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he is no longer a member of congress. >> no, absolutely not. he, first of, all he left congress as he came. and basically he made this whole thing a joke. no one takes him seriously. he lied, cheated, stole his way through an election. he was elected as a complete fabrication and ally. he lied to the american public. he is facing very serious federal counts. the house finally did a bipartisan thing by coming together and expelling him. it is a rare moment, i, think of bipartisanship, but we came together and at the right thing. >> let's be clear about something, he stole from campaign donors, including a donor who was a member of congress. this guy, i, mean he puts the capital g angle. i'm going to switch gears and talk about the committee that you sit on, and that is the house oversight committee. sheriff james comer is using this to hunt for damaging dirt on the president, son hunter biden. like those treasure hunters use those pitiful wants to find whatever it is they're looking for on the beach. why did comer rejects hunter biden's offer to testify publicly before the committee, to answer all the questions they say they want answered. republicans, i mean. >> look, james comer has been a ridiculous and ineffective chair of the committee. the reason why he doesn't want hunter biden to actually go public is because he has no evidence. there's been zero evidence against the president from day one. every single witness that james comer is trying to bring before the committee has either fled the country, been a spy, hasn't showed up, has lied, or been discredited. there's actually zero evidence of any business deals with the president. james comer knows that. he wants to impeach the president for no reason whatsoever. so if hunter biden calls his bluff, he says, absolutely, i will testify. i will do it in public. now james comer refuses to do so. it's a sad day for the committee. james comer, honestly, is an embarrassment to our committee. but hunter biden should come in and adjustable and publicly. >> despite everything you just said, speaker johnson made it clear later in the week that, yeah, i think there are votes to officially start an impeachment inquiry against the presidents. what evidence, what evidence will republicans be voting on two base an affirmative vote to allow such a sham and a farce to proceed? >> there is no evidence. we've made that clear over and over. all the evidence that the republicans brought forward are essentially just woody giuliani conspiracy theories. this is a tinfoil hot committee of just a bunch of conspiracy theories with zero evidence. this is all about electing donald trump. they are obsessed with reelecting the earth or terry and leader of their party, who's going to be the nominee. they want to essentially damage the president's reelection challenges. we're not going to let them do. that we're going to call them, i'll continue to call out donald trump for all the lies he's cause. >> congressman, thank you very. much i want to bring in vases michael junior, democratic strategist and director of the public policy program at hunter college, former new jersey governor, christine todd whitman. thank you both very much for coming to the sunday show. governor, let me start with. you republicans are in disarray. is it ousting george santos with his many faults just low hanging fruit? >> no, i mean, it was pretty obvious he had to go. everything he said in his campaign prove to be false, or 99% of it. so he misled the voters. they didn't know what they were getting, and then he's behaved in a way that, well, it's hard to say anything is unbecoming of the congress these days because you have so many who act in really strange ways, but i think it was good that the republicans came together. republicans and the democrats came together and said enough is enough. they threw him out. >> basil, great, they got rid of george santos, can they do the budget next? do we view this as, you know, things are getting back to normal? or is it, they had to get rid of him because otherwise his chaos is a distraction from all the other chaos? >> both can be true, although i don't think the first one, is they don't know if we'll get back to normal. i think that there is a normal every, day but at least the if you're republican, you can say lucky or this destruction or move on to another way to stretch in america from things that are going on in this country. for democrats and republicans that want to see a deal on this budget get done, i think it's more, it's obviously important for both parties to do, this but republicans, why do you want to stretch this out until the primaries early next year? you've got iowa right before this deal could be expired, and you've got the new hampshire a few days after that. why drug out this conversation to hurt your own nominee, your own candidates? i don't understand, but there are a lot of other candidates i don't understand, they are strategically, it does not make sense. this is a good opportunity for there to be some democratic representation on long island now the sentence is gone. >> governor whitman, i'm wondering, given everything that we were just talking about swift congressman garcia, about the impending impeachment inquiry vote, i'm wondering, what do you make of speaker mike johnson saying that the votes are there? is this something that the house of representatives should be doing? do you, have you seen any evidence that what substantiate a formal impeachment inquiry of president biden? >> well, i certainly haven't seen anything, today but you know what, we have to live wars going on. we have four enemy countries with nuclear weapons company was happening