trump s most outspoken critics in the senate. you see romney maybe filling one of those positions as someone who will speak out when something when the president makes a misstep, but it s not totally out of line with what we ve seen for the past two years. i think haley nails it there, i think, mckay, part of me, this read very cynical, him being like, hey, don ting a me about the tweets, i know the guy s a jerk. don t wear me down. i m mitt romney, i m here to vote with the republican party for the wall so stop asking me about that stuff. well, so i think that when romney one of the interesting things about this is that romney actually did not plan and up until pretty recently to make this big splash as he came to washington. i ve been talking to people close to romney for the past year as he ran for senate out in utah and his kind of strategy, his thinking coming into washington, is his victory in utah was a fore gone conclusion. his idea was going to come here and be on rela
about it and improve it. but they got rid of hearings in the republican congress. for the most part, we were voting on bills, constitutional l amendments like the balanced budget amendment that never had a hearing before, so i pushed very strongly and i m proud to say it s in the rules package for a provision saying that no bills will go through the rules committee to the floor unless they ve had a hearing first. i mean, it s a pretty basic thing. but i m excited that we re actually going to be involved in real legislative process instead of just mobilizing everybody into partisan camps. yes. spoken like a true legislator. the thing you re most excited for is hearings which you have the right job if that s the case. i ll go in on the rules committee. i can t tell you how excited i am about that. congressman jamie raskin, thank you very much. my pleasure. mitt romney returns to his old position on donald trump as he enters the senate. not that old one. the other old, old one.
especially defenders in congress. rand paul held a press conference about the op-ped which was interesting to say the least. part of it is so weird, there s like this witchcasting, there s this aggrievedness, mckay, you have sprub ca republi are you on my case about the guy i support and vote with who s the most powerful person in the world who i think and you think is a psychopath? like, what s the problem? why are you in my face about it? it s like, that s why because that s why. you just said it. and romney has the same m.o. here. well, i think part of the kind of animosity that other republicans have toward romney over this is because as ha lerks s ha ler haleyks y kind alluded to earlier, all the republicans in the senate, not all, most of them said similar things to what romney wrote, at least in private. they kind of all believe the same thing about donald trump. romney happens to come from a state where it s kind of an idiosyncratic red state.
the thing you re most excited for is hearings which you have the right job if that s the case. i ll go in on the rules committee. i can t tell you how excited i am about that. congressman jamie raskin, thank you very much. my pleasure. mitt romney returns to his old position on donald trump as he enters the senate. not that old one. the other old, old one. next, mckay coppens and haley byrd on what they make of senator romney s shot at the president. r romney s shot at the president. age-related macular degeneration, amd, i wanted to fight back. my doctor and i came up with a plan. it includes preservision. only preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of progression of moderate to advanced amd. that s why i fight. because it s my vision. preservision. also, in a great-tasting chewable. life isn t a straight line. things happen. and sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new direction. but at fid
past two years. . which is, i m not going to comment on every tweet. right. i will speak out if something egregious happens. like if the president sides with putin over the u.s. intelligence community in front of the entire world. but, you know, i m going to go about my business as if this was any president. and that is just a common refrain among a lot of republicans in the senate. so it doesn t really represent a drastic shift. i mean, you have jeff flake and bob corker both leaving and those were two of president trump s most outspoken critics in the senate. you see romney maybe filling one of those positions as someone who will speak out when something when the president makes a misstep, but it s not totally out of line with what we ve seen for the past two years. i think haley nails it there, i think, mckay, part of me, this read very cynical, him being like, hey, don ting a me about t the tweets, i know the guy s a jerk. don t wear me down. i m mitt romney, i m here to vo