the constitution. this moment was spine-tinglingly, chillingly close to shredding the constitution because donald trump tried to subvert and corrupt the constitution and the department of justice. joining us now, one of the members of the judiciary committee, senator hirono of hawaii. thank you so much for joining us today. good evening, nicole. tell me what, to you, was the jaw on the table, i can t believe i m seeing this in black and white. well, the specificity of all the efforts by trump and mark meadows, his chief of staff, and others to overturn the election results. the fact that this is a president who totally abuses his power, abused his power, still wants to, he s not even the president, and to whom the rule of law did not apply. and so, this is yet another example of trump in action and trying to force an outcome that
focus on what the president mentioned when he met with the democrats yesterday, the areas we can support and get down to negotiating the amount. that s right. thanks for joining us this morning. senator hirono of hawaii. aloha to you. still a lot more to come on this sunday morning edition of velshi the results of the first extensive audit of america s national monuments are in. they are bound to surprise you and will help you answer the question what do martin luther king jr. and mermaids have in common? also the fascinating story of the first all black team to scale mount everest. plus diving into how immigration affects their lives. here is dr. daniel carlos hughes message to the biden administration about how to handle the migrants once they cross the border. president biden, what i would say is please, please do not break apart families that cross
that is how one white house senior adviser describes negotiations over a new social spending plan and hard infrastructure. how much and when remains a mystery. this is not a wish list why this is what the working families of this country want and the economy needs. the question is whether the democrats can come together and i think that we can to do what working families in this country want us to do. senator sanders making it clear how he sees the reconciliation bill. i ll ask senator hirono of hawaii. what she is willing to give up and what s not negotiable. with an economy on the ropes and a global pandemic to deal with, when he took office, we ll look at president biden s political pivot from candidate to president and what is motivating him to get the big packages passed.
taxpayer money as leverage and they don t want to face that, and so they just engage individual kind of what about this or what about that, and we should be focused on is on the president s actions and they re not able to do that. all right. senator hirono, i appreciate your time. thank you. aloha. and next, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, they have set their sights on a new target. michael bloomberg plans to bypass human beings. all he has to do is take out his checkbook. bypass human beings. bloomberg s adviser responds. plus president trump claimed victory in syria. so out front traveled to the region and finds the situation on the ground tells a much different story. our clarissa ward will be out front. at bayer,
two of your colleagues. what they say privately is very different from what they re doing publicly and saying publicly. i have a number of friends in the republican caucus in the senate and when i try to bring up the subject of the testimony of this week striking developments in the house, all of them have either changed the subject or simply said they d really rather not talk about it. senator, does that reflect your conversations with republicans, your colleagues right now as well? it certainly reflects what the republicans are doing and, frankly, what does it matter what they re saying in private if it doesn t comfort with what they re saying in public, and so there is a huge chasm between what they really think and what they re saying in public, so this is why, until the republican senators pay attention to what the president did which was to shake down the president of another country for his own political purposes using