Republicans to commemorate this day with an overwhelming bipartisan support from congress. I hope this is the beginning of a change in the way we deal with one another. Heres what he mentioned there. The Juneteenth Bill passed with unanimous support in the u. S. Senate. One is the last time that happened . Near unanimous support in the house. We will have more on the new holiday just ahead. Today, the president also got something of an assist from an unlikely source, the Conservative Majority Supreme Court upheld the affordable Care Act for a third time. President obamas Signature Legislation has been the target of relentless republican efforts to repeal it. In this latest ruling, the court decided 7 to 2 that a group of republican Attorneys General lacked the standing to strike it down. 11 years have now passed since it became the law of the land. The former president issued a Statement Today that read in part, quote, this ruling reaffirms what we have long known to be true. The affordable Care Act is here to stay. For the biden administration, the supreme Court Ruling removes the possibility of millions of our fellow citizens losing their insurance limit efforts to repair the economy after the pandemic. Its also a win for democratic leaders in congress working to advance the President S agenda. The affordable Care Act has won and now we are going to try and make it bigger and better. When we pass it i said this is a pillar of economic security. We will never forget how republican leaders embraced this Monster Sway to rip away americas Health Care in the middle of a deadly pandemic. While the president was overseas work continued on a one trillion Dollar Infrastructure Compromise bill of some sort which is now at the top of bidens list. The group is now made up of 21 senators out of 110 democrats, now 11 republicans have backed the compromise bill, but even as that effort is underway. Senate democrats are also talking amongst themselves about a six trillion Dollar Budget Package that would include bidens proposals, and could pass without republican support. Meanwhile, democratic senator Joe Manchin, West Virginia, his proposals for voting Rights Legislation are getting support from a voting Rights Advocate Stacey abrams, and they have been welcomed by several other democrats. Mansions proposals include, making Election Day a public holiday, mandated at least 15 consecutive days of early voting for federal elections, banned partisan gerrymandering, and require voter i. D. With allowable alternatives to prove identity. Democrats have been firmly against requiring Voter Identification of any kind before. But even that part of Manchins Compromise got Stacey Abrams endorsement. That was of. Note here is in fact what abrams had to say about Manchins Proposal today. I am endorsing the fact that we now have a list of priorities and that Joe Manchin is at the table and Hes Part of the conversation. I think you makes common sense opportunities available for compromise, its only going to be through federal legislation that we can negate or mitigate the harms being created at the state level. And remember, here are the stakes. Nearly 400 bills that would make it harder for americans to vote have been proposed in 48 of our 50 states. Manchins proposal still needs support from ten senate republicans to pass. It comes as The Hill and other Media Outlets reported Majority Leader Chuck schumer plans to move ahead with a four vote tuesday on the for the people act, also tonight new developments in the investigation into The One sixth Riot Insurrection and desecration of our capital. Today, the Department Of Justice released new Police Body Camera footage from that January 6th assault. It was used in the case against a former marine, and retired new York City Police Officer accused of participating in the attack. Fair warning, just like what we saw on that day, these images are disturbing. As we mentioned, this was also a landmark day. We saw the President Signed into Law A New Federal Holiday to commemorate juneteenth, or June 19th of 1865. The day and saved African Americans were emancipated indexes. This, here Juneteenth Falls on saturday, the new holiday it will be observed tomorrow, and federal workers as a result will have the day off. With that, lets bring in our lead off guests on this Thursday Night. Philip rucker, lisa lerer, Joyce Fans who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor, and happens to be one of the cohost of the Podcast Sisters In Law was a few others. Good Evening And Welcome to you all. Phil, id like to start with you and your beat. Is it us watching from afar up and down the eastern corridor or are there signs of movement beyond ever so humble in the President S domestic agenda. Brian, there certainly are signs of movement here in washington for president biden who, remember, just returned to the united states after a lengthy and eventful foreign trip that concluded with that meeting with President Putin. He got here and suddenly there were signs of hope. There is a supreme Court Ruling on obamacare, of course which is a really significant