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this being a republican state convention in the age of republican candidates under donald trump. the event ended up with infighting and disputes and dysfunction. delegates ultimately decided to endorse the trumpiest most extreme candidate but the other candidate says he will still run in the summer's republican primary. all of that chaos was bucking all the the áf news. something slightly nuttier than that happened. they decided they would craft their public platform after dealing with the gubernatorial nomination. they decided they would add something new. as the washington state republican party they would this year take a stand against democracy. and i do not mean this as a met fore. metaphor. >> we do not want to be a democracy. originally congressmen were elected by a direct democracy. senators were elected by state legislature and presidents are elected by the electoral college. we are devolving into a a democracy. with the national popular vote coming, we're going to be voting our president by a democracy too. bad idea. >> bad idea. we are devolving into a democracy. we d
this being a republican state convention in the age of republican candidates under donald trump. the event ended up with infighting and disputes and dysfunction. delegates ultimately decided to endorse the trumpiest most extreme candidate but the other candidate says he will still run in the summer's republican primary. all of that chaos was bucking all the the áf news. something slightly nuttier than that happened. they decided they would craft their public platform after dealing with the...
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hm republicans ran mehmet oz, dr. oz for that seat in ra pennsylvania and democrats needled him relentlessly about a the fact he kind of lived in ne jersey. so what's he doing running in pennsylvania.ia this time, they're running a guy who lives in connecticut.he to try to maybe head off the same thing happening again, likb what happened with dr. mehmet ap oz, they have developed a back story for their candidate this time around who lives in ei connecticut. they have decided he's going to describe himself as someone who started with nothing, who grew up on a family farm in pennsylvania.ia did he start with nothing? did he grow up on a family farm in pennsylvania? what do you think? quote, mr. mccormick has explicitly said that he grew upr on a farm. he claimed that he had, quote, started with nothing and that he, quote, didn't have anything. he and his campaign have recently described his parents as school teachers. in fact, mr. mccormick is the son of a well regarded college president who later became re chancellor o
hm republicans ran mehmet oz, dr. oz for that seat in ra pennsylvania and democrats needled him relentlessly about a the fact he kind of lived in ne jersey. so what's he doing running in pennsylvania.ia this time, they're running a guy who lives in connecticut.he to try to maybe head off the same thing happening again, likb what happened with dr. mehmet ap oz, they have developed a back story for their candidate this time around who lives in ei connecticut. they have decided he's going to...
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the problem is on the republican side. two republicans. out of 217. believe that it's urgent at this moment to put the bipartisan national security bill on the floor so we can provide support for ukraine, israel, japan, south korea, taiwan, and humanitarian assistance to people who are struggling throughout the world. two republicans. the problem is not on the democratic side. and just a handful of republicans, 20 or 25 at most, were willing to join house democrats, we can do what's necessary to protect america's national security needs. reporter: thank you. it sounds like speaker johnson, in order to win over some of those conservative critics, is looking at a plan to shrink the re-authorization window from five years to two years. is that something the democrats cowl support? mr. jeffries: i need to have a conversation with jim hymes as well as the democrat -- jim hymes as well as the democrats on the committee who have been close toast this issue, as well as chairman meeks of the foreign afairks soon to be chairman meeks of the foreign affairs comm
the problem is on the republican side. two republicans. out of 217. believe that it's urgent at this moment to put the bipartisan national security bill on the floor so we can provide support for ukraine, israel, japan, south korea, taiwan, and humanitarian assistance to people who are struggling throughout the world. two republicans. the problem is not on the democratic side. and just a handful of republicans, 20 or 25 at most, were willing to join house democrats, we can do what's necessary...
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last week, two top house republicans warned that pro- russian propaganda had infiltrated the republican party, and was being repeated by republican members of congress in debates about ukraine. earlier this week, marjorie taylor greene parroted vladimir putin's central life, justifying his invasion of ukraine by calling the ukrainian government nazis. ukraine, for the record, is the only nation in the world, other than israel, to have a jewish head of state, zelenskyy. but marjorie taylor greene wants to blockade to that country because she says it is run by nazis. so who knows where this vote on ukraine aid will be? republicans could vote to remove speaker johnson and once again through the house of representatives, and therefore much of our american government, again into chaos, something that would directly serve russia's ends. and maybe that is the whole point. joining me now is senator chris murphy, democrat from connecticut. he is a member of the senate appropriations committee and the senate foreign relations committee. senator murphy, it's great to see you. thank you so much for
last week, two top house republicans warned that pro- russian propaganda had infiltrated the republican party, and was being repeated by republican members of congress in debates about ukraine. earlier this week, marjorie taylor greene parroted vladimir putin's central life, justifying his invasion of ukraine by calling the ukrainian government nazis. ukraine, for the record, is the only nation in the world, other than israel, to have a jewish head of state, zelenskyy. but marjorie taylor...
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want it he was going to use it for his republicans that the republicans shouldn't push it. but you know what, mayorkas said what he said because that's what he has to work with. republicans do not wants to win the border crisis they want to use it as a campaign. and that's for trump. now, the republicans know trump is going to be convicted and they're doing everything they can to push it on biden for everything that's going wrong in this country. biden is out there doing his best for everyone. republicans and democrats. and it's a shame that it was a circus today with the republicans. especially at the end when that man ranted two hours after it was adjourned and just kept on going. thank you for listening to me. >> senator mike lee was the republican senator from utah. .... we'll continue doing their jobs to keep america's safe pursue actual solutions at the border and congressional republicans should join them instead of wasting time on baseless political stunts while killing a real bipartisan border security reform. priscilla alvarez tweeting that statement out at the wh
want it he was going to use it for his republicans that the republicans shouldn't push it. but you know what, mayorkas said what he said because that's what he has to work with. republicans do not wants to win the border crisis they want to use it as a campaign. and that's for trump. now, the republicans know trump is going to be convicted and they're doing everything they can to push it on biden for everything that's going wrong in this country. biden is out there doing his best for everyone....
