the film. relaxes. connected it's the details that make the journey perfect but warmth and hospitality make it feel like qatar airways going places together. the way. the world. israel's bombardment of gaza intensifies as death toll mounts and thousands of people have been forced from their homes. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program more than $100.00 rockets are fired from gaza the israeli prime minister says a mass will pay a heavy price for the attacks and other developments at least 11 palestinians are

killed and hundreds more injured as protests erupt across the occupied west bank and also this hour we'll be looking closely at india's covert vaccine crisis some states start taking matters into their own hands despite government promises. but we begin in gaza where israel's bombardment has intensified and civilians continue to get caught in the crossfire. this is the moment when the building that houses the interior ministry was attacks there is no word on casualties yet a multi-story building had a hamas bank inside it was also leveled in a separate strike so far at least $126.00 palestinians including $31.00 children have been killed since the israeli military offensive began on monday and then

hamas and its allies have been firing more rockets from inside gaza the israeli military says a total of $140.00 rockets have been launched towards israel on friday most of them were intercepted at least 9 people inside israel have died including a child since the conflict began at least 11 palestinians have been killed by israeli security forces in the occupied west bank since friday morning and more than 600 have been injured in the west bank a wave of protests have broken out over these radio capacious there's also growing frustration and anger after israel intensified its as strikes of the gaza have been stand offs taking place between protesters and police in at least 200 different locations from hebron and bethlehem to nablus and ramallah police if i'd take a gas and there are reports of live ammunition being used as well al-jazeera so what joins us live now from gaza sof what last night sorra

a significant escalation in the bombardment there what is happening now. well we can say that in the last hour the israeli forces. all over the gaza strip was something unusual in the last 55 days as collation we could hear some explode. from the israeli artillery that are deployed along the border line with gaza in the north is gaza city. and the other hand also we could hear some explosions coming from the navy that israeli naval bombardment part of the the coastline of the gaza strip apart from that we can say we had one hour earlier thirdly quiet. these bombardments

of these shellings in the north of gaza strip have been forcing people to evacuate their homes especially pacifically those who live across the border line flee to. the united nations run schools because for safety or for personal safety safety reasons the ministry of health says that $12026.00 palestinians have been killed including $31.00 children more than $150.00 palestinians injured if you decided to open the borders tomorrow to receive this. policy is will have been injured in the latest 5 days of israel is collision on gaza also in the last hour we have been. fired from gaza into southern israel which also as we said and huge well in one hour. talking about the people of gaza now now it's 5 days people are staying home.

because as we mentioned there are no chill for gazans to stay so most of the population here. home for 5 days they depend on emergency stop lawyers to put the needs yes as you say people stuck indoors for so long they need food and other supplies to to to keep going and then now also the scale of the destruction from the from 5 days that basically from last night has not become clara because there are warnings about electricity and water supply which was already very already scarce and well dysfunctional in gaza now warnings about about that getting worse. we just talked to them out of gaza he confronted me that they have been receiving hundreds of phone calls from

from gaza residents from the people because of problems with the water supply with electricity supply so most of the infrastructure in gaza city has been damaged either completely or partially he said that the municipality is facing lots of problems in reaching these water supplies and also the sewage treatment stations that are out of the sea of gaza he said that now they are pushing the. edge into the sea which will cause a huge environmental catastrophe is. the electricity there in gaza they have been suffering from. all the. electricity and power problem since that israelis bombarded and destroyed the only power station in gaza in 2007 and they depend on they buy their electricity from and they have also

a few hours from the gaza solar power station which produces only a few hours a day so they have and the best conditions they have only 8 hours a day so with the with the destruction of the network of power power in gaza now with the people are receiving bliss power on the teams of power company. they are also facing difficulties in deploying and fixing their networks that have been also damaged by the israeli bombardments. thank you very much stuff what. they're inside gaza. now the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has insisted that hamas should pay a very heavy price and has warned the group and other palestinian factions about carrying out attacks. the senior leaders of hamas believe that they can escape from our armed forces but they cannot we can reach them everywhere we reach

