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JerryBier's avatar

There are at least 6-8 members of Congress who took part in the J6 insurrection that are still there. Wouldn’t it be good practise to use the 14th Amendment on them and expel them?

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Janice B's avatar

I don’t comprehend why the 14th Amendment would not also apply to them as well🤷‍♀️

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DebbieLama's avatar

Yes, this one bothers me a lot... 😡

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Garret Fitzgerald's avatar

It would be an even better practice for the DOJ to investigate and arrest them if they committed a crime.

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JerryBier's avatar

That too.

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D . O. Olson's avatar

Or more

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Patty Zona's avatar

If Navarro was sentenced to prison for not complying with his subpoena does that mean that Jim Jordan should also be charged for not complying? And why has he gotten away with it for so long?

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Garret Fitzgerald's avatar

And why isn't Steve *the traitor* Bannon sitting in jail right now.

He was convicted 14 months ago.

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Jill Stoner's avatar

As director of a school in Canada in 2020, I began an 'ask me anything' weekly hour online. This was during Covid, and it became a way to stay in touch with how students were coping. Thanks for doing this! Perhaps, say once a month, you could offer 'Ask Me Anything' as a 'live' session?

It would also be great if Biden were to launch a weekly "Ask Me Anything" radio hour over the next several months.

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Julie's avatar

Agreed.

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Judith Feldman's avatar

If I didn't value what you have to say so much, your continuing discourse on Biden's inability to capture the imagination of the American voter and a time for new blood at a time when experience is clearly called, An eternal disregard for the extraordinary job Biden has done, would normally be enough to make me stop listening. Kindly use your learned voice to Educate on that extraordinary job and on the threat that we face. Work to boost Biden's numbers. Perhaps volunteer to the DNC, Along with Rick Wilson and Howard Dean. Jamie Harrison is over his head. We need you guys in this fight. Pls stop chipping away.

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Susan Mackey's avatar

Agree about Jamie Harrison

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Judith Feldman's avatar

I so hope we're wrong. or,that the wave of voters coming out to save this country from a dystopian nightmare, is of biblical proportion.

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Dianne's avatar

Are the MAGA members of Congress who helped plan the January 6 insurrection and those members who aided and abetted the participants of the insurrection ever going to be charged and prosecuted?

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Garret Fitzgerald's avatar

That would be a question for Merrick Garland.

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Dianne's avatar

True. But I know that Steve understands and can explain the political dynamics that must come into play here. Seriously, I have heard nothing in the media of any talk about why they have not been indicted along with TFG.

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Gerald Lewis's avatar

You could throw a marshmallow at almost Merrick and it would pass right through him. Such is the lack of mettle of the man.

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Adrienne Hill's avatar

I keep hearing a lot of the GOP saying Biden already has the authority to fix the problems at the border? Is that true?

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Gordon Hoffman's avatar

60 Minutes has a YouTube video showing where Chinese migrants get through the fence at the US, Mexico border- no one stopping them - looks like no one cares.

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Bronwyn Fryer's avatar

If he shut the border he could call their bluff. It would cause all kinds of further chaos but it might do the trick.

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Garret Fitzgerald's avatar

If he assumes dictatorial powers.

Which he doesn't legally have.

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Deb Kimball's avatar

Great question Adrienne..

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JerryBier's avatar

No. Congress controls the purse strings.

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Lynda Franka's avatar

Jennifer Crumbley, the Michigan mom, was found guilty of 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter. Parents have been begging Congress for serious gun legislation for decades which has fallen on deaf ears. People are fed up. Do you think this is the beginning of a movement to hold parents accountable and are we going to start seeing more of these trials?

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David Sea's avatar

If the '24 election yields a Biden win, but even a ONE GOP House or a ONE GOP Senate majority, could we not see another Trump controlling Congress déjà vu all over again, even if it's from a prison cell?

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Julie's avatar

OMG. I’m just reading through these and yours is pretty much my question, too.

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Dana's avatar

As one of the most articulate, brilliant and honorable people (in my opinion) who warns against the danger associated with another Trump presidency, how do you explain that you have been unable to convince your own family members to support Biden? It makes me feel hopeless.

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Deb Kimball's avatar

Steve, the President has submitted several requests to Congress in the past 3 years for funding to help aspects dealing with the border in which congress denied.. that needs to be mentioned more often and louder... ie GOP has been ignoring Biden's plans to help the border for 3 years! That is barely noted anywhere.. The majority of the country thinks Biden has been ignoring it when in fact, he hasn't..

