harass and look at this event that was mocked by right wing media. there are new headlines about rupert murdoch snubbing donald trump and there s new headlines about the story about elon musk. joining us to make sense of it all tara pal mary, the senior correspondent at puck, oliver garsy and elizabeth mayo, former online communications director at the rnc. protesters are gathering at the steps of the u.s. capitol to advocate for legislation that s stalled in the senate. you see pictures of the protest under way on the steps of the capitol. they re advocating for the passage of legislation to provide funding for veterans who have suffered from toxic burn pits in iraq and other previous wars. this exposure bill was stalled the other day by republicans. let s be honest about this, tara. this would not be as big a story were it not for jon stewart. he s used his celebrity status to force this to be a national news story. absolutely. the way he handles it, he s so direct. he
analysis of the republican party if you re not looking at trump you re wasting your type that s in rnc member anonymously the former president is clearly the biggest voice in the room for the party. he had great sway and getting candidates for the primaries that did not do wellin general, miss the chance to retake the senate. how can you break down 2022 without talking about that president? what sum is a personal the washington post does not have a final draft because there is not a final draft many committees and not completed that. so that is in accurate repo reporting. what i will say the biggest take away we are taking his independence did not break our way which has to happen if are going to win in 2024 but that s usually what causes the red wave and abortion was a big issue in key states like michigan and pennsylvania. and so the guidance we are going to get to our candidates if you have to address this head on the democrat spent three and 60 million on this and many of our can
trace? trace: kevin corke, thank you. let s bring in the former chief nominations counsel, mike davis. it is great to see you. you heard the lawyer and kevin corke talking. this whistleblower is essentially alleging the federal investigation into hunter biden is being obstructed. what do you make of these allegations? if you believe that repo reporting, it sounds like the button justice department has evidence that hunter biden violated a gun law by lying on his gun application and he made evaded taxes and has corruptly taken foreign money and the biden justice department is covering this up and they are not allowing this u.s. attorney in delaware to have the latitude he needs to pursue these charges. so if that is true, then we have big problems for merrick garland in the justice department. trace: you have hunter biden s attorneys say they believe this whistleblower is breaking the law.
russia actually, russia, for them to reintegrate into the international community at some point, you know, maybe they ll decide putin has to go, but this is a war criminal. one of the great tyrants of our time documenting these war crimes is absolutely something that will be on the mind of the administration and our european partners, as well. growing nato. retired cia analyst marc polymeropoulos, and the washington post david ignatius, thank you both very much for coming on this morning. coming up, new polling shows a growing number of americans support the decision to criminally charge donald trump will the former president s legal troubles strengthen the support from his pace? we ll dig into that new repo reporting from the guardian. plus, a federal appeals court upholds the use of an obstruction charge against january 6th defendants what it means for the hundreds of people indicted in connection with the citapol attack.
i want to show this one moment as kevin mccarthy was confronting gaetz as he was walking away, republican congressman mike rogers, the chairman deciding nat of the house armed services committee. there you see him going up and having to be restrained by a colleague the face grab is quite a thing. has to be held back going after matt gaetz. apparently according to repo reporting, he said i will finish you or something along those lines. i ve never seen anything like that during a speaker vote. what about you? as a former communications director for the dnc, i was very proud of my democrats as you said, we are in array and no violence. look, here is the thing, jake. we don t even know how long this is going to last, because they still have not adopted the rules. i was hearing from senior democratic leadership aides they didn t have oh republicans did not even have the votes on friday night, what was it, 1:00