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Gone on now, were heading into memorial day. that was the deadline. now theyre talking about july. democrat activists are looking at the clock and saying we may only get one year to do the things we want to do and theres other things that are incredibly important like voting rights in particular is what they point to. and the january 6th commission is layering on top of that. if republicans arent even willing to vote to investigate an attack on their own house, many say, what will they negotiate...

Fbi or whether its state attorney generals or from whatever sources that have basically, you know, suggested jared kushner was going to jail, don jr. was going to jail, donald trump was going to jail, you know, matt gaetz probably been a thousand headlines that had matt gaetz and the word sex trafficking in the same headline. what happens if hes not convicted of sex trafficking, exactly where do you go to expunge those thousands of headlines. hillary clinton supporters will tell you for a year a...

Push it through in reconciliation? >> if youre a betting man and i know that you are -- >> yes. >> i would say yes put money on that outcome. i think the odds are pretty strong at this point thats the rout they end up taking. there is one other route that has not been explored and probably wont be explored but that is to simply deficit finance this thing. dont include a full slate of pay-fors. maybe raise revenue here and there and do tax enforcement at the irs, but if the complications are they...

Theyre talking about this being politically driven and political stunt but youll have half of the panel representing their point of view. jonah goldberg has a new column for the l.a. times titled why the gop is terrified of january 6 commission. jonah writes this -- quote, its amazing how easily republicans can see how the rhetoric of blm activists can create a permission structure for violence but become utterly blind to the same point when it comes to violence at the seat of our government. th...

Contradicting the false narratives still being peddled by trump and embraced by his core supporters. its absolutely true that his supporters are mostly peaceful, but that misses the point entirely and deliberately, joe. thats jonah goldberg writing in the "l.a. times". >> great points from jonah, as usual. there are areas that still can be negotiated, susan collins as her local newspaper said is concerned about staffing. good reason at the beginning. you know, this commission at the beginning th...

Banks and western money laundering operations? if were really going to do that as not just as the united states but as the leader of the democratic camp, then i think a meeting is fine. but it has to be as part of a broader strategy. and so far i havent quite seen that strategy yet. >> so, do you agree with senator sasse that its too early for president biden to meet with vladimir putin? >> as i said, it depends on what hes going to do with the meeting and what hes going to say. it depends what ...

Point still feeling each other out. its hard to imagine they can bridge these divides in the next couple weeks. theyre going to try because for purposes of optics and who knows what happens, you got to give it an effort, but i do think a lot of what this is all about is biden trying to convince not republicans but skeptical democrats that he put in a good faith effort to good a bipartisan negotiation so if it does come down it to, he can turn to them and say look, i tried. now we need to go the ...

Referred to or at least -- its not like they were just acquaintances who needed parties. yes, he would raise money for her, but he was very involved in the number of different dynamics and he was seen with her, they were considered kind of bodies in a certain way. at one point, when the me too movement started, one actress had noted that she had tried to tell hillary to stop having fund-raisers with harvey weinstein because he was about it, bad man, and that was ignored. so now you have ronan fa...

Gut when this happened and we had that quite often. marianne williamson, shocked at how the left turned on her. martina nerve out to lobo when she came out and said look, its not fair for transgendered women to compete in sports against women. she came under fire for that. she wrote a blog post saying she effectively was shocked and it has since apologized and is trying to get back. she had to d do the ritual apology. and ill course, ronan farrow. theres a point where if you are a dolls and end ...

Some of us do, and then you wrote this book. i mean, at what point -- i admire that, let me say. but did you ever expect that you would turn into a writer? >> well, ive been writing all my life i just never thought i would publish it because honestly im just afraid i did screw up my favorite hobbies so i never really did anything except write letters and mail them to friends and my mother has been writing the letters her whole life and suddenly all of her letters got published and then im thinki...