WEBVTT - Democratic Russian Roulette 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.520 Good morning, peet's and welcome to okay EP Daily with 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.160 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from our podstream 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:21.040 studios in Times Square. Folks, I just want us to 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:25.759 remember that it has been nine months, nine months since 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.760 the insurrection, and not one fucking indictment has come down 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:33.479 from the Department of Justice. Nine months, and we are 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:38.080 still looking for people who have posted that they were 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:42.519 at the insurrection on social media. I just you know, 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:47.479 coming up in my interview with our friend was Jahat Alive. 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:53.640 The Daily Beast columnist Wash says this, you know what 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:58.400 we just want. We want that the Justice Department and 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.480 the criminal justice system would treat Trump and all his 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:06.880 accolades as badly as they treat black and brown innocent 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:11.880 people right like, for low level infractions. They throw the 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.440 book at these people. You just saw just recently that 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.680 Gavin Newsom, governor of California, decided that he was going 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:24.679 to do away with mandatory minimum sentencing because of how 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:29.959 it outside, how it harms right black and brown people 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:35.240 the most. So again, why is it that we will 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.360 throw the book at low level black and brown people, 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.360 low level drug offenders, but we won't do the same 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.880 for white collar quote unquote white collar crimes that threaten 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.440 our fucking democracy and the future stake that we have 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.720 on the global stage. I'm just I'm so outdone by this. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.520 I'm tired of the reports, I'm tired of the talking 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.920 heads in the commentary around this, and I want to 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.000 know where the fucking action is. You know, every week 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.400 we have Glenn Kirshner join us I MSNBC legal analysts 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.880 and host of Justice Matters talk about the fact that, yes, 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.880 you know, the Justice Department does not work as fast 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.560 as we would like them to, and oftentimes we don't 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.720 know exactly what it is that they are working on. 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.000 But I would tell you that to ensure that people 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.800 do not lose faith in our democracy and do not 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.840 lose faith and hope in our agencies, namely the Department 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.400 of Justice, they may want to issue some fucking statements 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.200 that allow us to see that they are working on 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.600 behalf of securing our democracy and not just holding up 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:46.160 institutional ideals. I you know, I think that at some 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:50.000 point in time, at some point in time, you know, 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:55.440 in the not too distant future, in the shambles right 0:02:55.560 --> 0:03:00.000 of our democracy, somebody will be listening to this podcast, 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.480 and they'll say to themselves, you know, it was all 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.880 so clear of the steps that needed to be taken 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.560 and the action in order to secure our democracy and 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:14.679 make sure that a fascist, authoritarian, white supremaist, misogynist, islamophobic, transphobic, 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:18.280 homophobic piece of shit wouldn't become president of the United 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:23.200 States again. But you know, they just decided not to 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.040 not to end the filibuster, not to actually work on 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.120 behalf of the American people, and just roll the dice. 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.239 You know, we talk often on this show about the 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:38.960 fact that essentially we're all just playing Russian roulette, right 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.880 The anti vaxers and the anti maskers and all of 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:48.920 these people are just friends paying just Russian roulette with 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.400 their lives. But you see, our Congress right now, which 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:56.040 is controlled by the Democrats, is playing Russian Roulette with 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:01.800 our democracy by not securing vote rights, by not going 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.680 after those that actually break the law in broad fucking daylight. 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.320 Because what you don't want to set what you believe 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:12.080 to be a partisan president of investigating a former president 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:19.200 even though he was twice fucking impeached. This man, dear friends, 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.039 he is running for office again in twenty twenty four. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:28.160 If he is not placed in goddamn fucking handcuffs in 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.560 the next two years, this man is going to run 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.719 and most likely win again. Not win because I believe 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.159 that that many Americans are going to vote for him, 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.320 but win because our vote will no longer fucking matter. 