american mainstream. i m talking about main street americans in their millions. they come in all sizes, shapes and colors. blue collar workers, blacks, hispanics, shoe keepers, scholars, service people, housewives and professional men and women, they re the backbone of america. we can t move america without moving their hearts and minds, as well. they want all electric stoves all over the country. but we don t have the electric power for that. we want electric stoves, but we also want gas stoves. it s april fools . why do they want that? cpac then and now. the conservative conference has shifted in recent years to grievance politics. those two speeches 41 years apart. now, led by former president donald trump who delivered a dark speech, telling a sparse crowd at cpac, quote, i am your retribution. we ll have more of his remarks and what they mean for the 2024 presidential race just ahead. plus, we ll get a live report from springfield, ohio, where another norfolk south
nearly a decade in a russian prison. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, august 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. news from last night, senator kyrsten sinema has agreed to back democrats reconciliation bill. clearing the way for a vote later this week. her decision comes after days of fellow democrats lobbying her on the deal. in a statement last night, the senator said she would come on board after the carried interest tax provision was removed. lawmakers also agreed to combat droughts that plague her home state of arizona. democrats are now just waiting for the sign-off from the senate parliamentarian. majority leader chuck schumer says the final version of the bill will be introduced on saturday. the senate will take today off before a long day tomorrow a rare saturday. even rarer one in august. there will be up to 20 hours of debate after the first procedural vote. and then comes what is known as a voter-a-ra mr. a where senat
over how much control russian forces have in the besieged city of bakhmut. welcome back to morning joe. monday, march 6th. jonathan lemire, elise jordan, jen psaki still with us. joining us, the founder of the bulwark, charlie sykes. correspondent vaughn hillyard and long-time campaign strategist and executive editor of georgetown s poitics and public service, mo. vaughan, you were at cpac yesterday, over the weekend, anyway, atmospherics of what it was like there. he won the straw poll overwhelmingly, easily, as expected. it seemed more of a maga rally than conservative conference. what was it like inside the room? actually, march 4th, 1965, willie, the it was the inaugural address of abraham lincoln coming off the civil war, in which he said the words, quote, finally do we hope, fervently do
ovation at cpac yesterday in texas. he addressed the extensive tive gathering on the opening day. the washington post described the speech as one that could have easily been delivered by any gop candidate on the campaign trail this year. orban recently made headlines for denouncing european countries that inter mingle with other races. yesterday, he said those in the united states and hungary who share his views should unite. i am a passion freed fighter. we have to be brave enough to address the most sensitive questions, migration, gender and the clash of civilization. don t worry. a christian politician cannot be racist. all it takes, my friends, politics, my friends, is not enough. this war hungary shall perfect the institution of marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
we had been running a china investigation in the house, i think they are still try, but democrats largely actually, ironically use russia and ukraine, russia to smear republicans make up a hoax that you were one of our lead investigators, then they used ukraine. you had really crippled the trump administration. how can you have serious talks with every time putin and trump would meet, there was fake news surrounding it and president trump impeached it made it nearly i m possible, i said at cpac yesterday, i still believe. that is that it is all politics, dirty politics, oh, russia hoax and blah, blah, blah, but now it is people getting killed. it is politics, you ruin lives people in america, and then people die in real life. war is real, that wha