>>> NOT QUITE TROUBLE IN
PARADISE, BUT ITS CLOSE.
THERE IS GROWING CONCERN ABOUT
THE FORMER PRESIDENTS AGENDA.
"POLITICO" SUMS IT UP THIS WAY,
AND WE QUOTE, SENATE DEMOCRATS
ARE PUBLICLY DIVIDED OVER
INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGY.
THE CAUCUS MOST CONSERVATIVE
SENATOR OPENLY REBELLED AGAINST
THE PARTYS SIGNATURE ELECTIONS
BILL.
AND TWO OF CHUCK SCHUMERS
MEMBERS KEEP CLASHING ON
MILITARY SEXUAL HARRASSMENT
REFORM.
THERES A GROWING FEELING ON THE
HILL THAT DEMOCRATS ARE ALREADY
RUNNING OUT OF TIME ON YEARS OF
PROMISES.
MITCH McCONNELL IS SIGNALING HE
WILL BLOCK ANY BIDEN SUPREME
COURT PICKS IN 2024.
HE TOLD THE CONSERVATIVE RADIO
HOST HUGH HEWITT, QUOTE, IT IS
UNR HIGHLY
HIGHLY UNLIKELY HE WOULD ALLOW
AN ELECTION VOTE IN AN ELECTION
YEAR.
THE POSITIVELYLLSTER WHO WORKED
PRESIDENT OBAMAS CAMPAIGNS AND
A NUMBER OF HOUSE CANDIDATES. EDITOR AND COLUMNIST FOR "REAL
EDITOR AND COLUMNIST FOR "REAL
CLEAR POLITICS," A.B.
WE WILL
WELCOME TO YOU BOTH.
A.B., ILL SERVE SOMETHING AND
SEE IF IT WILL BITE.
DO THE DEMOCRATS HAVE THE RIGHT
MAJORITY LEADER FOR THESE TIMES,
AND WHAT HAPPENS IF THE
REPUBLICANS WIN THAT MAJORITY
BACK?
>> WELL, BRIAN, IT REALLY
DOESNT MATTER WHO THE MAJORITY
AND MINORITY LEADERS ARE WHEN
YOU DO NOT CONTROL A MAJORITY OF
THE SENATE, YOU PRESIDE OVER IT
AND YOU CONTROL IT.
THEYVE BEEN ABLE TO GET OUT
WHAT EVERYONE KNOWS ARE
RECONCILIATION VOTES WITH THE
VICE PRESIDENT BREAKING THE TIE,
BUT IT IS A CHAMBER WHERE YOU
NEED 60 VOTES TO GET ANYTHING
THROUGH.
IN THE HOUSE THEY HAVE A
FOUR-SEAT MAJORITY.
SO THE DEMOCRATS ARE JUST GOING
TO HAVE A VERY DIFFICULT TIME
LOOKING PAST THE COVID RELIEF
BILL AT PASTING ANY OF THE
THINGS THAT THEY HAVE PROMISED
TO PROGRESSIVES.
AND TO THE VOTERS WHO TURNED OUT
WHO DONT USUALLY TURN OUT IN
MIDTERM ELECTIONS AND WHO ARE
NOT LIKELY TO TURN OUT NEXT YEAR
TO HELP THEM HOLD ONTO POWER, IF
THE REPUBLICANS GET THE HOUSE,
AND I THINK THAT THEY PROBABLY
WILL AND
WILL, AND POSSIBLY THE SENATE,
YOULL SEE MR. McCONNELL STICK
TO HIS THREATS AND WARNINGS THAT
HE CONTROLS THE SUPREME COURT,
AND HELL LOCKDOWN THE DOWN THE
AND NOT A PROOVR ANYPPROVE ANY O
PRESIDENTS PICKS IF HE WANTS
TO, AND YOULL SEE THEM TRYING
TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT TRUMP.
SOME OF THEM WILL WANT TRUMP TO
BE SPEAKER BECAUSE THE SPEAKER DID NOT HAVE TO BE A MEMBER OF
DID NOT HAVE TO BE A MEMBER OF
CONGRESS, AND THERE IS QUITE A
HELL SC
HELLSCAPE TO IMAGINE IN TERMS OF
WHAT WERE LOOKING AT AS WE LOOK
DOWN THE LANE AT THE 2024
ELECTION AND WHETHER OR NOT
YOURE GOING TO SEE MAJORITIES
OF REPUBLICANS CONGRESS REFUSED
TO CERTIFY, A JOE BIDEN
RE-ELECTION, SHOULD HE
LEGITIMATELY WIN AGAIN.
>> SO, KORNELL, AS THE DEMOCRATS
WATCHING HEAD FOR THEIR NEAREST
AVAILABLE WINDOW, DO YOU CONCUR
WITH ANY OR ALL OF THAT AND DO
YOU HAVE ANY GOOD NEWS FOR THEM?
>> THATS A REALLY FRIGHTENING
SCENARIO THAT WAS JUST LAID OUT,
ALTHOUGH I DONT THINK ITS THAT
FAR-FETCHED.
BUT I THINK THERE ARE A COUPLE
THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING THAT
ARE FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT.
LOOK, I THINK SCHUMER DOES HAVE
TO GIVE THESE TEN SENATORS WHO
ARE WORKING ON BIPARTISANSHIP A
CHANCE, RIGHT?
JOE MANCHIN JUST PRAISED SENATOR
SCHUMER FOR GIVING BIPARTISAN
BIPARTISANSHIP A CHANCE.
SENATOR ROMNEY IS TALKING ABOUT,
LOOK, JUST BE OPEN TO THE
CONVERSATION.
SO I DONT THINK HE CAN JUST
SHUT THAT OFF AND SHUT THAT
DOWN, I THINK YOU DO HAVE TO
GIVE BIPARTISANSHIP A CHANCE,
BUT THE CLOCK IS STILL VERY MUCH
TICKING.
BUT I WILL PIVOT BACK TO THE
POINT YOU MADE EARLIER ABOUT
MITCH McCONNELL.
MITCH McCONNELL SAYING HES NOT
GOING TO ALLOW A SUPREME COURT
PICK BY BIDEN BECAUSE I THINK IT
ENCAPSULATES WHATS WRONG WITH
WASHINGTON AND A LOT OF IT HAS
TO DO WITH MITCH McCONNELL.
MITCH McCONNELL WHO IS BASICALLY
SAYING, I DONT CARE WHAT THE
CONSTITUTION SAYS, I DONT CARE
WHAT THE NORMS AND RULES OF THE
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE SAYS,
IM NOT GOING TO LET THIS HAPPEN
BECAUSE IM ABOUT POWER MORE
THAN IM ABOUT UPHOLDING THE
CONSTITUTION AND RULES AND LAWS.
AND THIS IS A CONSISTENT
PATTERN.
MORE THAN ANYTHING, THIS IS WHY
THIS THING IS BROKEN.
THIS IS THE MAN WHO SAID IM
100% AGAINST BIDEN MOVING HIS
AGENDA.
AS SOMEONE FROM THE OBAMA WORLD,
I REMEMBER VERY CLEARLY MITCH
McCONNELL SAYING MY NUMBER OF
PRIORITIES MAKE BARACK OBAMA A
FAILED PRESIDENCY.
THIS IS THE THRESHOLD THAT
DEMOCRATS HAVE TO TRY TO GET
OVER AT A TIME WHEN MANY
DEMOCRATS AND MANY VOTERS,
BRIAN, STILL WANT DEMOCRATS TO
TRY TO BE BIPARTISAN, EVEN IN