meetings with the president. these are handwritten contemporaneous documents written by the deputy at the department of justice acting, the president said say that it was corrupt. say it is illegal, and when justice pushed back and said that s wrong, that s not right. we don t have any proof of this, he said do it anyway. just say it, and i ll take care of it. it s almost unheard of. we have scheduled meetings with six representatives of the department of justice next week, and we will peel down to the bottom of this. i remember i said early in this that it was like an attempted coup. people said, no, don t go that far. absolutely, absolutely. how else can you explain as these documents come out? can you explain to our audience what it means for house democrats that the justice department is demanding the irs
prevent partisan gerrymandering, and if democrats don t do this, if they don t take it up now, they stand to lose power not for a couple years, but potentially a generation, rev. absolutely. that s why it s important that the voting rights bill that s being reworked right now includes this type of language to combat partisan gerrymandering because there s so much at stake here. i ve been thinking about this for a long time. we know that in states like georgia that went for democrats not only in the presidential but any those senate races, state houses led by the gop are going to come back with a vengeance and try to silence the very voters who don t vote for their party, and that s why it s important for democrats to step up, pass something that mirrors the for the people act in the substance about combatting partisan gerrymandering. as well as dealing with in georgia where they re now replacing even some of those that are in those election commissions. yes. where they can
part of this compromised bill to let him know where we are, and met with house speaker pelosi who has been a firm leader in dealing with voting rights on both bills to let her know what we were going to do to keep street heat up in georgia, in the states around the country leading to the national march. we met with former civil rights activist and now the whip of the house of representatives congressman james clyburn and head of the democratic caucus congressman hkeem jeffries and chair of the congress black caucus, the honorable congresswoman georgia beatty who herself was arrested with melanie campbell and others around this issue. we wanted them to know that not only were we going to keep in the streets, known are we going to have this mammoth national march, august 28th, the
is being pushed through congress with as much force as democrats can muster as their leadership, both house and senate, met yesterday with the president and vice president over the desperate need for federal voting rights protection. still under a historic assault from republican state lawmakers floating hundreds of suppression bills. and after months of lobbying, there appears to be an invigorated effort to get some of those measures through the senate. with the voter protection bill named for the late john lewis reportedly being elevated in the house, but sadly not in time to pass before next month s congressional recess. meanwhile, the house select committee investigation into the insurrection has proven to be just as emotional and contentious as expected, even as
Coronavirus Surge Threatens Political Future of Joe Biden s Presidency breitbart.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from breitbart.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.