They may need if they can. And its a reminder really here, and the reason i am bringing this to you as the top news right now of the hour, its a reminder how many tools this Prior Administration simply declined to use during the Ongoing Health crisis weve all been living through. Here is the bottom line, keeping it very clear. Under the traditional rules of obamacare, americans who qualify for those health plans, they must sign up within basically six weeks out of the year, and thats accept, unless they can prove they had a, quote, Major Life Change. Now think about this tonight. Havent we all had a Major Life Change since the virus hit in 2020 . What President Biden is doing with this new order is applying that straight forward logic. Call it logic. Call it humanitarian. Call it with a you want, to empower people to sign up now outside of that usual legal window, which can deliver more health care coverage, especially to people who may urgently need it, given whats going on. As for the wider Reform Proposals here, well, funding Better Health care is something democrats say they want to do in this congress and a covid and jobs relief bill. All of that will require action down on capitol hill. Just like the last debate over those 2,000 stimulus checks stalled out when republicans just shut down any action, any wider goals beyond what joe biden, President Biden can do with his pen will take getting something to the house and senate, where many republicans are not even doing the usual thing that used to happen in the first few days of a new president. Theyre not even publicly pretending to have an open mind about this new president s plans. And that brings us to the other Big Development tonight, and theyre related in a way. Speaker pelosis counterpart, minority leader mccarthy went today, amongst all the things you can do, when you have a new white house and staff and cabinet nominees and all that, he took a trip down to meet with expresident trump at maralago. This is widely seen as mccarthy bowing to pressure within the party to make good and go back to being simpatico with expresident trump and walkway from something you may remember, because it seemed like a big deal when it happened, republican mccarthys initial assertion that donald trump was responsible for the insurrection riot. The president bears responsibility for wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters. He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. These facts require immediate action by president trump. Except to share responsibility, quell the brewing unrest. Quell the brewing unrest. Do you remember that . We follow this stuff closely in the news. So i can tell you about it was about two weeks ago. That is how the Republican Party looked, at least for a moment, two weeks ago with a longtime trump ally facing the facts that donald trump summoned the rioters to d. C. And to Quote Mccarthy Or Old mccarthy, that Quelling Unrest might help curb news like this tonight thats ongoing. Dhs warns rightwing extremists emboldened by that very attack are posing a rising threat. Member car thinks threat widely seen as an effort to walk whatever he was claiming, to walk it back. House republican leader Kevin Mccarthy, he is down in florida to meet with drumplt. Kevin mccarthy meeting with him today to essentially try to mend fences. Now he is down at maralago as we speak meeting with the former president. To make amends facetoface, and to make clear House Republicans still stand with a twice impeached president. Sometimes the news is pretty straight forward, and my job is to make sure were giving you all of the facts. This is one of those times. This obviously matters for the Security Threats that face our nationwide now, which are as serious as a heart attack. I will tell you, though, it also matters beyond that, because it dovetails with these important questions for the approach President Biden is taking as he continues to talk to republican outreach and a biden unity. An elected republican who has power in the government is publicly subservient to the expresident who doesnt have any more formal power, who doesnt even have a twitter account. He is not allowed to do what a lot of citizens do every day, which is just speak in public on platforms because they deemed him such a threat for inciting violence. If this elected republican cant even stand by his statement condemning that same type of Political Violence because of pressure over just a few weeks, then how much time should the new president spend appealing to those types of Members Of Congress who lost their power because of what the voters did, who are talking up more obstruction when the nation is desperate for some kind of relief On The Issues weve just been reporting on, from Treating Covid to expanding the vaccine to expanding health care during this crisis. To kick us off tonight we again with Gene Robinson and daniela gibbs lege. Eugene, your thoughts. Well, look. The question you posed, how long should President Biden seek bipartisan consensus, i think the answer should be for a while longer as the covid19 Relief Legislation progresses and gets assembled and gets marked up. You know, i think he should continue inviting republican to collaborate and to join in the effort with the knowledge that it doesnt look like they want to do that. It looks like they want to it looks like theyre so afraid of donald trump and the Republican Base that they dont want to participate in bipartisan government, in which case President Biden and congress should proceed with 1. 