now that there is a speaker and a set of rule, kevin mccarthy is making good on a promise he made two years ago. if you, democrats, kick our people off of committees, we are going to do the same to you. back in february, 2021, democrats and 11 republicans voted to remove marjorie taylor greene from her committee assignments for a laundry list of extreme views and conspiracy theories, including that jewish space lasers actually caused california wildfires, school shootings were staged and her liking social media comments that supported violence against democrat, including one that said a bullet to the head would be a quicker way of removing nancy pelosi. then, in november of that same year, 2021, democrats and two republicans voted to do the same to paul gosar for tweeting a violent animation that depicted him killing aoc. now in january of 2023, two years later, with republicans back in control of the house, they are turning the table. promising to deny adam schiff, eric swal
and you and i in our years in journalism, how many times have we had conversations where we think that s fascinating. can i use that? no, you can t use it on the record, but you can say sources close to or whatever. i just don t quite buy is systemic idea that that was almost a conspirator yal level of organization where they re briefing against other people. stories get out. it s not the press secretaries or the communications directors. i always found them the most useless. it was the people on the fringes of or had things to say. why wouldn t they come out? we have to go in a second, but why wouldn t they just come out and defend harry and meghan in the face of that awful press? why not just say we love her. so happy for her to be a part of the family. they did to some extent, but they are clunky. it s a rattling old institution, the royal family, in a 21st century media rage and i don t
from his defense lawyer. from his school age la crosse days to his work in the medical field. the defense is trying to make the argument he is a good citizen who has disavowed donald trump and the false election statements. in fact, in one of his court motions, his defense lawyer calls donald trump s words false and conspirator yal, and tried to indicate that civic has distanced himself from that. a number of them try that with mixed results. final question, why did he take the badge and bury it? have we had any further indication from his attorney or himself what was going through his head? he assaulted fanone, but that just seems like, was it a trophy? a kind of like souvenir he was grabbing? you see the dirt around the badge. prosecutors argued he buried in it in his backyard.
democrat. i think abrams and lucy mcbath have reached out to get that coalition together. let s look big picture on georgia. the washington post had an editorial about georgia specifically and the ugliness here. they say it s been marked by dehumanizing immigration phobia, invidious voter suppression, conspirator yal accusations about democratic vote tampering, and racism. in other words, it shows in microcosm the direction president trump would take the gop. what s going to happen in georgia, and is it as reliably red as it once was? georgia isn t as reliably red as it once was. that s part of the reason why candidates like stacey abrams are as competitive as they are. i think georgia is a microcosm of the changes in the united states that are leading to the tensions and unrest that we see today. so people have to get used to the new america. georgia is certainly one of the states that is on the vanguard of that. so what we re going to see in the future, in part because of
i just want to note one thing about this deep state poll. it s a very dangerous thing when most of the country begins to believe that a small group in the country is manipulating decisions. we ve seen that historically in countries that begin to break down. i ve spent much of my life reporting from countries in the middle east where people believe that, that conspirator yal idea that politics is imbedded. if the united states is becoming a country like that, people have to fight for democracy. if most people think my vote is stolen, it doesn t matter then you get into that it appeals to that feeling that people have and you begin to go over the edge, so i take that poll finding very seriously. i do too and mike, as you point out, every day, this is not what people are thinking about.