Empty chairs is a bit of an impact over one key issue within the giant bill, and that is unemployment insurance. Democrat joe manchin holding out on alternative proposal. We have more on that coming up tonight. Meanwhile, republican senators have been trying to do some other things that show how narrow their options are. Minor delay tactics. They havent found a clear message against the whole bill, and some of the numbers may show why. Donald trump never passed 49 approval in his entire time in office, but bidens overall Approval Rating has now surged to 60 . Thats 11 points higher than trump ever got in his whole presidency. And bidens approval for handling covid19 is up to 70 , and that includes almost half of republicans, 44 of them. And then there is the most striking number of all, and this may explain why so much of what youre seeing tonight has an inevitable conclusion. Its at 76 of americans back the covid bill, including 59 of republicans. In that sense, biden has been Cornering Mcconnell and any Senate Opponents by pulling most of their base out from under them on this issue and going towards bidens covid plan, towards what you saw on the senate floor. So here are the numbers that explain at least this week in america that 60 approval for biden overall smashing trumps fouryear record, and the 59 of republicans around the whole country who support this bill from joe biden in the main. There are signs that the public is basically happy at least with how biden has begun the presidency, supportive of his focus on covid and economic relief. And it doesnt hurt that we have news on the economy ticking up, 379,000 new jobs, but the u. S. Is still down over 9 million jobs compared to one year ago today when in early march you remember democrats hadnt even settled on biden as their nominee, and covid was just first hitting some parts of america. Well, now biden is arguing this bill is crucial to not only protecting the nation, but getting back to those very job levels and then some. The American Rescue plan i believe according to the polling data, the vast majority of americans believe is essential to giving them some help. That isnt some academic discussion. Its about you. Thats where we are. You have the scene on the senate floor where democrats are fighting for this key plank that they say is important to the country and to their progressive priorities, the unemployment checks to remain through august. Now democrats are also figuring out amidst these skirmishes when theyre united, who runs the senate . Well, the Biden Administration with Vice President harris in charge. But if they lose even one vote, suddenly there is a Different Senate leader, sometimes on some issues its shaping up to be senate manchin. I want to bring in our expert panel here kicking off a friday night is bill kristol, director of defending democracy together, Brittany Coop were Rutgers University and katty kay, bbc news anchor in washington. She is also the author of living the Confidence Code real girls, real stories, real confidence. Katty, this is one of the times moving the bill forward with the republicans backing the bill, but there has been a lot of skirmishing in the senate. Your thoughts. Your skirmishing because youve got some democrats even who are going to raise concerns perhaps because they come from states where some of the provisions in the bill are not going keep them very popular. Perhaps because its the size of the bill overall that is not going to be popular probably in some of the more conservative states that they come from, and then of course youve got the republicans as well. But youre right on the trajectory. And the traject have i because of the numbers you showed at the top of this. This bill is very popular. Joe bidens handling of the pandemic so far is popular as well. What did joe biden need do to get political wins . He needed competent government. So far he appears to be delivering for people competent government. The number of vaccines is going up. The number of cases has been declining. That gives him then leverage to do these other things as well because it makes him popular. If youre manchin or youre sinema, youre going to think twice before voting against him. Yeah, bill, when you see the party that you used to be so involved in a Republican White House that obviously has been polarized in ways youve been studying and telling us about, when you see 59 go for the biden bill, hes getting there and he is doing it without even tweeting like a maniac. Yeah, ari, he is doing it because he is not tweeting like a maniac maybe. No, its impressive. Biden doesnt get as much respect as he deserves in some way. He is the president we have after trump, and there is not a lot of crazy tweeting, but somehow this stuff is all happening. But if you said political scientist, he is going to win a pretty narrow election victory, he is going have to 5050 senate, a tiny margin in the house. This is not reagan coming in with the 12 republican senators in 1980. Its not fdr with 21 margins. Its not even president obama with 59 senators and a big margin in the house. And biden is getting his big legislative priority through in a pretty big way, honestly. Unhappy about little medium things, but if you said six months ago 1. 