thursday. it passed on a party line vote 220 to 211. all the democrats voted yes, all the republicans voted now. senate republicans have also vowed not to vote on the bill which also provides money for disaster relief, afghanistan evacuees, the pandemic response. without ten senate republicans crossing the aisle to vote for it, the bill will die. california democratic congresswoman jackie spear offered this prediction of the consequences for republicans and indeed for our country. >> there's going to be blood on their hands. you're going to see the stock market plummet. you're going to see the increase in interest rates. you're going to see social security recipients not receiving their checks, and we're going to point to the republicans and say this is the reckless behavior of republicans. >> the house will was also the subject of sharp divisions within the democratic caucus. some members objected to the inclusion of a billion dollars for israel's iron domed defense system, which as you know shoots down incoming rockets fired at israel. the funding was removed and will be voted on in a later bill, but republicans criticize the change and vowed to stand as allies with israel. that brings up the democrats' deep divide which is threatening biden's sweeping domestic agenda. progressives and moderates, the left and the middle, are at a standoff over when to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which has already passed in the senate. and the much larger and more expensive budget bill which expands the social safety net. right now moderates want to vote on the infrastructure bill on monday as promised. progressives have threatened not to support it unless the larger bill passed first. earlier the leader of the progressive caucus spoke with rachel maddow. >> all of a sudden the tables get turned on us and we are now finding that people are saying, oh, no, just pass the infrastructure bill and you know what we'll get to child care later, we'll get to paid leave later. well, rachel, we are committed to delivering the entirety of the president's agenda to the president's desk. half of our caucus -- over half of our caucus has said that they will not just vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. we have to vote on the reconciliation bill first. >> tomorrow the president will meet at the white house with a select group of elected democrats to try to get everybody on the same page on this. tonight the white house is keeping a close eye on developments on the pandemic front as you might imagine. bloomberg reporting that the fda could make its decision on pfizer vaccine boosters as early as tomorrow. last week an fda panel recommended the additional shots for people 65 and over. in addition johnson & johnson said today its booster shot is 94% effective when given two months after their first dose. also nbc news has confirmed a new report out from the daily beast that says former president trump is suing "the new york times," three of its reporters and for good measure his niece mary trump over a story about his tax history. the daily beast reports it this way. a lawsuit alleges that the newspaper convinced mary trump to smuggle records out of her attorney's office and turn them over to "the times" despite her having signed a confidentiality agreement in 2001. mary trump on her own part released a statement tonight that says, quote, i think he is a loser and he is going to throw anything against the wall he can. it's desperation. there is also extraordinary reporting out tonight from "the new york times" about the trump campaign and efforts to prove false claims of election fraud. you may recall trump lawyers rudy giuliani and sydney powell insisting the election company dominion working with another company, smartmatic to steal the election from trump. here's what they said on november 19th of last year. >> what we're really dealing with here and uncovering more by the day is the massive influence of communist money through venezuela, cuba and likely china in the interference with our elections here in the united states. >> this is not a singular voter fraud in one state. this pattern repeats itself in a number of states, almost exactly the same pattern. i think the logical conclusion is this is a common plan, a common scheme. it comes right directly from the democrat party and it comes from the candidate. >> communist money and dripping brown goo. "the times" reports the trump campaign knew that it was a lie before giuliani and powell made those allegations. again, that was on november 19. paper says the campaign had prepared an internal memo before that date indicating those claims were untrue. meanwhile, the actual winner of the 2020 election made his first speech as president before the u.n. general assembly today. even with all the recent challenges to biden's foreign policy, his message to the u.n. was very different from what we had heard from his predecessor. >> we've ended 20 rears of conflict in afghanistan. and as we close this period of relentless war we're opening a new era of relentless diplomacy. we are not seeking a new cold war or a world divided into rigid blocks. the united states is ready to work with any nation that steps up and pursues peaceful resolution to shared challenges. >> biden continued his focus on foreign policy when he got back to washington and the oval office where he held a meeting with u.k. prime minister boris johnson. with that, let's bring in our front line guest on this tuesday night. lisa lair, national political correspondent for "the new york times." dr. irwin redlener for disaster preparedness at columbia, also professor of pediatrics at albert einstein college of medicine. and john meacham is back with us as well, pulitzer prizewinning author, he occasionally