man, mccarthy s got some speed in them legs. a true profile in courage. there s perhaps no better example of the dangers of crossing trump than south carolina congresswoman nancy may. she isro up for re-election thi fall and is facing a tough primary challengect from a trump-backed candidate. so, what did she do to lose trump s endorsement after he backed her in 2018? she did the right thing. she actually blamed trump for the january 6 insurrection. now, in an effort to blunt the damage of losing trump s support, mace has pulled perhaps one of the most embarrassing and folks, i mean most embarrassing maneuvers i have ever seen from an elected official in this country. watch. hey everyone. nancy mace here. i m in front of trump tower today. remember in 2015 when president trump announced his run. i was one of his earliest supporters. i supported him in 2020 because of policies i believed in.
non sequitur. i suppose we re talking about that and not paul gosar or donald trump so maybe it gets us talking more about goofy behavior by the minority leader as a opposed to reprehensible behavior by some of his colleagues whom he has defended and whom the entire republican party with the exception of liz cheney and adam kinzinger defended on the floor of the house earlier this week. in that respect, you know, in mccarthy s it looks like a bit of a goofball and take our attention away from the more serious things that his party has done and is doing. congresswoman, is it possible the censure vote against gosar made the chamber even more toxic than it already was? well, i think it was necessary. i mean, if there s any hope that congress is going to get back to a point of more decorum of
like kevin mccarthy, you are not the future of the party. paul go start, gaetz, boebert, the troll caucus. the most exuberant lee anti social member, they are with the republican parties. and quite frankly, mccarthy s, properly, correctly scared of their influence. after, all congressman, greene told us, that she doesn t think mccarthy is a shoe in for the speakers gavel. instead saying that donald trump s endorsement for the position will make the final difference. meanwhile, trump s former chief of staff, who used to be a member of congress, is currently debating a duly ordered subpoena, he is out there plugging trump for the position of speaker himself. i would love to see the gavel go from nancy pelosi to donald trump you are talking about melting down, people will go crazy as you know you don t have to be an elected member of congress to be the speaker. wouldn t you see, she would go
history keeps repeating itself and i m a journalist and an historian and i look for those repetitive cycles of the american experience and here which was again unfortunately. can i ask you about the president who repeatedly insists that the mueller investigation is a witch-hunt? mccarthy s was a witch-hunt of a different kind. what duds this president gain from using this term witch-hunt ? president trump likes to turn everything on its end. to go back to the 1950s, the irony was the fbi during that period was feeding congress people the information and in this hearing you have the congress attacking the fbi. that is totally in keeping with president trump, who has turned everything upside down and so he uses the term witch-hunt for that very purpose, to discombobulate the entire
[translated] this strongly resembles a witch hunt or the times of mccarthy s was also a frequent figure in the obama administration. the logs show he visited the white house a total of 22 times when barack obama was president, including four times last year alone. bret? bret: john, thank you. congress is not in session today, but there is plenty of speculation of what republicans are pending obamacare, repeal d replace. we will talk to speaker ryan in just a moment, but what is happening today and capitol hill? there is chief congressional correspondent in a matter of days, you will see a very brisk place of legislative activity. we are going to repeal and replace obamacare. we are doing it at the same time. in house speaker paul ryan s home of a better health care