the trump/desantis battle evolved into a schoolyard brawl. you don t change your name in the middle of the election. his whole family moved to florida under my governorship. are you kidding me? what is the desantis plan to convince voters he s not just a better nominee but a better president. plus the gop field keeps growing. three more candidates will jump in this week including trump s former vp. republicans have to offer a positive vision grounded in conservative principles. but how many of them will make it to the republican debate stage? and disaster averted. no one got everything wanted but the american people got what they needed. the president said it is proof his brand of politics still works. i know bipartisanship is hard but we could never stop trying. welcome to inside politics sunday , i m abby phillip. thank you for joining. it is all about iowa, iowa. and yesterday marks the first start of the caucus season with eight presidential hopefuls
dysfunctional process with him and speaker mccarthy. huh to started. they were surprised when mccarthy was able to pass a bill that caught the white house off guard. and they had negotiate when they didn t want to. and it was ugly. the back and forth was ugly. it does not seem like they were close and they figured out nothing like the deadline to focus the mind. but i think inside of the white house, we averted the crisis but we did pretty well in this negotiation. maybe miccarthy didn t have a great hand but they had to give something else and they got a two-year increase to the debt ceiling and not have a problem with the core things they were able to pass. biden said in my first four years as president. you re like, i m sorry, it is been a long two and a half but it is not been four years but his mind is on an election. because he s not running a primary. so if he were, he might not be
to me. i sat on the floor on on january 6th. i m well aware of what was going on. i m also well aware that the president did not direct that. although he could have certainly done some things that that may have, uh, stifled some of that, but i think a lot of the people that he was telling people to go down to the capital on january 6th. he was telling people to go down to the capital on january 6th. he was telling people to, uh to, uh to, you know, to seek, uh, peaceful. ah redress with their government grievances. i don t think he was telling people to storm the capital break windows, um and try to disrupt the proceedings. but people did go to that rally. like hell to fight like hell. i don t mean to interrupt, but he was, but he was. i don t mean interrupt, sir, but he was saying to fight like hell, he he wasn t just saying to go be peaceful doubt of the capital. that s not accurate. no. well but it s not also not our good to say he was said to fight like hell with capitol police off