Finally is planning on using the Bully Pulpit and making his case directly to the american people to focus attention on the most important issue of our time. The future of american democracy and the defensive our Voting Rights. Today the White House announced the president will speak in philadelphia on tuesday about what his administration will do, quote, To Protect The Sacred Constitutional Right to vote. Biden at a civil rights leaders who pushed him to do more and take a more urgent stand in support of the democrats sweeping election bills. Federal legislation is the only surefire way to protect our right to vote from dangerous anti democratic republicans in State Houses across the country like indexes, where republicans are again pushing to pass incredibly restricted voter laws. Its the top priority upstate Special Session currently underway. Today, texas senate democrats unveil their own Voting Legislation and called for a public hearing on their bill which would expand a vote by
Football championship. For the first time in my lifetime, as Joe Biden would say. Fair enough. Good luck. Thanks, buddy. Have a great weekend. Good evening. President biden finally is planning on using the Bully Pulpit and making his case directly to the american people to focus attention on the most important issue of our time, the future of american democracy and the defense of our Voting Rights. Today, the White House announced that the president will speak in philadelphia on tuesday about what his administration will do, quote, to protect the Sacred Institutional right to vote. Yesterday biden met with civil rights leaders who pushed him to do more and take a more urgent stand in support of the democrats sweeping election bills. Federal action, specifically federal legislation, is the only surefire way to protect our right to vote from dangerous antidemocratic republicans in State Houses across the country, like in texas, where republicans are again pushing to pass incredibly restr
Laws, implemented after black and brown voters in georgia gave Joe Biden the presidency and Democrats Control of the united states senate. A lot of people were hailing lewis on this anniversary including arizona conservative democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema, who got quite a bit of blow back for calling him her dear friend and personal hero. Since Sinema Stands in opposition to ending the filibuster. Meanwhile, other democrats were making good trouble in atlanta today. For the first time in 20 years, the senate Rules Committee held a Field Hearing, Starting With Impassion remarks from georgia senator, the reverend raphael warnock. John Lewiss Pastor at ebenezer baptist church. Sadly, what were seeing in georgia is an attempt to deny certain people the ability to have their voices heard in our democracy. As i have said time and time again, some people dont want some people to vote. Congress must take action on Voting Rights. We have no time to spare. There is nothing more important for
Charged. Do you think this is only going to get bigger . I think thats right. I still dont know whats going to happen, as i said, with kind of the other tentacles of the investigation as far as manipulating Asset Values for Bank Fraud and Tax Fraud and that side of things, the hush money payments, et cetera. But as far as this particular scheme is concerned, the indictment was very careful to not only talk about weisselberg and his son but to make clear that other people benefited and other people were involved on the Trump Organization Side as far as making this scheme happen. So i fully expect that more people will be charged in this particular scheme in the weeks to come. Michael, if weisselberg was being paid off the books, what are the chances others like the Trump Family were too . Well, i think the chances are very good. In fact, the first person id imagine theyre looking at is Ivanka Trump because it was revealed in the press a couple of years ago that she was paid in a way tha
Scheme and Allen Weisselberg making it happen. This is a Pattern And Practice of the Trump Organization for numerous executives and employees over a decade and a half. So this is really serious stuff, much more expansive than i would have expected given whats been said over the last few days. Its real trouble for trump and his organization. The indictment, jennifer, repeatedly mentions other employees who also got benefits from the Trump Organization. Weisselberg was the only one charged. Do you think this is only going to get bigger . I think thats right. I still dont know whats going to happen, as i said, with kind of the other tentacles of the investigation as far as manipulating Asset Values for Bank Fraud and Tax Fraud and that side of things, the hush money payments, et cetera. As far as this particular scheme is concerned, the indictment was very careful to not only talk about weisselberg and his son, but to make clear that other people benefitted and other people were involved