thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it has come to my attention this is friday, which is profoundly excellent news. that makes me all the more happy that you are here, happy friday. thanks for being here. today marks 150 days since president biden has been president biden, sworn into office, january 20th, 150 days ago. in terms of understanding what's happened since then, over the course of these 150 days, there's two things external to president biden's election that have really made all the difference in terms of what's happened since. things that have been defining, determinative for the two sides in our electoral politics. on the republican side, the major determining factor for them is that the former president who joe biden beat in

the election is not only still around. he's agitating among his supporters and among republican elected officials across the country to promote this alternate reality fantasy he didn't really lose his reelection effort. there was something wrong with the election. americans shouldn't believe in the results, and somehow it can all be undone. that is a truly weird thing. i know we've all been cooking in that stew for months now, but never understood how truly weird that is. it's unprecedented in our country to have an ex-president saying the current president is a pretender and must be returned to the white house. it is truly weird. [laughs] i think it's that kind of a worrying effect on the republican party and on republicanism over the course of the 150 days of the biden presidency. that has led to the violent attack on the u.s. capital on january 6th and the aftermath

of that. the elevation of quite insane conspiracies and conservative politics and media including the latest one on the fox news channel this week. it says it was secretly the fbi that attacked the capital on january 6th. those weren't trump supporters that was the fbi. now we know why we didn't see fbi director chris wray and you are in public on january 6th during the attack. he was busy applying his face paint and shining up his helmet horns. i wouldn't have guessed it by the chest hair. you never know. clearly i'm no expert. on that side of american politics and governance on the republican side that has kind of been the determinative thing. this new thing they're trying on where they pretend they are one-term president was the victim of an elaborate hoax election and he's the real president has to be reinstated. anything is justified in the pursuit of that because it's such --

all right. that strangeness external to the election of president biden, that has on the right really shaped these 150 days for the republican party in ways small and weird and large and weird including republicans nationwide concerted efforts since the election to restrict voting rights. because on the pretext of these totally baseless claims there was something wrong with the voting in the last election and we will have more on that in just a moment. that's been in the 150 days since biden is president that dynamic in the republican party and on the right has been the sort of driving force. on the other side, the democratic side, the thing external to the election of president biden that has been determinative, that has set course, for that party over these last hundred 50 days, is something that happened in the first week of january when two democratic u.s. senators were elected in the state of georgia. one john ossoff and raphael

warnock were elected senators for georgia, that i did two senate seats to the democratic side of the column and that made the democratic party not only the party represented in the white house and in control of the house of representatives, statement the democratic party would also control the u.s. senate. their election means that both houses of congress and the presidency are in control, under the leadership of the democratic party. that has been the determinative thing in terms of how democratic politics and the dynamics within that side of the electoral ledger have unfolded over the last 150 days. that's why we have the big covid relief bill. why president biden has his cabinet in place and his first few judges confirmed. unified democratic control of both houses in congress and the white house. it's a precious thing for any party that gets it. president biden has that. democrats have that. and it means in theory democrats can get stuff done. you've got the majority in both

houses of congress and the white house. if they can agree among themselves as to what must be done, if they can coordinate the presidents agenda with pelosi said, with what schumer can move in the senate, democrats should theoretically be able to get stuff done. if there aren't party defections of democrat becoming a republican or unexpected retirements or god forbid deaf sorted to realty illnesses within the democrats the majority they've got this precious thing for two years. two years until the next election where they very well may lose their majority, right? they've got two years 24 months to get stuff done with this precious control of both houses of congress and the white house. it is democrats goal to use that 24 months efficiently to get as much done as possible. on the republican side, if we are honest, it's their goal to us as much of that time as

possible. democrats and president biden can't use the time. they can't get stuff done in this precious 24 months they've got. that's how this works. democrats want to maximize but they can do in 24 months, republicans want to minimize what can be done in 24 months by wasting as much as that time as they possibly can. 24 months. this time, democrats got 23 months. because for the first month of the new congress republican leader mitch mcconnell wouldn't agree to an organizing resolution to set the rules of the senate even though chuck schumer and the democrats became the majority. schumer became the majority leader in the first week of january when those georgia senators were elected but it wasn't until the first week of february republicans in the senate lead the democrats have control. control of the committees, control of the floor, everything a majority leader is supposed to have. mitch mcconnell kept that to

