previous 500 perhaps, it s been the word of the day so often, but rachel, our first guest tonight is really unique in american presidential history because our first guest and i m opening this to you and the audience to guess who this is has been an adviser now to three real president s and one fictional president. and he is now an adviser to joe biden. the fictional president, by the way you know me, i don t yes, come on. big hint, the fictional president was, of course, jed bartlett on nbc the west wing and our first guest was a consultant, adviser to that fictional presidency, and three real ones. clinton, obama, and now biden. take your time. we have all night. no. no, not going to do it. this isn t jeopardy!. you have all night. lawrence, would it profoundly affect our friendship, like even retroactively if i told you that i ve never seen the west wing ? no, because that s true of most people, and this is something that people in television don t
the legislation is a culture war battle plan, including limits to abortion access and strange under care and eliminating old diversity, equity and inclusion offices at the pentagon. and when it comes to the culture wars, some folks just cannot help saying the quiet part out loud. and it has nothing to do with whether not colored people or black people or anybody can serve, okay? it has nothing to do with mister speaker. any of that stuff. what in the bowl, connor? arizona congressman eli crane s descriptor was stricken from the congressional record and he did ask for his remark to be amended to people of color, climbing in a later statement that he quote misspoke. but his comments came at the tail end of an impassioned speech detailing how diversity efforts weekend the military. the house and the eight will be dead on arrival and aligns in the senate, where democrats hold the majority. that means whatever comes out of the senate will have to be hashed out in a confe
over delivering. so this was a distinct change, i think, in messaging and sort of represents a noof phase according to some of the people i talked to who are responsible for the vaccine rollout. i think numbers wise, yeah, it s totally possible when you start to look at the amount of vaccine that s available, look from moderna, pfizer, johnson & joh johnson, getting the vaccines into people s arms, and also into hard-to-reach communities. it s not a slam dunk. i think the vaccine itself will be available but to make sure people actually can have access to it, people who want it can have access, it s still a question mark. i also think that the idea then that they say by july 4th we re going to have this ability to basically, as he s describing, this return to normalcy. again, i think it s very doable. it seems very realistic, but this is a different sort of change in messaging from this white house. i was going to ask you, sanjay, what you think the major obstacles are in t
everyone, he doesn t have to focus on recent hess in the congress, which not everyone is worried about day to day, but connecting, as you say, with the support that s out there. yeah. and it will force us out of this box too of measuring whether he is successful in getting bipartisan policies through by looking to where the support is coming from. and if you have support from republican governors and you have support from republican mayors and you have support, i think more than 50% of republicans in the country support this package, then it s impossible to deny him the accomplishment of governing in a bipartisan way. yeah, all great points. i was curious what s on your mind going into this. nice to see you, my friend. thank you. thank you. i want to welcome everyone to the beat. i am ari melber. we have a special show planned for you tonight. a live interview right here on the beat with white house secretary jen psaki. that s coming up tonight. meanwhile, joe
by our president as we join with him in promising that help is on the way. this is one of the most consequential pieces of legislation we have passed in decades. and you know what we can show america that we can get things done to make their lives better. this is what it looks like. three democrats basically run the levers of government in washington now, the congressional leaders as you heard there and president biden. and on this they re united on the import of landmark legislation to fund covid testing, vaccines, and health care while trying to juice the economy and fortify budgets around the nation. they have bipartisan wind at their back. fully 75% of americans and 59% of republican voters back this biden/schumer/pelosi project. in other words, millions of trump supporters now back president biden s first big priority in office while their own elected leaders seem out of step. not a single republican elected official voted for the bill today in the house. the preside