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:45.839 And that's exactly what state Republican officials are hoping and 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:50.400 banking on. We are getting ready to aform an American 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:54.279 apartheid system where the minority is going to have rule 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.520 over the majority, not just in Congress, but in the 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.360 courts as well. And then they'll get the executive branch, 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.280 and you know what, Republicans will hold power for the 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.560 next twenty thirty, forty fifty years. Because the only way, 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.360 the only direction that I see this going in, if 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.440 we continue to see in action from our Department of Justice, 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.440 is revolution. That's the only way that this is going 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.240 to end. We are headed directly towards a civil war. 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.839 And I don't say that as hyperbole. I say that 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:32.400 as reality. You have Facebook and other social media entities 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.559 that are doing nothing about misinformation. They are doing nothing 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.560 about their platforms being used as organizing tools for hate 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:43.400 groups right and militias. So you have that on one hand, 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.039 then you have a Democratic controlled Congress that can't get 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.840 their ship together to pass any type of legislation that 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.160 is going to affect the daily lives of the American 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.400 people and make sure that they secure our democracy on 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.919 the other hand, and then you have a president that 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.400 sits in the middle that believe that we're still operating 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.000 the twentieth century, where he's going to solve these problems 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:08.360 with a sit down summit over some fucking Scotch Wake 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:13.280 the fuck up. I can think of nothing more urgent 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.799 than securing our right to vote, because if we don't 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.880 have that, then we're not going to have climate change legislation, 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.800 We're not going to have infrastructure bills, we're not going 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.000 to have a change right to ensure that all people 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.360 that are able to birth can have an abortion if 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:34.960 they need one. Everything that has come up over the 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:40.400 past nine months has pointed to one thing only that 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:45.719 our democracy is on life support. And frankly, the question 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.920 that I'll ask Wag later is whether or not America 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.880 is already dead and we're living in some type of 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:56.039 dystopian fucking sixth cents where we're all walking around talking 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.400 to each other and not realizing that we're just a 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.560 bunch of apparitions, just a bunch of ghosts of democracy's past. 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:10.400 Fiona Hill outlined very clearly, very starkly, very stoically in 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.880 our testimony in Donald Trump's first impeachment that you need 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.840 look no further than modern day Russia to see the 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.560 direction that the United States is headed in. You need 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:26.040 look no further into the fact that the upcoming CEPAC 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.559 Conservative Conference is going to be held in Hungary because 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:34.760 they believe that hungry, right, a country that doesn't have 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:40.880 real elections, right, they perform democracy, but it's a theater trick. 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:45.680 It is not something that actually has power driven for 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:49.240 and by the people. But that's where they're having their 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:54.320 next convention. So they are telling you all that they 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.480 are doing. They are telling you the dictators that they 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.760 believe in and want to hold up as a model 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.800 for the future of America. And we're all just sitting 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:08.560 around pretending that Biden can do all things when he 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.480 can barely get his agenda fucking past because he put 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.160 too much faith in the fact that everyone else was 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.160 going to want to do the quote unquote right thing. 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.120 No one does because at the end of the day. 