war. tim, thank you very, very much for coming to the sunday show. i mean, this is white fragility this bill and the purpose is white fragility personified, is it not? right. i mean, these are the people who say white fragility is a made-up concept, and yet they democrat demonstrate it, every time they open their mouths. this isn t a debate about history. how we remember the past and how we teach it and talk about it affects how we understand the present and how we shape the future. so when they want to get rid of certain textbooks that talk about systemic racism in history, when they want to purge that very term from the curriculum of schools, the reason they re doing that is that if you get rid of a systemic analysis that says our current in equities stem from the inertia of hundreds of years of unequal access and opportunity, what are you left with? you re left with an analysis that says, well, the problem really is black people.
terms of saying what they re for. well, biden made the same mistake that every inside the beltway democrat makes. you think you can deal with these people. you can can t deal with the republicans. they re not interested in dealing with you. they don t give a damn about the country. their essential agenda is to get into power by any means necessary, by any means necessary and then hold it. what biden needs to do is get out there and have a press conference every other week if necessary and do what he just did and can t take two hours. but the ds of when he was in the senate and everybody got along are gone. we have to fight and be willing to fight and the president of the united states has to lead us. well that s all i can say to that. howard dean, former chair of the democratic national committee, michael steele, former chair of the republican national committee, you guys were great.
and sinema, aren t using all of their power to protect voting rights. harris county, correct me i can t remember which gigantic city is in harris county, but it is largely people of color. it is houston, absolutely. and what is happening is these rejections are highest in the largest urban counties that are trending democrat. this is a theme here. we are now seeing in the impact of voter suppression laws. it is not theoretical anymore. these laws that were passed in 2021 are going into effect in 2022. and in harris county alone, the county judge said, 27,500 voters as a conservative estimate could be disenfranchised by this voter i.d. law alone, enough to swing a close election. so there was zero evidence of voter fraud put forth by republicans, who are already seeing the potential for tens of thousands of voters to be
drives. you get out there, you work, you tell your side of the story, you know, and you engage folks. and both sides got to knock it off too, jim. i m sorry, but there s as much on their side as there is on our side. it needs to go back to some semblance of normal. we need to govern. we need to help the country. we need to help folks that need help and move on. i have to respectfully disagree with you there. it was the trump republicans who stormed the capitol on january 6th. we won t get into a debate on that, but if we keep seeing episodes like this that you experienced there in clark county happening in other places around the country, what are the national implications of that? i think they re poor for everyone. you can t govern by this method, and you don t win by this method. you re not going to get especially in a state like nevada, which is trending democrat. i think it s plus four dem, plus five dem. you have to have moderates.
i just don t come from a school where you re constantly airing dirty laundry. like, there are really big divisions in washington right now, period. democrat, republican, within each party. but i just don t believe that the way that you get back at other people is by putting that on air, airing that publicly. so i don t love that. i also don t think that, you know, if we disagree with someone, that s a normal part of governing. okay. moderate michigan congresswoman alyssa slotkin had choice words for her fellow democrats this morning revealing she doesn t support the recent public condemnation of senator kyrsten sinema for her obstruction on voting rights. sinema was censured by her own state party yesterday after she joined 50 republicans and joe manchin earlier this week in a vote to kill one of the last shots her party had at saving our democracy. joining me now, my sound off