9 trillion with everything from money for unemployment, money for Small Businesses, money for vaccines and testing, and a giant Child Tax Credit that will reduce Child Poverty in this country by 40 or Something Like that, thats pretty impressive. And then you add the success apparently on the vaccines. So hes had a good first what is it, 44 days or Something Like that. And he must be doing something right. Hes got 50 senators, joe manchin can throw a wrench into it, kyrsten sinema, you cant count on republican voteses or many. Were underestimating perhaps. This is a pretty impressive achievement so far, so far. Brittany . Look, i think that biden is doing a good job, and i think that we have to give him credit for that. I also think that we should not be pleased with some of the things that progressives are losing. It really does matter if we give people unemployment insurance. The 15 minimum wage fight matters. Heres what i think matters more. I think we as a country have to decide that were tired of the fate of democracy and progressive reform coming down to one rogue white man in the congress who makes choices for all of the rest of us. And i think that democrats really have to begin to beat the bully pulpit against joe manchin and to talk about the ways that his own political priorities continue to subvert the will of the american people. Part of the reason that we have such polarization in the country right now is because white men have an outsized amount of power, and they dont actually look out for the needs of the least of these, for folks who are struggling, for folks who have been decimated by this pandemic. Brittney, let me wages. Let me draw you out on that. Thats what were also going to get into. Manchin, as mentioned in our lead is either 1 of 50 or becomes the whole thing. Yeah. Youre certainly right about the systemic inequities in the stuck cher of the way the United States runs with the population migration, just like weve discussed with the electoral college. But short of that longterm big picture reform, what do you as a selfidentified progressive, what do you think they should do . Bill was just alluding to the fact that biden has worked very hard to keep it together. He is Holding Meetings with everyone. He is certainly meeting with Warren And Sanders and progressives. He is meeting with manchin because he has to. What do you think tangibly they should be doing, because joe have that vote in this story of two joes . Look, i recognize the impasse, but i think part of the way we participate as the electorate and the same way that were using the polling data to say the public is on the side of biden, we also have to use the data from those of white house are part of the public to say we want more progressive reforms. Were not pleased with joe manchin. And quite frankly, i want to flex a little bit and say if joe manchin continues to do this, just remember, biden won georgia. Its not to say that West Virginia cant be taken over there is a whole lot of states that can be in play, and some of this is about galvanizing progressives to remember that we actually do have a different playbook that we can play from now, and weve got to be thinking of the long game in terms of saying to people government ought to work for you. And when we see these senators who make it harder for you to get ahead in the middle of a pandemic, we should be trying to figure out how to remove them from office. So i think that we got to stop playing with joe manchin, and i think we got to stop talking about his power because hes i dont see that as a narrative of power. I see that as a narrative of subverting the will of the people, and thats the thing that i want to call it. Well, i hear you on that. Thats why we have you on, for the perspective. I guess, bill kristol, the flip side of that would be that joe manchin is not in georgia yet. Georgias gone blue, but West Virginia has not. And so in the sheer politics of this, hes kind of got to be sometimes the reverse Susan Collins and make a big deal of how different he is from the democrats, sometimes a bigger deal than it seems is even real, bill. And id also make the case the progressives, look, brian has to win this now. He has to get the vaccines out. He has to get the economy going. I think he has to get the schools open actually. If he can do those three things, and i think he can, actually, then he has a chance to do real things that i think progressives care not more about. They care about the first three too, but he has to do democracy in an elect tomorrow form. He has to do climate change. He has a chance to do other aspects of policing and other race relationsrelated things. Now hes got to make tough decisions on which of those to do. He is going to have to build support to do those. But if he had flunked these first 50 days of what is really going to be the first 100 days, if you flunk that, there would be no chance of any of that. He is right to focus now on the things he had to, getting the things he has to get done for the sake of the country, primarily, but also for his own political capital. Yeah. I think its going to be very, very interesting when he gets to the second stage of his presidency of what he tries to do and what he can do and how much pressure can be put on joe manchin and how much they can get ten republican senators on some things and so forth. I mean, can i respond . Katty kay, well, i want to get catty in for one thing, and then yes, ill give you a turn right after that. What i wanted to ask katty about as well, they took twitter away from trump. People know about that. They did not take away all email, though. So he still sends out these emails with twitterlike rants. Lately he has been attacking republicans. