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Not been front and center on it, that theyve been treating it at arm as length and not really yes, sir -- addressing any of the situations that have blown up in their face about a it including that notorious, you know, nonwhipping/whipping incident that, obviously, was at the center of conversation for a couple of days before the truth came out. i think that this is really a sad occurrence in the sense that the president has been ignoring this problem even as its the increased to levels that hav...

Little disappointed. >> sorry, i can disappoint people sometimes. >> lawrence: the last story, the beloved -- police it was vandalized on new years day. the statue was cut down from the stand around 3:30 in the morning. big potato was installed in october of 2021 and quickly became a favorite tourist spot for folks. what do you think? >> i think it makes sense that it was cut down at 3:30 a.m. on new years day. im guessing that some people who did this or probably not sober people. they drank an...

The other thing i think is increasingly important is that the rhetoric has changed from simply being about self-defense to a kind of preemptive self-defense. quickly, if you think about what ties rittenhouse, zimmerman with the trayvon martin case, and the death of ahmaud arbery together is that all three of these incidents involved people who were going out to protect property that was not theirs. >> yes. >> so this is fundamentally about the idea that you can construe self-defense to mean anyt...

Self-defense to mean anything. and you can proactively pursue people and still say you were defending yourself. >> jelani cobb and linda chavez, thank you for sharing your perspective. i really appreciate it. you remember that bizarre video that surfaced from police body cam that we played on the show? it showed one of the weirdest stories of the past few years. a publicist for kanye was attempting to strong arm a georgia election worker into falsely claiming election fraud so that donald trump ...

>> shannon: again, the one told the police he punched her in the face and later ran her over with the carpet she try to get away from him. the prosecutor set the bail at $1,000 and he made that and got out november 11th. and the bail recommendation, not consistent with the approach of milwaukee county district attorneys office towards matters with violent crime nor consistent with the risk assessment to setting bail. jim, sounds like we got this one wrong. >> this is abject failure, shannon. the...

Affairs. i worked at the v.a. from 2009 to 2012. its a $185 billion budget. this is not something he has the experience to do. you got to remember that previous v.a. secretaries, one was an arm a chief of staff, secretary mcdonald was the former ceo of procter & gamble and they faced a lot of serious challenges with this. youre going to take a guy who is the white house physician and never managed more than a few dozen people at a time in his life and throw him in that crucible. not only are you...

This. another interesting thing that was said on rachel maddow the last hour was that some of the republicans were being strong armed by going along with this and well see that when we see the transcript. thats something im looking forward to reading. how do you strong arm a republican that thinks this is wise? you have worked on a committee where you try to get a vote that you dont have, even on your own side, i worked on two committees where i tried to get votes on my side of the committee t...

Republicans were being strong armed by going along with this and well see that when we see the transcript. thats something im looking forward to reading. how do you strong arm a republican that thinks this is wise? you have worked on a committee where you try to get a vote that you dont have, even on your own side, i worked on two committees where i tried to get votes on my side of the committee that i struggled to get. i cant imagine what pressures you would bring on a vote like this. >> its ...

>> do you like the way he gets a little teary-eyed, a little mucous there. he is apologizing. a lie. >> no apology, no tour. the only thing that the democrats were saying when they came in, what obama was saying when he came in was look, george bush alienated a lot over our friends, and certainly further alienated some of our enemies. weve got to get back on a path where the united states is in a better place vis-a-vis the rest of the world you. did see some of that. nothing like an apology tour...

His message seemed to be im going to talk tougher. im going to twist putins arm a little harder. it was tonal, very much this machismo, ill never apologize, ill be stronger. but there was nothing really to it. that was a good example kind of having to cook up this idea that obama, you know, was an apologist in accepting american decline. it wasnt really true. thats why he was so obsessed with benghazi, because he had nothing else. and even benghazi, of course, was overblown. >> lets take a look ...