forums, security risk. bradford fitch, the nonprofit s president and ceo sated he also urges staffers to send unknown calls straight to voicemail to spare young aides the verbal abuse. quote, i will give you an anecdote that was very chilling that happened to me recently when i was doing a training for some new interns coming to capitol hill, fitch said. normally, the question you get is, hey, where are the receptions with the free food? instead, the question i got was, i just did my training for answering the phones, and my chief of staff wants me, in cases where we get death threats, to try to get the person calling to give us their name. you got any advice? you have any advice on how i do that? that is a reality of being an intern on capitol hill, eddie. right. i mean, look, we have to describe the elements within our country for what they are, right? and what we re seeing here is not only the exploitation of fear. we re seeing that fear mobilized to menace others, to beat them
video evidence was too much for the corporate press to overcome. i thought it highlight ad huge moment in history in media where you have this new style of front line, on the ground journalism that is telling the people the truth and americans are hungry for this type of information. rachel: yeah. kyle rittenhouse no question would behind bars if were not for independent journalists on the ground reporting. the whole time it was happening i was in wisconsin where was you know, the bigger press? why weren t they there on the ground? it is an interesting question. i want to go back to wendy rittenhouse. she really humanized her son there. he will have a lot of healing to do. what is he going to do into the future. doesn t seem like she knows. she was offered by three republican congressman an opportunity to intern on capitol hill. the response from the democrats was, we don t feel safe as if kyle rittenhouse again
confrontation as po opposed to more amicable, gentlemanly kind of approach that was described between biden and segregationists and how he was able to get things done. so, i mean, first and foremost i have the utmost respect for jim clyburn. he gave me my first political job as an intern on capitol hill. our families go way back. when i say congressman clyburn has tacitly endorsed joe biden and when i talk about the fact that a lot of people were disappointed for congressman clyburn not on jumping on the grenade for joe biden with the crime bill but also with segregationists, it does highlight a generational divide. what we re seeing now is a wide swath of democrats who want to stop talking about no one asked joe biden a question about
homeland security. this is a remarkable day. having to see not only the speaker today, her family sitting up in the gallery, i bought my ticket because this is a historic day. but going up to mr. clyburn s office. the new whip of the house. imagine that. the whip, and in his office there are pictures of all the african americans who have served on capitol hill. starting in reconstruction, and then passing by to go over to hoyer, and seeing the honorable shirley chism, and to be an intern on capitol hill when interns were not paid to now to going into office after office and saying i m back, i m ready to be an intern. will i get $15 an hour? yes. it s an incredible day for the country, and it s an important period for democrats, and i
in fact she was in jail and out now on $75,000 bail. but this is a personal tragic story as well. she is someone who worked her way up from being an intern on capitol hill and a deputy chief of staff and a well known congressman s office before getting this job as the special assistant to the president. somebody who has withbeen a lia between congress and the white house. and now of course as you might imagine that career is threatened. absolutely vulnerable. how much jail time could she face if she s convicted? you know, i actually don t know the answer to that? these are three felonies, however. and when i spoke to the folks in the state attorney s office and you saw the public information officer, the communications officer, interviewed there. he actually said they were going to kind of dig deep into this whole case beginning on monday. because she does not go back to court until september 2nd. so the details how this will end