Well see what happens tomorrow and what happens with those conservative democrats and what they hear from their constituents and what they think the stakes are and the options are in terms of the senate rules. Well see. We will learn a lot tomorrow. Thanks, rachel. Go fishing. I am. I am going. Bye. Most united states senators never have a Oneonone Oval Office meeting with most President S of the united states. And even if theyre in the same party. President s Meet Oneonone with senate majority leader, especially if theyre in the same party. Sometimes they meet with the chairs of the committees. And in a 50 50 senate, of course, Meeting Oneonone with senators who are a problem which is why Joe Biden had a meeting with Joe Manchin Today and keers Kyrsten Sinema. She is in her first term and would not have been with the President Today if she was full oh on board with the President S agenda like Mark Kelly who is not a problem for Joe Biden, and so will probably never have a Oneonone Meeting with the president. White House Official told Nbc News this afternoon, the president hosted Senator Manchin for a meeting at the White House where they discussed their shared commitment to Voting Rights. The president expressed his sincere appreciation for Senator Manchins efforts to achieve reform and made it clear how important he thinks it is that the senate find a path forward on this issue. The path forward will be blocked tomorrow in the senate by republicans when the voting Rights Bill called the for the people act comes the a vote which will require a 60vote Threshold before proceeding to simply having a debate on the bill. The only path forward on that bill, or Joe Manchins compromised version of that bill, is to eliminate the 60vote Threshold. In an Op Ed Piece, Kyrsten Sinema came out in an even stronger way than Joe Manchin. Every single thing in Senator Sinemas Washington Post on that, the oped piece, just about everything believed about 20 years ago. As of tonight, it is approximately 20 years out of date. Heres what President Obama said today about that 60vote Threshold. Republicans in the senate are lining up to try to use the filibuster to stop the for the people act from even being debated. In the aftermath of an insurrection, with our democracy on the line and many of the same republican senators going along with the notion that somehow there were irregularities and problems with legitimacy in our most reason election, theyre suddenly afraid to even talk about these issues and figure out solutions on the floor of the senate. They dont even want to talk about voting. And thats not acceptable. Remember, Tomorrows Vote is just procedural. It is a vote that requires a 60vote Threshold, not about the bill. Its not about the bill itself. It is simply a vote that allows the bill to be debated. Today, there was no suspense in the senate about whether ten republicans would join the democrats in simply allowing the bill to be debated. Its not a vote on any particular policy. Its not a vote on this bill or that bill. It is a vote on whether the senate should simply debate the issue about Voting Rights. The crucial issue of Voting Rights in this country. Are you afraid to debate it . Do you not have any good arguments . Lets dispense with this nonsense. There is no real principle. Theyre not about Integrity Or Voter fraud. They have one purpose and one purpose only. Making it harder for younger, poorer, nonwhite and typically democratic voters to have, to access the ballot. The Policy Structure he was referring to there in which republican State Legislatures are making it harder for people to vote include policies that can affect how the votes will be counted and who will count them. The new Election Law is leading to the removal of local election officials, especially democrats and people of color. Times reports across georgia, members of at least ten County Election boards have been removed, had their position eliminated or are likely to be kicked off through local ordinances or new laws passed by the state legislature. At least five are people of color and most are democrats. Though some are republicans and they will most likely all be replaced by republicans. The law allows republicans to remove local officials they dont like. Because several of them have been black democrats, they fear there are further tumors disenfranchise. Georgias Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger who refused to fraudulently create the votes that Donald Trump asked him to fraudulently create in a Phone Call in the Georgia President ial election has been removed by the republican legislature as the Chair And Voting member of the state election board. Secretary raffensperger is now running for reelection and doing everything he can now to ingratiate himself with trump voters. Secretary raffensperger has now produced a list of nearly 102,000 voters who will be removed from the Voting Rolls unless they respond within 40 days to stay on the Voting Rolls. And leading off our discussion from georgia, Helen Butler, a member of the Morgan County Board of elections in georgia. Her last day will be june 30th. Also with us, the ceo of the new georgia project, the Voter