night. good ■çevening once again. i m stephanie ruhle and we are now, get ready for it, 139 days away from the election. today marks 159 years since the last black slaves were given their freedom in galveston, texas, a day recognized as juneteenth. today millions of americans coast to coast celebrated with parades, concerts, and speeches and this is the fourth year juneteenth has been designated a federal holiday. president biden signed it into law in 2021 and today his campaign is out with a very powerful new ad. this juneteenth we salute those who built this country, those who sacrificed, those who suffered and refused to be defined by pain or silenced by oppression. we celebrate freedom, ■çfreedom to live, breath, play, choose, marry, vote and with joe biden and kamala harris, we re ready to face the future together. we can t stop now. what did donald trump do to celebrate this day that is so important to so many americans? the man himself, he didn t do anythin
the way the founders thought senators should had be elected. the state legislature chose and voted for reed smoot to go to the united states senate to represent the state of utah. in his 30-year career as a senator, reed smoot rose to the most powerful chairmanship in the senate, chairman of the senate finance committee with jurisdiction over the federal government s two ways of raising revenue, bringing money into the treasury, taxation and tariffs. with the stock ■çmarket crashin in 1929 and the country entering the great depression reed smoot had the worst idea any chairman of the senate finance committee ever had. it was an idea that would end his career in the senate. the house ways and means committee had the same jurisdiction in the house that the finance committee has in the senate, taxation and tariffs. the chairman of the house ways and means committee, willis hawley, loved reed smoot s very bad idea. that idea also ended chairman hawley s career in the house of