avalanche of news an spectacle. this sort of dizzying cloyin for your attention the last 24 hours have reall been something else. so i want to begin tonight b just taking a second here to try to collectively just wra our heads around the meaning and significance of what w have seen in the last 24 hours so of course, we have to begin with the biggest story former president of the united states pleading not guilty t 34 felony charges. stemming from hush money payments he made to adult film star but in addition to the materia effects we saw yesterday, ther was, of course, as i am sure you noted, also the shee spectacle of it all. the trumpian circus if you will a live 24-hour coverage of his drive to the airport his plane landing. his drive from the airport t trump tower. all of which, i, think has a deep and profound reaction in lot of folks because of what happened in 2016 there are lots of people who watch politics closely who hav got a lot of anxiety stemmin from that 2016 e
that it wasn in fact a revolutionary bill . and then there was this inio the senate for ted kennedy of massachusetts. the man who drove the bill went out of his way to explain this. the democratic party was absolutely not trying to replace the american population with more compliant foreign born voters. for no way. that s an insane conspiracy theory. he explained, quote, this bill will not flood our citiesci .ti immig the immigrants kennedy said itr. will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. n it will not relax the standards of admission. it will not cause american workers to lose their jobs. it it s all bitterly amusing when you look back at it because of course, that is precisely what this bill did. this bill changed america completely bill and forever. and the numbers show it in the years since that legislationn passed, the united states total populationle explodedited by one hundred 140 and forty million people. you re seeing that chart on your screen t ch right now
Abortion issue, for example, in the state of florida, democrats feel like they can really capitalize on this issue. Republican since are trying to find an issue that they feel like they can capitalize on once again, immigration and Border Security is something that they feel like is a winning issue for them. Of course, thats made more complicated by the fact that republicans and killed the bipartisan Border Security agreement that was reached between a group of senators and the white house earlier this year. So i think this is really an attempt by republicans to shift the narrative back to an issue immigration and Border Security that they think is beneficial to them. At the same time that democrats are set to benefit from the Abortion Issue good luck. And as this takes on, you control, you control and shift the narrative. You control the message. Better chance you have of winning up, up and down the ticket jackie scratches you, andrew. Thank you so much for coming on. New our scene, a