conservative or chaotic members of their conference who have put us in this position, but they honestly can t afford to wait around, let this come out and potentially risk not being able to get a set of rules to govern the conference going forward. speaking of transparency, jamie gangel, what about the fact we ve had so much transparency we haven t been in legislative business so the c-span cameramen and women have been able to shoot anything they want as opposed to the government seizing what they have. are they going to allow the c-span cameramen and women to continue to show what s going on the floor of the people s house? first of all, you ve had too much coffee. where is your energy coming from? i m just taking these people at their word. big finish, jake. look, i just want to say one thing that i would like in the rules package thought that i get a vote. i want the c-span cameras to stay. america does. just this way. i salute c-span this week. it s been sp
it s been spectacular. but to your point about transparency, are we shocked, shocked, shocked that we don t know what the concessions are or what it s going to be? that is the epitome of what s been going on all this week. and it s it s not just that this group of 20 plus one present, the chaos caucus has held everybody hostage and kevin mccarthy hostage. but it s going to go on. the legacy will endure. so the clerk just called the house to be in order. there s going to be a prayer. john king apparently cnn reporters said that congressman scott perry who s one of these rebels although he s one of the 15 who flipped today just walked into speaker designate mccarthy s office as matt gaetz now calls him and said nothing is over until it s over, nothing is done until it s done, something along those lines. the hard liners some of them
yes at the right point he will absolutely address the american people. harris: the vice president of foreign policy at the heritage foundation, walid faris is a national security and foreign affairs analyst. walid and james great to have you on the program. james, i will lean on your military expertise. what is the situation for protecting americans and the afghans on the tarmac now? it is nightmare scenario. two options here. one is the taliban can hold everybody hostage. all 6,000, everybody at the airport. they can starve them out and they don t have to attack the americans to do that. all they have to do is make sure planes can t safely leave. that s the worst case scenario. the best case scenario is the taliban sits there with arms folded and watch a kay otic and disastrous withdrawal and turn
suburban men i ll come back to you. it shows 54% blame the white house, 34% blame others. 55% of americans blame trump, 32% blaming congress. back to you. okay. but within those numbers we re talking about republicans, we re talking about white evangelicals, noneducated white male voters. we re talking about this is starting to have an impact on core members of that core base that he has been holding on to and doing all of this for. all of these machinations for. when he s losing like that, why would pelosi, when they ve passed the same bill the senators have passed, why wouldn t she just say, you know, mr. president, it s up to you. open the government. there s no reason to hold everybody hostage and we ll talk but let s reopen the governmnt. but to step back and look at the bigger picture of this, we are nowhere closer to reopening
thing, i in the the police officers behind him were not laughing. they ve been in situations like that and it is dangerous. the military and transgender issue in other way, he is holding everybody hostage. but america is a better person, better institution, better country than donald trump is treating it as. that s why you have this reaction. how about this? we have ra complicated issue like surgery or hormone for reassignment for people, he says they shouldn t be here. who is this guy to talk like that? he has no grasp of any level of detail. he hears a word, grasps on to that, oh, i have to please these people, okay, just get rid of the transgender process. there is no thought process, no care in what he is doing. i think part of the issue here is he is failing. what about peggy noonan on saturday. she said he is weak.