trump for ten years. joining me to talk about all this is former weekly standard editor bill krystol. bill, look, i wasn t born yesterday. i get partisanship.
the democratic party nationally, they see that we still have some problems. that we re not doing in uf to look in the mirror. as we re focusing on the issues of russia, you know, mitch mcconnell who wasn t born yesterday understands that when the focus is over here don t pay attention to what i m doing over here. democrats out on capitol hill this morning beginning their postmortem after georgia 6 went the other way for them. steve kornacki joins our table who has been up all night and at this board. we tried to spare you the board. but talk about what went right for karen handel and what went wrong for her democratic challenger. yeah. i mean, half of what happened last night i think is what people expected to happen. and that is you had a very engaged, very mobilized, very energized democratic base. they were out there in the early vote. they were out there organizing and they turned up in big numbers. i think what nobody had quite expected what i think is the big take away from