defense as brainwashing. the legal version of that defense is called coercive persuasion. in other words, i as a defendant was forced to commit these crimes and therefore, am not guilty. that was the defense that bailey and company put forward at patty s trial. e we knew with a high degree of certainty that brainwashing was going to be the defense because it was the only other possible explanation. the problem for bailey and the defense was that they had very few options for what to organi argue. they couldn t argue she wasn t in the bank. they couldn t argue this was mistaken identity. you re at a real disadvantage. there s been all this publicity
representatives, they get elected and i think they re listening to their constituents until they get elected. and bowyer of organi power o mrnlg i marching. what purpose does it serve? you have to start at the state level and build it from the body up. there is strength in numbers. i was on the ground campaigning for jon ossoff. in that district, it s filled with democrats and moderate gop members would just don t feel like they have community support. i think what we are starting to need now is more the hope, the fight, we need our new obama. and i think that is what we re all look for. we need a new us. we need a new democracy within which people operate without a grand leader. are you hopeful? are you hopeful for the future? i am. you seem not so sure.
of the people pox on both your parties. we re done with you guys. that s what you saw with the trump coalition, and if they don t like what trump is doing, they might be shopping for someone else, but that might not be an organized party. i wouldn t be i just think one thing we learned from tea party and learned from any movement, you can t fake a movement, right? american politics, people are angry about something. there s going to be some level of political activism. eventually they ll start encountering the party s leadership and people are going to bring money to that and organi organize. you can t invent this kind of activism. i ll never democrats that was fake. he then won the white house. that was real. i guess i m also skeptical, to what end, right? if this is evidence of to whatever extent it is, a real energy at the base, that s fine, and that s that could end up
believe outside forces cost the election. and not enough acknowledgment, and you re acknowledgment. do you think not enough democrats. here s the reality. i mean, did the comey letter have an impact? absolutely. did the russian hacking have an impact? absolutely. did mistakes it that were made not just in 2016, but forces involving the party that were many years in the making. our failure to be present in rural america, taking too many voters for granted, you can t show up at a church every fourth october and call that organi organizing. and so all of these forces are at work, and if i have the privilege of being the chair, we need to make sure that we are redefining our party so that we re not only electing the president, but we re building strong parties everywhere, so that we can elect folks from the
that was evident. we had a dozen times the u.s. supreme court unanimously said the obama administration acted illegally. the doj was putting gps tracking devices on people s cars without a warrant and the doj was saying that was perfectly fine. the idea of an attorney general being independent is something i think has been scrapped and that the previous doj showed that. i want to make an important distinction here because you used the word illegally. so illegally in our general slan slang refers to high crimes and misdemeanor. you can pass a law that s struck down by the courts, that s not illegal. i would not call for instance the executive order, i would not call it an illegal order. you can get things wrong about the law or come to a different constitutional interpretation and the courts strike it down. that s one thing. illegal which is like well, i m going to funnel this treasury money into trump organi, those