well, john, it s all the conspiracy theories. it s qanon and black helicopters and great replacements. we live in an era in which people believe conspiracy theories. they re common. and the paradox here for people like us or people in the media is that this lack of trust in institutions is part of what makes it impossible for institutions to do things at these moments and the failure to do them saps further trust from institutions. it s a vicious circle. i m not sure how you break it. i think on gun control, the answer probably has to come from the right, from republicans who will go to the primary booth and cast ballots on kind of reasonable gun safety. and counteract the votes of the single issue gun voters who really don t want any restrictions at all. it s not going to come from the left. those people are already voting for people who are for gun control. the change really has to come from within the right on this country. charlie, chomping at the bit.
passed post the 2020 election, predicated on the big lie, that actually stripped brad raffensperger of some of his power to adjudicate the election in the way that he did in 2020. he no longer has that power and it s now hack republicans in the state legislature have that power. you look at that and think, well, okay, it s good that trump s people didn t win there, but it s not like brian kemp and in this case brad raffensperger are paragons of democracy in the way that we would like to see it practiced. so how much of a it s a victory, but isn t it maybe a little bit of a puric victory in georgia to have those two on the ballot? yeah, you anticipated my response to all of this, john, in that i m very proud that the boston globe editorial board, which i m a part of, even before january 6th, raised flags about brad raffensperger when he was being heralded all over the country for stating that election fraud did not happen in
that the warning signs and indicators that you ve heard me talk about over the years were all there, and so we ve got to address the social media aspect of this and whether or not algorithms can ever be tweaked properly to discern private chat rooms, blogs, you know, encrypted communications. it s virtually impossible to catch all of this, but yet there was so much out there that you have to wonder whether educating children about the warning signs and indicators of violence on social media so they can pick up the phone and call the police needs to happen. now, let s talk about what happens when you call the police. let s talk about this doj critical incident after action report. we know it s not criminal, right? we know that. that does not mean, john, that it s precluding criminal prosecution after the facts come out. some prosecutors have even contacted me and talked about child abandonment, which is a law in texas in subsection c,
investigation into the events leading up to january 6th is ramping up. it has expanded beyond the actual rioters on january 6th going back to the election and even before the election, and it is going to start turning the screws on people close to donald trump. and as, you know, you and i have talked about many times, john, when that happens we will know about it, just like we know from this absurd lawsuit from peter navarro. i don t think he s a particularly good political adviser, but he s really a terrible lawyer. i m going to get to his lawsuit in a second. jackie, let me ask you this. you know, it wasn t that long ago that democrats on capitol hill and elsewhere were like, well, the justice department is not doing anything. got to do something. then they said, you know, they asked the january 6th committee for some work product that became a controversy. now it looks like they got a grand jury going and they re going after peter navarro.
volunteers, and that pastor we just heard from. he has a sign around his neck that just says chaplain. sometimes people walk up to him just crying and hugging. lots of hugs and tears here. there seems to be a strong unity, a strong message of love and a hope to move forward. there is going to be they don t expect anyone to walk through those doors at robb elementary again to have that traumatizing experience again. so many kids are scared of school now as you can imagine, teachers as well. there are plans to demolish and rebuild that school as they did in sandy hook, at sandy hook ten years ago, and there could be some federal money as well, john, to rebuild here. liz, thanks very much for updating us on the scene down there. matthew doud, you know, as i read through that opening script, the lines that killed me in reading from that washington post story, just that little phrase, some experts at the art of facial reconstruction. it s an unthinkable thing has happening in uvalde.