threats issue, though, what was most anticipated from attorney general garland today was his explication of why it is so far only low level people who showed up at the u.s. capitol at trump s urging on january 6th, why it is that only those low level people have been charged, while no one who actually ran the plan, no one who actually organized the plot of which the january 6th attack was a part, none of those folks has felt any kind of heat from law enforcement at all. now, to his credit, in my opinion, the attorney general answered that question today in a sort of helpful expository way, in a way that involved a helpful explanation for us, the public, about how complex prosecutions work. because we re not lawyers, no matter how many, you know, legal procedurals you watch or read, it s good to hear for real about how these things work. it s good to have it explained, how simpler crimes, lower level crimes, the easier stuff to prosecute, on purpose gets
0 speaking with him. it has been once again, as usual, now he s the man of the center of the question of what can or cannot be done in washington. but the biden administration can or cannot get past. we ll be speaking with senator schumer, live in just a moment. today of course is january 5th, a year ago today in the great state of georgia, georgia voters elected to new u.s. senators, democrat jon ossoff and democrat raphael warnock. they were runoff elections for both of georgia s u.s. senate seat one year ago today. at the democrats won both of those races. now, georgia electing to democrats to their two u.s. senate seats. that is how we got senate majority leader chuck schumer. that is what flipped control of the u.s. senator from republican control to democratic control. that is what made it possible for the biden administration in its first year to an act all the legislation that they have passed in the past year. including covid relief, the big infrastructure bill, and all the re
there is a disconnect that s happening. joe is underscoring it here. as democrats want to move the needle here, they do need to probably get the public more on its side, more attentive to the debate, so that they can apply pressure to republicans to ct in some of the procedurals. the president is meeting with the bank ceos, which is a pressure campaign. what took so long? we knew this was coming. democrats could have dealt with this in prior legislative vehicles. they could have started the process a while back. only now with the october 18th deadline looming do they seem to be going into hyperdrive. you really do sit back and wonder, you know, are we staring at the sort of financial abyss here? did we wait did congress wait too long to resolve this, and will we actually tip over and have a default? will that be the precipitating moment when we get this resolved? don t know. sam, it is interesting that mitch mcconnell doesn t seem to
wh ing the witnesses, that s legitimate. with that being said, i suspect that information may have been shared in advance. i think this is a political maneuver from the president to make basically adhere to the unfair process response to a problem on the facts for the president. the facts laid out in the inquiry thus far are very bad. there is not an alternative narrative that s holding up that make sense. the defense is to go on these kinds of procedurals, critique of the process and not deal with the actual narrative of quid pro quo. a political maneuver on part of either sides. shocked, shocked. we all are. what is actual lily known aboute hearing on wednesday that s going to play out. witnesses? what do we know, how do democrats are republicans plan on handling it?
by watching legal procedurals on tv but not actually going to law school, i feel like the fifth amendment is one of those things that civilians tend to have some misconceptions about. is there anything you would give us advice towards how to intelligently watch this if that is in fact going to happen? going back to the example that you talked about mr. crow, bud crow, he had two underlying investigations as i recall. one in los angeles and one in the district of columbia. he was in jeopardy in both. what you want to watch for is whether or not this will be a little bit hard to decide tomorrow but you want to watch whether or not the types of questions mr. sondland is being asked, if he invokes his fifth amendment privilege would be the type that would lead him down some perilous path. i don t know that we ll be able to know that but he knows that and his attorney knows that. by the way, to add a little layer of complexity, congress