eugene s argument. i don t know if it is bristly. but i think eugene is right. i think frankly most of the committee members would agree with eugene. but i think what the frustrated public and media needs to remember is, you have got to put the facts together before you present the facts. they are interviewed nearly 00 people. you are not going to want to have hearings with 300 people. that s going to be boring. it s going to be useless. and it is not going to tell the story. it is not dissimilar to what we did with the ukraine impeachment. we had closed door depositions, there were calls for it to be done in public. then we did have public hearings. uh-huh. that enabled us to tell a story through the witnesses. of course, we weren t making anything up, but we were able to idea the relevant and valuable portions of their ten hours of testimony and pull it out in a shorter hearing. we are going the want that.
thoughtful about how you can get the clearest story, the most dramatic story, the truest story, and a story that breaks through the cluttered ecosystem we live in right now and a bifurcated one where half of the country doesn t watch msnbc or cnn. how do you get this thing way up on the mountain top to have the kind of public impact that broadcast networks had in the 1950s and 1960 ooz. that s what you have to aim for, to make a national moment out of this. it requires creativity. you can t fall back on, some days of hearings. as a former communicator i would like to spend days brainstorming this one. some day we will do this. but the distinction, these are the closest people to donald trump inside the white house. the closest people to donald
don t get laws like sb on 8 until you gerrymandered your district to a point where those who oppose don t have a voice. the court has essentially insulated itself by making it harder for individuals in this country to vote. melissa s point she s too elegant to make this more harshly, but it s on us for separating these threads out. they are all the same story. and there really were never two sides to this. there was one president who didn t hijack the republican party. they ran to him. they glommed onto him. and he said, do not believe your ice, do not believe your ears in early 2017 at the beginning of his presidency. and here we are and 40% of the
people that are to the right or to the fringe or maybe it s up and down of bill barr and chris krebs, lifelong republicans. they re now in charge of elections in georgia. right. and that axios story, i think, is the one that really set off the alarm bells, that you are replacing all of the republicans who might have served as guardrails or bulwarks against stealing the election the first time around and replacing them with true believers in the conspiracy theories, and look, as you point out, there s nothing stealthy about this. this is happening in realtime. it s in plain view. so what we have here is not a failure to communicate. i think it s a failure of imagination. i think there s a failure to imagine how bad it can be. you know, i ve asked this question before. if people think this is an existential threat for democracy to democracy, why aren t they acting like it? and i think in part, it s because there is a reluctance or a denial to use your imagination to imagine what the
of bill through the congress, at least on the electoral count act. what s amazing, rev, and i m not joking, i mean, maybe the problem is that lacking bureaus in georgia, not having a correspondent in spalding county means that we have this story and we can t see the people. we can t see their faces, but it s happening now. so, whenever they turn to it, it s already too late. republicans have spent every day since last november pushing back against our democracy, straining it, distorting it, perverting it. this is from the reuters report. the ousted democrat in spalding called the changes a power grabby local republicans who wanted to go back and prove the big lie was real, referring to trump s election fraud claims. they wanted control. they got control. reconstituted boards in two of the six counties have already moved to restrict voting access in addition to spalding s termination of sunday voting, lincoln county has proposed