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal is pushing back. They say trump is the main reason that two Georgia Senate races were lost in january, a Point Brittney was just raising. He refuses to take responsibility for those defeats, and the murdoch owned journal says donald trump may need counseling. Counseling could be on order. So katty with All Of The Above on republican infighting, and then brittney, a final word. Look, look at numbers of the Republican Party. 46 of republicans are still saying that they would leave the Republican Party to join trump. I know he said he is not thinking of doing a party. He said that at cpac, but it gives you some idea of how divided the Republican Party is. You got the wall street Journal Editorial Board against the maga crowd. That split is not going to go anywhere while you still have trump sending out statements and making the kind of speeches that he did at cpac. That helps the democrats. That is helping joe biden. I think bill is right. In the initial period, joe biden has to build popularity for what he is doing right now in the midst of this crisis. Its why they came in on a kind of war footing. Maybe that then gives him leverage on things like Voting Rights. Maybe he can point out whats happening in georgia, whats happening in arizona on Voting Rights, restrictions that are being put in by republican legislatures. We might see more of those midwestern senators come over on Something Like the filibuster. Theyre not there yet, but they may get there. That would then give them a chance to do something for progressives too. Look, one of the heres the thing. Again, im pleased with the first 45 to 50 days that joe biden has had in office. Ive had the first shot of the vaccine. Im very thankful for that. My Family Members have been vaccinated. Thats huge, right . So its not taking anything away from him. But African Americans are the reason that joe biden is in the white house. We have been disproportionately harmed by the policies of the Trump Administration. And one of the ways that were going lose the Progressive Movement in this country, which got behind biden as a way to play nicely because we wanted to get trump out is if we keep saying to progressive, yall have to slow down. You to let biden take his time. We understand the politics of governing. Thats not the problem. We are saying we want to make sure that a sort of bold narrative about what we have to accomplish in this moment goes forward. And its progressives who are going to get us to some of those bold reforms that you talked about, bill, because those are things that come out of the progressive plank of the democratic party. All fair points. I appreciate the dialogue. Ill also say, brittney, shout out to shots. And not just fireball shots. The shots we can all take under medical supervision to stay safe. Thats my friday shot reference. Brittney cooper and katty kay, i apologize for ending the segment on that note, but it happened. Bill kristol is coming back later for something really special. Thats all im going to say about it. We have our shortest break of the hour right now, 30 seconds. New calls to investigate a key trump ally for a vaccine bribery scheme. Later, lebron james making a new voting push. But first, a trump official arrested for storming the capitol while he was working with a secret Security Clearance for the Trump Administration when were back in 30. Ere back. Easy tools on the chase mobile app. Simplicity feels good. Chase. Make more of whats yours. Today a former Trump Administration official was hauled into court and charged with storming capitol in the insurrection. Federico klein is the first known trump official charged in this riot, you see him there on a seeking information poster. He was actually working inside our government at the State Department with a top secret Security Clearance when he turned on our government, indicted for attacking the capitol. These charges include unlawful entry and the very serious offense of assaulting an officer with a dangerous weapon. The fbi pointing to Police Body Cam footage that shows him using a riot shield to pry open capitol doors. You can see some of the imagery here. The fbi says he shoved a riot shield into an officer in an attempt to break the line and helped to organize and lead the mob forward, giving instructions and calling out for fresh people. We need fresh people. We need fresh people. We need fresh people. We need fresh people we need fresh people he thought they needed fresh people to continue what was documented there, the assault on the officers. Klein could also later be seen shoving against them. Close the door i need support among the many horrors that day was the literal use of a shield as a sword. The old metaphor, they were seizing and taking these materials and then attacking officers with them. The officer found klein from tips as well as social media. 