Breaking news to report on the attack on the capitol last month. Sources tell cnn it has been recommended that prosecutors decline to bring charges against a Capitol Police officer in the shooting of a rioter. The shooting remains under investigation. No final decision has been made. The Justice Department could make one in the coming days. Now to a separate investigation by cnn State Election data shows at least eight people facing criminal charges for their involvement did not actually vote. Donovan crowl is a member of a selfstyled militia and was removed from ohio rolls in 2020 for never voting. There is also no record of him voting in illinois where he was once registered. Jack griffith faces a number of charges. Including violent entry. Court documents state that he posted on the facebook the cavalry is coming. Election data from two states showed he voted in 2018 but he did not vote in 2020. There you go. They were saying the election was a fraud. Votes were stolen. They didnt even bother to vote. News continues. Handing it over to chris for cuomo primetime. All right, coop. One of your biggest fans has a big day today. Cha cha is 11 and not only is she 11 years old today going on 19 but she let me leave to get ahead of the storm and come to the city even though that meant i would miss her actual birthday. Oh, wow. Good thing we had a couple days of preshopping. I should have pulled Uncle Anderson into that. She likes you better than me. Happy birthday. Thats awesome. All right, cha cha. Doesnt get better than that. The man himself. I love you, cha cha. Anderson, i love you too. Thank you brother. I am chris cuomo. Welcome to primetime. Family first, right . But your family as well and i have new insight for you. We are in a two front conflict right now. All right . The first front is the battle within the gop. I say its first because it has a huge impact on the second front. So the party of lincoln is looking more like the gang of wilks booth right now. Right . Why cant senator cruz or rubio or House Minority leader mccarthy lead and say this . Loony lies, conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country. Somebody that suggested perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon On 9 11, that horrifying School Shootings were prestaged, that the clintons crashed jfk jr. s airplane is not living in reality. This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American Families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen the party. Now, i would wager every one of you agrees with what i just said. But you have not heard this from the majority of gopers in congress. Here is the question. Is that about to change . Why might it change . Because i just read a quote from senator Mitch Mcconnell. Hes the guy who just said that. He just said it. The media is amazed at his amazing candor. Seriously . One, he is stating the obvious. Two, the only amazing thing is how long it took. And, yet, relatively, he is ahead of the curve. Because what is truly amazing is there is a retrumplican who actually thinks democrats drink the blood of babies and that k nonkook got put on multiple committees as a reward. Then this Taylor Greene speaks with the ousted former president and comes out emboldened saying shell never apologize for conspiracy craziness. The question is, Will Mcconnell win this time . Will he cause a move in the caucus to reject the radical and reintroduce reality . The bad news is, he tried that and lost on impeachment. And he turned tail as he will do. When i say pet the snake i mean it. This is the wileyest of the wiley. If he is saying this maybe he sees advantage in it. Then again lets see if he starts saying, not all baby blood conspiracies are bad and then well know the festering continues. We have to examine it. Because whats happening in that party is key to the second front that President Biden is fostering. He is trying to move some republicans back to reality tonight himself. He had a big meeting at the white house tonight, and he did ten gop senators a solid just now. It was his first office meet in the oval and it was with them. And it was for two hours. Now, many came away reporting, well, but there is no deal, so i think it is the wrong analysis. Okay . Im told by both sides they knew they werent going to get a deal. Biden wants 1. 9 trillion. The gop may get close to half that number. The meeting was about something else. Senator Susan Collins put her finger on it. It was a very Good Exchange of views. I wouldnt say that we came together on a package tonight. No one expected that in a twohour meeting. But what we did agree to do is to follow up and talk further. Look, i know everybody is tired of talk. But weve got to get to a better place, right . Here is the if. If biden can get ten or more real republicans to do deals the senate can keep the filibuster, right, which why is that good . Look, ill talk about that another night. Okay . I have very distinct analysis on where the filibuster came from, why its always been a Malignant Force in that senate and why it certainly is now. But a lot of the democrats want to keep it and certainly the republicans do. So if you get this group of republicans open to doing deals you can keep the filibuster and you maybe avoid