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Precipitant, you know, for these kinds of activities. how that gets punished legally is a question, frankly, that remains to be answered. but i am interested mostly in how this war room at the willard hotel enters into the discussion, led by rudolph giuliani and steve bannon was there. now that we have merrick garland forced to present this before the grand jury, it will be interesting to see how that rooms involvement becomes more clear. >> eugene, what do we know about that supposed war room? ...

Come before us, there will be consequences. and there will be speedy consequences, and there will be public consequences. so, you are hearing from democrats on the hill, democratic strategists that they want to see this administration move quickly on those things because that doesnt always mean that that gets to the doj. the doj is going to move as fast as everyone wants because these are people who work quickly usually. but that is what youre hearing from a lot of democrats. >> joyce vance, tha...

Jamil smith, political contributor eugene daniels. eugene, this is a fast-moving story. tell us where we are right now. >> right now we know theyre still negotiating, like we say. but it is -- >> we really -- eugene we need that puppy cam you and i have talked about where we can look in and see -- read the body language and see how things are going. we started with that working list of the things that could come or that could go. my sense is that todays conversations really zeroed in on paid fam...

Actual question. eugene at the end of this year im planning to do a montage on all the times ive asked you about infrastructure and reconciliation and the filibuster because these are two things weve been talking about since before the summer rolled around. i would love you to answer jamils question and was this a turning point, the president nodding to the fact that he would consider it? >> one of the things that was so interesting after president biden said what he said, you did not see the wh...

Is. its as small as that. lets concentrate on what the actual crime is, which is of course the denial of this franchise to millions of americans based clearly upon the fact theyre less likely to vote for republicans. my question frankly is given the urgency and the importance of this, and we see speaker pelosi going on sunday tv and talking about it, where is the white house on this? where is the urgency from the white house on this? and frankly i know that president biden recently talked about ...

Not at todays meeting in delaware. she is of course drawing a lot of criticism from democrats for not being completely transparent about what it she wants from these negotiations. heres congressman ro khanna. take a listen. >> i consider, why are the rules different for her? why doesnt she go on shows like yours? why doesnt she explain herself. if shes shifted her position on trump tax cuts, explain itment ive never seen a politician, including the former president trump, who just totally ducks ...

Of conversations, the committees going to want to talk to them too, i would assume. >> jamil, that brings me back to where we started which is there are the legal consequences of this and the political consequences. i think you do have to wonder at this point if you have republican members of congress that are implicated, if the political world takes notice or for republicans who just shrug and keep it moving? >> well, i think we know the answer to that. of course theyre going to do the latter. ...

Thank you so much for joining us. i want to bring back in my panel. jamil and eugene. jamil, you heard the top of that there, the two instances of voter fraud im sort of loathed to talk about it. it can give the impression that there is voter fraud when these are anecdotal examples that are then used to convey there is this widespread voter fraud that does not existment but i do have to ask you what it tells you that the same people who are ringing the alarm bell over this are the ones who are...

What rates they turn out, who they turn out for. thank you so much. eugene and jamil, you are sticking with me. next steve bannon may be defying his subpoena from the january 6th committee, but others are cooperating. what the committee could uncover during upcoming testimony. plus the path forward to protecting voting rights after republicans blocked the bill yet again. facebook papers, will the massive trove of documents that implicate facebook for spreading disinformation lead to some s...

You know, what that means is -- i think i said this earlier. that means that agreement on the build back better agenda is live. we are going to hear that in the next few days because speaker pelosi is bringing something to the floor. that usually means she has the votes. and progressives are not signing onto the reconciliation -- or onto the bill if they dont have reconciliation in some way hammered out. so, that does comport with our reporting at "politico," and that means its going to be an in...