happy new year and welcome back, maria. maria: thank you so much. what will be the agenda for this second session of congress this upcoming week and in the coming weeks? well, the very sad part, the democrats are in the majority. i mean, think about this. coming up this month will be the one-year anniversary of one-party rule. what do we have? we have covid spiking, closed schools and a cripplinged economy. and the democrats number one focus is still exactly where they ve always been, h.r. 1, to change the election laws to rig an election to give them an ability to win when they should not. to put a speech czar to tell us what to say, use campaign finance to fund these elections, to weigh the federal election committee to one-sided on the democratic side. we ve been able to stop that. it s over in the senate, but you watch what they did last week when we were out, tried to politicize january 6th. and everybody believes what
happy new. year and welcome back, maria. maria: thank you so much. what will be the agenda for this second session of congress this upcoming week and in the coming weeks? well, the very sad part or thehe democrats are in the majority. i mean, think about this. coming up u this month will be e one-year anniversary of one-party rule, and what do we have? we have covid spiking, closed schools and a crippled economy. and the democrats number one focus is still exactly where they ve always been, h.r. 1, to change the election laws to rig an election to give them an ability to win when they should not, to put a speech czar to tell us what to say, to use campaign finance to fund these elections, to weigh the federal election committee to one side on the democratic side. we ve been able to stop that. it s over in the senate, but you watch what they did last week when we were out, tried to politicize januaryci 6th, and
not be legitimate unless, they say, congress passes the party s bill to federalize elections. here to talk about that house minority leader kevin mccarthy. good morning to you and thank you for coming back. the quote from the president on wednesday was i think it easily could be illegitimate. jen psaki came on yesterday and said he was not suggesting that. how did you hear it? well, every day we hear something from the president and the next day we hear the correction. so i m not quite sure what the president is talking about. this makes no sense because if anyone read the bill of what they want to do, hr1 and others want to have a speech czar, taxpayer money pay for campaigns. in the very first bill they put forward schumer would have gotten $40 million of taxpayer money for his campaign. they want to politicize the federal election committee instead of being equal number of republicans or democrats they want to weight it toward the democratic side. i don t know if they are doing
good evening. i m mehdi hasan. nine months after the storming of the united states capitol, the attempt to overturn the results telephone 2020 election is still under way. we are in the midst of a rolling coup. almost every day republicans pass more voter suppression laws. they purge more and more election officials and they entrench the big lie that the election was stolen. just check out this weekend. and the republicans have to stay strong. you have to stay strong. you have to fight. bring our country back. do you feel that enough has been done for a free and fair election for these congressional races in 2022? we are making great improvements. and as you say, 18 states. but we ve also been able to stop hr-1 where the democrats would have greater control of our election, of what we could actually say, a speech czar to make the democrats have greater control when it comes to federal election commission. and these states is where the
good evening. i m mehdi hasan. nine months after the storming of the united states capitol, the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election is still under way. we are in the midst of a rolling coup. almost every day republicans pass more voter suppression laws. they purge more and more election officials and they entrench the big lie that the election was stolen. just check out this weekend. and the republicans have to stay strong. you have to stay strong. you have to fight. bring our country back. do you feel that enough has been done for a free and fair election for these congressional races in 2022? we are making great improvements. and as you say, 18 states. but we ve also been able to stop hr-1 where the democrats would have greater control of our election, of what we could actually say, a speech czar to make the democrats have greater control when it comes to federal election commission. and these states is where the