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We are back on these new reports on the arrests of a former Trump Administration official for not only participating in that january 6 insurrection, but literally, allegedly indicted for attacking officers. Emily bazelon from the New York Times magazine is here. Its quite a story. Your thoughts. Well, i think we have these people who participated directly in the insurrection, and its not surprising that whether or not they were in the Trump Administration when you see people abetting violence, when you see Property Destruction like that, you expect to see them criminally charged. Yeah you expect to see them charged. And as with so many things in american political life, its particularly our criminal Justice System, which has become so just such a fixation for peoples different views, it can be really revealing. This individual, who as i mentioned, is not just your everyday blog visitor. He is on the wanted poster. Federico klein doesnt like the position he is in now. A piece written by our colleagues, he wants a jail cell with no cockroaches. He says im wondering if there is a place i can stay in detention where i dont have cockroaches crawling everywhere while attempt to sleep. I havent slept very much. A Public Defender saying he may even get a different cell. And yet these of course are perennial issues in the criminal Justice System that his boss, the campaign he signed to work for on, the trump campaign, they never cared about in general as it pertains to other americans put through this system. I mean, i think this is an issue that we see over and over again. We see people indifferent to the criminal Justice System and its cruelties until they experience it directly. Often when im reporting in court or visiting a prison, i think that if lots of people were there with me, the criminal Justice System would change. There would be pressure to get rid of the cockroaches for everybody. But unfortunately, its really easy i think often to ignore these kinds of conditions and to imagine that only people who deserve to be there, only bad people, only other people experience them. And so perhaps thats reflected in this particular persons reaction. Yeah. I think thats bluntly and clearly put, emily. And it goes to whether people want to gather these facts and deal with any on any number of policy issues or just be in denial. Meanwhile, Congressman Gosar is getting a Loft Scrutiny for this tweet, quote, sedition and treason for stealing votes is appropriate. This is getting new attention because it was in congresswoman lofgrens accountability report. Your thoughts. You know, i think representative gosar and a number of republican representatives went out really far on a limit in terms of supporting this lie that the election was stolen, even in this Case Flirting with the idea that people who stole the election should be charged with sedition and treason, whatever he would have imagined that meant. In fact, this was a relatively clean and well run election, which was really lucky given all the accusations swirling around. But i think its legitimate to ask if you are a member of congress and you are participating in the undermining of an election in this way, whether you should be held accountable by other people in congress. So i think that is the kind of undercurrent of representative lofgrens report today to catalog these kinds of contributions to this big lie about the election which then was in some way part of leading to the violence on january 6. Yeah. And that that was the blueprint which could be applied in a closer election. You emphasize that this wasnt close at all. Thats why the Supreme Court never took any cases on it the way they did in 2000. They didnt have to. There is plenty of conservatives and republicans on court, but it wasnt close. What would it look like to have this level of insurrection of violence of support from within the government to overthrow an election in a close call or one that was legitimately open ended for weeks . I shudder to think of it. Emily, thank you as always for your analysis. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Up ahead, democrats revealing talks with the feds over this Florida Governor pay for play vaccine scheme. Also, why is nba legend lebron james speaking out about Voter Suppression and what does it mean . And a Civil Rights Leader joins us as we approach the Bloody Sunday commemoration and consider how young is american democracy. Ooh is more of a you have 100 days to change your mind. Thats the visionworks difference. Visionworks. 