tennessee. well, yeah. thanks, mika you know, as somebody in polpoliti s, i look at this and think, oh, my god, where has the republican party gone as a matter of substance, when you ve twice in your state s history expelled people from the legislature, and in both cases it was for serious crimes, bribery and a sex scandal, then you expel two young men for, okay, maybe they broke decorum, but when you expel them, you know, we re all left to have exactly the conversation we re having, which is what is really behind this. of course, you know, as we all suspect, it has a lot to do with, skin i mean, look, again, as a practitioner of politics, the republican party today has a massive problem with young people because they don t take climate change seriously, because they don t take justice seriously. they have a massive problem with african-americans. there is no amount of money that the rnc can raise to offset the
kirby said yesterday, the president of the united states, the commander in chief bears ultimate responsibility for the operational actions of the troops joe biden is the kind of guy who would own up to what harry truman asked presidents to own up to. by the way, that report also noted that they should have started that withdrawal earlier and in a more orderly fashion. now, can anybody imagine the trump administration saying, yeah, at the end of the day, i bear operational responsibility? mika, to get to the point you asked about, 2,500 troops when joe biden becomes president. the week after january 6th, when my workplace was attacked by insurgents, there were more than 2,500 troops guarding capitol hill more than 2,500 national guards guarding capitol hill. with 2,500 troops, you do not have options, right? people always say, why didn t we keep the airfield open why didn t we secure the roads because we barely had enough troops to severe an airport. again, the key point is i think joe
it will only help these gentlemen and will only help democrats push forward the cause of gun safety. you know, when donald trump started his good morning, mika and joe when donald trump started his campaign, we watched the dog whistle turn into a full-fledged bull horn in terms of racist rhetoric and white nationalism what we saw yesterday was stuff done in secret and maybe behind the scenes out in the open, with no shame, with no care for potential consequences when i saw the tennessee three and i saw that the vote was happening, part of me thought, the white lady is going to get off. but another part of me thought, you know what? maybe, just maybe, the tennessee l legislature will hear not only those young people who were out
no laws were broken is small solace to most people in the american public who are waking up and thinking, what on earth a supreme court justice took this nine-day cruise to indonesia that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars i think, mika, looking at just this week of stories for the republicans, obviously, we ve talked a lot this morning already about what happened in tennessee. but you have donald trump, the former president, thinking he is above the law and should not be succumb to the justice system everyone else is. you have fox news, where they are continuing to provide lies knowingly to the public, thinking the public is dumb. then you have a supreme court justice living by a different set of rules this is the kind of stuff the public looks at and thinks, this is out of whack. this is not what we banwant the pillars of government to be representing that s why i think this story could actually stick with people the supreme court has already gotten popular it has lost popular