Oh, he says much worse in a new book. And the authors are here to talk about it. Im Jonathan Capehart. This is the sunday show. This sunday it is full steam ahead at the capitol, where in less than 48 hours lawmakers will gavel in for first scheduled hearing of the January 6th select committee. Capitol hill and metropolitan Police Officers are expected to give their personal accounts of that harrowing day. But the time and place of the hearing is about all we know. Since plans to create a more bipartisan committee crumbled this week. Now, republicans are threatening to run their own investigation after Speaker Pelosi vetoed Kevin Mccarthys, quote, ridiculous appointments of trump sycophants Jim Jordan and Jim Banks to the slate. It is my responsibility as Speaker Of The House to make sure we get to the truth on this, and we will not let their antics stand in the way of that. Joining me now is mississippi congressman benny thompson, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee And Lea
National level on voting rights well, it s staggering watching the representative talk about what they ve had to do to protect our right to vote. you know, we re in an astonishing place. every citizens in america of any party should be this should be a collective thing. no brainer! let s protect our right to vote. and, you know, we re also trying to figure out what to do. what is the best thing to do. we work with swing left.org. we work with the movement voter project. it s simple facts you want to have. you want to protect our democracy and want every single human being in this country no matter what your political affiliation is to have their sacred right of that vote! and to protect it and fight for it. if you don t, our country is in terrible condition. i mean, you have to know that we have more people vote than ever voted before.
State and the department of treasury to focus on what other steps we need to take to put pressure on the cuban regime. i think it is very important we work closely with our international partners, spain being one of them, i also think that we need to support cubans here that are demanding that the cuban family reunification program gets reinstated. that was one day to the next, it was ended by the trump administration, and we have thousands of families here that are waiting for their family members to come to be reunited with their families here in the united states. if you remember, jonathan, the trump administration deported thousands of cubans at the border and refused to process any asylum requests. we have the situation happening in cuba. we have the situation happening in haiti. in years past when things happened on both those nations, people from those countries make their way to the united states more often than not by sea. have a listen to what homeland
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