all these people and we will continue to do so they attacked us on our holiday in our capital and fired rockets at our cities they have paid and will pay a heavy price for that this is not over yet. well there is a force that reports to us from the chef sharon neighborhood in occupied east jerusalem this is this is the districts where 6 palestinian families were threatened with eviction and he says that that sense of internal conflict and tension is also a building that. occupied east jerusalem outside of israel has also been a scene in recent days of pretty clear instances of racial violence there was a jewish person attacked by a palestinian group close to the city walls of the old city the other day and earlier here of course is a conference of issues this ongoing protest but also into ethnic

violence going on with palestinians and jewish settlers facing off around a jewish building in a neighborhood just a little way away from here with 2 of 4 of the occupants of that place brandishing weapons as they threw stones at people from outside who were themselves throwing stones and fire letting off fireworks into the area those guns were used and one palestinian person was injured as a result of that exchange before the police went in and removed the weapons there have also been other developments elsewhere in israel itself where we've seen. the arrest of a senior muslim cleric a senior member of the islamic movement by the security service the shin bet accompanying that and after that very major disturbances in the palestinian israeli town of call for qana where we've seen streets filled with with protesters moving around and a large number of injuries we've heard from

a doctor that there have been dozens of injuries in that incident so as well as talking about this the prime minister benjamin netanyahu talking about rather about the situation in gaza he's also been talking again about this issue he's been talking about groups of arabs who are attacking jews just for being jews that's correct that has been happening he didn't talk at all in this instance at least about the reverse of that issue and he's promising an extremely severe crackdown really telling police that they need to do whatever they can to to try to quell this violence. well protests have been spreading to the occupied west bank where there were confrontations in 200 different locations including the cities of hebron bethlehem and nablus there's a growing anger of her house of actions in demolitions israel's military and the military control of the area and now the air campaign being conducted in gaza now

deborah him is in ramallah in the west bank. there are protesters who are trying to get away from the army as you can see now. crowds are cheering because some palestinians threw a mullet of. our new one of the israeli army jeeps and there are palestinians who are here coming to cheer the palestinian protesters now as we can see another round of tear gas fired at the protesters by the israeli army so they're trying to get away from the soldiers trying to get away from the tear gas bombs some are even carrying these gas bombs and throwing it back to the israeli army and israeli soldiers. and we are seeing cheers from the palestinians who are over here remember the. palestinians are using to confront israeli soldiers are

not necessarily do not necessarily cause danger to the israeli soldiers but as many of them were telling us it's their way of showing that they're not afraid of the javine armed israeli soldiers and they are throwing their best to show their frustration and anger and that they are indeed fighting the israeli occupation in every way they can well the spokesman for the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas has accused the u.s. of encouraging what he called israeli war crimes and dana said the silence of the u.s. administration regarding what israel is doing describing it as self-defense has led to massacres in gaza the west bank and jerusalem it's going to john hendren who's in washington and john what can you tell us about any efforts or bilateral communication taking place to secure

a cease fire. well the white house says it wants a deescalation of the conflict that is the official position of the white house but the message is it sending suggests it's not perhaps in such a hurry the president called benjamin netanyahu he did not call the head of the palestinian authority mahmoud abbas when asked about that the white house spokeswoman said that in fact the secretary of state anthony blinken had called both sides but in the world of diplomacy a call from the president really says a lot the white house is sending a junior official a deputy undersecretary of state for israeli palestinian affairs not the secretary of state himself all of this suggests that the administration does not want to get deeply involved in resolving this conflict jen psaki is the white house spokeswoman here's a little of what she had to say a little earlier israel has the right to self-defense our focus remains on

continuing to use every lever at our disposal to deescalate the situation on the ground i think it's also important to remind people hamas is a terrorist organization hamas does not represent the views of the families of the people who are suffering all of the palestinian people who are suffering as a result of this violence on but there is no justification for 1500 rockets coming from hamas. and interesting thing is happening on capitol hill for years the u.s. has had 2 main political parties but essentially one policy toward the israeli palestinian conflict and that was support of israel well now one member of congress after another on the democratic side stepping up to support the palestinians in this case not a majority not likely to change the policy here in the u.s. but very interesting rashida to leave herself

