Lie about what happened in the 2020 election and look no further than the Cpac Straw Poll for how thats manifesting among this selfselecting conserve this has become a top issue for the party and there is a Reward Structure for lawmaker whose go along with this. If you look into the Straw Poll, many of the people who rank highly on the list, like Ron Desantis and ted cruz, have backed up or not directly condemned this lie about the 2020 election. There is definitely a Reward Structure in this. In terms of trumps Hold On the party, though, you see it from the messaging perspective, especially as hes starting to take much more public posture over the course of these next few weeks and months leading up to the midterm elections this is the message that he is choosing to lead with. A backwards looking message about what happened in 2020, hoping that thats enough Red Meat to actually fire up the base to go vote again in the upcoming midterm elections it may be a different plan than people l
Or down vote on whether or not we are going to have the continuation of Voting Rights in this country. Now we have the opportunity to actually do something about it, and Senator Manchin would rather preserve Jim Crow on some outdated theory of bipartisanship. Listen, i know he wants to protect democracy, but there will be no democracy if we dont protect the roeths to vote of all americans. With Mitch Mcconnell and other republicans holding on to their vow of total opposition to bidens agenda, it would seem bipartisanship is a pipe dream, but it wont Stop Chuck Schumer from playing out his plan this week to win over those opposed to Filibuster Reform. This approach goes something like this. Put the Issue Front and center by forcing votes on a series of measures republicans vote, like insuring equal pay, gun safety, and gay Rights Legislation. He also promised Voting Rights by The End of june, which reminder, if like me you feel like time has become a flat circle, we are in june right no
welcome back, everybody, i m yasmin vossoughian. the surge at the border, one that republicans are trying to turn into a political crisis for the biden administration. but the white house is in fact firing back, sending the homeland security secretary on five different morning shows to remind the public of something the gop would like them to forget. why the challenge at the border is as difficult as it is now, even though we are tackling it and will tackle it successfully is because the entire system was dismantled by the trump administration and we are in the midst of a pandemic. so it makes the challenge more difficult, but we know how to meet that challenge. the personnel in the department of homeland security will and are meeting that challenge and we will execute this successfully. so in a moment i m going to go to hidalgo county, texas, judge richard cortez, for a reality check on what s actually going on at the border and whether it s immigration, voting rights or
coming up in a couple of minutes, we will have the house financial services committee on the gamestop stock surge and trading halt. first we will get background on the hearing with eliza cohen from the wall street journal. with more on today s hearing, we are joined on the phone by eliza collins. she covers congress for the wall street journal. online, what is the committee looking for? this is a rare moment of bipartisanship in at least having this hearing. both sides agree they need to look into what happened with the gamestop spree in late january. they agreed they wanted to hear from the people involved, but what is next is where we will start to see some division. we ve already been seeing in the hearing, republicans have been very quick to push back on any additional regulations. there has been a little criticism on how things have been handled, but overall, they are pretty happy with the status quo and definitely do not want to see more regulation. democrats are
this will minimize services while members are asking questions of our witnesses. the staff have been instructed not to meet members, except when members were not recognized. members are also advised they may only participate in one remote conversation at a time. if you re participating today, please keep your cameras on and if you choose to send to a different remote proceeding, turn your camera off. we will make an exception and members from texas will participate without their video function, as they are experiencing power outages that prevent them from having their videos working. the members wish to be macro wish to be recognized, please identify yourself by name to facilitate the recognition. i will also ask that, given the nature of the committee, with we move the business virtually. so, this hearing is entitled gamestop, who wins and loses when short-sellers, social media, and hedge funds collide. three minutes for an opening statement. good afternoon everyone. we