speech, clearly directed at the so-called house freedom caucus, the 40 members who have been holding sway over the entirety of the 247-vote republican conference with their unity and their essential threat of veto talking about how easy it is to blame but ultimately results have to be delivered. clearly positioning himself as someone who ala the paul ryan who worked out the budget deal with patty murray and the democrat from the senate could the get continuing resolutions passed, could avoid government shutdowns. that was the stake he put in the ground. joining me thomas fann at the brookings institution, co-author it s even worse than it looks. you wrote a book about how abnormal historically the republican, particularly the republican party and the republican house is. we re seeing that abnormality an play out in terms of the sequence of events that brought about the end of john boehner, kevin mccarthy not taking the job. now ryan stipulating a variety of conditions. i interpret to
all right. republican conference, you want me so badly, i m the only person that could unify the caucus. i will do it once these conditions were met. he laid out the conditions and talked tonight in that brief speech, clearly directed at the so-called house freedom caucus, the 40 members who have been holding sway over the entirety of the 247-vote republican conference with their unity and their essential threat of veto talking about how easy it is to blame but ultimately results have to be delivered. clearly positioning himself as someone who ala the paul ryan who worked out the budget deal with patty murray and the democrat from the senate could the get continuing resolutions passed, could avoid government shutdowns. that was the stake he put in the ground. joining me thomas fann at the brookings institution, co-author it s even worse than it looks. you wrote a book about how abnormal historically the republican, particularly the republican party and the republican house is. we re
arguing to them, as we must do to the american people, that it s the right thing to do, that it involves no abridgement of second-amendment rights and no practical impact on law-abiding gun owners and appealing to their constituents. 90% of the american people and the vast majority of people in their states support these commonsense, reasonable measures that very simply protect lawful gun owners as well as others. nra members have said to me, they believe background checks are appropriate. so i think mobilizing and organizing is the key so we stop the special interests from holding sway, as they have in the past. just one last point. when you think back on it and i have reflected a lot over the last 48 hours i have been all around the state of connecticut at the openings of playgrounds and ceremonies, commemorating this six-month anniversary, a
i know it looks great right now, i love this, yes. all of these hightech people up there. the highest jobless rate in the country. and we ve been the highest in the country for a long time. we feel it, more than any part in the country, because if you don t have money in your pocket from philadelphia, you re not coming to i know. to las vegas. let me go to jon ralston. jon, the politics out here. have we finished with in duck soup here the crazy selection by republicans for people who can t win generals? well, i m actually astounded by those ppp numbers, chris, 68%, who are the 32% of the republican party that thought it was a good idea to nominate sharron angle? so, they re still out there. they re holding sway in the state politics. they led to the ouster of bill rageio the longtime minority leader. the tea party is definitely still a force out here. just ask sue lowden, she knows. well, let me ask you, sue, i
real test to see how much he has left or how much he may bow a lame duck at this point. let s talk more about elizabeth warren and the possibility of a 2016 run. carl cameron join us tonight. elizabeth warren is testing how much juice she s got. she s making herself a major player and she s been doing it all week. it is gutsy for a senator to tell house members how to vote but that s exactly what she s done all week. she s been fiesty and populist. it looks like she s taken a page from gop senator ted cruz s playbook. he pushed house republicans to shut down the government and now he s actively positioning for a white house run. so this isn t a bad move politically for elizabeth warren and she s holding sway at least at this hour. warren says, though, she s not running for president. yeah, but an awful lot of liberals, a, don t want to believe that. b, they are looking for an