threats of violence toward everyone, from federal judges to airplane flight crews, to journalists to election workers to other kinds of elected officials. it was good to hear him give that so much attention. it is less good that he could not, in his speech today, point too much of anything that the justice department is actually doing to stop those violent threats. it is true that lots of people who have threatened senators and members of congress have gotten in trouble with the law for that. but as we ve reported here over the last months and weak, and as reuters has reported over the last months, people like low level workers in elections and officials who have been threatened, even in a greatest terms, they are not getting nearly enough help from law enforcement at the local level, state level or at the federal level. so, the talk about how corrosive and dangerous those threats are today from the attorney general, that was nice as a sort of consciousness raising exercise, about thos
and that is great to hear. on that point about threats of violence to public officials, he actually spent a lot of his speech, about half his speech, talking about threats of violence toward everyone, from federal judges to airplane flight crews to journalists to election workers, to other kinds of elected officials. it was good to hear him give that so much attention. it is less good that he couldn t in his speech today point to much of anything the justice department is actually doing to stop those violent threats. it s true that lots of people who have threatened senators and members of congress have gotten in trouble with the law for that. but as we have reported here over the past few weeks and months, as reuters has reported aggressively over the last few months, people like low level election workers and low level officials who have been threatened even in the most egregious terms, they re not getting nearly enough help from law enforcement at the local level, the state level, o
everything in our power to defend the american people and american democracy. we will defend our democratic institutions from attack. we will protect those who serve the public from violence and threats of violence. we will protect the cornerstone of our democracy: the right of every eligible citizen to cast a vote that counts. and that is great to hear. on that point about threats of violence to public officials, he actually spent a lot of his speech, about half his speech, talking about threats of violence toward everyone, from federal judges to airplane flight crews to journalists to election workers, to other kinds of elected officials. it was good to hear him give that so much attention. it is less good that he couldn t in his speech today point to much of anything the justice department is actually doing to stop those violent threats. it s true that lots of people who have threatened senators and members of congress have gotten in trouble with the law for that. but as we have rep
0 speaking with him. it has been once again, as usual, now he s the man of the center of the question of what can or cannot be done in washington. but the biden administration can or cannot get past. we ll be speaking with senator schumer, live in just a moment. today of course is january 5th, a year ago today in the great state of georgia, georgia voters elected to new u.s. senators, democrat jon ossoff and democrat raphael warnock. they were runoff elections for both of georgia s u.s. senate seat one year ago today. at the democrats won both of those races. now, georgia electing to democrats to their two u.s. senate seats. that is how we got senate majority leader chuck schumer. that is what flipped control of the u.s. senator from republican control to democratic control. that is what made it possible for the biden administration in its first year to an act all the legislation that they have passed in the past year. including covid relief, the big infrastructure bill, and all the re