himself. just kept that first month for his own party, while he very, very, very total speed slowly begrudgingly agreed to finally handover the gavel, only after he burned a solid month off the calendar. thanks to that maneuver, which was forgotten about now, democrats actually with this precious period where they've got the majority in both houses of congress and the white house, they don't have 24 months, they have 23 months, because mitch mcconnell stole the first month. they are down to 23. then there's august. on the senate calendar, they don't work in august. what are they, french? this set its official website says the reason the senate takes all of august off is in part -- look. senators can catch up on their

summer reading. for that reason they take off all of august every year and it's on the calendar this, radar slated to take off all of august this year and next year. take those months off the calendar, that gets the democrats from 24 months in theory, down to 23 months. because mcconnell stole their first month from now, and dropped down to more months to 21 because of the august catching up on the reading time. they've got 21 months max to do anything. and it is june! more than four months that they've got our passed by, february, march, april, may, june. they are down to less than 17 months total to do everything they want to do. the next big thing they want to do is infrastructure, which is bottom line not actually coming together.

they have spent weeks now merging in two months now, negotiating with republicans about what republicans want from an infrastructure bill. even though the leader mitch mcconnell promised ahead of time and in public that there won't be republican senate votes for the infrastructure bill, he'd said that out loud in public in advance which should have been a clear thing. he said there will be, and i quote, zero republicans who will vote for the infrastructure bill. but still even though he said that at the beginning of may weeks now drifting into months now there is the democrats talking earnestly with republicans about a thing they definitely will not vote for no matter what. while time passes, while a lot of time seems to be passing. progressive firebrand congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez put a fine point on this problem earlier this month. she said during the obama

administration folks that we have a democratic supermajority for a while. it lasted for months. democrats are burning precious time, negotiating with republicans who won't vote for anything even a january 6th commission. the condos plan is to run out the clock. it's a hustle. we need to move now. yes, it is the role of progressives to push the democratic party's leadership to be more aggressive and more ambitious. that's part of how this is played. in this case the number two democrat in the senate victorian is kind of seeing the same song as representative ocasio-cortez from the washington post. this past week. he says quote i'm very impatient. said schumer's top lieutenant senator dick durbin before the chamber adjourned last week with the calendar quickly evaporating, and my germans count, six scheduled work weeks between now and september. the parties to vote counters said democrats cannot afford to

stomach much more delay. i've seen this movie before, he said. it is called the affordable care act. referring to the lengthy talks over health reform under barack obama. we waited a calendar year for bipartisanship, and it never ever appeared. the amount of time the democrats have to get anything done with these precious majorities they've got, it's already been shrunk. durban says between now in the fall they've only got six work weeks total on the calendar. as john wayne used to say they are burning daylight. it's time to get moving. understandable frustration there, both from vibrant fergus is in the house and from senate democrats in the leadership. understandable frustration and impatience there in terms of how much they want to try and get done and how much time they've got to get it done. massachusetts senator ed markey has an idea for getting it done. he said this week if the infrastructure bill isn't just

negotiated, if it isn't negotiated or voted on and passed and on the president's desk before the august recess this year, their big break to catch up on their summer reading, senator markey says if this thing isn't fast and a dunnville before the august recess, they shouldn't take their august recess. they should just cancel it. and stay at work and get it done. and that would have a practical effect of putting time back on the clock for democrats to use their precious majority to actually do stuff. reading is fundamental i do not want to discourage any senators from getting through their summer reading stacks of got quite a stack myself. but why don't they just plan to give him selves more time to get stuff done? what is more important in that than their jobs? that's what the republicans would do if they had the majority. i don't see that speculate. i say that because we know it for a fact, that is what they did. this is 2018.

>> if you look at the amount of work that we have to do, it's inconceivable to me that we can't use these weeks. we've got this backlog of combinations. just to summit, up we have enough work to do for the american people that we should be here during these weeks. everybody should anticipate that we will be here as i announce today. >> everybody should anticipate we will be here as i announce today. but he had announced that day, was 2018, trump was president, republicans were in control of the senate. when he announced today they were canceled the august recess ivan totally canceled they shortened it. they took a single week off. instead of taking the whole month off. and they did it because they could. because mitch mcconnell and the republicans had the majority in the senate and they wanted to use it to do stuff even if their submarine was we're going to be a little bit neglected. they didn't actually even have

legislation they were working on at the time. they gave themselves time to do it. they gave themselves effectively more power by giving themselves more time at work to use the majority they fought so hard for. before they lost that majority in the next election. why don't >> democrats do that this year. they would give themselves effectively more power and more options. by giving themselves more time at work to do stuff while they have this precious majority that history says they are likely to lose in the next election. and conceivably they could even lose before then. whether your for the democrats decision to spend weeks and months talking to republicans who will never vote for anything, no matter how much talking they do. whether you like that strategy or you don't. even if you think that should chatting with republican senator senators are somehow valuable, why wouldn't you give yourselves more time to do that,

