election deniers. and the freedom to vote act. on that note i wish you a goliath night, for least a minute is in for stephanie ruhle, you cannot catch me every week on american voices, from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. u for staying up late. we are super happy to have you here. september 29th, 1973. the vice president of the united states, flew to california to give a speech. it was a speech he knew he would be giving to some of his most die hard fans. people who would follow him to the end of the earth. and that was crucial that moment in his life. because just a few weeks earlier, the wall street journal had is under criminal investigation. federal corruption charges, bribery, extortion, passive, asian omega stuff. it is very shocking front page news of the time. it was damaging news, for obvious reasons to the vice president, because he was completely enraged about it. the women are hard-core activists, as a
putt, nations much more uncompromising, and i told squish president nixon was. and so the hard right, and a real activist of the republican party, they loved spiro agnew, even more than they loved richard next in. so, while agnew, their guy, those embattled by this reported federal criminal investigation. he goes up there to give a speech. and, when he told him at that speech, started off blunt but kind of normal. he says, i m innocent of the charges against me. he then told them, this is slightly more surprising, he told the crowd that he was going to use the courts himself to turn the tables and investigate the justice department for investigating him oh you re gonna investigate me? i mean it investigate you hear the real scoundrels that got a big round of cheers for spiro agnew. but then what he is winding up to, the big climax of the
districts that biden won in 2020. so what do you do in those districts? how do you take on these folks. this is guy mike, lawler who just covered. i m going to limit say probably 99% of people and not heard of representative mike lawler, the fort myers retailer green, they ve heard of matt, gates effort of lauren boebert, why even ahead of malawi? as because this guy, who represents a biden one district, knows that he s got one path to reelection, and that, is you ve got to raise a whole bunch of money from donors, like he was, i ve gotta vote more or less the way those voters want you to vote. it was 94% of the time for marjorie taylor greene. and, three this is the tricky, part you ve gotta convince your constituents, we are not one of the bad guys in congress. and so that means keeping your constituents in the dark. trying to not say that you vote 94% of the time with marjorie taylor greene. and the good news this,
districts. and you can see even there are signs that what they re protesting here either very very unpopular republican plot puzzles to cut medicare and cut social security. and what mike lawler s constituents are doing here, tracks with the advice from the new indivisible guy page 13 what to do if you have republican member of congress stepan focus on that unpopular ideas, and relentlessly tie them to their least appealing physicians or controversies. a guy goes on to, say you should use every possible opportunity to get your member of congress, on the record on those issues and try to form as the individual guide explained, in response to the had to go really sun on the record statement in local news now, work sane he opposes any cuts to social security medicare. there it is, in black and white, i got him on the record. congressman all, are now on the record opposing house of those programs as a form of progress,
did not happen on our watch. we reduced our forces significantly and the taliban didn t advance on capitals all across afghanistan. so it is a plain, old fact it is happening under the biden administration s leadership. wow. big talk from pompeo. big talk. but hold on, mike. who is this in dohar standing next to taliban official mullah badar who is now the de facto leader of afghanistan. oh, wait, that s you, mike. that is, of course, then secretary of state mike pompeo with badar who was released from prison in pakistan in 2018 at the request of the trump administration so he could participate in negotiations. the two of them first met in september of 2020 and again two months later in november, because one meeting with the taliban was not nearly enough for tough guy mike. up until a couple of months ago, trump himself was still touting his great deal and his decision to pull out all u.s. troops. i started the process, all the troops are coming back home. they couldn t stop the pr