twitter. it reads in part, twitter is not even close to being able to service the kind of debt that deal will bring down musk s entire business empire. in a moment we ll speak to the author of that piece. but first let s bring in democratic member of the house the oversight and armed services committees. congressman ro khanna of california, he represents silicon valley and is the author of the new book entitled dignity in the digital age, making tech work for all of us. what would we learn from europe about bringing accountability and safety to social media and big tech? well europe with the digital service acts that done some very kplon sense things such as banning adds that are targeted at children. such as making sure that these companies disclose their algorithms. so we know if facebook is targeting eating disorder as to teenagers, they have to disclose that and those practices should
investigations all looking at this stuff now, is the kind of implicit assumption by everyone including the president of the united states when he talks about people flipping, is that of course there are chargeable crimes that exist in the record of the president and his organization. i don t even think that s really a thing that anyone too strenuously attempts to dispute, whether to be rudy giuliani or the president s defenders on trump tv. the assumption is just do they find them and do they have the kind of political wherewithal to go after them? this is where i think professor alan dershowitz, one of my former professors, and i try not to be mean to him on television. but like this is where he s out to lunch. all right? because dershowitz is one of these guys who has taken intent, who has taken criminal intent completely out of the situation. yes, campaign finance laws are complicated. yes, people often violate them accidentally. yes, tax laws are complicated. yes, people violate
secure election act seemed like a sure thing. a bipartisan bill with the sole purpose of protect our voting systems from interference. republican roy blount was the chairman of the powerful senate rules committee. was set to mark up the bill on wednesday, with the expectation of a full senate vote in october. that markup never happened. no explanation was given as to why. until yesterday when yahoo! news reported the bill had been held up in the senate at the behest of the white house, which opposed the proposed legislation. the white house then told yahoo news that while the administration appreciates congress s interest in election security, the department of homeland security has all the statutory authority it needs to assist state and local officials to improve the security of existing election infrastructure. lead democrat on the bill senator amy klobuchar of minnesota joins me tonight. what happened here? it was a shocker, chris, because the bill was going so well. senator
wasn t the president of the united states, they would be indicted at this point. so you know, trump claims to have a get out of skral free card because he claims he s the sitting president. and you know, we can talk about that later. but these are incredibly serious allegations. what michael cohen said on tuesday as you were saying in the setup, chris, was that the president was directly implicated in these payments. it s one thing campaign finance violations, there s any number of ways to try to understand them. but i think here the allegation is very different and that s what the new york times op-ed is about. the allegation here is that trump actually conspired, he induced someone else, at least one other person, cohen and maybe more with weisselberg and others, to engage in this kind of cover-up scheme over campaign finance violations. it would be one thing if this happened at any time in our history, but it happened just a couple of weeks before our election. this information wa
now implicated in his former lawyer s illegal schemes. and trump and mitch mcconnell continue to pack the lower courts with hardcore conservatives, having already broken a record for getting appeals court judges confirmed already. this is just a small sampling of what s going on under trump and the gop congress. and at least in the short term there is nothing that robert mueller or anyone else is going to do to stop that. the only real binding constraint on much of that power is what happens in november. are there enough voters to show up to give us a congress that will put checks on a president and a republican party that currently refuse to police themselves? now, if you happen to be one of those americans, the majority according to polls, that want change soon, it s a good thing to remember. it is not robert mueller you should look to. it s the midterms. so, how s it going?