cooperation and he s not getting any. he has done the american rescue act and got very little cooperation. in fact, got none in the house. he s now done the infrastructure bill. got 19 i think house members, 13 senators. now he s trying to get build back better, which is the third leg on this three legged stool that is needed in order to bring balance back into people s lives so we can continue this pursuit of a more perfect union. so he s done that for a year. he has not decided that it s time for us to really call upon the american people to examine where we are as a nation, look and what is being proposed by people on the other side, then
this democracy that s held up by these pedestals, these legs here, you ve got people actually sawing off the legs. and so the question and the challenge become for us and these moments is what do people want to do? and what do you think they re going to do and i think that s a lot of what you re seeing now where donald trump is at the point where he can tell people to wear a mask and what do they do? they boo him. and that s a very different space. and that s what comes from when you re having the people prop this up. at some point, they take over. well, and speaking of sawing the legs off the three legged stool that is trumpism, we have breaking news from the committee. the committee has issued subpoenas for six more individuals who they say had knowledge of or participated in to send false electors for the
zones. thinking he might die at the hands of people he thought he represented then discarding all that because of his political ambition and his desire to retain power because to say anything against trump is essentially political suicide these days. i mean, michael steel, i think jeremy s getting at you know, you talked about charlottesville and good people on both sides and the demise of the republican party is a three legged stool. good people on both sides of the kkk rally is one of those legs. the idea that trump again said out loud don t believe your eyes, don t believe your ears. only believe me. that he channelled to his base this idea he was the only trusted source and the third being what jeremy is describing. that everything becomes
relative. for all the damage done by fox news, trump revelled in damaging fox news. talk about this sort of perfect storm now of anti-democratic forces pulling the republican party sort of away from even being participants in our democracy. so while i preach that a lot of what we ve seen and experienced over the last five or six years rests on the shoulders of so-called leaders, elected officials who swore an oath to uphold the institution and to live by those terms in representing their people, in that three legged stool, what is the one constant in the three legged stool? the american people who prop the stool up. the american people as you cut one leg off come back and prop it up. cut another, come back and prop
his three but i think of putin s power is his three legged stool, the oligarchs are one, the apparatchiks and the prime minister is, the professional politicians who would do what they politicians who would do what they told and the third and increasingly more important one is what increasingly more important one is what is increasingly more important one is what is known as strong men. these is what is known as strong men. these are is what is known as strong men. these are people from the intelligence services, and the security intelligence services, and the security agencies and military, and i security agencies and military, and i think what has happened over and i think what has happened over the and i think what has happened over the past four years that i had not over the past four years that i had not appreciated which is why i and ironically enough, most you know russia based were taken most you know russia based were taken by most you know russia based