advises the president on historical matters and major speeches. his new podcast, by the way, is called "it was said" and the newest installment importantly looks at some of the most important speeches in the history of sports and our society. good evening and welcome to you all. and lisa, i'd like to begin with you. we asked a few democrats today about what they view as plan "b" if indeed the vote goes down as the debt ceiling is not raised and the government is shutdown. we'll sample that and discuss on the other side. >> what is the plan "b"? >> we're not going to let them off the hook. >> well, the plan "b" is there's no plan "b." you've got to pay your bills. >> what's the plan "b"? >> then that's on the republicans. >> so lisa, very direct question. what do they do? >> well, quite a situation. this is not the omproblem facing the administration and democrats right now. they have very deep dweeds over the center piece of biden's domestic agenda this expansive $3.5 trillion economic package. the bipartisan infrastructure bill has not been finalized or signed into law. you have issues at the border. you have his immigration agenda was dealt a major setback this week with senate parliamentarians saying it couldn't be included in that economic package. so what you really see is that the biden administration's domestic agenda is hanging by a thread right now in the first year of his administration. of course his political capital the highest it's going to be. and on top of that the issue of the debt ceiling which could cause catastrophic economic effects. we've had shutdowns before. we've never had a government shutdown in the middle of a pandemic and i think that's what's scaring a lot of people in congress and outside of congress and just sort of normal americans trying to get through a rather uneven economic situation right now. >> so john meacham, the challenges are many. we've just been talking about domestic policy. foreign policy was on the president's agenda today post botched withdrawal from afghanistan. and to top it all off using the parlance of diplomacy we managed to piss off france. what do you make of the state of his presidency right now? >> i think democracy is hanging by a thread. it's not just the president's agenda. and i don't mean to be hyperbolic but just look at the clinical facts of the matter. we have a country that you just reported that the previous president attempted to lie and scheme his way to overturning the constitution. that's one. and that wasn't even your first story, right? you have a significant number of people who call themselves republicans believing that they would rather put their faith in an authoritarian rather than the constitution. they are in flight from fact. they are in flight from truth, privileging the will to power over the checks and balances and inherent imperfections and compromises of a constitutional order. and so i think this is a lot bigger than a political who's up, who's down question. president biden was elected 81 million people, sent him to the pinnacle of power to try to see if democracy can deliver, if democracy can work in an era of weaponized propaganda, in a domestic sense, high anti-immigration sentiment, corrosive identity politics, which all of which are perennial forces in american life, but which are flowing at such a pace right now that to torture the metaphor a bit, the waters are about to jump the levee. and so i think that what i hope we're going to see here is that if you're out there and if you want to see democracy work, what you need to do is get on the phone and get on the e-mail and tell republican senators that you want this financial problem taken care of, and then you can fight about whether you want to spend "x" amount of money or "y" amount of money. i really do believe this is democracy's hour of maximum danger. >> well, with that in mind dr. redlener, over to your expertise and the ongoing pandemic. and i want to quote for you dr. lina wen. she is to cnn what you are to us. she's the former commissioner in the city of baltimore and she writes this. just as vaccinated people are making different decisions about their risk tolerance to every day activities, they should be able to choose whether they want the added protection of the third dose. so doctor, noting that people of means and access are already getting their own third doses, in your view if we could put government aside for a moment, should adults be able to choose? >> well, brian, i don't think really it's a matter of sort of a personal choice. this is a matter of what works and what doesn't work and what is the health community suggesting or recommending. and i just want to say just listening to lisa and john, i'm amazed about this fact which is that the president and the white house and the country are dealing with massive issues that affect our economy, affect our foreign relations and as john just said affect the stability of our democracy. and all things considered in that case i'm looking at the covid pandemic as relatively straightforward, nowhere near as complex as the issues the other two panelists have just brought up. the reality is that besides the fact there are these crazy unprecedented arguments about how to proceed with a scientific challenge, having governors forbidding people to wear a mask and inhibiting the mandated vaccines, it's just too straightforward to put even in the same category as trying to save our democracy or rescue the american presidency from the crises that he's experiencing domestically and internationally. so long answer to your question is but, look, if the scientist community, if dr. fauci, cdc, fda and your doctors say, yeah, get a third dose -- which means especially for older people or people with all kinds of immunocompromise, get