on record as saying that they support this bill, and not just for lawmakers, but for their spouses which was a point of contention for some people, and certainly something i deeply believe it is necessary that legislation that the american people can take seriously. taverns buses in this. moving forward, i will share my real excitement the day we actually take the vote, but certainly this is a tremendous step forward and when we have been pushing for four months. there are members of congress who do want to do this, who make the argument, why don t you trust us? why do you think were inherently bad? how can they make that argument when we re a nation of laws but it doesn t mean we re all criminals? well i have had this conversation, this exact conversation with colleagues. and it doesn t matter. what did they say? it doesn t matter whether you are corrupt or not corrupt,
everybody who was involved in january 6th. if that included people who were clearly helping to form some of that activity that happened on january 6th. here is what he had to say about the focus on what the fbi is doing here. it doesn t matter whether you are upset about an election, upset about a trial, upset about the criminal justice system, upset about any issue. there is a right way to express yourself under the first amendment and violence, destruction of federal property, or in the case of january 6th, those things plus interference with a sacred part of our constitutional process, then we are going to have to act. reporter: erin, he was equating frankly what happened on january 6th with this greater phenomenon that he says people seeming to take out whatever frustrations they have, including those against the government, extremist
it doesn t matter whether you are a judge, a journeyman, supreme court, you are not supposed to be allowed to riot or protest retry to influence, you are not supposed to intimidate, and the fact they are doing that and drawing attention, from a lot of kavanaugh s house was, like, first circuit judge house, it was not like this giant house with fences and rottweilers and security. he had a regular home. so the more they are worried about this stuff, the people, the individuals, the bad actors now have access, and the police are thinned out because they are dealing with the ones doing all the stuff from the beginning. the fact that he is not held responsible, that guy should have went away for three years, but the argument that they have and this is the scary part, where progressive s with this mind-set. they are never wrong. they never said it s always, well, they were nonviolent crimes. when someone is robbed, they are
they don t. the only thing that matters is that she gave an impassioned and very well done articulation of her pro-life views given the story of her mother and her life and all of that. and that was fine. and for enough people, that s okay. it doesn t matter whether you supported insurrection or not. it doesn t matter whether you were endorsed by trump or not. voters have sort of zeroed in and so for candidates like her, that s mcconnell s worst nightmare. there s this drama on the other side of the aisle. stick around through a quick break. we ll get to do democrats with claire on the other side. don t go anywhere. e other side don t go anywhere.
surprise me at all that desantis is willing to do this irony of using day of communism when the very tactics and the purchase that he s using is out of the autocrat totalitarian playbook. i want to quickly ask you about one more thing. we know inflation is going to be something. desantis s tax cut misses this. the state tax cut like a federal spending increase puts money into consumer s pockets which can actually feed the inflationary environment rather than offsetting. desantis s policies are set to make inflation worse. is he hurting his own con still the two went for political gain? yes, of course. he s also very smart. he s allowing the democrats to fall into the trap. explaining inflation is what the democrats keep trying to do. when this is really desantis exploiting the emotions around the issue. it doesn t matter whether his policy prescription is at odds. he s demagoguing the issue.