New research shows the average intelligence quotient (IQ) of people in the United States has dropped for the first time in nearly 100 years. This is according to a study from scientists [.]
of this and at this moment, when we re so close to possibly losing our democracy again through cockamamie legal theories is incredibly frightening. when there s a lot of stuff that s going on in these hearings that isn t immediately gripping, it s serving that other purpose, that other audience, which is in my mind at least equally important. now that you ve revised your record to say equally important, we re on the same page. thank you very much, counselor. good to agree with you. on that note, we re going to let these two go off and i feel like i hear a podcast in here. take this offline. it s very rare where i get neal to back down a little bit because he s about 400 iq points on me. because he makes arguments in front of the united states supreme court. he s good like that. neal katyal, john heilemann, thank you so much. jackie and joyce stick around. when we come back, a closer look at the role of the far-right extremist groups, a topic that will be a big important part
at their conference is certainly missing a few iq points. more broadly, the pro-putin sentiment you are seeing from some corners of your party. well, a lot of those people are changing their stripes as they re seeing the response of the world and the political response here in the u.s., but how anybody, how anybody in this country which loves freedom can side with vladimir putin which is an oppressor, a dictdictator kills people, he imprisons his political opponents. he s been an adversary of america at every chance he s had. it s unthinkable to me. it s almost treasonous. and it just makes me ill to see some of these people do that. but of course they do it because it s shock value and it will get the eyeballs and make a little more money for them and their network. it s disgusting. i m hopeful you re seeing some of those people recognize just
the point of a vacuum silence by republican party leaders is deafening and enabling. mitt romney referenced i think butch cassidy and the sun das kid. morons, morons on the team. sitting down with white supremacists is missing iq points. they speak out about this. others aren t worried about the leadership places. mccarr think wants to be speaker if republicans take over the house in the november elections. steve scalise fears that speaking out against the members, reprimanding them costs votes but what i think mcconnell is trying to make clear is that the republican party cannot be viable long term if there s tolerance or space for this kind
few iq points. just broadly, what pro-putin sentiments are you seeing from your party? a lot of them are changing their stripes as they re seeing the response in the world and the political response in the u.s. but how anybody how anybody in this country which loves freedom, can side with vladimir putin, which is an oppressor, a dictator, he kills people. he imprisons his political opponents. he has been an adversary of america at every chance he s had. it s unthinkable to me. it s almost treasonous, and it just makes me ill to see some of these people do that. of course they do it because they think it s shock value and it s going to get them more eyeballs or make more money for them or their network. it s disgusting, and i m hopeful that you re seeing some of those people recognize just how wrong they were. treasonous is a big word so i