development for this White House and for the democratic party as a whole, preserving that Health Care program. The bipartisan movement over on Capitol Hill in terms of the Infrastructure Plan is a very welcomed signed by this White House which has patiently been working for months now through the spring, to try to bring republicans together with democrats to work out some sort of a deal. Its not done yet, of course, and it does not include some of the Climate Change and other initiatives that are so important to the progressive base of the democratic party. But its progress towards bipartisanship nevertheless. And Joe Manchin, the West Virginia senator becoming effectively that 58 vote for the voting Rights Act, or voting Rights Legislation, rather, is significant. It means democrats when they bring this to the floor in the senate next week to begin debate should have unified support within their caucus which is a political win for the White House, even if it doesnt necessarily yet mean that bill is going to be passing the senate because of course its going to need those ten republican votes as well. Lisa, lets talk about that very dynamic that fill races. Biden has to hold the democrats and by the way, in his spare time, good luck finding ten republicans to pull across. Thats right. Finding ten republicans in this sort of polarized political environment is a heavy lift. And thats why you see democrats pursuing this dual Track Approach to the infrastructure legislation, where on The One, had there is a group thats negotiating this bipartisan Infrastructure Bill that comes in about 1. 2 trillion, and democrats are also working on a six trillion Dollar Infrastructure Package that should that bipartisan Bill Fall apart, they could try to push through using reconciliation, which means id only have to clear a 50 vote hurdle. There is political pros and cons to both approaches. Biden certainly wants, as phil said, this bipartisan achievement. He ran as this bipartisan legislator, this long timeline at the senate, Vice President , experienced washingtons who could cut across these polarized divisions and get things done. He also made pretty big promises to democratic base, which wont be fulfilled in that bipartisan package. On the flip, side theres a question about the bigger bill for their moderates to get the democratic moderates like Joe Manchin and others in the senate would get behind such a big proposal and get them to a 15 number. Still precarious negotiation for both of these potential paths. Joyce vance, counselor over to you and the news that started this day in many ways. How significant was it seven to ruling Affirming Obamacare the aca, can we now assume after 11 years and numerous challenges that it is here to stay . Id like to say we can assume that. I feel good about the security of the supreme courts willing, but i suspect we will continue to see challenges to other provisions of the bill. The Decision Today is a very interesting one from a legal point of view. Its a seven to decision, but the court didnt reach the merits of the case, which wouldve asked them to decide if the mandate, that requires each of us to obtain medical insurance of that provision was constitutional. Instead, the court stopped before it got to that substantive ruling and said listen, these plaintiffs dont have any right to sue. They dont have any standing, we havent brought claims that involves a law that actually damages them. And because they are not suffering any harm, here we arent going to let this suit proceed. Its pretty much a slam on the case that was brought here, but it does stopped short of a full merits ruling. Perhaps republicans or people who are against the affordable Care Act will try and find some new way to attack the bill. Phil, i want to play for you missouri republican senator roy blunt, the justification he has come up with on not joining the Mansion Compromise on Voting Rights. We will discuss on the other side. I think wednesday see abrams immediately endorsed senator Manchins Proposal, it became the Stacey Abrams substitute, not the Joe Manchin substitute. Phil, forgive me, thats just like a real reason, only flimsy. It is the standard now that anything a democrat has gone near is tainted in terms of legislation . Brian, i am at a loss here to try to explain what the senator meant there, other than to point out that the substance of the proposal is no different whether it was put forward by senator manchin, or by Stacey Abrams. We should just keep in mind when hes trying to do there. Stacey abrams is a wellknown national figure at this point. Shes beloved by the democratic party and by progressives, and credited with helping Turn Georgia into Joe Bidens column. In the 2020 election. And getting those two democratic senators over the hurdle. In january, and the special elections. And yet she is reviled by the conservative base, by the republican party because shes seen as activists, because she seen as threatening the Status Quo for republicans and to former President Trump in particular. I think blunt was trying to have something of a Dog Whistle