investigating the laws thoroughly is what got him off. interesting perspective there for sure. susan, this one to you. the gop is energized, but trump cancel culture poses a threat. the former president tightening his grip on the party as a haphazard king maker, threatens republican incumbents and endorses questionable candidates. so do you, susan, think the former president is going to end up hurting his own party in next year s election? it s quite possible, depending how involved he gets. everyone keeps pointing to what happened in virginia and that we should follow the youngkin example. except youngkin didn t have a primary. he was nominated via convention. it s the primaies that become the knockout, drag-out, and if you get more trumplike extremists and endorsed by the president for extremists that will in fact probably lead to their defeat, which would be
he ended up behind the tax cuts. mabel because he lost the presidential primaies to george bush. but he was there, sometimes it was frustrating. covering him on economic policy, it was clear he didn t have deep thoughts. he even said so much about it. he even that, i m not that much into domestic policy. like throwaway line. the thing that he was very focused on, i would love to get your thoughts on it. to me, this has me thinking in a broader sense about this country s failure in many ways to reckon with the disaster that was iraq. john mccain not single handedly responsible for that but he was a very vocal advocate. it seemed that hundreds of thousands died in that war, many innocent civilians and noncombatants. and the country has not quite come to terms with what we did there and what it meant. i think one of the reasons we haven t completely reckoned with
senate primaies next year and he needs the trump support to get the republicans through prim primaries. is it possible that they do the drudgery work that has to get done so the country can function without white house input in. it s possible. but i think what you ve seen is that congress can t act unilaterally. the president s team can t act unilaterally and a single comment or tweet can blow that up on any given day. our great thanks to our lead-off panel here tonight. coming up after our first break this evening, more defections from trump s manufacturing council, the topic that launched everything we witnessed today. we re just getting started 0 an busy tuesday night. this is the 11th hour. welcome back to our broadcast. the president s comments on charlottesville came after he was asked, let s not forget, about business leaders who have resigned from his council on manufacturing. break this evening, more defections from trump s manufacturing council, the topic that lau