for speaker. this is according to politic is going to delay the actual work that gets done an congressional committees for days if not weeks. quote, some of the mos important panels, includin those charged with tax writing and border security won t be able to prepare bills, hearings, or hire staff. mccarthy s counter - senate majority, senat minority leader mitch mcconnel also cozied up to donald trump but stood by while he trashe the gop and democracy. under mcconnell s leadership the republicans actually los the senate seat in the midterm this year, even though the were favored to win control of the chamber. now it appears that mcconnel may have decided that he s finally safe to turn on donald trump. we have two years of refusin to call out the twice impeache likes president by name fo anything, mcconnell this wee blame trump and his diminish political club for the republican parties at school shortcomings in the election he told my colleagues, we lost support that we needed among in
the tea party guys, we made it hell you are so caught up in that you re so caught up in what yo believe in that you don t to look at the bigger picture here s the other thing, i thin that jen is right the best thing that happened to the democrats and joe biden is tha republicans got control of the house. the country is going to see radicalized house, because the house reflects the base. these districts, ali, are so gerrymandered, and most of the crazies, like marjorie and - even though she had a clos call, are pretty safe that the can get themselves reelected even if it hurts the party overall. they re much less concerne about that because they will keep their fans in the house they ll get reelected year after year that s i guess the problem, jennifer, all politics i local. a lot of these people, the six of them running agains mccarthy, the
party is fully radicalized the base of the party is laure goldberg and marjorie taylor greene i served with kevin mccarthy he is not an idealogue he doesn t believe in what the base believes in he doesn t believe in anything he s a political operator. that is why he s so tortured right now, because he s trying to sound like marjorie taylo greene to appease marjorie taylor greene to become speaker, but that is not who he is at all. i think he ll eventually get it, ali, what he is sold every inc of his body to get it. this is not ideal, becaus kevin mccarthy can t, probably make himself speaker he can probably get that role. now he s got this problem, because what joe just said he s got a top like marjorie taylor, granaries got appeal t that part of the republica party. the whole exercise of thes midterm elections ha demonstrated to most republicans, including mitch
trump endorsed candidates an putting a dent in his influenc on the gop going forward nbc s steve kornacki is from what we learned tha flight of elections. well we started 2022 asking if there would be a bi republican wave, we end 2022 knowing that there was and republicans get control of the house, but they get it by very slim margin they end up losing a senat seat what happens what do we learn from this midterm cycle? one thing that i think stand out is that joe biden, democrats had a good midterm cycle politically, relativel speaking, in spite of th unpopularity of the presidents 44%. this number only 44% job approval rating for biden. we ve been trained, we ve seen in modern elections, this kind of number for presidents in midterm election is always, in modern times, meant politica catastrophe for the presidents party. take a look here, these ar recent presidents. this is their approval rating.
executive who helped shape the narrative into something tha was compelling, dramatic, that people would listen to the american people grasped. not everyone,, remembered when richard nixon resigned, even though it was totall bipartisan condemnation of him there s still war about 24% of the american people who love him, would ve followed him ove a cliff. okay, you can t get everyone support all the time and i think the committee did fabulous job and presenting th facts clearly, simply, using republicans so you couldn t attack the witnesses for partisanship, an presenting it in a coker it and compelling narrative the difference between now and watergate is when nixo resigned, he was emasculated he had no more power we still have donald trump out there claiming to come back, wanting to come back claiming it wanted to com back here s the interesting part, barbara, putting aside the