the way, of canada, australia, europe, everywhere, because there is a massive disincentive, particularly if your undocumented, to protect committing a crime. it is a myth that continues to permeate. it is just not true. it continues to permeate, because they continue to push it. they believe it is the strongest argument they have. i am glad you pushed back on its because it is just not. we got alecia in the text. i was like, if alecia were here, she would say, reads text message, okay. i loved it, it is great to see you all. have a great rest of your day. and velshi starts now. hey, good morning. it is saturday, june 22nd. 115 days have passed since the supreme court initially agreed to hear donald trump s outlandish claim of absolute residential immunity. and the weight continues. it will be at least several more days until the justices issued their own opinion on one of the biggest and most consequential cases in the court s history. with the presidential electi
him on behalf of all of us. we will. thanks alicia. thank you. well, there will be a parade tomorrow for this year s nba champions, the boston celtics. we give our heros parades. and the early days of space travel, we gave astronauts parades. but then we shot so many astronauts into space and even to the moon we stopped giving them parades. we took space travel for granted. it was no longer the stuff of heroism. our most important heros have always been taken for granted. i am talking about the most important work a human being can do. they save lives. there is no higher calling than saving lives. some of you might know what it feels like but most of us don t. most of us have never and will never save a life. not one. we won t drag a wounded soldier off a battlefield. drag a dying person to an emergency room just in time. we won t pull a drowning child out of the water and we won t treat patients in hospitals who would die without our medical expertise. not every doctor a
1902. no voter ever saw his name on a ballot. he was elected to the senate the old-fashioned way, in a way the founders thought senators should be elected. a state legislature chose and voted for reed smoot to go to the united states senate to represent the state of utah. in his 30 year career as a senator, reed smoot rose to the most powerful chairmanship in the senate, chairman of the senate finance committee with jurisdiction over the federal government ways of raising revenue, bringing money into the treasury. taxation and tariffs. with the stock market crashing in 1929 and the country and during the great depression, reed smoot had the worst idea any chairman of the senate finance committee ever had. it was an idea that would end his career in the senate. the house ways and means committee had the same jurisdiction in the house that the finance committee has in the senate. taxation and tariffs. the chairman of the house ways and means committee loved reed smoot s very ba
the disinformation democrats, that s the focus of tonight s angle. laura: only a few weeks ago that we told you that the democrats were very worried. the new york times published a piece quoting various democrat officials who were concerned but had hoped that a conviction of trump would improve biden s chances of winning. well, trump was convicted and this is what happened. it did not move the needle. really not at all. and now top party leaders are, again, sounding the alarm. this from axios today. senior democrats, including some of president biden s aides are increasingly dubious about his theory for victory in november, which relies on voter concerns about january 6th, political violence, democracy, and donald trump s character. well, of course, they have a right to be concerned. this is all failing. the top concerns of voters remain the economy, border, inflation, the cost of everything. and biden has made it all worse. everything they try for their strategy to tur
wave. but that isn t stopping donald trump from making his play for latino voters in two swing states in the sunbelt, as the 2024 race heats up and a day after extreme temperatures at an arizona rally, gave his supporters literal sunstroke trump was just on stage in las vegas, using hot, overheated rhetoric to paint himself as a victim, as he preps for his first video meeting from new york probation officer tomorrow, following his felony convictions. but the critical issues in arizona on topics like immigration and abortion and its on actual policy that trumps campaign rhetoric has been lacking this weekend. on the other hand, president biden is flying back from france after using his pulpit to take action on our southern border, and the biden campaign starts the week hoping to cease on shifts in his favor on polls conducted after trumps 34 felony convictions. he now is minute berrigan. democrat from california, and chair of the congressional hispanic caucus. congresswoman, t