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That could lead to re-elections and raising more money. the idea that mitch mcconnell would have to have a working relationship with the former president is just ridiculous to me. i think lindsey graham is playing politics and trying to appease donald trump, and i get why, alex, we all know why, but i think that if that is the expectation for a majority leader or minority leader, then the republican party is going down the wrong direction. you cannot have this type of blind loyalty to one individual. the idea that the party -- and i think lindsey graham maing that statement puts the party in a...

Necessarily call it build back better. there is a short time line for this. as close as we get to the midterm, the more and more difficult it is for congress to focus on these types of legislative priorities and politics eventually takes over, alex. the white house trying to work as quickly as possible. >> folks are gearing up for their own re-elections. thank you so much, appreciate that. joining me once again, robert gibbs, former white house press secretary and msnbc political analyst. president biden ended his first year with a lot of his agenda still unfinished. what do you think the pres...

Strategy. to influence the commission reemgs. and then they want to nuke the filibuster. 51 votes to make a decision that could ultimately be to pack the courts. this is their stated goal, they're proud of it. senator whitehouse was talking about how the prior president was influenced by an organization, i would say that senator jackson and almost everybody that the president vetted before -- i'm sorry, judge jackson -- are on this list. so i think it's intellectually dishonest to say that the administration, that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, are not influenced by this organiz...

And for democrats i talked to front line democrats in the house facing difficult re-elections who don't want their leaders talking about this anymore. we saw initial poll numbers saying people support mandates. there's a clear prediction in both parties this will go the opposite way. >> dot mandates work? >> they do work. we've seen it work in the corporate level. 99% of the people who work for united airlines opted to get vaccinated. we've seen it work in the new york city level. you can't go to a restaurant, movie, theater and a huge part of the new york city population is now vaccinated and...

The vast majority of both caucuses are behind these proposals. bernie sanders has been a good soldier for the better part of the last nine months with the white house, i think much to the surprise of some people in the white house. this moment feels different though to some degree because of how close they are and how divided they are on certain issues. >> right. and i think what policies do you remove? how do those numbers change if some of the policies that are popular start falling away? and that, and because of how congress is divided both in the house and the senate, all of these, while w...