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republicans and democrats. and it's a shame that it was a circus today with the republicans. especially at the end when that man ranted two hours after it was adjourned and just kept on going. thank you for listening to me.
republicans and democrats. and it's a shame that it was a circus today with the republicans. especially at the end when that man ranted two hours after it was adjourned and just kept on going. thank you for listening to me.
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democrats wanted to give the extension, republicans said no. i tend to go with republicans. so many out there don't want to work and just want a handout. student loans taken care of. is that why younger people tend to go more democrat? guest: that is a tough question. what is interesting about our data is that people assume that this has always been the case, that young people identify with the democratic party. we have data from 1999 showing virtually no age difference at all across generations in terms of their party identification. this started in the 2005, 2008, started with president barack obama to some degree, before that with the kerry-bush race. now pretty established in the last 15 years where younger people are strongly on the democratic side. host: here is a subset that you offer among young people, men and women. guest: same differences among voters that you see overall with age groups. we don't see much difference. there has been some suggestion that young men might be tilting a little bit to the republican party. we don't see that much in our data. the same ge
democrats wanted to give the extension, republicans said no. i tend to go with republicans. so many out there don't want to work and just want a handout. student loans taken care of. is that why younger people tend to go more democrat? guest: that is a tough question. what is interesting about our data is that people assume that this has always been the case, that young people identify with the democratic party. we have data from 1999 showing virtually no age difference at all across...
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anybody who's never trump is not a republican anymore. they've already been baked in, people know, bill crystal and others, which is much more interesting right now is that younger people and african americans and latin. uh, latinos are looking at trump differently because they're seeing the chaos of buying . remember when you're rid of in chair like bad news, you can blame for everything. that's just the way it works. you can say, oh, i wish it trump was, then you would have done this or that of the other thing. i think it's much more important for people to realize, no matter what divided restrictions as about jobs or the economy. the american people feel like we're in the wrong direction. that's an opening for truck. but we know we pull the countries divide, it is 645 percent, 140 board members and the other, the 10 percent in the middle. probably less than that. swapping around there. not a lot of movement in there, and it's only in 7 or 8 states. but if you're reading and you watch the flow it's, it's a trump election cycle right now
anybody who's never trump is not a republican anymore. they've already been baked in, people know, bill crystal and others, which is much more interesting right now is that younger people and african americans and latin. uh, latinos are looking at trump differently because they're seeing the chaos of buying . remember when you're rid of in chair like bad news, you can blame for everything. that's just the way it works. you can say, oh, i wish it trump was, then you would have done this or that...
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>> the republican leader is recognized. we'll call the roll. >> claire mccaskill, let me go to you about what we're seeing right now, now that we have heard from majority leader schumer. >> interesting. there was an agreement obviously that he tried to put forward, and we had one grand stander, unfortunately, from my state, who said, no, i'm going to object. the leader of the senate offered up 2.5 hours of debate and 15 different resolutions, including two at the beginning to cruz and to lee, and then a number of more resolutions that could have been offered on the first article of impeachment and then one on the final article of impeachment. but, you know, everybody's looking for their moment of performative politics to raise money off of, and the senator from missouri grabbed one. i think he's competing with josh hawley to see if he can be better at performative politics, and that's quite a race between the two of them. so now after he objected to the agreement, then what schumer did is say, okay, let's do a point of orde
>> the republican leader is recognized. we'll call the roll. >> claire mccaskill, let me go to you about what we're seeing right now, now that we have heard from majority leader schumer. >> interesting. there was an agreement obviously that he tried to put forward, and we had one grand stander, unfortunately, from my state, who said, no, i'm going to object. the leader of the senate offered up 2.5 hours of debate and 15 different resolutions, including two at the beginning to...
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registered voters who are military veterans, 63% say they are republican or lead republican versus 35% say they are democrat or lean democrat. breaks down from there. fill in the blanks. guest: the veteran population, for years and years, have been more republican leaning. no question about that. also getting smaller with a number of americans actually serving in the military, declined over the years, but still an important population, remains pretty solidly republican. host: let's go to scott in utah. democrats line. caller: hello. i think i have a pretty good theory about why people change parties. both my grandparents were democrats because they were hard-working middle-class people. one was a farmer, the other is a worker. to me, when it shifted, was when the gay people, minorities started to get more power. those hats say, the magas want to make america great again to make america white again. they cannot accept these changes happening in society. they are both really voting against themselves. the republicans are still for the big corporations, democrats are for the small man. i
registered voters who are military veterans, 63% say they are republican or lead republican versus 35% say they are democrat or lean democrat. breaks down from there. fill in the blanks. guest: the veteran population, for years and years, have been more republican leaning. no question about that. also getting smaller with a number of americans actually serving in the military, declined over the years, but still an important population, remains pretty solidly republican. host: let's go to scott...
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caucus is broken on capitol hill and senate republicans are trying to work with house republicans to get basic bills passed for example aid to ukraine, aid to israel, and spending for border control. so they're part of this is just institutional respect part of it is also party building there's a sense that the centers don't want to barris fellow republicans from the house so the challenge for these senators is how do you pay respect to their grievances? without forcing the senate to delay work on other priorities for a trial that everybody in the senate knows will result in an equivalent just to remind everybody and kind of set the scene right now right now, the senators are on the floor trying to figure out how to move forward because the senate majority leader, chuck schumer presented some options senator eric schmidt from missouri objected to it, and now that we know that some republicans did want that agreement because they want their time to seek amendments. they want their time to talk on the floor. they want to present their arguments. they want the debate. but right now, the
caucus is broken on capitol hill and senate republicans are trying to work with house republicans to get basic bills passed for example aid to ukraine, aid to israel, and spending for border control. so they're part of this is just institutional respect part of it is also party building there's a sense that the centers don't want to barris fellow republicans from the house so the challenge for these senators is how do you pay respect to their grievances? without forcing the senate to delay work...