a palestinian american that came to tears on the floor of the u.s. house of representatives asking how many palestinians have to die before their lives matter and her colleague omar a muslim american of somali descent spoke up as well calling israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu an ethno nationalist on the house floor rep betty mccollum who chairs the appropriations committee that's the committee that funds the or it's really iron dome just said there's no diplomatic effort to end the occupation because israel in her words just wants to steal palestinian land and then we've also had alexandria because you know cortez another representative speak out forcefully again and again against the u.s. policy that is friendly fire toward the biden administration from fellow democrats and it seems to be growing thank you very much from washington john hendren. well in terms of the wider international reaction in the united nations has been

appealing for an immediate end to the fighting the scepter general antonio the terrorist is warning of a security and humanitarian crisis and says the conflict could fall sick stream as an across the region u.n. security council held a meeting on sunday to discuss the issue kristensen amy has more now from the united nations. the u.n. security council is on the sidelines of this latest middle east conflict as a result of american intervention diplomats confirmed that the united states blocked calls for an open meeting on friday during which countries could publicly express their views it was also the americans who stopped any form of a statement unified statement from being issued on behalf of the council something that all other members were pushing for a spokesperson for u.s. ambassador linda thomas greenfield tells al-jazeera that the united states wanted to give space for diplomatic efforts underway at the highest levels to go to work

they were looking to deescalate tensions and move towards a cease fire while of course the situation on the ground has only gotten more violent since then and diplomats as well as u.n. officials here have expressed their extreme frustration we would like to see member states. put to action the ideals that we all have to live up to within this within this organization. so the more unified the security council is the stronger its voice and the stronger it's impact the united states initially said they wanted to wait until tuesday for an open meeting they've since relented a bit agreeing to a rare sunday gathering the 1st open meeting of the council since these hostilities began. much more still ahead on the program going to be looking at other stories making headlines as well including this news and mozzies could prove the end to

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on the money markets is markets go faster and faster and we're opening up the possibility for instability for no. money bonds on al-jazeera. each and every one of us have got a responsibility. to change our personal space for the better. man. we have to hire more character and we could do this experiment and if 5 of us you could increase just a little bit that would be worth it even woody had any idea that it would become a magnet who is incredibly raspy she's not they are asking for women to get 50 percent representation in the constituent assembly here are these people pick up to collect this. good to say the reasoning this is a extremely important so is that the great city. we

need to take america trying to bring people together trying to do was people left behind. welcome back our main story. a building housing the interior ministry and another that had a massive bank inside it have been attacked in fresh air strikes in gaza at least $126.00 palestinians including $31.00 children have now been killed since the

offensive began on monday. meanwhile the mouse and its allies are firing all rockets from inside gaza towards israel the israeli military says a total of $140.00 rockets have been launched towards israel on friday though most of them were intercepted at least 9 people inside israel including a child have died since the conflict escalated and then they've also been a wave of protests breaking out in the west bank of the israeli occupation and intensified as strikes on gaza have been a standoff taking place between protesters and israeli police in at least 200 different locations and at least 11 palestinians have been killed. so let's now speak to our senior political analyst moranbah sharon or are we just seeing images there of protests that are spreading and says he's in the west bank and there is this growing anger and frustration and you know different factors behind this from the fiction is in chef. alex aaron and obviously now the campaign in gaza bit but

put into context how important is is jerusalem in all of this and israeli policy in serious than in recent is well of course jerusalem is off the heart of the palestinian issue and the policy issues at the heart of the. issue in conflict with those so clearly it's a major a rallying symbol for palestinians and arabs and muslims in fact with international community in general. it's probably more known promised land. but it is also a microcosm of palestine in the sense of what's happened in jerusalem happened that us about a spine and whether it is the house the militia and division of people or the refugees in an arc of jerusalem and the forced annexation of the city the continual

delish clinician all of that of course happens news jerusalem as it happens and. not the fact that jerusalem is and that is are in the control of course meant that the pacino authority would not be able to coordinate or control that's a good situation eyes of gaza city and ramallah would not produce and work out so clearly the people needs jerusalem have moved moved on their own and in a quite the spontaneous way almost in a small little uprising of sort in opposition to the eviction orders that were happening and because of the assault on our oxen mosque so i think all in all while it is now a centerpiece of the israeli struggle it's slowly but surely becoming a centerpiece of rallying the arab and international public opinion. and of course with the day coming are pending for the palestinians help us understand what this

