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And now there's outrage about it. but as we're moving to think about what congress can do i think it's important that though it has those terrible disgusting roots and it is absolutely ideologically on principle a thing we've got to get rid of it, it is not going to solve all these problems. it has been named as the sticking point for the justice and policing act. i don't think that's real in politics and of the cases that qualify for qualified immunity the best research we have is only about 30% of the cases evoke it a little bit. i don't want us to think even if we get it through that's solv...

Accountability issue. in light of these reports, senator sheldon whitehouse and senator hank johnson sent a letter to chief justice roberts demanding answers. they will be holding a meeting next week to investigate this conservative lobbying campaign which may very well have led to the leaks of two landmark rulings. joining us now is senator sheldon whitehouse. senator, it's so good to see you. thank you for being here tonight. we've been covering this extort repeatedly because i find it totally outrageous. you're calling for a more formal infrastruck tour to overseem the supreme court ethical...

Raffensperger say state oversights will boost voter confidence. >> we never had that accountability issue before where we could replace a county election board if the situation was so severe. >> reporter: he gained national attention for resisting pressure from former president trump to find enough ballots to overturn biden's narrow win in georgia. and he now faces a difficult primary race against a rival endorsed by mr. trump. >> what we're saying is we need to have fulton county fix its problems that's why there is a review panel right now looking at what's going on. >> reporter: fulton coun...

Constitutional rights of citizens can get a pass on liability. the reformers say it's got to go because of accountability issues. as you know around the country there have been numerous other incidents of black people killed in confrontations with police. a couple marches just this past week, one elizabeth city, that is north carolina as well as south carolina in charleston. the battle continues. so the focus here is on politics which is sort of the way the george floyd death has morphed into a political movement. back to you. >> that is absolutely the case. we are waiting to see in washington...

Too not just the company as a way to protect their own personal billions of dollars. my next guest is the first attorney general to sue the sackler family personally, the attorney general from massachusetts. she wrote a blistering op-ed in "the washington post" this week explaining why she and 20 plus other state attorneys general are rejecting purdue's settlement offer. she said in that op-ed in part, quote, accountability means making the sacklers reaching into their own pockets. it means telling the full truth. it means shutting down purdue for good. and accountability means listening to th...