rewarded him with one of the most prestigious committee assignments in this congress. don t tell me this is about consistency. republicans remove congresswoman ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee. another example of house republicans putting the show ahead of any policy agenda. also tonight, president biden talks policing reform with the congressional black caucus. but there s still almost zero chance of getting enough republican support for anything meaningful. plus, the next presidential campaign is upon us, and nikki haley wants in and other republicans are clearly interested in challenging trump, but don t necessarily want to subject themselves to his school yard bullying just yet. and jordan klepper joins me. he spoke to trump s maga supporters at his recent campaign stop in south carolina. and i m just shaking my head. good evening, everyone. i m michael steele, in tonight for joy reid, and we begin with a very dysfunctional congress and its slow and
live here inside the historic civic club of harrisburg where in moments we will replay some of last night s debate for our live voter panel and we ll get their reaction as we sit here 13 days from election day. also, the republican senator in this state, pat toomey, leaves that seat open for oz or fetterman. he joins us live as well. first, bryan llenas takes a look at the debate that everyone is talking about today. hi, bryan. martha, good afternoon. one of those moments that everyone is talking about is when lieutenant governor john fetterman was pressed on his stance on fracking. last night he said he has always supported fracking. but in 2018, he said he did not and never has. i absolutely support fracking. that you said i don t support fracking at all. how do you square the two? i i do support fracking. and i don t i support fracking. i stand and i do support fracking. after last night s performance, there s more questions, not less, against fetterman s hea
controlled senate and signed the to law by president biden to avert things like a government shutdown, to avert a calamitous economic situation if the u.s. breaches the debt limit. so there will be a lot of silliness, but there also comes a point of seriousness where we ll see if this congress has what it takes. yeah. that s the question. does it have what it takes? so samara, sahil s piece today used that terrific analogy of seinfeld. show about nothing, now a congress about nothing. to describe this dysfunction. do you think that s an apt way to look at this, or is there something else we re missing that the republicans may have planned in how they re going to open up and move this congress? government moves slow. that is not a surprise to any of us nor should it be. that s how it was designed. when you have a divided government, that s even more prevalent. it s going to be a slow slog in some cases to get things done because there will need to be coalition building. that s going
muscle, to use the equivalent of brute force that we re seeing from the ultra conservatives. that will be a big problem when it comes to governing, when it comes to funding the government, when it comes to lifting the debt ceiling. because a lot of what these members will do on these committees is write legislation that can never pass the senate, that can never get signed in to law by president biden setting aside of course the oversight function which is are also very important, but there are important matters of governing which have very serious consequences. okay, moderate wing, use your power wisely i guess. thanks for your time. joining us now, mark leibovich, author of thank you for your servitude. great to see you. perhaps you as a wise man in washington can tell me you know, the moderate wing of the gop is not content or perhaps
they know we re going down a bad path. martha: let s take a look at matt cartwright. talking about border policies and his take on immigration. i m proud to have supported two major border security bills that were signed in to law by president trump to security our border even though some in my own party did not support those things. i voted for over a billion dollars to build a wall on our southern border. martha: so that s your opponent talking about building a wall on the southern border. he s been caught in a lie. when the big vote came up for the border wall, he voted against it. president trump said he s a disaster on a illegal immigration. matt cartwright has enabled illegal immigration. he voted for a $1,200 stimulus