too? even among people who disagree as to what democrats should be prioritizing and doing with their time in the majority. more time to do all of it would help any and all of those priorities. jonathan bernstein has recently been making this case at bloomberg news. you see the headline there, congress should cancel its summer recess. he argues that more time means more options for the majority. he says " additional senate time would be especially valuable for the basic work of confirming biden's executive branch and judicial nominations. there is now an increasing logjam of nominations that have been cleared by senate committees for final actions. it's likely to get worse, with more than 100 nominations still needing committee con situation. the result has been that the confirmation pace has fallen well behind when it was at this point of barack obama's and george w. bush is presidencies. leaving town as currently scheduled for two weeks for the 4th of july, and then another five weeks for august recess without making substantial

progress on that gap would be irresponsible. " sure, but what about the summer reading? i think that's a point well made about nominations. i honestly think that point is hard to argue with. but it also equally applies to the legislation they want to. pass it equally applies to infrastructure, which they have said they want to pass in july. okay, good. try. and if you don't get it then, why not say now that you're going to stay until you do get it done? that's what mcconnell did in 2018 when he didn't even have anything good he was working on. he was just so worried about giving up precious time in power, before he potentially lost his slim majority in the senate, which the republicans did lose in the next election. he said you know what, there's better things we can do then take all of all this off. right now, the democrats haven't even slimmer majority that mcconnell did van. he had a 51, 49 majority.

right now for the democrats, is 50/50 with vice president harris breaking the tie. some elderly democratic senator takes off for all of august, and god forbid, gets a first shot. if, it's hurts. this thing will be huge faster before we get to the midterms. anything could happen. they've got a majority by a thread. why not use the time they've got that's the thing in life to certain? infrastructure is in process. 14 rights is about to be a process, to. the first test vote in the senate is on tuesday. and this is interesting, the anti-corruption group and bipartisan group called represent us, just released a amazing one minute spot today,

basically to try to light a fire under us. light a fire under the country about passing the voting rights bill through the senate. i'm gonna show it to you. but i'll tell you relevant background information for this. the woman in the spot here is the singer katy perry, who is very famous. the man is her partner, the actor orlando bloom. who is also very famous. they also, in real life, this is relevant, have a nine month old daughter whose me name is daisy. you'll see at the end of the spot why that is relevant. with that background for those of us who are a little dumb about these things, here it is. like i said, it's one minute long. and it is set in the year 2055. year 2055 >> let's hope this work. >> we've got to tell them.

[noise] >> you are only hope. america doesn't exist in our future. democracy is dead. we have no voice. there is jim watches our every move. >> voter suppression ran wild all over america. >> the voting rights builds died in the senate. police polling places closed. we lost our right to vote. >> future doesn't have to be. you have the power to change it. save democracy while you can! >> call your senator now. >> the voting rights bills died in the senate. save democracy while you can. that lands with the delicacy of a sledgehammer. but it is very well done.

on katy perry's instagram, which has 123 million followers, you can watch that and then click through to an explainer about the for the people act. the phone number to call your senator. a simple script to use when making your call. it's a good effort, very well organized. but realistically right now, regardless of the amount of public pressure on this thing, it does still seem like there is a brick wall. with more time help? if senator joe manchin is trying doggedly to move republicans to vote for some kind of voting bill, would more time for him to do that help? probably not. would it move any republicans, i don't think, in the end. but with more time trying to do that helped convince him that it's never going to happen? and that there are ways to pass voting rights anyway without republicans. which he should support because he gave it his all. maybe that would help. it would probably help more than senators catching up on their summer reading for the

entirety of august, while they burned off another month off their time holding the majority. pressure is also coming from the states, republican controlled states. where the lack of federal protections for voting rights mean republicans lead right legislators and governors are actively rolling back voting rights in the states. as quickly as they can number the new bill to do. so texas is perhaps foremost among the states. in terms of how aggressive republicans are being with their rollbacks of voting rights. also in the forefront of this, is texans saying they need federal help here. they've been making this public case that checklist texas republicans won't stop any of this. in fact, is likely to get worse and worse as long as they can keep changing the election rules to keep themselves in power. this weekend, sunday afternoon, there's going to be a big rally in texas on the steps of the state capitol in austin, that is effectively beings framed as