in this country. we're heading towards a budget crisis. there are a lot of things that need to be worked on that are serious issues for the american people. i mean, we have homelessness, climate change, we have all sorts of things going on, and that's where congress should be focusing its intention, not something like this impeachment, which as we, know is going to drag on forever. there is been no credible evidence brought to the committee or the chairman. even the chairman is desperate to find anything, because all the witnesses that he thought were going to be the ones that were going, 20, this is a smoking, gun they're going to tell us everything, there was nobody there. his own, people the people he call, they didn't have any substantive evidence to say that this was worthy of this kind of consideration of an impeachment. it's a waste of the public's time, and doing damage to us as we hurdle forward through all these crises that we have that are been ignored. in favor of the political power grabs that are still going on. >> let me stick with you, governor whitmer, because you bring up an absolutely right, true, excellent point. all of the problems that you listed or things that washington should be working. on congress should be working on. and yet, the republican majority just seems hell-bent on not addressing them. i'm wondering, do you think, because they come from safe districts where a lot of their constituents send them to washington to burn the place down, that is actually what their end goal is? >> i think they're real end goal is staying in power, and that's what it's about. it's not about any policy, anything, it's about stain power, and part of that means, as a republican, in a red district, you've got to be really concerned about the far-right. that's the only way you're going to lose your seat. i mean 98% return right to congresswoman, congresses approval rating is around 25%, is that high. i mean, it speaks to the fact that we need real, fundamental change in our process, that's why the forward party which i'm co-chair with, is striving to give people back a voice, particularly in those districts where you don't have a choice. 70% of elected offices across the country, there are 5000 of them, 70% are single choices. the voters don't have a choice, there's only one candidate running, that's wrong. >> i see you're nodding in agreement, i'm going to give you a chance to respond, and in the closeout -- >> i think that's absolutely right, this incumbency, write the 98%, it's the disincentive in many cases to work across the aisle. this is disincentive to be showing leadership on some issues, but that's not true for everyone. congressman, you, know has identified this job, you have leaders that do really good work, become these policy political entrepreneurs that take a lot on the shoulders to push to good policy. but, as we said, before you have charlatans like george santos that are avatars parole that's wrong in congress. >> congressman, you're the only one on the show right now that actually goes to that building to work almost every day. y'all are out of session, allot am i right in thinking that the republican majority that's there today, republicans who aren't like the republicans i remember from the time when governor whitman was in office, are they there specifically, not only to hold power, but to wreck washington, to burn it down, metaphorically? >> that's exactly why they're there, the republican party, this party is the party of matt gaetz, lower boebert, and george santos. those of the folks that have been empowered by their leadership to drive the republican, and the far-right, maga agenda. maga extremists are who control washington d.c. the house of representatives right now. they have no interest in real governing, their interest and destroying social security, destroy medicare. now they want to go back to destroy obamacare, once again. they want to destroy or institutions, they have no interest in governing, and no interest in actually supporting the american people. this whole debate about the budget which is so important, there are real lives at stake. we're talking about millions of people that depend on the federal paycheck, dependent benefits for their families, depend on services for the federal government's. all that mike johnson the speaker, and his cast of clowns, characters want to do, is destroy the government, and reelect on to trump's president. that's what's gotta start. >> congressman garcia as always, thank you so much for coming to the sunday show. >> thank you. >> up next, new jersey governor, christine todd whitman, they'll stick around for our next conversation about the bigger issue here. that is the threat trump poses to democracy, and the key republican ringing the alarm bell. this, and much, mark coming up on the sunday show. this, and much, mark coming p on the sunday show on the sunday show >>my car insurance and i saved hundreds. with the money i saved, i started a dog walking business. oh. 