that governor may not be able to do anything about it, but the federal government is going to try. this week president joe biden directed his secretary of education to take actions against republican governors who are banning masks in schools, using the department s oversight powers and potentially even legal action. meanwhile, the new school year is starting in many states across the country and a lot of parents are upset and afraid. when i was walking away from dropping my daughter off, i was literally almost in tears thinking is this the right thing, because you kind of know that these people are not recognizing the risk that s going on here. it s almost like knowing the house is going to catch on fire, but we re going to let our kids sit in there and burn. i feel like the governor is definitely trying to make a political statement and my daughter and other kids are just the collateral damage to that political statement. i want to bring in governor jay inslee, democrat of wash
trump continue to the challenge the oversight powers. he lost the election. shortly after he lost the supreme court case. in february this year, the supreme court allowed manhattan prosecutors to obtain trump s taxes. so they have it. earlier this month the top money man were charged with tax fraud in manhattan court. today, however, the ways and means committee finally got movement on their year s-long quest. the justice department under merrick garland says his tax returns must be released to congress soon. they could potentially be made public. a national complil reporter has been tracking these developments and jones me now. betsy, my understanding it s the supreme court the office of legal department gives legal direction that basically that office overturned a previous set of guidance that was offered during the trump administration. is that right? that s right. when trump s lawyers were in
just straight up to powerful. we have grover norquist joining us now, president of americans for tax reform. i want to get your take first on the new fox news poll line. 65% of americans and the finance chiefs and biden administration are trying to come up with ways to essentially imbue them with even more oversight powers. people understand the dangers of the irs under obama and under clinton, the irs targeted people politically and it s really problematic. i served on a commission that looked into this and the irs is completely stonewalled on questions on how and why they targeted of certain and individuals. what we do have though is this is part of the obama-biden administration s, or on small
to protect companies against cyberattacks. we both have a responsibility, you share the concept of private industry, can t do things foreign governments, can t get pressure on foreign governments, that is extremely important if we look at where these criminals are house, something needs to be done. cyber attack crippled gasoline supply to much of the east coast. on monday the fbi announced recovery of the ransom. todd: nancy pelosi doubling down on the need to pass the for the people act. it is a sweeping election reform bill that would boost the federal government oversight powers. i must pass because of voter suppression efforts by the gop, saying we are at an urgent moment because of the republican assault on our democracy. the senate will try again to investigate the january 6th capital attack. if not approved she signaled house democrats would hold their
every city you show you don t see any response from the mayor, the district attorney, the chief of police. it is government sanctioned collectively and it is going to get worse. in new york city 72% of voters say they support putting more police officers on the street ahead of the upcoming mayoral election. today west virginia senator joe manchin sits down with the naacp, discussing democrats opposition to a sweeping election reform bill that would boost the federal government s oversight powers, some progressives accuse manchin of acting like a republican. joe manchin has become the new mitch mcconnell. he s doing the work of the republican party by being an obstructionist. jillian: manchin has enraged liberals by promising to reserve the filibuster. president biden set to meet with senator capital on infrastructure, they were supposed to meet yesterday but