seventy majority democrats in that vote actually. joining me now live from capitol hill is fox news senior congressional correspondent c chatgpt graham. d chad, what, if anything, surprise you ? we expected to pass, buta robust by this margin, it was a robust vote for a bill that noon from one liked, a bipartisan coalition frompartie both partis supported the bill, but more democrats supportedhe the bill than gop members.an one hundred forty nine republicans voted yes. one hundred sixty five democrats voted yes. house minority leader hakeem jeffries touted democratic support for the bill earlier today, 29 house republicans voted to defaultagrn on our nation s debt and against an agreement that you negotiated straight magon. republicans attempted to takeate contrompl of the house floor. democrats took it back . the bill now goes to the senate. conservatives are criticizing the bill there. mike leehere rand paul and randt the senate to consider an alternative rather than
a politicalization of that system. this is a partisan prosecution.y in my view, the case is legally absurd and it s being brought for the political purposes and timing by, in my view, the district attorney s office. now that mean that there can be no gag order but trump has a point here with regard to michael cohen. thisw, this is also you h another uncommon aspect of the ave case. you have a witness who s essentially campaigning againstt ,trump not just talking goinpeople tase, but going on the air and campaigning against him as president, calling for people tagainso vot. and you re telling a candidate that he cannot respond. could in the very least, the judge could make exceptionma cawith to witnesses who are now actively campaigning against candidate for the presidency. you think so? nothing ordinary about anye pred of this. you mentioned witnesses, professor. the judge also decidedt that alvin bragg s team doesn t
the judge excludes from the prosecutors for cross-examww elimination. interesting. we ll be watching, professor, and thank you for your breakdownil watchin trump railing against the lawfare campaign against it. this is a witch hunt by numerous judges. democrats, if you take a lookt, at it and it is a whack job. what h e was a disgrace. it s being reviewed by the appellate division, whether it s judge kaplan with a persoes ,i have no idea. you know, they called and said was re suing because i had no idea who this person was. this judge. if you look at engoron, where he said there were a lot oall or of which it was worth it orar a year and a half now said, here s where they came in. you know, as for the world they re watching and allhat ingr the world they re saying this is a giant witchhunt to try and hurt a candidate that s beating the worst president in ned ryan, american majority founder and ceo joining.
off. havpeople are allowed to speaki about me. and i have a gag order just to show you how much more unfair they take it away. t my constitutional rights to speak. and that include to s the i have lot to say and i m not allowed y to say it. anyone else can say whatever they want about me. they can say anything they wantn they continue to make up lies and everything else. joining me now, fox news contributor and george washington university law georr jonathan. pr so, professor, help me out on the gag order. there s going to bofr, help e an tuesday. he s gagged but he continues continow d. how do you see this playing p out? f well, you know, this is the troubling aspect of that order. thesthe gae gag orders have bece very commonplace for courts, but this anything but your most common case. i meanca , they you ve gott in a defendant who s running for president in an electionn elec i that is going to turn on for many voters, the weaponization of the legal system. this case is the bes
from the more populist angle. and over the lastus angle a r pr so, it s been strange,show s a president who s shown that he s so in touch touch previousy with the american people, what they thought has shownvo a little a level of separationrh from the republican voter, whether it s hyping vaccinesy fm early on or now attackingft or the senator repeatedly from the left or saying, as ben just wrote about this week, sayingn that somehow ron desantis ran a bad job of covid inut new york . bu t andrew cuomo did a good job a in new york . that s completely that sg hi the interesting things that when he ron desantis comes at him from his own lane, that might actually start to change. it pets interesting. t i just get trump s numbers the continue to go up when they see what the left has donet to himy i don t know how you takebaso away that baked into the cake among his base. tough fo r anybody to do.e ben and chris, thank you very much. all right. final thoughts when we return. wi