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host: wanda on the republican -- anthony on the republican line in pennsylvania. good morning. caller: i would like to comment. host: on the mayorkas impeachment? caller: yes. in the words of president roosevelt, a day which will live in infamy fits the narrative on this case. that is what i have to say. host: and why do you feel that way, anthony? caller: if you can lie to congress multiple times, like mayorkas did come and get away with it, others no -- mayorkas did, and get away with it, there's no -- in other words, there's no reason to be impeached again. nobody will be impeached. host: let's hear from bill in newburgh, new york, independent. good morning. caller: i just want to comment on the previous caller from north carolina saying the military does not cook their own food. that is not true. they certainly do. we learn how to wash our own close in the marine corps by hand with scrub brushes, so he's not accurate. i don't know what branches of service he was in but the social service does not count. mayorkas lied to the american people, saying that the border was closed
host: wanda on the republican -- anthony on the republican line in pennsylvania. good morning. caller: i would like to comment. host: on the mayorkas impeachment? caller: yes. in the words of president roosevelt, a day which will live in infamy fits the narrative on this case. that is what i have to say. host: and why do you feel that way, anthony? caller: if you can lie to congress multiple times, like mayorkas did come and get away with it, others no -- mayorkas did, and get away with it,...
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henrietta in florida, republican. do you agree with the 19 republicans yesterday? caller: i agree voting against it. i was there. i lived in west newark, new jersey, and i voted for this twice. i was on board with giving the alphabet agencies all the power they needed in order to protect us, and with the daily with it -- and what did they do with it? despite honest. despite on political opponents, they spied on whoever the hell they wanted. some of these alphabet agencies actually looked at their backgrounds, their family background, this is the reason, and god forbid anything happens and congress takes us away from them. it is their fault, not anyone else's, not congress', they abused the power we gave them. we are taking it back, and unless they behave themselves, which they haven't for the past 22 years, they have lied, obfuscated, they have done everything to enhance their own power and leave us pretty much on the backend of this. host: can i ask, you heard from the speaker, mike johnson, republican, saying that there are 53 reforms in this legislation. do you
henrietta in florida, republican. do you agree with the 19 republicans yesterday? caller: i agree voting against it. i was there. i lived in west newark, new jersey, and i voted for this twice. i was on board with giving the alphabet agencies all the power they needed in order to protect us, and with the daily with it -- and what did they do with it? despite honest. despite on political opponents, they spied on whoever the hell they wanted. some of these alphabet agencies actually looked at...
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republicans can only lose two both on partyline issues about drops to one when another republican leaser caucus in a few weeks. that is where the story tonight is not just about politics. it is also about democracy and what the people actually want and said they want the recent elections. the whole reason republicans are weaker in the house is because so many voters oppose their agenda. we talk about the politics, the personalities, mtg and all of that so much we actually forget why this matters. while we learn who these people are and follow what they do. it is because they won elections, some of them. some of them have watched the country go against their party. the public opposes this current republican agenda, especially on women's rights and coddling trumps extremism, which is well documented. we all remember the republican pistol in the midterms. had the republicans simply generated the usual swing you get after a presidential race like that, most historical trends show they would have a 25 feet edge. none of this will be talking -- happening right now. yet this is what is interest
republicans can only lose two both on partyline issues about drops to one when another republican leaser caucus in a few weeks. that is where the story tonight is not just about politics. it is also about democracy and what the people actually want and said they want the recent elections. the whole reason republicans are weaker in the house is because so many voters oppose their agenda. we talk about the politics, the personalities, mtg and all of that so much we actually forget why this...
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but by the way, we observe here that , nevertheless, among the republicans, the support of mr. kenmick , it is greater than divided, and more support his amendment, but less with the fact that we understand that it will not pass, it will not pass, we are all democrats. vote against, the republicans are two/thirds in favor, but one third are against, so it is clear that in fact 60% of the house of representatives will vote against this amendment, well, it is interesting that it can be removed your amendment, if you understand that it does not pass, that it does not pass, that you understand the mood of your colleague by one of your amendments, you do not bother them. and again , someone would definitely be scratching their heads, right, vote, vote, yes, here we see the situation, well, 260, even more, 200, almost 300 votes will be against this amendment, so it also does not pass in the you see, unfortunately, we do not know the text of these amendments, it would be interesting to know them so that we understand in general what the democrats can support in such in such a quantity
but by the way, we observe here that , nevertheless, among the republicans, the support of mr. kenmick , it is greater than divided, and more support his amendment, but less with the fact that we understand that it will not pass, it will not pass, we are all democrats. vote against, the republicans are two/thirds in favor, but one third are against, so it is clear that in fact 60% of the house of representatives will vote against this amendment, well, it is interesting that it can be removed...
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there were six republicans, seven republicans who voted to convict. and, they are all friends together. everybody in the caucus. so they know who came up to them privately and said oh man, i wish i could do that, what you did. and some of them report conversations like well, you could have. and they said no i couldn't have. and they explain whatever it is. the fear, the physical fear. fear for their families or their careers. people who are honest say i come from x state. if i vote to convict this guy for fomenting the insurrection, i will lose my job. and you are just going to get another trumpy. yeah. you will get somebody. >> you will get the qanon shaman. >> you will get the shaman. it is a reasonable observation. it is not convincing. >> they are propping up whatever shreds of principle the republican party has. what does that mean? on every policy issue, immigration deals that were basically republican gimmies. funding for ukraine which would have been like, just no thought required, you know, ten years ago. >> as a republican policy. >> they ar
there were six republicans, seven republicans who voted to convict. and, they are all friends together. everybody in the caucus. so they know who came up to them privately and said oh man, i wish i could do that, what you did. and some of them report conversations like well, you could have. and they said no i couldn't have. and they explain whatever it is. the fear, the physical fear. fear for their families or their careers. people who are honest say i come from x state. if i vote to convict...