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Now by that definition, the u. S. Is a very new democracy, because the entire population wasnt allowed to truly vote until the end of the Civil Rights Era after sustained and painful protests like Bloody Sunday when Martin Luther king and john lewis risked their lives to lead that 1965 march and lead a movement that fortified Voting Rights finally under federal law. Experts remind us only then did the u. S. Get closer to total eligibility for voters. And while the blatantly racist voting laws were tossed in the courts, many states found other insidduous ways to restrict voting, operating with similar outcomes, a trend republicans are pushing harder since trump loss, as you see here, over 253 bills across 43 states to restrict Voting Access in different ways. The House Democrats say theyre responding to all of this with their new bill this week that they passed enhancing voting right, making it easier to vote. And there is really one fair way to say this. The house bill is not required by the constitution. For example, you have the right to vote. You dont have an automatic right to vote two weeks before election day. But that kind of option has obviously helped a lot more people to participate in recent elections, including a pandemic one. So opposing that kind of policy, it just means youre making it harder to vote, and probably lowering participation. For republicans, that goal is to find a Competitive Edge over democrats by making it harder to vote. Now if that sounds bad or controversial or even guilty, its literally what a Top Republican lawyer just admitted under oath this week at the Supreme Court. Whats the interest of the arizona rnc here in keeping, say, the out of Precincts Voter Ballot disqualification rules on the books . Because it puts us at a competitive disadvantage relative to democrats. Politics is a zerosum game. Yikes. Thats bad what he just admitted. Now lawyers will often say things that a lot of people wouldnt, believe me. And most republican politicians and pundits, they wont even admit that, so theyve begun attacking this house bill that just passed on voting which is headed to the senate on different grounds which are not true, like falsely equaing better Voting Access to cheating. Thinking bill would not only make it easy to cheat, it would effectively make it legal to cheat. It would destroy the integrity of our elections in this country forever. It will institutionalize and pretty much guarantee fraud in future elections. They should really rename this bill to the boston bomber bill. Look, most of those attacks, theyre misdirection. But the larger issue here follows a long history of using policy and power, not just words, to attack your Voting Rights, to attack black americans access to the polls. We know the history. Its something the late Gil Scott Heran very eloquently addressed in his view of the black American Experience back in 1991. I think that the black americans have been the only real diehard americans here. Were the ones who marched. Were the ones who carry the bible. Were the ones who carry the flag. Were the ones who try to go through the courts. And being Born American didnt seem to matter, because we were Born American, but we still had to fight for what we were looking for. They had to fight. Were joined now by Bishop William barber, president of the repairs of the breach, cochair of the poor peoples campaign. He is leading a Bloody Sunday commemoration this weekend. Thank you for being here. Im curious your reflections on this first Bloody Sunday without john lewis and on, among other things, mr. Gil scott herans point about the black American Experience. You know, thank you so much, ari. Ive been thinking today as i watched the Legislature Block living wages and republicans trying to block Voting Rights. Ive been thinking about this description in the bible ones who legislate evil and rob the poor of their rights. But ive also been thinking about my hiphop ghost still, where tupac said it aint about black or white because we human. I hope we see the light before its ruined. The truth of the matter is without john and with so many more,ia bowington. What theyre saying to us is we cannot stop this fight. Today as we talk today, ari, its been 2,800 plus days since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights act. In sevenplus years, over seven years this Supreme Court has gutted the Voting Rights act. Its a new form of interposition and nullification. I helped lead the effort for the worst Voter Suppression after the Shelby Decision. And one of the republican senators said today that the Shelby Decision came down, now that the headache has been removed we can do what we want to. But ari, there is one other layer to this. Its not just about black voters. At the end of the selma to montgomery march, dr. King gave a sermon, we ought to all go back. He said every time there was the potential for the negro masses and the white masses to vote together, to be a coalition, the aristocracy of the South So Division created, segregation, created suppression because of their near if black and whites came together in power to vote, they could reconstruct the american