democracy, and you claim you love america, you should love democracy as much as you claim to love america. yeah, and not bury your head in the sand when your being attacked by your own political party. i ll schmidt, it has been a pleasure, i appreciate your time and you coming forward to sharing your experience with the committee. it strengthens our democracy and lets us know what you went through. we appreciate it. thank you, ayman. a quick programming alert. tonight, you can catch an encore of foresees in its documentary film that delves into rudy giuliani s election lies and his infamous election lies at the four seasons. that is at ten eastern, right after the second hour of ayman that starts right now. coming up coming up , we ll break down the federal state actions of democratic congressman adriano espaillat. plus, making sense of our inflation and what is being done to right the ship. ginni thomas s plan to overturn the election was far bigger than we realized. w
stand? less than a week after the bipartisan framework was publicly announced, it now seems that the two sides, as i expected, still have a lot of work to do. this week, texas senator john cornyn who was booed at the texas gop convention for his role in those negotiations, walked out a meeting with democratic negotiators, saying, it s fish or cut bait through talking. at issue are too central provisions of framework. one, red flag laws and how congress should ascent the vice states to docket them. a so-called boyfriend loophole. what method should be used that would be barred from purchasing fire arms. at this point, it is unclear whether the sticking points could pose a fatal threat to negotiations, but blue states are not waiting to find out. this month, near governor kathy hochul signed a slew of bills into law designed to curb gun violence, including raising the age to purchase semiautomatic rifles. new jersey and california or are considering their own safety packages. n
envisioned. i think the conspiracy is in plain sight. you asked earlier, we want ginni thomas to testify or not. sure, let it testify. i ve seen all i need to see. so has americans. this conspiracy is operating in plain sight. it is large, built on a lie, and the liars know it. i think everyone needs to know this about my beloved state of texas. the republican party in texas, their platform to this very day, to say that joe biden is not the president, what that means is that if you are a politician in texas, you must lie. you must now lie for the party support. it is absolutely absurd. we know what we must do. i was born in 1961, and i ve seen an awful lot of american history. i ve seen good times of bad times, i ve worried and rejoiced. but i never doubted to our political leaders would betray their oath to the constitution, and they have. dan patrick has lied through his teeth for the benefit of winning his next election and disabling democracy. now, testimony or not, criminal
outcome, what does it mean for the public for texans to have faith in the outcome of the elections? how dangerous is it for republicans to be undermining that faith? they run on it only insofar as they win, if they lose, suddenly elections are not valid. ben franklin famously said the words, if you can keep it. you all know what i am talking about. this is precisely what he envisioned. i think the conspiracy is in plain sight. you asked earlier, we want ginni thomas to testify or not. sure, let it testify. i ve seen all i need to see. so has americans. this conspiracy is operating in plain sight. it is large, built on a lie, and the liars know it. i think everyone needs to know this about my beloved state of texas. the republican party in texas, their platform to this very day, to say that joe biden is not the president, what that means is that if you are a politician in texas, you must lie. you must now lie for the party support. it is absolutely absurd. we know what we must do. i w
saying that part of this is a mistake, we should re-examine it and president obama is really taken the lead as have been republicans. i m a democrat. i usually bash republicans. my beloved state of texas, rick perry when he was governor he closed three prisons, including the prison in my hometown where i grew up. this is a bipartisan thing and i give republicans a lot of credit for leading on this and now president obama leading and president clinton having to admit that one piece of his very successful crime bill was part of the problem. it s a remarkable thing, kate. i give him a ton of credit. as you well point out, there are bipartisan efforts to kind of change the tide, if you will, with regard to these mandatory minimums and some of these nonviolent the sentence for the nonviolent drug crimes. hillary clinton has made this kind of reforming the criminal justice system a big staple of her campaign this time. she was though right beside bill clinton back in ape 94 pushingd for