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mcconnell's of the world are going to mitch mcconnell even if they especially if they know that if they just wait two years. right. they get to and a new president. so, you know, i don't think it'll solve that particular problem. but broader point, this is also one of the reasons why i'm against expanding the court. if you believe as i do, that the real problem is a lack of accountability right kicking the justices out faster doesn't really change that because they're still free to do whatever the heck they want during the 18 years they're on the court and. so i'm much more invested. accountability reforms in which, regardless of who justices are and regardless of long they serve, they're actually about the other branches. when they hand down their decisions have a. two part question i've been watching for what it youtube instead of listening to books. so and one of them was a senator who was made proposition he was arguing that a lot of these really controversial decisions the the justices decided what conclusion they wanted and then they sort of like created the facts with a conclusio
mcconnell's of the world are going to mitch mcconnell even if they especially if they know that if they just wait two years. right. they get to and a new president. so, you know, i don't think it'll solve that particular problem. but broader point, this is also one of the reasons why i'm against expanding the court. if you believe as i do, that the real problem is a lack of accountability right kicking the justices out faster doesn't really change that because they're still free to do whatever...
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mitch mcconnell told his caucus under no circumstances will we ever support voting rights. this is why it did not happen. we passed the george floyd bill twice in the house of representatives. a good strong bill. did not do what we wanted to do but we passed it. same thing. got to the senate, died right there on the vine. the freedom to vote act, the john lewis bill . same exact thing. the fourth when i would add is a commission on reparations which could never get the support in the house of representatives to be adopted. there is unfinished business on our each and up. -- agenda. every one of these items i've discussed when explained to the american people generate 60 to 70% support. when they understand it beyond talking points. when they understand it beyond divisive rhetoric. when you tell them specifically what they do they have almost universal support. we cannot allow ourselves to be mesmerized into a mindset that what we want is something only we want. there is a broad coalition of people that support but if we do not raise our voices and say this is a priority. if
mitch mcconnell told his caucus under no circumstances will we ever support voting rights. this is why it did not happen. we passed the george floyd bill twice in the house of representatives. a good strong bill. did not do what we wanted to do but we passed it. same thing. got to the senate, died right there on the vine. the freedom to vote act, the john lewis bill . same exact thing. the fourth when i would add is a commission on reparations which could never get the support in the house of...
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mcconnell republicans who are pro-business, pro deregulate nation but don't want to destroy, are willing to ad hoc deals with. the democratic party. so you've got one real extremist party led trump on one end and then you've got kind of american versions of social democrats who are very pro-democracy on, the other side. and to sort of say this all two extremes, that's just wrong. and it's it's damaging. and i think the most recent example, this is the border bill where the senate goes a long way towards meeting the republican demands for much much tougher on the border and they're all set to pass the thing and then says don't biden a victory. and so the whole thing falls apart and it's a tragic of how intimidated traditional republicans in office are by trump because if you go against trump he'll you you'll get beaten you'll be at odds with the trump electorate. there's a there's a story i quote in the book in 19 in 1953 the great german playwright and ironies of bertolt brecht who was a communist but was sort of a liberal communist, if there is such a thing as living in berlin, east ber
mcconnell republicans who are pro-business, pro deregulate nation but don't want to destroy, are willing to ad hoc deals with. the democratic party. so you've got one real extremist party led trump on one end and then you've got kind of american versions of social democrats who are very pro-democracy on, the other side. and to sort of say this all two extremes, that's just wrong. and it's it's damaging. and i think the most recent example, this is the border bill where the senate goes a long...
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people like mitch mcconnell who was one of the first young people graduate out of the leadership institute in the sixties, is now old. but the group that but the people that made him just created this massive societal like infrastructure sugar industry, society, like whatever you want to call, it's it's the thing that kind of makes itself in more oil because it keeps investing in its youth. the youth grow up and become adults and become powerful adults. and they just remember what it was like to sit in a room being like drinking free beer and talking about civil rights at 11 p.m. at night. it's really powerful. bond thank you. so steve, before you talk, i have to apologize and maybe c-span can edit this out. i, i use your last name as a pickle, and i, i called you vlasic of vladeck, so i apologize that maybe that can be edited out. i've been called. so. so it's interesting because when i first saw the lineup for this panel, i was trying to figure out who got hit on the head and put me on it because i'm the supreme court nerd. but it strikes me that actually there's a real sort of resonance
people like mitch mcconnell who was one of the first young people graduate out of the leadership institute in the sixties, is now old. but the group that but the people that made him just created this massive societal like infrastructure sugar industry, society, like whatever you want to call, it's it's the thing that kind of makes itself in more oil because it keeps investing in its youth. the youth grow up and become adults and become powerful adults. and they just remember what it was like...
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you even have mitch mcconnell and mitt romney now saying more blank checks for ukraine. how that that's progress, right? i can't name by the way i can't name three provinces in ukraine either, but i'm not voting money to go to ukraine and bankrupting my country while our our southern border remains open. so earlier this year in closing, we started the first ever anti-woke caucus in congress. i thought it was clever at the time we gathered dozens of my republican colleagues who feel like i that wokeism is a cancer that eating america inside out and will do. so if we don't do something to stop it. harriet is a harriet hageman is a leader in the anti woke congressman bishop and congressman babin attend single one of our anti anti-war caucus meetings. we've been what we've done is we've come together strategize we don't we don't just get together and talk about it we strategize and then we write amendments and advance those amendments. and a lot of the the bills that move it move their way through the house and we passed amendments out of the house that aren't going in the s
you even have mitch mcconnell and mitt romney now saying more blank checks for ukraine. how that that's progress, right? i can't name by the way i can't name three provinces in ukraine either, but i'm not voting money to go to ukraine and bankrupting my country while our our southern border remains open. so earlier this year in closing, we started the first ever anti-woke caucus in congress. i thought it was clever at the time we gathered dozens of my republican colleagues who feel like i that...
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it is very difficult to be working with somebody like mitch mcconnell who says their entire goal is not to move the country forward, to make your one term president. that makes it pretty difficult. >> we will go to tony in florida. i, too. >> good morning. i have lived here less than 50 years but i have been in the united states from the 50s. i am really distressed because there seems to be people, including your idol julian bond and president who keeps reaching back into the past selectively to keep us feeling angry to control us and we can never move forward. i know what it was like in 1958. do you? have you heard about it? i know and i think it is a disgrace that black people are being used every four years, every two years because of the congressional election. the wind is up and i used to call a black button. they are coming to get us. 1619 but can't 1865. they cannot remember 1919. they cannot remember 1954. stop it. you are not doing anybody any good. spoke about people like you. my grandfather. >> just stop it, please. i am really tired of it. >> that is an interesting opinion a
it is very difficult to be working with somebody like mitch mcconnell who says their entire goal is not to move the country forward, to make your one term president. that makes it pretty difficult. >> we will go to tony in florida. i, too. >> good morning. i have lived here less than 50 years but i have been in the united states from the 50s. i am really distressed because there seems to be people, including your idol julian bond and president who keeps reaching back into the past...