Good evening, alex. Good evening. Okay. What would it look like if a republican president took office and then immediately set about replacing all the Career Officials with rightwing ideologues seeking to upend the way the federal Government Works . There has recently been a lot of speculation about just that kind of scenario. But we dont actually have to imagine because Something Like that has happened before. In july of 1981, here is the headline. Reagan, reversing many u. S. Policies. The New York Times reported the Reagan Administration has quietly set about accomplishing a sweeping reversal of policy and practice in the way the government deals with illness and individual citizens. Key cabinet and regulatory posts, the Reagan Administration, the reagan transformation amounts to a resolution of attitude involving the appointment of officials, who had in previous administrations my have been ruled out over concerns of lack of Conflict Of Interest or open hostility to the mission of
Theres recently been a lot of speculation about just that kind of scenario. But we dont have to actually imagine because Something Like that has happened before in july offo 1981. Heres the headline. Reagan reversing many u. S. Policies. The New York Times reported the reaganli administration has set about accomplishing a sweeping reversal of policy and practice in the way the government deals with business and individual citizens. In key cabinet and regulatory posts the reagan transformation amounts to a revolution of attitude involving the appointment of officials who in previous administrations might have been ruled out over concern of lack of interest or open or ostilt to the mission of the agencies theyhe now lead. Sounds familiar. President reagan embarked on what you might call the first modern purge of the administrative state, filling the federal government with young conservative zealots who were looking to carry out a radical newo agenda. And nowhere was that more evident th
[dramatic music] breaking news out of georgia. Democrat Raphael Warnock and democrat jon ossoff has won the Senate Runoff election. This is the new georgia. This is a state that is changing like the country is changing. The big factor in black voters matter, its the new georgia project. You have black genius and grassroots genius on display, and black joy. We vote all we win we vote all we win welcome to the new georgia. Welcome to the blue georgia. Republicans taking another step to prevent what they believe is voter fraud at the polls. 48 states have introduced at least 389 bills to restrict voting. Both of those senate seats flipped from red to blue, and so republicans in georgia want to make sure that that doesnt happen again. Anytime a Political Party abuses their power to actually put laws in place so that whoever does not vote for them, they can prevent them from voting, that in itself is political corruption. We are fighting for our lives we are fighting for our votes we are fi
Years as a young adult in california, there were two female senators, senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both elected in 1992 during the socalled year of the woman. I was 9 years old when that happened, too young to grasp what was going on, and not entirely aware of Anita Hill Saga that prompted it so to me it was norm toll look to have washington and see two women representing my state. Completely normal to see one of those women led by bipartisan or to see her lead the Intelligence Committee or see her held to account for egregious wrong doing after 9 11 or see her stand up to the chief to get an apology out of it. It was norm toll watch Dianne Feinstein work in washington, and i know you see this coming, but looking back at the unremarkability is precisely what makes it so remarkable. Wasnt until i came an adult covering politics that i understood how hard she had to fight, sometimes against wings of her own party. Today the flags around the capitol are flying at half staf
The pentagon for its part watching the political infighting going on has been trying to pre position weaponry where it can so that those weapons can head to ukraine, head to troops on the ground sooner rather than later. Potentially within days as opposed to weeks. That doesnt rule out the prospect of further political infighting despite the fact that congresswoman nancy pelosi had called to sign off on the bill for ukraine. We know that it had been facing resistance from the republican party. They had wanted ties to strict immigration laws, Stricter Border security with the us mexico border. That particular vote failed. They needed a two thirds majority so that did not come to pass. Instead what you saw with the ukraine bill is that more republicans voted against it than actually voted in favour. We know that Republican Congress woman Marjorie Greene has signalled her intention to potentially oust the Republican House speaker mikejohnson over this filing a motion to vacate. She said s