the whip and out in front. and, you know again, it s a big part of being leadership. it is kind of tough to go to people and ask for money when you ve got a david duke albatross hanging around your neck. it doesn t sound good in any language, no matter how you said that. john stem john thank you very much: i appreciate you being here. good to be here. i will say, david duke anybody in the news business knows, is one of those sort of fringe guys that really thrives on publicity. i think he has never not returned a press call. the press is what is his life blood. i don t know if there is congress that david duke might release more names but this is a guy who loves to be in the news, who loves to have his name out there. if he can do that by drip, drip dripping more names out there in response to the way skalise is being treated, i m sure he will. this story is not over by a long shot. we ll be right back.
both announced their candidacy for boehner s job. this comes after the holiday week controversy who admitted he spoke to a group of white supremists. skalise apologized last week and boehner stood by him saying this. who they choose in their leadership says a lot about who they are and what the values should be.
group in question was founded by grand wizard david duke and went by the name european immunity whites organization. skalise has been in full damage control mode since the story broke, working the phones to assure support from colleagues. house speaker john boehner and the number 2, kevin mccarthy both spoke support for skalise today. he has my full confidentce as our whip. it s not just from democrats. con sefbserveative radio host are calling for ben e boehner to be repolice stationed. eric ericson is expressing bafflement. how the hell does someone show up at a david duke-organized event and claim ignorance.
he essentially was trying to build support at the state level. so be it. should he have known more? yeah, probably. but he says he only has one staffer at the time. he says he didn t use things like google to figure out what this was. certainly, we ve all found that there was plenty to suggest that there s someone like skalise that should have understanding of what he was walking too e in to. boy the way, don t worry about that house of cards spoiler. you re off the hook for that one. but ed o keafe, aappreciablprep
the novelty of david duke has worn off. duke has proven that he can t get elected. that s the first and most important thing. david duke s long time political lieutenant came out just today to say that he had invited skalise to that white supreme sis e sis workshop. hoe had no idea of the group he spoke e spoke to that day had anything to do with david duke or twiet supreme sill. for now, we can say that skalise s version of events is at least plausible. maybe he had no idea. maybe he thought it was just another random speech. maybe he barically eely gave the group a second thought and moved onto his next event as soon as it was over.