about the facts of his case. then, tough talk on the debt limit deal. fighting got an important win by signing the legislation. but the real question, what at what cost to the american people? a culture of losing, that is how one of the front runners for the gop presidential nomination described his party s electoral performance. but there s no sign republicans want to change their strategy. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. all right, this hour, we begin with a sad and at this point, quite honestly, an obvious reality. republicans will do almost anything to hurt president biden s reelection chances. no surprise there. no but there are desperate, mary alice or insane their actions might be, just this week, senator chuck grassley had this to say about and unconfirmed years old allegation that joe biden accepted a bribe as vice president. watch. we aren t interested in whether or not the accusations against vice president biden are accurate or not. so, grassley just
now we know, we are hip to their schemes. this is something that they do time and time again. funny that we have mountains, mount everest worth of evidence against donald trump and his criminal behavior. but they only want a hint, a hint of innuendo against president biden in order to try to bring him down. with donald trump, it s like, don t look over here. don t pay attention to any of the cases or any of the reports, or any of the legitimate claims. but pay attention to the wafting that we re trying to do of lies on this administration. eugene, as i said a minute ago, kevin mccarthy did this in 2015. is that it s all what this is? all over again, an effort to hurt biden s poll numbers even though the evidence busted back it up? or will they be unsuccessful because the front runner of the republican party is basically drowning in all kinds of legal challenges? it s hard to say, because first of all, the take is very baked for the american people in donald trump. they know what th
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mike pence. it s not just that they re irritated with him. they hate him because donald trump told them to hate him. that is, that s gonna be a struggle this entire time. it s gonna be very interesting how he tries to carve out a path. it s unclear, like was just set, who his constituency is. it doesn t seem like it s the current republican party. chris christie was motivating him, people, these are folks who want to be part of the conversation. it might be as simple as that. being a part of the conversation is really important to a lot of these politicians. most of these folks know that they are not going to win, right? if you set them down and gave them some veritaserum from harry potter, and gave him some truth serum, they would tell you that they re not gonna win. but they want to be a part of the conversation. chris christie knows he s not gonna be in the cabinet. donald trump hates him to now because of how far he s been, quote unquote, disloyal to donald trump since january six.
when i look at this clown car, and i don t know if any attempt really think that they have a real shot. but i think vivek is the most delusional of the group. rotimi, in order to qualify to participate in the first rnc debate every presidential hopeful will have to sign a pledge to support the nominee. christie has already said he will not support trump if he s the nominee. pence may have to pledge support to the man who almost got him attacked and killed on january 6th. what do you think has trump backed them into a corner? because he says he s not gonna sign it, at least as of now. yeah, i think he runs the republican party. he s going to make them do whatever he says. that s been his m o from the beginning. we re gonna see the debate happen. he s gonna get on the debate stage he s gonna call them names, he s gonna make fun of them. they are all gonna turn right. we all know what s gonna happen. he s gonna win the nomination. for trump, this is just him again flexing his muscle a