democracy and be able to build a community. While Voter Suppression is targeted at black, brown and indigenous people, its actually targeted at democracy, because every state that is a Voter Suppression state is a high poverty state, a low health care state, a low wage state. The truth of the matter is those who get elected by Voter Suppression, the irony is when they pass public policy, they pass policies that in raw numbers hurt more white people than black people. In percentagewise, it hurts more black people. But in raw numbers it actually hurt morse white people when they block living wages, block health care, block union right, cut public education. And that is the genius we got to hear from dr. King so we just dont have a celebration or a remembrance this sunday, but we have a recommitment in this moment. I appreciate everything you said, including, of course, the pac and the point that pac who came out of Black Panther tradition and some of these other Civil Rights Leaders were talking about, on its best day, it is entirely about interracial full equality and not picking and choosing and sometimes from the outside it might be reflected. Also thinking about other leaders in the past generation who stepped up, mohammad bin Salman Muhammed ali and others to speak to all powers. And lebron james has been doing that more. To the point you raise, he has a very broad and diverse base in the u. S. And around the world. Take a listen to lebron. Look what we made happen, what our voices made possible. And now look what theyre trying to do to silence us. They saw what were capable of. And they fear it. This was never about one election. Its always been more than a vote. Its a fight and its just getting started. And weve been ready. You with us . Its a powerful piece, ari. Its powerful yes, go ahead, sir. Its a powerful piece, and i would add to it that what were seeing now we saw in the 19th century, an attempt to roll that reconstruction. And what happened . Black and white people came together, reconstructed the south, reconstructed the american constitution. We see it in the civil rights movement. Even before georgia, a lot of this started was when obama won North Carolina and virginia in 2008. Now how did he win . He lost on the election day in 2008, but he won through same day registration and early voting. And what was the cry then . Fraud, fraud. This cant be real. You cant bring black and white people together and brown people in the south and win like this. There has to be fraud. So its always fraud when the democracy works, when more people come together. And so the attempt to roll back Voting Rights is an attempt to not only block who sits in power, but i always want to make the connection between the economics of it, the race and the economics. You know, today, for instance, we saw 50 republicans vote to block living wages for 62 million people. But we also saw eight white democrats vote with them to block living wages for 62 million people. And the argument they had, were following the advice of a parliamentary that is not even a constitutional role. They said this one parliamentarian has more power than the 55 of black and white people, poor and low wealth people who voted for biden harris ticket and 70 of the American Public who voted. How does this happen . How were the republicans able to do that . Ever since 1968, they have run this Southern Strategy. The goal of the Southern Strategy was to hold on to the south and to deliver i think it was Richard Nixon that was advised by pat buchanan and kevin phillips. And they actually said to him, we must deliberately divide the country. If we do it, we will get the they called it positive polarization. They said we must divide it. We must engage in Voter Suppression, because thats the only way we can hold on to the 13 or 14 Southern States from maryland all the way to the south, through the southwest, what they call the sunbelt. But by doing that, we can control the senate. We can control the presidency, and thereby we can control the politics so the policy is written mainly to undergird the corporate elite and not really be about the people. And the fear right now, why there so much fear is because North Carolina 208, georgia in 20 has shown people that if we run on progressive agenda, if we beat back Voter Suppression, you can elect folk in the south that they always thought couldnt be elected because of the Southern Strategy. And if you start changing the south, you change the whole nation. If you start changing the makeup of the senate by changing in the south, you change the whole nature. And who do you do that . You have to do it by voter mobilization, but also defeating Voter Suppression. So its no wonder that right now after the election we have 161 bills throughout the country in various legislatures at the very time that we have the possibility of expanding health care and raising the living wage, because the elite, dr. King called it aristocracy doesnt want to see that happen. So they sowed the division, and part of the way they sowed the division is through Voter Suppression. So im glad to see lebron and others, love to talk to them, because theyre right. Its about black, but its also about bigger. Its about fusion politics, which is the only kind of politics that can ultimately bring together the 65 million poor and low wealth people in this country that make up nearly 30 of the electorate. And if you mobilize that group of people around a progressive agenda, then the extremists cant, they cant win. They cant win demographically and they cant win at the polls. So the only way they can stop things from happening is to try to suppress the vote while there is no Voting Rights act. Yeah. Well, you make it you make it very clear, and i dont say it most days on the news, but i will say amen, bishop. Maybe im feeling inspired. I dont know what it is. 