9 trillion relief bill, which is the first item agenda. Thats got to get through. They should proceed with it on the basis of a House Majority and reconciliation in the senate, if its got to be Just One Party bill, its got to be that way. You dont have to want it to be that way, but its got to get through one way or the other. Daniella . Yeah, i think gene is 100 right. Youve got make the republicans who vote against this bill that is going to help millions and millions of americans or make them, force them to obstruct it. You know, there are very smart people who are working in this white house. They know whats happening on the hill. They though who theyre dealing with. Im sure they are ready to move this any way that they need to do. But i do think that its important for President Biden to show what it means to be president , and that means that you do try to actually work across the aisle. It means you do actually give people an opportunity to come to the table and try to compromise on some things. And when the Republican Party shows them that they are who we thought they are, then you use your pen, you use the other tools in your tool box to get relief to the american public, because thats whats most important right now. Our panel stays. I want to add to our discussion on the primary reporting. Katherine lucy, White House Reporter for the wall street journal. She has been covering president bushs opening agenda and the road ahead. Tell us about some of what you found in your reporting about why theyre specifically trying to do so much. There is an expression some time where people say oh, youre doing too much. Theyre very deliberately saying no, were showing we can do a lot. The federal government has that particularly if were staffed with the right experts. That seems to be what were hearing. Tell us what your reporting shows. I think thats right, ari. They really want to show that theyre diagnose a lot in these first few days. They spent months planning a real blitz of action in the first ten days of this administration. To really show that they were ready to lead, that they were ready On The Issues, and to try and set a tone of turning over and rolling back former president trumps policies. So what weve seen early on has been a lot of executive actions. Some of them are geared ail liberal policies. Some of them are reversing or rolling back trump policy, things like rejoining the paris climate acard, for example, or reversing the ban on transgender people in the military. Theyve pushed very hard on these things. To your points at the top of the show, there is a couple of pieces to his agenda starting out, there are things the president can do with his pen, executive actions. There are things they can do within the Executive Branch by rule, which take a little longer, but they can do, but the big things they have to go to the hill and they have to work on legislation. And that is going to be the big test for them. In the coming weeks, starting with this covid package. Right. And this is where there is this opening window historically, traditionally, but certainly extra, eugene, given the pivot america is going through. There is also the question how soon does this president try to make it very clear to everyone we want to vote tomorrow on the covid relief bill. With all due respect to the deliberative process, and im a lawyer, we talk and think, youve had plenty of time since march to think about how hoe coe individual has affected the economy, how unfair its been to regular worker, how unfair its been to essential workers, and whether or not you want to start having votes to fund that or not. So there is that pressure tactic. The other thing that hangs over this, gene, is just very serious divisions and the looming Political Violence, something you have spoken out on. Take a listen to congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez. In the House Republican caucus, Kevin Mccarthy answers to these qanon Members Of Congress, not the other way around. This is extremely dangerous, an extremely dangerous threshold we have crossed because we are now away from acting out of fealty to their president that they had in the oval office, and now were talk about fealty to White Supremacist organizations as a political tool. This is no longer about a party of limited government. This is about something much more nefarious. Gene . Well, you know, at very little political cost to himself, Kevin Mccarthy could deal with some of them. He could move to sanction Marjorie Taylor green in some way. He could put an end to the linkage, the tight linkage were talking about and some members of his caucus to tell them to cut this out and make an example of taylor green. But i dont think he can do that. I dont think he is that kind of leader. As i say, i dont think that would come at a high political cost for him. I think he would come out of that looking better in the eyes of his caucus and many voters, but i dont think hell do it. He is a weather vane. He went to maralago to bend a knee to this disgraced president who has twice been impeached and according to pew has a rates approval at 29 . I dont see bravery coming from him. I mean, daniela, i know that were supposed to just move forward, but if youll permit me a little recent history that politicos may remember, those of us who lived through it remember when the Obama White House was taking heat because van