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Congresswoman for noting my piece in usa today the other day. because the point i was trying to make here is we have to assume the worst. and knowing that, we need to do everything we can while we have the reins of power to shore up our democracy, to put as many safeguards in place as possible. because we all know the republicans not hesitate to tear them all down. so while we have the reins of power we need to do voting rights we could do everything right. we could pass build back better. we go...

Pence to do just that. find a way for pence to stand in the way of the certification process. we know of course pence refused to do so but the anger surrounding pences lack of cooperation with some of these people looking to basically end run the democratic process is part of why we saw a riot on capitol hill on january 6th. >> lets not forget house republican leader kevin mccarthy tried to put jim jordan on the committee investigating january 6, talk about the fox guarding the hen house. we kne...

His telling, thats precisely what they were worried about. >> right, you have matthew saying thats a lie. and using to your point, unusually strong language to go after these two generals. an important piece of context for all of this is that everything about the way the pentagon and the d. c. national guard prepared for january 6th, was totally in reaction to the summer of 2020. when the u.s. military responded in a way that was deeply disturbing to protests in washington d. c.. so what everyon...

For all of this is that everything about the way the pentagon and the d.c. national guard prepared for january 6 was totally in reaction to the summer of 2020 when the u.s. military responded in a way that was deeply disturbing to protests in washington, d.c. so what everyone at the pentagon was thinking how do we make heuer the national guard doesnt go too far? how do we make sure the pentagon doesnt overreach? how do we make sure we dont overreact? that was the number one concern. and well, co...

Prohibits individual states from enacting their own laws. after all, thats really what the founding fathers intended for any issue that is not explicit in the constitution, it should be left to the states and the state legislatures and democratic process. i just want to make sure everyone is clear that if roe v. wade is overturned, that doesnt mean that no one in america is going to have access. although, that might make people like me happy. but what it does mean is that all 50 states, the labo...

Also nothing in the constitution that prohibits individual states from enacting their own laws. after all, thats really what the founding fathers intended for any issue that is not explicit in the constitution, it should be left to the states and the state legislatures and democratic process. i just want to make sure everyone is clear that if roe v. wade is overturned, that doesnt mean that no one in america is going to have access. although, that might make people like me happy. but what it doe...

Staff, that he didnt think of his supporters took it seriously. quote, when he got off the stage, president trump let me know that he had been speaking metaphorically about the walk to the capitol. he knew, as well as anyone, that we couldnt organize a trip like that on such short notice. it was clear, the whole time, that he didnt actually intend to walk down pennsylvania avenue with the crowd. now, even though mark meadows believes that it was metaphorical and if that was president trumps inte...

Putin ordered the russian effort to back computer networks and accounts affiliated with the democratic party and lack information damaging to hillary clinton and her campaign for president. moscows intent was to harm the clinton campaign, tarnish an expected clinton presidential administration, help the trump campaign after trump became the presumptive republican nominee, and undermine the u.s. democratic process, so said marco rubios senate intel committee run by republicans. on the man who kic...

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They can between these groups trying to get information, information that was peddled by the former president and his associates in the days after the november election, this concerted push to bring people here to washington on january 6, and then the last piece of all of this, the riot itself. people breaking into the capitol with the express purpose of interrupting the democratic process. what the committee is trying to find is whether or not there are direct connections between each level of ...