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Its friday on the beat, so you know its time to fall back. And tonight, were going classical, joined by ezinma. She shook up and remixed the class cal scene, and takes on hits like rock star, and masks off. She performed at carnegie hall, and with beyonce, and she continues to break boundaries across genres. And speaking of remixes, we have bill crystal, who is spending more time with republicans and democrats. He is not invited to perform with beyonce yet. His application is getting a series look. Good friday evening to both of you. How are you doing . Great. Im great, thank you, ari. Great to have you both. Bill, lets start it off. What is on your fall back list, sir . Much better suggestions for my colleague here. Not having performed myself at coachella. Im not sure why im not invited. I keep expecting that invitation. And ron johnson, trying to make a point, had a senate clerk waste 12 hours reading the text of the bill. It made no point. It wasnt a draw mattic presentation from his point of view. Pure waste of time. It embodies the current Republican Party. And silliness, and obstructionism. Briefly, does he get any political credit for this . It forced them to cast a tough vote or a demagoguic attitude. It just hurts lets get to the good stuff. I do wonder, how it would have been if you invited senator cruz back for another reading of green eggs and ham. Maybe that could have been interesting. Thats a fair point. That doesnt take 11 hours or whatever. Yeah, and cancel dr. Seuss. Who knows. For me, something i think that needs to fall back and mediocre health care. A 7yearold girl in alabama had to start a Lemonade Stand to pay for her her brain surgery. Kids have to deal with zoom education, covid, and now she has to get a Lemonade Stand to pay for her medical needs. We can do better. That can fall we can do better. I appreciate you bringing it up and in a human form. Sometimes we in the news, we do the policy, and the vote and 234 and that. Youre reminding that, with that person, the young girl, that this is the country we live in. And that you are out of luck in a lot of communities and a lot of families. Not because your families because of the oklahoma system. Bill . I agree with that. But i want to hear shouldnt we close the show with excellent Violin Playing . Its a rare we all talk five nights a week, no offense, ari, and here we have a classical violinist. Maybe a few bars of mozart . I have to say, i will still hold to you more fall books after. But lets hear it. Go for it. Just a little something. When you started, when you were 3 you took us to the music. You cant take us out. When you started at 3, 4, 5 years old, when did your parents start to realize, okay, youre different . You know, i think it was right away. I never went through a crunching phase. I went past it. I was a natural at it. I think the amazing thing to my parents, the violin is something that was encouraged. Ip was never forced and i just love to play, and never stopped. So no offense to our lovely one of our lovely daughters who played the violin. I remember the crunching phase. Its not good. Yeah, i was an suzuki kid. I had a program and thats write started. Let me ask you, do you feel like people are more exposed to a different genre through the way youre doing it . Because its a little different than traditional classical. Yeah, i get a lot of people who reach out to me and say thank you for making Classical Music and classical spaces more accessible. That is a big mission on what i do. And its a violin show piece, and taking pieces like that and working with hiphop artists and i find to be really important because we live in such a divided world. Im mixed and i come from two different cultures so i just love to fuse music and make something new we all enjoy. I have ten seconds. Do you think that bill will get a chair or not . I dont know about it. Lets keep working on it. Throw me under the bus. Go ahead. Keep working on it. That is how you get to carnegie hall. Same way. I want to thank you azinma and bill crystal. I will see you back sunday. Have a lovely friday and weekend. Dont go any where. The reid out starts now. Good evening, everyone. We begin the reid out tonight with perhaps the greatest magic trick ever in the history of politics. The myth of the Working Class Republican Party. Its the way the party that calls