before pelosi spoke garrett haake, he put the politics of all of it this way. democratic priorities keep running into the brutal buzz saw reality of a 50/50 senate with republicans united. police reform talks over gun law talks, over. voting rights going nowhere. social infrastructure, prekars. mccaskill pinned it down like this. in the process, it looks awful and stupid to america and the republicans are banking on the fact that the democrats are going to take more of the blame than they are, because they re in charge. and it looks like a bunch of idiots running around right now. that political gridlock just pushed lawmakers to end police reform talks inentired by george floyd s murder. coming up, i ll talk to george