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Yeah look, i think fred we are seeing across the board already in the roughly two dozen states where republicans have unified control of government. what i have described as an effort to build a nation within a nation across the board on a broad array of interviews on lgbtq rights, voting rights to abortion rights to classroom censorship to book bands to gun regulation we are seeing, i think the greatest divergence among the states since at least jim crow and possibly back to the 19th century, the red states are moving very aggressively to lock into law. are the preferences of their predominantly white, predominantly non urban, predominantly christian electoral coalition. and as they do that, they are also working very assiduously. to block either the federal government from setting from from interfering with their rules or to preempt local governments ....
An extreme reaction to it. yeah. look i mean, it is unprecedented in tennessee and possibly in the country. to remove a legislator to expel a legislator effectively erased the votes of their constituents. for this kind of infraction. i think, anderson, you have to see this in the context of what has been happening across the red states on a wide range of issues where you see republican controlled legislatures and governors whose political power is rooted in their domination. of non urban predominantly white areas, using that statewide power to override the decisions of divert racially diverse blue leaning big cities and counties on a wide range of issues. i mean you you can look at what s happening in places like texas, where they ve taken the state has taken over the school district in houston and may do so in austin in florida, or ron desantis has fired one elected democratic prosecutor. ....
Anderson, you have to see this in the context of what has been happening across the red states on a wide range of issues where you see republican controlled legislatures and governors. political power is rooted in their domination of non urban predominantly white areas, using that statewide power to override the decisions of divert racially diverse, blue leaning big cities and counties on a wide range of issues. i mean, you you can look at what s happening in places like texas, where they ve taken the state has taken over the school district in houston, and may do so in austin in florida, or ron desantis has fired one elected democratic prosecutor. and is moving against another places like georgia and missouri and tennessee, where they taken over preempted prosecutorial and policing powers of local governments and taking that power to the state. and obviously what s happening in many states on curriculum that effectively override the ability of localities to set their own ....
They stood up. they were eloquent. they were passionate and what we saw were their white colleagues attempt to shut them up. get them down until the young negro boys. they had to stay in their place, but we will not tolerate that type of injustice and thats why the country now faces his ire on the state of tennessee. ron. well look, i think what happened in tennessee yesterday was the most egregious example of a trend that has been gathering speed over the last several years. across roughly two dozen red states and what we are seeing in state after state is a republican coalition using its control of statewide power statewide power that is rooted in their dominance of non urban and predominantly white areas to roll back a wide array of rights and civil birdies in the states , uh lgbtq rights, abortion rights, voting rights, whole range of issues and in the ....
Sitting president gets to weigh in on executive privilege? yeah, look, just to echo some of the points that have been made here, don, there is a process around all of. this number, one for asserting executive privilege over documents. that would bring in the sitting president. number two, for claiming attorney-client privilege. you know, presidents have powers. we should be clear that presidents can be classified documents. presidents do possess executive and attorney-client privilege, depending on the circumstance. that is okay. there are certain things that presidents can do that none of us can. like issue pardons. or nominate people. but we build processes around this to avoid this specific problem from happening. you know, we tried in american history having tyrants or kings ....