confidence in the gentlemen legitimacy of the way we do it. and not tell people if you don t do it my way, a, they are illegitimate. and, b, you might be a racist. i hear you on the republicans. you know where i am on that. but you cannot add fuel to that fire on the other side of the equation and keep us on this long escalator of delegitimizing our democracy. scott, while we have you here, can i ask about the ways mitch mcconnell raised during the press conference yesterday. president biden continued to say they are friends. he also said he was surprised by how intransigent. they have been. why are earth were you surprised that mitch mcconnell didn t want to go along with this? first of all, it s not true. the biggest accomplish joe biden has, in my opinion, is the
maxine waters in the spotlight for the issue but it s not like republicans haven t been accused of certain things and you asked them to address that. boehner particularly, because he is in the house. and rangel and maxine waters are in the house. and, of course, he is running against pelosi. he is really gone after this hard. he said pelosi promised in 2006 to drain the swamp and she has failed to do so. i pointed out that he has a boehner for speaker committee, part of the congressional campaign committee where he offers the special access for donors who raise or contribute $100,000. it doesn t look it looks like as i said to him, is that draining the swamp? he had trouble with that. interestingly enough, mitch mcconnell didn t want to play with that. i think he feel the ethics there is a feeling that everybody does it. if rangel is in trouble and televised trials they will speak for themselves. he wants to stick to spending, debt, faltering