tweeting today trump has been telling a number of people he expects he will be reinstated by august. keeping them honest, there is no such thing as a former president getting reinstated, and even if there was, he won t be. the image of a one-time former president milling around in his florida club talking to anyone willing to listen about phony election results and imaginary ballots is rather sad and pathetic. but it s more than that. it has real world consequences. republican politicians in congress and state legislatures across the country, hoping to be noticed perhaps by the former president are hoping to enact laws based on his lies. limiting voting. curtailing investigation into the insurrection. some followers of his, now michael flynn who is now selling qanon merchandise online and repeating qanon favorite slogans at times seems to support a coup now against president biden. here he is last weekend at a conference in dallas answering questions about why a myanmar-style
it is not, however, sadly unprecedented. the new laws they are pushing are based on the election lies still being told by the former president and we got word that the man in mar-a-lago has word he will soon return to office. trump has been telling a number of people he expects he will be reinstated by august. keep in mind, there is no such thing as a former president being reinstated and even if there was, he won t be. the image of a former president milling around in his florida club talking to anyone about phony election results and imaginary ballots is rather sad and pathetic. it has real world consequences. republican politician pres hopio be noticed are trying to enact laws based on his lies. limiting voting. curtailing investigation into the insurrection. some followers of his, now selling qanon merchandise online and repeating qanon favored slogans at times supports a coup against president biden. why a myanmar style i want to know why what happened in myanmar c
are all stalling in the senate. why? current rules say the president needs all senate democrats onboard and at least ten republicans. right now he can t get either of these two things, but he promised the nation he could. now as frustration builds he s adding fuel to a filibuster fight on capitol hill and is taking a veiled swipe at members of his own party. i hear all the folks on tv saying why doesn t biden get this done? well, because biden only has a majority of effectively only four votes in the house and a tie in senate with two members of the senate that vote more with my republican friends. but we re not giving up. cnn white house correspondent, john harwood, is with us, and the president s remarks today are expected to be about the pandemic and vaccinations, and also on infrastructure. one task may be more pleasant than the other. on the pandemic, the president will talk about trying to sprint to 70% overall vaccination rate with at least one shot for american
sen. klobuchar: i call to order [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] senr [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] sen. klobuchar: i call to order this hearing on s-1 the for the people act. today we are here to consider the for the people act, legislation that i m honored to lead with senator merkley and majority leader schumer, which has been cosponsored by every democratic member of this committee. i would like to thank senator blunt, our colleagues, and our witnesses for being here today. i would also like to acknowledge in addition to senator merkley two of our other members who are new to this committee and are new to the senate. senator ossoff, who along with senator warnock were elected in georgia, where we know election issues were front and center. as well as senator padilla, who has his own extensive experience with these issues from his time as calif
mentor, vice president walter mondale. he caught the nation s attention fighting for justice. so it is such a moment. working in the forefront of the right to counsel in the landmark case gideon v. wainwright. he followed in the footsteps of hubert humphrey. as vice presidents, he defined the office of the modern-day vice president. he was fritz to us. he was our attorney general, our senator, and our vice president. and i know he s up there right now rooting for justice. i m going to speak more about walter mondale next week, and senator smith and senator grassley and i have a resolution honoring him for his time in the senate, for his time as vice president, which we will be presenting next week. but now, in the name of justice and the idea that justice must keep rolling along, i want to talk a little bit about some of the people we need in place as we look to the future, as we look to the future of police reform and the would, that you have done an the work that you ha