The last few weeks have been historic, unprecedented, and yes, at times, pretty alarming. Former president , donald, trump is under an avalanche of legal trouble. Remember, those cases are not just about the criminal conduct of one man. There are about the future of our democracy, and our very way of life. The stakes for this country could not be higher in this moment. The question of who is leading the country impacts every single issue you care about. Well continue to talk about these cases, through every twist and turn. Believe me, i understand that a former president under multiple indictments is enough to shape the confidence of anyone in our system. Today were going to change things up a little bit. In part because i was pretty along when i saw a recent poll that 37 of voters think were in danger of failing as a nation. Failing. I wanted to spend the show talking about some of the people about the efforts to make progress, even under the threat of trump hanging over everything. N
called we the people. focus on voters disengaged with the current political climate. hello congressman, also call you congressman, i think you got the title for life. you, great to see you. you just launched the group we the people to reach what your call in the exhausted majority. i think a lot of people would agree with, that are relate to it. how do you reach people who are checked out from the political system? it s kind of an angel political question. i think first and foremost, you know, you let them know that they re not alone, there are a lot of people out there who still care, but are exhausted. we get concerned because i m back in ohio, i talk to people, i don t even know if i m going to vote. i m tired of the whole thing. that cannot be the answer. we want to make sure the people know that they have a home with the other exhausted people in the country. what we re going to do, jen, we re going to highlight some of the really cool stuff that s happening in the country, the
now the problem has become if you are a republican running for office, this could become a maga litmus test issue and you really don t want to be talking about this. you are talking about the past. this horrible day. you d rather be talking about the future and the democrats and what they ve been doing or not doing. that s really where you want to be. donald trump is making life much harder for republicans in the midterm and certainly if he decides to run for president. i can t think of anything just a crazier thing that donald trump could have said yesterday. more destructive to the interest of republican candidates. david, you got more than 761 people who have been charged in the january 6th insurrection. a bipartisan house committee now has its hands on documents and eyewitness accounts of what happened before, during and after the riot. do trump s words, his pledge, have any potential influence on where these cases go or perhaps even the congressional probe goes? hello, fred,
in debt. do you think your plan could wipe out his debt? it depends on the career that he chooses. it s a career of public service. we need more public defenders in this country. we need them to afford that incredibly important role in our judiciary and our democracy. i think there s public value and interest in that. refinancing that kpusing student loan debt at the lowest possible rate, the rate banks lend to one another mocks sense to me. so look, we cecan do a lot bett than we re doing now and we ecan do it in an affordable way in this economy and this country. we want to get to the audience. nina is a high school english teacher. hello congressman. english teachers unite. both republican and democrat
the land, now rejecting a challenge to a california law that allows illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition for college. as you may know, state college costs less for people who actually live in that state, and now, illegal students can get that same perk, for example, at the university of california, in-state students pay just over $11,000 a year, meanwhile, out of state students pay $34,000 a year. california congressman brian bilbray is chairman of the house immigration reform caucus and joins us now. hello congressman. what do you make of the supreme court decision that basically what their rationale was, in siding with these noncitizen students, was that the law is based on graduating from a california high school, not on citizenship? it s rated on spending three years getting a free education in california and graduating, and even if it means those three years you