there too conservative republican voters out in the country, in explaining why the republican senators at this point appear to be united in trying to resist and oppose this voting legislation. Lisa, i have one for you, this reminder of exactly how popular obamacare was with the last president , just a reminder we will discuss on the other side. Someone said the other day, but is the first thing you are going to do . We are going to work immediately on repealing obamacare. The problem with obamacare, its not good. I want to give great Health Care. Obamacare is a disaster, we want to terminate it. We are going to cancel that obamacare, if we can win the case. Lisa, we are waiting on that alternative trump care Health Care plan, but lets say this, to Joyce Vance last point, if the supreme court decides they are done with challenges to the aca, either standing or the law itself, and they dont grant another challenge, another case, can we is soon this will disappear as a republican Rallying Cry . This has been a really long road for republicans. It does feel, at this moment, that the fight has sort of run out of a bit of gas. There were more than 70 attempts and congress to repeal all, were part of the law. They all failed, most famously with a thumbs down from john mccain, in 2017. This is the third time in the supreme court that theyve refused to undermine the law. Republicans lost the midterm elections, democrats made them a referendum on Health Care. They lost the 2020 election. They lost the presidency. What weve seen is the law is more popular now than its ever been. Majority of americans approve of the law, and certain provisions like maintaining Health Insurance for people with preexisting conditions is approved by margins that are nearly two thirds republicans, 75 of americans, so what struck me the most about the republican reaction to this case was the silence. You simply didnt hear the level of outrage that youve heard, after this supreme Court Rulings on this in 2012, 2015. I dont think it disappears completely. But it becomes sort of a Zombie Issue thats trotted out, maybe to rally some primary voters, and tight republican primaries. But i dont think republicans really see this as a winning general Election Issue moving forward. They are setting their sights on other topics. And the last word goes to Joyce Vance but maybe the most important question of the evening and it comes from the world of the possible. Joyce, you know anything thats going to get 60 votes on Voting Rights in the u. S. Senate is not going to be what the democrats want. Its going to be something by definition watered down. Here is the question, though. Will it still be enough in terms of federal protections to counteract all of these Voter Suppression measures being passed by republican controlled State Legislators . That is tough work we have ahead of us as a country, to protect Voting Rights. And of course that happens in two bills that are currently sitting in the senate with the manchin proposal, we are really talking about the for the people act, which in many ways prospectively addresses voting. How do we register . Can we vote absentee . What sort of restrictions like identification do we have to provide in order to exercise our right to vote . Then theres the john does voting Rights Act which would attempt to restore the protections of section five of the voting Rights Act, which gives the Justice Department and private individuals the ability to challenge when states pass these restrictive measures. The Mansion Plan is really, from my point of view, someone whos litigated Voting Rights issues for a couple of decades, its extraordinary. It has a 15day Period for voting in advance of the election. An alabama, we have one day. Provisions like that would make it very strong. It would certainly not expose anyone to fraud, but manchin has this interesting notion that he would actually impose or legitimize the Voting Right i. T. After requirements many states have, but make the kind of i. D. That you can use more flexible. In alabama and other states that do this, the restrictions are really strong. In texas, you can vote with her gun license, but you Cant Vote with your college i. D. Manchin would let people use things like Utility Bills, and other sorts of material that would firmly established their identity, that would make what we know to be the absolutely minimal risk of fraud clear after trumps Big Lie in the way he litigated. Broad is not impacting elections in america. Manchin, nonetheless, puts that provision in and it is something democrats and all americans can live with because this proposal would expand the right to vote. Still need the John Lewis Act to be able to protect things in the long run. And we note it still keeps mansion at the center of the conversation, but it also shows he may have indeed listened to the parade of voices making their way to his office in the u. S. Senate. We are much obliged to our Big Three tonight. Thank you all so much for being with us. And starting us off. Coming up, what is next for democrats and the push for Voting Rights as Mitch Mcconnell and his caucus remember are doing everything possible to sink this effort. Mansion or not. And later, president ial Historian Michael Bash lost with us tonight on Joe Bidens first trip abroad as president. History in the making, no matter your political persuasion. All of it as the 11th Hour is just getting underway on this Thursday Night beneath the capitol dome. 