he is now running against his former boss for the republican nomination. i have to say, mike pence has always struck me as a somewhat ridiculous figure. he always sounds like he is doing a bad impersonation of a politician. but his biggest obstacle in the republican primary is that voters do not seem to like him very much. despite his real advantage on name recognition, just 7% of republican primary voters say they would vote for pence if the primary election were held today. and this is even more damning. 37% have a negative opinion of the former vice president compared with 33% of primary voters who view him positively according to that same nbc news poll. that s what we call in, in the business, underwater on favor abilities. it s very clear reason for that. donald trump is still quite popular front runner for the republican nomination, blames mike pence. on january 6th and over and over and over again in the two and a half years since then, trump has told his followers th
people for your vote. if we would not have joe biden in the white house. tonight, the effort to persuade rank and file republicans the former arizona house speaker rusty bowers on his conversations with the special counsel. then, as the ex president s body man is finally arraigned, how walt nada chose to be a defendant instead of a witness. plus, how two democratic governors used a favor republican mnuchin maneuver to turn their agendas into law and how the wildly successful rollout of the threads social media platform kicked off a billionaire battle for the ages. but offered me money. offer me power. i don t care. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. mike pence is in the very first presidential contest state of iowa tonight in the midst of the three-day campaign spectacle. although there s nothing more predictable than a former vice president iran for the white house, mike pence is in a unique position. not only was he number
sort of line a veto power, where they effectively get to take a read editors pen two bills, crossing at certain aspects, and then sign the rest of the bill into law. notably, that authority isn t granted to the president of the united states. the supreme court struck down a federal veto back in 1998. despite bill clinton being president at the time, the federal line item veto it was the brain child of house republicans who saw it as a useful tool to rein in federal spending. during a successful campaign for governor, wisconsin republican scott walker effectively said as much the same. but i have a line veto just as part of that is one of the few things that county executives have their that s different than everybody else. it s simple to me. economics 101, government
they are not higher taxes. these are tax give aways. you re not going to get them. they are oil companies to corporate jets to hedge fund managers. call it what you want, you won t get them. pat, look, you say the republicans have the advantage. i m not sure what you call it. they are obviously give aways to the corporates. you say republicans have the advantage. what if we don t raise the debt ceiling but don t go into default. money comes into the treasury all the time. we use it to pay our debt so there is no default. the president says okay i have the biggest line veto in the history of mankind. i will only fund programs you are in favor of. you republicans get nothing from now on. then who s got the advantage? you re tell meg that president of the united states look, if the president of the united states you re right. the president of the united states would have to start chopping spending and programs like that. what are the big ones? medicare, medicaid? social secu