i think what we ve seen from the influence of corporate lobbyists in washington, that that is absolutely part of the conversation, and that s why we want to secure a path to passage on both of these bills. senator manchin was asked about some of that criticism today. what do you say to people who you and senator sinema are holding this whole thing up? we don t have 50 votes. basically, take whatever we aren t able to come to agreement with today and take that on the campaign trail next year, and i m sure they ll get many more liberal progressive democrats with what they say they want. i guess that he s forgotten that this was already litigated in 2020. and guess what? joe biden won that argument. with me now congresswoman pramila jayapal of washington, chair of the congressional progressive caucus. i have to say, congresswoman, what has perplexed me the most about this fight is that having, you know, been around democrats and, you know, been a democrat
very threatening. he seems to be an obvious person that the commission might want to hear from. is that in the plans? well, i don t want to get ahead of where our committee or our chairman are, but you raise a very important point, which is the president, of course, said that he was going to go with these marchers descending on the capitol and didn t. so why did he tell the crowd he was? and why did he decide not to? was the president aware of what was going to happen when they got the capitol? these are really pivotal questions at the heart of all of this. and we re going to calling in anyone who has relevant information. and, look, we expect to get a fight on some of this. the president is already gearing up for a fight. but the fact that we re going straight to subpoenas with some of these witnesses show you that we re not messing around here. we re not going to allow ourselves to be endlessly play
minority leader? we haven t made any decisions yet on particular members of congress, but one thing we have been very clear about, and that is no one is off limits. we want to get to the bottom of all the facts, what led up to that insurrection, what planning went into it, who was organizing the rally, what expectation they had about potential violence or planned violence that day, and if they re members of congress, and i think there are that have relevant information about the planning that day, that were on the phone with a person during that day that can shed light on what the president knew, when he knew it, what others in the white house were doing, why the military response was so slow in coming, we want answers to all those questions. so people ought to understand whether they re in congress or out of congress, if they have relevant information, we re going want it. what s frightening here is how the connections between some of these extremist groups and
governor. whatever people used to say about kasich in ohio. kasich in ohio was an extreme anti-abortion candidate. but to the media oh, he is moderate. but once one of these guys gets in, this is what youngkin said about whether or not he would certify the election. youngkin beat biden beat trump legitimately, but in speaking with axios, he wouldn t say whether he would have voted to certify the election if he was a member of congress. so the bottom line, if he is in there in a state like virginia that presumably goes blue for biden, then he is nah, i ain t certifying that. bait, switch. this is the problem. but this is also why we have campaigns and why campaigns matter. and, you know, you reference to california example earlier, and let s understand, polls in california were a month or a month and a half out from the election too were 50-50 proposition until slowly democrats began to sort of turn their fire and define the crazy republicans in the race. and i think fairly soon you r
asking big corporations and the rich to pay their fair share is common sense, not class warfare, among other tweets on raising taxes and closing loopholes. i wonder what happened to that reasonable politician. biden s plan is popular and so is taxing the super wealthy. a new poll shows 66% of americans favor raising taxes on large businesses and corporations. with 37% saying that taxes should be raised a lot. 61% say taxes should be raised on income that is over $400,000. but because our democracy apparently runs on lobbying, there is no agreement on biden s plan, and it may never come to fruition. democratic senator sherrod brown made that exact point on the senate floor today. hear these reports about billionaires not paying taxes. you hear these reports about record profits on wall street. you see the influence, just, you know, check down the hall. madam president, look down the hall. you can see the influence in the