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This comes right out of our last conversation you heard how positive Joyce Vance was about the Mansion Compromise, for example. While democrats are generally sounding optimistic on Voting Rights, that was Mitch Mcconnell quick to quash any hope that republicans might still get on board. And as we, know at least ten of them need to do just that. Back with us tonight, don callaway, democratic Strategist And Member of the Advisory Board for the national voter protection fund, also Ceo Founder of pine street strategies, a lobbying for him in d. C. And Mark Mckinnon Form advisor to both george w. Bush and john mccain. He is of course among the coast, The Star of if you ask us, the circus on showtime. Gentlemen, good evening. Welcome to you both. Don, it should never be lost that biden did sign not only bipartisan legislation today, but important legislation today, and the event was emotional and lovely at the White House. Does this bipartisan legislation have any convertibility into any other bipartisan legislation . It absolutely does. First of all, we should not diminish the importance of recognizing juneteenth as a federal holiday. It is important. Yes, i will acknowledge the critics as they will say its largely symbolic, but it is important particularly as republicans across the State Legislators of this Country Attempt to whitewash, no pun intended, the very nasty legacy of slavery and through the vehicle diminishing the city of critical Race Theory which is actually not being taught in schools, but it is but it is. To your second question, i think the idea that Juneteenth Bill passed today Cannot Exist in a vacuum, so black twitter and the leftist twitter should claim a major victory because they made enough noise that people like Joe Manchin and the Senate Democratic Caucus recognized for the first time that they cant do this symbolic somewhat performative stuff, and not pass real Voting Rights reform. And not pastoral reform a substantive issues that are going to make a difference in peoples real lives, but particularly in the context of the racial issues we still have an america. You cannot pass a Juneteenth Bill and look at the american people with a straight face and not do something on Voting Rights reform. Thats why we are in a much more optimistic posture as democrats, than we were a week ago, and weve gotten Joe Manchin to a decent place. Democrats would not be able to look at anybody with a straight face by having passed juneteenth and not done anything on Voting Rights. I think everybody should claim a pretty broad victory here, and we are happier than we were this time last week. Mark, don raises a terrific point, and that is that some of these senators who were part of the unanimous Yes Vote on the Juneteenth Legislation are big fans of Voter Suppression back home. They know it, they know we know, and we know their names. What would your advice be to the democrats, especially given the kind of bubble of hope surrounding what mr. Manchin has been able to write . But mr. Manchin has been able to get some agreement with, and yes, the story that keeps mr. Manchin at the center of the story. Joe manchin at the center of the story and proving what he has to be. Hes come forth with a really reasonable compromised solution. Its very thoughtful, brian. It touches on the major ideas democrats have been pushing for and adds another one, which is a reasonable one on voter i. D. And even though i would argue and many opposed argue its a problem, its a solution in search of a problem. But the fact is people, most americans say you have to have some form of i. D. Manchin is saying you just are bringing down a level of i. D. , so that is a reasonable Utility Bill or something else that almost all americans have. It makes it easier but it is something republicans make a big Sticking Point on it. Democrats dont care about i. D. Because they want to have which is not true. But by including this provision in the bill, it gives Democrats Cover and it gives republicans less of a reason to vote against it. The problem, is Mitch Mcconnell is going to use the federal overlay over the states and ultimately the problem is that this is the acid test. It is the ultimate test for republicans because it faces support, it means they are denying the Big Lie, and that is a Litmus Test for republicans today. You must march in step on the Big Lie and if you march in step on the big, let you cannot vote for the democratic voting Rights Bill thats right because absent massive voter fraud, why would you want to fix voter fraud. Both guests are staying right where they are. Coming up, as we fit in the break, its the gops latest strategy. The politics of