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This Week in Washington: Senate HELP Committee Chair Patty Murray and Ranking Member Richard Burr Release Discussion Draft of Bipartisan Pandemic and Public Health Response Bill.

This Week in Washington: President Biden and Speaker Pelosi Open to Moving Pieces of the Build Back Better Act.

This week in Washington: Supreme Court Rules on Biden Administration Vaccine Mandates.

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And the way biden sees it is this struggle between good and evil, effectively, between democracy and something else, autocracy, and trumps lame response today was all that he could muster. be interesting to be in the room with him and see how he was reacting to -- >> gloria, thats why what you said was so interesting because our reporter asked president biden why he didnt name trump directly in that speech. he called him the former president, referred to him several times. he said i did not want...

They want to create a republican caucus in congress that is en completely devoted to trump and have them in place for 2024 in the event that he runs. >> so can you just -- talk to me a little bit about these maga members of congress and the new candidates that theyre lytho t supporting and how they see themselves different from other republicans. i mean, are they using policy issues here? i mean, to an outside observer, most house republicans look like, you know, pretty strong trump supporters. ...

Members of congress going about trying to increase their ranks ahead of the mid terms? >> sure. so theres actually only a small number of what we would call truly trumps foot soldiers in congress, and you named a few of them, marjorie taylor greene, madison cawthorn, matt gates and lauren boebert. what they want to do, rather than going after democrats like you would in a traditional campaign and trying to flip seats to gain a majority, what they want to do is going after those they think is not...

Most house republicans look like, you know, pretty strong trump supporters. over half of them voted not to certify joe bidens win. so im curious, based on your reporting is there a set of policy issues or is it just about fealty to donald trump and the big lie? >> youre absolutely right. theres a thin line between a true maga republican and all of the other republicans who do tend to fall in line with president trump. these are people who you go on their social media, you go on their campaign we...