masks for children in public schools, that s another thing in these swing districts that is getting the dander up of parents who are ready to start relaxing these pandemic-era mitigation efforts. look, i always like to say in politics, you can judge an issue by who is saying what, who is doing what, or who is feeling what. when you see independents, democrats, the democrats in particular, more and more of them wanting more resources for crime prevention, you know this isn t just some issue republicans are making up as a wedge issue. look, people are experiencing this on the ground, in stays in particular across the country. suburbs as well. but cities where, look, most cities are majority democrat, in terms of who lives there. i think that what you re seeing from members of some members of congress who are running for re-election. i ve been covering this in senate and governors races. they re responding to what
that anyone who broke inside was not engaged in legitimate political discourse, which again raises the question, michael steele, which part of the day was the legitimate political discourse? the attempt to overturn the presidential election? if you want to put violence to the side. but what s your read? we ve always been hesitant, and we should be based on history, about republicans turning on donald trump because they always tend to turn back toward him. what s your read about what we ve seen from mcconnell, pence, and others the past few days? i think the key thing to understand is the internal polling inside the rnc and other organizations that feed that information to them is showing that the gop is soft on this issue. despite good efforts to sort of undermine and take away from the january 6th commission, particularly in the space of going after kinzinger and cheney, that voters are paying a little more attention. they re not liking what they re
here s some of what he said yesterday. i ll give my view of what happened january 6th. we re all here. we saw what happened. it was a violent insurrection. the purpose, trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election. with regard to the suggestion that the rnc should be in the business of picking and choosing republicans who ought to be supported, traditionally, the view of the national party committees is that we support all members of our party, regardless of their positions on some issues. the issue is whether or not the rnc should be singling out the members with different views of the majority. that s not the job of the rnc. that would be putting the hammer down. joe, there s so many different lines to this. there was a message to the rnc. a much bigger message that i
tackled that doesn t mean you re soft on crime. you have to rethink this. let s look what happened with the manhattan district attorney and the memo he sent out about not arresting people who commit petty crimes. that has an impact because it also goes into the psyche of the voter. they see that things are not happening. people are not getting arrested. people who have been arrested for hitting people or pushing people on the subway platform are out on the street 24 hours later. so this issue is very real. the thing is, as that woman 25 years ago said to you, they were all personal things that she felt. she didn t necessarily know someone who was murdered, but she knew someone who was mugged or someone s car who was broken into. it s those crimes that s allowing the mentality of new yorkers to really have their backs up. it wasn t just those ten steaks walking out of a supermarket the other day. on the upper east side, there s
they re hearing from their voters and what they re seeing. part of what, i think, the country is dealing with and, joe, you and i are old enough to remember this. we went through a period in the 60s, 70s, 80s, crime was rampant. people were moving to the suburbs. republicans were responding. biden helped with a crime bill in the senate in the 70s. as crime was reduced and under control for so many years, even republicans in congress got ant bandwagon of reducing sentences. legislation to overhaul how long people were in jail and for what reason. the country felt comfortable that they could make these changes. the past couple of years, we have seen crime on the rise. first republicans were responding. now, you re seeing democrats respond. like sam said, the president was ahead of the curve in his party on this issue. this is something that, if a politician doesn t pay attention