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The players involved who i know and who you can tell from the grand stand are really expert at what they re doing. but i would not have predicted to you 67 votes on the senate floor and one of them was going to be mitch mcconnell. and actually another republican who was absent would have brought it to 68. yeah, no, this was really striking. i got to say, i hope donald trump is watching your show tonight because i think he through a shoe at the television set when senator richman said president biden is showing the real art of making a deal. he was the one who claimed he could make a deal, biden is the guy who can. and i too never expected it to get this high. i think both of us thought this was going to pass. and the reason we thought it was going to pass is a, the strategy made sense, you can t get the ....
In the trump white house ever knew about how legislation gets done. quote, biden administration s engagement on infrastructure since june 28th, white house had office of legislative affairs had at least 330 meetings and calls with members of congress and their top aides. jobs cabinet secretaries had 100 with numbers, since jobs plan release on march 30th. 998 legislative affairs meetings and calls. and leading off our discussion tonight is someone who was in dozens of those meetings and made dozens of those calls senator richman director of white house office of public engagement, thank you very much for joining us mr. richman, really appreciate it. thank you for having me. when did you get the word ....
Where you disagree, go fight. we have every intention of winning the fight and president biden has won every fight so far. so we feel good about it. this is what people want. get together. make progress. where you don t agree go hash it out. we re going to hash it out on the families plan. we re going to take our case to the american people why it s important to invest in them and their future and the care economy and clean energy. all of those things are just as important as the physical infrastructure. and we re going to make the case for it and we feel good about it. senator richman thank you very much for joining us again tonight, always appreciate it. thank you, lawrence. thank you. joining us now ej from the washington post and senior fellow at the brookings institution i need someone in the senior ranks of the press corps who has seen everything, ej, in order to discuss what we re seeing tonight. because i had a lot of confidence that the vote was going to get over 60 be ....
Questioning what s going on here. that s why you got people i hate when you give fair analysis, because that s extraordinarily fair and right on the money. let me ask you, deroy because this is important. did he or did he not speak to this group? can we get a straight answer on this? he may not have addressed this group. then why apologize for it? this is a one-time episode. he had forgotten what happened. maybe he should have had better staff notes and who he addressed. he may have been in the same room and he spoke at 5:00 and the white supremacist came in at 8:00. maybe it s guilt by proximity. he s had colleagues like senator richman who says he doesn t have a racist bone this his body. democrats said i know scalise and he s far too right and conservative but i don t think he s a racist. on the question of robert byrd it wasn t that he dropped by and ....
Staff notes and who he addressed. he may have been in the same room and he spoke at 5:00 and the white supremacist came in at 8:00. maybe it s guilt by proximity. he s had colleagues like senator richman who says he doesn t have a racist bone this his body. democrats said i know scalise and he s far too right and conservative but i don t think he s a racist. on the question of robert byrd it wasn t that he dropped by and went to a hotel ball room where the kkk had a meeting, he recruited 150 brand new members to the kkk in west virginia, he also wrote a letter to one of the klan leaders and said he didn t want to serve in the u.s. military if it got integrated saying i don t want to serve with race mongrels, meaning black people. and he was the senate democrat leader for years. you saw that wonderful glowing funeral he had with democrats ....