the tenants of this great democracy, this great country of ours, this really i think demonstrates the depths to which he ll go in order to do anything to hurt or harm and i think put at great risk those who have the audacity to speak out against him. i would love if you could talk about the guardrails themselves. we know about the literal weaponizing of the federal government, in this case sometimes the irs or doj in its hiring and firing practices because of john kelly and his testimony under oath. and i wonder the industry to which you think those guardrails hold if trump is re-elected another four years. he is of course running for president. you intimated now you re concerned about it. institutionally speaking can the center hold? that s a good question. john kelly who is a very close former colleague of mine as well as a close friend, he decided to do that job of chief of staff in the white house knowing it was going to be difficult because he
thomas massey. massey was on the call. so, think about this for a second, you ve got a deposit at a regional bank that is holding tons, way more than you know, of long interpreter rows worth a lot less than when the bank bought them, that in moos your money is at risk. but senator mark kelly of arizona doesn t want you to know about that. why wouldn t they want you to know that? kind of interesting. that kind of censorship could actually crush people. so, we have to ask the obvious question, how closer we to some sort of disaster and to what extent are the people in charge betting it? of course running for president, a long time finance guy, venture capitalist, thank you so much for coming on. so, first just and i know these are complicated questions, but assess if you will, how most people experience the news that
a ballot initiative in michigan or california to enshrine my access to this procedure. yeah, we won t be able to access the most popular and safe form safer than tylenol of abortion care. medication abortion care, if this ruling goes the way we expected to go. on a pull up some numbers for you. a new survey finds 57% of texans support reproductive freedom, but you have texas republicans of course running in the other direction, pushing some of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country. i wonder, the work you do is the politics of this thing. what does that tell you? it tells us i m a texan, i spent a lot of my career and reproductive rights in texas it tells us how extreme the proponents of these restrictions are, and how violently out of touch they are with the american people. we saw that in midterm elections. we sought and states like montana and kentucky, where they took these issues straight to the people of kansas, and we won assentingly. when i say we, i mean
to run, somebody even took your hands. yes. mike very good friend and fellow traver assistant, who is photographed in those pictures, is a college runner. she grabbed my arm, and i felt like that moment, her arm grabbed me, is what i realized the sense of urgency. i had been so shocked by everything unfolding. so, kind of unaware,, again not having any access to twitter or the outside world. there were rumors. i didn t know what was true, and hurt decisiveness and urgency is what really kind of clicked with me that okay, i ve got to take this seriously. then, of, course running through the capital, you could see protesters in the building, something i had never seen before. the capital, for me, is my favorite place on earth. i never imagine seeing people like that storming the halls. and it was genuinely terrifying. there is adrenaline that goes through you and gets you through it, but you said you could feel your friend shaking with fear. there is real fear.
they are responsible for the criminal investigation but also participated in the raid of mar-a-lago. he essentially is involved in the prosecution. 850 plus americans criminally charged. he is also the agent, his office in d.c. also arrested peter navarro in public. the reagan national airport. we have the guy responsible for the whitmer kidnapping to create these negative headlines for donald trump now taking over the dcf ea field office and continuing that sort of anti-trump operation straight out of the washington fbi field office. laura: think you first thing above it. they seem to fail upward or persecute upward. they keep doing it. thank you so much. speaking of whitmer, her once sizable lead, course running for