think jim would institution is working? with awe due respect to kevin, he has been in leadership since 2009. let me be clear, the debt was $11 trillion then. it s $32 trillion now. when the leadership actually votes with the minority, votes with the democrats, to steam roll republicans which is the past history of our republican leadership, then maybe we should do something different. but jim jordan doesn t want the speaker s gavel. he is supporting kevin mccarthy. despite the 20 votes against him, mccarthy has plenty of supporters, 200, who are angry, many of them angry this is turning into such a spectacle. i said right from the beginning i didn t want any circular firing squads. we worked hard to get this majority. americans worked hard. they want to see improvements in our government and our fiscal situation. we have a lot of work to do. here s the deal. we ve got the plans, we have the bills. we have the resolutions, it s
i m chris hayes, happy friday and veterans day. it took a few days, but it is happening. republicans are now at each other s throats, firing squads, finger-pointing, factional disputes, a lot of this stuff happens all the time. sometimes even when the party wins. democrats like doing that stop after victories. but none of this happened in the republican party after 2020. and it didn t happen because donald trump created the big lie of these stolen election, precisely to avoid it. i mean, along with staying in power. but because he was out there saying that it was rigged, a huge portion of the base believing him, there were no autopsies, no introspection, no one got a chance to ask, you know, how did we lose that election? how do we have the first one
other worrying part about this, in russia, there is a moratorium on the death penalty. in this court in the dpr, they use firing squads to execute people, all of this adding up to an extremely concerning and worrying fate potentially for these two americans, and you might hope here there is a possibility of a prisoner swap. those separatist-backed officials ruling that out, saying they will try these men. a lot to be concerned about. american officials saying they re doing everything they can. they re in touch with all relevant authorities from the red cross to the ukrainian government, but yet another warning of just how dangerous it is for americans to come and fight in ukraine. salma abdelaziz, thank you for the reporting from kyiv. joining me now to discuss all this is diana shaw, she is alexander drueke s aunt. thank you so much for joining us this morning. thank you. first, i got to ask you, how are you doing, how is his mom doing, how is the whole family
they were going to be better off with joe biden in south carolina i think again we might be agreeing more than disagreeing. i don t think it is either/or. one issue i have with never trump conservatives is this is a group that talks a good game on saving democracy but when it comes to actual legislation to ensure election rights and prevent gerrymandering a lot of you are awol. mitt romney refuses to back the freedom to vote act. i can t find a single tweet from you referencing those two crucial bills. actually if you check further back on twitter i ve been tearing my hair out about democrats forming circular firing squads when they ought to be absolutely using their majority to ram through action on things like voting rights and i ve even come around on issues like the filibuster which i think now is just a destructive to american democracy because of the way it s been deployed by
youngkin as a candidate in virginia, people didn t know much about him. he did not have a decisive primary to take things about donald trump, and anti-donald trump or pro donald trump, and he is a businessman and he started to run as an establishment businessman, and so, issue on a silver platter from terry mcauliffe, and so he looked like somebody who things were not going so well, and i m disappointed in joe biden who promise med a lot of stuff, and he didn t deliver, and forming the circular firing squads, and looking at glenn youngkin, and a suburban dad, and terry mcauliffe looks like that, too, but looked at glenn youngkin, okay, so he could become, and he could become they wanted, one of those things was i want to be involved in my kids schools. and this is for suburban women