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Became an exercise in trying to be lbj or fdr-style presidency and enact change in the absence of any compelling mandate from the american people to do so that gave the rallying signal, created a very steep divide and at the end of the day, no other option right now in the republican party. a sad test -- >> what do you think about what you just heard from peter meijer there, kirsten? >> is he saying trumps the only option. >> also, hes putting some of the blame on joe biden, saying basically his...

But thats my resolution every year so i guess i better work on it. >> my new years resolution is to give more compliments. every time i get a compliment it makes my day but we think nice things all the time and dont compliment people. anderson and andy, you look amazing. >> oh, you, too. look at those eyes on b.j. novak. >> talking about going to therapy and all that. >> could you tell i got martha stewart a little drunk there. she couldnt get it out. >> looked like she was having a good time. w...

Raise taxes to strengthen the social safety net and all of a sudden democrats are the ones who like to waste money and throw it out the window. we have some structural issues that are really at the heart of the problem. i mean, kurt referencing this just a minute ago, but, you know, lbj,lbj, my favorite president, spoke to eloquently about, im paraphrasing, if you can convince the poorest white man that hes better than the negro, you can pick his pockets all day long. weve seen that time and tim...

As u.s. attorney. he was not a particularly high profile guy, certainly not a controversial guy. but this week last year, before the january 6th attack when a lot of people resigned, and even before the january 5th senate elections in georgia, that u.s. attorney in georgia resigned effective immediately, with really no explanation of why. it was talking points memo that was first to report on january 4th that he had unexpectedly quit. this was the headline that day in "the atlanta journal-consti...

History, one of the most influential maker of laws in the modern era. it was his work that led to the original voting rights act, and the civil rights act. and after his passing, housing the rights act that he advocated later passed. thats a lot of laws. you can actually see mlk with lbj, we just had that up there because the president recognized him as one of the people who was a lawmaker in that sense. so all of this comes together. it is not coincidence. its not symbolism. its the reality of ...

I dont want to take harold fords talking points. youve got to look for something you can get some wins on. so talk to joe manchin now and great advice by the way, talk to manchin, find out what he wants, and pass it. the rest of the stuff, run on it. you want four more years? then you go ahead and say, ive got something better than "build back better." this is the best i can do. and lastly, the worst thing to happen to joe bidens for him to invite those historians to the white house to talk abou...

Deciding vote in the event of a tie. so when you look at it the failure that manchin doesnt want to go back to fdr-like policies or lbj policies which bankrupted people that removed work requirements. handed people money freely to stay home instead of going to work. when he looks to west virginia for his political survival as well as economic survival, he sees this is not the survival of the country if they go down this progressive path. nicole: katie, media has certainly been attacking senator ...

Have the kind of strength of an lbj as he was putting pressure on the southern democrats for the civil rights act and the voting rights act. we needed to have the wiliness and the strength of senator reid who knew how to move that machinery through. and i do believe, given that we saw how these states, the republican legislatures, came out of the box immediately with these voter suppression laws. it was a two-track way. one was to make it difficult for african americans, asian-americans, indigen...

Branch. they cant make manchin and cinema do anything they want them to do. how do you answer that? >> i think there is a couple of things. i think one, the president actually made a calculate mistake early on last year. i think at the end of the day, it was very clear that this was not a priority for him, that he -- the way that he spoke about the infrastructure bill, he did not speak about voting rights. matter of fact he said earlier on in an interview that he would be willing to sign it. ive...

Black president getting through the most massive healthcare change, you know, really since fdr was in or lbj. she had one of the most, she has really been the most effective speaker. i dont know if you can argue that, whether you are politically on her side or not. thats not even arguable. thats a really strong choice for you. remember the days we used to argue about policy, it was so normal. wasnt it fun? remember? the policy. >> i love the fact that you were so wrong. >> i wasnt so wrong, it w...