all out opposition again. And maybe, just maybe biden can move the culture. Two problems for him. An Identity Crisis as ive been saying on the right. And promises to go big on the left. On his own flank you got schumer and pelosi laying out the groundwork today for Passing Relief without any republican votes using a budget reconciliation short cut. I get the strong move on that but i must discuss the cost to making that move that could make a big difference and no one has told you about it. It could mean cuts to your own health care. Ill tell you why. But also the democrats move unilaterally today on that poisoned influence on the right. The House Rules Committee announced plans to consider a resolution on wednesday to kick this head conspiracy qanon kook Taylor Greene off her committees, education and budget, since gop leader Kevin Mccarthy and the house still havent taken any action. By the way taylorgreene heard What Mcconnell said tonight and rejected it. Here is what she says you need to know. These are not red flag incidents. They are not fake. Its terrible, the loss that these families go through and their friends as well. First of all, yeah. We all know that. The truth isnt in question. You are. Now apologize. Say how wrong it was to spread lies. Lies you knew you were spreading. You in the videos cooling these kooks patriots, reveling in the radical nature of it all. Jews with lasers drinking baby blood. If Mcconnell The Wileyest of the wiley knows this must be put down, where are the rest of you in that party . How can you have silence be your presence on this issue . Is truly Adam Kinzinger the only one among you willing to stand up for his own party . And i must insist, there is a price to what youre doing. What one of your own, once called that back in the nixon days. Not only are you hurting the ability to deal with the pandemic crisis but may have created another, my brothers and sisters. You released the kracken. You opened pandoras box. Pick your metaphor. You now have extremists that are in the mix and they have access online to rank and file righties and they are radicalizing them. That is what that woman is. She is a radical. Shes been radicalized. The numbers are growing. As are the threats. And here is more proof for you that this is just for them about the hate of america. Not the love of trump. All right . Cnn has Breaking News just moments ago that some of the rioters who stormed the capitol on behalf of trump didnt even vote for him. There are at least eight facing criminal charges who didnt vote at all in the election because theyre not about us. Theyre about hate and them. Okay . Theyre arguing to overturn the election. Why . Chaos. Lets bring in the better minds to speak to the State Of Play. You got David Gregory and michael smerconish. Good to have you both. Michael, good to have you. I want to test davids connection and make sure its strong. He had wifi issues. David, let me start with you. What do you make of bidens big meeting tonight with the senators and what that is supposed to project . That he wants to try. That he wants to try to negotiate with republicans in good faith. I think he is speaking to the American Public right now that wants to see government work better, that wants agreeable disagreement if there is going to be disagreement. But theres a bigger game here. The president wants to try to bring republicans along knowing that if they dont come along he can go his own way because he feels like hes really in sync with the American Public that wants a big deal. He also knows if there is an improvement in the economy, which ultimately there will be when the virus is under control, he wants to be on the right side of that bet. And if republicans dont get onboard and do something big, theyre going to be on the wrong side. So he has learned from, back in 2008, this is the thinking that they were too afraid politically. He doesnt want to be afraid here. He thinks bigger is better when it comes to helping people out in the country and the bigger reward will be when it starts to pay off in the economy even if he gets some niks here for going his own way and leaving republicans behind. What is the chance, michael, that this works and you get some phalanx of somewhere between 10 and 12 republicans who want to make deals and separate from the toxic part of the caucus . I am encouraged that 10 went to meet him in the oval office. I am disappointed the overlap between those who voted against that rand paul measure pertaining to impeachment and those who showed up in the oval office today total a grand number of three. In other words three supportive of both meeting with the president and being willing to vote against rand paul. That doesnt speak well for cooperation long term but i think it is in the president s best interests to do exactly what he did today, to be perceived as fulfilling that Campaign Pledge of unity. Id love to see something come from it. David, how does biden make the left happy . They want big. They want muscular politics. Theyre tired of the oppression and the toxicity and they can go on their own. Thats what schumer and pelosi are kind of preparing to do. Yeah, look. They want to go big. I think liberals liberal democrats feel like their leadership has gotten