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Precipitant, you know, for these kinds of activities. how that gets punished legally is a question, frankly, that remains to be answered. but i am interested mostly in how this war room at the willard hotel enters into the discussion, led by rudolph giuliani and steve bannon was there. now that we have merrick garland forced to present this before the grand jury, it will be interesting to see how that room's involvement becomes more clear. >> eugene, what do we know about that supposed war room? >> not a lot. what we do know is that that was something where a lot of -- apparently the coordinat...

Come before us, there will be consequences. and there will be speedy consequences, and there will be public consequences. so, you are hearing from democrats on the hill, democratic strategists that they want to see this administration move quickly on those things because that doesn't always mean that that gets to the doj. the doj is going to move as fast as everyone wants because these are people who work quickly usually. but that is what you're hearing from a lot of democrats. >> joyce vance, thank you so much for joining us. eugene and jamil, you are still sticking around. i'm going to ask...

Jamil smith, political contributor eugene daniels. eugene, this is a fast-moving story. tell us where we are right now. >> right now we know they're still negotiating, like we say. but it is -- >> we really -- eugene we need that puppy cam you and i have talked about where we can look in and see -- read the body language and see how things are going. we started with that working list of the things that could come or that could go. my sense is that today's conversations really zeroed in on paid family leave and whether or not we'll see that medicare expansion. is that your understanding as well...

Actual question. eugene at the end of this year i'm planning to do a montage on all the times i've asked you about infrastructure and reconciliation and the filibuster because these are two things we've been talking about since before the summer rolled around. i would love you to answer jamil's question and was this a turning point, the president nodding to the fact that he would consider it? >> one of the things that was so interesting after president biden said what he said, you did not see the white house try to clean it up, right? you did not see jen psaki the next day try to say, well, wh...

Is. it's as small as that. let's concentrate on what the actual crime is, which is of course the denial of this franchise to millions of americans based clearly upon the fact they're less likely to vote for republicans. my question frankly is given the urgency and the importance of this, and we see speaker pelosi going on sunday tv and talking about it, where is the white house on this? where is the urgency from the white house on this? and frankly i know that president biden recently talked about getting rid of the filibuster, and that's great. but the momentum had to be built back in january...