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greatest mismatch in talents. it's important for the country that work, the business of the country get done in next two years. president biden made a gracious statement to kevin mccarthy urge we work productively. mccarthy promised the marjorie taylor greens of the world, no, he's going to pursue the conspiracy theories investigating nancy pelosi for what? for having an insurrectionist crowd trying to kill her? sadly, it will be for kevin mccarthy the lowest common denominator of the caucus. he is a very weak leader in every sense of that meeting e doesn't have a strong hold in the caucus. he doesn't have an ideology except his own advancement. and that's not much of a kind of cohesion to hold together thinks caucus. you know, sadly, i think it's
majority you have this kind of burning desire to investigate. and there is always missteps. so democrats can't do much. that doesn't mean they won't dry tri. that doesn't mean they won't try to slow things down and fight back. there is not a ton they can do. >> i do wonder whether messaging and communication is important on the committees. there was a question of seniority. recommends that democrats elevate their best communicators on the committees. the elevation of elijah cummings was very important. do you think they may take the microphone beyond the leadership position that's we know now you? >> jamie raskin is someone that will be incredibly useful in the majority. now, you know, when kirk bardel was a republican and you dealt with him when working with darrell isa during its obama administration, that was a perfect example of how
would it? this is the direction of the republican party. it should come as no surprise when speaker pelosi reflected on her decades long tenure on the house floor today, the man expecting to be the next speaker is absent. told reporters he couldn't make it because he was taking meetings. as it turns out, mccarthy was meeting with trump child separation czar stephen miller. "washington post" reporter jackie alamany spotted him walking into the office this morning before speaker pelosi took the floor. stephen miller flooded the airwaves days ago with some of the most breath takingly racist political ads of any election cycle ever. adds that cost republicans some very important seats. but that reality that, racist dog whistles and cultural wars didn't win them elections. that didn't settle in for the
go the right-wing is not giving up by any shot. he is going to speak to the speaker giving him advice. we have no idea. the hunter biden is the focus two of key committees. that's where the gop is at which is to say a long way from a normal governing coalition. but the biden white house is ready for this. at least that is the reporting. cnn reports today that biden administration has been conducting mock trials for the past few months in anticipation of an onslaught of meeting. they highlight how far reaching and aggressive republican investigations are expected to be. joining me now is ben rhodes, former deputy national security adviser for barack obama. great to see new person. what it is like to know that republicans have your number and
committees committee assignments. will they be a check on the republican investigations that the kevin mccarthy is intent on launching? >> very limited. if you have 218 votes, if you have a majority, can you do anything you want essentially. if you have 218 votes. now that means that democrats on committees are limited. they can't stop subpoenas. they can't stop investigations. they can't do much besides be a forceful voice against what they think is unjust and what they think is unfair and what they think is overreach. and you should have no doubt, alex, they're going to overreach every majority i've ever covered and that's too many of them, i guess at this point, have overreached in some way, shape, or form. that doesn't mean their investigations are going to all overreach. but when you get into the
>> when you look at what he's about as far as legalizing marijuana and things like that, hesitat he's pretty progressive. he doesn't shy away from that. e doesn't lean into i want to be the squad or anything like that. he focuses on this is what i believe in and this is what i'm going to say or do. he sticks out as man standing on his own and standing for principles and values without being assigned to a certain camp.
candidates, bernie sanders is not a spring chicken, neither is elizabeth warren. it's the age of ideas that people feel a little stale and that's critical for biden to overcome, whether he can connect with a younger set of voters. millenial voters are going to equal if not surpass boomers in the voting bloc for 2020. >> matt, i want to turn to the battle between the president and democratic congresswoman rash d rasheerashida tla tlaib. he convinced the prime minister of israel to ban her. she wanted to go to visit her grandmother. israel finally allowed her to go but she now refuses to go because of conditions imposed on her. >> i should be on a plane to see her. more than anything, i'm a granddaughter. >> meantime, here is what the president wrote on twitter. quote, the only real winner here
rasheeida tlaib's grandmother, e doesn't have to see her now. >> i think that tlaib and omar has tweeted and said anti-semitic tropes. i don't think they're great actors here. but donald trump makes them seem sympathetic. this is a pr coup for tlaib. she looks like the victim here, israel and trump look bad here, it's bad optics, it's bad politics. i think what trump is trying to do is to elevate the squad to make them the identity, the brand of the democratic party. he thinks that helps him in 2020. maybe it's a short term strategic move that might help donald trump. i worry about the long term consequences of elevating these pretty radical left wing politicians who are actually in a battle against nancy pelosi for the heart and soul of the democratic party. we should be rooting for nancy pelosi, i would say, not tlaib.
someone who doesn't give him some sort of loyalty pledge. but you're saying that if he doesn't, if this person doesn't recuse themselves or doesn't say they'll let the investigation go on, that that prompts some sort of crisis? >> i'm not saying he has to recuse himself. the recusal of jeff sessions was absolutely mandatory under department of justice rules. he was involved in the campaign. he was involved in the very conduct that was under investigation. he could not oversee it any more than donald trump can oversee it, despite donald's claim that he can. but even if he doesn't recuse himself does not mean that he has to take away the independence of the special counsel. that has to be permitted. as i say, that's what happened as part of confirming the replacement for elliott richardson. there was a requirement that the investigation continue unimpeded
just saying that out loud is striking to me. the fact that we have a president who has a fixer is crazy, but if you -- if someone has all the communications you have with that person, it's a problem. so there's that. there is his unpredictability, there is his unpresidential nature. just a lot that folds into the concept of people who have been following him and supporting him, just because they're afraid of the voters who support him. >> now the next layer of why we care. because i underand theush back of this is trump,e doesn't speak before he thinks. why that's all been excused in a president of the united states is a longer conversation than we have time for today, charles, however, why do we care? what just happened in starbucks and at the gym with use of force cases around the country that aren't get the level of coverage. there is a standard where we an. need to shut starbucks for a day to teach people, don't kick