in the senate. they re statewide candidate quality having to do with the l come. that s pretty remarkable to hear from the republican senate leader. not exactly exerting a lot of confidence. let s talk a little bit about those gop candidates, almost all of whom were handpicked by donald trump, and almost all of more floundering. there is, of course, arizona republican oblique masters who was endorsed by trump and he has pushed great replacement conspiracies and claimed that black people are to blame for america s gun violence problem. supery cyst believes, i might add. no surprise that masters is running eight points behind kelly with his opponent pushing racist views, he might be on the path to the smooth reelection. and then there s republican herschel walker down in georgia. herschel walker could barely string a sentence together most times. he has refused to debate democratic senator raphael warnock, and you can understand why when you see his long list of gaps, which
What started as a field of seven is now down to just one. Republicans in Congress Nominating minnesotas tom emmer as their third Speaker Designate in the past two weeks. But can he succeed where Steve Scalise and jim jordan failed and get the votes to become speaker . Plus, one by one, members of Donald Trumps inner circle are flipping on their former boss. Today, a fourth trump codefendant, jenna ellis, pleading guilty to charges in georgia. But the biggest gut punch may be yet to come. Just moments ago, trumps former fixer, Michael Cohen, took the stand in new york and very soon well get our first view from inside the courthouse because theyre on break right now. And as Israel Ratchets up the pressure on hamas and pounds targets inside gaza, Secretary Of State blinken warns the u. N. That the world stands at a crossroads. His plea for peace and a twostate solution. But are other countries, notably israel and iran, willing to listen . But we begin on capitol hill, where right now beli
as far as i know, calendars do move. let s see where it goes in the pecking order. one thing and speaking of i won t call it overlap, but when you re looking at the federal indictment that trump is facing over 2020 election subversion, mark meadows noticeably absent from that federal indictment over the election. measuring meadows is charged in georgia. should people take something from that? no. there s been a lot of speculation that meadows being mising that he s cooperating. it s possible. it s not an unreasonable assumption. however, i will say from the point of view of the prosecutor and defense attorney, it would be inexplicable that he cut some kind of deal to cooperate in the federal case but yet he s
this group of people, those that have latched on to this 87,000 irs number? they say that s the number of armed agency irs is about to hire, but of course it s not true. we know it s not true. sitting members of congress are now tweeting at this number of 87,000 as some sort of secret code to its base. does it overlap or is it quite remnant reminiscent of the qanon world? it s all a meme right? that s all it is. it starts with a hatred of government and you can fill in whatever mid or big fairytale that you want to personal spaces, as long as they attacked the same character. this time it s another federal government agency. the the fbi, the irs it filtered nicely, next week it ll be the atf, we ll find a new federal agency to attack next week. that s the thing, if you can find a big target it really helps this time were not attacking specific agents, like
do you know janice rogers brown? yes, i do know her. she was a judge on the court that i now serve. we didn t overlap and i am struggling to remember whether i ever met her but she was a judge on the circuit court. and you were a district court judge, is that right? i was. i don t know whether she had are they in the same building? they are. you really don t know her. i know of her, yes. what is her reputation? i know that she is a very well respected judge on my circuit. okay. in terms of family, she was the daughter and granddaughter of sharecroppers. raised in alabama under jim crow. despite this adversity she put herself through law school as a