there. it feels like that. look, i get the i get the political optics of having liz cheney versus jim jordan. i mean it is that is not a fair fight. on the other hand, i do think that voting to overturn the election should be disqualifying. yeah. that nancy pelosi would be completely justified in playing hard ball and saying this is not a joke, this is not a farce, this is not going to be a circus sideshow that kevin mccarthy wants it to be, this is going to be a serious investigation and that means if you supported the big lie, you cannot serve on this committee. i mean i think that would be a principled position. i don t expect that s what s going to happen, but jim jordan serves no positive role in all of this except to feed red meat to the base. and by the way, we get a new cbs poll out today showing that 55% of trump voters believe the january 6th insurrection was really about, quote unquote, defending freedom.
and the contrast there between these two candidates. doug jones is known for prosecuting the kkk and roy moore is now known for dating underage girls. i mean the contrast there could not be any more stark. so i think it s appalling that the gop is standing with roy moore, especially the alabama gop, saying they don t even care if he s guilty. it s bad enough that the republicans in washington are pretending that they don t know whether or not he did what he did. but i think the whole party is going to be tarred with that. and the democrats get to run with a really principled man who is a member of the community who can focus on the issues. that s going to turn off a lot of moderate and even conservative alabama voters if they had to hear the circus sideshow on the one side and doug jones can talk to them about the issues that matter on the other. congresswoman, another thing that has to be top of mind for dems is russia. i know you ve introduced a bill by requiring voting machines to
circus sideshow of politics, these questions over his citizenship. but he replied a lengthier response today making a few points about issues where this has come up with past politicians and why he doesn t think it s an issue for him. here s what he had to say. as a legal matter, the question is quite straightforward and settled law that the child of a u.s. citizen born abroad is a natural born citizen. people will continue to make political noise about it, but as a legal matter it s quite straightforward. i would note that it s occurred many times in history. john mccain was born in panama but was a natural born citizen because his parents were citizens. reporter: those comments were interesting because they were a little meatier than what he first offered up. cruz almost immediately spontded to donald trump last night over twitter but responded bringing humor into the situation, potentially to defuse the situation. he tweeted out a link to a