Agents there. A few months before in dallas he tried to murder general edwin walker because walker had given speeches attacking communism. So oswald never hid his politics. Not for a moment. He talked incessantly about communism to anyone who would listen. But Many Americans never really understood what Lee Harvey Oswald believed and they didnt understand it because the news outlets didnt tell them. Almost immediately, the media began spinning a different story. President kennedy, they suggested, had been murdered by conservatives, possibly by conservatism itself, by hate, as they often put it. The explanation was never precise but the idea was the same. Right wingers killed kennedy. The soviet union naturally a suspect in this crime happy to agree with the assessment. As a Soev Yacht Spokesman Soviet Spokeman put it the moral responsibility lay with Barry Goldwater and other extremists on the right. In the end, coordinated lying paid off. A year later goldwater lost to the incumbent d
He tried to murder general edwin walker because walker had given speeches attacking communism. So Lee Harvey Oswald never hid his politics. Not for a moment. He talked incessantly about communism to anyone who would listen. And yet Many Americans never really understood what Lee Harvey Oswald believed and they didnt understand it because news outlets didnt tell them. Instead, almost immediately, the media began spinning a different story. President kennedy, they suggested, had been murdered by conservatives, possibly by conservatism itself, by hate, as they often put it. The explanation was never very precise but the idea was the always same. Right wingers killed kennedy. The soviet union, naturally a suspect in this crime, was happy to agree with the assessment. As a soviet spokesman put it, moral responsibility for the Kennedy Assassination lay squarely with Barry Goldwater and other extremists on the right. In the end, the coordinated lying paid off. A year later, senator Barry Gold
so we are intent on doing both. that is standing up for our people when they re attacked while at the same time working every single day to prevent the conflict from growing and spreading. that s secretary of state antony blinken laying out the priorities of the biden administration in the middle east which is becoming more volatile by the day following a deadly strike on three u.s. service members. and on capitol hill we ll bring you new details about the bipartisan border deal in the senate that are starting to leak out. we ll go through what s in the bill and the response from lawmakers. and meanwhile, the republican controlled house continues to focus on grievance over government as it moves forward with a possible impeachment of the homeland security secretary. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, january 30th. i m jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin with the defense department, which has identified th
in for harris today on the faulkner focus. john roberts writing in the majority opinion, this court has never drawn the line the secretary suggests and for good reason. among congress s most important authorities is its control of the purse. justice kagan with dissent writing the majority overrides the combined judgment of the legislative and executive branches with the consequence of eliminating loan forgiveness for 43 million americans. i respectfully dissent from that decision. white house says we ll hear from the president directly on this ruling later today. in the meantime let s bring in shannon bream, fox news chief legal correspondent. a lot of political back and forthing now in washington responding to this decision but at the end of the day as you pointed out last hour, the court was not ruling on whether this was a good policy or fair policy. the court was ruling on whether the president had the constitutional authority to issue this directive in the first place.
forces in america. from the voting rights crackdowns and assorted government plots, to the big lie attacks on election results that can stoke actual insurrections. we know the u.s. has faced many different types of crises before, but this era has been a perfect storm of right wing demagogues, weaponized propaganda from the internet to the fox news defamation we covered, and this is key, the perfect storm includes a high powered, elite driven effort to main streak attacks on democracy and try to write them into our rules. and that part of the effort is not, let s be clear, criminal activity like january 6th. it s not something people are going to go to jail for. it is what at least lawyers and others call arguably legal attacks that are still designed to hijack democracy from within. this is our top story tonight, because this brings us to efforts to bend or break current laws and rules, to try to foster more anti-democratic outcomes that would be technically legal if these pe