Stay updated with breaking news from Organized it. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Mulhaney. anyone who has pertinent information we know kevin mccarthy was, i ll have to say, he certainly appears to be a pretty pertinent witness to me. joining me is former prosecutor glenn kirschner. also good to have you on the show. there are those who have relevant information about what happened at the capitol on january 6th. not only the foot soldiers actually attacking the capitol, but those who funded it, organized it, incited it. we saw 11 subpoenas issued for ....
In 1965 president lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act into law. it prohibited state and local governments from the nine citizens the right to vote based on their rates. it erected an entire structure to ensure that right was preserved and the law was incredibly effective and politically popular. in fact it was reauthorized multiple times, most recently in 2006 by an overwhelming bipartisan vote in the house and a unanimous vote in the senate. senator mitch mcconnell, then the majority, not only got every republican to vote for it he then took to the floor and spoke in favor of it. members of congress realize that this is a piece of legislation that has worked and one of my favorite sayings is that if it s not broken let s not fix it, and it s like a piece of legislation. it s served an emperor important purpose over many years. this piece of legislation will continue to make a difference, not only in the south but for all of america and for all of ....
Plus we found out today who will serve on that select committee tasked with investigating january six, former lead impeachment manager jamie raskin is on that list and he joins me now right here, next. don t go anywhere. n t go anywhere. sadly, not anymore. wow. so sudden. um, we re not about to have the we need life insurance conversation again, are we? no, we re having the we re getting coverage so we don t have to worry about it conversation. so you re calling about the $9.95 a month plan -from colonial penn? -i am. we put it off long enough. we are getting that $9.95 plan, today. (jonathan) is it time for you to call about the $9.95 plan? i m jonathan from colonial penn life insurance company. sometimes we just need a reminder not to take today for granted. if you re age 50 to 85, you can get guaranteed acceptance whole life insurance starting at just $9.95 a month. ....
Start with one of the big headlines today which is about disunity among republicans, of which there is also funding. liz cheney of wyoming, conservative royalty, super conservative by every voting metric, has one fault in the eyes of her fellow conservatives that she just states the obvious truth, that donald trump lost the election, he lied about it, lied about losing it, and whipped up a violent insurrection and an attack on american democracy and came close utter disaster. because she is not willing to lie, she was run out of congressional leadership at the instructions of donald trump. house minority leader kevin mccarthy, you may remember, called the white house on january 6th begging trump to call off his thugs only to be told according to multiple reports, well, kevin, i guess they love their country more than you do. good thing the mob didn t find him and beat him to death. ....
Go marauding to find people to beat to death. no, the polite way to do it, the way to do it if you re credentialed or you re mitch mcconnell, the polite way is to cultivate elite lawyers at the federalist society who become judges, justices, they get nice op eds about how collegial they are. then you bring those lawsuits and those justices chip away at it. a snip here, cut there, death by 1,000 blows until they have functionally done away with the single most important law in history. we did this once before. the 15th amendment and it got killed. the only reason the voting rights act was necessary is because a successful effort to gut the 15th amendment. now we re watching them gut the voting rights act. it s not the first time, people. that s because multi-racial democracy is the thing conservatives are mobilizing and ....