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What i will say is that every democrat is on both bills and, in fact, in the john lewis act, we have one republican. i think it is time for them to figure out -- well, first of all, its time for mitch mcconnell to stop obstructing it. the freedom to vote act has 50 cosponsors, and the john lewis voting rights act has, i think, 51 usponsors, if i recall correctly. senator murkowski joined us when that was introduced, so theres obvious unanimity in our party to move this forward. what we need to d...

Accomplishments, as of course a president would. but refused to give any ground on -- except on testing, perhaps, how they could have gotten control of testing for covid. but refused to give any ground on anything else. and i think what we really heard today was kind of a road test of what he intends to talk about in the midterm elections. and that is republican obstruction. and he said, ask the republicans what theyre for. and its clear to me that what he was saying is that republicans, even du...

Investigations into january 6th, you have to look to the court documents for clues. and if you look at them, what you see is an emerging pattern of sorts. a couple of examples where individuals who are pleading are saying, as part of their plea agreements, the facts that they are attesting to, among them is that they were going into the building to stop mike pence and doing so after being told, you know, by donald trump or thinking that donald trump wanted them to do that. it is at the most basi...

Information on his cell phone thats incriminating that result in obstruction of justice? this is a guy who has never been a model of wisdom, going on the internet ramped while you are under criminal investigation is not smart, sean. >> sean: gregg jarrett, thank you. now the ever struggling joe biden today once again refused to take questions from reporters. despite it having been a whopping 69 days since his last formal press conference. according to the ap, biden is finishing his first year in...

To convincing people to believe the truth. how do you think that the committee, this committee, can do that because despite your best efforts before, it hasnt happened yet. >> first let me say i couldnt be more proud of the work that chairman thompson and vice chair scha cheney would is my neighbor to the north, that they have done in the face of some pretty incredible obstruction on the part of 9 the former president and his allies. the former pres and his allies. being in a position that they ...

Rallying cry. quote, no celebration without legislation. kings eldest son calling for action. >> holiday should be a day on, not a day off. today were not here to celebrate, we are here to be on. were here to call on president biden and the senate to pass the freedom to vote john r. lewis act, and to warn that our democracy stands on the brink of serious trouble. history will be watching what happens tomorrow. black and brown americans will be watching what happens tomorrow. in 50 years, student...

On voting rights raising the stakes in his remarks on the january 6th anniversary. >> right now in state after state new laws are being written not to protect the vote but to deny it. not only to suppress the vote but subvert it. the former president that lost is wrong, undemocratic and unamerican. >> the president and vice president harris will travel to atlanta next week to call for the passage of two bills, the john lewis voting rights advancement act and the freedom to vote act. the senate c...

Proceeding to count electoral votes. this committee is entitled to mr. meadows testimony and will until our judgments. >> my understanding is theres actually a bunch of people who have been charged with obstruction of proceedings that stormed the capitol. it was charged against lots of folks who were there doing precisely at that. >> as best as our reporting shows, the justice department investigation has worked from the ground up. it has really focused on those individuals who literally stormed...

Not simply implicitly deciding to ignore a whole set of facts that could either make as barb said for a criminal conspiracy or simply an obstruction of congress. and liz cheney has analogized and mentioned that statute that talks about the corrupt attempt to interfere with congress vote-counting o process. i would like them to be more explicit, but the proof will be in the pudding. lets see where he goes and whether he is, in fact, going to write up a whole series of facts that are very deeply t...

Maybe we can ask him. but i think this is another important thing that the committee is investigating. intent and obstruction. >> norm, what jumped out to you? >> well, i do think that the focus is on 18-usc-1512, anderson. i agree with gloria, and that is obstruction of congress. look. its already been charged against the lower-level insurrectionists. why shouldnt the insurrectionist in chief -- former president donald trump -- get a very, very hard look at whether he intentionally obstructed c...