want people to also understand and context. you were elected in the wake of the sort of uprising in missouri, the killing of mike brown. and one of the things you ran on was smart policing. you are not trying to defund the police, which nobody ran on. you are not antagonizing police departments. you simply said, hey, there s a better way to do this. you have a policy here, you try to implement a new oversight plan, which means closer scrutiny of the police. how have police unions and local republicans responded to the idea of actually putting civilians in control of the police, which is not an uncommon practice in many cities across the country? well, we just passed the law at the board in our state last year, about the police oversight, and the police union responded by suing us. and i repeatedly said, if you are a good officer, you have nothing to worry about, when it comes to civilian oversight. so, we are trying to address the root causes of crime,
brinkley, best selling author and u.s. presidential historian. i will start with you, alexi. this is the thing that seems odd to me. whenever a story gets out, we always have to ask the question, who is leaking this, okay? but the white house obviously can t be leaking stories saying joe biden doesn t know if he s going to run. he s not aaron rodgers. he knows that he wants the job next year, right? are these leaks coming from people who want to replace him, or are they coming from other offices, or is just sets sort of the silly season where political reporters are coming up with stories for no reason? look, i mentioned that my line was not one of those stories, first, so not to face questions about the sourcing. but it s a bit of speculation, especially as that republican primary field is just barely starting to take shape. folks are looking to biden and thinking why is it taking him so long, wondering if there is a delay for some sort of reason. but that is because there have
police? are they going to give them the codes to the lock doors? there is a point in which she really putting in jeopardy the safety of the people who work every single day in the capital beyond the threats that have already been made to a parent and real. there is i ll scratch your back, you will scratch my relationship between republicans in congress in fox news. you clearly thought. fox news executives were afraid of losing the trump base. they knew that with how their bread was buttered. and republicans in the house and senate no, the only way for them to effectively get their message out is to keep fox news happy with them in. so, that is symbiotic relationship, really the story, one of the central stories of the political right right now, and you now see with these revelations how damaging that is to the core of democracy. senator murphy, i want to be brass tacks here. what can be done about this?
to spend more time talking about this. i mentioned, this is a seminal moment. i m sure there are moments in the past in which news networks and outlets deliberately lied to their viewers in order to boost ratings. frankly, it probably happens every day somewhere in the media ecosystem. but this is the most significant example ever that has been uncovered of a major news operation, notably and deliberately lying to its viewers, simply in order to pad its profits. they knew it was not true. they knew that donald trump had the election stolen from, them but because they were worried that trump would bring his base to newsmax or oan, one of these fox news competitors, they profit the lie day after day to keep berating this machine going. so, i think this is an eye-opener eye-opener for the american bubble public. we need to have a broader conversation about the implication of so much of our media becoming for profit. frankly, on the left and the right. the left isn t deliberately
our building. what s next, is the speaker of the house gonna turn over the daily schedules of the capitol police? are they going to give them the codes to the lock doors? there is a point in which she really putting in jeopardy the safety of the people who work every single day in the capital beyond the threats that have already been made to a parent and real. there is i ll scratch your back, you will scratch my relationship between republicans in congress in fox news. you clearly thought. fox news executives were afraid of losing the trump base. they knew that with how their bread was buttered. and republicans in the house and senate no, the only way for them to effectively get their message out is to keep fox news happy with them in. so, that is symbiotic relationship, really the story, one of the central stories of the political right right now, and you now see with these revelations how damaging that is to the core of democracy. senator murphy, i want to be brass tacks here. wh