Registration Group which works on Education And Outreach for minority voters. Youve been on this board for about ten years now and suddenly, the republicans are getting rid of you. How did that happen . Well, thank you, lawrence for having me. What they decided was that they wanted to change the composition of the board. Originally we were according to party. They decided that a majority republican commission, that they wanted to take over. So what they did in actuality was to pass the local legislation that said they can go remove all Board Members. Initially they were only going to remove two. In The End they decided to remove everyone. It was simply because of our election in 2021, the runoff and the november election. We had great turnout. We had people that were able to be hired as coworkers that can really implement the process, and the Board Members were also a part of the Counting Process so they didnt like that outcome so they decided they wanted to challenge it. We wanted drop boxes. We wanted more polling locations. We wanted a diverse Work Force because we wanted young people that knew how to operate new voting equipment. Our coworkers average age was 75 years of age. We had to have different people during this pandemic it looks like Helen Butlers connection is frozen there. What is your reaction to these new changes at this level . At Helens Level . My reaction is simply this. They are who we thought they were. This is a continuation of the insurrection at the capitol. This is a continuation of the 60 plus lawsuits that were filed in Federal Court where not one single judge found that there was widespread voter fraud. This is a continuation of the big lie. Do you know why theyre removing Helen Butler from the County Board of elections . Because she knows the law. Because shes going to defend the right to vote for every single resident in morgan county. Because shes a human Bs Detector and the moral compass on that board of elections. And were going to see that in dozens of counties in georgia, because of this Trash Bill that was passed. Senate bill 202 at The End of the legislative session. It was rushed through. There was not time for debate. There was an hour for deliberation and then our governor signed it under one of the last presentations were humans were held captive. In case there was any doubt about the sort of motivation behind the bill that they signed. This is only one of the ways in which the republicans are trying to take a sledgehammer to our Elections Infrastructure and replace their will for the will of georgia voters. How is this going to change the next election . Well, the next Election Youll have a board that is appointed strictly by a majority republican party. That will oversee the Counting Process, absentee voting, application requests, having to have an i. D. With the County Process required, who will get to count the ballots, how it is counted, and what are the results . So the Election Boards are critical to that process and so you will see that this could be a lopsided decision they can process and implementation. Election laws. Thank you both very much for starting off our discussion tonight. Thank you. Joining us now, jonathan alter, political analyst. Tomorrow is a Big Day in the senate but a day without suspense. Well go over this hurdle of having the 60vote Threshold thrown in front of the before the people act. It will fail. Now we have this Op Ed Piece tonight by Senator Sinema who as i said, is echoing exactly the way minimum 90 of the senate thought about the 60vote Threshold 20 years ago. As far as i can tell, Nothing But Greeting card stuff today. Yeah. That was a disappointing Op Ed Piece. The stakes, i think, we just saw laid out from georgia. This cannot stand in georgia. The only way it can be superseded is with the federal law in the same way that during the civil rights movement, you had these horrible laws in georgia and other states. You needed the civil Rights Act and the voting Rights Act to super sede them. So the states are a mess. Tombs Battle Tomorrow will be lost but it is just a battle. This is a war over this issue. And democrats are getting mobilized. There are a number of things that one can take, even hope for. The most important of which is that Joe Manchin now owns this bill. Even very recently, there was some indication that he wasnt going to come along. It is now the manchin bill. It made a number of concessions to republicans. Its not good enough for them. The more he gets frustrated about it not moving forward to it. They wont even allow it to be debated. What this can do is motivate manchin. I think sinemma to go i know what this. Amending the filibuster, changing the rule which can be done with 51 votes. Instead of having to get to 60, the republicans have to have 41. They have to have 41 on the floor at all times. Theyll have to go to the hots and well be back. Jimmy stewart, mr. Smith goes to washington. Thats what we want right now. We want to see the bad guys being jimmy stewart. Having to stand on the floor for four days making these ridiculous arguments. If that happens, you can maybe mobilize and make some progress in this area. So Joe Biden had Oneonone Meetings