from happening. you can barely get 70 house republicans to support it. when john boehner tried to come up with an alternative to give him some traction and negotiate, a majority of the house republicans rejected it. overwhelming majorities rejected a compromise on aid for hurricane sandy. they almost all voted against the violence against women s act. you ve got a very different republican party in the house now. and it reflects a public, which has been incited by fox news, by talk radio, but also the leaders are going along. now you got john boehner saying basically let as not shut down the government, let s put it on the debt cereiling which is insanity. i think the clip shows why he s been able to exert so much influence over the republican party in washington and why i would be skeptical that even if boehner gets had his way in the continuing resolution here, i don t think anything will change. i ll play that clip and we ll talk about it when we come back. mine was earned in djib
highlight policies around that, policies that republicans had around abortion, around violence against women act, violence against women s act. i just don t think it will work. for a couple days, they ll certainly push that. they have to be having something to talk about and something of a campaign. but i think it s very hard to make any sort of larger assessment or larger characterization about the democratic policy platform around these three men who are very isolated in terms of where they are in the party and what their chances are. here in new york, the media band box of the country. let me go back to john feehery. you say you as a campaign advisor at some future race, the next cycle or in 2016 would not use these people as pampls of personal behavior by public officials. no, i didn t. anti-women. what i said was i wouldn t base the whole strategy on these these behaving badly. i think the republicans can make
that is technically touching entitlements. you know, i agree with you, two sides need to deal. he and boehner actually did come up with a deal. we say he should have given them ear marging to buy them off. you know what the problem was? his leadership. his leadership has been openly trying to get his job. as a speaker, as a leader, he has had people within his center office, his inner circle, notably eric cantor, trying to be the leader of the tea party and challenge him for his job. that s a weak speaker. richard, thank you. i will fold my cards right now. done. you know, it s a conversation. i ll just say, josh, rachel maddow did a great piece pointing out what bob dole supported. the clean water act, the endang irspecies act, violence against women s act, to say that now as a republican running for the highest office in the land would get you cut off at the knees, i think. well, yeah, and i think the republican party has put more
nia-malika, do you see any of that taking place when the subject is sexual assault? so far, no. you had yesterday a group of legislators talked about this program of sexual assault, particularly in the military. i think the problem that the sequester has always had in terms of gaining a lot of tra s traction, it hasn t had the widespread impact that it has and you see faa and flights being delayed, people can see that. you can see the flights being delayed but a lot of these other programs, sexual assault programs, people getting their meals as part of meals on wheels, that s not what people don t see. when it s taken away, there s not a big raucous or a strong lobbying right on the hill for victims of sexual assault. what you have here, a lot of praise of violence against women s act was passed by the house and the senate and passed by the white house.
the senate democratic majority. it happened on fiscal cliff and the sandy supplemental. and on the violence against women s act where there was reluctance. it s the trifecta that s occurred already. i believe that if the bill lands on the floor of the house of representatives and there s enough pressure that s brought to bear, to your point, it will not pass with a majority of republicans supporting it. but it will pass on the majority. congressman hakeem jeffries in new york, alicia reese, hartford, connecticut, mayor pedro segarra. thank you so much. thanks, david. thank you. is the new secretary defense nightmare or a radical reformer who will tame the defense department? he gave us a big hint today. that s coming up.