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🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | Today has been a lesson and how every accusation from the Republican Party these days is really actually a confession. |
0:09.0 | Are you weaponizing the House the same way? |
0:12.0 | You say Democrats were weaponizing the DOJ to get what they |
0:16.0 | wanted are you just doing it in a bigger platform the entire house |
0:19.9 | representatives no there is a very clear distinction between what we are doing and what they have done |
0:25.8 | in weaponizing the judicial system. |
0:27.7 | They're undermining the people's faith in our institutions, our system of justice itself. |
0:31.8 | What we're doing, Neil, is the opposite. We are trying to |
0:34.3 | adhere to the rule of law. That was Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson |
0:39.6 | this afternoon saying that the Republican Party is just trying to adhere to the rule of law. |
0:45.0 | Now a few hours before that interview, Speaker Johnson made a huge decision which |
0:50.4 | shows that that is plainly not the case. |
0:53.0 | As Speaker of the House, one of the most important things Johnson does is decide who from his party sits on House committees. |
1:01.0 | And among the most important committees for the rule of law in this country is committees and |
1:03.8 | among the most important committees for the rule of law in this country is the House |
1:05.3 | Intelligence Committee. Today Speaker Johnson appointed far-right |
1:09.6 | Congressman Scott Perry and far-right Congressman Ronnie Jackson to the two open seats on that |
1:16.3 | committee. |
1:17.3 | And when I say this decision flies in the face of the rule of law, it is not only because both Perry and Jackson are big-time |
1:24.6 | election deniers, they most certainly are. But there are also all of the |
1:29.5 | individual actions these two particular congressmen have taken that demonstrate just |
1:34.8 | how little respect they have for the rule of law and for the institution of |
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