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>> yes, it does, absolutely. we know trump supports, first of, all let me just, say i don't think there is a republican party, there is a cult around donald trump. they didn't adopt a platform in 2020, which meant that they didn't set out what they stood for, it was whatever donald trump tells us we should stand for today, that's what we'll stand for. it's not a party as we have known it's. that is, believe what he says. he says what he's going to do, believe him. he will terror down the very guardrails of our democracy, the things, the rule of, law the respect for the constitution. i, mean that's going to go with, him because he said he's going to do. it no one should question that. he means what he says. >> he means what he, says and i've made it a point to tell people, you know, he's telling us exactly what he will do if he's reelected in 2024, so given that, given the warnings from the likes of kagan, and liz cheney, if the election were held today, it would be a nail-biter. the question, is why? >> my over are keen answer to that one is that the country is not where we thought it was. right? there are a lot of people who felt, you, know even with some skepticism, that we were not, that we were in this post racial america after barack obama got elected, clearly not the, case clearly with his election when it was backlash, and the fact, is a lot of us expected the backlash to come, because anytime this progress, particularly people, color african americans, substantial backlash. we saw come in. if you remember 2016, donald trump was on those stages, going after reporters, calling them out by name, something we have not really seen before. we had seen the sort of elemental nihilism coming from donald trump way back when. when you put all that together now, it's a nail-biter because there are still people who believe in his ability to drain the swamp and connect ethnic nationalism with economic nationalism. the problem with that among so many problems was that, as liz cheney, said slow walking us to democracy. dictatorships,. ari dictatorship. on the democratic side, the challenge that people have is that even though joe biden is seen as the bigger problem, is that he has a way of politics, and politicking, that a lot of young voters don't really buy into today. i understand that to some extent. the bigger problem is that there is a challenge with the overall narrative of our capitalist society, and a lot of people are not getting that american dream that they said that they have the ability to get. but that in, mind i do think this issue of dictatorship is going to keep driving people to the polls. >> we will, quickly because we are at a time, with project 2025, the heritage foundation is the danger to democracy, is it bigger than trump? no matter who the next republican president might be, there is a turnkey operation that will be at their disposal, and ready to go at 12:01 pm, january 20th, 2025. shouldn't be brought in this, trump is a threat, the threat is the party. >> the threat is trumpism, it is an every institution everywhere, in the country. it's not just demand, it's about all the loyalists that are in positions of power everywhere, that's the danger. >> we have to leave it. their boss is michael junior, my home state, christine todd whitman, thank you both very much for being, for coming to the sunday show. a quick programming note, be sure to tune in tomorrow night when liz cheney joins rachel maddow to discuss the state of the republican party, and the threat donald trump poses to democracy. watch the rachel maddow show tomorrow at nine pm eastern, right here on msnbc. coming up, israeli defense forces intensify their offensive in gaza as u.s. officials pressure prime minister benjamin netanyahu to protect civilians. i'll speak with vengeance, former deputy national security adviser on the president obama, after the break. after the break. after the break. >> ♪ i'm gonna hold you forever... ♪ ♪ i'll be there... ♪ ♪ you don't... ♪ ♪ you don't have to worry... ♪ yo. who. haha. 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>> not surprised. i think they go a little bit further than the administration is gone in the past. the dial is turning just a bit here. and the, past you've heard president biden and others talk about the need to follow international humanitarian law. now, they've added to the notion that too many palestinians, innocent palestinians, have been killed. i think the challenges, it's pretty clear that the israeli governments and its military operation is not really taking that message on board. i think the u.s. would've liked to have seen a longer pause, to get humanitarian aided, to see if there could be more negotiated releases. i think in particular, the u.s. is hoping that if the military operation resumed, it would not resemble the full scale of what was taking place before this recent pause. thus, far it does seem like israel is moving its operations south with largely the same scale as what it was doing before the pause. >> so, you know, ben, yesterday david was on the show. he made, given what you're saying, he made this stunning observation about israel and the united states. listen. >> let the biden administration is moving towards a possible break with israel on the way it conducts the remainder of this campaign. that's a big deal. if the united states says israel, openly, and it seems they've already said it privately, quietly, if they say openly, we don't find the way they are conducting this war acceptable, that's a major change in the balance. any israeli leader, including netanyahu, has to take very seriously. >> this observation was stunning to me because it was delivered by ignatius, who's been covering the region for decades. he was just in the region. because it was the first time i've heard the word break used these of the united states and israel. how likely is a break, especially since you setting your first dancer, it doesn't sound like law benjamin netanyahu is listening to these warnings from u.s. officials. >> i think it's possible, jonathan, but if you talk about, this the u.s. had, joe biden had a full embrace of israel after october 7th. full support, full solidarity. then, as the military operation began into became, i, think clear that some of the u.s. messaging in private was not being taken on board by netanyahu, you started to see the administration put