Straight Shooter with Stephen A.

Welcome to the latest edition of Straight Shooter with Stephen A. Smith coming at you as I love to do every Wednesday night from 6 to 8 p.m. Eastern standard time over the airways of Sirius XM, POTUS Radio, Channel 124.

It's an uncomfortable day, to say the least. To be quite honest with you, far from an expert on

some of these matters, no doubt there's a strong

level of discomfort that I come to you with on this particular day for this particular show.

Because we learned today that the Supreme Court struck down a voting map in Louisiana

and it's considered to be a devastating blow

to the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965,

which favors the Republican Party.

And I think that at a moment like this, today, remember just a few days ago, I was in the

nation's capital, Washington, D.C. I was at the Washington Hilton when a shooter penetrated

security tried to get into the ballroom inside of the hotel

and they said that he wanted to go after the president, wanted to murder President Trump.

What they didn't say, or at least I didn't hear people saying, was how there were protesters outside, going off about everything from the Epstein files to the war in Iran and various other things that have transpired under this administration and how they considered the media to be complicit in all of it

because the media wasn't putting forth its due diligence and doing its job.

So for a few seconds while we were in that ballroom over the weekend,

many, many of us who all had to duck for cover, literally get on the floor under the table

and stay there because Secret Service was screaming at us to get down and stay down.

While we were in there for a few moments, we thought that a shooter had penetrated, security, gotten into the room,

and was possibly going to engage in a mass shooting, not just aimed the president or the vice president,

but certainly an ordinate amount of media members that were in attendance. I bring that up

because in the aftermath of all of that, we have been told that we need to dial down the

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