kayleigh burns is back with me. andrew rice is a contributing editor with new york magazine and lindsey wit witticombbe with the new yorker. you ve written extensively about jared kushner s work, but put it into context for me, caitlin. this appears to be the only current white house official under scrutiny now by the fbi. jared s attorney says they are ready and willing to cooperate with any investigation, but they haven t been contacted yet. what is your sense on how big of a concern this is for the white house? remember that jared kushner, there was controversy surrounding his nondisclosed meetings with the russian ambassador, as you mentioned, also with the russian state bank meeting. so, there are a couple questions involving the nature of those conversations, including whether there was any relationship to the businesses, whether there was any you know, what the exact kinds of conversations
but here we have mike pence, the vice president of the united states who says he s a christian first and then a conservative and then a republican in that order, and mike pence, this great christian, refuses to stand up and say a single word when this assault is taking place and everyone knows about it. then you have $100,000 coming in to the coffers for gianforte s campaign in the last day of the campaign after the body slam, and then an apology that happens after he s elected! there s no courage here, there s no moral integrity here, and i think it s time for the republican party to stand for something. it s supposed to be it used to claim to be the party of family values and integrity. where is that? how do you get back to that? because it s not happening right now, and i applaud kayleigh for at least standing up and saying that paul ryan should have done more than just demand an apology. and for the record, the only reason the reason keith is not in studio with us is not beca
physically assaulted a journalist just before the election. and i think the republican party has to make a decision do we respond to something like this perhaps through censure, or do we say this is politics as normal post donald trump? and i think that could be a problem for the party. i know we ve got go to quick break, but keith, let me ask you that, just jump in on this what more do you want to see republicans do, keith? i mean, because at this point, paul ryan, he wanted him to apologize. today he put out a statement saying that gianforte will be a valuable voice in the house republican caucus, but what more do republicans need to do? what more can republicans do? he was voted in. i m actually going to agree with kayleigh on this. i mean, i think she s right in the sense that paul ryan was right to call for an apology but didn t call for him to withdraw from the race. i think that we ve crossed the boundaries now, and i think donald trump is largely responsible for contribut