Michigan primary. With President Biden facing the possibility of a significant protest vote over the situation in gaza and nikki haley hoping for something, anything positive with donald trump expected to easily win the republican primary and the nomination. Well get to all of that shortly. But first, we want to set the stage Just A Little Bit for where things stand when we talk about the Republican Party. So we begin the reidout tonight with the freak show. The weekend was the annual conservative Political Action conference, cpac, a showcase of just how extreme the once grand old party has become. How extreme, you ask, well, as nbc news is reporting, nazis mingled openly at cpac, spreading antisemitic Conspiracy Theories and finding allies. Yes, you did hear me say nazis. Nbc news noted in previous years, conference organizers have ejected well known nazis and White Supremacists such as nick fuentes from cpac. This year, racist Conspiracy Theorists didnt meet any perceptive resistance
secretary of state blinken makes a surprise trip to the west bank today as he tries to stop the conflict from widening throughout the region. meanwhile here in washington a major roadblock on capitol hill. the future of the house approved a stand alone aid package for israel in limbo. the house bill is dead on arrival and they said it. shannon: a big win for the new speaker of the house can be short-lived critical funding for israel fight against hamas and ukraine against russia gets caught up in a political wrangling. owned to pair up border security with ukraine i think we can get bipartisan agreement on both of those matters. shannon: speaker of the house and michael johnson all joined us exclusively design b designey dispersal week on the job and his plan to avoid a government shutdown just days from now. and. quickly provided israel advice that only the best of friends can offer on how to minimize civilian deaths while still achieving s objectives of finding and fi
today as he tries to stop the conflict from widening throughout the region. meanwhile here in washington a major roadblock on capitol hill. the future of the house approved a stand alone aid package for israel in limbo. the house bill is dead on arrival and they said it. shannon: a big win for the new speaker of the house can be short-lived critical funding for israel fight against hamas and ukraine against russia gets caught up in a political wrangling. owned to pair up border security with ukraine i think we can get bipartisan agreement on both of those matters. shannon: speaker of the house and michael johnson all joined us exclusively desi designed by dispersal week on the job and his plan to avoid a government shutdown just days from now. and. quickly provided israel advice that only the best of friends can offer on how to minimize civilian deaths while still achieving s objectives of finding and finishing hamas a terrorist big et cetera to blinken back in the midd
Department he leads didnt stop there. He mocked the very notion of deferring to any career prosecutors managing cases and asserted he and he alone has all the prosecutorial discretion he said under the law all prosecutorial power is invested in the attorney general. He mocked the very notion that any career official should be free to handle cases free from interference from him. Barr said that argument in essence means the will of the most Junior Member of the organization would determine decisions, but he insisted he would not blindly defer to whatever the subordinates want to do. Heres attorney general bill barr in his own words last night on the career men and women who make up the department of justice. Name one Successful Organization or institution where the lowest level employees decision are deemed is sacros sacrosanct there arent any good leaders at the department of justice need to trust and support their subordinates that doesnt mean blindly deferring to whatever the subordi
Intensifies his own attacks against his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions. Support among republicans for the a. G. Is growing and fast, so we have those comments for you. But first, lets talk about the u. S. Senate set to vote on whether to move forward on debate for this Republican Health care bill. It is safe to say this is one of those votes we have absolutely no idea how it will turn out. Full disclosure. Several senators, theyre still undecided. Is the plan to repeal and replace . Is it to repeal only now and replace later . Whatever the procedural vote is, Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell could only afford to lose two senators, and the president is pushing members not to be the vote that shuts this whole thing down. So, lets go to dana bash, our cnn chief Political Correspondent there on capitol hill. First things first, do we even know what they are voting on . Reporter well, in the shortterm, the answer is yes. Theyre voting on, as you said, at the beginning of this show, they