out what they were saying in private. hey, there needs to be more concerned about civilian casualties. you need to do more to limit the death, destruction in gaza. jonathan, but i also look to is where is this going? there actually has already been a break in that joe biden has said that there should not be reoccupation of gaza. blinken has said that the palestinian authority should have control of gaza, or ministration of guys on the back of the conflict. does not what prime minister netanyahu said. he said israel is going to have to have some kind of open-ended security responsibility for gaza. prime minister netanyahu does not support the palestinian state. his government does not support a palestinian state. there already is a pretty significant -- when it comes to what is the endgame of this conflict. what is the endgame of this israeli military operation. the question is, what the u.s. will start to be more open and criticizing the conduct of the war, by the netanyahu government. that would be the break that would be a new development in the coming days. i think, jonathan, on the one hand, that's not how president biden likes to do things with israel. it's also the case that the administration is going to be looking in, and fighting for a very significant aide package to go to israel. that doesn't feel to me like something that would be a break. at the same, time the administration is managing the situation where the rest of the world is increasingly alarmed by the images out of, gaza by the death toll at a gaza. here at home, within the democratic party in particular, there is increasing concern about that. so president biden is trying to kind of navigate between his natural instinct to support israel publicly, and offer his advice privately, but the fact that there is very volatile international and domestic public opinion about this, and a very real difference with netanyahu about where this all ends up. >> yeah, i should point out that, to your, point administration officials been a little more public about what they're looking for in the west next. vice president harris gave a speech yesterday in the region, laying out the points that you just made, and a few more. may, putting it out there for the administration's position. ben rhodes, we are out of time. i really want to thank you very much for coming to the sunday show. >> thanks, jonathan. >> still to come, vice president kamala harris, along with other world leaders and dubai, for the annual climate summit as temperatures continue to rise at an alarming rate. i'll speak with former epa administrator, gina mccarthy, live from dubai, next. live from dubai, next. live from dubai, next. >> that orders fresh beans for you. oh, genius! for more breakthroughs like that- i need a breakthrough card. like ours! with 2.5% cash back on purchases of $5,000 or more. plus unlimited 2% cash back on all other purchases. and with greater spending potential, sam can keep making smart ideas- a brilliant reality! the ink business premier card from chase for business. make more of what's yours. today, heads a state from all over the world are in dubai for the annual united nations climate conference, also known as cop 28. it couldn't commit a more dire time. global temperatures are rising, threatening the world's 8.1 billion people with rising sea levels, wildfires, super storms, and worse. according to the u.n.'s weather agency, 2023 is all but certain to be the hottest year on record, with more extreme temperatures likely in the coming years. while at the conference yesterday, vice president harris not only warned of the dangers of climate change, but also, the dangers of inaction. >> joining us, now from dubai, gina mccarthy. former epa administrator and climate adviser to president biden. administrator mccarthy, thank you very much for coming to the sunday show. let's be honest, given what we've seen this year alone, are we passed the tipping point? >> well, i don't believe we are. i don't believe we're past the tipping point, jonathan. i appreciate the opportunity to chat with you about it. look, if we go all in, and looking at this conference that we have now, and if we are at the state and local levels, this will make a time to change. it's all about acceleration, jonathan. we have answers, solutions, we just have to move fast. >> we have to move fast, but at least in the united states, is there the political will to move fast? >> well, the inflation -- we turn the corner, we say that we don't have to sacrifice two of those climate change, then we can turn this into an opportunity, we can have clean energy, we can have fossil fuels, we've already seen 310 and investments, in the u.s., we've seen 388 products. we've seen 110,000 clean energy jobs. this is the opportunity of a lifetime. with the folks from the governments, making sure that people know that we have the answers. we can make the change we want to make, and we can save people. the money provides a basis for the developing world to move forward, to have the kind of clean energy, sustainable clean energy that they deserve. >> there's been a big focus on ending fossil fuels during the conference, but cop28 president, the cop28 president says there is, quote, no science behind demands to phase out fossil fuels. what is he may need by that. can you hear my question, administrator? 