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:30.360 What rules us is greed. What rules us is the 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:35.760 desire or the proximity to power. And like I said 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:41.520 in twenty sixteen, right on election night, that this was 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:46.080 going to be white supremacy's last stand. But white supremacy 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:50.800 is not going down without a motherfucking fight. They have 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:55.160 the courts, which is where all of us have received 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:59.160 any of the rights that we have. Now, it didn't 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:05.440 happen through policy. It happened through laws. It happened through 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:10.480 the court system. It happened through hard battles. And now 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:15.160 they own the courts because Democrats decided not to talk 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.280 about that. They don't even want to have conversations about 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.240 the expansion of the Supreme Court because they think somehow 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:26.000 it's set in stone, the number nine. It's not. When 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:30.559 you think see that things are radically shifting in this 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:37.440 country at a pace that is neck break, then you 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:41.440 have to make radical choices. You have to be willing 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:46.960 to risk losing position, to being risk losing popularity in 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.760 order to get the right things done. But we are 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.560 living in a system where people are more concerned with 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.079 adding money to their pockets, more concerned with their little 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:02.520 fiefdoms than they are about collective and that's what began 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.079 right with the Tea Party that we all again wanted 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:13.240 to laugh off. That's what begat the tribalism right was 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:17.640 this idea that we are going to coalesce around a lie, 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:22.280 a lie that Barack Obama wasn't an American, a lie 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.240 that he didn't have claim to the presidency because he 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:29.520 was black, and because we refuse to face the truth 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.319 of white supremacy in this country and how it is 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.640 a part of every fucking agency and institution. We are 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.559 at this place. You know, Wash will say later that 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:44.199 he believes at this moment was inevitable right that we 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.720 were going to get to a point where our democracy 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.200 was not just going to bend, that it would in 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:53.400 fact break. He believes that there's still time, and I'm 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.560 saying to you, I don't know that there is. We 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.800 have a handful of months until we begin campaigning for 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:04.679 the twenty twenty two midterm cycle. We have at fifty 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:10.319 margin in the Senate, we have a razor thin edge 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.800 up in the House. But you see, Republicans don't have 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.800 to run on anything. That's what they showed us back 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.640 in the twenty twenty election. They didn't even bother running 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.280 on a platform. They said, Oh, we'll just you know, 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:29.440 rerun the same ship from twenty sixteen. Friends, We have 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:37.160 a deep problem here. We have a crisis. A constitutional 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.280 crisis was not averted because a couple of people in 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.640 the Justice Department did the right thing in the moment. 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:48.240 We're in the midst of a constitutional crisis. We're in 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.560 the midst of a moral crisis. We're in the midst 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:56.280 of a crisis of conscience in this country. And I 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:01.679 don't know who sees the urgency of now, because I 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.240 don't think that the current makeup of folks in Congress do. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:10.199 I don't think that the current administration does, because nobody 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.400 is screaming from the rafters saying, look, folks, the comment 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:19.319 is coming. We are in armageddon. This is deep impact. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.000 And it isn't aliens or comments that are going to 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:26.720 take us out. It is in action and apathy. Coming 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.760 up next, dear friends, is my conversation with wasajahat Ali, 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.320 the columnist at the Daily Beast. He is a friend 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.280 and he has so many thoughts. He makes me feel 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:43.800 less crazy. So I hope that you enjoy that conversation. Friends. 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.520 I am so happy to welcome back to woke. A 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:51.880 f daily friend and colleague and Daily Beast columnists was 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:58.040 Jahat Ali to discuss Guess what, folks, the nine month 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:02.240 anniversary of the attempted coup to overthrow the government by 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:08.200 Donald Trump and his fellow fascist was. You know, we 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.240 just learned this week as well, which I'm sure is 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:16.880 not an accident of timing, that the Senate Judiciary Committee 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.880 had a three hundred and ninety four page report outlining 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.720 all the ways in which Bill Barr, Mark Meadows, Donald 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:28.640 Trump and others worked to try and get the Department 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:33.200 of Justice to say that there was fraud in the 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:37.640 election in order to subvert our democracy and keep Donald 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:41.520 Trump in power. It's been nine months since the insurrection 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:46.360 right this week, and not one of those people have 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.360 been indicted. And also we have heard that the people 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:54.079 that have been called upon by the one six Commission 0:13:54.559 --> 0:14:00.679 to be subpoenad and be under