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Mulhaney. >> anyone who has pertinent information -- we know kevin mccarthy was, i'll have to say, he certainly appears to be a pretty pertinent witness to me. >> joining me is former prosecutor glenn kirschner. also good to have you on the show. >> there are those who have relevant information about what happened at the capitol on january 6th. not only the foot soldiers actually attacking the capitol, but those who funded it, organized it, incited it. we saw 11 subpoenas issued for

Go marauding to find people to beat to death. no, the polite way to do it, the way to do it if you're credentialed or you're mitch mcconnell, the polite way is to cultivate elite lawyers at the federalist society who become judges, justices, they get nice op eds about how collegial they are. then you bring those lawsuits and those justices chip away at it. a snip here, cut there, death by 1,000 blows until they have functionally done away with the single most important law in history. we did this once before. the 15th amendment and it got killed. the only reason the voting rights act was neces...

Cam footage. what's amazing about it, if you watch it, i really recommend you do, it finally gives you a sense of the scale and the placement of the danger of the mop that stormed the capitol and tried to overturn the presidential election. watching it allowed me the first time to weave together time and space to understand what was happening when and where. give an example what i'm talking about. we're going to pick up the video just after capitol officer eugene goodman, that famous police officer led the rioters away from the senate chamber. >> first we go to the crypt in the center of the c...

Within inches of his life. are you going to be on the side of those with dogs and fire hoses? you can't be against the voting rights act without desecrating the martyrs who fought for it unless you're john roberts. the conservative unelected chief justice of the supreme court. he doesn't have to have any voters vote for him, right? a lifetime appointment. in 2019 they invented a new principle to gut the voting rights act called preclearance. it had discriminatory voting practices. roberts could do that without any political consequences. in fact, he came up with this tortured ruling. the formu...

Citizens -- eligible citizens from participating in the political process because of their race. until the voting rights act is passed until 1965, we are not a true democracy. that means we're 56 years as a true democracy. in 2013 it effectively gutted section 5 of the act and now the dismantling of section 2. when i seau das city, i mean the actual rewriting of the history and of the standards used in these cases for decades. i began my career in 1988 as a voting rights lawyer. the first thing i was given was the senate report that accompanied the passage of the voting rights act and in that ...