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It would put a sort of proverbial floor under voting rights that no state could go below. president biden unexpectedly announcing today he has asked vice president kamala harris to lead the effort to pass it, to find a way to get that thing through the united states senate and on to his desk for his signature. and then president biden got blunt about why that hasn't happened yet. he said, quote, i hear all of the folks on tv saying, why doesn't biden get this done? well, he said, because biden only has the majority of effectively four votes in the house and a tie in the senate with two members...

Years. he has known netanyahu for years. i can remember netanyahu has to go back 35, 40 years. he's going to carry on negotiations the way they should be carried on. try to get to the bottom of this thing. don't react to everything that's being said by people involved. we'll see. >> speaking of russian priz vladimir putin, president biden's mantra has always been politics is personal. this is a person who vice president as well as chair of senate foreign relations committee knew the russian leadership very well. does the president really think he can move putin on any major substantive area of...

Infrastructure, whether they're going with just democrats or perhaps as a meeting with senator capito. >> monica albaa, garrett haake, thank you. greatly appreciate it. joining us now is the closest and longest serving aides to president biden, senator ted kaufman who joined biden's senate staff in 1976 and succeeded him as the u.s. senator from the state of delaware. he most recently led the biden/harris preial transition planning and co-author of the new book "retiring? your next chapter is about much more than money." we'll get to that book in a moment. we could all use that advice for su...

If that's his main focus might not get legislative action but please a huge swath of his party and historians too. >> claire, play for you a targeted bit from the president's speech today. playing this part for a reason that our discussion will make plain on the other side. >> june should be a month of action on capitol hill. i hear all the folks on tv saying why doesn't biden get this done? because biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the house and tie in the senate with two members of the senate who vote more with my republican friends. but we're not giving up. >> so claire...

Speaker pelosi has outlined these, the president could appoint a commission and you could also have a number of committees deal with it or they could have a select commission. i am open to all of the ideas at this point and opening to revisiting the 9/11. stay tuned. next week we are putting out our report, not a substitute for a 9/11-style commission about january 6th, but it has very pointed recommendations and changes that need to be made. the capitol police board, changes that we have to make legally so that it never happens again. there were two very long public hearings on this where dem...