and now there s outrage about it. but as we re moving to think about what congress can do i think it s important that though it has those terrible disgusting roots and it is absolutely ideologically on principle a thing we ve got to get rid of it, it is not going to solve all these problems. it has been named as the sticking point for the justice and policing act. i don t think that s real in politics and of the cases that qualify for qualified immunity the best research we have is only about 30% of the cases evoke it a little bit. i don t want us to think even if we get it through that s solving like a huge swath of this accountability issue. it is an important piece, it s a principle piece but so disgusting to us to look at, but it is not the largest lever we can get done. i want to adjust people expectations even if it makes it through congress being a vanishingly thin margin even on its own. we know there s action at the
accountability issue. in light of these reports, senator sheldon whitehouse and senator hank johnson sent a letter to chief justice roberts demanding answers. they will be holding a meeting next week to investigate this conservative lobbying campaign which may very well have led to the leaks of two landmark rulings. joining us now is senator sheldon whitehouse. senator, it s so good to see you. thank you for being here tonight. we ve been covering this extort repeatedly because i find it totally outrageous. you re calling for a more formal infrastruck tour to overseem the supreme court ethically. is that even possible? yeah, it is, and the court could do it itself, and if they don t, then chairman johnson and i have proposed a piece of
raffensperger say state oversights will boost voter confidence. we never had that accountability issue before where we could replace a county election board if the situation was so severe. reporter: he gained national attention for resisting pressure from former president trump to find enough ballots to overturn biden s narrow win in georgia. and he now faces a difficult primary race against a rival endorsed by mr. trump. what we re saying is we need to have fulton county fix its problems that s why there is a review panel right now looking at what s going on. reporter: fulton county has had issues. in one of the first pandemic elections in june 2020, voters waited for hours to cast a ballot. democrat rick baron heads the board of elections. we had long lines we had poll workers dropping out we lost polling places the remainder of the year we had five elections after that, and we had no we didn t have any long lines. reporter: there is no evidence of fraud in that race
constitutional rights of citizens can get a pass on liability. the reformers say it s got to go because of accountability issues. as you know around the country there have been numerous other incidents of black people killed in confrontations with police. a couple marches just this past week, one elizabeth city, that is north carolina as well as south carolina in charleston. the battle continues. so the focus here is on politics which is sort of the way the george floyd death has morphed into a political movement. back to you. that is absolutely the case. we are waiting to see in washington if anything will get done about it. thank you so much. joining me is democratic congressman jeffries of new york. president biden will meet with the floyd family on tuesday, the one-year anniversary of george floyd s death and the same day
too not just the company as a way to protect their own personal billions of dollars. my next guest is the first attorney general to sue the sackler family personally, the attorney general from massachusetts. she wrote a blistering op-ed in the washington post this week explaining why she and 20 plus other state attorneys general are rejecting purdue s settlement offer. she said in that op-ed in part, quote, accountability means making the sacklers reaching into their own pockets. it means telling the full truth. it means shutting down purdue for good. and accountability means listening to the families who are calling for justice. joining us now is the massachusetts a.g., mora healy, madame attorney general, thank you so much for joining us tonight. good to have you here. great to be with you, rachel. so we ve been watching the legal accountability issue for the opioid crisis sort of spread out as the companies and the families enriched by the companies behavior try to make their