i don t think anybody thought that the ukrainians were going to fight back with the heroic courage that they have. you have been trying to do what you can to try to bring russia to its knees. you have the stop putin act, it would put congress and not the president in charge of whether the united states does business with russian oil companies. do you not trust the president to do it? senator: well, he s been pretty weak. i mean, this should have never have happened. if biden would have done everything early. if he would had sent all the resources, made sure that zelenskyy had everything he nede needed, antitank, antiaircraft, putin wouldn t have invaded. you look at the pictures of the children dying just because putin is such a thug, a
think this was to mark meadows, help this great president stand firm, mark. you are the leader with him who is standing for america s constitutional governor governance. biden is attempting the greatest heist of our history. she s a conservative activist, she can say all these things, but she s also the wife of a supreme court justice, and what are the implications of that? i m not a lawyer, but it does strike me that this creates problems for justice thomas in cases involving january 6th and the cases of the 2020 election. and he s going to have to face some serious questions with about whether or not he recuses. full disclosure, i was reminded of this by a friend when this bubbled up last week with. about a dozen years ago, ginny thomas had a meeting of her secret group and announced they were going to have a crusade to erase me from politics. i don t know how that s going [laughter] john: although, we can only see you from waist up. [laughter] exactly. but these were e-mails
breasts. reporter: today democrats criticize gop senators who may want to run for president for their aggressive tactics with jackson. but it was the notoriety of supreme court confirmation hearings which propelled a senator from delaware into the american political mainstream. john: chad joins us now as part of our sunday group alongside karl rove, marie harf and fox news correspondent gillian turner. welcome, all. karl, let me start with you because you saw through a couple of these with justice roberts and justice alito. mitt romney has said he believes some of the attacks against ketanji brown jackson were, quote, off course. what do you say? some. i think that s probably right. i m with andrew mccarthy in these decisions involving child pornography, but this is a mild hearing. she s going to be confirmed. i thought one of the interesting things was at the beginning of this process she said, quote, i do not have a judicial
contact as they are with the united states with individual nato allies. they ve spoken with most of the allies on nato s eastern flank and even some that are not on nato s eastern flank over towards the west. each ally is doing what it s what it conditions to provide assistance in this moment and we will continue to work withle lies on determining what s best and how we can assist them with, again, their air defense needs. john: there was a debate, madame ambassador in the administration as to what sanctions were designed to do. we were told in the run-up to this invasion that sanctions were meant to deter putin from ever going to ukraine but in the weekend the president said that, no, sanctions were never meant to deter. let s listen to what the president said and listen to what his lieutenant said in the run-up to the invasion. let s get something straight, you remember if you covered me from the very beginning, i did not say that, in fact, the sanctions would deter him. sanction
billion, intel is investing in ohio. you talk about the revitalization of the midwest, we re delivering. let s get it to the president, there are other things that we ought to do, but this president has met the note very difficult circumstances. john: americans might disagree with you. his approval rating s only 40% in the latest reuters/ipsos poll. i want to ask you a question about your book because the political discourse in this country has sunk to new lows, and much of the reason why everybody s yelling at each other is because of social media. is social media ruining this country? no, but social media needs to do better. several things they need to do better. they ought not to have incitement of violence, they ought not to discriminate against viewpoints, and they ought to make sure that teenagers aren t getting manipulated many ways that are causing depression and suicide. absolutely, there need to be more smarter regulations on social media. john: congressman, thanks so much