Vice president ial candidate j. D. Vance has a new line he likes to repeat on the grow know the big difference between conservatives and liberals is no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months. Id say thats pretty strong evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric. Two Assassination Attempts in as many months, and i think its time to say to the democrats, to the media, to everybody that has beena, attacking this man and trying to censor this man for going on ten years, cut it out or youre going to get someone killed. His running g mate, j. D. Van, wants the public to believe it is the lefts reinflammatory Rhetoric Hat has motivated these attacks. Donald trump has taken t it a sp further directly blaming Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden for the attacks. In an interview with Fox News Digital Trump said somewhat inscrutably, they use highly inflammatory language. I can u
Us to deal with. And i love the way you two talked about whats happening and whats going to happen. Well, i mean, shes setting the tone for the administration. We have actually heard a lot from the new president in the past eight days. He has spoken publicly a lot. But we are hearing even more from jen psaki in the briefing room, and shes setting this tone of normalcy, accountability, Expository Work that tells us what the administration thinks the problem is, what they are doing to work on it, who is in charge of that work. And that person will be answering questions about it, as will jen psaki on behalf of the entire administration. Its just basic accountability, which is basic small deed democracy, which is just something we were used to before. We lost it for four years, and now it just feels so radical to get back to it. I hope it never i hope we never take it for granted again. I think we have, for this year, a series of rachel and jen conversations coming up at 9 00 p. M. Interm
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Congress member al green, the first to go to the floor and demand trumps impeachmement in 2017. Well also speak with Dahlia Lithwick, senior Legal Correspondent for slate, and mark green. His book with ralph nader is titled fake president decoding trumps gaslighting, corruption, and general b. S. Then two major victories for immigrant rights victories as new jersey lawmakers pass a bill to allow undocumented people to apply for drivers licenses. I want to tell you something. Immigrants, with papers or without, born here or not born here, we all deserve the same because we are human beings. We all have the same rights. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The house of representatives is slated to hold a historic vote today on two articles of impeachment against President Trump. The articles accuse President Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. They center on how President Trump withheld