great to have you back. that does it for me this hour, but you can always catch me weekends 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. and tomorrow craig melvin is going to sit down for an exclusive interview with vice president kamala harris on a new push to pass voting rights legislation. that is tomorrow on today and we ll have more on this hour here on msnbc. andrea mitchell reports starts next. c. andrea mitchell report looking to get back in your type 2 diabetes zone? once-weekly ozempic® can help. next oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! oh, oh, oh ozempic® is proven to lower a1c. most people who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. and you may lose weight. adults lost on average up to 12 pounds.
capitol, insurrectionists, who are running for office in various places. i wonder, does the white house feel at some point in the future, coming up toward 2022 or 2024, if they re going to need to deploy that same sort of rhetoric, that same sort of forcefulness again to remind folks of just what happened on january 6th and in their words, the threat to democracy that all of that still poses? i think it s fair to have that expectation based on my conversations with white house officials. don t expect president biden to engage rhetorically with donald trump the way that he did yesterday. but when it comes to the specific issue, then certainly i think that will be the case. you heard senator tim kaine on this network last hour say that he expects the senate to pass voting rights legislation by mlk day which is a fairly ambitious timeline. in order for that to happen, this is going to be a messaging battle on the part of elected democrats both in the white house and on capitol hill. and
that s what it s about. it s sad. it s a squandered opportunity. john: mitch mcconnell took aim at chuck schumer to pass voting rights legislation. the fact that violent criminals broke the law does not entitle democrats to break the senate. it is surreal to hear sitting senators invoke january 6th to justify, listen to this, to justify breaking rules to grab outcomes they have not earned. john: the filibuster rule which senator schumer wants to set aside to have a vote on this bill. yeah, look, it s proved politically useful, and in fairness to democrats what else do they have. in some ways they need donald trump more than trump republicans. this is what they hope to campaign on. you know, they were largely successful campaigning on that for joe biden in 2020. the question whether it s going
people familiar with the conversations. while several biden advisers say they recall the conversation differently. it s not sitting well with voting rights advocates and voters. they found his approach to be naive at best signaling the would you say saw this as an election challenge. this comes as 150 organizations signed a public letter yesterday pushing the president to pass voting rights legislation by what ever means necessary. we also saw congressman hank johnson from my neck of the woods and others get arrested yesterday while protesting for voting rights with the group black voters matter. that congressman, hank johnson of georgia joins me now along with my buddy, latosha brown, happy to see you congressman, free, this evening.
the first black american champion of the spelling wee. she won on the word murraya. m-u-r-r-a-y-a, which is a type of tree. this year marked the competition s return after the pandemic forced its cancellation last year for the first time since world war ii. this isn t her only title. avant-garde also holds three guinness world records for dribbling a basketball. she s amazing. doing a lot. fantastic. i love that so much. i love those. back to reality. the biden administration is renewing its push to pass voting rights legislation. president biden and vice president harris met with a delegation of civil rights leaders at the white house yesterday to discuss how to combat the wave of restrictive republican voting laws. civil rights activists argued