on the republican party. new york times puts it like this, republicans are putting trump out to pasture. that dynamic was on display the final hour for the battle of speaker, with republican members of congress playing not it, not me, as margorie taylor greene tried to get them to take donald trump s call. then there s the global condemnation for the insurrection in brazil, tragically similar to the attack on our own u.s. capitol, but is straight out of trump s playbook. that is all a very bad look for the ex-president. now today, the walls are closing in on donald trump, even more legally. legal one-two punch, if you will. first, a district judge has ordered trump s deposition in a defamation lawsuit to be unsealed. it s a deposition trump fought for years to avoid giving. now comes news that it is pencils up for the special grand jury at a fulton county, georgia. the 26 jurors spent eight months examining potential criminal interference in georgia s 2020 presidential elec
republican control. and that s because the implications of these concessions that speaker mccarthy has given in his quest to become speaker and have the gavel go far beyond the sort of personal and procedural issues that he settled by making those concessions. they reflect the interests of these hard-liners. they reward these same folks. and that makes it difficult to govern in a bipartisan way to be sure. but as we re seeing, even govern within his own party and his own caucus. this defense cuts issue is becoming a flash point within the republican caucus. that s not to say everything that democrats are saying. and you look at even someone like senator mitch mcconnell, right? pushing the infrastructure law with president biden last week, really kind of showing the way in which senate republicans are still willing to kind of operate in a semi-bipartisan way moving forward, which draws a further contrast with the house republican caucus and puts a spotlight even brighter on their
i would love to see the gavel go from nancy pelosi to donald trump. she would go from tearing up a speech to having to give the gavel to donald trump? oh, she would go crazy. obviously he had eight hours and 32 minutes to fill that s why that speech was so wide ranging. it did have a real attempt at the heart of it, which was to rally the party around him. he wants to be speaker of the house next year. this idea of trump being floated seems pretty unlikely. it seems a little ridiculous just to be clear. so leaders in the house have used their so-called magic minute at times to really rally their own party behind them. you have john boehner s speech in 2009. speaker pelosi s eight hour speech on dreamers a couple of years ago and now mccarthy has broken that record. there is that effect of energizing your conference behind you when you are a lead jr. and you do that. it comes at a point when
amounts of fraud. no one wants to talk about that. just want to throw more money at it. hmm. and we re showing some of the items in that build back better bill on the screen right now. it is sweeping legislation. back to kevin mccarthy. everybody knows how much he wants to be speaker of the house, still wanted to be when you were still in house of representatives yet he bends over backwards to please trump and then trump s allies, former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, float ideas like donald trump becoming speaker of the house. let s listen. i would love to see the gavel go from nancy pelosi to donald trump as talking about melting down. people would go crazy. as you know you don t have to be an elected member of congress to be the speaker. wouldn t you see she would go from tearing up a speech to having to give the gavel to donald trump? oh, she would go crazy. congressman, what s your
vigilante justice and guns all figure highly in the trial of kyle rittenhouse, and the jurors went home after a third day of deliberations and the judge barring an entire cable news outlet from the courtroom and showing the degree to which rittenhouse is barely old enough to vote has been a figure in right-wing politics. matt gaetz all, but offered him an internship. in a case that goes to congress power that has constitutional questions dating back to the founding, lawyers for steve bannon were in court today making moves to slow walk their contempt of congress case through the process, perhaps hoping to run out the clock. and mark meadows who, like bannon, is also defying a subpoena appeared on bannon s podcast, touting the boss as a future house speaker. i would love to see the gavel go from nancy pelosi to donald trump. you re talking about melting down. people would go crazy. that s minority leader kevin