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Nancy pelosi, told me earlier today that he is open to potentially calling some republican members of congress as well. So that is something that will take shape, jake, in the weeks and months ahead, as this investigation picks up pace. Congresswoman liz cheney, she is one of the two republicans appointed on this committee. Cheney is expected to give an opening statement at this committee s first hearing tomorrow. Do we have any idea what she plans to say? she will speak right after the chairman bennie thompson and be expected to talk about how this issue, in her view is bigger than politics and that it is essential for congress to understand everything that happened in the runup to the attack. A really important opportunity to remind everybody about the necessity of accountability for what happen for making sure that it never happens again. So now the question, too, also remains on capitol hill, whether anything will happen about accepting an appointment from nancy pelosi. Some republ
Our allies. Iran is back to enriching uranium one and the withdrawal from afghanistan is a debacle. This administration is unravelling faster than we expected. 57% of americans see what we have been talking about and few others have. 58% of independents and a third of democrats see it. So does america s enemies. The one thing that most agree on. It s not joe biden running the show. Today yet again he struggled to get words out during his one and only publicly schedule event. Take a look. We went for two reasons. One, to to bring bin laden to the gates of hell as i said at the same time. The second reason was to eliminate alqaeda s capacity to deal with more attacks on the united states from that territory. We accomplished both of those objectives, period. Sean: repeat, maybe when you get to 101,000 joe will speak. You opposed the raid to get bin laden. I can no longer laugh. I can t joke about biden s cognitive struggle. Everyone can see he is in bad shape. Our allies and enemies see a
You? voting rights. It should be burning everyone. The idea that we re in a democracy in 2021 and it s still up for debate, whether it should happen, whether it can be happen. It s unbelievable to think that everyone is still talking about voting rights because they re still seeming to be on the chopping block. I don t understand why. Sure you do. Because they want more of theirs and less of others to vote. This is about winning. And it doesn t matter if it winds up creating racial strife. It doesn t matter if it takes us back culturally, it s about winning. I keep thinking about the story where they roll up the boulder, it comes right back down. I keep putting that together with dr. King and his mountaintop sermon. Can you imagine what he would think if he saw voting rights, one of the most seminole civil rights legislation rolling back down the hill every single chance it got. At some point, enough people have to push the would over the hill and keep it there. But it s about power. I
Been dishonest about the way he has approached the policy. This is par for the course for joe biden, joe biden served in the senate almost half a century and everybody who served with him whose objective and honest knows joe biden doesn t have a principal in his body, not a principal bone in his body, he s a communion chameleon. Look at the early part of his life, he was a cheat and plagiarist and wanted to be president of the united states first and second time around, he still worked for work on the speech of that party, the labour party ahead, he still language from the late robert kennedy, he is shameless about the things he says and does and it s not because he s a smart man, he is quite a man. It s all about power joe biden for joe biden. It s about promoting joe biden. He met with a bunch of historians the other week and wanted to know, how could he be eager than franklin roosevelt and lbj and barack obama? so he s lurched hard left where before he was not hard left and he will