oath, Steve Bannon, Cashpital 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.120 and and others have decided, you know what, they think 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.240 that the subpoenas by Congress are a suggestion that they 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:13.520 would rather not RSVP four. What is going on? Yeah, So, 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.600 what we're witnessing is the rough draft of an insurrection, 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:22.240 a failed first copy that will be rinsedon, repeated, and 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.040 perfected in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty four. And 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.520 people say, oh, you're you're just being hysterical. I was 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.240 just having a conversation with someone. They said, oh, you 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.360 were just being hysterical and reactionary. But all the stuff 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.080 that you and your colleagues, oftentimes people of color were 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:35.840 seeing for the past four or five years turn out 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.840 to be true, even the effort fa fascism that you use. 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:40.920 I was so happy to hear it. I wrote a 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.520 couple of articles and tweets about it, and people like, oh, 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.840 you've gone too far. I had to make the pitch 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.000 to use the word fascism even a year ago. This 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.040 is why you have to really make the case for it. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.080 I'm like, what's the case. This is what's going to happen. 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.480 This is when Trump was in office, right, and this 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.400 is the future we're going to see is minority rule 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.000 to establish white Christian suprem see. And it's gonna be 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:05.240 an authoritarian government with the veneer of democracy putin, for example, 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.160 wins elections. No one's gonna say it's a democracy but 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.080 he wins elections. You know, Pustinia Bobari, the dictator of 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.760 Egypt one elections, Victor orbon Is Quoe unquote president of Hungary, 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:16.560 a hungry of the country which they love. Right now 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.080 the model for Trucker Carlson where they're gonna have sepack 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.800 the Annual Consertive Action political conference is going to be 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:25.240 in Hungary right like there's there's like a Defcon three, 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:29.200 Defcon two probably happening right now. But Steve Bennett did 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.400 something I'm gonna give him credit. Flood the zone with shit. 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:34.800 That was his strategy. If you flood the zone with shit, 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:39.200 you leave people confused, you leave people overwhelmed, you're able 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.360 to move the Overton window of what's acceptable and not acceptable. 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.640 You're supposed to you're you're supposed to numb the people. 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.960 There's just too many crisis what to believe, what not 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.320 to believe in our media establishment. Let's be honest in 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.840 this incestuous ecosystem where everyone's buddy buddy, and everyone has 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:55.600 to call balls and strikes, and everyone has the view 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.080 from nowhere. Oftentimes many white gate keepers, because it doesn't 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.080 affect them, they say no, no, no, we have to 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.440 do both sides. There's no both sides here. We have 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:08.640 one side that is aggressively trying to subvert democracy through 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.480 a coup another word that you use that I'm so 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.920 glad that you used, and the other side, which is, yes, flawed, 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.320 but at least it's trying to be adults and raise 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:19.440 the dead ceiling to keep the government function. And so 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.920 what do you do when the entire conservative ecosystem, not 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.920 just the elected officials, but Fox News, which is celebrating 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:30.320 his twenty fifth anniversary this week, and also the podcast, 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.400 and also the strategists and also the lawyers are hell 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:37.680 bent on minority rule. You're going to have a constitutional 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.960 crisis and you're going to have most likely a civil 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.080 war in this country. And the Justice Department, which should 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:48.400 be aggressive af right now, has not arrested anybody. So 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.760 to answer your question, I echo your frustration because that 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:53.960 was my first tweet when this report came out, and 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.120 I tweeted, I'm like, how come nobody's in jail? And 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:57.800 that tweet kind of went viral and everyone was like, 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.400 that's a very good question. I guess we should just 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:06.400 be black and brown, unarmed protesters protesting officers Chauvin, you know, 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:10.600 choking George Floyd to death. And then maybe then these 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.840 people will take it seriously. I mean, I could find 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:19.879 it absolutely shocking and disgusting that, first of all, the 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.600 longest sentence that we have seen come out of the 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:28.040 insurrectionists was it's four months. That's the longest goddamn sentence 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.960 that we have seen, right for two thousand people breaking 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.919 into the Capitol building, building a guilty and on the 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.840 steps of the Capitol saying and chanting that they wanted 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.880 to hang Mike Pence, defecating in the halls of our democracy. 