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And folks look, we had the strongest economic growth in nearly 40 years. 5.7% increase in the gdp. unemployment rate dropped more than any time, any year in american history. child poverty dropped. but 40%, more than any year in american history. >> so eugene, is that what democrats need to do? or is it as long as its inflation is where it is, that message is unlikely to breakthrough. >> well yes and maybe. look, yes. its a lot of great economic numbers out there. and of course, democrats ought ...

Writes, democrats put themselves in a political straitjacket. writing quote, they regularly tell themselves they must be extraordinarily tentative about taking credit for their accomplishments, because this risks angering voters who are still struggling. still with us, eugene robinson, mark mckinnon. eugene, that brutal poll showed that voters were more supportive of democrats after being reminded of key economic indicators that frankly, the president just spoke about today. let me play that. >>...

The law, lgbtq equality under the law. when these senators went after her in this regard, they were not only attacking her, they were attacking our rule of law altogether. and thats what made this so alarming. >> so eugene, was this performative politics just an audition for 2020, republican 2024? >> no, of course not. they never do that. gop would never do that. but thats exactly what it was. but these are folks who are hoping, want to use what they said indeed over the last week, and as going ...

I think they may end up in something like this, some could pass with 60 votes. some might end up in reconciliation anyway. it might end up as a better bill, slimmer bill, more focused on the key things that have to happen soon than would have been the case if this went through with 50 votes. >> so eugene, bill has the view get what you can get done. you have a view from your column that democrats need to talk more about the things they succeeded. you wrote democrats across the spectrum have to s...

Asked him whats going to happen? whats going to happen? and heres what he shared with me because i asked him do you have the votes, like is this going to happen tonight? and he said that if anyone can bridge the divide its nancy pelosi. and if shes able to -- if shes able to do it, and he thinks she will, that she will go down as one of the greatest speakers of all-time. but the best part he said was she has said the vote will be tonight. it could be 9:00 p.m. or 4:00 a.m., but it will be tonigh...

Steve bannon and former chief of staff, mark meadows. joining our panel, jill wine-banks, co-host of the #sisters in law podcast. trump says he is going to cite executive privilege. can executive privilege extend to a post presidency? >> it can, if president biden invokes it. there is no evidence that president biden will. but a former president cannot invoke executive privilege. it belong to the office, and hes out of office. so, no, he cant. and none of his people can. they can invoke the fift...

Right now. he had the vice president flying out there for a quick in and out trip to rally for him in her home state. she wouldnt be doing that, given how busy things are in washington if they werent nervous about the potential of larry elder, a conservative show host, how do you game it? >> there should never be confidence. you need 50% of people say he shouldnt be recalled and then it goes to the next candidates and a conservative republican can win and just to make a quick point on the aborti...

To your point. she needed to get a sequencing bill through her chamber, and she did that, which is essentially her forte. now, yeah, the moderates would say we wanted to decouple the physical infrastructure bill with the reconciliation, social infrastructure bill, and we did that. we got a vote certain for the physical infrastructure bill, but theres no binding language to what was passed. if pelosi decides to change her mind, she can do it. she might risk offending those moderates and their vot...

Elected decision. i dont think president biden had much options politically, no support in his political party or the american people. certainly, trump left him with a farcical peace treaty, in which we essentially told the taliban, dont shoot at us, we will leave. you can settle up with the government. so he had no option there. i really dont think. and i dont think delaying it another 90 days or six months would have made a substantial change, in an endemic and corrupt will goni government. th...

Republican votes. theres no reason why we cant continue to investigate what happened that day. >> so the senate could hold a procedural vote to create this january 6th commission as early as tomorrow. politico reports, quote, susan collins is making a last-ditch attempt to broker a bipartisan compromise on the independent january six commission, even as republican leaders rushed to squash the panel. the mother and the partner of former fallen capitol hill police officer brian sicknick have reque...