house committee chair, sherwood boehlert, an old school pro science republican and you have folks like bob english south carolina. he s gone. a republican, a conservative republican. he was primaried by the koch brothers because he expressed an enlightened view about climb change. let me ask you a fair question, i won t challenge you, chip. is the republican party leaning towards science or against it? i would hope to say we always lean towards science but on this case, there s many republicans across the board on this particular issue. like i said, i m not a scientist. i don t read the book but i do believe in the republican, there s a lot that believe, we know we ve got so many people living on the planet. we have to do what we can. i hope people don t believe ignorance is bliss. full keep saying it s in dispute and don t carefully don t read the journals or accept the science, you re always in the safe position of saying i guess it s in dispute so i m not to blame.
schism that i think is emerging within the republican party. those like the chairman of the house science committee, lamar smith, a texan who denies climate change exists. he s the chair of the house science committee. i sometimes joke that maybe we need to rename it the houses anti-science committee given its current stance on issues like climate change. there are those politicians who completely dismiss the underlying science but then you have more enlightened republicans like the former house committee chair, sherwood boehlert, an old school pro science republican and you have folks like bob english south carolina. he s gone. a republican, a conservative republican. he was primaried by the koch brothers because he expressed an enlightened view about climb change. let me ask you a fair question, i won t challenge you, chip. is the republican party leaning towards science or against it? i would hope to say we always lean towards science but on this case, there s many republica
in sort of the way we ve separated out our cultures, in the deep south and some of the intermountain west, if you want to do that, you get creamed. i mean i saw that this republican woman who was a third-generation i think owner of a general store that sold guns and had 100% nra record was the chairman of the committee in the tennessee legislature that referred a bill to committee, she basically killed the bill for the session that the nra wanted that said you could carry your loaded concealed weapon anywhere and leave it in any parking lot. any parking lot at all. and they ran pictures of her and her district with president obama and beat her by 16 points in the primary. in other words, they re basically trying to get everybody to check their brain at the door, bob english got beat in south carolina because he said he realized he didn t have to hate the president to disagree with him. and that global warming was real.
soviets before coming out with this show-stopper. i firmly believe this, it s not just, you know, a dramatic statement that a person would make to get press or something. the greatest threat to the united states today, the greatest threat to our liberty, the greatest threat to the constitution of the united states, the greatest threat to our way of life, everything we believe in, the greatest threat to the country that was put together by the founding fathers is the guy that s in the white house today. wow. well candidate tim bucky denounced these remarks saying that tancredo tends to exaggerate sometimes. next janice joplin, freedom s just another word for nothing else to lose. bob english came out with a candid assessment of tea party daurlg sarah palin.
being investigated. and was trump definitely tweeting about rosenstein or perhaps maybe the attorney general or maybe himself. i don t know, who s on first. everyone lawyered up, mike pence, jared kushner, even personal attorney cohen hired his own attorney to help in the investigation. to help me unpack, defense attorney seema, msnbc legal analyst paul butler and former representative from south carolina bob english. thank yoal for being here. nick, i m going to come to you on this first. sure. what does it say to you this even the vice president has now lawyered up and the president has now added to his legal team in addition to marc kasowitz a criminal defense attorney. i think what it says is there s a serious criminal investigation going on, and it obviously was in their interest