started. a new era on capitol hill. house republicans are back in charge but are they capable of governing? it doesn t matter whether we have a 30 or 5-seat majority. we ll use it in the manner that the american public wants us to. welcome to inside politics sunday. thank you for spending new year s day with us. we begin in politics as we begin with most questions than answers. what will the legislative priorities actually be? at the white house can president biden beat back the economic head winds and will he be able to maintain momentum from the string of 2022 wins? where we begin today on the campaign trail. what will the 2024 republican primary field look like? can whoever run succeed where the 16 candidates 2 cycles ago could not? many potential candidates have been dropping hints for months. all my focus is on the midterm elections and will stay that way for 20 days but after that we ll think about the future. now that the midterms are over i ll have more to
those seats will probably flip back next time around. yeah. new york alone is probably enough for the republican majority. those seats are very much in play the next time around. hans. i ll be very brief, iran. there s always a foreign policy crisis we re not thinking about. the president declared the iran nuclear deal is dead. he said it in a private comment. iran continues to enrich their highest levels yet. at a certain point that has to be addressed by the international community and by the president of the united states. what a turn-around for biden. he came into office campaigning on reinvigorating the iran nuclear deal and now is faced with the reality that he s getting pressure even hillary clinton said recently that biden needs to walk away from the table while these protests are happening on the ground in iran. president biden privately is saying this. at some point publicly this is going to come to a head. i think it will. to hans point, i think the president has
back now with end game. okay. as i promised you, danielle, north korea, 26 days later, president told us we had nothing to worry about from nuclear weapons from north korea. there are a lot of people this morning thinking, i told you so. yes, well, i think those people are right. the president came into office campaigning on the fact that the obama administration signed an iran deal that was the worst deal ever done. it was flawed. the iranians were cheating. the president pulled out of that deal this year and now he is talking the way that barack obama did, even more liberally, i would say, about north korea, without any facts to back him up. the problem here is very straightforward. the president says denuclearize and he means one thing and kim jong-un says denuclearize and he means another. he thinks we should denuclearize. that s the point totally lost here. global zero. he does not mean, i m going to take apart the plants that i m
our panel is back. let s talk about this washington post article. we re all getting up to speed on it. donald trump may have given over it. donald trump may have given over highly classifieder for russian foreign minister and ambassador while they were meeting with him in the oval office the day after he fired fbi director james comey. steve, it s not illegal for the president to disseminate classified information because he is the president. he can unclassify it. we have the report in the washington post. we re still reading it and processing it. we will hear a lot more about this. this is a guy who came to office campaigning against somebody who had been in that e-mail scandal about did hillary clinton share any classified information that wasn t encrypted, all of that. donald trump made that one of the central issues of his campaign, hillary clinton was
office campaigning on behalf of hillary clinton but also more important to him i wouldn t maybe not more important but just as important to him is the moment this represents for him on the political spectrum of women and violence, and this is something he cares about and it s something he can give voice to and has given voice to and what better place to do it than in his last days on the stump. here we are though talking about this when obamacare premiums are going to up by 25% even more in some cases. i m wondering if this will be a perfect opportunity, corey, and then i ll get to you. it s many missed opportunity by talking about joe biden. in an interesting interview with rush limbaugh, and he said i m paraphrasing advisors want