and also this hour, a guest calling out the gop s use of tucker carleson syndrome, saying millions are now vulnerable to it. and a report from the south border, on the wait to seek asylum is now longer, thanks to a judge s ruling on title 42. this is american voices. we begin this hour with the republican party, which in theory, touts that rule of law, life itself. but in practice, prioritizes hoarding power for a select few. we see it again and again from january 6th to overturning roe, even the baby formula crisis. take the conservative power couple justice clarence thomas and his wife ginny new details show that his wife worked to reverse president biden s win in arizona. emails show she pressed arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside joe biden s popular vote victory and choose a quote, clean slate of electors. emails also argue that quote, legislatures needed to intervene because the vote had been marred by fraud. again, no evidence of widespread voting fr
Albright. Well tonight weve got two nor stars. On this stage john and mark e grove, john is a true rising star in this country in the journal war. John got his start as a speech writerring Rudy Giuliani both when he was mayor of new york and later as a president ial candidate john today is editor in chief in managing director of thedale beast but hes way more than that. Hes a very act active writer in this country every major magazine has seen one of his pieces. Moreover hes on television all of the time you can look at cnm, msnbc and pbs you can look at cspan, and youll see john avalon. I will also tell you hes a prolific writer of books hes written multiple books. The one that is most prominent and spotlighted is about washingtons farewell address. And he reminds us that thats truly topical today. Because in his farewell address washington warned this country against excessive partisanship. Greedy selfinterest, and foreign powers that night affect our elections. Now think about that
Good evening. Im larry temple. As chairman of the lbj foundation, its my true privilege to welcome all of you to this program tonight. I happen to think that the lbj library has set a pattern or is setting a pattern. Three weeks ago we had two stars on this stage; bob schieffer, moderation, in conversation with former secretary of state madeleine albright. Well, tonight weve got two more stars on this stage, john avlon and Mark Updegrove. Johnjohn avlon is a true risingr in this country in the media and journalism world. John got his start as a speech writer for Rudy Giuliani both when he was mayor of new york and later as a president ial candidate. John avlon today is the editorinchief and managing director of the daily beast, but hes way more than that. He is a very active writer in this country. Every major magazine has seen one of his pieces. Moreover, hes on television all the time. You can look at cnn, you look at msnbc, you can look at pbs, you can look at cspan, and youll see j
Guest i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these Public Officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith goes to washington scenario. And certainly that does happen. You have wellintentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. But my experience over the last 20 years or so in washington politics researching and writing, more often than not the opposite is true. You have a lot of corporations, other lot of entities that essentially want to be left alone by the federal government, and you have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations involved. The