house to capitol hill with the collision of two historic and deeply connected events. the first, the ongoing crisis over the house speakership still unfolding in the house at this moment, which just voted to adjourn until 10:00 pm tonight after 13 votes took pl. and the speaker was still not elected pickett is something that has not happened in american politics in 164 years. since before the civil war. the second event, the anniversary of the january 6 insurrection. the worst attack on the united its capital in centuries. the commemoration today took place at the white house where pres. joe biden awarded the country second highest civilian honor, the presidential citizens will to 14 people who were instrumental in making sure that american democracy survived the coup attempt by the ex-president and his republican allies. it is group that includes first responders, officers, as well as election workers like ruby freeman and shane mossberg we have a chance to speak to two of t
i don t think we can give them a pass, because they are getting rolled, they are being unique and scoreless just like kevin mccarthy is in giving away muster the institution. but let s get to tonight, can he get it done? look, mccarthy had a huge day. he shifted the momentum, he shifted the power dynamic, they have isolated matt gaetz and boebert and others what they wanted to, they negotiated with perry and roy and they got what they wanted. but, let s look at the final six. we need three of those to vote pres., you need to pickup two of them, or you need to sort of pickup one for mccarthy and one good and gaetz and boebert has said no no way. maybe they do get rolled and they change them at my. but those three have said no way. that means you are down two kids, rosen dale and crane. and you either need to get all three of them to vote, one for mccarthy, or two of those three . that is a lot of constituent
tenacious about our constituent pressure. that senators are movable with time and steadfast pressure from the people who support them locally, and for us, you know, as grass roots people who organize across the country, it was just so it was inspiring to hear from him, someone who grappled with this very issue, which is the senate, a place he loved, a place he knew so well and excelled at was changing and it was changing for the worst because republicans were using it for extremist views. in his time he was challenged. and zach said, to allow obama to govern meant that he needed to allow those nominees to go through. not just the nominees to go through, but he made the bench more diverse in nevada alone. he had women who were immigrants. he had the first cuban, the first latino. so it s just it s not just what he did for the country, but also the way that he did it as our state and communities have
whole segment on cnn.com, if people want to watch it, is he explains his reasoning behind it, and he says he thinks busing makes sense when you have black students and white students living on the same block, to bus them to the same school. what he was opposing and he had a lot of constituent pressure in the 70s and 80s back in delaware, what he was arguing was that when you have people living long distances, it didn t make sense to bus them in to the same school district. he said it raised all sorts of problems and he said for the issue of desegregation, he thought busing was the least effective way to do it. and is there any evidence that you have uncovered that suggests his position on this has evolved? that s what s kind of interesting about this because at the debate, he sort of stood by his record, but the way in which he described it was a little bit misleading. he said i, you know, i didn t oppose busing, i opposed, you
that might be a new possible leverage point when this federal government is trying to create what are basically baby jails in texas. i can t stress strongly enough. i m in contact with a lot of folks that are organizers. the outcry over this is like nothing people have seen. the trump administration will double down and they will try to wait it out until it goes away. they won t lift a finger. they won t stop it unless they are made to stop it. we re going to put babies in detention as americans until some alignment of political forces in this country through constituent pressure and local leaders and elected officials in washington say enough, stop, we