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  • DEFORESTATION.

  • HITTING BACK ON TWITTER SAYING

  • HE IS OVERREACTING FOR POLITICAL

  • REASONS.

  • >> WE ARE COMING TO YOU LIVE

  • FROM THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, MANY

  • VOTES HERE, AS YOU CAN SEE.

  • VERY EFFICIENT WAY TO LEADERSHIP

  • OF THE COUNTRY.

  • >> Sandra: THAT WAS

  • ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, THE

  • DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS WOMAN

  • CATCHING HEAT IN THE HEARTLAND

  • OVER THAT INSTAGRAM VIDEO WHERE

  • SHE IS CALLING THE ELECTORAL

  • COLLEGE OF RACIST SCAM.

  • THIS IS THE FEDERAL JUDGMENT

  • DEALS A MAJOR BLOW TO

  • PROGRESSIVE EFFORTS TO REPLACE

  • THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE WITH A

  • NATIONWIDE POPULAR VOTE.

  • LET'S BRING IN THE FORMER

  • COUNSEL TO THE SENATE JUDICIARY

  • COMMITTEE WHO JOINS US NOW.

  • GOOD MORNING AGREED TO HAVE YOU

  • HERE THIS MORNING.

  • YOU HEARD THE DEMOCRATIC

  • CONGRESSMAN THERE MAKE THAT

  • POINT.

  • WHAT DID YOU THINK?

  • >> I THINK IT IS PART OF A

  • SERIES OF EFFORTS THAT ARE

  • INCREASINGLY POPULAR ON THE

  • PROGRESSIVE LEFT TO GO AFTER THE

  • FUNDAMENTAL PARTS OF OUR

  • CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND

  • DELEGITIMIZE THEM AND USE

  • INFLAMMATORY TERMS.

  • OBVIOUSLY, THERE ARE COMPLICATED

  • BUT SOUND ARGUMENTS FOR THE

  • ELECTORAL COLLEGE WHICH WERE

  • LAID OUT IN "THE FEDERALIST"

  • PAPERS BY OUR FOUNDERS.

  • I THINK THIS SERVES THE COUNTRY

  • WELL FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS,

  • CERTAINLY RECKLESS TO CALL THEM

  • RACIST.

  • IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE THE

  • ELECTORAL SYSTEM, SHE IS FREE TO

  • ADVOCATE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL

  • AMENDMENT TO DO SO BUT THIS KIND

  • OF LANGUAGE IS REALLY, REALLY

  • DESTRUCTIVE COMING FROM A MEMBER

  • OF CONGRESS.

  • >> Sandra: MEANWHILE, EXPAND

  • ON WHAT WE ARE SEEING FROM THIS

  • FEDERAL COURT AS YOU SEE ON THE

  • FoxNews.com HEADLINE

  • UNDERCUTTING PROGRESSIVE EFFORTS

  • TO NULLIFY THE ELECTORAL

  • COLLEGE, WHERE ELECTORS CAN VOTE

  • FREELY.

  • WHAT WAS THE DECISION MADE?

  • >> THIS IS ABOUT FAITHLESS

  • ELECTORS AND THE RIGHT OF

  • MEMBERS OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

  • TO VOTE THEIR CONSCIENCE WHICH

  • IS THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTIONAL

  • DESIGN AND LOTS OF FOLKS ON THE

  • LEFT WHO DON'T LIKE THE SYSTEM

  • HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR WAYS WHERE

  • STATES CAN MAYBE FORCE THE HAND

  • OF THEIR ELECTORS AND THAT IS

  • NOT GOING TO WORK MOST LIKELY.

  • IF YOU WANT TO RESTRUCTURE THE

  • SYSTEM, YOU NEED TO THINK ABOUT

  • USING THE TOOLS THE FOUNDERS

  • GAVE US WHICH IS ARTICLE FIVE OF

  • THE CONSTITUTION AND THE

  • AMENDMENT PROCESS.

  • OBVIOUSLY SPEAKING OUT IN

  • PARTICULAR, THE SENATOR REACTING

  • TO WHAT SHE HEARD THERE, SHE

  • SAID ACTUALLY TWEETING DIRECTLY

  • AT HER, ELIMINATING THE

  • ELECTORAL COLLEGE WOULD SILENCE

  • OUR VOICES HERE IN IOWA

  • AND MANY OTHER STATES ACROSS

  • THE COUNTRY.

  • SHE THEN MADE THE CASE AND THAT

  • TWEAK, THIS IS JUST MORE

  • EVIDENCE OF HOW OUT OF TOUCH THE

  • DEMOCRATS HAVE BECOME.

  • WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF ALL

  • OF THIS IS YOU LOOK AT THE LEGAL

  • ASPECTS OF WHAT IS BEING

  • DISCUSSED AS WE QUICKLY APPROACH

  • 2020?

  • >> IT IS JUST UNFORTUNATE THAT

  • WE SEE THESE TWO SIDES OF THE

  • COUNTRY COMING APART AND THE

  • LEFT CASTING MUCH OF THE FEDERAL

  • STRUCTURE, THE EXISTENCE OF THE

  • SENATE, THE EXISTENCE OF THE

  • FILIBUSTER, THE SEPARATION OF

  • POWER, ALL LEGITIMATE AND ALL

  • PART OF A CONSPIRACY WE NEED TO

  • FIND WAYS TO COME TOGETHER AS A

  • COUNTRY WHICH IS WHAT THAT

  • STRUCTURE IS MEANT TO DO.

  • IT IS MEANT TO CREATE A SYSTEM

  • IN WHICH PEOPLE FROM GREAT

  • CONCENTRATIONS OF WEALTH AND

  • POWER THE CITY OF NEW YORK WHERE

  • CONGRESSWOMAN COMES FROM.

  • IF IT IS MEANT TO MAKE THEM

  • APPEAL TO THE BROAD SWATH OF THE

  • COUNTRY TO RURAL AREAS AS WELL

  • AS URBAN AND HOPEFULLY THE SAME

  • WOULD HAPPEN VICE VERSA.

  • >> Sandra: IT IS BACK AND

  • FORTH IN THE DISCUSSION AND AT

DEFORESTATION.

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