that it is harder for people to cheat at the ballot box in texas. all spoken with a straight face. contrary to what he just said, there greg abbott slammed into law today some of the most sweeping voting restrictions in the united states. five lawsuits already filed in an attempt to strike it down. here with us tonight is peter baker, veteran journalist and chief white house correspondent for the new york times. and do susan glasser, staff writer for the new york times. away from journalism if there is such a thing, they are husband and wife, they are where journalism is concerned, the coauthors of the man who ran washington, the life and times of james a baker the third, now out in paperback. good evening, and welcome to you both. susan, i ll begin with you. i will begin with a clip clip from nicole wallace, our
internationally. and on all those measures that has collapsed. but if you flash forward a year from now it seems like it d be hard to recover from this. but think about it a year from now if covid is under reasonable control and there s not some other huge surge killing thousands of americans. and if we were out of afghanistan and have gotten out most if not all americans and afghanis who helped us or others who wanted to get out, as people look in the rearview mirror and say that s what we elected him to coo. he said he was going to get out of afghanistan, said he was going to get covid under control. and if he s done that a year from now, listen, i don t have much hope for democrats in inmid-terms. by 2024 that could be a reasonable narrative for democrats. dona, there s this from our mutual friend eugene robinson at the post. quote, if we were going to leave eventually, what would have been different if we d waited another
how it s paid for and the dynamic score. there are ways to get this through, it will take a while i think. but there are ways to get it done. let s go up to the banks of beautiful lake won up a sake and throw question to mike murphy it from a quote from our mutual friend john allen, this is something that you have been predicting and talking about. the serious question democrats must start asking is if or when will moderates and independent voters rebel against such record levels of spending and the higher inflation that might follow said one democratic strategist who has worked on capitol hill and presidential campaigns. quote, if they do rebel, we will get slaughtered in the 2022 midterm elections. so mike, the point here is, inflation might take the place of defund the police as a way to be the democrats.
direction. joe was very frustrated with the vote on the january 6th commission and what he thought it was going to go, i believe. mitch mcconnell asked, or said he needed it as a favor from his team, from his caucus. i think that s some kind of code, a favor. it is and a lot of scorsese movies. bill kristol our mutual friend amy s daughter was on the broadcast a few days back. paraphrasing said, you guys in the media and a lot of democrats are getting played. it s not so much the casting of the votes that is the issue that is getting the quiet attention and republican led legislatures in the states across the country, it s the counting of the votes. all of it adds up to great
mouth. ortegas, you worked for our mutual friend, former secretary of state pompeo. i asked him about the biden administration getting lectured on human rights abuses by of all countries, china, in anchorage, alaska. we have an offer. pompeo will debate vladimir and putin can pick the russian moderator. i don t think he would duck and hide the way biden did and wouldn t do a joint presser. no. sean: my question is, you know the intelligence and red the briefings before, how does putin interpret today? first, that would be must see tv, sean. you re always must see tv but i think we need to make that happen. one of the things that you said earlier that hillary clinton said you need to deal with putin differently in public and differently in private.