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>> i saw it twice. i've already seen it twice. >> it's three hours long, daniel. >> it doesn't matter. or i can give fiancée those six hours of my, life i'm happy. i'm happy to give those to her. listen, it's, it's a powerhouse of a film. it's autobiography, it's music, it's choreography, it's her story. it's just amazing the way she took control of her story. >> you know, you are not the only one, wait, let me ask you this before i go to my next question. how many times did you see her in concert? actually, at the concert. >> all, right i'm not going to, lie i saw her twice. i saw her in london. both dates. i, listen to me, i'm in a situation where i was able to go sort of behind the scenes in london, watch the show with some of her personal friends and colleagues. i've been covering beyoncé, you have to understand, since the late 90s. i put her on the cover of five so long. we work together. to see her in her elements, and also to see the way she is with the fans, it's like, that relationship has changed so much over the decades, and it's the same in the film, the renaissance, so much attention is paid to the fan experience, you know, you hear people say, you know, it's so expensive to go to a beyoncé concert, et cetera et cetera, but she gives you your money's worth, and she's very conscious of the fact that people are saving money, or traveling to go see her, and dressing up in the spirit of renaissance, it's amazing. >> you know, what i asked you that question because you didn't know this, but we have our very own senior beyhive correspondents, our producer, stephanie gramercy went to beyoncé's run assaults concert tour multiple times this year, on two continents. she also was in london. she sought a new jersey. she is already seen the movie. she, along with millions of other fans, grabbed her rhinestones, best looks, to attend the concert and movie. talk more about the impacts, the economic impact, but also the cultural impact of the tour and the film. >> it was a takeover, it was an american pop cultural takeover. the outfits, the instagram reels, the tiktok's, the parties to get ready, the group chats to plan the trips to get to the places. people, i watch so many instagram reels where people are actually making them, making clothes themselves. making their costumes themselves. getting to get there in these huge groups, are deciding, i don't care, i'm going to go by myself. it's so amazing. you, know there is this tradition and black music of call and response. beyoncé really has taken its to quote lower and help, to the full out extent. it's like, she is in constant conversation with her audience. whether from the stage, weather with this film, with her actual recording music, she is in a constant conversation with her fans, her followers, her listeners. the people who love her. it is amazing to be a part of. >> taylor swift showed up to beyoncé's renaissance premiere. beyoncé showed up to taylor swift's eras tour film premiere. why is that so important? also, i'm just curious, danielle, is beyoncé gaining the same accolades as taylor swift? >> well, you know me. i find it very rare, i wrote a whole book about, it shine bright, for a black woman in music to receive the credits that she is due. i don't care if she is beyoncé, john jackson, mariah carey, whitney houston, tsai day, aretha franklin, it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter what accolades they are experiencing, what riches or fame they are experiencing, it is not what they're do. for the amount of work ingenious that they have going on in their creative lives. so why? maybe we can just look at the history of american pop culture for those reasons. black women, black people, when we do, it it's considered to be, i don't, know just normal. something we were born. with something we're able to do. something that is not that difficult for us to achieve. we're supposed to be the singing and the dancing of the -- am i right? and i think that's one of the things that so important about her film, renaissance. it is a demonstration of the work that is put in, the physical and mental, and creative labor that goes into a project like renaissance. she says in the film, it took four years to put this show together. and she is at the head of all of that creatively, behind the scenes, and then still has to get in 70 million, trillion different costumes over the course of an evening, and sing her whole heart and life out around the world. i think that's why she wants the control that she takes. it's like janet jackson, said a while ago, a black woman to control is important in the situations. >> yeah. you are. right if you haven't read danielle's book, you need to. the other thing that kind of drove me crazy about the stories between, you know, covering taylor swift uncovering beyoncé, is that there is no talk about the economic impact on communities where the concert was. on paper, just on paper alone, beyoncé should have been getting as much ink as taylor swift. that's what i have to say. if taylor swift nation was to come for me, come for me. danielle smith, author of sean bright. a very personal history of black women and pop. thank, you as, always for coming to the sunday show. >> that'll do it for me. thank you for watching the sunday show. i'll be back next saturday and sunday at 9 am eastern. remember, remember to follow us on x, formerly known as twitter, instagram, tiktok, using the handle at weekend k part. don't go anywhere, my friend ali velshi is next with the latest. ali velshi is next with th latest latest >> whenever you're hungry, there's a deal on the subway app. buy one footlong, get one 50% off in the subway app today. now that's a deal worth celebrating. man, what are you doing?! get it before it's gone on the subway app. ♪♪ >> good morning to you. it is sunday, december 3rd. i'm ali velshi. we begin this morning with the collision course that could determine not only the outcome of the next presidential election, but the future of american democracy. it's happening bit by bit every day. it's