the loss and then joe manchin the west virginia senator becoming effectively that 50th vote for the voting rights act or voting rights legislation rather is significant meaning that democrats when they bring this to the floor in the senate next week to begin debate should have unified support within the caucus which is a political win for the white house even if it doesn t necessarily yet mean that that bill is going to be passing the senate needing the ten republican votes, as well. lisa, let s talk about that very dynamic that phil raises. biden has to hold the democrats and, oh by the way in the spare time good luck finding ten republicans to pull across. that s exactly right. finding ten republicans in this sort of polarized political environment is a heavy lift an enthat why you see democrats pursuing the dual track approach to the infrastructure
there is to challenge the conventional wisdom the only party overreaching is democrats in washington. look at the state level where it s crazier and just emphasize michael s point this is not about ideas or principles. it is about just feeding the id. the outraged id. performtive theater where they re not legislating to deal with real problems in the real world. it is become this what triggers the libs. how can we attack the liberals? his point, i cannot emphasize how important this is. that interpolitics right now republicans increasingly see democrats as not a political party with which they disagree but enemies that must be destroyed an enthat changes the dynamic of the politics and it is fundamentally ill liberal and anti-democratic but yes so you see them throw this chum up against the wall. playing the sorts of games
and the rush to deal with rising crime and when they see us presents a story and gets us to reconsider and experience it in a modern light. an enthat s what the best scripted series about the past and doc -series do. they retell a story and have us reconsider something that happened in the past in the modern light. no doubt, whether it s a tv series, they re triggering emotions and getting people fired up and taking action. is that what is at the basis of all of this? i think so but i also think it s expansion of the forurth estate. there was a documentary on the central park five and the testimonies i argue that we haven t changed and we have a system right now that is putting wrongfully accused, young men, black and brown bodies, young
started in the food business. they say that he was involved in raising money and directing the hacking operations then. today, they charged a woman who is an accountant for that company concord. and said that she was involved in setting up false social media memes, phony internet accounts, phony websites this year. so the mueller charges were about the 2016 election. this is the first charges from any federal prosecutor about this year s election. an enthat and that s why they weren t filed by mueller s prosecutors. this is about this year s election. and what they say is that these memes were keen to sort of hot button political issues in the u.s. immigration, race relations, for example, the nfl protests taking of a knee at football games. gay rights, the women s issue. and they all tried to take advantage of events here in the u.s. like the las vegas mass
does? sure. there s a few reasons. number one, think about how crazy it is that the president goes after the attorney general for based on their relationship and how things have gotten sour there and what you would have is a deputy attorney general terminated or asked to resign and then the investigation up in the air. this is starting to have eerie echos of 1973 where you had the attorney general and the deputy attorney general both terminated and ultimately people of conscious to stand up in the department to ensure that, you know, the special counsel investigation was overseen and taken care of properly. so the question is, who would they put in charge of the mueller probe? we just don t know. it s part of what has made the probe so successful, or at least thus far is the fact that mueller has operated with a degree of independence an enthat s what s made it such a