aides subpoenaed you re right, not a lot of political fallout for them not cooperating. i guess they could go on steve bannon s internet show and pound their chest. but there is a consequence it would appear if liz cheney has said kevin ccarthy should be subpoenaed. are you picking up anything cross pressures for them to cooperate with a bipartisan congressional investigation should they be asked to? the thing that is most interesting about that whole line is mccarthy, if he doesn t let s say he was subpoenaed, they just asked him do speak because according to him he talked to the president that day and he says no. what that does, it chips away at the power that congress has. part of their role is to be able to do exactly what this committee is working on.
missouri hospital workers are being assaulted on the job. they are asked to carry panic buttons that allow them to summon security. there are other stories of folks removing their scrubs and changing in to other clothes so that they are not identified as they leave the hospital. we ve talked a lot about the debasement of our politics. this is now extending into the debasement of some of the most vital people in our society, health care workers, doctors, nurses. let me bring david back this. sorry, eugene. yeah, so i would say it is the result of voices of political leadership namely the former president who was willing to degrade and tear down institutions that we otherwise would hold with a certain degree of integrity from the courts to our intel agencies to the media to the clinical physicians and research scientists around covid. when a political leader is able to break apart the construct
and we can go forward and do build back better. why do you think he folded? i suspect he was starting to get a lot of pressure from the financial interests behind him who realized that he was plague with dynamite that would blow their fingers off. you mentioned the financial interest behind him. i have seen some of your comments since the texas abortion ban has made its way through to the supreme court. and i wonder if you can speak about whether the extreme nature of the republican party that s so brazen now. i guess maybe what s a distinction is that this version of the republican party is so openly extreme, on abarings, on the supreme court justice, on the debt ceiling. and i wonder if you think it gives renewed interest to look at something you have talked at something you talked about a long time, the forces, the dark money forces. it s the reason the republican party is openly extreme is partly donald trump. but more than that, it s that
in texas or recently back from texas where a lot of this, i don t know a word that i could use on tv, but bogus mayhem is going down over recounting counties in the state that trump won. what the hell is going on in texas? i believe the word you are looking at is excrement. i think that is one that we can say on tv. except it starts with an s. yeah. i m still in texas, i m here all week. we re doing a episode on exactly this question for the circus on sunday night just looking at how the texas republican party is racing as far to the right as any state party in the country. obviously a hugely important state party because texas is so big. you talk about it all the time on the abortion bill and everything else. and on the voting rights stuff, what has happened is that texas has become a one party state even though we ve talked for 20 years about how texas might go
things, dumb isn t one of them. he s either saying yeah i am going do this, reform the filibuster or he is living on a planet where he thinks republicans are going to go along with not creating, precipitating a global economic crisis. which is it? look, we know that senator manchin and senator sinema have both not been supportive of eliminating the fill buster in the past. there was a meeting where neither of them spoke out against it or in support of it. that suggests potentially there is some movement there. i think the other interesting thing that was brought up earlier by steve strks voting rights act, the freedom to vote act in the senate that was led by senator joe manchin. he came up with this compromise legislation. he is has been getting praise from stacey abrams,os outside progressive groups who are putting out ads inest west