and no one in d.c. knows more about how a bill becomes a law than him. - conference committee and then, when we re at this point in the line, you loop back. - but it quickly became clear that this was really complicated. - back to the senate. - oh, lord. - then you head up here to the white house to get signed into law. - all right. you could see why this would be a little hard to follow or confusing for anyone who doesn t work in congress for a living. i mean, it s three, five, eight steps at least right here. so the provision that we re talking about that basically said you can t get rid of your student loans to bankruptcy, when do you start to notice it? - so actually, the first place a mention of it pops up is actually back here in this little detour to the rules committee. - okay. what does that suggest? - that suggests it was part of a manager s amendment, which include smaller things that individual members want that just aren t worth the time to debate because they re pretty no
and there will be people who spin this as political or they took the bait. they didn t take the bait. whatever it is. i have confidence that jack smith and all of the career professionals at the justice department will make these decisions based on the facts and the law as merrick garland has said all along. and the people that are spinning it four have already made up their minds. i don t think that there really people out there who have not decided how they feel about this. just a loop back on this kind of core question of what this is going to mean, the work of the 16 committee. the report, i was so struck by congressman cicilline saying, you know at some point members, you will sit down with your good and grandkids, no longer be in the house of representatives and they will say, where were you? what did you do? and you will need to be able to answer that question and that question will be more powerful and more meaningful than the questions you are answering right now from your c
- so i called in a favor. - the house does its version. senate does its version. then send it back down to the house. - so that s a new bill they re sending? - right, so. - this is ryan mcconaghy, a top policy advisor from my days on capitol hill. and no one in d.c. knows more about how a bill becomes a law than him. - conference committee and then, when we re at this point in the line, you loop back. - but it quickly became clear that this was really complicated. - back to the senate. - oh, lord. - then you head up here to the white house to get signed into law. - all right. you could see why this would be a little hard to follow or confusing for anyone who doesn t work in congress for a living. i mean, it s three, five, eight steps at least right here. so the provision that we re talking about that basically said you can t get rid of your student loans to bankruptcy, when do you start to notice it? - so actually, the first place a mention of it pops up is actually back here in this l
had the largest misappropriation corruption in the states history. it was 100 million dollars in funds that they did not allocate to recipients in need. but they gave brett we have a system failure, not with our water system with state government that s using federal funds to further inequities we must address. i have 30 seconds last. i want to loop back this isn t just happening in jackson, this isn t just happening in mississippi there be law charged with advancing environmental justice and civil rights i wonder if you think that s part of the solution here? it s absolutely part of the solution it s consistent with the presidents commitment with the interests of epa in the current administration. it s absolutely important that this office have teeth to enforce. when we look at different states, what we find [inaudible] we actually gonna find this in other states.
really sobering. does she have legal remedies? look, you know, there are things she can do and there are things that her employer could do, but basically this has become the cost of our participation in the political system in the age of trump. it s nauseating. it s nauseating, it s horrifying, it s a price to pay. tom, sort of the thing i want to loop back on, to your point, about the former presidents fitness for office. one of the big stories that i thought on for this week was you had arizona lawmakers, receive hours, refusing to break his oath, declared election stolen. but he then tells the ap that he would still vote for trump. that, i think, is one of the key conundrums here, right? is that even with people saying yeah, he did this horrible, reprehensible thing, they still say they would line up behind him. how do you break that? the republicans have told themselves a story and have