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Patricia Cortez's avatar

It is clear Prime Minister Netanyahu is an authoritarian and no friend of President Biden and indeed serving Trumps political interests in my opinion. Do you think his intractability over Gaza is will hurt Biden politically enough to lose the Presidency. It is a tough spot to be in for Biden.

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Garret Fitzgerald's avatar

It might.

Biden is doing the right thing though.

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Socorro Muller Sargent's avatar

What people don't understand is that yes, Joe Biden is old. But with age comes a lot of knowledge. There no other person in the U.S. that has the experience, the knowledge and the ability to be the President of the United States. He has about 40 years in the Senate, eight years as Vice President and four year as the actual President. There is no one else with that experience. He is also an honest man, perfect he is not. But, no one is perfect. He stutters some times but also most people don't know that he stutter when he was a boy. He also trips a lot. I am 91 years old and I have tripped all my life. As a young girl and as an older person. Some of us are trippers. And what happened to revere and respect for our elders?

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Debbie's avatar

And, with age, how the hell is Grassley still in office if Biden's age is such an issue....

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Patricia Cortez's avatar

Exactly! Age is only an issue if you are a Democrat. Also only Democrats must be accountable

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Leila Ryland Swain's avatar

Okay - here’s a question that no one has answered (people in news organizations) - how has Steve Bannon managed to stay out of jail for over two years while he is appealing his conviction? There was an appeals hearing in the fall (November) but now it’s February and then it will be 3 years.

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Patricia Cortez's avatar

I have wondered the same thing. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Eric Klein's avatar

Why isn’t Roger Stone indicted for threatening to kill a US congressman?

Why didn’t Merrick Garland indict Mark Meadows? Why isn’t Lindsey Graham indicted for trying to overtime an election with his multiple calls to key states to change their results? Why isn’t there a cry to get a more able Senate leader than Chuck Schumer?

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Eric Klein's avatar

One more, anyone seen Stephen Miller’s SS Nazi uniform?

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Patricia Cortez's avatar

It chills me to think what Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon have planned for Trumps self professed One Day of Dictatorship. Who thinks Trump would limit himself to one day? No person of color or immigrants would be safe. Journalists and anyone Trump perceives as an enemy would not be safe either from his revenge. Indeed the entire world order would be upended. NATO, Ukraine no longer supported.

Trump must not become president. The American people better wake up and vote to retain our democratic form of government. The entire free world is watching and worrying.

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Lisa J. Miller's avatar

Yes they sure are. I have friends in Europe and around the world 🌎 who are watching, worrying and praying 🙏🏻 with us.

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Eric Klein's avatar

Don’t leave out Jews, Muslims, Hindu, Buddhist, Asians and anyone who does not “goose step “ to Trump’s orders. Those orders will simply be the things whispered in his ear by Stone Bannon Flynn and Miller.

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Patricia Cortez's avatar

Yes all these people would be in danger also. Americans are complacent not thinking America could fall into authoritarian rule that would endanger all these groups too.

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Mary Ellen Spicuzza's avatar

I think the overturning of Roe v Wade is cataclysmic. I am amazed and disheartened MSM is not covering it daily (instead of Trump would be nice). I think it is akin to declaring (actual) war on women. I also wonder if we could reverse this bad decision sooner—end this war faster—if we were to abolish the electoral college. I think the electoral college contributes to the slowness of change. I think it is a kind of country-wide gerrymander. Do you think abolishing the electoral college could help women regain reproductive rights?

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RichConx's avatar

Hi Steve,

I am so pleased you added this feature! I have so many questions for you and plan to keep you busy my good man! My first question concerns current poll methodologies, particularly the presidential ones. They seem to be all over the place. For example, the most recent Qunnipiac shows Biden ahead of trump by I believe 7 points while the NBC one shows behind trump by a small handful. I can't really trust any of them. Back in the day, we all had landlines and were more than likely home more often and answer calls. Today, we are much more mobile, distracted and less likely to answer unknown phone calls. We are not as tethered to our homes as much—especially the young 'uns. Plus there are a lot more minority voters today than 20 years ago. How apt or prepared are they to take a random survey call? Can you share with me how the polling researchers have kept up with our current zeitgeist? Thank you. 🙏🏾

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Lisa J. Miller's avatar

Great question!!

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