the third dose. at some point it may or may not be available and recommended to the general population. but in the meantime i don't know what basis a person who's not a medical professional is going to make that decision in any case. >> so lisa, the conversation comes back to you. john's comments alone could be the center piece of their own hourlong broadcast. and his comments on the thread that our democracy is hanging on are thought out and as scary as they are thought out. given that just microcosm down to tomorrow. president meet with democrats. the president has nothing left but to plead his case. what's at stake tomorrow? >> well, his entire -- as i said earlier his entire domestic agenda. as straightforward as the good doctor was saying the pandemic was, getting this massive piece of economic legislation through congress is exactly the opposite. it's very, very complex. and what biden is trying to do here is ambitious. he's basically trying to do the new deal or great society program not over several years or piecemeal but in one fell swoop. the administration sees this as their best shot. they're looking at his approval ratings which have gone down a bit in the last couple of weeks and they're aware of the congressional rules that make it tough for -- and the constraints of their narrow majorities in congress. and what he's going to be arguing is that this is the democrats' best chance to get something done, that this is a popular unifying pose of legislation and that frankly democrats need to do it so they can have something to run on in mid-term elections that are going to be pretty tough for them and also to make good on their campaign promises. but what i think the party is confronting is divides that have been really brewing since 2016 or before when you had hillary clinton up against bernie sanders and the split between the more moderate wing of the party and the more progressive wing of the party that just doesn't see eye to eye on some pretty significant issues like taxes, like spending, like climate change. and, you know, solving these things and finding consensus in the next week or so seems really tough. >> so john meacham, let's switch things up and take a question to you from irving's area of eshper tease. and a question about something that was spotted in nashville that made the rounds today on social media. electronic sign outside the country store. there at the bottom it says force a shot on us, we force a shot on you. the final frame says "the final variant is communism." to that the memphis holler wrote today in case you missed it we have the highest transmission rate of covid per capita. our hospitals are bursting at the seams, 95% of folks occupying bed because they refuse to get shot, and we have permitless carry here, too. so, john, as a proud and loyal tennesseean who spends part of your time as a coastal elite is the problem here that the coastal elites aren't spending enough time in red american country to see this sentiment on a daily basis and just how thick it is? >> it's thick in every sense, right? it's thick in that it's not rational. and it's not a matter of understanding red america, going as if you're going to the south seas to learn that the country is in the grips of, again, not unprecedented in kind but unprecedented i would argue in degree since the 1850s. and i use that analogy very, very advisably because we know how the 1850s ended. they ended in bloodshed. they ended in cataclysm. and i'm not predicting armed conflict here. but i do think we have to take a pretty deep breath here and think about the -- what's genuinely at stake. you have almost half the country -- and that number proportionately rises in my part of the country -- that simply don't believe self-evidently in the give-and-take of a democratic republic. they want their way, and if they don't have their way they will deny reality that is in any kind of opposition to what they think. which, i would argue to my fellow southerners and others is ahistorical. it's not america. reason would have a chance against passion in the arena because otherwise why are governments instituted? governments are instituted because all of us are basically wired by evolution to take as much as we can, right, or we wouldn't be here because our ancestors would have been killed along the way. we are the products of very successful predators in an evolutionary setting, right? and if you go to a state of nature and that political philosophy, there's a state of nature where the war of all against all, where we're fighting each other for everything we can get. and then one of the processes of civilization was that liberty under law, we would constrain ourselves in order to preserve a broader sense of security. all the stuff that -- the idea, brian, we're sitting here in september 2021 and i'm giving a podded lecture on hobbs and locke is a really, really terrifying thing. but what you saw on that sign-in nashville is heading toward a state of nature, not heading toward the mediation of differences. and i'd just in conclusion here, this is on us. this is on we, the people. because democracies are counter intuitive. because we're driven by appetite and ambition. that's what we are as human beings. and democracy is about seeing each other not as rivals but as neighbors. we do not see each other as neighbors in america at this hour. and if we don't, maybe we aren't worthy of this democracy. and maybe that's a question we really, really need to stare in the face, not worry again about this bill and that bill. but are we, in fact, mature enough as a people to govern ourselves? 