White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki talks with Rachel Maddow about the Biden administration making an honest effort to reach out to Republicans in the Senate on legislation like the new Covid relief bill, while maintaining a realistic awareness of the urgency of the matter and the possibility that Democrats will have to act alone. Aired on 01/29/2021.
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'We Feel Like We Have To Try': WH Reaching Out To GOP Despite Past Obstruction | Rachel Maddow
Rightwing appeasement ….. how did that work out prior to WW2?
Right wing? You know the nazis were socialists right? The nazi socialist party
@Mike Baggins National socialism, is NOT socialism. It was a name that Hitler came up with for fascism so it would appeal to the working class. If, it supposedly leftwing, why does the Nazi flag appear at American far-right political rallies? But you know that don’t you. You’re either incredibly ignorant or dishonest.
Don’t waste your time! Pass the necessary bills asap and talk about unity after. You’ve got free reign for at least 2 years.
Free reign? You know who Joe Manchin is right?
They have to reach out first, so they can’t argue that fact.
You’ll have an opportunity to see where both sides are coming from.
Still need every single Dem on board. And every bill passed with 51 votes is more likely to be repealed by republicans in 2 years.
@Greg K only if they take back the Senate. What exactly are Dems proposing that would be unpopular ? Let Republicans continue to be obstructionist. It’s all they are. They stand for nothing. They are an irrelevant fringe party propped up by a broken EC system. Do whatever it takes to get people the aid they need. At the same time. Nuke the filibuster, packed the courts, add Washington and Puerto Rico as states. Get moving and apologize for nothing. Minority should not dictate to the majority
If any of you had a clue as to what is really happening and what Trump tried to do. I used to despise the man, but after researching and reading everything I can, I understand so much more. He wasn’t great, but he wasn’t as bad as lots think, and he was trying to go against the corrupt establishment. One more thing, he was 100% correct that the virus is a hoax. he knows it, many of us know it, and the PROOF is obvious. All one needs to do is a little bit of research to see that what’s happening across the world has been a PLAN for many years, people have warned us, but most didn’t listen or even know about it. The Plan was unraveled in March. Please do some research and stay away from that V, that is only being used for evil. I know many of you will laugh, but isn’t it funny how the people laughing the loudest are usually the ones who don’t have the knowledge, the education, or the urge to find out the truth.
Its going to take a while for us to accept this transparency, we have 4 years damage of being lied to 😊
COVID is the biggest SCAM ever imposed on humanity. The vaccine isn’t even medicine, it’s DNA changing and will be used to control our every move. I know the closed minded will laugh and poke fun, but they are in for a rude awakening. The New World Order or Global Reset started in March 2020 and isn’t going to end. The vaccine is POISON.
@Dogs are fun For somebody that apparently likes dogs, your mental state is in a world of hurt. Vaccines have saved millions of lives over the past century. You probably wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the dedicated scientists that came up with vaccines for deadly diseases like polio, diphtheria, tetanus, rubella and, yes, Covid-19 among others. Get your head out of the Trump sand fill and be grateful that you live in this era of amazing scientific technology.
@Dogs are fun I am not close minded but I would laugh at your lack of reasoning. You actually think that millions and millions of people are in on a scam that would require elected officials and the whole scientific community. I am old enough to have heard of NWO conspiracy over and over again. 1993–2002: The X-Files gives a generation the gift of extreme skepticism. The creepiest moments aren’t the ones involving UFOs or the paranormal; they are the glimpses into the off-limits government storage facilities, the clandestine meetings and cover-ups overseen by the men working in the shadows.
@Jim River So apparently you have not educated yourself on the Global Reset that, by the way, ALL world leaders are implementing. It’s not my idea, it’s a Plan that has been in the works for many years, but just unfolded in March of last year. I pray you and all others at least do your own research before you try to discount someone’s post. IF you have done the research, read the materials, and still don’t believe, then there’s a whole new discussion to be had. The information is out there all you need to do is look. All the people who don’t realize are going to be in for the shock of a lifetime, but it will ONLY be after they get as many as possible to take the vaccine poison. There are MANY, MANY “woke” people out there, it’s just that this page doesn’t have many on it. I pray for all to learn and to act. God Bless.
@Dogs are fun You throw in “God” and you expect me to take you seriously? GTFO with your crazy conspiracy BS. Again those conspiracy theories have been around a long time in1966: Mary M. Davison publishes The Profound Revolution, a manifesto of sorts positing that the New World Order hides in plain sight and detailing how real-life institutions like the Federal Reserve, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the U.S. government operate as fronts for the “international banker” shadow Establishment. The book amplifies themes of communist infiltration advanced in contemporary best sellers like John Stormer’s None Dare Call It Treason and William Guy Carr’s The Red Fog Over America and Pawns in the Game, one-world-government classics that warn of a very particular political trajectory: First they fluoridate the water, next it’s World War III.
I appreciate her and what she does..I feel hope now after 4 years of depression.
@Bewnie Sandals
Politico has debunked it
Safe to say you won’t get anyone who’s serious about politics or political science to fall for this
@ArgentumEmperio Debunked what?
@ArgentumEmperio What was debunked?
COVID is the biggest SCAM ever imposed on humanity. The vaccine isn’t even medicine, it’s DNA changing and will be used to control our every move. I know the closed minded will laugh and poke fun, but they are in for a rude awakening. The New World Order or Global Reset started in March 2020 and isn’t going to end. The vaccine is POISON.
@Bewnie Sandals — You have any mittens for sale?
Finally, the Press Secretary has stopped being a freak show. And if any of the past liars try to run for public office, let them know at the ballot box that you remember who they were and who they are. Those liars will never change.
