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chiefs. were also going to sit by this hour as we were expecting to hear directly from president joe biden. it is said he will discuss the bipartisan senate border security bill. that bill, as you know, is facing increasing resistance and pressure from both sides of the political aisle. house speaker mike johnson is promising that it is dead on arrival when it hits the house and says it will never make it to the house floor. well talk more about what is happening today and well bring y...

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 ...

Where you say the supreme court is in canada. you can say that, you have the right to say that, but the supreme courts in d.c. and the supreme court -- >> that is a -- >> -- in d.c. did not take these cases. lets read from your book with regard to your contention about the vice president. you say, quote, pence refused to take by repeated phone calls about election irregularities despite a direct request from president trump to do so. what was your vision that you would get pence to do that which...

Why wouldnt he listen to you? >> i talk about it in the book, his chief of staff mark short who is a network conservative meaning that hes a never trumper basically walled off vice president pence from the day mark took chief of staffs a sad story. the thing about mikes betrayal of president trump, which is really interesting is he never shared the legal analysis of his general counsel and mark short. >> but that brings us back to the same point and this may be, this may be relevant in the futur...

Worthy on more than one topic. >> before covid shut down the u.s., back in 2020 some warnings proved correct. you wrote a memo about the risk of a worst case pandemic scenario. why werent you listened to more? >> interestingly, tony fauci is a key person that wouldnt listen to a word i had to say. i think that i had the benefit of knowing communist china of basically writing a book back in 2006 that predicted there might be a pandemic from communist china. in trump time, talks about all the peop...

And with unified-democratic control of the federal government, we can actually act to save our democracy. from the autocratic imposes of the republican party. but we have got a democrat in -- from west virginia, in the senate, who is refusing to do just that. and so, he has to own the fact that he is the person standing in the way of saving american democracy during this critical summer. when we can, actually, pass the for the people act. there is no substitute for the for the people act, by the...

♪ lets bring back art, vince and mike viqueira. schumer would not say he wouldnt get confirmed. we knew schumer wouldnt be a no, but not confirmed. >> it was a tough fight. ben cardin coming out -- lukewarm -- more negative than lukewarm. i think chuck hagel, you think of the old days in congress and everybody wishes they went out and had drinks and had dinner. the thing you hear about chuck hagel when you call around, chuck hagel didnt do lunch, literally. he didnt go to the weekly lunches....