win. congratulations, you just got the last remaining stop gaps out of congress. so color me cynical, democrats, when you, you know, talk about folks like meyer being the last thing remaining and then you don t do exactly what you could to help him stay there. you ask folks like me to cross party lines and vote for biden, which i did, lots of us did because we put country over party. made the difference in some swing states. the favor has not been returned. sad. as you said, with my shield or on it. on it. on it. right? so that s the story. but if you have a lot of people like peter meijer, a lot of republicans who are going to be on it rather than with it, now you have an army that s a maga army. that s right. what s the effect then of that being just this very siloed place where you don t have the
k kinzingerers, these people offering this alternative point of view for the republicans. this has been the project of both parties, it s asymmetrical, i see it far more on the right but you see it on the left as well, this moving everything to the extremes. like you said, john, it s leaving a lot of us, a majority, in fact, unrepresented, orphaned. i m in the majority on every issue, abortion, guns, climate, immigration, and i feel unseen, unheard. it s bizarre, but, you know, our political system of these two parties isn t rewarding comity coming together. it s a total market failure in our politics. if the two-party system is to work you can t have plur amounts of americans feeling unrepresented. i want to get your take on kasie hunt s interview with liz cheney. it s fascinating and going to make some news. i m sorry, i got my wrong
politically homeless. do you feel politically homeless and what do you think can be done to bridge these gaps? john, i am a republican, i have been a republican, i will be a republican and my motto going in was with my shield on it, not compromising on values or principles and understanding that that could have a severe political cost, a political cost which i paid. i think at the end of the day it s important to try to work within the parties that we have. that doesn t mean there aren t larger structural reforms that would allow parties to try to have a bigger tent. i ve talked to a lot of candidates running for office who say i consider myself a republican but figure down the laundry list of things that i need to recite in order to not get eviscerated in a primary i am not willing to do that. there is urgent need to undertake some of that structural reform. look at the three republicans who are on track to win reelection who voted to impeach. they are in jungle or top two primary s
senator sinema saying she will move forward with the bill meaning that democrats now very likely have the votes that they need to get this passed through on capitol hill and this is certainly a major, major moment for the biden legislative agenda, huge pieces of his domestic agenda, economic bill focusing on investments in climate, energy, health care, and tax reform. now, it was on those tax provisions that we ve heard senator sinema in recent days express a lot of concern on this bill and its recisions to the tax portions of this bill that ultimately was able to get her on board. democrats making changes in the bill, dropping $14 billion of the carried interest tax provision of the bill, also paring back how companies can deduct depreciated tax their assets, those two things senator sinema pushing hard for over the last 24 hours. what happens now is senate democrats will have to wait for a ruling from the senate
families were complicit in the plot. he has he has been responsible for a lot of damage here and, you know, he s more symbolic, he s really emblematic of the spread of disinformation and false narratives over the past decade since sandy hook. he has been part of every one of the most pernicious myths that have caused confrontation and violence in this country, from pizza-gate to charlottesville to coronavirus myths and the stop the steal lie that started the 2021 january 6th insurrection of the capitol. that is why your book is so essential. i think if people are looking at your book it s not just about sandy hook, it s about the origin story of all of these conspiracy theories that are just polluting the discussion and really just polluting the nation. i do want to play the bombshell moment because you ve been watching this trial there, i want to play the bombshell