Their participation in the 2016 election, it was bizarre to see a current employee of merrick garland s justice department say nothing. i mean there wasn t even a note of it would be very serious for a hostile foreign power to intervene. i mean how how daunting is that ahead of another presidential election that republicans and john durham whatever party he s in these days, are all interested in fogging up the lens around russia s role in meddling in an election? i mean it is really alarming because, of course, there s no question that russia may try to do exactly this again. that is decide donald trump would be really good for them and they re going to intervene. and now with a.i. they have more powerful tools to be able to do that. but it is shocking. some very basic questions we asked him about the wrongfulness trying to get dirt from a hostile foreign power in that trump tower meeting, heole really shied away from giving
Any kind of acknowledgement about the wrongfulness of that. i asked him about the fact what papadopoulos had relayed that started this investigation was that the russians informed the trump campaign through papadopoulos they could help by anonymously releasing dirt or information about hillary clinton. and when i asked him, that s exactly what they did. he seemed befuddled by the question, and it wasn t a difficult question. apparently for him it was a difficult answer. yeah, it s amazing that republicans are so hell bent all these years later and ahead of another contest about muddying the waters on whether that s a good thing. in that vein i have to ask you what they re going to do tonight. the republican controlled house is set to vote for the second time in just two weeks t
You take the side of continuing ignorance, when you take the side of shielding people from things they need to know and understand to grow and be healthy and be dynamic, you usually lose. it doesn t mean that you will lose, but you usually lose. that is why the rest of us have to recognize this as a fundamental threat to the kind of democratic society many of us want to see. we cannot accept bigotry and ignorance in our schools. we cannot accept these bans on books. we cannot accept the false idea that if we expose young people to do ideas that are complicated and different, that somehow is a bad thing for them. i am hoping that we see coming out of the next year or two, but it will be a struggle. it will take a lot of people, a lot of sectors, to give a voice to the wrongfulness of some of what you re seeing in some of these education debates. the great brian stevenson, thank you very much for coming to this saturday show, and thank you for coming back. my pleasure, jonathan. and still to come,
Higher amount, but any mound is illegal under russian law. we don t hear anything about talks for him. what i can tell you that the state department has requested his humanitarian released from the russian government. and we take the determination of unlawful detainee and everything that goes into that afterwards very seriously. so i can tell you, for example, when we, last year, after the passage of 11 snacked, we collected hundreds of reviews across the world, and every single country on earth, we wanted to take a look at every american who s detained to see if we might have missed something. missed something. we look for indicators of wrongfulness. we came up with a few cases. this is an active process. it s not passive. we re going to stay actively pursuing these. when the facts speak to us and say this person is wrongfully detained, the indicators are there, that case becomes wrongful and we pursue it. so humanitarian release is different from him being a
Wrongfulness of surpressing votes in a democracy, we either have a democracy or we don t and if everyone can t vote in the country, if some can t vote because of their race, then this is not a true democracy. so, we are actually in a fight, tiffany, for democracy, it s being attacked by those who take away our vote and it s wrong. and we can t stand for it. yeah, it s a fight for democracy, congressman, it s a fight for our lives. latosha, i think the congressman makes a great point and i appreciate the straight answer. given, when he talks about joe biden thinking of the good old days when they made a deal over the cigar, the good old days were bad for us. we were getting hanged from trees and lynched for trying to vote. as someone on the front lines fighting battles and frying to protect democracy and save the country from itself again, what is your fay and expectation of the federal government as we