Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. And today of all days, the election that

denying increasingly radicalized party of the twice in-page disgraced ex-president is

sending a message loud and clear, but it's appetite for, there we say, their delight in

anti-democratic, increasingly dangerous rhetoric. We are talking, of course, about the elevation

of some of the fringiest of the fringe members of the Republican caucus deceits on really

important congressional committees. And when we say that it's happening on today of all

days, that's because today would have been the late congressman Elijah coming, 72nd

birthday, Cummings passed away in 2019, the son of sharecroppers, he who would go on

to become a force of nature in congress and ultimately the chairman of the powerful House

Oversight Committee.

When we're dancing with the angels, the question will be asked, in 2019, what do we do to make

sure we kept our democracy intact? Did we stand on the sidelines and say nothing? There

are efforts to stop people from voting. That's not right. This is not Russia. This is the

United States of America. And I will fight until the death to make sure every citizen,

whether they're green party, whether they're freedom party, whether they're Democrat, whether

they're Republican, whoever has that right to vote. Because it is the essence of our democracy.

What did you do? And now, thanks to shady backroom deals made by now Speaker McCarthy,

the House Oversight Committee, a committee that was the country's north star during some

of the darkest days of the Trump presidency when the late Elijah Cummings held that

gavall. That very committee is not going to feature a rogue's gallery of election deniers,

9-11 truthurs, people whose rap sheets are well known to viewers of this program. Here's

just a taste of some of the low lights. Marjorie Telegreen, who was stripped of her congressional

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