alexandria ocasio-cortez in a tweet account you of tanking on climate change, infrastructure, excluding members of color from negotiations. may i ask you to respond to that? i m not going to because i m laser focusing on advancing our legislation. she would not address legitimate criticism that not one of the people on the deal was a person of color. i guess that also helps explain why she s been paling around why republican senators and probably explains why she s refused to endorse a filibuster exemption. she was asked why she didn t think the right to vote was urgent enough to nuke the filibuster. especially when it targets black, brown, indigenous, and asian americans. it seems like it s an emergency right now that we get rid of the filibuster even though we might pay down the road, but if we don t have
what it is that the times is saying and what the white house is saying. and one of the reasons that this is so difficult to get an accurate read on, of course, is that we have a white house that seems very, very happy to almost legislate by tweet. when you are relying upon the president s tweet by tweet account for what is or isn t going on, it makes it very, very difficult to get an accurate read and give a fair assessment on either side, quite frankly. when you think about how dusty the white house press briefing room has become, it s hardly surprising that both the media and those of us who try to offer some analysis of this are finding it very difficult to get an accurate read of what s going on. so at this point we re in a standoff, if you will. clearly it seems as though key elements of this deal had been put in place by secretary nielsen back in the back end of 2018, and that what may or may not have happened is that there had been some movement with
tweet account twitter account during his overseas travels. what about the report that there s someone in the white house you know, all of these headlines coming out that maybe somebody in the white house is under criminal investigation? well, that s a rumor, but it certainly goes to the very top of the trump administration. so, again, i think mueller is the right person to pursue those leads. let s find out if there s any substance there. let s not jump to any conclusions. i told you i was talking with ted lieu a little earlier and he used the word chaos. i m sitting here and looking at you and having a moment. 17 years ago my first job was in springfield, illinois, your stomping grounds there. i remember covering you and you had such a busy agenda. we always talked about what was going on in washington, things were just so busy with the news of the day. and now here we are almost 20 years later and we re talking about, you know, the word chaos and what s going on with tr
unfortunately they re going to have to take their turn, in the final analysis, they re not going to come forward and talk to the american people until the american people demand it, and i suppose it s a good time for the president to leave town, because it s not getting any better here, and hopefully they ll convince him to put away his tweet account and get busy running the country. i m not sure how much you should wager on that, congressman. who do you want to see or i m on optimist. i m a cub fan. very funny. who do you believe will be the next director of the fbi? look, i have no clue what comes out of this white house. i believe what they should do is find somebody who is as apolitical as possible, a veteran prosecutor, and someone willing to tell the president of the united states the truth. i think if that discussion did take place, in which the
and he said absolutely not. today he reconfirmed that in a lighter moment. take a listen. well, first of all, i don t have a tweet account. but from what i hear, he s actual doing a pretty good job. so just to make that clear. he doesn t have a tweet account, so i think that pretty much seals the deal. the washington post, a lot of people ran with that but it s not ammon bundy. tony, thanks so much. for more, let s turn to jim cavanaugh, former atf special agent in charge and msnbc law enforcement analyst. good to see you again. hello, kate. we spoke about this yesterday and i feel like we re still in the same exact spot. last night, things got a little more tense. they moved in some heavy equipment. the protesters blockaded the entrance. do you think we re any closer to