spreading fear. We will talk about it. We will talk about it. Need longlasting freshness . Try new febreze Unstopables Touch Fabric spray. It doesnt just eliminate odors. Simply shake and spray to unlock the Breakthrough Power of touchactivated scent technology. That lasts, even hours later thats because Febreze Touch Stores Scent in your fabrics so you get bursts of freshness with every touch. Your whole world will come alive. Welcome home to fresh with new Febreze Touch. We had the multiple crises under president Joe Biden. The crisis at our southern border. The economic crisis. The work crisis. National security crisis. Biden administration continues to turn a blind eye to this crisis. Its yet another crisis that they refuse to confront. Our energy crisis. This Border Crisis is unfortunately one of many crises. The budget crisis. The crisis is not we can tell you we see the crisis clearly. We are dispatching teams to look into all of these crises that are afoot, and case there is any question there about gop messaging. The New York Times puts it this way, quote, for a house republicans, outrage maybe the tie that binds at least their leaders hopes out. Still overwhelmingly in the thrall of Donald Trump. They have learned over the past four years that grievance loudly expressed carries political weight especially with their core voters. Still with us, don callaway, marc mackinnon. Mark anytime we use the word crisis, i think we are duty bound to use the old phrase never let a crisis go to waste. But what about crises of your own perception . What if this is indeed absent any ideas or policy if this is how they are going to go . If this is that how they will run back home in 2022 . Thats become the default for the republican party, brian. Its all about grievance, and now the catchword of the day as you captured this crisis. Everything is a crisis, including anything and everything. That wouldve occurred even if Donald Trump is still president. Hacks on pipelines, all sorts of things. Natural disasters, climate issues that are happening. Its all Joe Bidens fault. He controls the sun. Or if they believe he does control the sun, i guess. But the fact that its all about. Grievances nothing forwardlooking, and they even jumped on biden over his international trip not being tough enough on putin. Having passed the Laugh Test are not being tough enough on putin when these guys were looking the boots of a guy who didnt get one negative word about putin for four years. I urge our viewers to stick around to our last segment, we may have a word or two on that very topic. Don, i want to go back to the Subject Matter in our last segment, considering it is a large part of your lifes work. We had our very smart mutual friend on a few days back, and im going to paraphrase her at great danger. She said in effect, a lot of the democrats are getting played. They put all their chips, all their attention, all their noise on the casting of votes. The game being played in State Houses more quietly is about the counting of votes, and party control. The Party Ability to draw the curtain while votes are tallied, and don, what is the remedy for that, if this becomes law at the State House Level . I think the first and most important remedy is the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Joyce vance, my fellow alabamians mentioned a moment ago that the johns voting Rights Act is perhaps the most important thing because it restores section five of 1965 voting Rights Act in the preclearance notions. States cant do a lot of the shenanigans either on a state regulatory level, on a state legislative level, without preclearance from the Department Of Justice. That means any substantive procedural change to Voting Procedures on the State Local County Municipal Level would have to be cleared by the Department Of Justice. My mentor and good Friend Deval Patrick of the civil rights former director of the civil Rights Division of the Department Of Justice firmly let the preclearance process. No Kristen Clark leads it. If it were restart under section five. I think we have to recognize the play here between federal legislation and if Joe Manchin is on board for nothing else, hes got to be on board for preclearance, which he is, in the genres voting Rights Act. So, before states can enact a whole lot of the shenanigans on the back, and on the counting, on the Arizona Audit Type stuff, you have to be able to restrict their ability to make the changes from the beginning. Secondly i think that before you can even get to the count you have to open up access to the Ballot Box. Im not even really worried about the Counting Procedures on the Back End because we have lawyers, we have the Lawyers Committee for civil rights, the naacp legal Defense Fund to handle things like that. Where there is not an integrity and again, i hate to use the word for the third time the segment, but shenanigans on the counting process. I think its critical Resort Preclearance on the front end, and i think its crucial that you really thwart a whole lot of these Ballot Box contraction bills, on which decides who gets the