democrat dechlic precinctses. the plan as outlined by a republican national committee staffer in michigan includes utilizing rules to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at democratic majority polling places to connect a website in establishing a network of party-friendly district attorneys who can intervene to block vote counts at certain precincts. here is a clip of an rnc official in michigan making his pitch to potential recruits in october 2021. that is what we are here tonight for. to show the program that we are creating to create that safety net on the polls before election day, after election day to make sure that fraud does not happen again. i understand that we are upset with the 2020 result, but we cannot just look at the 2020 results or else the exact same thing will happen in 2022. we need volunteers on the ground on election day ahead of election day working so that that fraud does not
it? that was the republican governor of west virginia jim justice yesterday declining the request that a catholic bishop in his state to call a special let legislative session on gun control after last week s mass shooting in uvalde, texas. just another republican elected official driving the gun conversation away from guns and towards pretty much anything else. the latest example comes this afternoon, texas governor greg abbot finally requesting a special session for how to prevent future school shootings and on that list notably missing, gun control. democratic state senator roland gutierrez whose district includes uvalde and the author, historian and my dear friend kurt anderson and his book is evil geniuses, and also nixon at war. how vietnam led to watergate.
office as the impeachment process was just beginning in the house of representatives in 1974. the nixon presidency was corrupt in every single way back then. then donald trump came along and showed us new ways to be corrupt that richard nixon never even dreamed of. kurt anderson takes us inside the nixon white house in his podcast entitled nixon at war. in podcast 1, he uses a tape to show us the connection to daniel ellsberg s leak who was published 60 years ago. nixon reacts not to the substance of the leak but only to the fact of the. the [ bleep ] of the leaks.
the nixon white house is new podcast titled nixon at war. in episode one, kurt anderson uses takes of nixon s phone calls to show us the presidents reaction to daniels lake of the pentagon papers to the new york times which published the documents exactly 50 years ago. nixon reacted not to the substance of the leak, but only the fact of. it the who talk to the. press now, i just start right at the top and far some people. well, sir, i m sure came from defense, and i m sure it was stolen at the time of the turnover of the administration. oh, it s two years old, them. almost three years old, in fact which may be why nixon doesn t seem all that concerned at first. then, in the afternoon mister president, i have a doctor kissinger calling. you his national security adviser henry kissinger from out in l.a.. mister president, hi henry, how are things in california?
his podcast series nixon at war. i m going to let you ponder the big question of the night of who was worse, nixon or trump? but when you listen to those nixon tapes, there is nothing quite like it. you are hearing in other tapes active criminality at work in the white house. you hear active criminality, you hear just incredible cynicism about this war that he wasn t ending, and about him, about henry kissinger, and at that point in 1971 when they the withdrawal was going on. but their whole point, absolutely brazen cynicism is we just have to prop up this government until 1972. that s all it was about at that point, as well criminality. it s funny, i didn t really