dangerous rhetoric. we re talking, of course, about the elevation of some of the fringiest of the fringe members of the republican caucus, the seats on important congressional committees. when we say it is happening on today of all days, that s because today would have been the late congressman elijah cummings 72nd birthday. he passed away in 2019, the son of sharecroppers, he would go on to become a force of nature in congress, and ultimately the chairman of the powerful house oversight committee. when we re dancing with the angels, the question will be asked, in 2019, what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy in tact? did we stand on the sidelines and say nothing? there are efforts to stop people from voting. that s not right! this is not russia! this is the united states of america! and i will fight until the death to make sure every citizen, whether they re green party, whether they re freedom party, whether they re democrat, whether they re republican, whoever
opinions from this term in the supreme court since about november. the supreme court has not issued a single opinion this term. that says to me that they are having trouble functioning, they are having trouble just getting out the opinions, whether it s because they re so divided that they are each opinion is so divided that they re still working on dissents and other concurring opinions, and it takes longer to get out. does it mean that they have not been able to gel after not just everything steven is talking about, but there s been a pandemic that put them remote for two years like the rest of us. there s a new justice, ketanji brown jackson, that has barely had a chance to get to know everybody. this institution is not operating the way it did when steven and i sat in the press corp. ten years ago. that s a big problem and that s what we should be concerned about. the court, like many institutions, doesn t seem to believe in professionalizing anything public-facing.
many conditions are for people. it is different for everybody. for me, heat and stress tend to be my triggers, which is why i m grateful the washington summer has passed. i hope nobody noticed it, but election week in america was probably one of my worst weeks last year. i was having a lot of trouble functioning. but you learn you one of the gifts of the challenge, that might sound weird, but one of the gifts of the challenge is you learn how to focus and learn to rewire how you do things and learn to become much more aware of what you re going through. and i hope that gives me a lot more empathy for other people out there who, again, you know, you do not know that the person you re standing behind at the grocery store at the coffee shop might be going through this too. and they re looking around a little nervous, and in the current environment, in this pandemic environment, which has brought it front and center, they re looking around a little bit nervous. this helps them. it help
obamacare. with the existing state of crisis in health care in america, wouldn t it have been simpler just to take obamacare, the parts that clearly have trouble functioning and just fix them instead of doing what they re doing now? you know, i think the challenge is that for the last seven years, republicans at all levels of government have been talking about the repeal and replacement of obamacare opinion and there s reasons for some to make the argument because there are fundamentals are. so there isn t a strong incentive so long as the so you have this interesting
difficult hurdle intellectual hurdle, political hurdle, journalistic hurdle for these people to clear. they re having trouble. they re having trouble functioning. i know they re upset, want more access, i get that. but this stuff, you know, they push these three reporters out, this is the tip of the iceberg. i don t they have had a lot of problems they have to deal with. if we take my list of six and i ll add wikilikes exposing the collusion. yes, madam ingraham, you re correct, that is important. but really, there s a part of me, that is like, wow, they re missing some of the biggest stories we ve seen or covered in our careers here. they won t do it. because they re so fixated on hating a president. their agenda is to clearly take this president down. that s not journalism any more. there s a real serious psychology to whatever it is that s going on at these so-called news networks.