with Joe Manchin and Senator Sinema. Now you can see one reason is they are not the same on this 60vote Threshold. Joe manchin has said there are variations on this that hes willing to do, hes open to it. This Op Ed Piece by Senator Sinema is a completely close document. There is no hole in it anywhere where she can change her position on this down the road. That was my first reaction to it as well. I just read it a few minutes ago. Shes talking about 60 votes. Thats just the reverse of 40 votes. So you wouldnt be getting rid of that and changed the burden of proof, the onus on responsibility so it fell on the minority. And she could, you know, youre right. She would not have to say that she was retreting, if you documented the idea that has been articulated on this program and elsewhere that you make the republicans go to the floor and earn all 60 of those votes. So i think thats where the energy needs to be focused in washington. Out in the rest of the country, it should be particularly arizona, putting pressure or wherever youre from, despite all the procedural questions, we need this to save our democracy. It is that important they are daggers pointing at our democracy. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Coming up, in our History Weve had exactly two people who have held these two jobs. Ambassador to the United Nations and domestic Policy Adviser to the president. And one of those people is Susan Rice who will join us next in her new job of domestic Policy Adviser to the president. Omestiy adviser to the President W Citi m cash℠ card, a different kind of card that Rewards Rashida where her spending is trending. Just ask overly confident Diy Rashida Rashida wait, was this the right wall . Or last Minute Gift Shopping Rashida Rashida im putting a bow on it wow. Even sneaking away for a vacay rashida. Rashida shhh ive earned this . 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Beginning july 15th, all families earning below 150,000 per year will be eligible for the full Child Tax Credit of 3,000 per child under the age of 18 with an additional 600 per child under the age of 6. The Child Tax Credit is not a tax deduction. It is not a adjustment to how much you owe the government in taxes. It is a check from the government to you. It is real money. And that 3,600 per year for a 5yearold child will now be sent in monthly installments of 300 per month, making budgeting much more manageable. The biden administration has Launch Ad new website. Child Tax Credit. Gov to help you file for that Tax Credit. Today, at a Child Tax Credit Awareness Event in pittsburgh, Vice President Kamala Harris said this. When we talk about child policy, it has to be with a recognition that we dont just come in and take care of the child. You want to take care of a child. You do it in the context of the family in which that child is being raised. Recognize the challenges of working parents. You recognize the challenges of families that are just barely holding it together. And then you treat the issue in the context of the whole. Joining us now, Susan Rice, White House domestic Policy Adviser. She serve as national Security Adviser to President Obama and ambassador to the United Nations. Thank you for joining us tonight. What is the white House Approach to getting the word out about how to file for this . Because many people dont even realize theyre eligible for it. Well, thank you. Great to be with you. First today is very deliberately Child Tax Credit awareness day. Were making a Big Push to get the word out that for the vast majority of american families, beginning on july 15th, through either direct deposit or a check in the mail, you will get 300 every month for every child between the ages of 6 and 17. Excuse me, 250 a month for children ages 6 to 17, and 300 a month for children, each child under the age of 6. And this is vitally important for the reasons you said. This is Cash Money in Peoples Bank accounts that they can plan for and spend against. And it is vitally important because our children are the most vulnerable in our society. They need this support. This will help over 90 of american children. This is something important to be said it had show up as a direct deposit if you have filed Tax Returns in the last two tax years. There is a substantial segment of americans who dont earn enough money to pay taxes and to file taxes. So for those americans who are also eligible for the same Tax Credit that i just described, it is very important that they know that they need to sign up in order to get these checks coming to them directly. They need to go to Child Tax Credit. Gov. Child Tax Credit. Gov. And you are as eligible as anybody who has filed their taxes over the last two years. So this is here for all americans who need it, for Working Americans and for 90 of american children. Income Security Policy is a challenging arena. The government has been at it for decades, really start in 1935. One of the problems that existed in the past for things like the Tax Credit. It is a once a year financial moment in your life. You suddenly get this once a year check. Getting this to be a monthly budgetable id for people is a huge break through in