call records for the week leading up to that turned over. you know, i don t think you ll find any calls between my office and the white house. but look, this is serious business because we can t go forward in america if we have outgoing president who s have lost their election denying that they ve lost the election, claiming that they won it, and then mobilizing political coups and violent insurrections against the government if that s what happened. and that s what we re trying to determine here. are you willing that takes us to a very different form of government from everything we ve known. you know, president biden has said that the autocrats of the world, the putins of the world, the general xis, they say to him that they don t they say joe biden, you re a nice guy, but democracy can t work. you don t we covered that extensively on this show, just the state of democracy, what would it mean if
has got a very, very aggressive plan. there s a lot of categories i agree with but some of the numbers are a stretch for me so if we bring the same spirit we brought to the infrastructure plan, to the reconciliation process, i think we can get there and one of the earlier comments that was made and i want to underline it in the oval office with the president and i say this as chairman of the intelligence commit tee. there s a lot of countries around the world particularly like russia and china that are preaching to other world leaders, democracy can t work. america can no longer lead. their system is broken. today record investment in infrastructure. bipartisan. not only good on a domestic basis but really good as president biden has often said america s leadership is back. senator warner of virginia,
how they have stood up for yanukovych and the new ukraine administration, when all the while you and the ukrainians actually had them on the payroll. this deliberate effort to obscure the facts undermines our political discourse and infects or policymaking. if the people do not have the facts, democracy can t work. so thatches the judge in manafort s case just a few days ago, reaming him out about the seriousness of his crimes and how what he did with this illegal lobbying stuff was not just a failure to comport with pesky regulations, but it was serious and a damages thing for our democracy. now it sort of becomes even more clear in hindsight, because the way she s reaming manafort out there, you know, what she moments later sends him to prison for is a type of crime that manafort didn t commit alone, that does appear to have
administration when all along you were hiding that you and the ukrainians actually had them on the payroll. this deliberate effort to obscure the facts, this disregard for truth under mines our political discourse and infects our policy making. the people do not have the facts, democracy can t work. that was the judge in manafort s case just a few days ago reaming him out about the seriousness of his crimes and how what he did with this illegal lobbying stuff was not just a fail tower comport with some pesky regulations, but actually serious and a damaging thing for our democracy. now it s sort of more clear in hindsight. the way she is reaming manafort out there, what she moments later sends him to prison for is a type of crime that manafort didn t commit alone. it appears to have involved other people and other entities.
manafort, what you were doing was lying to congress and the american public. if the people don t have the facts, democracy can t work. she added, saying i m sorry when you get caught is not an inspiring plea for leniency. judge jackson also criticized the manafort lawyers. their defense memo about the sentencing today. she said, the no collusion refrain that runs through the entire defense memo is entirely unrelated to the matters at hand. that did not stop paul manafort s lawyer from going out on to the courtroom steps and trying to deliver what the judge called the no collusion mantra. but protesters in the crowd knew better and shouted down what was what was clearly going to be a longer and untrue speech. judge jackson conceded that