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Heres what he said in his weekly press conference yesterday. >> in the spirit of disclosing private conversations, did you tell house republicans on a january 11th phone call that president trump told you he agreed that he bore some responsibility for january 6th as chairman thompsons letter indicates? >> i am not sure what call you are talking about. >> the january 6th select committee grappling with the obstruction the house gop leader is where we start this hour. betly woodruff swan is here, ...

>> john: after a horrible week the president could not even get relief from his friends in the media. howard is coming up on that. democrats remain determines to jam through his agenda. chad, next week chuck schumer will play the role and try to role the boulder up the hill yet again. >> i like the reference, good afternoon. stymied by members of his own party, build back better last month, voting rights this month. democrats will try again next week to change filibuster provisions just for voti...

Tennis world and their reaction about this. i would think this could become an obstruction off the court, too. >> yes, for sure. i dont think everybody is thrilled being asked about it but its not the first its come up. it was just handled poorly and had become a circus. and for novak to say this is a circus is fairly shocking, so i think there is a measure of empathy for djokovic having been in the crosshairs of this, and in this hotel where he couldnt have all the amenities hes used to. that s...

November. when they -- is everything that will indicate, relekt republicans and put them back in charge. without holding them accountable for any of this. without holding them accountable for nothing. and so in 2023, when all this starts up again and republicans start as weve seen with kevin mccarthy and others, you know, doing retribution legislation against democrats, et cetera, yall got nothing to say. thats what you vote for. and so this -- >> yeah. >> this piece in the criminal justice part...

Biden, and, of course, president obama, the campaign, the white house. the president also surprised a lot of people when he said after eight years as barack obamas vice president with mitch mcconnell from day one as republican leader that he sometimes did not anticipate that the stalwart republican would lead the obstruction of this type of ageda items. >> well, andrea, you know, everybody knows that president biden and mitch mcconnell had a very good working relationship through the eight years...

Menendez, democrat of new jersey and chair of the foreign relation committee. senator, thank you for joining us tonight. i know it was a bruising week for democrats and certainly president biden who opened up the second year of his presidency with thundering accommodations of republican obstruction. but watched as the senate was unable to pass voting rights legislation due in no small part to its own party. critics on both sides say the administration needs a reset after national weariness over ...

>> i think its something that were looking at, and we continue to look at executive action where congress will not act. were working on an executive order right now on policing because congress could not come together and pass the george floyd justice and policing act. so when republican obstruction stops us from advancing and meeting the needs of the people, we will go at it alone. so we will always look for ways that are constitutional but within the presidents power to advance voting rights o...

Republicans and democrats have to be excited in 2022. >> let me have you take a listen to something that president biden said of his news conference this week. here it is. >> you said you were surprised by republican obstruction of your agenda. but didnt the gop take exactly the same tactic when you were vice president to barack obama? so why did you think they would treat you any differently than they treated him? >> first of all, they werent nearly as obstructionist as they are now. >> you wer...

Force, its interesting because when you look at state lawmakers, republicans in florida, they dont seem to be fully jumping on this bandwagon of this idea. do you think ultimately that they will go along with this? >> well, you know, i would hope to say they wouldnt. but if you look at the trend of whats going on, it seems like republicans are jumping onto these rules and these voter suppression tactics. even these laws that really erode the ability for people to vote. so i would like to say i d...

The first point is that in many instances when you start getting to people at this level, and you get one shot typically at an interview and in many cases, these folks are either nol going to want to talk to you or have many reasons to not tell you the truth. roger stone at this point is a convicted obstructionist, a convicted liar, he was pardoned but doesnt wipe away the convictions. if you go into an interview, you want information that will cause them to tell you the truth. you want things l...