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Eric dyson, professor vacuum or can start back build -- and author of entertaining race, performing blackness in america. professor dyson, thank you very much for coming tonight. you're piece in the times starts and charles south carolina, in 2015. the house of one -- a mother emmanuel who were shot to death by white supremacists, said i forgive you, and my family forgive. you talk about the power of that gesture? >> yes sir, thank you so much for having me. always great to be on -- your column is so poignant and so powerful. i believe that reverend thompson represented a strain in strand of a...

Scaled back build back better bill but how much can you scale it back and have it be building back better? will democrats go along? let's go "out fron." good evening. i'm erin burnett. closing in on trump. big blows to the former president tonight. first closer to criminal charges in georgia. the fulton county da writing tonight her office found, quote, possible criminal disruptions and has opened an investigation into any coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the outcome of the 2020 elections. the operative word there, criminal. and tonight the georgia prosecutor requesting a special grand...

It looks like shumer is going to put everybody on the spot as to whether the rules in the senate are worth changing. >> thank you so much. and joining us now, patrick, the -- president obama's first director of foreign affairs. currently the president for center for american progress. great to see you. >> thank you. >> is this a sign that there may be some hope for a scaled back build back better bill? and if so, is that something progressives would accept if it's the only thing they can get? >> well, you know, it is reason to be optimistic and hopeful, but hope is not a strategy. this is the ...

You're a longtime manchin watcher. where do you anticipate he is now? what could the next steps be? >> we have new this morning in "punchbowl news" and we cite your reporting, jon, from sunday night. here's the reality. there will be a new bubbling up of talks, we have no doubt about that, when congress returns. manchin is looking forward to the next two weeks at home in west virginia with his family for christmas and new year's, but i have to imagine when they get back, there will be some talk about a scaled back build back better package. but if you listened or read the coverage of manchin w...

That is not his job. the president does deserve credit. he did his best to get it done. they didn't get there. the legislative branch from my perspective failed the president because they clearly would wert prepared for this moment. i do believe it is to get the bill right rather than get the done back build on fast. they are trying to put all the blame on the conservative freedom caucus. i think this anger is misplaced. if they had been consulted from the beginning, if leadership reached out to them from the get-go, i don't think we would be in the situation. sometimes we need to stand back a...