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The kind of phone calls face time with the president, his critics call it handholding. that he required before he signed on. probably instructive for all those trying to figure out what is going on now. >> the used to call it the treatment with lbj, the pressure from the president to a senator to remember of congress to come along. and when you read peril. we detail vividly how president biden at time uses courses, he uses pressure, and it was interesting about this in the book and unfolding in ...

Whats going on. today was a big day, they just finished having a big meeting among democrats. the man on your screen, one of the progressive democrats willing to bend a bit to help biden get this infrastructure bill through. his name is ro khanna, deputy whip of the congressional progressive caucus. good to have you back on "prime time," sir. >> chris, always great to be on. >> so i heard from representative jayapal that there was progress made, you guys are close. whats the reality? >> we are c...

Whip of the congressional progressive caucus. good to have you back on "prime time," sir. uh >> chris, always great to be on. >> so i heard from representative jayapal that there was progress made, you guys are close. whats the reality? >> we are close. we all want to get behind president bidens agenda. lets be clear, there are 210 house democrats who want to do that. there are 48 senators who want to do that. there are very few holdouts. what weve said is we just need a public agreement about t...

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 2:17 P.M. EDT   MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  I have a couple of items for all of you at the top.  I wanted to take a moment to recognize the passing of Metropolitan Police Officer Gunther Hashida and Officer Kyle DeFreytag — two officers who bravely defended the Capitol, both during and after the insurrection on January 6th.  Their deaths are a sad reminder of that shameful day in our country’s history and of the physical and mental scars left the offic...

"I would love to see how many taxpayer dollars Representative Jayapal wasted on this ridiculous ethics complaint rehashing leftist media talking points and offering no real substance," Boebert says in a release announcing the decision. "She represents the worst of the entrenched swamp creatures who waste taxpayer money on partisan crusades and endless investigations. Luckily, the House Committee on Ethics saw through Representative Jayapal’s posturing and dismissed her ethics complaint." In h...

Negotiating. you said it, the last time i was on your show, you know this made it very clear that republicans do not want to come along. it is again very clear that republicans dont want to come along, if were going to get this done the president needs to do what he did with the rescue plan which is say, this is my agenda, this is what the american public wants and im sticking to it and we are going to go and do it by ourselves. and by the way, rachel, those republicans will probably claim some ...

>> i thank you for being with us, senator bob casey. and that statement you just dropped the mic for me. thank you for being with us. with me now is california congresswoman barbara lee. congresswoman lee, these past 14 months of the pandemic have revealed some major flaws in our country when it comes to addressing poverty. unlivable low wages and health care systems that give priority to the rich. as the cochair of the majority task force on poverty and opportunity, you and your democratic coll...

by Ralph Nader / March 13th, 2021 Do you remember the promises made by the Democratic Party’s presidential and Congressional candidates on universal health insurance? You can forget their pledges and somber convictions now that your votes put the Democrats in charge of the House and the Senate. The Democrats’ leaders are abandoning their promises and retreating into a cowardly corporatist future. Here is the present scene. Leading Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Le...

The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Overtures to Trump Voters1 Pramila Jayapal says “we must pay attention to why more than 74 million people voted to reelect Trump” [“Biden’s First 100 Days: Congress,” Jan. 11/18]. Trump sponsore...

863 views After an election in which the country opted for a reset, not a revolution, moderate Democrats hold the power in the party. The momentum of the 2018 Congressional midterm elections in which the Democrats gained 42 seats and regained their majority status in the House of Representatives lost steam in 2020. It had been expected that the 2020 elections would build on the 2018 victories and possibly lead to capturing the Senate. The anticipated blue wave broke badly, never making it onto...