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robert next up in indiana, republican line. hello. caller: good morning. i'm a reagan republican. i am not part of the kremlin part of the republican party. but i hear so-called patriots that really don't believe in the constitution, evidently, because trump being tried in new york is part of the constitution. we have an amendment, the sixth amendment, that is 230 years old, that says that the jury is to be chosen from the state and the district where the crime is committed. so, you know, the republican has got to get back to obeying the law. we got to get back to the basics of the constitutions. -- the basics of the constitution. the sooner we put trump to the history pages, the sooner we get our party turned around and get back to conservative republican party. the reagan part of this party still believes that russia is our enemy. and, you know, if you've got someone putting it to your enemy, you want to give them all the tools they need to do it. russia just sent a ship toward the middle east. that ship has to go through the black sea. they desperately need the black sea. that
robert next up in indiana, republican line. hello. caller: good morning. i'm a reagan republican. i am not part of the kremlin part of the republican party. but i hear so-called patriots that really don't believe in the constitution, evidently, because trump being tried in new york is part of the constitution. we have an amendment, the sixth amendment, that is 230 years old, that says that the jury is to be chosen from the state and the district where the crime is committed. so, you know, the...
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okay, this isiz a layoffly republican seat, but if you are a republican voter in arizona state who maybe doesn't want to bewh related by a capitol riote like anthony kern, there are other options because also running in that primary is blake masters, the election denying unabomber praising candid publicly humiliated in his 2022 bid to be a senator from arizona. but if you are not a blake masters fan you can also vote foryo this man. abe homaday. he is also an election denier and he too lost that race. he was edged out by democrat chris hayes. hamadeeh denied the results of that election because that is what republicans do when they lose and ended up getting sanctioned by the arizona supreme court. so a b lot of election deniers choose for in the republican primary for arizona's eighth district this year. if you like thehi election deni and just don't like the party, there's still another option. libertarian jacob chansle ych if his nameyc sounds familiar he's the qanontia mon, a man who launched a million screen shots as a fur clad capitol rioter. that is what electoral politics looks li
okay, this isiz a layoffly republican seat, but if you are a republican voter in arizona state who maybe doesn't want to bewh related by a capitol riote like anthony kern, there are other options because also running in that primary is blake masters, the election denying unabomber praising candid publicly humiliated in his 2022 bid to be a senator from arizona. but if you are not a blake masters fan you can also vote foryo this man. abe homaday. he is also an election denier and he too lost...
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i'm not so sure that bill clinton is particularly persuasive to republicans, or never trump republicans, per se. i think bill clinton getting try it out is really about what john says. really about showing up the establishment, terry and base right to jump button as a real tough roto going into november. i'm not the donald trump doesn't, but uh, but in terms of making sure that he can appeal to both the very progressive wing and other folks in michigan and wisconsin or minnesota, who are concerned about uh, you know, jo biden's policies towards this real, all the same time assuaging the more moderate to more pragmatic of the segments of the democratic party of the old school, the establishment, terry, against the corporatist. so i think you laid out really well how, how are the, you know, the clinton gore era ushered in the new democratic era. so i think it's less about going after the soccer. busy the never trump republicans really about making sure that they show up the widest cross section of the democratic, basically in the november. well, and in this case you actually have a power
i'm not so sure that bill clinton is particularly persuasive to republicans, or never trump republicans, per se. i think bill clinton getting try it out is really about what john says. really about showing up the establishment, terry and base right to jump button as a real tough roto going into november. i'm not the donald trump doesn't, but uh, but in terms of making sure that he can appeal to both the very progressive wing and other folks in michigan and wisconsin or minnesota, who are...
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republican party is a lost cause. the democratic party is weak and they should stand up right now, but they won't. maybe it's because they're too old, i don't know, but right now, i don't know the difference between the republican party and the democratic party because i'm watching a genocide take place right before my eyes and we're doing nothing. >> okay. mary there in maryland. when it comes to the assessment of not only the republican conference, but the speaker's performance, it was the house democratic leader hakeem jeffries talking about the speaker of johnson in light of efforts to pass a bill on ukraine. here is some of that from yesterday. >> now, i made the observation, not a declaration, the observation that if the speaker were to do the right thing and allow the house to work its will with an up and down vote on the national security bill, that i believe that there are reasonable number of democrats who would not want to see the speaker fall as a result of doing the right thing. observation, not a declara
republican party is a lost cause. the democratic party is weak and they should stand up right now, but they won't. maybe it's because they're too old, i don't know, but right now, i don't know the difference between the republican party and the democratic party because i'm watching a genocide take place right before my eyes and we're doing nothing. >> okay. mary there in maryland. when it comes to the assessment of not only the republican conference, but the speaker's performance, it was...
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republicans in d.c. are more resigned than excited. we have a better opportunity to win those voters that were present in a three-way contest. in nevada, the senate editor wrote a great ratings article moving the race to a tossup and republicans are bullish on their candidate sam brown who is likely to win the primary to face jacky rosen. nevada is a very trendy state. a lot of the electorate is new. jacky rosen is not a well-established brand in nevada. the harry reid machine got one across the line but pulling shows -- pulled out -- polling -- casey is and an open seat in michigan where republicans like their front runner candidate mike rogers a lot. there are many possible routes to a senate majority. the main question is, what is the republican margin because if it goes from 51-41, the swing votes go from kyrsten sinema to joe manchin to perhaps susan collins who are functionally more like independence. if republicans win a majority, then donald trump if elected would have much more leeway to confirm cabinet appointees and pass an
republicans in d.c. are more resigned than excited. we have a better opportunity to win those voters that were present in a three-way contest. in nevada, the senate editor wrote a great ratings article moving the race to a tossup and republicans are bullish on their candidate sam brown who is likely to win the primary to face jacky rosen. nevada is a very trendy state. a lot of the electorate is new. jacky rosen is not a well-established brand in nevada. the harry reid machine got one across...
