everyday places of become killing field. and communities all across every part of america. and at each place you hear the same message. do something. for god sakes, please, do something. i know for a long time it has been hard to make progress. but there will come a point where our voices are so loud and our determination is so clear that they can no longer stop us. we will act. joining us now is beto o rourke, former democratic congressman who represented el paso, texas. thank you very much for joining us on this difficult night. it was a year ago when you got the word about what happened in uvalde. tell us what it was like when you went there? well i came the following day and the timing of my arrival happened to coincide with a press conference at the governor, greg abbott, was
too many schools, too many everyday places of become killing field. and communities all across every part of america. and at each place you hear the same message. do something. for god sakes, please, do something. i know for a long time it has been hard to make progress. but there will come a point where our voices are so loud and our determination is so clear that they can no longer stop us. we will act. joining us now is beto o rourke, former democratic congressman who represented el paso, texas.
attorney general, and then we ll see. look, we ve been thinking we re at an endgame for a long time, and smith has really shown himself to be one of methodical, when the grand jury is around, he can use it to investigate in a way he can t when it s done. but if the journal reporting is to be believed, and they source it to people who know, yeah, he really is at an end. i can t think of other roxie hasn t turned over, for god sakes, all the maintenance staff and the like. what s it gonna look like? he s gonna do a prosecution memo, it s gonna go to the attorney general, almost certainly it would will recommend, and i m talking about the documents case, prosecution. can t imagine he s going this far and then bailing. and almost certainly, garland, will approve it. if the journal is right, it will be in short order. if not, it will be an intermediate order. that is almost certainly coming. and talk about a come up against that shows the former
they still demand an election on a day where it s currently looked illegal to have a statewide special action in ohio. this where we get back to the sort of layers of anti-democratic that challenge, to the legality of this august 8th election is gonna go to this ohio supreme court. how are we doing in the ohio supreme court? unfortunately, we had a wisconsin moment a couple years ago. we got ourselves an independent court. then they changed those rules, and at a party labeled ballot, move those races up to the top, now they have themselves. there s another one. the court changed hands. it did, we had a moderate chief justice was a longtime republican, who are three democrats voted, against every gerrymandered map. in the meantime, they switched the rules of how we elect justices, i think they did north carolina, and then violated four year all the court orders. as i always say, it s if we saw this in another country, we would be saying, my god, you have no rule of law
attorney and then inside a main justice, what your read on that reporting is about the cement, coming of an end of dot dot dot, some decisions could happen soon, and it s gonna go up to the main guy at the attorney general, and then we ll see. look, we ve been thinking we re at an endgame for a long time, and smith has really shown himself to be one of methodical, when the grand jury is around, he can use it to investigate in a way he can t when it s done. but if the journal reporting is to be believed, and they source it to people who know, yeah, he really is at an end. i can t think of other roxie hasn t turned over, for god sakes, all the maintenance staff and the like. what s it gonna look like? he s gonna do a prosecution memo, it s gonna go to the attorney general, almost certainly it would will recommend, and i m talking about the documents case, prosecution. can t imagine he s going this far and then bailing. and almost certainly, garland, will approve it. if the journal is r