most important there, john, james claiborne, the house whip and big supporter of joe biden is really backing her. we ll watch the fascinating process play out. let s talk about the departing justice, justice breyer. you had an interview with him last year. all the justices say this but justice breyer says it here, a very succinctly. he says he s troubled about the recent conversations that the court is essentially just a bunch of politicians. whether you are a d or an r affects how the decision will be. let s listen. if the public sees judges as politicians in robes, it s confidence in the courts and in the rule of law itself and only diminished. diminishing the court s power, including the four act as a check on other branches. so the justice there publicly very sensitive and yet, the timing of this announcement, he knows, puts his seat, his seat on the court right in the middle of politics. capital p. that s right.
structure. last quick question, congressman. hope is important, but what would you say to the cynics who say let s not put too much hope in the 1/6 committee. we had the mueller report, two impeachment trials. teflon trump emerged unscathed. he will from the 1/6 committee too. well, i agree with part of that. we will never get to a point where we can say democracy is safe. american exceptionalism is not about the fact that we are somehow bulletproof, immune to fascism and authoritarianism, insurrection and the kind of autocrats we see around the world like putin and duterte and others. what makes us exceptional is our fight for democracy. democracy is either expanding and growing or contracting and shriveling away. we have been in a contractionary period. we need to put democracy back on
and what choice do we have. we have been left and we want to finally get money in the pockets and let every kid go to preschool. people say they aren t working hard enough and if they re willing to work, i don t want this president say let s just come together as a party. let s let this president who won fair and square the nomination, let him leave. let s deliver for people. you know, the challenge is let him have a win and let him have a win. it feels like there are democrats. first of all, republicans are off the table doing stupid memes in let s go brandon fashion gear. they re not helping. they re a non-enty. they re off the table unfortunately. among democrats, it does feel like there are democrats that
ross joining our discussion now is councilman, of california. thank you very much for joining us, so we just heard larry elder say let s be gracious in defeat. and so we have a concession speech from the republican candidate. something that i earlier tonight, did not expect to hear. i think that, anyone in politics being gracious, that s my take on. but be on larry elder, this is an extraordinary victory for tonight in california. it s overwhelming i think californians know very well what the states record has been. what our values are here. and i also think that there are
broadly popular among democrats, obviously. we would expand to the general population. when you turn that around, republicans talk about socialized medicine. it suddenly sounds different. galvanizes republican voters who say let s not let them take away our health care. it is a cutting issue. the president believes you have to have something to counter that as well as we go on the attack. and this is his way of checking off the boxes, as we were just saying. peter baker, ashlee strong, thanks to the both of you. gabby, thank you as well. more breaking news from the supreme court this morning. this having to do with redistricting. i want to head back to justice correspondent pete kwpls for a quick explainer. the lawn mowers have been silenced. reporter: this is about who gets to sue in the state of virginia. it is a case good for virginia only. it doesn t tell us much about the larger questions of gerrymandering, which has yet to be decided. this is a separate case.