Agreed.
COVID is the biggest SCAM ever imposed on humanity. The vaccine isn’t even medicine, it’s DNA changing and will be used to control our every move. I know the closed minded will laugh and poke fun, but they are in for a rude awakening. The New World Order or Global Reset started in March 2020 and isn’t going to end. The vaccine is POISON.
Stop buying the propaganda. These people are not working for you.
Except it was the press that was the freak show. I don’t think Psaki could handle it as well. We all KNOW Biden would totally lose it. He hides even from friendly media. He barely gets his lines out as it is. “Salute the marines, Joe”.
@Mimzy Jinx Still loving your fat Trump guy, huh? What a sad loser he was, and you are by loving him.
I really appreciate her civil, diplomatic and hopeful optimism. I love that Biden still wants to extend that olive branch for both sides to work together for the betterment of AMERICA, putting the country first as they should. But there can never be unity or cooperation when a caucus party is full of sycophantic extremists and their followers fanatical radicals.
They know this, let’s have calm efforts for more than 1 day.
Give it time to get it done right with level heads.💜
COVID is the biggest SCAM ever imposed on humanity. The vaccine isn’t even medicine, it’s DNA changing and will be used to control our every move. I know the closed minded will laugh and poke fun, but they are in for a rude awakening. The New World Order or Global Reset started in March 2020 and isn’t going to end. The vaccine is POISON.
Psaki has such great answers at the ready.
Honesty and intelligence will do that for you!!
To be fair, it’s a lot easier to answer questions when you’re not defending the indefensible and having to keep consistent with all sorts of lies and crazy.
Because she has the questions in advance.
She doesn’t have answers. I’ll circle back to you is not an answer.
haters are going to hate
when has this ever worked in the last 12 years?
Never, Republicans are not that patriotic
GOP leadership has swung so far from true conservatism and so far toward sycophantic submission to a violence promoting autocrat, that ordinary Americans are leaving the Republican Party by the tens of thousands. It is these newly “born again” Independents to whom the Biden administration must address their agenda for the good of America.
It’s so refreshing to have Jen and see how well she handles all this, it’s been a complete 180 then before and it’s amazing!
… it’s boring actually. But we’re not used to that any more 😆..🤧..😷
Respectfully crazy talk made me dizzy I don’t know if that’s positive or negative
Give me a break!
@Paul one break coming up
@Mondfischli — it’s boring because it’s not reality show as politics shouldn’t be since it affects real life. If anything, Trump’s administration made politics into a dramatic reality show with characters, like the witch doctor. LOL
GOP have lost their relevence . Cordiality is all they should get.
their party is just full of QANON people
They shouldn’t even get that. After 4 years of sticking it to Democrats every chance they could.
@Shawn Gill And don’t forget what they did for the eight years Obama was president.
@Shawn Gill Name once.
The GOP are bad faith actors at the minimum, obstructions to the core, we’ve seen this movie. Two years of scorched earth minimum. In the tug of war on inequality since 2008 the right have pulled the rag well over the line, don’t just sit there and hold the line and demonstrate how your’ve become the center right party.
Right on. Try to work with the Republicans. And if they refuse it’s on them. Find a way to go around them
Don’t go around them – go straight over the top of them! ;o). That’s what they did to Democrats – time for Karma to visit them.
@David H. I hope that the Democrats are strong and keep pushing forward progressive policies and organize to build the party and win bigger majorities
What a completely, totally, absolutely, entirely, wholly and altogether a refreshingly different approach to that of the past 4 years! Sanity at last!
But it’s not that different than the 8 years before that. The problem with Obama was he tried too hard to work with republicans and ended up getting nothing substantive done. If Obama had been a better president Trump wouldn’t have had any chance.
@For An Angel Obama was owned by the corporations who bankrolled him. Biden is own by corporations and the CCP.
If you think this is sanity you are insane. Oh but you voted for a criminal, who is a creep and let’s not forget he is demented.
Ginger plane Jane is slow witted ,boring and a liar 🤮
@Michelle Albarello Trump is the demented criminal creep.
What else would you expect from a ginger spokeswoman?
Jen is far better than the “Insurrection Barbie” that came before, who literally ran off the stage at the end.
@Steve Robertson And ate a good 2 seconds of limited interview time just to correct herself over where Dr Biden met her chief-of-staff, rather than gas-lighting anyone who fact checked it. I almost stood up and sang the national anthem.
What a racist
Class. 😊
@Mike Baggins how is that racist? Theyre both white💁
@Steve Robertson I been wondering the same exact thing for the last four years lmao.
Yeah, Dems are just going to have to exec sign everything every time the repugs balk. 👍💙🇺🇸
This is exactly what Obama did, and nothing got done. He bent over backwards to appease republicans, and it never worked. They never relented, and they fought everything he tried to accomplish. He gave too much, to the point where he compromised all forward movement. This lack of forward movement led to Donald Trump. Please don’t be too appeasing.
Yeah. Democrats better just do whatever they want. Wait, isn’t that dictator like? Isn’t that what trump was accused of?
Biden has signaled his intent and has got off to a storming start. However, he needs everyone to pull in the same direction to get the country back on its feet and back to work as quickly as possible. This means that the GOP needs to put partisan politics aside for now and do their bit to help. If they don’t understand that and aren’t willing to play their part, they have no business being in politics.
Journo: “What’s going on with GameStop?”
Psaki: “We have the first woman Treasury Secretary with a team of women or something”
WUT
Biden “I want to reach across to republicans” then goes on to sign 45 executive orders! Dictatorship in the making!