decade, that the nra is falling apart and i know there s evidence that suggests that the organization is has been plagued by corruption and has had various kinds of institutional problems, and yet, in terms of the kind of grip that it continues to have over the republican party or the grip its ideology has, doesn t seem to have changed at all. what s the health report, so to speak, institutional health report or power report on the nra at this hour? so, as a group, you know, it has setbacks. it s facing litigation in new york and elsewhere. it s under investigation here and there. but they have built a powerful movement over the years, and as charlie said, it s not a debate over gun regulation. it s a culture war. that s while why people at the convention, politicians are, you know, kind of referring to woke culture. it s not really about guns. and it s on purpose, john. the point is that over time, if you re winning all the time, you know, you have to turn the volume up and the nra
what s the thought right now on capitol hill among democrats about how they view what the doj s doing? are they starting to take some heart, some comfort in the fact that doj is moving, or are they still frustrated one way or the other? yeah, john, right now we re really not hearing much from democrats at all. mostly because they re at home with their constituents during recess, making the rounds, talking about things that are not january 6th related but also because the committee investigating the january 6th committee or the january 6th insurrection are pretty busy preparing for the public hearings right now. there were also a few outliers on the committee who resisted from applying the public pressure on the doj last month, and really for most of this year as the doj has yet to make a decision on some of these criminal contempt referrals that the committee has made, and that s because there was sort of a feeling amongst people like congressman jamie raskin that the doj was doing
that claim because suddenly even the claim of executive privilege becomes partisan. so i thought this decision was well-written and well-explained and gives the january 6th commission what they need. it does. i am concerned of the clock being run out on the january 6th committee. this was fairly clear and swift and hopefully a similar ruling of mark meadows being subpoenaed to testify in the committee which is key and in the thick of things on january 6th. he was cooperating and he withdrew. it needs to be enforced. and john highland, obviously a big win for the january 6th commission, right? yes, huge. i think and i don t want to pair in their language too much.
by the way. donald trump himself said that earlier this week. there is no plan and no agenda. we just want to get into power. john, january 20th is the anniversary of president biden being sworn in as president in office. some of the history is about his history of being senator of twisting arms and working. that obviously has not happened, he got it on infrastructure but not many other places so was it fantasy in this era and climate of the way the republican party is today and now looking back to think that joe biden could be different in this moment? willie, i enjoyed it when you ask me questions of a one word answer. yes, of course it was. if you think about 2020
shelby and look at what happens in texas, look how much harder for black people to vote in texas today than it was in 2013. the drop boxes are being pulled up in minority areas. cory booker also says why does it take a black american so much longer to vote on average than a white american? this is pretty clear cut. i don t like it i don t like anything that s out there called jim crow 2.0. i agreed with stacey abrams, they should have yanked the all-star plan in atlanta. georgia is easy to vote going into new york city. so we can hold that in one basket here and then we can go over here and see why the john