yesterday s hearing. why is he more willing to fight the case in the court of public opinion than in actual court of law? plus, the former chief financial executive in the trump organization could have him testifying against the company in another trial that is expected to run up against the november elections. and speaking of the midterms, mitch mcconnell downplays now republican chances of retaking the senate, blaming the, quote, quality of his party s candidates. we ll have the new polling and reporting that shows mcconnell s concerns may be well-founded. joe, some more polls in the critical senate races across the country show why mcconnell may be concerned in august. word is they ve already given up on pennsylvania. they ve already given up on dr. oz. they re probably going to focus more in ohio and j.d. vance, hoping that he has a chance. but we have polls showing that this area, this stretch of critical swing states in the upper midwest all breaking against the r
you understand, this is a whole new level, though. they are leading of course. us straight into another oklahoma city. of course. and they have mainstream republicans they do talking about civil war. they ll do this when it happens. they ll blame joe biden, hunter biden, everybody else but themselves, which is why you, me, and other republicans, former republicans, have to make it very clear. this is on your hands. this is what you are creating because you re not taking advantage of this moment, the john birch moment you referred to, to stand up and say and do something about it. what s incredible is, 2022 should just be a walk in the park for republicans. this should be the easiest yeah. this should look like the year i got in in 1994. i mean, this would have been so easy. yeah. on every front, they are making it difficult for themselves. yeah. whether it s on social issues
down so much that it is just preposterous. willie, i m james brown! i need let me get the cape. godfather, it s okay. i just can t stop myself. hot tub. the good part about the cape, though, joe, is he always comes back. when you think he is done with the cape on, he throws it off and does another song. we ll look forward to that. i want to read a quote from congressman dan crenshaw from texas, republican from texas. he says this, i m impressed democrats finally got us to say de-fund the fbi. that just makes us look un-serious when we start talking about that. obviously, i don t know that it was the democrats that made him do it, but the point is, republicans are now saying de-fund the fbi. to your point, i d add in here, joe, just this week, the fbi rescued 200 people from a sex trafficking ring, including 84 children. and these are not imaginary people being sex trafficked in a
i want to get to the affidavit. i want to get to the affidavit we are talking about, people who are deliberately trying to gin up a civil war. their followers are actually going along with it. i know this because they re my family members and they re lifelong republicans and people who used to be reagan conservatives, talking about civil war. and a guy that you and i both have known for a long time i m not saying his name telling me very, very smugly a couple days ago, you know, the u.s. government is not sacrosanct. the u.s. government can be replaced. it s incredible that we ve got ton this point. one of our two major parties is now an angry, populist, anti-government party. its members are aroused by the idea that the government is the enemy. they talk about fbi officers who serve in the line of fire as government gangsters.
this. willie, it s really not that much of a mystery, where americans are if you look at the polls on this issue. it is a complicated issue. right now, something like a plurality, like 45% agreed with john roberts. john roberts didn t want to overturn roe. he said, just be incremental. let s go where mississippi is. 15, 16 weeks, through there, then a ban. about 45% of americans support that. that still, of course, wouldn t be enough for people on both sides, but if you want to know where americans are, it sure as hell isn t dobbs. no, it s not dobbs. the republicans are playing the extremes on so many issues going up to today, with the fbi and the irs, which we re going to talk about in a moment. we re also going to talk about allen weisselberg, donald trump s long-time right-hand and chief financial officer pleading guilty to charges yesterday. also, pete g ultimatum to t