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>> yeah, 100%. look, this is an attempt to overthrow the peaceful transition of power which is the essence of democracy. the key element of democracy is someone has to be willing to lose and republicans have decided they're for democracy when they win and they're not for it when they lose, which means they're not for democracy. if you don't let this slide, if you don't get to the truth, if you don't hold people accountable, it's a cancer. and it will eat at our democracy, and i think john meacham was absolutely right about the grave state that democracy is hanging. republicans had a chance to hold trump responsible, and they didn't. and i think it's a moment like the munich accord. chamberlain was a much more well-intentioned person. but the ramifications of it are stunning. they have to get to the truth. >> do you agree with jon's sense of urgency, stuart? >> yeah, i think jon might even be an optimist here. the republican party is an actively anti-democrat, autocratic force in america. and it blows my mind i'm saying that after all the years i burked in the party, but those are the stone-cold facts. jon laid it out. the official position of the republican party is that donald trump was the legally elected president, which means we don't have a legally elected president, which means we don't live in a democracy which means we're in an occupied country. and as jon pointed out the last time that happened was around 1860, and how'd that work out? i think we all have this great desire for normalcy now. we have a normal president. hares sort of looked normal. but if we allow ourselves to think this moment is normal it's going to be catastrophic because the people who are autocrats in this country, they're organized. they're patient. they're not stupid. they have these buffoonish characters out front but they're not buffoonish. and they think they're going to win. if we don't fight them, come together and put aside these purity tests and democrats have to really challenge themselves here. this is a character test for democrats. republicans failed their character test, but democrats have to be willing to come together and put aside differences and fight for democracy because they're really the last best hope we have here. >> juanita, i've never heard a better setup for you to see -- are they up for the fight as seen by jon and stuart? >> in the halls of congress youtd both mccarthy and mcconnell vote against a commission that was negotiated within their own republican conference to get to the truth of what happened on january 6th, and so democrats and speaker pelosi took it upon herself to launch a select committee, right? they're already doing that. i think what comes next, though, is critical to the success of what we can discover in the selects committee. and that's why representative schiff already said we're jumping straight subpoenas because we're not trying to waste time with people who will be resistant to abiding by or responding to this. and schiff knows what he's talking about based on responses he got issued in previous impeachment trials where trump administration officials just ignored it essentially. and so now with this white house, with this doj that are already encouraging trump officials to cooperate with congressional inquiries, hopefully we get somewhere. and as chairman thompson said this is about getting not only to the truth of january 6th but making sure it never happens again. i think you mentioned it briefly, brian, the fbi has said there's been a massive increase in the number of domestic terrorist threats, let's be real, that stem from white supremacist themes that were on display januar 6th. and i don't see that going in the box anytime soon because these are folks emboldened by trump, rallied by trump and encouraged by trump to attack the capitol that day but to continue to make threats against our democracy and our country every other day. >> wow, it's a heavy night but i don't think our viewers expect a rom com at this hour anyway. both of these terrific guests have agreed to stay with us while we fit in a break. when we come back, we're going to talk a bit more specifically about democrats on capitol hill. k a bit more specifically about democrats on capitol hill welcome to allstate. where you can pay a little less and enjoy the ride a little more. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ now, get new lower auto rates with allstate. because better protection costs a whole lot less. you're in good hands with allstate. click or call for a lower auto rate today. your shipping manager left to “find themself.” leaving you lost. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire psst! psst! allergies don't have to be scary. matching your job description. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! flonase all good. what i've learned from so many years . . . . . . of living with hiv is to enjoy every moment. my name is hugo and i'm on biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment . . . . . . used for hiv in certain adults. it's not a cure, but with one small pill, biktarvy fights hiv to help you get to . . . . . . and stay undetectable. that's when the amount of virus is so low, it cannot be measured by a lab test. serious side effects can occur, including kidney problems and kidney failure. rare, life-threatening side effects include a build-up of lactic acid and liver problems. do not take biktarvy if you take dofetilide or rifampin. tell your doctor about all the medicines and supplements you take, if you are pregnant or breastfeeding . . . . . . or if you have kidney or liver problems, including hepatitis. if you have hepatitis b, do not stop taking biktarvy without talking to your doctor. common side effects were diarrhea, nausea, and headache. if you're living with hiv . . . . . . keep loving who you are. and ask your doctor if biktarvy is right for you. as we said the