means for palestinians and then why the. impending evictions evoke such emotion in terms of the naacp and the issues around not being for the palestinians a continuing kind of process. but it is a continuum catastrophe because what happened in and 19.8 was predicting. more than 4 fifths of that but it seems population 750000 people what if they did then and today they and their descendants make up more than 3 and a half 1000000 at a singing refugees so clearly what's happens in iraq echoes what happened more than 70 years before it has been an ongoing process of israel taking grand and taking homes by force it is something that the kind of scenes have lived throughout and 12 or 3 or even 4 generations since 1948 the problem is as you said

it continues it's a slow bitter painful process of humiliation of the palestinians getting them from their homes and the likes and even evicting them from from jerusalem itself some and 1000 jerusalemites where somehow. were not allowed to go back to the city because they spent most of the time outside the city so clearly that's really continues and clearly there is a 2nd international indifference to an ongoing question people ask why is the palestinian issue so persistent why is it always there and what what why why people talk about it so much why do that but i've seen wind so much well simply because this is the longest colonial question in the world today it is the last remaining colonial question and i'm at least 22 out of countries where freed from west i'm calling it as i'm but palestine remains under israeli it supported western.

colonialism and so because it continues and because it's reflected throughout time in the big refugee camp called gaza where over 2000000 people live under occupation in the west. bank where i'm about 3000000 people live and certainly with another 2000000 people a citizen as a 2nd and 3rd questions so as you see what a city is all in all make up half of the population between the jordan river and imagery and sea meaning the house of the population but israel controls between jews and palestinians but they are the seniors although they make up half of the population they live in the worst of circumstances for decades and decades and decades so the big question today is gaza hamas is that the question or it's not because that is a small glimpse into the bigger picture the refugees who live in gaza today

where citizens who are one of the residents of what now is or says it needs to protect which is a school on bush era and all these southern cities like cleveland rumbler and other cities in the southern part that will palestinians and whose inhabitants to be are refugees next door in gaza so that there's a continuity catastrophe and without resolving this catastrophe i think we're going to see more and more of the same violence ok thank you are there is seen a past contest marwan bashar thank you marwan. want to move on to our other top story we're following developments in india where the prime minister is reassuring people the government is doing everything it can to stop the spread of that 19 there under load his administration has faced heavy criticism for being poorly prepared and allowing large political rallies india's government says 2000000000 vaccines could be available from august but some states are taking matters into their own hands and looking to secure doses from overseas well now genetically

modified mosquitoes are being released for the 1st time in the united states and a controversial new medical project that the florida keys experiment is aimed at reducing the future spread of potentially deadly disease danny gallagher reports from miami some residents and environmental groups and not happy. this is the ada subject time muskie to an invasive species it's made florida home only the females bite and spread disease and in 2009 were responsible for an outbreak of dengue fever that ripped through the florida keys officials say traditional control methods a less effective as the insects build resistance so authorities turn to british biotech firm oxy tech they developed males with a gene that kills female mosquitoes before they reach maturity the males then continue to breed passing the ulta gene on to more females it's a program the company says has been successful in brazil panama and malaysia in

a november 2016 referendum 31 out of 33 monroe county precincts voted in support of our project some overwhelmingly so we like to say because it's true that our miskito has received more support and alexion than any human candidate while the majority of keys residents back the project some have concerns about the long term effects of a new technology you're going to risk our community you're going to ask the people in our community to be sacrificial lambs really because how else are you going to produce your mosquitoes if it weren't for the people in the caves donating their blood. despite some local resistance the pilot project received approval from the environmental protection agency the culmination of a decade long effort by mosquito control of our teas in tackling potentially deadly diseases nothing out there is a silver bullet we're looking to enter great whatever we can into our current

