president biden, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, taking a victory lap after the nearly $2 trillion pandemic relief package officially became law. what you shepherded through the congress, not only meets the moment. it does even more. it is historical and they call it transformational. and it really is. all right. so in just a moment, we ll be speaking with andy, the white house senior adviser for covid response to talk about where things stand, what comes next, of course. the other major breaking news story that is developing this hour. we will be hearing from the family of george floyd, reacting to the minneapolis city council s approval of a $27 million settlement over his death as the client for floyd s murder continues. we want to begin this hour and this conversation with minnesota democratic senator tina smith. thank you. so for your time. we greatly appreciate you joining us on these two very important stories that we re dealing with. we ll start with what we just saw
presidency of joe biden for instance. we saw that on the 6th of january. that s why we have to have a commission on january 6th to investigate this because these groups are there. they re plotting against the government, but on the 6th of january there s every sign that the sitting president of the united states, at that time donald trump, abetted this, may have planned it, may have been in touch with leaders of it like the proud boys, may have turned over the powers of the executive branch to make sure that these people were not stopped, and the result could have been, as you know, an assassination or a hostage crisis or the suspension of joe biden s election. the difference is, of course, now we have joe biden as president. he s not on the side of these terrorists, donald trump was. so even though you have a president who is presumably trying to stop things like this from happening, these groups exist and you have got, by some polls as you well know, a majority of republicans telling
lobbied republican senators here within capitol hill within the last week of trying to get them to support this legislation, even she could not get them to move forward. so then as far as where this goes, the issue is not going away even if this bipartisan independent commission does not continue as it currently stands. we are looking to see if house democrats would bring about a select committee to go it alone, to pursue an investigation and probe the incidents surrounding january 6th in a partisan way. they would have subpoena power, move things forward on a partisan basis. well, you cued it up right there. we will ask that of the house democrat next. joining us now is democratic congressman steve cohen of tennessee. congressman, good morning. good to see you. thank you. nice to be with you this morning. so, senator mitch mcconnell has said we don t need a commission on january 6th because the fbi is looking into it, there are several dmits looking into it. is yours one of th
they are told don t intercede. can you walk into home depot and walk out with a power tool and nobody will do anything. laura: nothing. the bad guys know it. laura: what about a commission to investigate why crime is sweeping the country? we have a commission on january 6th. i would love to see that. we have had a ton of january 6th in the year 2020 that no one rockefeller plaza. remembers. victims are traumatized with the violence going on in certain parts of minneapolis where the gun violence this past week has changed lives forever. three young kids here. we focus so much on one date not looking at all of the other cities that have been impacted severely by all of the events