president's going to be meeting with house and senate democrats tomorrow in an effort to salvage his domestic agenda. but despite biden's campaign promises on issues like voting rights, gun control, progressives on the left worry they're going to be left out. "the new york times" writes it this way. as they look past the final push on $3.5 trillion spending bill the white house has made its policy priority, they are growing more concerned that mr. biden's actions will not be as bold as his tone at least when it comes to some of their key issues. still with us thankfully juanita tolliver and stuart stevens. juanita, devil's advocate here. you know the argument. you know people say to the left the jipalls of the world. did you like the trump years? because if you did you can have four more if you split the party. the margins in the house are so thin they can't afford anyone to get the sniffles on vote day. they can't pass anything in the united states senate including peach month, and joe biden may be the last best hope moderates and liberals in the democratic party have. >> look, brian, i'm hesitant to put this on progressives before looking at moderates first because let's remember the entire plan for the build back better agenda to be delivered to biden was a two-bill package that run on parallel tracks. that was the plan. biden even got in trouble for saying it out loud, but that has always been the instrumental plan for democrats. so my eye first goes to moderates of is this the road you want to take, causing intraparty fighting that could potentially blow up this agenda? 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it's pretty clear what republicans will do. if they win both they'll impeach biden. this is a serious stuff. and if you really believe that the country is at a crisis, if you really believe that we're at some sort of challenge of democracy, which i deeply believe. and i think a lot of democrats -- a lot of americans say but a lot of democrats say if you really believe that you will find a way to come together and to help president biden pass at least some big bill here. and not -- not fight over every last thing that you want in this bill. it's essential. at a certain point good government becomes good politics. and i think it's critical for democrats going into this next election to have a series of accomplishments of which this is the center piece. >> it is essential for us to have smart friends on this broadcast. and our viewers have just heard from two of them. our thanks to juanita tolliver and stuart stevens for their contributions tonight. coming up for us, the president promises he's going to get the situation along the southern border under control as a photo of americans rounding up humans ricochets around the world. it is among the topics we take on next. e topics we take on next. are you taking a statin drug to reduce cholesterol? 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the inhumane treatment of the haitian refugees is utterly sickening. i am tempted, charles, to ask if the -- if the horse with a man on his back will become the modern symbol of our immigration mess, the way things like the baton and the fire hose came to symbolize the struggle. >> right. but it is so big in this is -- it's tiresome to play this game but you have to play it and hard to call it a game. which is imagine these are white people. imagine not only these are white people and being chased and beaten with whatever these reigns or whatever what they look like were, it never would have happened. and imagine those are trump children and they wouldn't turn off the lights or give them blankets because they didn't need those sorts of things. the way we treat people in america who are not white, who are not privileged, who do have power, who do not have wealth whether they are migrants or whether they are residents of this country is deplorable. and it cannot be disconnected. you cannot disconnect the way they treat george floyd from the way they treat a haitian with two bags of food in his hand and just trying to get somewhere and get safe and eat it with chasing him around on a horse with reigns or whips or whatever this is. >> i was just think as we might have to edit the words of lazarus -- charles blow has been our guest tonight. again, to member of our audience the book is "the devil you know a black power manifesto" out now in paperback. charles, thank you as always. coming up for us the desperate race to save a 2,000-year-old towering national treasure. a 2,000-year-old towering national treasure ♪ when you hear 'cough cough sneeze sneeze' ♪ it's time for ♪ 'plop plop fizz fizz' ♪ alka seltzer plus cold relief, dissolves quickly... instantly ready to start working. so you can bounce back fast with alka-seltzer plus. ♪♪ i thought i was managing my moderate to severe crohn's disease. then i realized something was missing... ...me. my symptoms were keeping me from being there for her. so, i talked to my doctor and learned humira is the #1 prescribed biologic for people with crohn's disease. the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief in as little as 4 weeks. and many achieved remission that can last. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infections, including tuberculosis, and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common and if you've had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don't start humira if you have an infection. be there for you, and them. ask your gastroenterologist about humira. with humira, remission is possible. ♪♪ tonight... i'll be eating a buffalo chicken panini with extra hot sauce. tonight... i'll be eating salmon sushi with a japanese jiggly cheesecake. jolly good fire nas... yeah? 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