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Leaders in congress, are to pretend didnt happen. Is that just Mitch Mcconnells nature . What has to happen for something to get done . Tell me what you saw when you watched the Press Conference today. Reporter well, Mitch Mcconnell knows when youre the leader, a party in the senate, youll take shots. Thats part of the job, a guy who takes incoming fire and allows your caucus to get things done. The two men appearing sidebyside today was politically smart or at least acknowledgement of political reality. Their goals in most cases are the same and desperately need each other to get any of them ...

Passage of a restrictive voting law there. also joining us jacqueline benson. she has been on the front lines of protecting our democracy and has received the citizens medal from president joe biden for her role in defending against efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in her state. also joining us, the founder of democracy docket marc elias. he led the legal effort to protect voting flights the wake of the 2020 election. mark, you inspired this segment, and you inspired us to start with it today. we do what i described there, right. we cover the whac-a-mole that is the legal p...

Killed by law enforcement in six hours or so. but he was motivated, it appears, based on a lot of the falsehoods and the rhetoric that we still see too prevalent today. >> mary, i'll give you the last word on this. it feels unsustainable. it feels like we're in this position again of plying whack-a-mole. the climate doesn't change. you know, but for i think largely viewed as long shots to prevail in defamation lawsuits still. it seems that there are still more tools available to the purveyors of this information than those fighting it. >> it does -- definitely seems like for all that we try to...

Vetted. in this case, we know that he has not told the truth to the fbi, and let me tell you something, nicole, from prosecuting cases in federal court for ten years, the prosecutors in the southern district of new york where i worked and where this case comes from do not charge false statements lightly. we -- when i was there, was lied to numerous occasions by defendants that we didn't charge false statements against. and that's because it's a high bar to charge them. the credibility of this witness is not whether or not he was in -- similarly situated to hunter biden which i don't believe he...

We're back with john brennan, former director of the cia among other government posts. you spent your career protecting u.s. national security. and chris wray chose his words carefully. there was one moment i wanted to ask you about. he was asked by a democrat on the committee what would happen if the national extension of what republicans are doing to totally decapitate or incapacitate or dismantle the fbi or defund it, what would happen? and he said it would hurt the american people, neighborhoods and communities all across the country. the people queer protecting from cartels, gang me, pret...