meanwhile aoc was the sole democrat to vote against. new york congressman lee zeldin is here to tell us why he too was a no vote. congressman, merry christmas to you. thank you, merries christmas. griff: the country got the ominous bill passed by the help of nine republicans, what s your reaction? well, i was a strong no against this bill. $1.7 trillion, that s a lot of money and that trajectory of federal spend asking out of control and the process is broke and house republicans were cut completely out of the process of creating the bill. what should have happened because you re in a lame duck session is there should be a short term cr, a continuing resolution and they would fund the government into the new year and new congress taking office and more of a republican seat at the table. as i mentioned house republicans didn t have any. title 42 and border security challenges were not properly
and interesting, kaitlan noting that the conversations are not just about january 6th but also about the days and potentially weeks before january 6th because the committee has made clear it s not just what the president, former president did or didn t do that day when his open vice president was under threat at the cap to. they want to know his conversations. did he know who was coming? did he know there was a possibility of violence? did he know who was financing the operation? i think this is definitely a significant development for the january 6th committee really trying to get to the bottom of this. president trump, he s trying to make sure that people don t talk about this. he s trying to invoke executive privilege. we ve seen biden isn t having that and is allowing his justice department to not take that as an argument. i think it s just a pretty big development in that people from the trump administration are voluntarily complying with the committee that we saw that house r
they were hoping that the abortion bill we saw come out in new york which expanded access for abortions into a later into the pregnancy, they wanted to use that against democrats. and now the passage of these laws meets southern states in missouri as well as alabama turned that on its head. we saw mccarthy say a few days ago he thought the alabama bill went too far. but a lot of house republicans didn t really have an answer about the alabama bill. some tried to say, oh, i need to be briefed on it. it will be difficult for them as this progresses and as 2020 democrats, the presidential candidate is trying to latch on to this. liz, as we looked at the 2016 campaign, we saw the evolution of the never trump republican. we saw obviously a substantial amount of republican support for this guy who happens to be in the white house tonight. and we heard from interviews with trump voters in the field,
missouri as well as alabama turned that on its head. we saw mccarthy say a few days ago he thought the alabama bill went too far. but a lot of house republicans didn t really have an answer about the alabama bill. some tried to say, oh, i need to be briefed on it. it will be difficult for them as this progresses and as 2020 democrats, the presidential candidate is trying to latch on to this. liz, as we looked at the 2016 campaign, we saw the evolution of the never trump republican. we saw obviously a substantial amount of republican support for this guy who happens to be in the white house tonight. and we heard from interviews with trump voters in the field, i held my nose. in effect, i did it because of the supreme court. however, 2020, could that not flip the motivation of the court as a kind of unseen candidate in this race to the other side? that s exactly what