stuff and trying to prevent it? the republican grievance machine wraps up over ohio. for the last couple of, years i have been warning about this crusade against white people. tonight, why you should not be surprised that america cannot solve nasa structure problems, but one of his major parties will not offer solutions and then, mike pence claims up to protect his imaginary presidential hopes, as another trump cabinet member makes it official. jamelle and five years after the nightmare in parkland, the mass murder generation suffers another senseless massacre in michigan. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. when a party wins a new majority in congress, generally, what they want to do is hit the ground running. so far, republicans have not done that. after an interminable series of votes, is lurking back, they did finally elect kevin mccarthy speaker of the house, and earlier this month, credit where it is the, they did manage to kick
there are conservatives watching this right now, who will see this clip and pray with me. i promise you. here is example under one, kevin mccarthy, the new speaker at the house. the top republican in the country, essentially letting his buddy, jeff miller, who is like a top corporate lobbyist basically help run the party. the guy was like running the war room behind a speaker vote. again, this is not a question of frederick. it s not a question of some parts and all that stuff. politics is about interest and power and who the government helps and hurts and what it does. so what the republicans really care about? there is a record here. what did they do when they have power? well, they had a trifecta, they had the white house and the house and senate, and they tried to repeal obamacare, which by the way, would have absolutely screwed over white working class voters. even tucker carlson, the fake populist, frozen food air, hold trump out for it.
is probably too small to deal with the magnitude of the problem. yeah, but not always. there are things, we know universal background checks are championed by the majority of republicans, and are eight members, it s overwhelmingly popular, but it cannot pass in the house because the definition of bipartisanship for all of us is what we can get together on. the definition of bipartisanship in congress is what the nra is okay with. when we think about another thing, right, like extended waiting day periods, if we had real waiting day periods in the country, we could cut the violence almost in half because it can prevent folks taking their own life with a gun. so i think there are a lot of things that we can do to our common sense reform that can have a real impact, but this is part of the problem of money in politics, the fact that the nra owns a lot of these politicians. that second set is really interesting, suicide, gun violence and wedding day periods is really specific approache
about passing something that can become law. it is literally all just messaging bills, and they somehow can t even do that right. at the running an interim campaign on inflation, gas prices and crime, they have done nothing to even symbolically address those issues. instead, they ve turned congress into the legislative branch of fox news, holding these hearings about why their twitter accounts were banned or promising to investigate why a tv provider dropped news max. yes, you can chalk a lot of this up to the personality issue, the kind of people who excel in moderate republican politics, the fractiousness, calling the shots in a narrow majority. but that does not explain it. all i actually think there is something much deeper a plea. i have a theory here, and an illustration of that theory in action is on display right now in the reaction to the train derailment disaster and ohio.
congress into the legislative branch of fox news, holding these hearings about why their twitter accounts were banned or promising to investigate why a tv provider dropped news max. yes, you can chalk a lot of this up to the personality issue, the kind of people who excel in moderate republican politics, the fractiousness, calling the shots in a narrow majority. but that does not explain it. all i actually think there is something much deeper a plea. i have a theory here, and an illustration of that theory in action is on display right now in the reaction to the train the roman disaster in ohio. as you likely heard, as many covered in the program last night, a train carrying chemicals including the toxic chemical gas derailed near the ohio pennsylvania border earlier this. months that intern started a fire and that they had to do it control releases some of those chemicals, which blanketed the town of east palestine, ohio,