Do not want to censor voice, free speech and at the same time, what the republican party and donald trump is doing here is giving, while they may not be overtly the ones yelling this from the mountain top, they are opening up t-up to those individuals who are making these claims, and believing there should not be a jewish people. so mastriano is one of those, you talked about a seconds ago, jonathan greenblat referenced him running for govern ner pennsylvania and used this language perceived as coded language calling his opponents, josh shapiro, privileged, exclusive, elite and has disdain for people like us and has a real grudge against the roman catholic church. for anybody that doesn t know what those terms are rooted in, can you explain why that is a dog whistle? in these spaces, it goes way beyond the current moment as we know. there are ways to try to
Juggernaut, they can survive this. what do you think will happen to oann or oan or whatever it s called, newsmax, these smaller outlets that don t have fox s pockets, are they concerned about their potential liability for promoting this kind of lie and the terrorism that came from it? i m not sure if they re defamation is one thing. i m not a lawyer, but i don t think that you are they are going to be held liable for promoting violence. and there are free speech implications about whether or not you can hold, you know, media figures accountable for something that somebody does in their name. that said, i think in terms of the defamation piece, in terms of what can happen, i think we can look to alex jones, right? alex jones is you know, alex jones is being bankrupted by the people that he has systematically defamed over the
i ve been to a south carolina state graduation, i didn t hear a lot of cheering there. it might be because what president biden said doesn t make much sense. he s blaming the republicans for the inability of voting rights to move ahead when it s in fact senators like manchin and sinema that are the problem, right, roy? absolutely. they have the power. the democrats control the white house, the senate, and the house. so all of the campaign promises that you made on the campaign trail, that s made on super tuesday, that you made traveling through the south, deliver. that s all we re saying, is deliver. martin luther king, in one of his final speeches, the mountain top speech, he said, all we say to america is be true to what you said on paper. that s all we re asking. roy tatem, first off, thank you for being one of the few people on television who can quote something other than the content of their character when they re talking about martin
Thoughtful about how you can get the clearest story, the most dramatic story, the truest story, and a story that breaks through the cluttered ecosystem we live in right now and a bifurcated one where half of the country doesn t watch msnbc or cnn. how do you get this thing way up on the mountain top to have the kind of public impact that broadcast networks had in the 1950s and 1960 ooz. that s what you have to aim for, to make a national moment out of this. it requires creativity. you can t fall back on, some days of hearings. as a former communicator i would like to spend days brainstorming this one. some day we will do this. but the distinction, these are the closest people to donald trump inside the white house. the closest people to donald
Campaign. got to get back up on the mountain top a little bit and out of the weeds. feeling people s pain. became clinton s bumper sticker. it s joe biden s way of life, whether a child that stutters, a person fighting cancer, lost a child or a parent. it is the life he has lived in and out of politics. so thank you, john heilemann, for spending some extra time with us today. it s nice to see you. thanks. when we come back, another day, another republican filibuster on you guessed it. voting rights. why the gop might want to rethink its opposition to the right to vote after last night. that s next. to the right to vote after last night that s next. there are beautiful ideas that remain in the dark. but with our new multi-cloud experience, you have the flexibility you need to unveil them to the world.