ali, let s talk about 2024. speaker pelosi is backing adam schiff of california for the senate seat of diane feinstein who has yet to announce her intentions if she retires. let me ask you to read part of pelosi s statement. the context here is, my understanding from sources close to this, is that she wants her to continue her term to fill out her term. she doesn t want her to step down. there s been a lot of criticism from fellow senators. some justified, some not. she wants her to stay with her term. but there s a very early fight because katie porter, barbara lee and adam schiff. it s clear adam schiff is pelosi s nominee. reporter: yeah. it s notable any time former speaker pelosi weighs in on a political battle like this one, of course, because feinstein is a similarly trailblazing member
mackanin. good morning. what is the axios one big thing today? good morning good to see you, jonathan. talking about kevin mccarthy, not talking about him. figure talk about him a little more. go for t. reality for kevin mccarthy is pelosi s nightmare back from 2019, as i m sure you ll remember. of course, elected as house speaker when democrats took back control but progressives, newly elected progressives led by alexandria ocasio-cortez, wondering whether it was time for generational change and whether they would vote against her. aoc actually voted for her at that time and republicans booed her on the house floor for doing so. all of this shows while pelosi was elected speaker at a time of so-called rebels it never was a threat to the democratic party
national defense authorization act and a couple of other bills that set the authority for the spending. now, the appropriation is the actual spending bill and that will be done hopefully this week. everybody is pushing and shoving for their final little piece that they want in it. at some point we re out of time. i do not think we should never allow this to go into the next congress. we need to get this done now. let the next congress deal with the issues that are forth coming. one other additional issue is, my colleague that preceded me said that the republicans were not involved, that s simply not the case. republicans have been involved. the leadership of the republican party in the house, the committee leadership of the republicans on the appropriation committee and all of the subcommittees, they have been involved, and certainly what we call the big four, that is pelosi, mccarthy, schumer and mcconnell are involved in the final negotiations. so, it is like the defense
it s a terrible cross promotion. and then i was thinking maybe there are some good advertisements you could do like a girls dancing and she turns around and says, you know, new york university. you know, sends your daughter there so she doesn t end up here. yeah. but then i was like i don t like people to feel that. what if one of the strippers didn t work out, what if she turned around and her her butt it would say your ad could be here. i love how you shovelled this stripper joke into the political segment. by the way yeah. biden can t run? why. i feel like if he runs, at least run in the wrong direction. nikki try to ignore everything he said. that s what we do. kidding. is pelosi she has to be overly optimistic. is that what it is? could she be right?