jones, who then worked in sort of an environmental Green Jobs Program was in trouble for something he signed a decade back that he said he didnt remember. And they said well, to be very clear, were just cutting ties. And it was nothing like and im not making any false equivalency to what were talking about here. What does it tell you to genes point that its a very low bar to just put up some guardrails if somebody is going just straight qanon . Yeah, i was in the white house when that whole thing happened with van jones. And it is just a stark reminder of how far this Republican Party has gone, and how beholden they are to the most extreme element of their party. You know, like we said, it is a very low bar, and there is very little i think political damage to Kevin Mccarthy to say White Supremacy has no home here, you know, to not have representative green sit on the Education Committee when she said that the massacres at sandy hook were a Conspiracy Theory or didnt happen. That is disgusting, you hear me . Disgusting. Daniella, just to echo you, and then ill give you thehhese lies, she shouldnt be on the Education Committee. I wouldnt even trust her on the miseducation of lauryn Hill Committee if they had a misEducation Committee. She should be nowhere near the word education because she is full of falsehoods. And i say that, as some viewers may remember, i had a lot of Trump Officials on. We had Boris Epshteyn on last week. There is a important and healthy role for vision ruse debate, but it cannot be packaged in lies. Daniella . Exactly. The world of alternative facts, were done, were done with it. And there is proof and then there is everything else. And it really saddens me that we have Members Of Congress now who believe these things. We look at other countries and we sometimes laugh and Point Fingerers at their legislative bodies when they start fighting each other or when they have people who say really out, offthewall things, and now its here. Kevin mccarthy, if he was a leader who was worth a damn, he would do something about it. Im running over a little bit on time. But katherine, a final word from you as a journalist in this opening period. What are you keeping an eye on . What should we be watching for in the days ahead . I do really think to go back to the point at the beginning what were watching for is how this is going to play on the hill in the coming days and weeks. President biden ran as someone who could unify and has decades of experience working in the senate, has said he can work in a bipartisan way, has really tried to strike that tone. But how long can he try and do that . I think that will be the biggest test for him. Well see in the coming days. Yeah, and something that a lot of ace reporters like yourself are watching. I want to thank katherine losely, daniela gibbs ledger. Congresswoman pelosi warning about some of these threats. And coming up, my exclusive interview with bill gates talking big tech, tax, and somor goodies. This is stuff were wearing for the first time tonight. And later, some interesting news about that breakout star at the inaugural, poet amanda gordon. Plus, an update on bernie mittens. Weve got you covered. Back in 30 seconds. Vered. Back in 30 seconds , microwaves, gas ranges and grills. And if youre looking for. We made usaa insurance for veterans like martin. When a hailstorm hit, he needed his insurance to get it done right, right away. Usaa. What youre made of, were made for. Usaa i do believe, and have i said this all along, that we will probably need a supplemental for more security for members when the enemy is within the house of representatives, a threat that members are concerned about. In addition to what is happening outside. Speaker pelosi speaking directly about the danger and threats of violence. Were joined by congressman seth moulton, a member of the House Armed Services committee and a veteran. Good evening, sir. Good evening. How you, ari . Im all right. This is quite serious. You know a lot more about it than most of us when it comes to assessing threats and also not overreacting or overhyping them. Walk us through as obviously not a political matter, not a debate between the parties, but why the speaker is using this language, whs important tonight. Shes right, this is a very real threat. For anyone who doesnt believe its a real threat, just watch the footage of january 6th. This is a real threat not just to the capitol, although obviously weve seen what can happen when a mob attacks a capitol, but its a threat to everyone in america. More americans have died from domestic terrorist than Foreign Terrorists since 9 11. Weve never taken this seriously at the government. Its shocking that despite so many people over the past two decades dying from domestic terrorism, yesterday was the first time that dhs actually issued a domestic terror warning. This is real. And when it comes to Members Of Congress, nancy pelosi is talk about Lauren Bogert who wants to carry a gun into the house of representatives. Why . Because she saw the house of representatives get attacked by a mob that she helped incite. Were talking about mo brooks who went down to the ellipse and helped incite the mob. Were talking about Marjorie Taylor green who is clearly a racist. This is as serious as it gets. Yeah. And i hear your candor. And i think people are concerned and whatever wasnt done enough in warning in publicly addressing this Prejanuary 6th partly according to a lot of evidence bec