hey, everybody, i m yasmin vossoughian. if you are just joining us, welcome. if you are still with us, thanks for sticking around. wrong and un-american. that is how mike pence is now characterizing his former boss in a takedown from ticket mates that we ve never seen, really, in american politics. the former vice president finally saying, enough is enough when it comes to donald trump. president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people, and the american people alone. and frankly, there is no idea more un-american than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. in a moment, i m going to talk to olivia troye, former top aide to pence about why he s choosing this moment to break with the former president. the republican infighting does not stop there, though. it includes the gop censure of the two republican house members who refuse to bow to trump when it comes to january 6th. as the p
over which she will likely preside. republican senators with the solemn duty to offer advice and consent are attacking the anonymous know s race and gender before we even know her name. we have a member of the senate judiciary committee standing by to talk about the gop s desperate smear campaign. and of course race is on the docket in courts across this land as the national football league deals with a his tore rec lack of black leadership on the sidelines. brian flores and his attorney is here to tell why he sacked the league with an historic lawsuit this week. and justice has yet to come for the family of trayvon martin nearly a decade after his senseless killing. his parents join us on what would have been his 27th birthday. we have a lot to get to, so joining me now is nor alex padilla of california. senator, we mentioned you sit on the senate judiciary committee, so let s start with the supreme court. i would love to talk about the many qualified candidates joe biden
Birthday. we have a lot to get to, so joining me now is nor alex padilla of california. senator, we mentioned you sit on the senate judiciary committee, so let s start with the supreme court. i would love to talk about the many qualified candidates joe biden has to choose from. and we are do so in a moment. but some of your republican colleague on the judiciary don t care about any of that. saying this week he wants a nominee that, quote, knows a law book from a j crew catalog. republicans probably can t stop this confirmation, but they can certainly try to debase the process and tarnish the nominee. are you at all concerned about that? i m more than concerned. i m frankly insulted. good to be back with you at such a critical time to think that before we know who the nominee
Is, several republican senator, not just senator kennedy from louisiana, shame on him, have come out the way that they have because of the president s commitment, his pledge to appoint the first black woman to the supreme court. he made the pledge as a candidate. he is keeping it. and i m fully supportive of that. you know when i joined the senate last year, i became the first latino to represent the state of california. and in this important body. so i can attest firsthand representation matters. the perspective, the voice that we bring to these institutions is critical. and i look forward to being part of this history when we do confirm when we do confirm the first black woman as supreme court justice. let s get to the nominees. there are a number of names out there, all of them with great life stories and qualifications. what i want to know is,
Who is willing to be bold and not shy with that voice and the deliberations at the supreme court. and now let s turn now to the fight for democracy. yesterday the republican national committee censured the two republican members of the january 6 committee, representatives liz cheney and adam kinzinger. in doing so, it suggested that what happened that day was, quote, a legitimate political discourse. i mean, i can only assume similar condemnation awaits former vice president mike pence who yesterday said former president trump was wrong in his claim that pence would have had the power to overturn the 2020 election. republicans are at war over the future of democracy and it appears that the anti-democratic side is winning. now that voting rights legislation seems stalled, what are democrats doing to try and combat this, senator?