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republicans. over and over again. when the legal process is so backed up that it takes decades for legal residents to get their children into the country. when employers simply can't get the workers that they need to hire approved because there is a backlog of two million people who haven't been processed, or when we have so few immigration judges that asylum seeks wait for over eight years to get their cases heard? mr. nadler: i yield another 30 seconds. ms. jayapal: when people wait, asylum seekers wait over eight years to get their cases heard, yeah, people turn to unscrupulous actors, including cartels, who promise them they can get in by opening the bo border. the only people talking about the open border and encouraging people to come across the border are republicans who continue to put that message out there. are we looking for solutions, mr. speaker? no, we are here debate ago bill that has no chance of becoming law and is an empty messaging bill that does absolutely nothing to reform our outdated immigration
republicans. over and over again. when the legal process is so backed up that it takes decades for legal residents to get their children into the country. when employers simply can't get the workers that they need to hire approved because there is a backlog of two million people who haven't been processed, or when we have so few immigration judges that asylum seeks wait for over eight years to get their cases heard? mr. nadler: i yield another 30 seconds. ms. jayapal: when people wait, asylum...
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republicans. and trying to run a functioning congress that isn't as historically unproductive and ineffective as the last congress was. >> and, you know, willie, it seems to me, anybody that's paying close attention, even some of the hard corps republicans have said, no, enough, we're not going to do this. after massey stepped down, jim jordan, telling reporters, no, no, we do not want to go there again. other republicans saying, this is the last thing we need to do and the first thing democrats want us to do is to look more chaotic. >> and where's the end of this? we couldn't find anybody, if you're a republican to fill the job for kevin mccarthy. they landed on a relative unknown, and speaker mike johnson, if you get rid of speaker mike johnson, who comes next. you go through this again, and you have a group of republicans who are now just saying the thing out loud as president biden pushes for foreign aid to support allies in need. congressman garrett graves said this. >> the reality is you hav
republicans. and trying to run a functioning congress that isn't as historically unproductive and ineffective as the last congress was. >> and, you know, willie, it seems to me, anybody that's paying close attention, even some of the hard corps republicans have said, no, enough, we're not going to do this. after massey stepped down, jim jordan, telling reporters, no, no, we do not want to go there again. other republicans saying, this is the last thing we need to do and the first thing...
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why johnson, trump, a whole host of republicans, who, relatively speaking, before that opposed aid to ukraine, or blocked it, that is, we remember that de facto aid to ukraine, not only ukraine, has been blocked since october of last year. what happened in the last two weeks? why there was not so much a radical change of approaches and a radical change. the opinion of the same johnson, i think that it could be a real understanding of the mood of the voters, including the voters of the republican party, it is connected not only with ukraine, it is connected with israel, we spoke with you, when there was an attack by iran on israel, why delay the help now. it will be much more difficult, you say about two weeks, but when did the attack take place? exactly, we were in the studio exactly a week ago, by the way, and an hour after the end of our broadcast. of course, because it became clear that if the republicans fail this test, they can lose many important votes, you know, while the war in the gas sector was going on, uh, it could be dragged somehow, israel can argue anyway, and the unite
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in this election, there are more republican seats in districts that trump won four more republican seats in districts that biden won versus democratic seats in districts that trump won, but i will call it a draw. it will be within a handful of seeds. host: former january 6 committee cochair liz cheney was a guest speaker where she was in a conversation with author and historian jon meacham. she talked about david mccormick , at the pennsylvania republican who this week one party's primary against the democratic incumbent bob casey. >> the republican candidate for senate in pennsylvania is a man named dave mccormick who served honorably, served in the military, served the nation honorably. she served in both the bush administration -- he served in both the bush administration and the trump administration. she knows better. he knows trump is not fit for office, and in the last 24 hours he has been circulating an endorsement donald trump made of him. donald trump was standing in the hallway outside the courtroom in new york and endorsed mccormick, and mccormick is now circulating that endor
in this election, there are more republican seats in districts that trump won four more republican seats in districts that biden won versus democratic seats in districts that trump won, but i will call it a draw. it will be within a handful of seeds. host: former january 6 committee cochair liz cheney was a guest speaker where she was in a conversation with author and historian jon meacham. she talked about david mccormick , at the pennsylvania republican who this week one party's primary...
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democrats wanted to give the extension, republicans said no. i tend to go with republicans. so many out there don't want to work and just want a handout. student loans taken care of. is that why younger people tend to go more democrat? guest: that is a tough question. what is interesting about our data is that people assume that this has always been the case, that young people identify with the democratic party. we have data from 1999 showing virtually no age difference at all across generations in terms of their party identification. this started in the 2005, 2008, started with president barack obama to some degree, before that with the kerry-bush race. now pretty established in the last 15 years where younger people are strongly on the democratic side. host: here is a subset that you offer among young people, men and women. guest: same differences among voters that you see overall with age groups. we don't see much difference. there has been some suggestion that young men might be tilting a little bit to the republican party. we don't see that much in our data. the same ge
democrats wanted to give the extension, republicans said no. i tend to go with republicans. so many out there don't want to work and just want a handout. student loans taken care of. is that why younger people tend to go more democrat? guest: that is a tough question. what is interesting about our data is that people assume that this has always been the case, that young people identify with the democratic party. we have data from 1999 showing virtually no age difference at all across...