control methods just to make sure that we can suppress that population below disease transmission thresholds. mosquito borne diseases like malaria yellow fever kill over a 1000000 people a year according to the world health organization all this kind of technology is controversial to some it's also being watched closely during the initial stages of this pilot program here in florida around $250000.00 genetically modified male mosquitoes will be released if that proves successful in reducing the female it is to get top population millions more could be introduced and they go across 0 miami florida. recap of the main story this hour israel's bombardment of gaza has intensified with more civilians caught in the crossfire. this was the

moment when the building that houses the interior ministry was attacked no word yet on casualties a multi storey building that had a hamas bank inside was also leveled in a separate strike at least 100 $26.00 palestinians including $31.00 children have now been killed in gaza since the offensive began on monday the hamas and its allies are firing more rockets from inside the territory israeli military says a total of 140 rockets have been launched towards israel so far on friday and most of them were intercepted at least 9 people including a child have died in israel since the conflict ask an al-jazeera sufferer to alcohol loot has more from inside gaza. that i really navy had one of the targets that belonged to the sea forces and shot the refugee come which is one of the most crowded areas also in the truck that if you come in the gaza strip next

door a office here and they had one of the apartments. they were managed to retrieve a cleave one body and the other 10 people. and attacked in the north of gaza through also the indonesian hospital said. 2 but is in another strike in the north of gaza strip meanwhile in the west bank a wave of protests have broken out of the israeli occupation and intensified as strikes on gaza that was standoff between protesters and israeli police and at least 200 different locations police have fired tear gas and there are reports of live ammunition being used at least 11 palestinians were killed i have continuing coverage of developments there in gaza the west bank and israel in the news hour 2100 g.m.t. i'll see then off the fault lines which is next.

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love and. in many ways the presidency of donald trump has been fielding to a moment like this. more than 3 years of dangerous rhetoric. and then he's so this distant from a shand that he laid the groundwork for the idea that if i lose it means that there's been this massive. election cycle dominated by false claims of fraud and theft and a party all too willing to let him do what he wanted. really wasn't any ramifications for it all from doing this and if that's where the republican voters are that's where the republican party's going to go. republican party has become actually a very dangerous party. a dangerous party for governance and frankly

a dangerous party to itself. and this episode of phone lines we look at the attack on the u.s. capitol its aftermath and past but the future of the republican party looks like after trump. in the months after the attack the u.s. capitol remain protected by thousands of national guard members locked away from the public because of a lie that donald trump told his supporters for months they rig this election they rigged it like never rick that election before he repeated this lie on january 6th the day he saw as his last chance to hang on to power when congress was meeting to certify the election and joe biden's victory all of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by a bold and radical left democrats which is what they're doing and stolen by the

fake news media that's what they've done and what they're doing we will never give up we will never concede it doesn't happen don't see them. despite the fact that no widespread fraud was found during the 2020 alexion including by trump's own officials his repeated lies convinced many of his supporters that the election was stolen and we fight the fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country at it so let's walk down the road so that yeah but you i want to thank you all god bless you and god bless america thank you all for this era thank you for. they really believe that they were here to stop the steel people were very emotional and i for one woman was crying as she said you know in fear to take my country back when i said take the country back from move you know she said. you know which democrats republicans you know that you know we're not republicans

so this was very much about showing support for the president and you know very hard believe. on the conspiracy theories and. on the phones claims that the election and they were coming down pennsylvania avenue where you had just come from right there actually coming from all over there were people streaming in from this as well and this this whole area was getting filled up with people inside the capitol a number of republicans were challenging the results of the key state that biden had one building off trumps baseless accusations of fraud what does it say to the nearly half the country that believes this election was rigged if we vote. not even to consider the claims of illegality and fraud in this election. outside the crowd to become more and more agitated pushing to get inside hoping to somehow overturn the election anybody. you know actually make

a choice you have to. write that. you know. we started getting some alerts about the cannon house office building being shut down for a bomb threat our staff also told us hey we might walk down the chamber and you'll be stuck in here for however long and as soon as i came back in the cops started just running around shutting the door slamming the doors. when did you realize that the rioters and entering the building i think it was a little bit after 2 pm when we 1st heard that there was a been a breach what we heard was that they were going to continue with the county electoral college there was a walk down the chamber and it was just going to go on as usual. video captured and posted online by the rioters and compiled by the news organization pro

