democrats who related to what happened to me today. we don t have security. we don t have that kind of security we have up here in the capitol at the district level. mccarthy seems to understand that. his office putting out a statement saying that, speaker mccarthy has made it clear his expectation that politics must be separated from security and has empowered the house sergeant at arms to work with the u.s. capitol police to protect all members of congress. this is not an easy job. 535 members scattered across the country, 24-hour security would be a monumentally expensive task and one capitol police doesn t have an easy solution for. it s a terrible reminder after what happened to paul pelosi and all the way back to gaby giffords in her district office years ago. thank you very much, ryan. it s terrifying. the long-running trump justice department investigation into the fbi s trump russia
appreciate it. the best word to describe negotiations to avoid a debt disaster in washington, according to the white house, constructive. so the conversations are constructive between all of the parties. the staff is very engaged. i would characterize the engagement as serious, as constructive. should we feel optimistic for a deal heading into the week? what the president just told reporters a short time ago. we ll have that. plus, florida governor ron desantis gets good reviews for his weekend trip to iowa and shows he can improvise when given the opportunity. and later, new york marks one year since a gunman killed a racist gunman killed ten people at a buffalo grocery store. how the community there and the country are paying tribute to the lives lost. that s coming up as well. you re live in the cnn newsroom. (vo) save big during our spring savingngs event, and get the disney bundle with disney+, hulu, , and espn+ included. all for just $3535 a line. verizon
in the history of congressional politics. and he is at the core of congress as an institution. and a country of 330 million people, only 535 have the honor of serving in congress and one should not be george santos. it is an embarrassment to this country that he is a member of congress. and one of our responsibilities is oversight. we oversee programs like the unemployment insurance program which he personally defrauded. like he is playing a role in overseeing programs that he personally i defrauded. and the republican party has found common cause with george santos in assaulting the social safety net that he has been attempting to defraud his whole life. i mean, to your point about larger implications for the republican party, his role in sitting in a body that oversees that him practice, you could you today a parallel to marjorie taylor greene s role on the homeland security committee when she amplifies and creates content that is main lined into some of the places where domestic v
you look at issues lik immigration, gun control, even taxes, should we expan medicaid, ukraine. 65, 75, 80% of the publi actually agrees. if you put 535 americans in room, they would probably be able to come up with solutions to a lot of these problems it is probably why they hav such low opinions of lawmakers so why don t lawmakers want to sell for this because they re trying to win the primaries particularly on the republican side the republican primary voters, in particular, as a huge delta between the middle of th electorate we just talke about. matthew, i give you time, but when i guess use the wor delta, i always give them th last word, and it was trying t incentivize to come visit us new york all i want to sa is, there s too many disincentives to appeal to independents right now we have 400 members of congress, that don t have a genera action we have 80 united states senators that don t have a general election that s the problem we should be doing wha michigan did, which
in terms of legislative races, governors races going to win that 49% it s not just independents, yo have to look beyond that, it i moderate voters who truly, truly are undecided and up for grabs. and i think they feel somewhat homeless right now i think the democratic party has a huge opportunity to spea to them, but i think we have t seize it the other thing i would say is we can be pretty grim when w look at our politics, but if you look at issues lik immigration, gun control, even taxes, should we expan medicaid, ukraine. 65, 75, 80% of the publi actually agrees. if you put 535 americans in room, they would probably be able to come up with solutions to a lot of these problems it is probably why they hav