about the facts of his case. then, tough talk on the debt limit deal. fighting got an important win by signing the legislation. but the real question, what at what cost to the american people? a culture of losing, that is how one of the front runners for the gop presidential nomination described his party s electoral performance. but there s no sign republicans want to change their strategy. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. all right, this hour, we begin with a sad and at this point, quite honestly, an obvious reality. republicans will do almost anything to hurt president biden s reelection chances. no surprise there. no but there are desperate, mary alice or insane their actions might be, just this week, senator chuck grassley had this to say about and unconfirmed years old allegation that joe biden accepted a bribe as vice president. watch. we aren t interested in whether or not the accusations against vice president biden are accurate or not. so, grassley just
second hour of a man. the obvious and flailing republican smear campaign against president biden. one gop senator this week, admitted that he didn t care about the facts of his case. then, tough talk on the debt limit deal. fighting got an important win by signing the legislation. but the real question, what at what cost to the american people? a culture of losing, that is how one of the front runners for the gop presidential nomination described his party s electoral performance. but there s no sign republicans want to change their strategy. i m phil ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. all right, this hour, we begin with a sad and at this point, quite honestly, an honest reality. republicans will do almost anything to hurt president biden s reelection chances. no surprise there. no matter how desperate merit-less or in saying their actions might be, just this week, senator chuck grassley had this to say about and unconfirmed years old allegation that joe biden accepted a bri
continue here. conservative lawmakers and organizers, they argue tha this is just about restricting performances that they say children should nazi but they described as overly sexualized and they say that is not a ban but the performers insist that with the current language of the bill, it is vague, it is difficult for them t understand how to operate thei businesses, and a judge for no decided with them. i want to take a listen to som of the performers that i hav talked to to hear how lgbt community members here i tennessee have been feelin these last few weeks all we can do is say that it s bad and it s wrong, pleas don t do this to us, but the have found us to be a really effective political tool we need all hands on deck because when they finish wit us, don t be naive enough to think that they re not comin for you. and it is important put thi in context, to, alex this bill was signed by th governor at the same time as they passed and signed a bil that will outlaw g
home to go to fund-raisers, many of them didn t care if they tanked the economy. so when the president says that he had to make this compromise, in order to save the country and say the economy, he is telling the truth. because they didn t care. at the end of the day, it was the lesser of two evils. in a sense. for those of us who took a stand, who said, we are going to stand up against the bullies. we re gonna stand up against all the bad things that are in this bill. we are going to take a stand for all the hundreds of thousands of people who are going to lose food and assistance, and for the environment and climate change, and we re going to cast a no today. we had to have both. we couldn t allow this bill to fail. in the end, it passed for 314 votes, because the vast majority of democrats who helped this bill passed, knew that we couldn t to default. those of us who decided to vote no, who frankly were many of the folks in leadership and committees of jurisdiction, we are talking t
i can tell you because i walked the halls of the capitol every day. last week, last wednesday, when they all got on planes and went home to go to fund-raisers, many of them didn t care if they tanked the economy. so when the president says that he had to make this compromise, in order to save the country and say the economy, he is telling the truth. because they didn t care. at the end of the day, it was the lesser of two evils. in a sense. for those of us who took a stand, who said, we are going to stand up against the bullies. we re gonna stand up against all the bad things that are in this bill. we are going to take a stand for all the hundreds of thousands of people who are going to lose food and assistance, and for the environment and climate change, and we re going to cast a no today. we had to have both. we couldn t allow this bill to fail. in the end, it passed for 314 votes, because the vast majority of democrats who helped this bill passed, knew that we couldn t to default. t