You have yourself a great weekend. See you next week. Thanks, alI. Do you hear that sound . Its fate. Its the sound of a lIttle bIt of hope because Its been a week of actIon and substantIve breakthroughs In the fIght to protect amerIcan rIghts to vote. And democrats are hopIng to buIld on that momentum. In her fIrst full Week VIce PresIdent Kamala HarrIs has been busy. Shes traveled to atlanta, Ground Zero In the republIcan effort to subvert democracy to meet wIth georgIas new democratIc senators, Congresswoman Akeema wIllIams and VotIng RIghts advocates to dIscuss ways to combat the States Gop Voter suppressIon actIvItIes. One of the advocates In that meetIng wIll joIn us In a moment, but heres how the VIce PresIdent descrIbed the meetIng. ThIs Is the bIrthplace of the cIvIl RIghts Movement In amerIca and you have leaders who stand on the shoulders of those who came before who are actIve In fIghtIng for all peoples rIghts. So we talked about, for example, the need that rural voters ha
Tonight the abject republican surrender imperilling democracy, then, why Mitch Mcconnell is feeling heat after his brush with honesty. 100 of my focus is on stopping this new administration. Plus, how did the federal Elections Commission let Donald Trump off the hook for the criminal conspiracy that sent to prison, i will ask federal Elections Commissioner ellen winetrout. Why theres genuine alarm with the economic recovery after todays Jobs Report. All in starts right now. Good evening, im cHris hayes, the Republican Party tried to sell both its base and the country ceo capitalism, the freer the market with Paul Ryan and mitt romney. Perpetual global war with John Mccain and george w. Bush, and No One now wants any of it. The party landed on Donald Trump. That is who the base chose. They do not have an alternative other than him. While theres a lot of debate about the future of what the Post Donald Trump Republican Party should look like, which is the heart of the fight between Liz Ch
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summer friday. really extraordinary, like the thunder south of manhattan overnight. the thunder out of washington. i know we are talking china, but the republicans simply went down in flames yesterday. no other way to put it. jonathan: it doesn t look good not having a deal before the weekend. you need some kind of agreement within republicans for the weekend. we might not see it until monday. not just the size difference between republicans and democrats. if it is just size, we can work some thing out. but if it s concepts, we got a struggle. i think we ve got a struggle on enhanced on it limit benefits. if this economy and the recovery is still constrained and people can t go back to work because these industries can t normalize, then you have got to have a trade-off. if you want to remove those benefits, here is the trade-off. you are going to have softer consumption through summer. tom: and big business this week, you see it in diminished revenues. it is a number you coul
implications for monetary policy but the implications for fiscal policy. moree longer we wait, the institutional damage. michael collins joining us. i think that was the first question everyone asked when this job support dropped, what do these numbers mean for the talks in d.c.? michael: i don t think these numbers have any impact. they are backward looking to a large extent. the survey period ended weeks ago. the is important is trajectory of job growth over the next couple quarters. personally, it will be really sluggish. we have had a big rebound, a and part of that rebound is over, and it will be really tough. you have the expiration of some of these programs like ppp, unemployment benefits, and that is going to weigh on income and spending. until theyy not act have a gun to their head. are doing well, ostensibly, the markets are improving, they are dragging their feet. negativewill take more data for them to act in unison. jonathan: in this market, it is not pushing any