opportunity to vote in the first place. Its very difficult to throw out votes when they actually have been properly cast. Its very difficult to mess around on the counting process. To be clear, thats what Brian Kim did instill in the election from should be governor and hopefully when they governor Stacey Abrams in 2018 in georgia. Gentlemen bringing the heat on our Broadcast Tonight. Mark mckinnon, don callaway, Florida And Moise representative on this Broadcast Tonight as well. Gentlemen, thank you both. Coming up, the evolution of president ial diplomacy through the eyes of a celebrated president ial historian, who just happens to be another friend of ours. All of it when we come back. It when we come back. Managing Type 2 Diabetes . Youre on it. Staying active and eating right . Yup, on it there, too. You may think youre doing all you can to manage type 2 Diabetes And Heart disease but could your medication do more to lower your Heart Risk . Jardiance can reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults who also have known heart disease. 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Michael, did this right size symmetry, did this put the business of holding a summit back to normal after several average years . I think it did. Just ask the question, brian, but you feel happy with the fate of your family in the hands of Joe Biden dealing in the world . After this last, week its hard for me to see how anyone would say no. During the last four, years i think we had our hearts in our hands every time Donald Trump left this country and went for a meeting with a foreign leader, especially the leader vladimir putin. Here he went, he went to europe, dealt with boris johnson, who had a close relationship with trump. Was skeptical of biden, at least as he gave the impression before this week. Then he goes to g7, meets with those leaders who have gotten pretty used to not having the u. S. Throwing its weight around, its as if the clock had been turned back to 2016. And meeting with putin, a president more addicted to popularity than Joe Biden, might have had this big dramatic show downed and try to face down putin to show he was being different from trump and could be courageous against him in a way that trump had never been, to put it very mildly. And instead, hes a pro he basically said to putin it reminded me a little bit of what we know that Ronald Reagan said in his first meeting with gorbachev in 1985. Reagan said to gorbachev, just so we understand each other, there is no way i would ever let the Soviet Union when the cold war, and you know that american power is i would guess that biden probably said some form of that to putin, and you look at putin at the News Conference afterwards, no smirk. , no smi in fact, i was going to share with our audience what those of us who are faithful followers of you on social media saw. This is mr. Bash loss tweet, meeting reporters in geneva. Putin shows none of the smirk that was visible when he emerged with trump to face them in helsinki 2018. That News Conference that later became something of a national embarrassment in this country. The Soccer Ball turned out to be the least of it. Michael, let me put this next question in current terms, having to deal with our pandemic. I know a number of people who like myself after their first Vaccine Shot suspected high fever, and the doctors all assured us that means the vaccine is working with a new. When we see tensions rise now between russia and the united states, as they necessarily must, is that our indication that american Foreign Policy is working within us again . I think it is. And its a naturally competitive relationship, but many of us, i dont think he made this error, but im sure i did at certain points, to get some framework for that meeting that we saw just yesterday, we are thinking of those American Soviet Summits All The Way back maybe even truman, and stolen, in 1945. For most of the cold war, the u. S. Was dealing with a very powerful country. And an economy that might plausibly scare some people with the notion of the soviets might be Number One in the world. Now we are dealing with a leader who is maybe 17th and terms of the size of his economy, committed cyber warfare, and has nuclear weapons, but someone who was eager for a summit like this so that he can look as if he is within contention of us to be a superpower. He isnt. What we saw with Biden And Putin yesterday was to leaders who are very unequal, but putin, very grateful to have the spotlight, is as if this is the old days of the cold war, and that is very close to reality, very different from Donald Trump walking in with a terrible body language, looking as if putin owned it. Lets switch to things domestic and today at the White House that meant a historic piece of legislation, a unanimous senate vote, as i said at the top of the broadcast. You dont see that on just about anything these days. We have a new national holiday, juneteenth. Please, as a historian, remind or inform our viewers who dont know the full story the searing Insult And Injustice that gave us juneteenth in the first