publica shows the crowd breaking into the building and making their way to the senate. marcelo it's day is not about the good people of arizona. and it was done in a recess until the fall of the. last word was here in the country. we're going to we're going out we're going down the stairs and again it's only a few of us we're going down the stairs and we're already seeing the protests that the rioters come up this is this is where we think we will not ones on our side but with one arm but what are those what what are they going to use this to those things in their hands where you know they should get out. amongst the rioters were members of white nationalist and far right extremist groups others were spurred not only by the former president's allies but internet conspiracy theories like you and i on they were trying to find their way into the senate chamber right the senate in

the house where they were looking for nancy pelosi they were looking for i might add. i went back upstairs and went into the this other hallway where you can oversee the 2nd floor and you can see the the doors of the capitol and there was just a dense crowd of people just pushing against the door and banging and banging and banging until they completely shatter the window. eventually the crowd that 1st entered the building made their way here bringing the other rioters inside. the embassy you want to call. it a little. or no. less than an hour after rioters breached the capitol one of trump's supporters was shot by a capitol police officer as the mob tried to make their way into the house chamber . i was one for above where i should have been shot and i. but i can hear the gunshots at them now and hear the gunshot oh yeah i mean everyone in that chair

because the gunshot and more to the point we heard the cops say you know gunshot guns cops were sort of running around. when they punched through the glass the cops said they were shooting into the chamber. in this video representatives crouched down as police officers attempt to hold back rioters trying to empty the chamber. so when i punched out the glass and i we don't know what they'll use a hammer or a flagpole or something but it really did seem like a gunshot were you worried for your own safety yeah i think. you know it was clear that they had lost control of the situation and the members themselves you could see the fear on them. probably. thought it would be over 3 hours before police officers and eventually the national guard were able to take back control of the capitol. today's events would leave 5 people

dead including a capitol police officer. it tack on account of those jarring and horrifying and shocking all the things that we might say about it but but what caused me to really pause was when congress came back into session after the attack. that night as police continued to secure the grounds congress reconvened to finally certify the presidential election. biden's victory was confirmed but even after what happened that day $147.00 republicans in the house and senate still voted to block the certification i would have assumed after an attack on the capitol and you knew that people had died and just all of the other evidence that was available there that you would have seen republicans in this case sort of unite with the democrats and say yeah but we're putting this behind us and you did see some rip. publicans do that but that was not the universal response from the republicans in

fact you saw quite a few of them decide that they would you know stick to their position sadly but resolutely i object to the electoral votes of my beloved commonwealth of pennsylvania even though it was a terribly discredited and b. had just been linked with something so shocking as an attack on the cap. in the aftermath of the attack questions of accountability loot and one happening that came immediately was impeachment proceedings against trump for his role in inciting the attack. the extremists who attacked the capitol at the president's provocation will be emboldened this cannot be the future of america. we cannot have presidents inciting and mobilizing mob violence against our government and our institutions because they refused to accept the will of the people under the constitution of the united states. the judges that responded

john trunk former president you know states is not to go to is charge in article. though it was the most bipartisan impeachment ever trump was still acquitted for his role in the attack with not enough republicans willing to convict him there hasn't really been that reckoning and where it has been it's been very limited. there is this debate right now about whether the republican party is the republican party or whether it's trumps party and i think that impeachment vote pretty much that was. this is the strongest party. one of the things we wanted to understand in the aftermath of the capitol attack and the republican party's continued acceptance of crop is how the g.o.p. got to this point. without donald trump asking his followers to come to the capital on generate 6 there obviously would have been no riot but in a broad sense although trump did not really come out of the conservative movement

himself he has drawn on a lot of long existing strands in that movement obviously populism is one of those strands obviously nativism and white ethno nationalism are other strands of that as well conservative populism is a kind of force that resurfaces regularly in american political life and donald trump stands in law and of previous upsurge was. one of the most recent strands of extremism before trump was the tea party born in the 1st years of barack obama's presidency and the great recession. their agenda called for fiscal conservatism but was also defined by fierce opposition to immigration as well as health care reform and more broadly the obama administration and i think there's a 4th question why was barack obama the scapegoat and why were still some people really eager to point in his direction. and i think

