,you will remember, lecturinguiy the rest of us about equity, meaning that straight white men are bad. and yet, strangelyy th, the perl he chose for this job was not ws a member of a racial or minority. guinority. privileged straight white guy.y he was called nick mcquaid. nick mcquaid went to private schools. he wrote at wesleyan. he w went to columbia for law school. he is definitely not oppressed. but that did not mattemar to joe biden. some jobs are too important for affirmative action. liquid ertives main qualificn was being the former law l partner of hunter biden aws criminal attorney in december criminal attorney in december a latham and watkins lawyer called chris clark to defend him againslaar t potential federaljust a tax charges. just a month later, hunter biden s dad hired chris clark s partner, nick mcquaid, to oversee the agency that could bring those federal tahex charges. that seems like an obviousglr and glaring conflict, buint no, nick mcquaid did not
many similar movements that arae on the way. inevitably, and the few visionaries who have grasped this obvious truth weirdly , have not been welcomed by blue am america. they have been mockeda, they and derided as prophets, always are. a fewfe years ago, foro, example, a blue blond woman from montana called rachel dolezal declared that she wanas black because she decided that she was black . blackness was rachel dolezald lived experience, but she was not greeted as liberators. t gr she was almost immediateh booed off the stage and then she disappearee d and tellingly, none of the people yelling atye rachel dolezal ever explained whdy she couldn t be black. why not?t? in this country, you can change your , but not your race. really, how does that work? what species of science are weec talking about here? it was note are we defensible al and so over time, like alle ar indefensible arguments, it will collapse someday. the new york times will give g rachel dough s all its
positionm schiff using a position of the intel chairina lying to the american publicmeag again and again. swalwell, you all know, doesu a not have the ar should have the responsibility to serve on the intel committee. i ll put the nationarve on thely ahead of partisan politics any day. integrit the nationay matters ae going to make the intel committee back to what it was tt supposed to be.s suppos well, today, those aforementioned democrats held a press conference on being mocrats hebooted. it was a sad affair alleging ofis was merely an act of political retaliation by mccarthy. in other words political ret, te basically owed these positions will only, i think, breed with distrust within the intelligence community. ligenceas to what it can shares and what it caann feel confident about sharing with thecong congress. our mission noress. our mw is to restore the credibility and integrity of this institution. of which the speaker has so gravely so gravely smasheddestro and
however,though abandoning those policies, that work was really dumb. now we set an all right. lic. you bet. i can t wait to watch tomorrowll night. i will be riveted to it. i can t wait. all right. i m laura ingram .. this is ingram angle on a very the tuesday, just seven weeks before the midterms, if you can believe it. the last gasp. that s the focus of tonight s angle. look, in all seriousness, folks, that s how biden s right . forty nine days to go before th the midterms and the democrats ,they have so much to be proud of. prou eight point three percent is the year over year numbernumr coming in hotter than expectedn and hotter than a lot of economists. on th is a lot of people on thishadh panel thought it was going to come in since middle oou sinft year, we ve seen that inflationn is going up faster than wagefls that means that if you adjust paychecks for inflation, they rest payce actually shrink robberies and property crimes are rising. robber shrinkiny has
what we know about this attack so far. nbc has learned that the man who broke into the home of speaker nancy pelosi and paul pelosi attacked paul with a hammer and was looking for the speaker, confronting him by shouting where s nancy? paul pelosi had to be hospitalized after the attack, but he s expected to make a full recovery. ben rhodes served as deputy national security adviser under president obama and is an nbc political contributor. harry lipman is a former deputy assistant attorney general. frank was former assistant director for counterintelligence at the fbi and an msnbc national security analyst. and basel joins us. frank, i wonder what you re looking for out of this press conference. yeah. we re going to want to see confirmation that as nbc news that reported that the assailant was seeking nancy pelosi. why is that significant? it s significant with regard to who will lead the investigation and prosecute it. at the point that law enforcement understands that