there, clearly trump, you know, did a lot of crime-based stuff, so the hope is, yes, i mean they tried to, you know, they steer away from such things, because they work so well, or because they don t want to seem partisan or they think that since they re the good guys, they ll win anyway, and as we ve seen from benghazi, these congressional investigations are extremely effective, and successful, and so let s hope this january 6th committee does change hearts and minds. indeed. david, you often hear from democrats off the record, well, we can t go after trump, the chief of staff or subpoena members of trump, we can t set precedent that republicans have done plenty prior to democrats taking the house, you covered the benghazi hearings, how do you think the democrats have handled the 1/6 committee and how the d.o.j. has handled medcos and co. compared to the handling of
have held, i think the structure of the hearings that they have coming up seems very sound to me, they have them in the evening and daytime and releasing new information and creating narratives. at the same time, i m not sure there is a lot of persuasion left to be done on this. remember, just wait until robert mueller testifies, that will change everything with trump and it didn t. so i m not saying, you know, this will be because of the january 6th committee, but i still think there are, you know, tens of millions of americans who just don t understand what happened on january 6th or worse yet, don t care. so molly, david makes a very good point, how many people are left to persuade, to put persuasion to one side, the basic law enforcement, you talk about crimes and where or where is merrick garland, is he playing 4d chess and the rest of us don t get it and two steps behind him? or a small conservative court judge who was once beloved by republicans like the late senator orrin hat
be a pro slavery symbol that you re wearing and it has been used as forms of intimidation for years and years and years. but this gentleman, i think also wanted me to get away from him as fast as i could. and once i asked him that question. so rolling stone is out with a new piece, that sums up the strategy used by the right, by republicans, by the gun lobbying nra, after each mass shooting and it essentially boils down to, stay cool, run out the clock, scare some gun touting, but don t worry this moment will be over soon, did you get a sense of that on the nra convention, we know we re under fire now and the media will move on to something else and we can keep on carrying on business as usual? i actually think that the gun makers see this as an opportunity to make more money. because the thing that we kept sharing over and over, from
of my colleagues and new york s 12th congressional district which is deeply unfortunate. i doesn t want to run against malone y, the person whose john job it is to help us keep our majority. and have any majority ruling for it. because the alternative of having republicans control the house of representatives, is too grim to even contemplate. as you know, as you noted earlier on your show. i m excited about this district that has done so much for me, a district by the way that has burdied the movement in this country, and has not had an open lbgtq candidate, and i was represented in congress and proud too to make history in 2020 as our nation s first openly gay black member of congress and dock the work and deserve to stay in congress and i think people will see that over the last two and a half months and been noticing in the last year and a half since i ve been in congress. i want to ask quickly, you once served in the d.o.j. what do you make of the biden d.o.j. and attorney genera
poor job of saying this is what the republican party is and this is what it will do, if it regains power, in terms of, you know, benefits, social benefits, social welfare programs, or threats to democracy. whatever you want to pick and choose here. and i think that, i think that s unfortunate. and if merrick garland is prosecuting cases, you would have more basis for a narrative there but trump is out there saying democrats are destroying the country and democrats are saying we re doing the best we, can that is not a fair even fight. and they re in for a world of hurt. if republicans gain power. well, later in the show, we will play some tape of one democratic congressman who does seem to be doing a good job of picking a fight with republicans. stay tuned for that. for now, david corn, molly, thank you. we appreciate your analysis. and a quick programming