voting rights legislation. senator warnock s whose state was at the center of calls by trump was on the floor. watch. we are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we have ever seen since the jim crow era. this is jim crow in new clothes. since the january election, some 250 voter suppression bills have been introduced by state legislatures across the country from georgia to arizona, from new hampshire to florida. using the big lie of voter fraud as a pretext for voter suppression. the same big lie that led to a violent insurrection on this very capitol. the day after my election. make no mistake. this is democracy in reverse. rather than voters being able to pick the politicians, the politicians are trying to cherry pick their voters. i say this cannot stand. the legislation the senator is promoting there takes direct aim at institutional barriers to voting and create national standards for voter registration. according to dem
the election. mitch mcconnell is threatening to scorch the earth if democrats get rid of the filibuster. later i ll be joined by the perfect guest to discuss the intimidation tactics, harry reid. he has a lot to say about mitch. we begin with ron johnson continues to dig a hole for himself. he s doubling down on his experiment in making the quiet part really loud. last week when he said he would be more afraid if the violent insurrection on january 6th was led by black lives matter protesters. on january 6th, i never get threatened. i knew those were people that loved this country and truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break a law, and so i wasn t concerned. now, had the tables been turned, this could mean trouble. had the tables been turned and president trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of black lives matter and antifa protesters, i might have been concerned. it s no surprise that the remarks provoked justified accusations of
A look at the latest news and headlines of the day features discussions of politics and culture, analysis of Political Correctness in Campus Craziness and. The internet. Lets give people access lets give people rights and if we cant get that, lets make sure we know we defined facebook, youtube and twitter as publishers who are libel, as our fox news or the Wall Street Journal or anybody else for the content they put out. Tammy again, weve got to find a way to push back and one of the strengths we have here is that we are the content, there is a sense also that we are willingth to put up with anythig because our lives now are so intertwined with twitter, with facebook, social media in general. Its the new modern way to communicate and my concern, of course, is that we dont want them to go away and yet ironically they are private public companies, they are not p government. They can do what they please, but i think the power as an example, this conversation, being able to have a Point Of
former president, running to his side but that s not the case among the top republicans in the senate. we saw yesterday mitch mcconnell, senate minority leader, would not comment on the indictment. he said he s not going to comment on the presidential candidates in the republican primary, and we saw two of his top deputies essentially say that these are serious allegations and it s not looking good for the former president. in some house republicans standing firmly by kevin mccarthy, but interestingly enough, breaking with senate gop in terms of not defending president trump. so there s also republicans in the house and also television hosts with their fog horns going on and on and on, not just about hillary clinton, and not doing the proper follow up and talking about what we ve talked about here that there was follow up in the trump white house to hillary clinton. and they decided not to prosecute. yeah, and they decided not to prosecute. but now the other sort of look at the b
as the envoy around democracy to africa under madeleine albright, and they worked together there, and i was able, because of him, to see her up close work just as hard on african nations and doing things that she did as other secretaries of state did around the world. all of us are mourning the passing of a great woman. rev, can we just talk, can you just give us some perspective on what we ve seen this week. it s been a very difficult five years. you ve had somebody in the white house who s been openly hostile and used race from 2017 to the beginning of 2021. you have had others who have openly embraced white supremacy. the dog whistles have not have been put away, and now a lot of fog horns and again, in