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The Randi Rhodes Show

Randi Rhodes

Business, Government

4.8772 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2017

⏱️ 116 minutes

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FREE Full Show. Trump's Cabinet Full Of Conflicts; Office Of Government Ethics Writes Letter To Senators:  These Nominees Have Not Been Vetted.

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0:00.0

Hello, it's Randy Rhodes. Here's a clip from our show and go to Randyroads.com for the whole thing and a podcast. Buy a Stinking podcast.

0:07.9

Knock knock. Who's there? It's a segment of your imagination.

0:12.7

Randy Road Show. Okay. Turn up your mind.

0:17.3

Senator, I am worried about the direction of the Department of Justice over the next four years,

0:21.6

specifically on voting rights.

0:23.6

In light of Senator Sessions' history attacking the Voting Rights Act, will you oppose his confirmation?

0:28.6

I'm going to listen to what Jeff Sessions has to say.

0:31.6

I've known Jeff for many, many years, but I have very, very strong concerns.

0:36.6

And I think the issue you raise about the Voting Rights Act and how the Supreme Court a few years

0:43.3

ago gutted the Voting Rights Act and that right now in state after state, Republican states,

0:50.3

what they are doing, this is really kind of unbelievable when you think about it. They're working over time not to expand democracy, not to bring more people into the political process.

1:01.0

They're trying to make it harder for people to vote under the guise of voter fraud.

1:06.0

Thank God in America, voter fraud is very, very rare.

1:10.0

But they're using that argument to make

1:12.4

it harder for poor people, for old people, for people of color to vote. I consider this to be

1:17.7

one of the most significant issues facing our country. Okay? So I will listen very, very carefully

1:25.3

to what Senator Sessions has to say. But I share your concerns.

1:28.3

Thank you.

1:29.3

Okay, thank you.

1:31.3

And of course later on in the town hall meeting with the Bernie, he said, look, they asked

1:36.3

him about a lot of these nominees and he said, I'm trying to be polite.

1:41.3

Because if I said I wasn't going to vote to confirm some of these nominees, then the next

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