one obvious way was quite an impressive turnout of prominent republicans who have been going to events like the rjc meeting in las vegas openly talking about themselves as candidates after donald trump had already made it clear he was running. so it tells you that they perceive the republican electorate to be much more open and in my travel since the election around pennsylvania, i ve heard from many, many formerly very pro trump voters that they think it s time for our party to move on. so, yes, i think that process is under way. it s not a flip of a switch. it doesn t happen overnight. he still has a significant following, that s for sure. but i do think his influence is waning. let s talk ability the republican party writ large. take a look at this new york times headline from when you were first elected in 2010. toomey at helm of a republican wave in pennsylvania. when you first came to washington, you were seen as one of the most conservative voice
answers. what went wrong? how is it possible that we have been so wrong? because, like, there are 23 years of putting analysis behind us and we are thinking he s evil but rational. 0ur thinking he s evil but rational. our model and perception was that he was trying to make rational steps to maximise his income, his ability to steal money. when ou talk ability to steal money. when you talk of ability to steal money. when you talk of rationality - ability to steal money. when you talk of rationality and . you talk of rationality and wondering whether you are feelings about it in our altogether rational because was very struck by something you tweeted just a short time ago when he described him as like hitler with a nuclear bomb. hitler with a nuclear bomb. hitler to russians as the murder of millions of your fellow countrymen. don t you have to be a little bit careful at this time of terrible, terrible significance, just be
personally to note he has done these thing. he is the face of the messaging for this. at times he has not been a great face for the messaging of these things. i think that s a perfectly reasonable thing to point out. on the issue of this particular line of questioning which has to do with the lab leak theory, we also have to put in practice you may say it s legitimate to ask questions but we don t get around it to. okay? on this particular issue connected to the lab leak theory. it was credible last year. reported on valiantly by josh roeng even when people say it was verboten and shouldn t talk ability. rand paul asked about it last year as well. this is the kind of thing that makes people distrust folks when we re told we can t talk about something that we have good reason to ask but we re talking about it. this is this red herring. this is that people sounds like he s being forthcoming, walking a bunch of lines and being very indignant. i m sorry. this is getting into cabl
american people, watching this what i call ping-pong politics where there s this power play. if congress really wanted to do something, they could essentially bring up a vote every 48 hours if they want to open up government. they need a super majority. if they can get a super majority, they don t have to wait for the president to either sign something into law or veto it. let s talk ability that. what are your former colleagues saying? do they like being in this position of shutting the government down over the wall in. well, i think what s most frustrating, and i was actually still a member when this happened is having the meeting with schumer and speaker pelosi and he s saying, look, if you don t give me a wall i will own the shutdown. and all of my colleagues were like, no, we don t want to own the shutdown, no one wants to own the shutdown, what are you doing? so he lost a lot of his leverage by saying i will own the shutdown. and of course chuck schumer and