a plea to washington. a plea to the united states senate that the senate should pass the for the people act. the federal voting rights act, so states like texas, republicans no longer have the option of stripping voting rights, even further. joining us now is texas state representative trey martinez fischer. he led the walk out of texas house democrats that successfully stalled the last anti voting bill. this week, he another state dems have been on capitol hill meeting with senators and vice president harris to advocate passing this voting rights legislation. representative, thank you for being with us. i appreciate you taking the time. >> happy friday. [laughs] indeed. it has been, i know, a big week. and it's likely to be a big weekend with this capitol steps rally in austin on sunday. let me just ask you where you think you are in the fight? how durable you think the victory is that you already achieved in the legislature, you and your caucus? and how hopeful you are about further progress?

abou fu>> we're at that crucial moment. you have to go hard or go home. america is now talking about voting rights. we need real reform. we need to have a chance. we're holding the line here in texas. we walked out that but that would be forever. republicans are silencing voices all over this country. they started in georgia. they silence voices there. they went on to florida. when they were done in arizona, 40,000 ballots. they came off the voting roles. and if we get silence in texas, republicans will walk all over this country until the democracies is destroyed. so we're going to do it for daisy, just like in the video clip. but we need to do it now, and now is the time. >> when you were in washington. forgive me if i'm wrong, i understand among the people you met with this week was senator joe manchin, who is the one democrat in the senate who is not signed on to support that for the people act. first of all, is that true?

and if so, how did it go? >> yes, i met with senator manchin's chief of staff. his legislative director, for 45 minutes. everybody is telling me about washington standards. it's almost of a lifetime. i'll be very frank, a they couldn't have been more kind. we went through this one blow by blow. all of the compromise points that were released. 24 hour lead, we went through them. what hate them over the head, as they were explaining west virginia lost to me -- i'll be real brief. but in west virginia if you're in a county jail, you get to vote by mail. if you work a shift and, because you work a shift you can't work during the day, you get to vote by mail. during the pad endemic you could vote by mail. we cannot do any of those things in texas. the hurdles are that high. there's so much tripwire on the ground. the voter discrimination in texas is not accidental, it's intentional. and that's why we need national reform. >> let me ask you about another

texas specific part of this. it seems like, looking from the outside, that in anger, texas republican governor greg abbott has decided to effectively defund the legislature? to defund the people who work in the legislature? support staff, as punishment for you and your colleagues having walked out to stop the anti voting bill? is that actually what is happening? am i reading correctly what he did today? >> you are reading that correctly. i mean, obviously the governor needs a civics lesson. you're not going to hurt me. mike sellers protected by the texas constitution. it's not a lot of money, i don't do a lot of money. he's got hard merck working men and women. in fact, were the -- which again is another big front on the attack on voting rights. i mean, he's proving our point. that this is really kind of shan governance. if you ask me, these are the kind of shams you do when you are not as cool as governor desantis. what he really needs to focus on is doing the work himself.

all of this notion of building a wall, defunding the legislature, all these things he is doing when we are not in town, he should be doing it when we are there. if he has the bravado to pass that kind of legislation, why don't you try it when we're all at work in austin? but you know, listen, he wants to play what we call piñata politics here, where he just wants to swing at everything. but i think the people of texas know better. but he is exhibit a as so why we need national voting rights so that we can deal with governors and beliefs like governor abbott. >> democratic texas state representative trey martinez fischer. good luck this weekend with the austin event. come back anytime. i know this fight is joined and it will not be a short one. come back and keep us apprized, sir. >> thank you, rachel. >> we've got much more to get to this friday night. stay with us.

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just watch this. r, anywhere. >> we hear advocate advocating for mister strickland's freedom and his conviction should be vacated. most importantly though that i'm advocating that this manned must be freed immediately. my job is to protect the innocent. and often prosecutors show hubris, right? you've probably seen me show some of that from time to time. and today my job is to apologize. it is important to recognize when the system has made wrongs. and what we did in this case was wrong. so, to mr. strickland, i am profoundly sorry. i am profoundly sorry for the harm that has come to you. it is not, however, just mister

strickland that i owe an apology to. it is to the victims families in this case. i suppose that i can stop there. but harms like this, extend beyond criminal defendants and those with the title a victim. it goes to the broader community. and to that end, i want to tell this community that i represent that i find this mistake in this system to be profound. to be one that i should take every ounce of energy that i have to correct. i am sorry for this mistake made by the system. >> i find this mistake and this system to be found. one that should take of enter every ounce of energy i have to correct. that is the prosecutor. the head of the prosecutors office in jackson, missouri.

