and you know, so i don t want to necessarily tar any individual agent who might have thought, you know, something else for some raisins that maybe we don t know about yet. but i think that the kind of bigger picture here is at least that this leader of the field office, made a grossly wrong call. and andrew is absolutely right! the idea that you put that guy in charge of the investigation? i mean what s next for the fbi? they already botched the mechanical russian spy investigation, and they re gonna put in a charge of the investigations in the future? i mean who knows! it s a real serious problem for the fbi right now. neil katyal and andrew weissmann, thank you both very much for leading off our discussion on this important night. really appreciate it! thank you. thank you. you re welcome.
saying in may, no we don t need a search warrant, let s not do that. uhm wouldn t that be something that jacks mitt would be owed on day one so that he could have the right people in place? yes, i think so lawrence, battle on a go so far. it is possible that people just make the wrong judgment call. that can happen. and you know, so i don t want to necessarily tar any individual agent who might have thought, you know, something else for some raisins that maybe we don t know about yet. but i think that the kind of bigger picture here is at least that this leader of the field office, made a grossly wrong call. and andrew is absolutely right! the idea that you put that guy in charge of the investigation? i mean what s next for the fbi? they already botched the mechanical russian spy investigation, and they re gonna put in a charge of the investigations in the future? i mean who knows! it s a real serious problem for the fbi right now.
all that to say the companies making a decision about who they want a platform and include racist language before they decide, there s only a few amount of people were gonna put in the washington post, we re gonna put in the l.a. times, and we want those people to represent our values to a certain extent. that s not canceling anybody, that s deciding we have a limited amount of space and where do you use it in a way that s appropriate and respectful, there s nothing wrong with. that u.s. today ceo was quite clear about it. here s what he said. he said the decision was easy. it was frankly and easy decision. we found the remarks hateful, and hurtful, and just crossed the line. we believe in free speech, we believe in creating a place for different points of view, but there is a line that gets crossed where things become
being here tonight. i know you are busy doing the important work of trying to save democracy. i want to get to some of the measures that you re proposing in your state to ensure that the sin city of democracy i just want to start, if you could with this moment for reexamining the outlandish, brazen, anti-democratic efforts to steal the election in 2020, and remind us what it was like to live through what happened in michigan in 2020. it was a constant every day, constant whack-a-mole. not to be so flippant, about every day we wake up thinking, is this it, have we protected against every potential challenge, and it became clear every day that indeed, every lever was gonna put, every tactic was gonna be dry day after day after day. after we got and had shut down the fake electors scheme. we thought that none of us had
in michigan in 2020. it was a constant every day, constant whack-a-mole. not to be so flippant, about every day we wake up thinking, is this it, have we protected against every potential challenge, and it became clear every day that indeed, every lever was gonna put, every tactic was gonna be dry day after day after day. after we got and had shut down the fake electors scheme. we thought that none of us had anticipated the depths to which people would go all the way up to the tragedy at our u.s. capitol on january. six in that moment, on january six i realize that we should never underestimate just that far people are willing to go to further the political agenda. and overturn the will of the people. as you witness what s