Process. Heres a small portion of it. These videos are just part of the evidence in various Capitol Riot Court cases. So thats the reality, what you are seeing with your own eyes. Now for the unreality several republican lawmakers and rightwing fox hosts are desperate trying to bury what happened on that day, and you heard them already claim the attack was mostly peaceful, and the rioters were not armed or they were not really pro Trump Supporters and a mob. In fact, republican congressman andrew klei thinks what we saw here resembles a normal tourist visit. And now, this is the d. C. Metro officer beaten with a flagpole while defending the capitol that day. I am not here to make this a political issue, it just so happens that one party is lying about what thousands of officers experienced that day on capitol hill. Im going to confront anybody that lies about that day, because while these members are betraying their oath, thousands of d. C. Police officers and u. S. Capitol Police Officers were fulfilling their oath and continue to do so every day. Andrew mccabe is a former Deputy Director of the fbi. First, listen, when we hear from Michael Fanone there, he said he explained who he was to the congressman, he walked away. The idea of backing the blue, and when somebody was beaten with a flagpole to defend you, how can they maintain that mantra . They cant. These people are not backing the blue or the American People or truth. The congressman was literally confronted with the truth in the form of that officer and he ran away, because that truth is inconvenient for him. That truth proves that the things that hes been saying about an ordinarily march of tourists through the capitol is a lie. He has been lying to his own constituents and lying to anybody who listens. I am not surprised that somebody like that would run away from the officer, and its despicable but seems to be where we are. We are learning new details tied to the inspector generals investigation, and it includes rioters stole dozens of vests and helmets from Capitol Police, and carried highcaliber firearms and stored them in parked cars nearby, and only 22 of 29 members of one unit had completed the certain weapons certifications, meaning of the capitol Police Officers. These threads are slowly coming out, and its just shocking every new discloser. It really is. I think each one, alisyn, reminds us how close we came to an absolute unmitigated disaster that day. That could have meant many more lives lost, and a real foundational disruption in the functioning of our democracy, but for the efforts of the Capitol Police and metropolitan Police Department officers on the scene, you know, who were being so badly beaten and their own equipment was being stolen from them in the midst of the riot, but for the fact they were able to turn back that mob by the end of the day, and the senate was able to come in and do their job and certify the election, who knows how much worst this day would have been. The congressman said that there were rioters there, and there were vandals, and does not acknowledge it was an insurrection, and was one of 21 congressmen voting against honoring the officers with a congressional gold medal. Congresswoman liz cheney had something to say about this. Listen. Yeah, the Police Fought for us that day and defended us, and i am sure they saved lives and defended the capitol, and the idea that they would not get a congressional gold medal is outrageous. Should Kevin Mccarthy do something about these members . Its outrageous they voted no. What is your reaction . Its outrageous. Shes right. As i was saying earlier, the truth of what happened that day is inconvenient for republicans, and its an embarrassment and contradicts the political narrative that they believe is most favorable to them. So they will continue to lie and continue coming up with ridiculous characterizations of what happened that day and dishonoring the men and women that fought for their lives on the hill that day. Its just absolutely its despicable. Nevertheless, its so important for us to get these videos out in a way that the network has done today to constantly put these images in front of people, to not let this truth get swept under the rug by Paul Stkpeubgz force them to confront what happened. Theres another despicable thing, and on the Tucker Carlson show, it has no journalistic under pinning, its just, you know, concocted out of a whole cloth, but that doesnt stop them from pedaling it, and its so antilaw enforcement. I just dont know what to do anymore. I have to assume there are some fbi agents that do watch fox or do watch Tucker Carlsons show. What do they think when they hear people like tucker blame this on fbi agents . Here we go again, alisyn. When all else fails lets come up with some demonic Conspiracy Theory and blame it on the fbi. I dont know what they are thinking when they see this stuff, i hope what they are realizing is they are not backing the blue, and these are not patriots and they are lying for their own personal benefit or getting ratings for fox news or whatever that might be. They should dispense with these people and the things they are saying. Its absolutely horrendous