place, the delay in letting black americans know they were no longer enslaved. People all over the place, especially the south, were trying to put the brakes on the northern victory in the Civil War and the idea that slavery had been conquered at last. So it fell for instance to the Confederate Army in texas, to try to resist which they tried to do at a union general Gordon Granger who issued this order on the 19th of june, just as you are saying, 1865. Slavery is over in texas, that spread elsewhere. If they were a just world, brian, We Americans would have begun Celebrating Juneteenth in 1865, or 1866. Its taken until 2021 for juneteenth to become a federal holiday, and that should make us pause a little bit, and ask the question why . Many people in the south and elsewhere, you are talking about a near unanimous vote for this federal holiday. Imagine if there had been a vote for juneteenth as a federal holiday, lets say in 1950, or 1900 . Would have been very far from unanimous. It shows that america has come far enough that an overwhelming majority of americans understand the evil of slavery, and how central the evil of slavery was to our history but its taken much too long. The best thing we can hope is that juneteenth is going to give all of us an opportunity to teach our children and everyone else the evils of slavery, and essentially say america must never ever come close to doing anything remotely like that ever again. In ways big and, small we sometimes surprise ourselves, and grow and advance. Its an even, but we do grow and advance. Well put. Thank you, my friend. Michael beschloss has been our guest on this eventful night. Coming up for, us against china just made in the Space Race with the united states. Wrap your head around that one, the story when we come back. Ory when we come back. These before loading them in the dish washer. But new Cascade Platinum changes all that. New Cascade Platinum, with 50 more Cleaning Power it dissolves fast to start cleaning sooner, releasing the soaking power of dawn. Then cascades foodseeking enzymes latch on and break down food into particles so small they can flow right down the drain. 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With the iss getting old, China Couldve the only space outpost. This phase is something theyve been shopping to do for a decade now. The unusually public fanfare, time for the communist partys 100th an adversary next month, shows chinas growing confidence, having also just landed a rover on mars. Are china and the u. S. Now technically legals . The u. S. Is more advanced, says the missions chief designer. But china develops Space Programs for its own needs. Despite a ban on cooperation, nasa sent congratulations well tonight, high above the earth, chinese astronauts smiled, waved, and took their place in history. Janice mckee for your, nbc news, china. Remarkable story, and Coming Up for us, something the folks have noticed about whats going on at another tv network. Tv network do you have a Life Insurance Policy you no longer need . Now you can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate cash payment. Call Coventry Direct to learn more. 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Last thing before we go tonight, our friends over at the daily show with Trevor Noah have noticed something, the withering criticism of president Bidens Summit with putin. Its been led by fox news, and its knowing gaslighting, if thats not redundant. It seems to knowingly forget something critical the influence russians have had in our politics, our social divisions, our national conversation over these past few years, the Influence Putin had on the Trump Presidency and our national humiliation in helsinki. Here is their take on it. The entire world seeing firsthand have week how frail how confused. I dont know what to even tell you hes trying to say here. Most importantly, we have a lot of good things to talk about, and things to talk about. Was asked if you trusted putin, and he said yes. How could you trust a former Kgb Agent . I have President Putin, just said its not russia. I will say this, i dont see any reason why it would be. Completely confused, midsentence during a meeting. And a key sentence in my remarks i said the word would instead of wouldnt. Everybody is getting along, and thats what his goal is. Consensus. Everyone to get along. Its not about what america, whats best for america. Getting along with russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. I dont think the world wants to see us he gave that stage to vladimir putin. The world watched and maybe believed him. I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. He let vladimir Putin Run circles around him. He offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the 12 people. I think thats an incredible offer. It was always america first, and candidly, thats not the Message Putin got tonight. The united states has we are all to blame. An utter train wreck. Frankly, i find it embarrassing. The daily show to play us off the air tonight. 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