hi everyone, happy saturday. we begin this hour with the gop leaders ditching their responsibility to stand up for american democracy. while donald trump works to republican politics, in a new interview with the wall street journal, trump s stance by house minority leader kevin mccarthy.
i am maria teresa kumar in for alicia menendez this hour. the wild week of revelations about house republicans and the capitol attack. and how they felt then versus now? and trump once again in the center of controversy, shocking! plus, what happens when you put a member of congress on the stand, and forced her to answer to lies she spread about the election? it s a video of congresswoman marjorie taylor greene you have to see to believe. also tonight, florida s punishing all that s woke, taking on disney because they re to disagree with the states of don t say gay bill, and that punishment coming at a price to taxpayers. and breaking news from ukraine, president zelenskyy says two members of the biden s cabinet will set foot in the war zone tomorrow. welcome to a new hour of american voices. we begin this hour with the gop leaders ditching their responsibility to stand up for american democracy. while donald trump works to
gerrymandering taking place, election subversion fueled by the big lie. intimidation of voting officials in efforts to change the law to put partisans in charge of the voting process so they could overturn an election. this is a movement of significant strength, and we have to counteract it. we have to push back on it. but the public needs to understand these are not random activities. there s a connection between what is occurring in georgia and texas and north carolina. there is a connection to the refusal of senate republicans and to senate democrats to set aside the filibuster so we can pass legislation that would protect the right to vote and stand up for american democracy. which is also, in my mind, as i think about this and the way you re phrasing it, it s also
fundamentally what we re looking for in america today is a collision of constitutional patriots that is people who will stand up for the constitutional order for elections and for democratic norms in the rule of law against this new form of domestic violent extremism and donald trump s authoritarian politics which are outside of the constitutional order. they don t accept our elections. they don t accept our constitutional rules. i think we got to solute and embrace liz cheney and congressman adam kinzinger and republicans, democrats who will stand up for american democracy. congressman, appreciate your time as always and thank you. thanks for having me. all right. next, the first federal agency mandating vaccines. is there going to be more from the biden administration? plus, trump s long-time ally tom barrack breaking his silence after being charged as a foreign agent.
and the president still has not told his fbi and other agencies to prevent another attack on our democracy and that is all very suspicious and all this has to be viewed in context, along with robert mueller s guilty pleas. meanwhile, you have a republican party in the house intelligence committee where the majority is more concerned with dying on the hill of carter page and defending him and attacking the dossier than they are in pushing the white house to implement those sanctions and to take some interest. some action against russia for interfering in our election. this is, again, not the only place that russia has done this. this is up to republicans in congress to stand up for american democracy and the ideals and values that america is supposed to represent around the world. the united states stood up in favor of ukraine. i mentioned ukraine because paul manafort was the lobbyist and adviser for the kremlin-backed person who was trying to allow