Page 13 - Devils Advocate News Today

Road. what happens next, if both perry and jordan say no? >> reporter: right, and thats the thing, right now the committee is not saying that theyre going to move to a subpoena, but of course that is possibly the next option. that would be an extraordinary step, not only for the fact that you have a sitting lawmaker who is a top leader for the conservatives on capitol hill, but also, you know, obviously for republicans who have said that members of their caucus are off limits to a committee that...

There are plenty of people with strong opinions here. there are plenty of people like donald trump here, there are plenty of people who dont want the government to tell them what to do. the mandates are different because people are not going to lose a paycheck over it. theyre not going to not be able to go to a restaurant. if you say here are some clear rules, you want to fully participate in society, all you got to do is get vaccinated, the vast majority of people say im in. >> youre 11 days aw...

In. >> youre 11 days away from the most stringent employer mandate in the country, to play devils advocate, i could say city employees, teachers, restaurants, gyms, theaters were already subject to a mandate of yours. were they unsuccessful? >> no, they were, and now were taking it to the next level because there are hundreds of thousands of businesses that were not part of those previous mandate s. a lot of retail was not covered by that. barber shops were not covered by that. were going to rea...

But also conflicts of interest. both are very serious threats. you have for instance joe manchin wielding inordinate power over the presidents initiatives that would affect the environment while he has massive poll interests. we also had members of congress during the pandemic trading in stocks affected by the pandemic that they knew about before the rest of us did. so mere disclosure isnt going to solve that. in fact, even if you did have people complying with the law, wed have no way to know w...

Nats a large part of your person, right? >> it is. this past 2020 election had a lot of intention in it. people were worried about voter integrity and cheating and all of that. and i think the wrong message that we want to send is to allow noncitizens to vote in our election and create more distrust in the electoral process. >> let me, though, at least play devils advocate. the councilman last night said these folks are not illegal. theyre not undocumented, i guess, theyre not illegal. theyre so...

Tax dollars are going for amys daughter to receive religious training. and you would say what to them? >> you would only go to a school like that if thats what your beliefs were. >> right, but why should i be paying? im playing devils advocate, to advance that type of education? >> i dont think theres any really good answer for that. >> counselor, whats your answer? >> my answer is we do this all the time. >> right. >> i mean, how long the pell grant program has existed in this country for decad...

And a great education. we couldnt have asked for anything better for her. >> bible study was a part and parcel of her daily curriculum, right? thats how every day -- you can understand then someone who might be agnostic or atheist and is a taxpayer, theyre watching this and saying, geez, im unsettled at the idea that my tax dollars are going for amys daughter to receive religious training. and you would say what to them? >> you would only go to a school like that if thats what your beliefs were....

Travel. watch. >> if you tried to impose those kinds of restrictions on domestic air travel, that would be extremely honorous for people trying to get around the country like on holidays, and i dont know how much we mean by it, if youre trying a protect a community from delta, well delta is all over the place right now. its not that youre going to see it spread from air travel thats not already happening in communities, so i think we got it about right -- >> so tell me your thoughts on this and ...

Is the case. and i really think that news outlets and other media companies should really lean intodi acknowledging and pushin the fact that we dont know a lot about the omicron variant yet. >>ri there are certainly health experts and officials are doing a much better job this time around by saying were going to need two to w three weeks to ge clarity on some of thee critic questions. dr. gupta,of want to bring you into this part of the conversation which is about messaging. and just indulge me ...

Will like me more than her as they go into a primary? the other thing is for the administration if i was them, i would call it a big news conference and say this is the best news. its not that bad. like the excited, be happy about it. instead, they just made a list of 17 things that republicans are doing to get out of covid, and i just think that shows that they are missing the vote, people want what people want to be four, which is great news. >> greg: i will play devils advocate, im not even s...