her name is jeanne peters bakers. the man she apologized to directly in that statement is named kevin strickland. he has been in prison for over 40 years in missouri, since he was 18 years old. but the speaker's office, which prosecuted him in that case, they have determined that he didn't do it. that he shouldn't have been prosecuted. it wasn't him. the case against him was based primarily on a single witness who recanted her testimony. who says it wasn't him. she sought desperately to have him released. two other men convicted in conjunction with a crime also say he did not do it. the prosecutors own formal review of the case found that that case was brought against him in profound error. we've reported on this case a few times in the last few weeks. closely following reporting from the kansas city star. what is actually astonishing to me though is that this story is still out there now for us to still be talking about it. that remarkable press conference by the prosecutor,

jane peters baker's, that was 39 days ago. that was me tenth. he's still in jail. our justice system is adversarial. there's a prosecuting side and there's a defense side and the fight it out. in this case the, it's not the defense it's the prosecuting side saying wow, know there is good no case here. we were wrong. he needs to be freed. and seeing it in profound and moving and earnest terms. 39 days ago. you heard that prosecutor there. no action, kevin's traction, still in prison right now. how is this possible? joining us now is jane peters baker. she is head of the jackson county prosecutor's office. miss baker, thank you so much for joining us tonight. have really been looking forward for to the chance for looking for talking to you. >> thank you for having. me >> i assume that that statement that you gave on may 10th was something very pro profoundly different than other public statements you've had to make in the years as a public servant. i imagine that must have been

hard to do and must have been something that stuck with you? >> it's a humbling job. many days in this job are humbling. but this is just simply the right thing to do. and it continues to be a failure as i sit here right now talking to you, that kevin strickland remains in jail tonight. it's another wrong. and i intend to do everything i can in my power to make sure it's corrected. >> the missouri sick cream court did not act on his case. the governor, governor mike parson of missouri, has made very clear that he's in no rush to do right by mr. strickland. he does not see this as a priority. how do you think this ends ultimately? do you think that the governor ultimately will free him? or will there have to be some different path here? >> the governor has that power and he issued 36 pardons very recently. most of those people were

already out of prison. however, i think mr. strickland is rightly in that category of someone who is deserving of that kind of government action by our governor. now, it may not happen. looking into the feature future, i can't see what's gonna happen here. but what the governor also has the ability to do is sign a bill into law that would give me the power to at least go to a local judge and say, judge we made a mistake. and i want -- i'm asking you judge to hear the evidence and give >> a remedy. that deal has been sitting on the governor's desk without any action by him thus far. isn't that true? >> that's right. but i do expect that will become law, and i do expect on its effective date of august

28th at 9 am, i will act. the first moment i have a moment to act. >> i know from statements from your office you have had the opportunity to meet with the victims families from this crime, this triple murder from which mr. strickland was wrongfully convicted to talk with them about the profound effect that this has to have on them in terms of closure and piece over the loss of loved ones. even the family of the woman who was a witness in this case recanted her testimony, wants to see mr. strickland cleared. she was a victim in that crime. was injured in that crime. can you tell me anything -- respecting their privacy -- can you tell me how the victims families and her family felt about this dramatic turn in this case? we >> i shouldn't be surprised. i've been at this job a while, so victims have constantly

given me great heart and it's really an honor to represent them in the system that i have. but these victims, i guess i hoped 43 years would mend more wounds. and it's just another reminder to me that this type of injury doesn't get mended. it's when you learn to live with and you learn to go on and the harm is always right there. and each one of the victims i met with, several sisters, brothers, a mom, all reported the same. that this is a harm they live with to this day. >> jeanne peters baker, had prosecutor the jackson county missouri prosecutors office, leading this profound effort to reverse what was iran conviction to free a man who's

done 43 years in prison for a crime that's now believe he did not commit. miss baker, thank you for your time tonight. i know you mentioned the date august 28th, nothing else happens. you have new powers to address on that date. keep a surprise. our audience cares about the story as to why. we'd love to stay up to date on what's happening. >> we will fight for him. >> thank you so much. we will be right back. we will be right back. ♪presence of a legend♪ ♪stand up♪ ♪when you're standing in the presence♪ ♪of a legend♪ ♪stand up♪ ♪when you're standing in the presence♪ ♪of a woman that's done done it way before your♪ ♪legs were walkin' let your actions do the talkin'♪ ♪you better stand, stand, stand, stand up♪

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