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the republican party, republican voters are supporting his policies, yet mike johnson's leadership has been completely opposite. >> meanwhile, if greene is successful at removing johnson, congressional republicans are acknowledging they simply don't have a successor waiting in the wings. one house republican told axios any vacancy would devolve into chaos with nobody prepared to fill johnson's place. that same lawmaker warned that centrist republicans may vote for democratic leader hakeem jeffries in case of a johnson ouster. the speaker acknowledged this reality during an interview he gave yesterday. >> do you believe that if there's some sort of motion to vacate and she goes forward with this there may be some republicans that jump and go and hukeep jeffries is all of a sudden the speaker. >> if the chair is vacated it's certainly possible you get a democratic speaker because we have demonstrated i think 13 total members ran for speaker before i was elected, and there's -- it'd be very difficult for anyone to get the votes at this stage, which means that position would be open for a
the republican party, republican voters are supporting his policies, yet mike johnson's leadership has been completely opposite. >> meanwhile, if greene is successful at removing johnson, congressional republicans are acknowledging they simply don't have a successor waiting in the wings. one house republican told axios any vacancy would devolve into chaos with nobody prepared to fill johnson's place. that same lawmaker warned that centrist republicans may vote for democratic leader hakeem...
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it's been a very bad congress for republicans. just listen to republicans talk about it. they say we have nothing to run on. we have no accomplishments or giving into chuck schumer and joe biden at every turn. they're saying it to themselves. i think the proof is in the pudding. >> what happens to marjorie taylor greene. does she remain influential in another iteration of a republican majority, say there are, you know, ten plus vote, 20 plus votes in a republican majority down the line, and marjorie taylor greene is in office. does she get sidelined after these antics? does matt gaetz get sidelined? and i'm talking about a theoretical future. >> depends where ten or 20 new people are they hard liners, moderates, in a more moderate and more center right house republican majority, greene's stock goes down, as does matt gaetz. if you add hard liner freedom caucus types, it probably grows a little bit or becomes a crowd of that discussion. marjorie taylor greene, much of what she says is not worth covering, not worth talking about, but listen, she does have a vote and the one
it's been a very bad congress for republicans. just listen to republicans talk about it. they say we have nothing to run on. we have no accomplishments or giving into chuck schumer and joe biden at every turn. they're saying it to themselves. i think the proof is in the pudding. >> what happens to marjorie taylor greene. does she remain influential in another iteration of a republican majority, say there are, you know, ten plus vote, 20 plus votes in a republican majority down the line,...
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republican and today something else is going know, i think is georgia going to remain republican is is virginia going to remain republican? and it's started earlier. remember, eisenhower won virginia times in 52, eisenhower, nixon, eisenhower, nixon in 1956, one louisiana. so it really began chip away at the traditional democratic south, which was a stronghold. and so 64, again, a terrible year for republicans, a great year for conservatives in terms of their in the future. and then 66, the lopsided loss by republicans. 64 they almost gained they gained back almost everything. they lost in 64 during the midterms and 66 in terms of the house, in terms of the senate, in terms of governors, in terms of state house seats, coast to coast democrats still in charge, democrats held the white house with lyndon johnson. they still controlled the house and the senate after the 66 midterms. but republicans had made it considerably close and erasing the losses of 64 and and building momentum as they move toward 68. and so that's where we begin today, as we know from from previously, nixon had a goo
republican and today something else is going know, i think is georgia going to remain republican is is virginia going to remain republican? and it's started earlier. remember, eisenhower won virginia times in 52, eisenhower, nixon, eisenhower, nixon in 1956, one louisiana. so it really began chip away at the traditional democratic south, which was a stronghold. and so 64, again, a terrible year for republicans, a great year for conservatives in terms of their in the future. and then 66, the...
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and republican lawmakers say they are for ivf. conservative groups are laying the ground work to pull back on it. and they're using the same playbook they did to try to overturn roe v. wade, which they did successfully after many decades of effort. don't go anywhere. cades of effo. don't go anywhere. great. one more thing to worry about. it was all too hard to deal with in the beginning, but making a plan with my doctor to add precision was easy. preservision areds2 contains the exact nei recommended, clinically proven nutrient formula to help reduce the risk of moderate to advanced amd progression. thanks to preservision, i feel better that i'm doing something about it like millions of others. sara federico: at st. jude, we don't care who cures cancer. preservision. we just need to advance the cure. it's a bold initiative to try and bump cure rates all around the world, but we should. it is our commitment. we need to do this. we're still going for that nice catch. we're still going for that perfect pizza. and with higher stroke r
and republican lawmakers say they are for ivf. conservative groups are laying the ground work to pull back on it. and they're using the same playbook they did to try to overturn roe v. wade, which they did successfully after many decades of effort. don't go anywhere. cades of effo. don't go anywhere. great. one more thing to worry about. it was all too hard to deal with in the beginning, but making a plan with my doctor to add precision was easy. preservision areds2 contains the exact nei...
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the 112 who voted against it were all republicans. dear is democrat representative betty mccollum from minnesota. he was on the floor yesterday before the vote, speaking in favor of the a bill. [video clip] >> it has been six months since president biden sent his security supplemental to the congress, two months since the senate passed it, but today, the house finally acts. it is not a moment too soon for the situation in ukraine is dire. vladimir putin has failed to release thousands of ukrainian children who have been kidnapped and continues to murder ukrainian citizens on a daily basis. the ukraine military faces a severe shortage of ammunition, ammunition to protect their citizens and sovereignty. and why? because for months this house has remained silent, but today that changes. today we will pass this legislation we will provide security and economic assistance to ukraine. we will replenish depleted stocks of u.s. equipment at home, and we will join and show the baltic nations, romania, and poland, that we stand with them along
the 112 who voted against it were all republicans. dear is democrat representative betty mccollum from minnesota. he was on the floor yesterday before the vote, speaking in favor of the a bill. [video clip] >> it has been six months since president biden sent his security supplemental to the congress, two months since the senate passed it, but today, the house finally acts. it is not a moment too soon for the situation in ukraine is dire. vladimir putin has failed to release thousands of...
