Gives testimony before a house judiciary subcommittee. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, we are authorized to declare a recess at any time. We welcome everyone to the hearing on the department of justice civil Rights Division. With that, we will have the pledge of allegiance with the gentleman from arizona leading us to the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. I will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I think our witness for being here today. Civil Rights Division is responsible for the enforcement of his local civil rights statutes here in congress and related constitutional guarantees. This is an issue near and dear to my hard. I too in a previous life served in the United States and the e Eastern District of texas. My job there as a witness, my colleagues know, was to equally enforce the law. My
maggie haberman, too, for her book. and then goes on twitter, or whatever, truth social, sorry, and bad-mouths her. i mean, i think the truth of the matter, he can t quit us. he can t talk with us, he just can t. journalists, as much as he wants to own, like, as much as he wants to stay in his comfort zone and only talk to people in other channels, you know, challenging him all that much, he really wants to be accepted by people at the new york times and elsewhere. and cnn. i found it interesting, though, he thought about it. the idea of him releasing all the states and the motivation that he spoke to about the reasons why doing so, and in a way, i wonder if he will be questioned in terms of trying to put the thumb on the scale, for whatever reason. there s often criticism towards journalists that suggests the types of stories you publish and the ones you want to put forward somehow lead people to question what your role is, or why you are trying to make it known. i think
Now being labeled i have nothing to say about wikileaks. She doesnt want to talk about that. Why would she . There is a follow up so unbelievable youre not going to want to miss it. The curse is lifted 71 years later. The cubs have won the penn t pennant the best reaction may have come from Hillary Clinton. Well share it with you. Good impression. That is very good. Is she a cubs f s fan, a yan fan, a mets fan. At least she stays in the National League and the american league. Thats huge news. Well get to that later on. If you can believe it, just 16 days now from the election and donald trump hitting three major battleground states and delivering a gettysburg address. Peter with more on trumps Closing Arguments. Peter . Good morning. Donald trumps big speech yesterday in gettysburg was basically a recap. He took everything that he said over the last year and a half and he organized it and prioritized it so the people know which issues he wants to most urgently address if he wins the w
Day, howion for the enthusiastic are you about voting . 202 5853880. Republicans 202 5853881. Independents 202 5853882. And if youre outside the u. S. , 202 6280184. A very good sunday morning to you. Headlines in the pages today isut voter enthusiasm, here New York Times. The papers in minnesota, the star tribune the mood of voters , chile and uncertain. Gap gives the gop midterm momentum and this story from the wall street journal. Overstate voter enthusiasm, we want to bring in the reporter who wrote that story to talk about the issue of voter enthusiasm. You, heading into tuesday, which group of voters are more enthusiastic . If you look at people who are more enthusiastic come a these are people like men over the age of 50, tea Party Supporters, Senior Citizens across the board. That is particularly interesting because these are groups that skew republican. Excited republicans are or giddy over the fact that they have an enthusiasm advantage. Host is it a clear sign of victory . G
Im sure. So depends on your math. Host who first used that, that term, quota queen . Guest i dont really know who used the term. It was first i believe published in the wall street journal, but i cant tell you who came up with the quota queen term. I think they were just copying from somebody early on. Host was it a fair term . Guest no. Host why not . Guest because i wasnt a queen, and i didnt believe in quotas so [laughter] i guess somebody liked the fact that there were two qs, so. The media soon defined to me. I kept waiting for the white house to put together a strategy. Meanwhile, the right wing had the field to itself. Guest thats true. Host you go on to write that conflated three racialized images welfare, quotas and unmarried loud demanding black women. Heit became part of an organized campaign that continues still to convert the 1960s slogan power to the people into quotas for unqualified and undeserving black people. The right wing story was that one or more black less for w