trolls, republicans need to stop being so of noxious. and you write about the reasons republicans fared so poorly in the 2022 midterms be on the economy. abortion in the attacks on democracy. could there be more? all of these factors clearly played a role, but don t underweight the impact of formative obnoxious in this that now pervades republican messaging. conservatives have built career paths for young people that start on extremist message boards and lead to jobs and republican campaigns, and then jobs with state and federal offices, then jobs in the conservative media. this pattern of behavior bids fair to repeat itself in 2024. as i write these words, at the beginning of 2023, the conservative world s most excited not by the prospect of big, legislative action from a republican house majority, and not by trump s declared candidacy for president in 2024, or by desantis is yet under crowd won, but by the chance to repeat is 2020 attacks on the personal misconduct of presi
goods but they couldn t off load them. there was no place to do it. the containers sat there. thanks to the biden administration s vaccine mandates, there weren t enough truckers to pick up the cargo and take it anywhere. so all of that combined to create the worst shipping bottle neck in memory and lasted for months. the price of transporting goods rose by 600%. so if you re wondering why inflation started to go up, that s a big part of the reason. none of this happened by accident. the bottle neck was a manmade disaster. it could have been, should have been fixed by the people in charge of transportation. they re called the department of transportation. but for much of the time, this disaster was unfolding, joe biden s secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg from south bend, indiana, was disengaged. he wasn t on the job. he was at home. i was on paid paternity leave posing for selfies for social media. buttigieg didn t seem embarrassed at all by this. this is work, h
good morning, everyone. it is saturday, february 11th, we re live in the cnn newsroom, and you don t have to adjust your tv, we re actually in the same set in the same place. no split screen. right. great to be with you as well. up first this hour, president biden ordering an prague to shoot down an unidentified object over alaska, an operation that he is describing as a success, and right now, there are way more questions though about what that thing was that got shot down and actual details about it, and keep in mind, this is the second time in a week that a u.s. fighter jet has taken down an object after the chinese surveillance balloon was brought down last saturday. ten miles off the coast of alaska, the federal aviation administration issuing a temporary flight restriction in the area as the military took action. officials say they don t know what the object is or who it belongs to. the white house says president biden was first briefed on the situation thursday
could spread. when banks experience govern to take it over so quickly and financial losses, it is around should be a gnatter of concern why did the government have to take it over so quickly and are other banks at risk. i ll ask sheila bair, the former chair of the fdic about the last banking crisis. legal troubles. donald trump faces potential criminal charges in new york where he s been invited to testify before the grand jury this week. our country has become the investigation capital of the world. while his biggest challenger visits iowa for the first time. we will never, ever surrender to the woke mob. will the republican primary voters even care if trump is indicted and the art of deception house speaker kevin mccarthy hands over january 6th footage to tucker carlson who claims the insurrection was mostly peaceful and it serves to divide republicans on capitol hill. i think it s bull [ bleep ]. bob menendez of new jersey, , senator and chairman o
50 million american users, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, i m mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle. former president trump s legal panel is about to get more worse. one of his attorneys, evan corcoran, is about to do appear before an attorney is backing the classified documents, case as early as tomorrow. but corcoran is also involved in the other federal investigation involving trump. today, he appeared in federal court in d.c., as part of the team but subpoenaed to former vice president mike pence, these hearings focused on whether pence must testify about his dealings with trump, around january the 6th, the lawyers for trump appeared to be at odds with the former vice, nbc news puts, it they argue pence can t testify, because of executive privilege. pence argues he s immune from testifying for legal protection for lawmakers, he says he is acting for president of the senate as part of the electoral vote count, as opposed to part of t