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yesterday in rules the republican chair of the foreign affairs committee noted that every republican president since the soviet union era has stood on the right side of history and stood up to russia. presidents have eisenhower to reagan, bush, senior and jr., they new that russia's desire to reassert its empire by bombing and invading its neighbor also harms america and american interests. every republican president that is, until donald trump. in contrast to every president before him, trump praised putin, tried to do business in russia, allowed putin to gain the upper hand. and eventually denied ukraine military aid. congress had approved unless ukraine gave him dirt on biden. donald trump became the pied piper for putin. some of his most ardent followers in this house became putin protecting republicans and denied the members of congress this vote. until now. now is the moment history has its eyes on this chamber as democrats and republicans stand up and stand together for what we love. democracy. democracy is the very reason we get to sit here together today and debate in the pe
yesterday in rules the republican chair of the foreign affairs committee noted that every republican president since the soviet union era has stood on the right side of history and stood up to russia. presidents have eisenhower to reagan, bush, senior and jr., they new that russia's desire to reassert its empire by bombing and invading its neighbor also harms america and american interests. every republican president that is, until donald trump. in contrast to every president before him, trump...
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host: jim, a republican in florida. caller: democrats going to realize the barter is one of the main topics who is going to be elected in november. they act like citizens out there, if we don't talk about, they won't realize we have a problem at the border. if we don't talk about it, or groceries, it's too high and young people. they talk to us like we don't know. and we know that there's a problem and they need to talk about it. when the democrats -- that's an injustice to the people out there. the border is secure. all the people we run across. you are an idiot if you don't believe there is a problem. even fast foods, you can't go through fast food anymore, it is so high. host: do you believe holding an impeachment trial for secretary mayorkas -- caller: why do you say the border is secure? how can you say it's secure? how can you say anything is secure, even if you you go somewhere and the people going to a ball game. caller: and three weeks before the election. i guess they get what they deserve. host: speaking of r
host: jim, a republican in florida. caller: democrats going to realize the barter is one of the main topics who is going to be elected in november. they act like citizens out there, if we don't talk about, they won't realize we have a problem at the border. if we don't talk about it, or groceries, it's too high and young people. they talk to us like we don't know. and we know that there's a problem and they need to talk about it. when the democrats -- that's an injustice to the people out...
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must feel for the republicans the best. how both houses now are basically a democratic majority. you know, here's what happened with this guy was absolutely extraordinary to 1st is through the last name. and what he paid off was the, all for the deal has the mind bubbles in to. but some from the democrats side, from the button count. it doesn't look like a losing strategy because they must be asking themselves, look, you know, in 6 months on how many more reports we have to deal with and russian advances, can we is, can we throw more in a, um, bundles of cash on the file, just to keep this plan going for another 6 months, 9 months, you know, until the election to arrive. but because i think that's the way they must be looking at it. a lot of republicans on in the trunk comp must be thinking, well, that's really the last show that is the last book. you know, the last of that is going to be sent to this discount for the 2nd country. if, if 12 over the, that's the with the, or you have the sunk cost file, let's see. you know,
must feel for the republicans the best. how both houses now are basically a democratic majority. you know, here's what happened with this guy was absolutely extraordinary to 1st is through the last name. and what he paid off was the, all for the deal has the mind bubbles in to. but some from the democrats side, from the button count. it doesn't look like a losing strategy because they must be asking themselves, look, you know, in 6 months on how many more reports we have to deal with and...
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but what i want to see right now out of house republicans and honestly senate republicans is do they have a willingness to engage here or will they just, again, bow at the altar of trump trup and do hissed bying? he has said he wants -- do his biding? he said he wants this as a campaign issue, he doesn't want a legislative solution. as you've seen, the national security supplemental, as well as government funding, as well as everything that we have been able to accomplish over the last year, it takes bipartisan consensus to do anything. and so we are waiting for republicans to indicate that they want to be partners to address this in a meaningful way. if they have a willingness to do that, we will. because it will meets the needs the american public has. consistent with our values. reporter: [indiscernible] -- mr. aguilar: i've said before, executive action is not a way to solve this alone. these are issues that congress should deal with. i said that under a prior administration, i continue to say that. but we stand willing to work with the administration, as well as with our colleag
but what i want to see right now out of house republicans and honestly senate republicans is do they have a willingness to engage here or will they just, again, bow at the altar of trump trup and do hissed bying? he has said he wants -- do his biding? he said he wants this as a campaign issue, he doesn't want a legislative solution. as you've seen, the national security supplemental, as well as government funding, as well as everything that we have been able to accomplish over the last year, it...
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many, many republicans going to revert to a kind of a normal george bush republican party. now, those happen to be my beliefs, but that's so much better than what we have now. and i remember talking with somebody about nikki haley and saying that, you know, if by some miracle haley got the nomination, she could actually beat biden, she'd actually be better candidate against biden than trump would. and that would not be so bad because even though i with nikki haley's policies, she's not a neofascist, she's not an authoritarian, she's not out destroy american democracy and. i think most republicans are not fascist. they're not out to destroy american democracy. and you need, the kind of bipartite listenership that we had as recently as ten years ago and i think the race to replace mcconnell with thune and cornyn both are very good individuals. and i think at the end of the day they committed to doing what's for the country. yeah. and you just trump out of the equation. there's a better chance of the country reverting to some kind of normal. well, let's hope that joe biden to
many, many republicans going to revert to a kind of a normal george bush republican party. now, those happen to be my beliefs, but that's so much better than what we have now. and i remember talking with somebody about nikki haley and saying that, you know, if by some miracle haley got the nomination, she could actually beat biden, she'd actually be better candidate against biden than trump would. and that would not be so bad because even though i with nikki haley's policies, she's not a...
