they ve been very clear about what they are going to do if they indeed take control, right? put medicare and social security on the chopping block. if you do that inflation goes up. the republicans many lawmakers are looking to to set an agenda for a new congress aren t focusing on that. their attention is on energy production in the u.s., particularly now that we know the biden administration tried and failed to get saudi arabia to cooperate. i think they should use the power of the purse to demand the kind of regulatory changes, new permitting, new leasing on federal land, open the alaskan national wildlife region back up for exploration and to your point, larry, let s get back to authorizing the kind of infrastructure that will allow for us to develop pipelines. president biden hosted short
support comprehensive immigration reform that will secure the border, make sure people are treated humanely when they do come in legally like my grandfather did from cyprus and my grandmother from lebanon. a way to do this right. republicans in congress aren t supporting it. with respect to your parents there is a process and they followed a process. right now americans don t see a process on the southern border. it s because the republicans in congress won t support comprehensive immigration reform. that s what we need. everybody can agree that s right. secure the border, make it a legal process. have a pathway to citizenship. do it the way my grandfather and grandmother did it. that s what we need to do now. bill: do you believe the border secure as others have suggested? no, of course it s not. we all know that. it s not secure. it needs to be. if we have comprehensive
all across the state, reminding people, don t run your generator in your house. the carbon monoxide will kill you. or make you very, very sick! don t do that! nobody says, hey why are we politicizing the generators in the middle of this crisis? it s because the generator lobby and their friends in congress aren t the most powerful businesses on the planet. and by burning those same fuels that are pumping carbon monoxide into your home, which can kill you, it s also burning carbon dioxide which is not going to kill you immediately, but is a heat trapping gas which is contributing to all of these things that we are seeing. if you don t believe me, check out our friends at nasa. the guys who hit that asteroid 7 million miles away, those geniuses, that will explain it to you. i just reporting what they are trying to tell us and these are the implications of these warnings that we have been hearing. ad nauseam, since al gore won the nobel.
different perspectives, points of view. that s kind of natural human existence. but the 34% of the american people believe that violence is a way to deal with differences. look at that. i mean, that, joyce, is really scary. it s absolutely concerning. and it points to the fact that there has to be accountability for the events of january 6th. to the extent that there are some folks wobble that you should never try to hold political actors accountable for political decisions, that might be true in some sense, but as you re pointing out, what january 6th involved was a violent attack on the capitol building itself. and a violent attack that was intended to interfere with the transition of power, with certification of the election. the only path forward here is through accountability, if doj and congress aren t successful in bringing to light the truth and holding people accountable,
congress aren t even in majority black districts. so, it s not that. it s making sure that you draw lines that are fair, that you don t put people in these squiggly lines all over the place to make sure you only have republicans that will vote your way and that s what s happening across this country, in too many states, including the state of texas and other places, so what we don t have is the ability to look at to make sure that the maps are fair for the voters to be able to say, let candidates of choice and not the elected officials making sure they have the ability to make sure that only one party has the ability to win these congressional races. it doesn t stop there. it goes all the way down to the school board. so we are talking about the ability to, again, elect candidates of choice. very quickly, because i want to get to your meeting with nfl commissioner roger goodell, but is this something that the electoral count act could fix? i m not sure about that.