its members encouraging them to participate in a special halloween contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you can make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy, they even showed you how to burn your effigy once you wrote it. it was from aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all-expense paid trip to d.c. just burn the effigy. is this was a fringe group in 2009 takinging dangerous political rhetoric about reid and pelosi to a dangerous new extreme. the worry is not that violent rhetoric and mainstream politics is going to cause level-headed mainstreamer to do something insane and awful. the worry is that violent rhetoric encourages the least stable amongst us to do. a democratic leader in the house, nancy pelosi, a month before the halloween contest in 2009. how concerned are you about the tone of the political de
china claims taiwan as part of its territory, despite having never controlled it and repeatedly warned against pelosi visiting the island, vowing to take resolute and forceful measures if the visit goes forward. john kirby addressed the trip on cnn last hour. there s no reason for the chinese rhetoric, there s no reason for any actions to be taken. it is not uncommon for congressional leaders to travel to taiwan. it is very much in keeping with our policy and consistent with our support to taiwan under the taiwan relations act. we shouldn t be as a country, we shouldn t be intimidated by that rhetoric or those potential actions. this is an important trip for the speaker to be on. we re going to do whatever we can to support her. cnn is on capitol hill, but we begin with will ripley in taipei, taiwan. will, what can you tell us the latest about this announcement of the speaker s trip? reporter: well, for one thing, this is not going to be, you know, a fueling brief stop
prosecutors mainly undeterred by rising crime, he is undeterred by you, the people who have to live with his soft on crime ideas, he continues to think that letting people get away with crime is good, prison bad and people should be realized time after time to continue their criminal ways, he is willing to to spend a lot of money to find ideas to not make you safer. your vote counts as much as his does. it is not too late. soros does not need good cops pro prosecutors, he will be fine on whatever yacht he is on, we need the public safety, what of the policy initiatives doing to your communities, former federal prosecutor, sol weisenberg is joining us now. i am guessing george soros figured out the best way to change your justice system is to change those responsible for running it there true, if you put enough money into the races. he put a tremendous aim in the local da races, someone has to pay the piper. what is happening now people are waking up to the results of ease ele
prosecutors mainly undeterred by rising crime, he is undeterred by you, the people who have to live with his soft on crime ideas, he continues to think that letting people get away with crime is good, prison bad and people should be realized time after time to continue their criminal ways, he is willing to to spend a lot of money to find ideas to not make you safer. your vote counts as much as his does. it is not too late. soros does not need good cops pro prosecutors, he will be fine on whatever yacht he is on, we need the public safety, what of the policy initiatives doing to your communities, former federal prosecutor, sol weisenberg is joining us now. i am guessing george soros figured out the best way to change your justice system is to change those responsible for running it there true, if you put enough money into the races. he put a tremendous aim in the local da races, someone has to pay the piper. what is happening now people are waking up to the results of ease ele
him. so if you watched garland carefully, his press conference the other day, you may have noticed that he appeared highly annoyed by the idea of having to stoop to explain himself to mere citizens. he found a solution. being a liberal, merrick garland s first instinct was to seize the role of victim, because when you re a victim you ve already won the argument. you don t have to explain yourself. you don t have to change your behavior. you re by definition the good guy. the victim always is. being oppressed means never having to say you re sorry. so as garland explained in the press conference, the fbi was the victim. mean old fox news was asking unfair questions, and that s wrong. the real problem isn t that america s most powerful law enforcement agency is corrupt, no, the real problem is the people have dared to complain about it, and they must stop immediately or else they re domestic terrorists. as gary put it with genuine outrage, i will not silently stand by as the in