i m yasmin vossoughian on a very busy start afternoon. breaking news, the president just signed the debt ceiling bill. into law. it happened just a couple of moments ago. it comes after the president took a victory lap, a victory many thought he could not achieve. i know bipartisanship is hard. and unity is hard. we can never stop trying. because in moments like this one, the ones we just faced, where the american economy in the world economy is at risk of collapsing, there s no other way, no matter how tough our politics get, we need to see each other not as evident adversaries, as fellow americans. fellow americans. right now in iowa, a cavalcade of gop presidential candidates, all in one place. with one notable exception. that exception may have bigger things to worry about, new reporting on the special counsel investigation in the former president, and the document donald trump s lawyers cannot seem to find. all of that, plus, we are following the horrific scene in in
To deal with russia. We want to talk about all of this with abby phillip and audie cornish, who are here now. Abby, whats your take away . I think what youre raising about abortion really speaks to something that i could not ignore, which was that this was a republican audience in the state of iowa about the republican caucuses. But she was speaking to a national audience. She was really trying to present herself, i think very differently from many of her other colleagues in this race. But she was also trying to leave herself a lot of room on some issues like abortion. I thought it was so striking to me, just the tonal difference here. This was almost like a republican candidate circa the george w. Bush era, incredibly hawkish on Foreign Policy, serious and very substantive on a number of other issues, whether its on entitlements or government spending, even things like guns and the border and china. But i was keeping track. It took her 70 minutes to say the word woke after she was ask
i m aishah hasnie. and they ll feast on a big banquet of barbecue. the main hall where the candidates will be speaking later today, but the g.o.p. presidential front runner donald trump not expected. rich edson joining us on the ground in des moines with a special guest. hi, rich. hey, good afternoon, aishah. the barbecue is coming a little later today. we ve got some speeches coming up and that includes senator tim scott who recently declared he would be running for president. senator, thank you for joining us this afternoon. it s a crowded stage, a crowded field. how do you break through? easily, the optimistic positive message when i take it on the road, people are starving for optimism as long as it s anchored in conservativism and you have backbone. and i have both and that s good news for the american people and the campaign trail. you ve talked about the positive message and explicit about it. what do you think of the tone from some of the other candidates so f
guessed it, james comey. plus the debt ceiling hostage situation was not a lesson brought about a partnership as many have suggested. i ll tell you what my takeaway was. also today, the supposedly pro business anti cancel culture right wing is acting pretty anti business and pro cancel culture lately. i ll explain that in just a few minutes. and later a trip to pennsylvania for an afternoon with one of the country s most. high profile political spaces, gisele fetterman. we talk about her childhood as an undocumented immigrant, her husband s battle with depression, in the spaces who created help families in her community. watch donald trump at the campaign trail this week was to watch somebody doing his best to make it all seem like he was just a typical front runner for the nomination. nothing to see here traveling through iowa and shaking hands and giving speeches. on the one hand he is still leading the field by a very wide margin but on the other hand he is already a crimi
do i look at the file. do i look at the special investigation? what do i start with? i will tell you to that point, as i was prepping for the show the rnc the first debate is august and i was like this august? are we there already? were there. we re officially there, my friend. have a good show, welcome back, we missed you. good evening to you, and welcome to ayman tonight. lordy, there are tapes, new reporting on that incriminating trump report about a classified documents that he had in his possession after he left the white house. then the porcelain candidate, that is how ron desantis is being described after refusing to engage with reporters, but how long can he hide in his safe space? and, republican rollback, the latest gop trend is loosening child labor laws and i m going to speak with democratic senator john hickenlooper, one of the most outspoken critics of that effort. and much more. i m ayman, let s get started. caught on tape. in an astounding develo