democrats and joe biden to be running on a record of what they will call success for two years. and now, seeing a party that does not have a coherent message heading into a presidential. to your point, the real power the speakership is two things. first, constitutionality of it. and a second is that you basically speak for a majority body, right, inside the house of representatives. and when you have, when you go into the negotiations with the white house, or even if the senate, right, because the old saying in the house as the democrats are the opposition by the senate s are the enemy, you just do not have that leverage now. so, whoever becomes speaker is going to be severely reduce. when you see joe biden and mitch mcconnell tomorrow standing together, ken mccarthy while he s trying to buy chick-fil-a and bring his caucus together, it s that congress. i don t know why we have to bring chick-fil-a into it. but okay margaret, that s fine, i hear you. thank you everyone. nice talk
it s the unified message that you can send against the white house that helps you break through. they re already starting off the new year without any. this is off a gift to joe biden. it s so important. so important. it s going to be the blame game olympics for the next year, and it is wide open for the democrats and joe biden to be running on a record of what they will call success for two years, and now seeing a party that does not have a coherent message heading into a pressure. turkey, your point, the real power of the speakership is two things. first, the constitutionality of it. and the second is you basically speak for a majority body, right, inside the house of representatives. and when you have when you go into a negotiation with the white house or even against the senate, right? because the old saying the democrats is opposition but the senate is the enemy. you don t have that leverage now. whoever comes speaker is going to be severely reduced. when we see joe bide
i mean, celebritiy essentially, give him no maneuvering room. but if you have a couple of folks who didn t want to do it, they could throw his entire speakership into jeopardy. the house is kind of a majority body, the party with the most seats gets to pick the speaker and in the conference meeting, 85 plus percent of the republicans voted for mccarthy to be speaker. but the people who are holdouts here are saying, is we think the entire 435 body chamber should be put in the hands of five people which is antithetical to the way the house runs. before we leave, i want to talk about the president s tax returns, we ve been talking about them in this hour. how do you see this impacting presidential over sight and how this plays out as we move forward. i agree with the republican
about overturning roe v. wade. they were accused of lying inaccurately by collins and joe manchin, so that seems to be the focus of the democrats if they are going to try and get rid of the filibuster and pass legalization of abortion nationally. you are right. what we have seen those joe manchin is he doesn t cave to pressure. he stood up against build back better, this massive spending package. they put massive pressure and protested his home, his boat, and his office, and that there is a hope that we keep the issue of abortion to the voters into the states. that ill be joe manchin he saves us. but that is yet to be seen. dagen: yet turn the senate into the house of representatives. no offense, as a former congressman. you don t want that. you want a majority body in the
[ applause ] i want you to meet justine, she s a student at the university of brooklyn and a youth climate group. welcome. hi, senator sanders. really nice to meet in 2012, i witnessed hurricane sandy ravage this area. you have wavered in times on your stance of eliminating the filibuster. if bad actors like senator mitch mcconnell intend to use the filibuster to block climate legislation? i haven t wavered. i believe the senate should not be the house and we shouldn t have a majority body. we need major filibuster reform and second of all, just as bush got through major tax breaks for the rich through the budget reconciliation act, we can do