to continue to tear down an institution like the fbi, to kind of plant these seeds of conspiracy in the minds of many people who are willing to believe anything these days, its incredibly damaging to the institutions in this country that we all rely on to protect all of us, not Just One Party or the other, but everyone. Its really dis despairing to s. The lawyers said that nobody would ever believe anything he claims on his show, and they have said that about other fox hosts, too, and somehow the viewers never hear that. Thank you. Lets turn to two major rulings handed down today, one involves the health care act. And one weighs into religious freedoms, and specifically whether a Catholic Foster Care Agency can refuse to work with samesex couples. Tell us what the justices said, and how they justified their decision in the obamacare case . It will remain in place, and that means millions and millions and millions of people will be able to keep their Health Care Insurance amidst the pandemic. Heres what the court did. Justice breyer writing for a 72 majority, he said the republican states and the individuals that brought the challenge did not have the legal right to be in court because they could not show a concrete harm. You have to step back a little bit to understand where hes coming from there, because it was chief justice john roberts, he upheld the law in 2012 under the taxing power and congress got rid of the tax and these critics came back to court and saying you have gotten rid of the mandate that is unconstitutional, and he dismissed the challenge and said you cant show a concrete harm here. Then you had two of the conservative justices, gorsuch and alito, they dissented. They said once again the court has pulled off an improbable rescue of the law, and this is a win for the supporters of the Affordable Care act today. One analyst said this third decision based on standing makes it hard for a fourth challenge on the constitutional argument. Do you agree with that . I think three strikes and the challenges are out here and were done. Its very interesting, because they did it on the basis of a conservative doctrine saying do you have a right to be in court. Congress just, as she said, after they held the last time and roberts said this is a tax, they said, fine, well make it zero now, no tax, and then what breyer said for the court was well its zero so theres nothing we can do to help you, if you dont do the mandate theres no Action A Court can take and if theres no Action A Court could take, you are not allowed to be here, and so theyre done. As a practical matter theres nothing really left to try and find, and this is a historic day, not as a legal matter but as a social matter. I think the Affordable Care act is now with us, you know, for good, just the big sort of new deal legislation or Voting Rights legislation are part of the american fabric. Thats what president obama said, its now here to stay. He tweeted that out. As a court watcher, is it interested to look at the breakdown, you know, the conservatives, the clarence thomas, and Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Conet Barrett that sided the liberals on the court, including Justice Roberts there . They did it on a dry legal term, and its called standing, right. Conservatives its hard to get in court and hard to bring a challenge and thats where the conservatives here who ruled with the majority, they said, look, were not even going to get to the merits of the law, we are going to dismiss this because you didnt have the injury that you need to bring the challenge. Thats what makes it make more sense. Lets turn to the fulton decision, the religious freedom case. You say this is the most important decision of the term. Why . Its the dog that didnt bark that makes it most important. Everybody was watching this to see would the new court emboldened make new law about religious freedom, and here was the issue. You saw that basically philadelphia said to a catholic organization, were not going to let you do foster care anymore because you wont do samesex parents, and they said you are discriminating against religion. Theres a case that says if you are regulating across the board and happen to get a religious freedom thats okay, and what the court said is that doesnt apply here, and in effect you have discriminated against religion because the law lets you have discretion to say yes, no, maybe to different people, and that means when you told the Catholic Agency they couldnt do it, that singled them out, and under the current law you discriminated against them and Justice Roberts, who its a big day for him in a way, and people have been saying his power as chief is ebbing, but he put together liberals and others and progressives and others for this ruling that on the one hand is a win for the catholic organization, and on the other hand saves an important doctrine that progressives were worried was going to fall. Thank you. Thank you to you both. Thank you. Success overseas, some say, but President Biden has come home to conflict with his own party on some issues, and the bipartisan plan on infrastructure has support from both parties. And joe manchin comes up with