and republicans and democrats in washington calling donald trump what he is, a war calling vladimir putin what he is, a war criminal, and donald trump won t even follow sean hannity s again, layup of a question. is this evil? wouldn t answer it. just like he wouldn t answer us seven years ago. and so many others since then on whether he was going to condemn vladimir putin for killing politicians and journalists in russia. and of course your question on helsinki, there is a through line there, this man will not criticize putin. it was a two-part question in helsinki that i posed to the then president. one is who he believed, and he sided with putin. the other part with the world
committee. i think those two individuals would have a hard time ever coming back to congress. reporter: and look, kinzinger is not trying to come back to congress. congresswoman liz cheney is in a reelection battle. we know that s one of the key house districts that the former president donald trump is focusing a lot of his efforts on. he would like very much to see her lose her reelection bid, and that is really the stakes here as we go into the midterm elections. we re going to have to see the way that january 6th as a political issue begins to play. we have seen people like liz cheney repeatedly over and over try to call to her party s better angels, try to talk to republicans, as a political issue but instead as a moral issue. it does seem when you see censures like this at the rnc s winter meeting the way that they are talking about this, it does seem like she s losing that battle but at the same time she s going to have her moment at the ballot box in this upcoming year and we
but i do want to touch really quickly, alex on the biden economy. i thought kurt did a great job of laying it out. i think it s also important to keep in mind where we were a year and a half ago today, unemployment, right when the pandemic hit, especially started accelerating, the unemployment rate was up to 14, 15% under trump. you know, we re back down into extremely low single digits. it s a big deal what president trump has been able to turn around in a short amount of time when it comes to the economy. when it comes to trashing traditions, i can t get over the fact that donald trump and melania trump weren t there to welcome the new president and his wife to the white house. they were like let s go to andrews air base, i m not going to welcome them. that was so tacky. classless. last one to you, kurt, pick up one of the five that we already talked about. well, the thing about the pence speaking out that s interesting to me is this a prelude, a preview to maybe his potentia
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i m going to make it very clear, the attacks are wrong. he kind of gave credit to vice president harris and her position, and he said, you know, she s not going to be able to overturn the election, when the republicans win. that s what he thinks. he could be signaling, he could be running or supporting whoever the nominee is, whether or not it s donald trump. but it s interesting to see this at the same time as the rnc is censuring other republicans who are breaking away from president donald trump. we ll see what comes in the midterms. you re right, very fine line he s trying to walk. good luck with that. adrian, to you. yeah, i guess, alex, i m the lucky one who gets the trashing of the documents from the national archives by the trump white house. i feel like it s apropos of the former administration, you know, complete disregard for historical documents. complete disregard for adhering to the process. i don t really know what more there is to say about that.