I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Monday, May 24th.

You know, from time to time, NPR national political correspondent Mara Liason comes on with us,

often to talk about bills

being passed by Congress. Well, today she's here to talk mostly about bills not being passed by

Congress. These include some pretty famous bills, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.

Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of his murder, as you know, President Biden's American Jobs Act and

his American Families Act, and the bill to establish a bipartisan commission to investigate

the roots and events of the January 6th insurrection. Now, before we bring on, Mara, here is

part of a video that she retweeted over the weekend.

It's Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher of Green Bay, Wisconsin, a video he made while

locked in his office in the Capitol on January 6th, in which he pleads with President Trump

to call the insurrectionists off.

We have got to stop this. Mr. President,

you have got to stop this. You are the only person who can call this off. Call it off. The election is over call it off

this is bigger than you

it's bigger than any member of Congress

it is about the United States of America

which is more important

than any politician

call it off

it's over

Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher on call it off. It's over.

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