and i m sure you ve never done. okay. i m going to use a script tonight at the end of the hour written by kyle griffin for monday night s show that has gotten bumped all the way to wednesday because of the news. it s one of these wonderful stories about what a difference the presidency makes, the difference between joe biden and donald trump. and so, just, you know, get out of here, so, get yourself positioned and get ready to watch that. now three-day old kyle griffin script at the end of the hour. you sure know how to sell it. ha ha. no. and i want you to tell us tomorrow whether you think it worked, whether you think the shelf-life held. okay. i will report back, thank you lawrence. thank you, rachel. thank you. well, if there were a pulitzer prize for tweets i d nominate a tweet by washington post critic peter marks written at the end of the first week of november when we were on the verge of calling joe biden the winner of the election. in a tweet peter mar
once grand old party. last night on the eve of her removal she delivered a memorable speech why she refuses to take a knee. this is not about policy. this is not about partisanship. this is about our duty as americans. remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar. i will not participate in that. i will not sit back and watch in silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law and joins the former president s crusade to undermine our democracy. it was easterly quiet in the chamber when cheney gave that speech, which is just one member in attendance, congressman ted buck of colorado. the other republican lawmakers cleared out, perhaps lacking the guts to hear her out and to face her the night before taking out the long knives. and then today as house republicans led by trump s chief marionette, our puppet kevin, prepared to oust her as chair of the house gop conference republicans proved themselves to be not just weak but also childi
proposals. bottom line, nothing much changes from earlier in the day. i don t know why this took nine hours. the resolution is apparently that the covid relief deal will result in $300 a month boost $300 a week boost to unemployment benefits and that will be extended through the beginning of september, september 6th. that s pretty much the way things were going to be as of this morning be there are some tweaks in terms of the taxability of these benefits. it seems like small changes for a nine-hour delay. nevertheless, they seem to have broken through. we ll keep an eye on this and bring you more as news develops. we are expecting the session the senate to stay in session as they continue to fight these things out. the capitol building where all these senators are negotiating and voting tonight is still surrounded by thousands of national guard troops as it has been since the u.s. capitol attack on january 6th. even now, two months later, there are moments from the attack
electoral vote count from taking place on capitol hill. at 1500 i directed that the quick reaction force that was based at andrews air force base leave the base, get to the armory, at all speed. we put guardsmen on buses, brought them inside the armory so nobody would see them putting on the equipment and getting on the buses. then we just waited to get the approval. at 5:00, i decided, hey, you know, we ve got to there s got to be an approval coming so get on the buses, get the equipment on, get on the buses and just wait. and then a few minutes after that we did get the approval. based on my experience with the summer, and i have 39 years in the national guard, i was in the florida guard, hurricane andrew, been involved in civil disturbances. so i believe that number could have made a difference. we could have helped extend the perimeter and help push back the crowd. joining me msnbc justice correspondent pete williams, garrett haake on capitol hill, jamie ga relic fr
district attorney s office in georgia, is important stuff to put it mildly. that means they are in there, making their arguments about why he should not be criminally charged. yes, there s nothing that we can read, there s nothing that we can extrapolate directly. we can t say, this definitely means the investigation is at this, pointer that this is going to happen in the investigation, or this is not. but to the extent that the president s lawyers, have a lot to deal with right now given nine pending civil suits against him for january six. plus all the legal stuff that s happening with this business, all this stuff, for them to be taking in-person meetings, with this prosecutor s office, in december which is when we know at least one of these meetings happened. that is news, and it means that this might be a more concrete worry to them than we had previously understood. we will have neil conte all join us in a moment, i m going to hand him, that i m going to hand him yo