implications for the republic. that s what concerns not. look, anyone could stumble and fall, sandbag fall. but when a president does, it usually scrutiny and ridicule follow. trump couldn t even get a walk down a slick ramp without facing scorn. president gerald ford was probably the most athletic president ever. he played football in a national championship. but when he missed a step just once, chevy chase and snl sketches forever set a narrative of ford as a bumbling buffoon. so it is curious that when hillary clinton collapsed like an old armani pantsuit and wasid physically dumped into a van, riere was no snl sketch or ridicule. which bringsdiculed th us to tht th president , who over the last two years has done more pratfalls than jerry lewiso . part of the problem is joe biden is suffering from a stiffo gait and old age. his doctor has admitted as much ,but in an effort to showl how vigorous he still is , hehec tsaffects his skipping routine. i call it the biden trot
today. the reality is joe bidenn fo is in physical and mental decline. this has been going on forr ye years. chrowe ve chronicled on this shw this latest tumble is just a reminder of how dire his condition is . buorldt as the world watchesf the literal fall of america s president , what is more concerning are the other ominous falls oft joe biden that the media refuses to cover. tonight, he s celebrating his s debt deal . i want to commend speaker tht mccarthy, who was critical to reach an agreement. and it s ver they good a news fr the american people. we re protecting important ties from priorities from sociay to medicare to medicaid to veterans, to ournvestm transformational investments in infrastructure and clean energeb ,a more debt codifying obscene u covils of spending ushered in during colvert. this is not a victory . this is another fall,mily f one that will hurt you and your family. generafor generations.ob gro and as for the job to reportgove
green suggesting that there s some reason in white supremacyem ,some sort of rise inence anti-semitism, offering really no significant evidence of tha t sort of ginning up a really angry and i think hatefilled campaign as quite divisive. and you sortf oseenf see the democrats particularlys in absen, turning to very negative attacks in the absence ofan a positive, unifying vision oft. an american future. k, imark, i have about 10 secons here. very quickly , what is his pathjust c then? i mean, is it justimin claimings that he s the man who signed all the bipartisan bills that he and mccarthy squeezed out together? is that going to beis the the legacy? in look, i think what s going goi to happen here is we re going to get to september. and if his ratings start to gofi up and his health, it doesn t fail, he will be the nominee rea and he will need a real agendate to move forward because presidencies are always about what you re going to do in the future. he lltnot what you did in th.
about kevin. you ve heard never trumpers? well what about never? cabins i vowing to stick together against him. threatening his candidacy for tearing the gop apart. republicans men met rosendale, and ralph norman have made a pledge so goes one, so goes all. and mccarthy will have to flip all five of these never kevin s in order to become speaker. that s because republicans have slim house majority. mccarthy can only lose four republicans if he wants the votes for the speaker s gavel, meaning he won t get it without their support. t wi it s no surprise then tht mccarthy is getting increasingly desperate. this week, he made the unusual move of pushing the races for committee leadership spots until after the speaker s election on january 3rd.
the thinking is that mccarthy could use that as leverage to lockdown support from disgruntled members. remember, mccarthy has been on a years-long quest to become house speaker. and now, it less than three weeks before the vote that would seal the deal for him, he cannot get his own party on his side. the wall street journal editorial board put it best. quote, republicans are beginning but could not shoot straight, except at one another. they cannot even find the votes to elect the gop speaker, much less agree on budget strategy or much of anything else. joining me now is democratic congressman ted lieu of california. he is a member of the house judiciary and foreign relations committee. congressman, it is good to see you again. let s start with that speaker vote. what is your reaction to the gop disarray at this point. thank you, michael, right now we have democrats in a