played. That they dont play power politics the way the republicans do, the way Mitch Mcconnell does. And they believe, you know, as an ideological matter in the full power of the federal government to help the most people particularly during a pandemic. Thats what the left wants. Biden is delivering. Not only on this package but on executive orders, on his the ordering, the sequencing of issues, on equity, climate change, down the list. He is delivering for the left in terms of what they think are priorities. He wants to be seen as trying to do what he knows how to do, which is negotiate with republicans. But on this one i think he wont hesitate. I think, again, the bigger play here is that when the economy gets better, he will be seen as having done something big. Because hes willing to negotiate on some of the margins here. Maybe even on the minimum wage. Maybe on who gets checks. What the threshold is. But i think hes being told, we know this, by his Treasury Secretary and others, the economy needs stimulus of such a magnitude to make a real difference. There is a problem, michael. Im sure youre aware of it though id love to catch you not aware of it. If they do it by reconciliation there is other legislation that triggers automatic cuts for any spending that will increase the deficit. So if the democrats push it through by reconciliation, some of those automatic cuts happen to medicaid and medicare. There will be a price for forcing it through that way. How does that play . Well, i think thats the reason why you saw the president go the extra mile and spend so much time with the ten folks who came over to meet with him today. I would add to what david said by saying that any risk of alienating some on his left flank for the reason youve just articulated is outweighed by the president cutting a deal and trying to play kate the ten republicans. He is far better served and the country is if he can get it done through a conventional vote than for reconciliation for the reason youve identified. The old expression hoisted on your own petard where your own bomb blows you up, i love the power move. I didnt like the way they were negotiating with mcconnell on the power deal. I thought it made him look stronger than he should be. However, there is a price to going it alone in this situation. Now, david, what do we make of mcconnell . He comes up and throws the only straight punch at a qanon person weve seen from the Party Leadership and he says liz cheney was brave for what she did with her vote on impeachment. He says nothing by accident. What is the play . You know, im going to stick to where ive been the last time on this program. I think he is trying to lead with some example. You know, hes not going this is not the hill he is going to die on, you know, politically. But he is going to set an example that he hopes other people will follow. He is not going to take part in trashing liz cheney, a conservative and, again, the notion john king pointed this out on our air earlier today, that republicans are spending more time trashing liz cheney than they are this qanon congresswoman. Thats ridiculous. That makes no sense. And so mcconnell wants to show some Adult Leadership where he can. And hope that some others might follow because he does not want trump to play this king role or king maker role out of office. Thats why, look, the former president gave him an opening, michael. Last word to you. But her meeting with him, the qanon lady, coming out of there afterwards emboldened, you know, i get why certain people on the right and certain things that play to white fear republicans have to be careful about alienating but qanon cant fit in that mix, can it . She is a symptom. Shes not the problem. I think youve got to go deeper here and say, what is it about the 14th Congressional District in Northwest Georgia that would cause people to vote for her . And, chris, there was not a Jekyll And Hyde that took place here. True. She ran as the person that she is. And consequently weve got to say what the hell is it about that constituency that would know these things about her and vote for her nonetheless . You had a good interview by the way with the guy who ran against her. Can they see that . Can people go online . Yeah, they can. Listen, dr. John cowan, christian, conservative, pro life, for the borders, for donald trump. It wasnt enough to get him elected. She beat him, 57 42. When i said, how come . He said, i think the voters wanted a grenade like her in washington. And that was an attribute. Back to the expression hoisted on your own petard. She is going to blow up right in the middle of their caucus. Great talk. Appreciate it. Michael smerconish, David Gregory, appreciate you both. All right. Now, another urgent matter for us. The nations top Infectious Disease expert is sounding like a weather forecaster. Okay . Did you hear what his covid prediction is for the near term future . Listen to this. I see that hurricane 5, category 5 or higher 450 miles offshore. And, you know, telling people to evacuate on that nice, blue sky day is going to be hard. I can also tell you that hurricane is coming. What is he talking about . What is the hurricane . Who needs to Pay Attention . 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