good evening, everyone. welcome to our premiere show. i will be with you here every weekend and luckily for us, there is a lot to talk about on our first night. of course, donald trump supporters showing up in washington, d.c. demanding the criminals who stormed the capitol back on january 6th, they actually should be freed because they believe they are actually innocent. now, congressional republicans. they re reluctant to condemn them and former-lead impeachment manager, congressman jamie raskin is going to be here live to talk about it in just a few minutes. plus, voting rights, infrastructure, and president biden s build back better agenda face a huge hurdle in the senate. and it s actually coming, though, from his own party. senator joe manchin, it is time for him to give up on the filibuster. that is the question many are asking congressman ro khanna is here to discuss that and a whole lot more. plus, you ever heard the medical argument getting the vaccine. everybody knows ab
pro-voting rights, pro-trade, pro-immigration, pro-environment. and whether you believe me or not, pro-choice. george herbert walker bush was on the board of planned parenthood. so, in all the years that i was in battles with the republicans, we were fighting over the votes of all the american people. and it was a joyful experience. now, this this representative um is is scared to death. and the gentleman in new hampshire who was who is a physician is looking at this party and thinking i can t go along with this. right. i don t want my people, when they get a sore throat, to call mitch mcconnell. i want them to listen to the doctors. yeah. so speaking of that, to tom s point. tom, you had another gop defection this week. it was a new hampshire state lawmaker. he is also a doctor. got fed up with the radicalism of state republicans, specifically over their opposition to vaccines and vaccination mandates.
they received more than donald trump but the question remains what will be the long-term repercussions of not holding donald trump accountable for for january 6th? i know you tried that with impeachment. it didn t work. he has a grip on the republican party. a party that could still very much across state legislators shape the way this country votes and the very democracy of how this country operates. yes. well, the repercussions are huge. i put them into two categories. one quick correction, though. we did impeach donald trump. we impeached him twice. he wasn t convicted by two-thirds. correct. it s important to know that, you know, he was impeached twice by the house of representatives. but look. um, they are trying to come back again in 2024. we are likely to see a rematch between biden and trump. or we could see a rematch between biden and trump. but this time, trump has done everything in his power to remove any republicans who he now considers an obstacle to them playing
voters of what the right way to do this should be? but there s a third option here which is that a young man like gonzalez. a father, you know, married, kids. um you i don t think you can really criticize someone like that too harshly for saying um i m not going to serve in the congress of the united states if i have to put my family at risk every day from a mob that, you know, is sending threats. and basically, just doesn t, you know, a number of people who just don t want me there and will do anything to make sure that i that i don t serve in congress. this isn t you know, at some point, this becomes about quality of life, versus public service. for a lot of people. and i think if there were a a faction within the republican party that had any representation in leadership, you could probably say to someone like representative gonzalez, stay, fight. there are enough of you. you know, lead the party out of this dark place. the problem is the house
here as as i was saying earlier, that you can encourage these folks to stay and fight and not to surrender the party. but when you re dealing with life-threatening, you know, situations towards your family and children, it s a different ball game, entirely. that s correct. and i i agree with the comments that were made because i served in the congress for so many years. a mom, a grandmother. i you know cared so much about my family. this is a sad day for the republican party. to see a rising star this man was absolutely conservative. he was not a flaming liberal. he just felt very concerned that president trump had abused his power, and he voted that way. so, what i have seen in my lifetime in politics and i do go back a long way. my first election that i won was in the 70s. and i just want to explain this. at that time, the republican party was pro-civil rights,