a lot of that comes back to racism and the feeling is that this person's illegitimate he's not our president he's from kenya whatever i think of a lot of his base racist you saw the leadership of the republican party open up to further right and often more extreme politics and with the rise of the tea party at that point which historically might have been a movement that republican leaders would have kept at arm's length or even opposed you saw a prominent republican leaders appearing at tea party rallies welcoming the tea party agenda into the party. the movement not only brought new politicians to congress less interested in compromise but transformed the party thank you thank you for everything that you guys did your wonderful people got to washington they saw what was required to actually pass legislation and they decided that it would be better actually to prevent bipartisanship and really governing from happening so the tea party led directly to the formation of the house freedom caucus which in

turn became not just a lot of the personnel agency for duncombe's administration but really the origin of some of his most destructive and norm breaking kinds of ideas and concepts so there's a real connection between the tea party's refusal to accept the realities of what governing requires and donald trump's presidency and when trump pushed into republican politics he not only built on the tea party's rightly populism but he used rhetoric that emboldened white supremacist groups by echoing their idiology and resentments and one of the interesting things about the last 4 years is it's not just that he bowled in them to come out from the shadows like what we saw in charlottesville it was more than just that 80 it was a kind of fed almost a mainstreaming. many of their ideologies because trump started talking about them now it's on social media now it's on tucker carlson show or laura ingraham show and it's like a constant narrative what is. and this this group is going to change our

world or this individual is trying to last until everything is anger everything is green and everything is increasingly xs tension. even with trump gone his brand of politics is what remains the fact that in 2020 the republican party didn't even adopt a new platform they basically they said. from better platform and 60 were running on that again and basically the real translation was they were running on. political parties tend to be self-correcting when they do things that leads to their becoming ineffective or losing power in elections they make changes and what donald trump has really done is frozen the republican party in place and made it unable to move beyond his obsessions and his personal leadership. how would you characterize the identity of the republican party right now i think

they're struggling to figure out who they are i think it's still trump's party the new republicans here i think feel very connected to trump that's where their voters are and you see this on their their you know the g.o.p. agenda or that was like cancel culture it's like yelling about dr seuss and like whatever like the cancel of the day is i do not like green eggs and i do not like them sam-i and that's really where the public a party is it is at right now they're not here to do legislation it seems they're here to sort of complain and it's become this cultural war thing it's become quite frankly a litmus test on don't trump if you support donald trump that's what being a conservative means. trump's brand of extremism isn't his alone it can be seen in other members of the party like marjorie taylor green a representative from georgia elected in november green raise controversy for remarks she made before and during her campaign. there is an islamic invasion into

our government offices right now ok and for supporting defunct conspiracy theories about school shootings and harassing a student who survived one you know everything and i know your stuff she was even a believer in q. and a on this we're talking about who is key to someone to tell you what he says according to him many and our government are actively worshipping satan. or they call the law to look at this image it was because of rhetoric and statements like this the republican leaders were pressed to remove crean from committee assignments another test holding a member of their party accountable but they alternately chose not to sing her comments were in the past pushing democrats to make the move themselves. 50. worst nightmare. is that it was intended to do that each one of these ladies with. somebody. and they are. even if you don't mean anything other than

i am metaphorically coming for you and i'm going to push back against your liberal agenda there are ways that you can lay that argument out that doesn't increase the amount of hate mail and threats that that she has been made you know been fairly public about the fact that she faces. i think that that demonization of our opponent the creating of politics has become a tribal blood sport that is so unhealthy for culture everything all day that goes by without outright condemnation from everything a one of her republican colleagues without consequences for her extremist views is an outright endorsement a white supremacy many of the people who attacked this chamber on january 6th you went on flags insignias so give me a break. you know i. i don't know what it's going to take for some here today

and i will just repeat what i said earlier i don't know what the hell happened to the republican party there's simply no question that the republican leadership is afraid of marjorie taylor you know they're afraid of her because they don't know whether that is the future. and if that is the future many of them are willing to go there but we don't know how far they will go toward mollifying toward welcoming these more extreme elements and as long as this is ill defined as long as this is uncertain the republican party is a volatile place the truth of the matter is that right now what it is is a party that wants to get back into power and it wants to get back into power the easiest way possible. part of the path back to power for

