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has just lost access to a presidential ballot in a second statech the secretary state from maine ruled that, quote, donald j. trump is not qualified to hold the office of president under section 3 of the 14th enent. it bars people who have engaged ipinsurrection from holding office. quote, the events of january 6, 2021, were unprecedented and tragic. an the evidence here demonstrates that t occurred at the behest of and with the knowledge and support of the outgoing psint. she adds, quote, i am mindful that no secretary of state has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on section 3 of the 14th amendment. i am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection. the main ruling comes just after a week before the colorado state supreme court reached the same conclusion, barring frump from the ballot there. for now, though, trump remains on the ballot in both states as the maine secretary stayed her decisio ....
[ laughing ] democrats are taking rude, crude, and shouty congresswoman marjorie taylor greene s calls for decorum in the house as seriously as the republicans seem to be taking the threat to our economy with their manufactured debt ceiling crisis. but i m guessing our veterans and social security recipients are not laughing. plus, the longest january 6th sentence so far as oath keepers leader stewart rhodes gets 18 years for seditious conspiracy. and later, ron desantis disastrous campaign rollout leads to speculation that pudding may have been clogging up the twitter tubes. yuck. but we begin with the republican lie that could plunge our nation off of an economic cliff. with just seven days until the united states could default on our debt, talks between republicans and white house representatives have yet to resolve the issue. but today, president biden made a very important point. it s time for congress to act now. i want to be clear. the negotiations we re ....
seeing president joe biden take the dais in the house of representatives to deliver his second state of the union address to a joint session of congress. and the stakes are extremely high. it comes after a year when women saw their rights to their own bodies taken away. books and lessons about black history and lgbtq folks are being banned, and very real threats to democracy are still looming large. this is an opportunity for president biden to speak directly to the american people about where we are as a country and to set the tone for what the next two years of his term will look like. biden is expected to tout his administration s accomplishments with an emphasis on the strong economy, super low unemployment, and receding inflation, while also making a renewed call for bipartisanship despite a divided guess. in a just released excerpt from the president s prepared speech, biden is expected to say, quote, to my republican friends, if we could work together in the last ....
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Defense contractors, 60 minutes did a documentary just this week, $100 billion plus that is being wasted because defense contractors are ripping us off. they don t want to talk about that. but they want to take away money from the veterans, from the people who put on the uniform. they want to take away the money from the most vulnerable. their values are just out of whack. john, they have taken the pentagon off the table. they have also taken getting rid of loopholes for the superrich off the table, leaving only things that also a lot of veterans are not making, you know, lots and lots of money. if you re a veteran that s also working, you know, among the working poor, and you re working as a clerk or something, they re saying they want to make you work longer hours in order to get your check that you re due. let me play this for you, because what i think really galls me the most is that the white house doesn t even have to do this. let me play jamie raskin and hot he said on this sh ....