thank you very much. it could be a hugely large line in the sand. a specific rebuke of adam k kinzinger and liz cheney for serving on the january 6th committee. and the calling it legitimate political discourse n. doing so, this is a repudiation of the rnc, of house republican leadership, the cable performers who insist there was no insurrection. mitch mcconnell explicitly says there was. let me give you my view of what happened january the 6th. we all were here. we saw what happened. it was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next. that s what it was.
themselves. and they ended up overthrowing or at least seriously rocking the foundation of the gop for a long time now. again, on the big themes of this, and you noted this in your book. i find this to be so fascinating. the autopsy after the 2012 loss to barack obama. and these party leaders got together and gave a list of prescriptions about what to do going forward. and trump did the exact opposite, and they won. yeah. what was so fascinating to me about reporting that chapter is that the republicans who put that together, who were at the rnc at the time. you know, it was mostly establish-type republicans. people aligned with the bush wing of the party, right? they had in front of them all the evidence that they needed to see that the prescriptions they were laying out wouldn t work, right? there was a survey that i found in my research that said don t approach hispanics as if immigration reform say cure-all. as if it will open the door and
mccarthy, two very different stories there. mccarthy trying to thread that careful needle because he may want to be the house speaker, in fact, does want to be the house speaker if the house of representatives flips in the midterm elections. yesterday he said this when asked by our colleague manu raju whether he thought it was legitimate political discourse january 6th. it was referred to as a legitimate political discourse. that s not correct of what the rnc was talking b. everybody knows, anybody who broke in and caused damage, that was not called for. we said those people from the very beginning should be in jail. they were talking about the six rnc members who weren t even here. who were in florida that day. you are supporting that resolution? reporter: clear as mud. he was asked again later from
with us now, cnn congressional correspondent lauren fox. i noted this last night. mitch mcconnell doesn t say anything by accident. every syllable is carefully chosen. so he did this for a reason. reporter: exactly. he was very strategic yesterday during his republican press conference. he didn t comment on this monday afternoon when he got into washington. but we were prepped and ready for tuesday during that press conference. and he wasn t mincing words. he made it clear he was frustrated with the republican national committee censuring of two members of the house of representatives saying that that isn t the rnc s job. in fact, many republican senators argued they had been outside of their lane, let the voters decide whether or not they want someone like liz cheney to serve another term in the state of wyoming. now, juxta posed to kevin
successful women, people who are far more successful than they. appreciate it. thank you for asking and thanks for coming on here. thank you. sex and politics go together like ugly and a gorilla. don t get angry. i love gorillas too. there are two more stories that deserve attention. perfect fodder for the great debate. first the report that hillary clinton refused to fire a senior adviser on her 2008 presidential campaign who had been accused of sexual harassment. that s according to two sources who worked on that campaign, and there are reports that the finance chair steve wynn has a slew of sexual misconduct accusers against him, so why isn t the rnc moving on him, especially after they sounded the alarm about democrats ties to harvey weinstein. all right. so who do we have? great matchup here. national review editor rich lowry, and joan walsh, national affairs correspondent for the nation. let s start with you, joan. you re closer to me so you get