About-ism on the right sadly persists. joining me now, hunter walker, the investigative reporter for talking points memo who just mentioned. ruth ben-ghiat is a professor of history at new york university and the author of the lucid substack, where she writes about democracy and autocracy. and jamelle bouie is an opinion columnist for the new york times. thank you all for joining me tonight. hunter, let me start with you. tell us about your reporting. how close is this gosar staffer to nick fuentes and his gripper movement? nick fuentes referred to chicken, write the online persona that can be linked to this staffer, as one of his best, quote unquote, soldiers. i also watched one of these extended nick fuentes streams where the chicken persona pledged loyalty to nick fuentes and to the white race. and there are extensive links between this online persona, which was fairly prominent amassing over 20,000 followers in nick fuentes s movement, and two staffers, actually, in
University and the author of the lucid substack, where she writes about democracy and autocracy. and jamelle bouie is an opinion columnist for the new york times. thank you all for joining me tonight. hunter, let me start with you. tell us about your reporting. how close is this gosar staffer to nick fuentes and his gripper movement? chicken, write the online persona that can be linked to this staffer, as one of his best, quote unquote, soldiers. i also watched one of these extended nick fuentes streams where the chicken persona pledged loyalty to nick fuentes and to the white race.
Elements of its radical base. and now, the two have become so wedded that this hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. joining us now is texas state representative james talarico, who you just on those clips. also joining me is michelle goldberg, opinion columnist for the new york times, and author of kingdom coming, the rise of christian nationalism. representative james talarico, first of all, i think a lot of people in texas are probably very thankful for the line of questioning and the oratory that you have given on the subject of a lot of these bills. how do your republican counterparts in the state house manage this line of criticism? that this is nothing more than a blatant attempt to install white christian nationalism in the public school system? well, first, thanks for having, me alex. thank you for covering this really important topic. i sometimes have republican colleagues who approach me in
Chaplains have a masters degree in this bill? i don t believe so. school counselors have to teach in texas public schools for two years, in a classroom, before they can be a school counselor. are we requiring that chaplains teach in a classroom for two years before becoming a the definition of the chaplain is that we have chaplains go through extensive training. i m looking at the website of the organization i mentioned earlier, the national school chaplains association. they admit on their website that the training is, quote, minimal. it includes a 48-hour program. that s equivalent to one college credit. that does not sound extensive to me. for the past few years, we have watched the republican party embrace the most extreme elements of its radical base. and now, the two have become so wedded that this hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. joining us now is texas state representative james talarico, who you just on those clips. also joining me is michelle go
Endorsed this approach. massive spending cuts or default on wednesday. the fundamental problem here is whether democrats are in or out of power, they tend to pursue the same objectives in the sort of spending fights basically ensuring there are sufficient social spending and social safety nets. that is not true of republicans. it is really in the asymmetry. when they are in opposition, they try to use the leverage to hurt the economy. that s what they are doing right now, bringing us to the brink of an entirely self inflicted economic catastrophe. paul krugman is a noble prize winning economist, and an opinion columnist in the new york times. he called out the cowardice of the deficit scrolls and he that joins me now. i want to start on that on a preamble to where we are now, which is basically that a whole bunch of sort of mainstream, establishment groups and centrist deficits golds, as you termed them, and the chamber of commerce basically rallied
There are destroying it. you mentioned the biden administration trying to prevent white nationalists from being in the military. do you believe they should allow white nationalists in the military? well, they call them that. i call them americans. i call them americans. the office tends to do a bit of cleanup, trying to clarify is being skeptical of the notion that there is white nationalists in the military, not that they should be in the military. even though, as you heard the senator deliberately say that. an opinion columnist for the new york times, his most recent column, fantastically titled, a gun filled america is a world of fear and alienation. he joins me now. great to have you here in the studio. thank you for having me. let s start with the tuberville comments. you can charitably try to say that he doesn t believe their white nationalist in the military, but even if you charitably extended back, that is clearly false as well. he comes as he s clearly
Prevent white nationalists from being in the military. do you believe they should allow white nationalists in the military? well, they call them that. i call them americans. i call them americans. the office tends to do a bit of cleanup, trying to clarify is being skeptical of the notion that there is white nationalists in the military, not that they should be in the military. even though, as you heard the senator deliberately say that. an opinion columnist for the new york times, his most recent column, fantastically titled, a gun filled america is a world of fear and alienation. he joins me now. great to have you here in the studio. thank you for having me. let s start with the tuberville comments. you can charitably try to say that he doesn t believe their white nationalist in the military, but even if you charitably extended back, that is clearly false as well. he comes as he s clearly saying, if there are white nationalists in the military, they should be allowed to be t
Voting systems against fox news. in focus, a text sent by tucker carlson to one of his producers in the hours after january 6th, the capitol attack. he describes a fight he saw on the streets of d.c. a few weeks prior. it reads in part a group of trump guys surrounded an antifa kid and started pounding the living out of him, three against one at least, jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously, it s not how white men fight, yet suddenly i found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they would kill him. really wanted them to hurt the kid. i could taste it. then deep in my brain, an alarm went off. this isn t good for me. it was reported by the new york times. now joining me a washington post opinion columnist, a former trump official and ben