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.439 We have it on every goddamn video, every goddamn angle 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:51.000 we have seen that. We heard testimony from four police 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.800 officers right from the Capitol Police and DC Metropolitan Police 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:59.000 talking about the trauma of that day. We've had police 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:04.639 officers commit suicide following right the insurrection, and yet to 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:08.320 your point, to your tweet, why isn't anybody in jail? 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:10.800 And I'm not just talking about the people that were 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.359 on the steps that day. I'm talking about the people 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.560 that were on the dias at the stop, the Steel rally, 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:21.360 the Juliani's right, the Josh Hollies that wanted to give 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.400 a fist the Donald Trumps that talked about one six 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:28.440 being wild. How is it that Congress has the time 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.880 to put together three hundred and ninety some odd page report, 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.600 and yet I'm wondering whether or not they're going to 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:39.680 even support even enforce the subpoenas. Right, I'm just I'm 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.679 so outraged. I feel like, so I've said this before, 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.639 the Democrats bring a pencil to a knife fight, and 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.440 Mitch McConnell brings a bazooka, and who's gonna win ten 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:52.000 out of ten times? At the same time, you want to, 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.080 you know, go high, like Michelle said, but you need 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:58.680 some brawlers. The problem is is when you have structural 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:02.760 deficiencies where we have a fifty fifty Senate and the 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.880 fifty Democrats represent nearly forty million more Americans, and yet 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.720 it's still fifty fifty. You have the electoral College, you 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:13.239 have massive voter suppression bier Republicans, you have jerrymandering, and 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.280 you literally have one entire gop ecosystem that has held 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.679 bent on obstructionism. Casement point. As we're recording this, we 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.120 just got a small reprief to December for the dead 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.760 ceiling but they're literally hijacking the nation because they have 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.560 admitted Centator till Us admitted it. We will run great 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.160 ads on this in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.239 four that look at the Democrats, Look how much they 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.600 spend so much money. Yeah, because you're not raising the 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.120 dead ceiling for this country to pay off the debts 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:43.480 incurred under Donald Trump's administration. So you're dealing with nihilists, 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:48.080 this pro death nihilist movement that is attacking masks, attacking vaccines, 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:51.800 attacking science, all for their culture work. On the Democratic side, 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.840 you have this unweeling group that is trying to get 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:58.320 together a diverse coalition, but we are fed because we 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:00.760 have these coone core moderates. I hate to call them moderates, 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:04.159 their obstruction. I was gonna say they are And you 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:07.960 know what, there is a doctor abdul l say ed um, 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:10.080 he refers to them. He said, no, they're not, They're 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:14.680 not even there were. They're regressionist, right yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:18.240 I'm fine with the regressionist. I'll take it. So so 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:20.920 you have so this if we just like, let's give 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.159 Biden to put myself in Biden's shoes and democratsrihoes for 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:26.800 a second. This is what you're dealing with, a pandemic 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.760 that has killed more than seven hundred thousand people because 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.160 Donald Trump failed and lied to the American people. Let's 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.400 be honest, trying to reopen America. But you have this 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.959 right wing fringe nut now literally invoking violence upon school 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:44.280 teachers and physicians. You have a recession, you have this 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:48.240 debt ceiling. You have obstructionist Republicans. You got Republicans who 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:52.080 refuse to even take part in a bipartisan commission in 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:54.880 which this mob tried to kill them and the Vice 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:58.919 President Mike Pence, and you have massive voter suppression, and 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:01.959 you have corruption and by the way, you have a 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:06.879 propaganda network that refuses to be honest and is disinforming people. 