very big polling problems of their own and others like carter who were doing very, very well, of course, it didn t really matter because he went down in a landslide defeat a few years later. but what are you to read into the numbers that we have thus far on joe biden? well, there s always a chance that biden could turn things around, right in that s never going to necessarily go away. but a lot of this is going to depend on on the 2022 midterms and on whether republicans do make as many gains as they re prohibiting right now. if they take predicting right now. if they take back both chambers of congress, biden s hope of getting anything done legislatively disappears. and then what is he going to have to show to voters? it s going to be really challenging to hold on to democratic gains that they made in 2020 especially if he hopes to get anything done over the next three years. neil: kaylee, i can remember when bill clinton s party was
the evidence that exists to get to the bottom of who perpetrated those offenses really need to be need to be highlighted and shown to the public, and so public hearings, i think, are going to be an important way to help breakthrough the log jam that exists right now where we have a very divided country. there s a huge fault line. when people have an opportunity to see what really went on here and see the evidence that has been really revealed by and discovered by the select committee, it s going to be an important turning point for our country and the decisions that we have to make to prevent this from ever happening again. as we have marked now the one-year anniversary of the attack on the capitol, the reflections on the riot have intensified the calls to pass voting rights legislation. do you think congress is females the urgency here? what is it going to take to get legislation through congress and to the president s desk? we ve had 30 different state
charge of it. and so this incident certainly seems appropriate to invoke that section and ensure that no one that was involved with planning or carrying out the potential overthrow of a legitimately held presidential election should ever be able to seek public office. okay. i m going to focus on the word anyone and presuming that no one is above the law, could this apply to donald trump? could this apply to current members of congress if any are proved to have been involved? well, alex, i ve been working on this legislation with constitutional scholars and colleagues of mine for a little over a year, and really, we really started out just focusing on what we re continuing to focus on today is that anyone who is found to have committed insurrection, who it s clear,
it a question that can be better answered by congress or states. then you have justice kagan saying because there s a compelling need in the country, it s incumbent on the federal government to step in with this mandate across the nation and for, in her opinion sounds like, the court to uphold it. what do you think? i think those two clips you played, that s the perfect dichotomy of the issue. you may agree that we want to end covid. how do we get there? who has the power to require what and to whom and of whom. that is the way we need to look at these two cases. who has the power. i think what chief justice is argumenting is the federal government, the executive branch cannot go agency by agency. on one case it was osha. another hhs. you can t go agency by agency to affectate this countrywide
why doesn t congress have a say in this? why doesn t we the people have a say in this? why is it osha that gets to control all of your lives not just at the workplace. seeing that this is being challenged so quickly and hearing sensible voices on the supreme court, at least on this particular issue gives me hope, will. will: yeah, to the issue of misinformation, that is a buzz word. almost like a verbal tick inside the media. it s one that i don t know, many learn and then have an involuntary reflex of repeating. the truth is to your point, rachel, it s a lie, flat out false and perhaps done intentionally, if not intentionally then maybe even more concerningly stupidly. and so here s where it dovetails with the constitutional issue, pete. what the executive branch wants to claim is that we are in a national emergency and, therefore, extraordinary powers are granted to the executive branch through oshaa. we don t need congress. we need to go ahead and save people s lives. in order to va