gone into 2022 and in a much stronger position had he played the situation differently or decided not to run for re-election. to be fair, how bad is georgia s voter restriction law? so bad that major league baseball moved its all-star game to colorado. it feels a law predicated on a lie. as i said to the secretary, don t listen to me. listen to georgia s lieutenant republican governor duncan. i wonder of what you make of both the bar lowering and i m so glad he held firm against donald trump. i, too, think that was a heroic moment but there s as much danger in facilitating the enactment of voter restriction laws. it s important to note that the bar has already been lowered for a really long time. imposing voting restriction has been a tenant of republican policy long before donald trump.
someone who is unfamiliar with legal risk, which is why i find this very surprising. but this is the bar-lowering that we hear all the time from folks in his own party. we did a story a few months ago about how last year, the president in at least three different conversations with gop senators tried to get them to end the intelligence inquiry into russia. that s right. and when we questioned senators about the conversations, at least one of them downplayed it, saying he s just a businessman, he doesn t understand that s inappropriate. well, he s the president of the united states. if that happened in january or february of last year, maybe, maybe you give him a little grace. he s getting up to speed. now, sorry, no. sorry. all right, everybody sit tight. up next, president trump throws a curveball and why he supports citizenship for so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers. in i literally say, ahh. america
discipline anyone that he sees as putting their interests or some policy or idealogical interest above the interest of what is best for him. bannon is on record, by the way i think it was before he joined the campaign, calling trump a crude instrument last year for his sort of vision of economic nationalism. there is a sort of notion of either intentional or not, bar lowering for the coverage of trump in some ways because have you to because there s so much of it. can you imagine any other president trying to tweet out the moment that i m in charge here, who s questioning going after a federal judge and saying any terrorist attack is on this judge personally. then, you know, equating the american government with what the russian government is saying, you know, there s no angels here in america. only three weeks in. that doesn t even mention, you know, attacking schumer.
the thing going for her is this time she really doesn t have a barack obama challenging her. the other hand is there are a lot of external factors and a lot of ups and downs she s going to have to contend with. i m curious, too, she looks so well positioned on the democratic side, certainly. it did jump out to me there s a little bit of bar lowering going on already with their campaign saying hey, 50% s a lot to be getting out in iowa if you re not the president. the vice president or tom harkin. i think that leaves only like three caucuses in history where one of those things hasn t been the case. that s the bar they re trying to set. what do you think is going to happen? president obama weighing in. joe biden, the sitting vice president, has been trying to keep his options open. are we going to see democrats like joe biden coalesce around her? is this thing going to wrap up early? you know again, it s really hard to predict the future steve, but i do think that things are set up