to do by bashing it from the inside and you can t have somebody you don t trust in your organization. todd: seemed like he had a cult with jeff zucker, if you defend your boss after he s gone, may have a problem. washington post says president trump may not be the ton surrogate, the president is not featured in ads and key race in battleground states are not asking him to come or avoiding him. how does this jibe with the victory tour over the inflation reduction act? seems like those two things are not logger heads. joe: the president is currently polling lower than trump back to truman and quite frankly one poll and i ll leave it here, 31% of california votersment this president to
that even mcconnell has come in line and voted against the impeachment is something that i think trump views as a victory in the aggregate. now, how trump views this versus how mccarthy s caucus views this is completely different. republicans in the house republican conference have already been at logger heads with him for a long time now. this is just going to be one more way to try to undermine his leadership, potentially pushing him out of the way when it comes to the speakership, if republicans are able to take control of the house of representatives. because, of course, everyone knows that it is extremely well known that kevin mccarthy s end goal is to become speaker of the house, and this, once again, often asked when there is something involving kevin mccarthy, but this one is particularly significant. what this actually could mean for him. yeah, i think this is probably the most, one of the more significant threats to
ainsley: i m glad we are just figuring this out. brian: just informed none of this is new. ainsley: pete hegseth is going to be in nashville tomorrow is he hanging out with greg. steve: watch. greg is there all week long and dolly parton if we just woke you up. ainsley: love her. steve: talk about what is going none washington, d.c. nothing new york city really. because the democrats and republicans are at each other s throats yesterday after the senate republicans blocked the democrats. ainsley: this is not new either. steve: from raising the debt ceiling and funding the government. the republicans said, look. we will we re going to run out of money here at the end of this week. the republicans said we will do a clean resolution where we fund the government after we run out of money on friday night. and then patrick leahy the democrat says i object. so now they re at logger heads and at each other s throats. ainsley: progressives are saying if you don t pass this $3.5 trillion spend
30 s on independents that s a big problem. steve: apparently the president s speech today at the united nations general assembly is going to be about closing the chapter on 20 years of war. probably going to leave out how we droned those people at the end. brian: yeah. steve: going to turn to coronavirus, climate and vigorous competition with great powers but not a new cold war and probably avoid explaining how we stabbed france in the back. brian: right. i think it s also important to bring up that the u.n. first general secretary said that our actions make us feel as though we want a cold war with china, instead of saying mutually america and china seem to be at logger heads or something that an international politician would say. they say america s policy towards china is bringing us to that point. ainsley: and we can t, sorry, brian, were you finished. brian: go ahead. ainsley: okay. we can t forget that there are americans trapped behind enemy lines still in afghanistan and they a
to the iraq war and france was causing trouble, i was actually interviewing george h.w. bush on the phone and i said to him, it was a friday evening i remember and i said why is france being so difficult and bush said because they re france. you know, this is a national characteristic about pride. i don t mean to minimize it but i do think that what it tells us is that everybody understands the strategic future does lie in the pacific and that s what links the two stories you re talking about. certainly. it certainly does and does line behind the pacific where you see the u.s. and china, of course at logger heads increasingly. thank you so much. appreciate your time. next, the mayor of del rio, texas warning the situation in his border town is a nuclear bomb alarm. there are more than 12,500 migrants and counting under that bridge and the situation is getting worse.