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Basically get off a debate. >> with the senate 60-vote threshold is an offensive tool of obstruction. a jim crow relic, declaring that simple majorities should always get their way, oh, but late last week, they literally wielded the 60-vote threshold themselves. a useful reminder of just how fake, fake the hysteria has been. >> joining us now, co-founder of purple bowl news jake sherman. he is an ms nbc political contributor and a pillar of the community. jake, great to see you, lets talk about ...

Weve had a lot of talks over the past months on it. they have legitimate concerns. they have the same concerns that i had about changing the filibuster because once you do it, then its really probably gone forever and the majority and majorities can change, can do whatever they want. so todays annoying obstruction could be tomorrows priceless shield if you want to defend some policy. on the other hand, this is the argument ive made to both of them, that were not talking about a policy here. were...

Be -- republicans launched a blockade, the obstruction that led harry reid to change the senate rules to confirm president obamas non-judicial nominations by a majority vote over mitchells hypocritical protest then mitch turned right around when he became majority leader and used the nuclear option to add an exception to the filibuster to pack the supreme court with right wing members before he stole a seat to give merrick garland a hearing in 2016 and bragging to the folks back home it was his ...

Of documents from donald trump. and the committee asked his daughter ivanka for cooperation. nbcs julie tsirkin is on capitol hill for us. julie, welcome on this sunday. what are you hearing about ivanka today? >> reporter: chairman bennie thompson spoke about her this morning and reminded us how expansive their investigation has been. remember, they started with a public hearing last december when they heard emotional testimony from the officers on january 6th. next they moved into that investi...

Biggest risk of going there if prosecutors are not confident they can win? >> yes. so, aprila this, goes back, way back several crimes ago to the muller investigation and what he accumulated with regards to obstruction of justice and at the time there were 400 former federal prosecutors who said there was enough evidence at least on several of the ten dhunts were outlined in the muller report to prosecute trump and the reason that i think that this is super important is that obstruction of justi...

Of taking over the congress this fall. joe biden, for all the forceful speech that he gave yesterday, and he is going to continue to go after donald trump on issues of democracy, he went very hard at republicans on economic issues today when he was talking about job numbers, talking about republican obstruction and how their solution to inflation is to make people poorer rather than do things to reduce the cost of things that burden them like child care, for example, that he wants to deal with i...

Does it feel like we are seeing biden grapple with a political climate that is changing -- look, quite frankly, do you think finally he is starting to realize, hey, man, they dont want to work with you? >> you know, its -- i am hard pressed to believe that the vice president for barack obama, you know, was somewhat naive in taking office believing that he was going to have this new brand of republican work with him. the obstruction that barack obama saw was unlike anything weve seen in american ...

Sleep apnea. i have high blood pressure. i was pretty diabetic. now im healthier. i have no more aches, no more pain. it just brought out the best person i could be not because i want to look like a model but because i want to be able to run up the stairs and breathe at the same time. wow, am i like in first class so much bigger. you can still be a voting you can enjoy food with any surgery. the less the procedure has possible risks and complications including but not limited to infection, not b...

Now i hear republicans say today that mike is talking about this strong record shows that i dont understand. i dont understand. a lot of people are still suffering, they say. well, they are. or that im not focused on inflation. mularkey. >> president biden now starting with his big attack on the republicans. hes targeting mcconnell. he will go to atlanta tomorrow pushing voting rights. the white house says the president will talk very directly about changing rules to end mcconnells obstruction o...

Jeremy diamond and senior international correspondent matthew chance in kiev, ukraine. let me start with you, jeremy, at the white house. what do we know at this hour senior >> reporter: president biden, on the eve of his one-year anniversary, trying to outline his last year in office has been one of progress and acknowledging there have been challenges. the president acknowledging shortcomings on the testing fronts, the coronavirus, even as he insisted that overall he believes that he has done ...