Leaders in congress, are to pretend didnt happen. Is that just Mitch Mcconnells nature . What has to happen for something to get done . Tell me what you saw when you watched the Press Conference today. Reporter well, Mitch Mcconnell knows when youre the leader, a party in the senate, youll take shots. Thats part of the job, a guy who takes incoming fire and allows your caucus to get things done. The two men appearing sidebyside today was politically smart or at least acknowledgement of political reality. Their goals in most cases are the same and desperately need each other to get any of them done. On tax reform, they cannot have the same problems they had on health care. If theyre sniping back and forth at each other day after day its gawk to be that much more difficult to get done. You heard some of that today. The president praising Mitch Mcconnell. Saying hes the guy to get it done on all of these issues and put a bunch of additional issues on Mitch Mcconnells plate now
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passage of a restrictive voting law there. also joining us jacqueline benson. she has been on the front lines of protecting our democracy and has received the citizens medal from president joe biden for her role in defending against efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in her state. also joining us, the founder of democracy docket marc elias. he led the legal effort to protect voting flights the wake of the 2020 election. mark, you inspired this segment, and you inspired us to start with it today. we do what i described there, right. we cover the whac-a-mole that is the legal piece of this, your efforts to sue voter restrictions and voter suppression laws. but it is inadequate on our part, right, to cover it as piecemeal. so we wanted to have a more holistic conversation. why don t you start us off. yeah, i think that you ve gotten it exactly right, which is that it is too easy to look at what republicans are doing in georgia and say, well, that s republicans in georg
killed by law enforcement in six hours or so. but he was motivated, it appears, based on a lot of the falsehoods and the rhetoric that we still see too prevalent today. mary, i ll give you the last word on this. it feels unsustainable. it feels like we re in this position again of plying whack-a-mole. the climate doesn t change. you know, but for i think largely viewed as long shots to prevail in defamation lawsuits still. it seems that there are still more tools available to the purveyors of this information than those fighting it. it does definitely seems like for all that we try to use the law to restore some accountability that there are certainly gaps. and some of those gaps are actually because of our constitution and the way it protects first amendment rights, freedom of speech and expression. and someday i d like to have a
vetted. in this case, we know that he has not told the truth to the fbi, and let me tell you something, nicole, from prosecuting cases in federal court for ten years, the prosecutors in the southern district of new york where i worked and where this case comes from do not charge false statements lightly. we when i was there, was lied to numerous occasions by defendants that we didn t charge false statements against. and that s because it s a high bar to charge them. the credibility of this witness is not whether or not he was in similarly situated to hunter biden which i don t believe he was, but it s whether or not he tells the truth. and what we know is that he has not told the truth to the fbi. he s a fugitive, he s literally on the run. he jumped his bail and has not appeared for his extradition proceedings in cypress, i believe. he s on the lam trying to use the oversight committee to help
giving the democrats information about these whistleblowers. that is not actually how house rules work, but that is the rationale they re using. so they will cloak this criminal in the protections of a whistleblower so that they don t have to share their information with the democrats on the committee. and we cannot investigate it, look into it, and assess the credibility of what he s saying. all we have is what chairman comer is saying, and we know that chairman comer is a master of disinformation. yes, who s doubled down in the last 24 hours on his star witness. thank you very much for spending time with us on this busy day of news. we are grateful. coming up for us, the man at the center of right-wing conspiracies about january 6th says that he is facing charges for his role in the attack. but there is little chance that could quiet the lies about his role as a supposed covert agent.