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let's to suggest this trial is going to go forward the way republicans wanted to well, jake, republicans wanted a full trial be also want this to end in a conviction, but that is just not what we are seeing play out on the senate floor. >> that first impeachment article was already killed on a party-line vote with all democrats voting to kill it. and one republican, lisa murkowski of alaska, someone we are watching very closely, voting presence a sign of her discontent with the process. now, chuck schumer, the senate majority leader, has teed up a second vote to kill that 2nd article. but republicans at the moment, or forcing a number of procedural votes. this is a delay tactic they're really trying to drag this out as long as possible. so we're seeing some theatrical there on the senate floor, but it's really important to point out that politics are driving so much of what we are seeing right now playing out on the senate floor. republicans really want to have some ammunition heading into the november election where they're planning to make them border. a top issue. but democrats feel c
let's to suggest this trial is going to go forward the way republicans wanted to well, jake, republicans wanted a full trial be also want this to end in a conviction, but that is just not what we are seeing play out on the senate floor. >> that first impeachment article was already killed on a party-line vote with all democrats voting to kill it. and one republican, lisa murkowski of alaska, someone we are watching very closely, voting presence a sign of her discontent with the process....
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they're going to make it better >> the issue seems to be >> for republicans that a lot of the republicans that state legislatures and supreme courts in these states are way more conservative than the electorate is. just look at alabama and ivf and look at what happened on the floor of the house. >> sure. conservative than where trump has been even though trump is the one who's put judges, not just some, the supreme court, but federal i'm just trying to be right now. sure. >> and and so when he says, well, this will be taken care of pretty quickly, it's very typical trump's speak. it's sorted, doesn't mean anything. it's a place holder that hopefully we'll move onto a different topic. you know, how many, how many inflation weeks did you are out infrastructure weeks as you cover actual number zero because they never happened we just kept being told in two weeks, it's going to be inflation week and it never really was, is a typical trump tap. get tactic. and he does it because he knows it can be successful form. >> well, zolan the bottom line here is that it is going to have to be decided at
they're going to make it better >> the issue seems to be >> for republicans that a lot of the republicans that state legislatures and supreme courts in these states are way more conservative than the electorate is. just look at alabama and ivf and look at what happened on the floor of the house. >> sure. conservative than where trump has been even though trump is the one who's put judges, not just some, the supreme court, but federal i'm just trying to be right now. sure....
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four republican house speaker mike johnson. this is the fourth time in johnson's tenure that the house has defeated what is known as a rule vote, which is a disaster for any party trying to control the house of the chamber that they are in theory in charge of we've got seven more months till the presidential election let's try to not completely burn the place down. were dysfunctional. we are it's come somewhat embarrassing to make bite us in the butt a little bit. november. but my focus is donald j. trump now, because we can't, nobody can manage this conference >> the rate of public on-camera swearing from house republicans is at least at the highest in the time i had been covering this body in washington joining me now to discuss more about it associated press, national race and politics reporter matt brown and wall street journal, white house reporter at catherine, lucy. welcome to both of you. catherine >> i suppose that that >> sums it up for them rep. troy nehls also had this to say about the conference. generally listened
four republican house speaker mike johnson. this is the fourth time in johnson's tenure that the house has defeated what is known as a rule vote, which is a disaster for any party trying to control the house of the chamber that they are in theory in charge of we've got seven more months till the presidential election let's try to not completely burn the place down. were dysfunctional. we are it's come somewhat embarrassing to make bite us in the butt a little bit. november. but my focus is...
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doesn't need a republican house or a republican senate to further curtail abortion rights. we have this zombie comstock lawn lying in wait and all donald trump needs to reanimate that and activate a nationwide ban on abortion and any incident that might be used for abortion is to get his new department of justice, with his new ag, to begin reprioritizing the enforcement of the comstock act. people need to get hip to that. he can afford to lose mike johnson. mike johnson is expendable. he can afford to lose congress. he can do this the other way, the way the hard-core members of his base would be happy to have him do it. >> quite clearly he doesn't want any actual republican legislation to pass, which is why he's killing all of it. >> you don't need a republican legislature if you have the courts. >> he has no interest. the governance doesn't seem to be of the essence here. >> that is an argument that applies to anything he cares about most of all, which is keeping himself out of prison. he doesn't need a republican house or senate for that, just means the attorney general,
doesn't need a republican house or a republican senate to further curtail abortion rights. we have this zombie comstock lawn lying in wait and all donald trump needs to reanimate that and activate a nationwide ban on abortion and any incident that might be used for abortion is to get his new department of justice, with his new ag, to begin reprioritizing the enforcement of the comstock act. people need to get hip to that. he can afford to lose mike johnson. mike johnson is expendable. he can...
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majority or working to get a republican majority but many of these candidates who are running in republican primaries espouse to believe this more isolationist perspective that you're concerned about. what rough saying to these candidates that you're working for and trying to get elected into this next congress about the positions they could they should take? >> i think we've turned the corner on this argument. we went from 2 votes to at least 30 we'll see what happens on final penny. the house is about 50/50, as we thought would happen if they voted on it. so i think we've turned the corner on the isolationist movement. i've noticed how uncomfortable proponents of that are when you call them isolationists. i think we've made some progress and i think it's going to have to continue because we have big, big problems. china, russia, iran. going into world war ii we just had germany and japan. you could argue that this is a more challenging time right now than it was leading up to world war ii. i don't want it to take something like the pearl harbor attack to get our attention. and one of the
majority or working to get a republican majority but many of these candidates who are running in republican primaries espouse to believe this more isolationist perspective that you're concerned about. what rough saying to these candidates that you're working for and trying to get elected into this next congress about the positions they could they should take? >> i think we've turned the corner on this argument. we went from 2 votes to at least 30 we'll see what happens on final penny. the...