this policy. It is, absolutely. You get a Lump Sum at The End when you file your taxes. That doesnt enable you to budget and to monday as easily. So this is a breakthrough, both in the increased amount that Conscience And Biden made available to working families but also its protectability. The expectation is this action, this Child Tax Credit will help cut Child Poverty in half this year. Which is huge. Its huge. It is vitally needed, it is overdue. The other important things what congress passed in the american Rescue Plan extended and expanded the Child Tax Credit for this year. For this. At a year. What President Biden wants to do, it is vitally important. He proposed this through his american families plan. To extend this same benefit, for every child under 6, the same for children 6 to 17 for years and years to come. It is not just for one year. It is something americans can count on going forward. As we discuss this, im hearing echos of things Daniel Patrick Moynihan has said throughout his career. And i was thinking, there are very few people in American Government who have been ambassador to the ungss and domestic Policy Adviser to the president. You and patrick moynihan. Thats it. One thing he is always arguing and struggling with. The government has always been very resistant to it. The cure for poverty is money. What poor people need is money. As far back as the nixon administration, he was trying to push for something approaching a guaranteed annual income. That Policy Arena has shifted into the Tax Code over the last 30 years or so. Were now approaching this through the. At a code which seems like a more official method. It is definitely efficient. In the case of the Child Tax Credit, as weve discussed, directly land Cash Money in Peoples Bank accounts when they need it most. And it is similar to another very important provision of the american Rescue Man which is enabled americans to purchase health insurance. The affordable Care Act at healthcare. Gov and do so at much reduced cost due to Tax Premium increases. So this is the kind of benefit that americans need most at a time, coming out of the pandemic, where so many have struggled economically. They havent been able to provide adequately for their families. These are the kinds of positive steps that President Biden and the democrats in congress have been able to benefit americans directly and immediately and the very time of thing the president intends to make longlasting through his proposed americans family plan. Which will come before congress and the american people. Im sure it is more than a bit intriguing to our audience to see you go from national Security Adviser for one president to domestic adviser to another president. What has that transition been like for you . I guess the big difference on the Domestic Policy front, there arent the middle of the night emergencies that you have in the national security advisar. Thats one of the differences and thankfully, i havent gotten that call yet as domestic Security Adviser. Its interesting. Many of the skills, the experiences, making them produce and decide that theyre implemented, theyre very much the same. Working on Foreign Policy or Domestic Policy. The substance is different. For me it is exciting. Interesting and challenging and motivating to get to work on the issues that matter most on a daily basis to the american people. It was a great honor and a privilege to serve under President Obama and help keep americans safe and an equal privilege now to serve under President Biden, trying to ensure that the american people have what they most need. To not only be secure but to develop and prosper. Generational wealth in a manner that is far more equity and inclusive than has been our experience historically in the past. Susan rice, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. So important to get this word out to people this Child Tax Credit is there for them. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Coming up in Tonights Episode of defending trump, might he find himself with codefendants like his Money Handler Allen weisselberg or Will Weisselberg testify against trump . We have some new clues about that, next. We have some new clues autbo that, next one, two one, two, three only pay for what you need with customized Car Insurance from Liberty Mutual nothing rhymes with Liberty Mutual. 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Alexandria ocasiocortez asked a question about Donald Trump that a New York Grand Jury is now investigating. To your knowledge, good the president ever provided inflated assets to an Insurance Company . Yes. Who else knows that the president did this . Allen weisselberg, Ron Lieberman and Matthew Calamari. Tonight the Wall Street Journal reports new York Prosecutors are investigating whether a top Trump Organization Executive Matthew Calamari received taxfree Fringe Benefits as part of the probe into whether the former President Trumps company and its employees illegally avoided paying taxes on such perks, according to people familiar with the matter. The Washington Post is reporting that Allen Weisselberg was at Trump Tower last week on Donald Trumps 75th birthday. A possible