of their border with the nato countries. so that is a very specific effort and i think that is kind of what we re doing is we re telegraphing a message right here that this is going to happen if you hit a certain milestone, some of the m milestones may not be known to the russians at this particular point. they only know if they hit those and that is kind of the way this is going to go forward. so we re answering there what we perceive to be their intransjens with this movement. should we see this as a different kind of telegraphic than what secretary of state blinken was saying just a few days ago, that talks are continuing at pace, we think they ve been productive and we re going to continue having talks. this seems very different. well, i think that blinken, the biden administration overall wants to send a message that this is not the obama administration of 2014, that tried to rely just on diplomacy.
i know how informed you are. i really want to understand what you are saying. you don t have inside knowledge that d.o.j. will take the path you just describe. but if they do what the attorney general testified to today was that he would apply the facts and follow the law. and it s your analysis that if you apply the facts and follow the law, he will be criminally prosecuted? exactly. i think it is just too hard to do anything else. in the last administration when you had some joker attorney, maybe. even then it would have been hard. here i find it virtually impossible that given what bannon is doing, his intransjens in simply refusing to tell the truth under oath coupled with the seriousness of what this evidence is and the seriousness of the investigation, it s just incredibly hard to do anything else. just putting myself in that chair it doesn t matter whether
buster is long overdue. it goes without saying any conversation to remove the filibuster for the sake of the debt ceiling could ramp up pressure for other priorities that republicans already vowed to simply obstruct. we will start today with some of our most favorite reporters and friends. alexi mchavens is here. also, luke broad water. and steve schmidt is here. steve, i want to start with you. what would mitch mcconnell do. well, mitch mcconnell would use all the power at his disposal to press forward and to achieve this strategic political goal to achieve his agenda. and i think the democrats have to face up to the intransjens of the republican majority in this way and separate out the issues to two categories. and there are two issues that are moral issues.
into the pandemic, parts of america are essentially back to square one with vaccine rejectors holding americans who did the right thing hostage with their intransjens and with republican politicians denying protection for the newest vulnerable population, our nation s children. across the country and principally in the south, the delta variant that s ravaging communities has hospitals stretched to their limits in florida, georgia, louisiana and arkansas. texas has its fewest icu beds since the pandemic began. the search coincides with the start of the school year in parts of this country. and while california today became the first state to require vaccination or weekly testing for teachers, republican governors ron desantis and greg abbott of texas have doubled down on their ludicrous and dangerous mask mandate bans. but even in states where school boards are empowered to put in masking requirements, things are going south, so to speak. in tennessee, health officials are warning that
late. but, you know, there is that intransjens on the other side that there are people on the right that are rejoicing because these people are dead, because they re journalists. and somehow we have got to find a way to overcome that. that s just disgraceful. i hope that s not the case. i certainly haven t seen anyone rejoicing over this, this morning, but this is an environment where the media has been called by the highest office the enemy of the american people. andy sure, and that s what he does. he enables this kind of this kind of violence to take place. andy parker, thank you for joining me this morning. we all remember alison. thank you. thank you so much. attorneys say that undocumented toddlers, 3-year-olds, are being ordered to appear in court for these deportation proceedings. a lawyer who represented a