david, do you agree as a tv critic, these hearings, how would you asses them? brilliant. it s a masterpiece and you talked about the people naysayers. i was not a nay sayer. i was impressed with what i thought they were going to do but they went beyond my wildest expectations on what they could do. look, number one, they laid down a templet for how to make government interesting in prime time television to get tens of millions of people who watch it. we don t teach civics anymore in our classrooms. this was a great seven vehicles le civics lesson. you got it by osmosis engaged in the drama but you got that. that s one thing they did. they also laid down for historians an account of what happened on january 6th based on sworn testimony, based on eyewitness accounts, based on documentary visual imagery that will serve history and blows up to some extent what the right
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in arizona in 2018. and yet you have people from very safe blue districts, kathleen rice, new york congresswoman from a 13 plus democrat district. she s one of the people balking at this prescription drug reform and the reconciliation package. this is good politics. these provisions are supported by the public. these are issues biden himself and down ballot democrats campaigned on, the democrats in swing districts, collin alp red from texas, other people whose political livelihoods are at stake here in 2022, they want to vote for this package. i think it s good policy and good politics. and it s special interests that are prevailing right now which from one of the bluest districts, ed case. ed case is another nay sayer on this package. i don t think they re going the carry the day because pelosi and biden are aligned with the progressive caucus on most of these policy measures. yeah, and listen, when you listen to i think that the progressives have a very compelling argument in the
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