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Then it makes it harder to come out because you feel that your safety is going to be jeopardized and then you will see people who actually side with, you know, his killers. >> thats why she sponsored a bill at the behest of a teenage constituent to do away with a controversial legal strategy that was permitted in her state. justified some crimes against lgbtq victims, arguing their sexual orientation or gender identity was to blame for the violent reaction. >> were simply saying that a persons m...

Would stop asking the question? because its not just, you know, fox news asking the question now, now its everybody lester holt asked the question. >> yeah. i have been to the border. my constituent are asking when she is going to got border. when you see fentanyl seizures up 233%. we are on track to have record border crossings this year over 180,000 in may alone. people on the terrorist watch list, the gangs, the traffickers, business for the cartels is really good under this administration ri...

Were communicating with people as though everyone spoke english. we have to understand the diversity of the city. like brooklyn, for example, where im the borough president, 47% of brooklynites speak a language other than english at home. so im going to zero in using realtime system to analyze are we reaching the herd immunity throughout this entire city. >> yeah, you mentioned that in brooklyn, full disclosure. i happen to be your interviewer tonight, but im also a constituent. you mentioned po...

Wealth tax. is there a future for the wealth tax in a senate finance committee? >> let me tell you what theres a future for. what we saw the past effort, you saw it in 1980, six the ideas of a minimum tax, it was always focused on income. what we have seen is wealthy people dont even take the salary. they dont have income coming in. they dont have money in wealth. ill speak for myself as chairman, im going to end the double standard. today, in america, you can have a nurse taking care of covid p...

My constituent pays taxes every singly month. im going to thaend. billionaires are going to have to pay their fair share every single year. that is what has really changed in this debate. what has changed in the debate is the american people are with us on the proposition that billionaires, for example, ought to pay their fair share. >> is that going to be in the reconciliation bill? >> i certainly -- again, im not going to run my colleagues. im going to push this at every stage because i knew w...

Ive said im going to the border and also, if we are going to deal with the problems at the border, we have to deal with the problemss that cause people to go to the border, to flee to the border, that is the root causes. >> emily, i was stunned when i saw this exchange last night, wow, first saying, yeah, i havent gone to europe and now saying, im nots finished. does she know how to communicate? shes taking media training, i do not think it is working. >> emily: i dont see it working yet either,...

Yet more cyber attacks. a vendor that provides news letters for house members, the latest victim of of what is known as a ransomware attack, a spokesperson for the chambers chief confirmed the incident involving the company which is known as i-constituent. >> it is not clear whether the house data may have been affected. what is clear, lets bring in our tech reporter for more on this, what is clear is this keeps on happening. brian, what do we know? >> as you said, i-constituent told the house c...

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Voters in pennsylvania and ill do it again if i have to. >> let me ask you about the strength of commitment and the strength of feeling on the other side of this among republicans who want to do it. american oversight, an ethics watchdog group, today they published hundreds of pages of emails they got from a public records request from the arizona cyber ninjas recount thing theyre doing there and the documents they got included emails from the republican senate president there who has orchestrat...

Emails, they got through a public records request, from the arizona cyber ninjas recount thing theyre doing there. and it included emails from the republican senate president there whos orchestrated this whole thing, bragging to a constituent about her personal contact with former president trump has been personally calling her and thanking her for doing what theyre doing in arizona. shes not only received that direct pressure from donald trump, shes talking about her direct contact with the for...