leadership before don t you have to now that david duke is demanding that he stays? i mean are the republicans keeping steve skalise in their leadership replacing eric canter? are they replacing him with david duke without the baggage? because david duke will release more names of people he s worked with over the years unless steve skalise gets to keep that job? is that why they re keeping steve skalise in his job? it seems ridiculous? that he would get to determine who gets to be in the leadership of congress because he s able to make a threat like that. david duke gets to decide that? itsomes ridiculous. one way you could diffuse any suspicion about that and his ability to make threats about this this implicit blackmail of lord knows how many members of congress one way to take this threat off the table would just by e be to say hey, yeah, ask
he had that quote ready to go. democrats tend to keep republicans on the spot about this. but, you know whether or not this is an interesting fight aside, if you put it in actual context in terms of who the players are and what s happening over time here, it is really hard to see how republicans are going to standby their decision to keep this guy. how they re going to let steve skalise be there in this visible role every day, the number three guy in congress the whip who has a very public role he s going to be there indefinitely? think about the whole reason steve skalise is extending into the leadership. republicans right-hand turn just taking over the house now? john boehner is speaker. he s staying as speaker. kevin mccarthy is staying in leadership now. the only reason a job has opened up at the top in the leadership for steve skalise to ascend to
democrats and republicans in the house of representatives who tried, in fact, urged me to support them. legally, i did. the governor of the state of louisiana, mr. foster, wanted my support. sm you re saying there are members of congress today who have relationships with you have had relationships. but they choose to keep that private. and that s fine. but you would call them out? i would call them out if they re hypocrite kal. david duke, that guy, is now threatening that asoeszuating with him and associating with his white supremist groups u has to become an okay thing in our modern politics. david duke now threatening that if steve skalise gets in trouble for his association with david duke and white supremist groups in louisiana, then david duke will disclose the names of all of the members of congress and all the elected o fishls who have associated himself over the years but that people don t know about yet. if you weren t going to get rid of steve skalise from the
looks like a bad gee mettic flag painting until you realize it s a bad geometric flag painting with lots of different swasticas. and then the little back wards swastica and then hey, look cute little swasticas made with leaves. nature swasticas. this one is supposed to be an african swastica. that s nice. these terrible terrible paintings, including this superer, extra-racist one are available online. they ve been created by either the same guy or somebody using the same pseudonym as the person who brought us news steve skalise scandal. when the number three republican in the house had spoken in 2002 to david duke a main source for that story was
don t use it as blackmail. just make it public. nobody should have anything to worry about that list being disclosed. and if you have partisan concerns, aparentally, it would be a bipartisan group. and, honestly, just as pure newsworthiness, it would be a darn newsworthy thing to know. whoelgs has been courting the david duke win of white supremacy. who else has done that? who else is on the list? that would be a newsworthy thing to know. it s newsworthy for steve skalise. we called david duke today to ask if he would release that information to us. we were told he was on the other line. he hasn t called back yet. we remain hopeful that we will hear back from him. we also called steve skalise s