indication that Allen Weisselberg is not yet cooperating with prosecutors. The Washington Post reports, officials involve in the investigation have grown frustrated about what they view as a lack of cooperation from weisselberg and believe he continues to regularly speak with trump, according to a person familiar with the inquiry. A former prosecutor in the new York Attorney Generals Office who investigated Trump University and forced a 25 Million settlement of Fraud Allegations says, Allen Weisselberg really ran the whole company. Just to say hes the Money Man actually underestimates his role. He was more than that even. He was the whole enchilada. A former Trump Employee told the Washington Post, he was in charge of everything. Joining us now, daniel alonzo, a former federal prosecutor in new York City and a former chief Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District attorneys office. Thank you very much for joining us again tonight. What do you make of these clues emerging . Allen weisselberg being at Trump Tower on Donald Trumps birthday, apparently staying close to the company, frequently going into work . Well, thanks for having me, lawrence. I would say that it seems pretty clear Allen Weisselberg has not yet flipped if he is ever going to flip. I said before, i think the Tax Charges are probably not enough to get him to flip on Donald Trump. I think the real pressure will be if the d. A. Can make a credible case against one of his family members. Thats where some of these perks come in. That is classic way to get somebody to flip. So if weisselberg is going to Trump Tower, it doesnt take an expert on Donald Trump to know it is unlikely the guy has turned on him. There seems to be this anticipation of a deal with weisselberg before any charges are filed against anyone. This is other method with weisselberg gets hit with charges and then they talk about cooperation. Order gets hit with charges and then he litigates it. In New York, that can take a couple of years. So i think that if hes not going to flip now, the d. A. Is probably not going to be interested in him flipping down the road. The d. A. Is probably talking to his lawyers about what kind of charges theyre looking to bring. Obviously, we know it is more serious than just the taxable Fringe Benefits on which he or his children potentially didnt Play Taxes and the organization didnt withhold. It is more than that with almost to weisselberg. With respect to calamari, on the one hand, c. O. O. , an accounting type investigation, is a very important person to look at. At least find out what they knew and when they knew it. On the other hand, who knows . If your reporting is right and Allen Weisselberg ran the whole enchilada, a technical term, then perhaps calamari was not in the know and they may only have him on the low level crimes involving the Fringe Benefits. And i know weve been showing mr. Calamari who looks like bodyguard because thats what he was when he started working for Donald Trump. And there is a report indicating that he was advised by the prosecutors to get his own lawyer. He apparently showed up for some encounters with the prosecutors with trump lawyers and they have now advised him, get your own lawyer. What does that indicate . Thats not uncommon when companies make the mistake of sending the same lawyer to either represent or at least appear with particular executives or individuals. Prosecutors donal like that. Because talking to this witness is the same as talking to the ceo of the company or Donald Trump, the owner. So they like to be able to at least have a private conversation with a lawyer who is theoreticals only obligation is to that particular person. So it doesnt surprise me, the prosecutors said he should get his own lawyer. Thank you for joining us once again on this continuing story. Appreciate it. Thank you. 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In the early days of the Coronavirus Pandemic as white House Officials debated whether to bring infected americans home for care, president Donald Trump suggested his own plan for where to send them, eager to suppress the numbers on u. S. Soil. Dont we have an island that we own, the president reportedly asked those assembled in the situation room, in February 2020 before the u. S. Outbreak would explode . What about guantanamo . We import goods, trump specified, lecturing his staff. We are not going to import a virus. Our next guest, andy, served as President Trumps adviser. He also serve in the house of Health And Human Services so when covid19 hit the united states, he offered back Channel Advice to the Trump Administration through Jared Kushner. He tells that story in his new book, preventible. The inside story of how leadership failures, politics and selfishness doomed the u. S. Coronavirus response. Andy writes, i contacted Jared Kushner, the President S soninlaw and senior adviser, to offer my assistance and spent the year on the push and pull on an effort to save lives and prevent even more colossal mistakes. Despite a few successes, when it came to dealing with the White House, i generally found myself fighting the forces of denial, blame, and a short Attention Span that