republicans has meant returning to a crucial strategy of the former president continuing to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 alexion. around the country republican state legislators have proposed nearly $350.00 bills in the 1st 3 months of this year that would limit voting rights with many being proposed based off the faults claim that there was fraud in the 2020 election and that big law is now being weaponized all across the country to make it harder to vote so the same forces that powered the insurrection and tried to throw out millions of votes they're now trying to accomplish through legislation what they couldn't accomplish through litigation and rioting and mob violence so there's a through line here many of the bills have been proposed in states that joe biden flipped among the main measures in the state bills are moves to limit male voting and act stricter voter id requirements and. cut back early voting donald trump

asked the georgia secretary of state find me a levon 1000 votes well now the lord now the georgia legislature and other legislators are trying to find 11000 votes by suppressing democratic votes things like vote by mail things like early voting these were used by all voters these benefited all voters but there's a perception that it benefited democrats and communities of color more. in washington democrats have proposed legislation that would nullify many of the restrictive state measures and instead expand voting rights and my home state of georgia republican state legislators have unleashed an unprecedented 4 and a voter oppression seems to make it incredibly hard to vote and to thousands our voices especially communities of color the legislation has faced unanimous opposition from republicans this is clearly an effort one party to rewrite the rules of our political system we should be finding ways to rebuild

trust destroyed further. the dutch exactly what a partisan power group would guarantee. and that's what us one. it's all about. how is it a power grab to have early voting or vote by mail or automatic registration when tens of millions of republicans are using these voting methods as well i think this doesn't have to do with election integrity it has to do with a fundamental belief by republicans that they can't compete in a free and fair election and that any democratic victories are going to be illegitimate or perceived by their voters as we won the election twice i mean you know i think that was. as the fight over food is right is taking place trump has continued to push the lie the election was stolen including in his 1st appearance since leaving office and now we have to use republicans to take care of the

election fraud so all of the other things that are happening that shouldn't be allowed to happen in our country it's very simple it's not just trump though other republican politicians have cast doubt on the election weeks after the attack and in the press i asked you a very simple question was the election stolen or not. i think there was a great deal of evidence of fraud and changing of the election laws illegally and i think a thorough investigation is warranted and before republican supporters you know on january the 6th i objected during the electoral college certification if you heard about it last. night. i stood up. and i said i said we ought to have a debate about election integrity rhetoric like this appears to have worked in polls taken since the attack on the capital the majority of republican surveyed say

they believe the election was stolen senator hawley sorry i do you how do you agree with trump continuing to live the election stolen. we want to talk to rip. publicans who cast doubt on the 2020 lection but they didn't respond to our request for an interview there's also a question of if republican leadership could have done more to stop the spread of lies around the election the highest ranking republican in the senate only acknowledged biden's win 6 weeks after the election senator mcconnell do you think it's dangerous for them to continue pushing this idea that there was widespread voter fraud when we know there wasn't. sure but. it's it's a yes or no question it's a simple question actually i guarantee you that mcconnell mccarthy know that the election was not stolen and in various statements at various times they've kind of alluded to that. no comment. but they have not done it and they strong enough

clear and consistent and repetitive way which is what is needed to counteract the perpetual lying that donald trump did for 6 months. more than anything else in the world is to get back to being senate majority leader and clearly he believes that the way to do that is by not being as threatening to the trump supporters at the base of the party as he might otherwise like this election was rigged and the supreme court and other courts didn't want to do anything about. it's not clear how the republican party ever does come back from trump's big lie. the republican leadership has played with fire. and the biggest fire that they're playing with is the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from the republicans as

long as they keep perpetuating that thinking that they're just playing politics they run the risk of creating a very substantial booth people in this country who feel. that they are in as don't trump suggested sort of a life and death situation. now when you play that politics you've got a real risk of no longer than if you laid in the base no longer manipulating your supporters but actually being in a position where you can't turn it off. and the question is will the fire overtake the party will it overtake the country.

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