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:08.639 And oh, by the way, you have one year to 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:10.880 pull it off, Danielle, because you have a razor thin 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:13.520 margin in the House, and according to all the data 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:16.800 and the stats and historical trends and voter suppression and jerrymandering, 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:19.280 Republicans isn't going to take the House and most likely 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:22.760 the Senate. And so just to like, you know, when 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:24.720 you get so frustrated and people get so frustrated, and 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:27.960 I get frustrated. You have the Democratic Party which is 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:30.399 barely hanging onto its majority because you have people like 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:34.280 Cinema and Mansion and other que quote regressionists in the House, 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:38.240 not unified. Meanwhile, McConnell and the right wing, they whip 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:39.919 him into shape when it comes to the culture or 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:42.679 even Mitt Romney refuses to raise the dead selling you know, 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:45.479 he's allegedly the colone quote moderate. And so it's so 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:48.440 frustrating that the majority is hijacked by a minority. We're 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:51.880 running out of time, we don't have the resources. Multiple fires, 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:54.159 multiple crises, and this is where Steve benn and won 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:57.440 flood the zone with shit. Now deal with the shit, 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:00.280 Mit Daniel, what shit do you want to deal with? First? 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:05.240 Climate change, income inequality, build back better, the January sixth insurrection, 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:08.040 voter suppression. You tell me what's the number one on 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:10.280 your list? You know, see, And that is such a 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:12.399 good that is such a good question, because one you 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:15.320 just gave us, you know, a partridge in a pear 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:19.200 tree of all the things that are fucking wrong and 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:24.400 are right. If I am Biden, right, if I if 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:26.680 I am the President of the United States, and you're 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:29.600 saying to me after that litany of things that are wrong, 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:31.280 things that are broken. First of all, I don't even 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:32.720 know why the man ran for the job in the 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:35.160 first place, because I would run from it, not run 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:40.000 for it. Voting. Voting, to me, has got to be 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:43.919 number one because if to your point, if we don't 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:48.520 have the huge margins necessary in order to get things done, 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:53.800 because we have two regressionists, right that are marauding as 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:56.120 if they are Democrats, but we know, good god damn 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:58.520 well that they are not. They're bought and paid like 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:03.560 by the pharmaceutical companies, by goal by just name it right, 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:06.480 And I continue to say this on social media as well, 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:10.160 to follow the money right, like why isn't Christen Cinema 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:13.320 talking to anybody? Why is Joe Manchin the only one 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:15.479 that is always in front of a microphone? Look at 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:18.199 their bank accounts, look and see where they're getting their 0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:21.600 money from. But again, if I am dealing with all 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:24.520 of these problems, I'm going after voting because if I 0:23:24.600 --> 0:23:27.320 don't have the large enough margins, if people are not 0:23:27.440 --> 0:23:30.639 able to show up and express their frustrations at the polls, 0:23:30.880 --> 0:23:32.880 and none of these members are going to be held 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:37.600 accountable for their in action and their obstructionism, then I 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:41.120 can't get anything else done. I'm not passing infrastructure, I'm 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:44.080 not passing a climate change bill. I'm not doing any 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:47.320 of the things that the American people say that they 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:51.399 desperately need. But for you, if you is what is 0:23:51.480 --> 0:23:53.560 number one? For you? Yeah? So I wrote an article 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:55.320 about this with the Daily ABUSA couple months ago, and 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:57.360 I said, you have to nuke the filibuster, right, I said, 0:23:57.440 --> 0:23:59.200 nuke could get rid of it. It's over, It's done 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:01.880 because of philibuster. Is this archaic relic of the Jim 0:24:01.920 --> 0:24:05.400 Crow era that has been used predominantly by McConnell Republicans 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:08.000 to turn this sent into a graveyard. Just obstructionism. Nothing's 0:24:08.000 --> 0:24:10.160 gonna get done. If you get rid of the filibuster, 0:24:10.200 --> 0:24:11.960 you got the fifty fifty, you can get Kamala to 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:14.080 come in as a tiebreaker, and you can pass a 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:17.200 John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Right, you can pass all 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:19.480 these bills that will strengthen voting, that will be a 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:22.200 buffer against these voter suppression bills across the nation, which 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:25.760 you buy it the way or even unpopular with Republican voters. 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:28.840 See that's where you have to gop flexes its muscle. 0:24:28.840 --> 0:24:30.760 They're like, we don't even care if our voters don't 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:33.600 like this. Hell, we'll even kill our voters for the 0:24:33.680 --> 0:24:36.680