only blew more life into the pandemic. Joining us now is andy slavitt. His new book is preventible. Andy, i dont know. I think there are a few other things you could have put, stupidity up there, you could have put the president Thinks Guantanamo is an island where you can send people infected with the coronavirus. That, the kind of madness you were dealing with, trying to deal with that White House as the pandemic was hitting, must have been shocking to you every time you encountered it. I needed the title to be shorter than the actual book so i had to cut off a few descriptors. Yeah. There are some sin thats are forever givable. We ought to be charitable with mistakes that are made honestly in the heat of battle in the middle of a pandemic. Its novel and we dont know whats going on. But the dishonest mistakes, denying that we are experiencing a pandemic when you know full well that thousands of people are going to die. Millions of people potentially could have died. What the president did was, he just came out and said in january, hey, we have a problem. The only reason he addressed this with the public was when the Nba Season went out and out Stock Market went down. Thats all that is documents. He suppressed it and denied responsibility. It is not a good combination for a company to quash dissent when you have a Novel Coronavirus and you silence all of your experts. So this book just tries to tell the narrative of my interactions with jared and other people around the country and what happened. Now, Jared Kushner was reported by, you know, one of the smarter people in the trump White House, and the passages that ive read in this book, he is a dysfunctional moron in the White House that cost peoples lives. Well, i did go for the best. I did try to reach the top there. But the truth is, you know, as i say, the reason i call jared is because President Trump was going to open up the country on easter sunday, which would have resulted in untold amounts of deaths among older people. So i asked myself the question who do you talk to in the White House when you want to get something done. And the answer was jared. I called, and he was gracious enough to receive my call even knowing where i stand on things. He was willing to listen on occasions that i could forward something he could also make good for the president. The problem was that everything had to resolve around the plot of the president pushing responsibility for anything that went wrong to the states or to someone besides him. So ultimately when i would call him and say, jared, were in big trouble, people are going to die, he would say, you know, i really cant do much about that because his job was to really deflect anything from hitting his boss. Did he think people were not going to die . Did he think they were just going to get lucky . You know, he had this narrative carved out in his head, which it said that the president had done all he could and that any mistakes that happened from here for the responsibility of the governors because the president opened the country in april and, therefore, its going to be on the governors. That was perverse logic. It is actually the reverse. In times of crisis, if you actually level with the public and say weve got a problem, people will rally behind you. Weve seen this in history. But the President Wouldnt do that. The President S Ego Couldnt handle a problem emerging on his watch. Once the Stock Market went up, he bought gifts for all his staff for creating some lies for him to tell the public. He gave them all the assigned gifts. And from then on, as long as the Stock Market was up, he didnt really worry about things too much. The new book is preventable the inside story about how leadership and failures boomed the coronavirus response. Andy, im listening to the audiobook because it is read by The One And Only bradley whitford, Emmy Winner at the west wing. How did you get him to reach your book into a Tape Recorder . Brads a wonderful guy. He does a tremendous job of this. And he sent me funny videos of himself doing this. Ive had the pleasure of knowing bradley for a few years. And, you know, hes just a really generous person. The minute he found out i was writing this book, he said i have to read this for you. 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From where i sit, i think ive realized that through this moment i sit in a place of privilege where i have information on a Daytoday Basis about these vaccines that the general person does not. But the one thing that reassures me constantly is seeing over time more and more people getting these vaccines, the data are so clear and crisp in that theyre safe and they are effective. She spoke with matthew after the Town Hall was over last night and still couldnt convince him. A week later, they met dr. Corbit at a walgreens in virginia where they both received the Moderna Vaccine. They appeared that night from the walgreens where they got vaccinated. Matthew, what are you going to tell your friends and family if they are wondering about getting the vaccine . Go ahead and get it done. Its not that bad. Go and get it done. Its not that bad. 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