the vice president currently now already has covid. i mean, i get it, in terms of why covid concerns are enough to maybe make you not want to see president biden attend this event in person. however, i see the other side. it means something. it is something important in this moment, now, both domestically and for our role in the world. it means something for u.s. president to show up, to stand for the press, to stand with the press. even as the press, i am sure, it drives this president just as bananas as we have every other politician since the dawn of time. that is what we do. but right now it is particularly important for the u.s. president to stand with the press. because there really is an opposing side here. right? from the other side of american politics. now, you know we have a lot of fake news back there. that fake news. i am talking about the fake news media, they are truly an enemy of the people.
the next two candidates in the next presidential election. the republican party says they are done, they are not doing that anymore. because whether or not the republican party s presidential candidate next time around is going to be donald trump, the party itself has decided this year that they can never abide by the fact that it is reported to ask questions at presidential debates. and therefore, there will be no presidential debates in 2024. it s a remarkable decision. and it is on the basis of the fact that the press is involved in asking the questions. the republican party can no longer abide by that. it is less controversial, and has received way less attention than that. but in republican-controlled states this year, we have seen a whole rash of moves and restrictions put in place, that ban reporters from covering state governments, from covering state legislatures. and utah, in kansas, in iowa. when they decide to ban reporters from the iowa legislature this year broke what was
story we covered earlier this week that got a big reaction from you, so i want to tell you how this worked out. l. a. times reporter alene tchekmedyian published video last month of an extreme use of force incident and l. a. county jail. she also reported on internal documents showing that officials in the sheriff s department including the sheriff himself had tried to cover that incident up in order to avoid that press. so the sheriff, whose name is alex villaneuva. he said no that is true here she s learned about this incident till months of what happened. he took immediate action as soon as he knew about it. that s where the story stood this week when that same l. a. times reporter reported that a courting to a commander in the department the sheriff had actually viewed a video of the incident five days after it had happened and he said at the time to other sheriffs of his employees quote we do not need by media at this time. l. a. times broke that story on monday and then all he do
but this idea that there is a supposed terrible threat from the press and that reporters are not just irritating the people in power, but actually criminal, that the freedom of the press is a threat that must be destroyed, physically destroyed, i mean, this is something that we should be fluent in them. i mean, this is an issue that is not hiding its light under a bushel. this is not something that you really have to go looking too hard for. on january 6th, they really did carve the phrase, murder the media, into the u.s. capital. they left that behind. presumably they meant it. this is a thing that we should be able to see clearly. and even when they are doing it in a way that is more stupid than scary it is the same thing and a tactical pattern that we should recognize and be able to think clearly about. this thing we covered last night, with the ridiculous
seeing against the press, against voting, against political opponents. it is a tactic that is not new. it s a tactic that we did not invent in this country. but if we can see it more clearly, if we can get more fluent about it. and talking about amongst ourselves. one of the things we will quickly learn is that we can turn to our advantage the learned experience of the people who have gone before us and faced it and thought of before we had to. and that is what we re going to do here tonight. stay with us, big show ahead. ith us, big show ahead as i used to be. my wife introduced me to prevagen and so i said yeah, i ll try it out. i noticed that i felt sharper, i felt like i was able to respond to things quicker. and i thought, yeah, it works for me. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. we could walk forever