and i just think it also reflects upon the republican party so poorly that the fact republicany leadership i kn everything has become l partisa. he s the speaker of the house ande purportedly represents th american people. and he wasen trying to get trump not to do this, let s remember that. he had a moment of sanity in leadership. this is about his own desperate attempt tos hold onto power. at all costs. exactly. literally just fulfilling his end i suppose of the devil s bargain. how should d democrats talk abo this because the biden administration isis not going t come out and talk about tucker carlson s access to this. the relationship between fox re news, the sort of dog leading its owner to borrow the metaphor,w the idea the dog ha caught the car, let s use that one, and fox news is basically issuing tiktoks to the
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governor desantis has another use in mind for this board. desantis suggested monday he s also expecting the board to act as a sort of moral arbiter for the company desantis has described as a woke burbank corporation that is trying to inject woke ideology on children. disney world. joining us now is florida state representative anna eskomane. i know you ve been very involve in all of this or at least the push back on a lot of it. let s first start with disney and the degree to which you think the governor is trying to weaponize state oversight to effectively cancel disney culture as it were. thanks so much for having me, alish. and so much what governor desantis does is fake populism. as he talks about ending the corporate kingdom, he s been giving out billions of dollars in tax breaks to the wealthiest
but fundmentally most working class families if you ask them do you want your kid to go to college, they will say, yes, right? because that is a core part of the american dream. and we have so many jobs that are working class jobs today that have some college including community college, which used to be free and which the biden administration would like to be free and is not today, and people go to community college and get tens of thousands of dollars in debt. so i do think this is not a sort of plain and simple college educated verses not issue. the average income of where the majority of student loan debt applicants, relief applicants were, you know it s like less than $50,000 a year. we re talking about working class communities that, of course, if you just think about it for just a second had to borrow to go to college because they didn t have a trust fund
0 so republicans backed off. if we are smart and bring to the floor serious legislation that will improve life for the working class in this country we are going to win that debate. i saw news today that the house freedom caucus are preparing their own budget i thought to myself, that is good. put it out there and let s debate where the priority should be. you got. it thank you, senator bernie sanders, his new book is out, it is okay to be angry about capitalism, out in book stores everywhere, thank you, senator. thank you. thank you be angry about capitalism i alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. i m really happy you re back. did you miss me? i did miss you. and it s likeid terrifying to n have you around. and ali was doing all that dangerous reporting in ukraine. i have to say he did absolutely incredible, incredible work as did betty and eamon, and all who sat in and i braved it all. i didn t have to do nothing. it was scary for all of us.