actual nation and not just in the capital. that s something we try to do frequently here on the show. we have done it on covid a number of times. we have done it around big political developments, on impeachment, for example. i find it to be a helpful reset. it s a little slice of the news world that gets you out of the beltway mindset for a minute. today, house speaker nancy pelosi s staff, they seemed to have had a similar kind of idea. pelosi staffers sent out snapshots of front pages around the country, front pages from local newspapers around the country in terms of how they are covering the trillion dollar infrastructure bill that just passed through congress and that president biden is about to sign. the headlines about that bill are great. particularly about the local impact it s expected to have in states and communities around the country. also the reason i m guessing the speaker s office started circulating front page snapshots like this today is because as good as
here. i just got it on paper. here is the good news for both of us. our first guest tonight is lawrence tribe. there you go. that s cheating. so he s had this, he s been reading it. he ll translate all of it for us as we get into it. it is a very important and quickly arrived at opinion by the judge. the judge has been moving in a way we haven t seen the judicial process move in washington certainly during the trump era and what is now the aftermath of the trump era legally and it s really striking compared to, say, the way merrick garland is moving or not moving on the referral of criminal prosecution for contempt of congress by steve bannon. and it s important because apparently, the garland justice department is also not moving on what the january 6th investigation is moving on, which is who done it? who organized it? who made it happen? who paid for it? who devised this theory if you sent a mob into the capitol on january 6th mike pence would be the pressure point y
pelosi staffers sent out snapshots of front newspapers around the country, in terms of how they re covering the trillion infrastructure bill that just passed through congress and that president biden is about to sign. and the headlines about that bill are great. particularly about the local impact it s expected to have in states and communities around the country. also, the reason i m guessing the speaker s office started circulating front page snapshots like this today is because as good as the news is about the infrastructure bill for all of the states around the country, it s bad news from members of congress, from those states who voted against it. and i ll show you what i mean. here s the rapid city journal in south dakota today. a big above the fold front page head line. state gets $2.8 billion from infrastructure bill. whoo-hoo, that s a huge amount of money coming to south dakota, right? for roads, bridges, broadband in rural areas which is a huge deal in south dakota