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are these old sayings about your words and your actions. tomorrow, you're going to hear a lot from republicans across the country, quoting dr. king. you're going to hear so much about how great doctor king's legacy is, for many of these republicans. but that is one day out of 365 days. what are they doing those other 364 days, because they are fighting against his legacy. there is a quote from dr. king's letter from a birmingham jail, where he said we will -- this generation, not nearly for the hateful words and actions of the people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. it's time for the good people of this country to stand up and say, enough is enough, to those folks who want to rip away our health care, make it harder for folks to vote, folks who won't have the courage to stand up and say, enough with all of the guns that are killing our kids in the schools, or even in our churches. folks who want to cut medicare

ridiculous. it seems from the outside to be dangerous. and yet it doesn't seem that they're showing any signs of slowing down. >> right. these hearings are going nowhere fast. i do think that not all but some of the republican certainly know why they're doing it. it's a strategic region, a judgment they've made that it's better to distract, or try to distract the american public from the dangerous public policy agenda that they're pursuing at the united states congress. which is deeply unpopular. think about the work to try to do with progress, the president biden -- made over the last few years to grow the middle class, lower costs. they don't want to talk about their plan to fund social security, to cut medicare. instead they fill the airwaves with incoherent hearings, outlandish conspiracy theories, and as the leader set, clown joes, political sideshows, i think the american public can tell the difference between congressional oversight legitimate -- legitimate congressional oversight and sideshows. i suspect that they're gonna

judgment they've made that it's better to distract, or try to distract the american public from the dangerous public policy agenda that they're pursuing at the united states congress. which is deeply unpopular. think about the work to try to do with progress, the president biden -- made over the last few years to grow the middle class, lower costs. they don't want to talk about their plan to fund social security, to cut medicare. instead they fill the airwaves with incoherent hearings, outlandish conspiracy theories, and as the leader said, clown shows, political sideshows, i think the american public can tell the difference between congressional oversight legitimate oversight legitimate congressional oversight and sideshows. i suspect that they're gonna come to the conclusion that this is -- >> you are generous enough not to mention the behavior of taking credit for infrastructure projects that they voted against, that were passed largely by democrats. >> we'll talk about that next time. >> yes, you can. please do. i didn't mean to sound sarcastic. >> thank you for your time, thank you for coming to visit us. coming up after a quick break florida public schools may soon teach children that slavery

dangerous, and yet it doesn't seem like they're showing any signs of slowing down. >> i think it's right. i think these hearings are going nowhere fast. some republicans know why they're doing and it's a strufeejic reason and judgment they have made it is better to distract or try to distract and obfuscate from the american public and policy agenda they're pursuing which is deeply unpopular with voters. you think about the work they're doing to try to unwind economic progress they made to go to the middle class to lower cost. they don't want to talk about their plan to defund social security or cut medicare, so instead, you know, they fill the air waves with incoherent hearings and outlandish conspiracy theories and clown shows, political sideshows. i think the american public can tell the difference between congressional oversight and sideshows, and i suspect they're going to come to the conclusion this is the latter. >> you're generous enough not to mention the craven behavior for

trump, massive tax cuts for wealthy people which, remember, was the one, big legislative quote, unquote, achievement in the trump administration. that's pretty unpopular. their desire to cut medicare and social security, unpopular. economy is pretty good under joe biden. what they're left with is the one real ammunition they've got, and that is the culture war issues. you know, in virginia, they won a governor's election because they got their message out on parents having a role in education. this takes you into the world of transgender rights, into drag queens, into woman's reproductive choice. it's the one thing they've got. what you see with senator tuberville, and the reason we may not get a national defense authorization passed, is that's all they've got. they'll put it front and center even if it means risking the fbi and not getting a budget passed. >> the nato summit just passed. the concerns i keep hearing from

essential lifeline for millions of americans including children in poverty, the elderly in nursing homes and america's living with disabilities. the original house republican proposal would have cut health care for up to 21 million americans on medicaid and i said, no. and medicare was protected and so are millions of people most in need. look, i've long believed that the only one truly sacred obligation that the government has is to pair those we send into harm's way and care for them and their families when they come home and when they don't come home, that's why my last budget provided v.a. hospitals with additional funding for more doctors, nurses and equipment to accommodate the needs of veterans and more appointments. house republican plan would have meant 30 fewer million v.a. health care visits for our veterans. we didn't let that happen. in addition, this bill

society by protecting medicaid, medicare, and social security, and drawing a contrast with the republican party, which had its knives out for those programs at the outset of this year. that's an important case he needs to make, given the strength for keeping those programs in tact that we have seen across this country. even the gop's position on this has changed. this is not -- you can't talk about slashing social safety net programs publicly as a republican candidate in the same way that you used to be able to. it's becoming increasingly the third rail in american politics and so biden was very much using that as a case for his own candidacy in 2024, which he alluded to, towards the end of those remarks. >> did it surprise you that he didn't go to some of the other sort of fiscal ideas that appeal to more -- to younger voters, things like student loan debt relief, he's in court fighting right now on whether or not student loan forgiveness can happen. he was leaning on the bedrock democratic policy ideas, medicare, social security, does

i was pointing out that for years some of them were putting forward proposals to cut social security and medicare. and some of them that night took exception and they said very loudly that that wasn't true. so i asked them, on the floor that night, i said asked them a simple question. will you agree not to cut social security and not to cut medicare? would they agree to protect these essential programs, they're a lifeline for millions of american, programs that these americans have been paying into every single paycheck they've earned since they started working. and that provides so much peace of mind. but the bright lights and cameras on those few republicans who were protesting, they agreed. they said they wouldn't cut it. that's how we protected social security and medicare from the beginning and from it being cut, period. health care was another priority for me. a top priority. i made it clear from the outset i would not agree to any cuts in medicaid, another

msnbc chief correspondent and host of velshi. velshi and ruhle. i managed to get velshi and ruhle back together. i'm proud of myself. >> my man. >> one of my favorite things. i'm going to go to you first, ali velshi. so biden and his sort of low caffeinated version of the presidency, one of the things i feel like it's really done is it really does demonstrate for everyone to see, undeniably, how ineffectual the screaming mimis on the other side who get a lot of our time, they get a lot of oour attention, they actually are completely ineffectual because they make a lot of noise and get a lot of headlines but in the end, it's the normie politicians who go behind closed doors and save the economy and pass things like making sure our debt doesn't go over the hill, they protect medicare and social security. i wonder if at some point, even republicans start to say, maybe we're exhausted by having a million little trumps. maybe we want the economy to