a plan that even gets approval from Stacey Abrams. He says lets offer mandatory 15 days of early voting, and automatic Voter Registration through the dmv. I talked to everybody, and i have been working across the aisle with all the republicans trying to get understand that thats the bedrock of our democracy, an accessible, fair and basically secure voting, and thats it, and in a divided country its not about me but our country. But minority leader, Mitch Mcconnell, is now throwing cold water on those ideas. Equally unacceptable, totally inappropriate, all republicans, i think, will oppose that as well if that were to be surfaced on the floor. Cnns senior political correspondent, Abby Phillips joins us with more. Good to have you here. Hi. Interesting what joe manchin is doing, where hes sort of laying out Different Things and being more transparent. Where does this leave him . Seems like hes calling the bluff of progressives saying you are against everything, and you are calling for bipartisanship, what are you for . He says heres what i am for. Heres a list of compromises i am willing to accept, and now you ar you are hearing progressives saying no way, no how. Yes, we had Stacey Abrams endorsing a compromised effort for the Voting Rights. Lets listen. Hes lets listen to Stacey Abrams. Absolutely. What senator manchin is putting forward is basic Building Blocks we need to ensure, and democracy is accessible no matter your geography. Does this make progress . I think its very significant that Stacey Abrams is coming out and saying this and you are hearing other democrats saying lets play ball with making some changes to the john lewis Voting Rights act and senate 1 bill that is much broader and deals with anticorruption issues. I do think progressives are, you know, under the microscope here, and many are not okay with watering down on infrastructure and vettingoting rights. In the house, democrats have five votes to play with unless they get republicans onboard and it makes it a very tricky discussion. You are also hearing from democrats, yeah, joe manchin is for all these things, and you heard Mitch Mcconnell hes not particularly interested in allowing any of his members to go forward and vote for any Voting Rights bill, and it calls into question whether it is true that what manchin is for is also what will get you to 60 votes. Many democrats are saying thats not the case. Right. I hear that and i think isnt it just manchin getting to manchins comfort . In other words, is part of this exercise so that he gets comfortable with democrats going alone and giving up on Biparti Bipartisanship . Thats a question, and its not just about manchin. Voting rights is not something you can use a Reconciliation Budget Maneuver to get through, and on Voting Rights there are several democrats not in favor of getting rid of the filibuster. Joe manchin may not be comfo thats why i think you are hearing a lot of progressives in particular saying the issue here is whether joe manchin is willing to put the filibuster on the line if it means getting something as important as Voting Rights done, because they dont see a path to 60 votes without getting rid of the filibuster, even if one, two, three or four or even eight republicans get onboard, and thats still not 60 votes. Lets talk about policing and reforms there. The deadline that the white house set was may 25th, the day of george floyd died. We are coming up to that now, and we know that tim scott is optimistic, but it looks like theyre still in the same place they were a month ago . Too early to say. I think tim scott has been more conservative in terms of talking about whether he really feels like theres progress. He said this week the closer you get to the finish line the more difficult this becomes, and i think thats generally true, that even though they are down to now it sounds like one or two issues, those are the hardest issues. This is about whether Police Officers can be held permanently liable, how and under what circumstances . Those are tough issues for democrats and those are red lines in some cases for republicans. This might be the hardest hill to climb. Yes, they might be at the, you know, the one yard line, but its on the hardest stuff. You know, i think Lindsay Graham is looking at it saying were so close, but tim scott realizes that this is going to be very difficult. Too early to tell. Both sides are still talking, though. Thats a positive development. And i think on this issue, just like we were talking about Voting Rights and on infrastructure, lets watch the progressives. You got a lot of progressives in the house saying we are not for these compromises, people like cory bush, saying we are not in favor of watering down the police srbill on Criminal Liability in particular, and lets watch that and its a major unanswered question whether the democratic votes will be there for this kind of compromise. Abby phillip, thank you very much for watching us. Great to see you. You, too. In just a few minutes President Biden will sign a Bill Marking Juneteenth a federal holiday. It commemorates the end of Slave Slavery in the United States. 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