biden plans a big speech this week on voting rights. is that enough? democracy is under vigorous, vicious and sinister attack. billionaires in space. richard branson will make history when he launches into space about an hour from now. i m going to enjoy every second from the beginning to the end. inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday. with republicans advancing voting restrictions in states across the country, president biden is facing intense pressure to act on the defining political issue of this year. on tuesday, he will give a speech on voting rights in philippouf philly to counter new state laws that make it more difficult to vote and this week, vice president kamala harris touted a $25 million investment in the democrats voter registration and turnout efforts. where the legislature is hell bent on making it difficult for us to vote, we re going to have to start rallying now to think cr
where he focused on rebuilding our international relationships. i felt a genuine sense of enthusiasm that america was back at the table and fully, fully engaged. biden s diplomatic skills will be tested again when he sits down with russian president vladimir putin this week. we ll have more on that in a moment. but first, two concerns about our own democracy here at home. democrats top priority for protecting voting rights, the for the people act, appears doom, thanks to one of their own, senator joe manchin. but today house speaker nancy pelosi expressed some optimism. sees a glass half full. i don t give up on joe manchin. i read the op-ed, and you read a part of it. yeah. i think he left the door open. i think it s ajar. i m not giving up. we ll just have to see how long that ajar door remains open. meanwhile, the justice department is expanding its own efforts to enforce voting rights. here is with the associate attorney general said to jonathan capehart th
printed it for the occasion, which needless to say they had. and predictably, we wound up with frightening levels of inflation which for the record they still did not exist. but inflation does exist, as you know well if you live here. corn prices, to name just one example of a stable commodity that is now out of control, have risen by 50% just since january. but that was not bad enough. the lunatics then decided to make it even worse than that, so they paid millions of americans more than they make it work just to stay home and do nothing. to justify doing this they use the word covid quite a bit but had nothing to do with the pandemic, they just wanted to break the system and so they did. the rest of us immediately wound up with a bewildering combination of rising unemployment in the middle of a severe labor shortage. so, at the very same time we found ourselves with too many workers and also to few workers. that doesn t even make sense. but thanks to their policies, that
predictably we wound up with threatening levels of inflation. but inflation does exist as you know. this is an example of a staple commodity but this wasn t bad enough. they then went and made things worse. to justify doing this they blamed the pandemic.us they just want to break the system and they did. the rest of us wound up with a bewildering combination of unemployment in the middle of a severe lockdown. we found ourselves with too many workers and not enough jobs. finally in 2021 if this doesn t remind you enough of the 1970s we now have a serious gap. all along the east coast people could not fill up their cars. customers waiting at the pump people running out of fuel. officials warn drivers not to panic by. but already long lines with no fuel gauges. in emergency? if they ran out of food that would be in emergency. don t worry not this is real it s a conspiracy theory. in a piece today the new york times said since the pipeline shutdown their has been no long li
are now tied to far right extremists like white supremacists and recounting the warning signs that were there before the insurrection. the threat of white nationalist violence has been weaponized. the 2016 election of president donald trump gave them a tribal chieftain they can all rally behind. the fbi chooses not to prioritize the investigation and prosecution of white supremacists and far right violence. the failure to prepare for the january 6 attack on the capitol is an indictment of the counterterrorism intelligence enterprise built since 9/11. we can see future attacks that make oklahoma city bombing pale in comparison. you can see the intelligence experts there zooming in, like you might for any other pandemic era discussion, but it was of course deadly serious as they tried to implore the congress to really take this all the way, to do what past administrations sometimes haven t. for their part, republicans used their time today to divert from that topic to