republican right-wing part of the party that s running for president. well, you know, the thing is, we so often talk about how things are going so horribly in america and the political system is broken. this is the disconnect, friends. under joe biden, over the last two years, a 50/50 senate passed more bipartisan legislation and got more things done legislatively than any president since i think you have to go back to lbj. joe biden passed bipartisan infrastructure legislation joe biden passed bipartisan gun safety legislation he passed bipartisan legislation to help us compete with china on chips. the chips act passed he passed relief for vets who
moment where they brokered a deal between iran and saudi arabia. i was going to ask you about that, david. i ve got to say, that would seem, from a distance, more unlikely than a russia and ukraine resolution the chinese stepped in, sort of elbowed us out of the way, and got in the middle of saudi arabia, iran, and brokered a peace deal that s pretty remarkable. joe, they did the kind of thing that the united states traditionally has been very good at, which is paying people off they knew that the u.s. and saudi arabia had been at logger heads. they came in and said, you know, we ll be your peace broker we ll make the deal with iran that america could never help you make they went ahead and did it this last week. saudi arabia and iran will reopen embassies after a break of seven years with chinese help i talked to henry kissinger this
party we have known in our lifetimes. one republican who is a little less fixated on the darkness and trying to embrace the mantle of reagan and create a little daylight with donald trump is former vice president mike pence in an interview yesterday on fox business, pence was asked about his comments from this past weekend s annual gridiron dinner in washington. pence said there, quote, history will hold trump accountable for the january 6th attack on the capitol. let s look at what he said yesterday. this is the toughest statement you have made. any particular reason why you made it last saturday? any particular thing on your mind well, larry, i ve read that it s the toughest statement i ve made, but it is essentially what i said in my book, what i have been saying around the country the last year and a half you know me well i am a look out the windshield guy, not a rear-view mirror guy. frankly, while the president and
faith in this country that they re eating this stuff up, they really believe this stuff that trump is saying so they have to say it, too? are they doing it tactically now in hopes of getting the nomination, then they would pivot to a more optimistic vision if they reach the general election, or try to do so? or do they think this is where a big chunk of the country is? i m sure it s not half the country or half the country plus one. this does not win a general election but does this win a republican primary, and what does that say about where what we used to call the republican party is now? it s nothing like the party of ronald reagan. it s nothing like the party of the bushes it s nothing like any republican
in the ukrainian offensive that we all believe is coming in a month or two whether these old russian air jets will be much use still remains to be seen they won t be great in dog fights if they get in fights with more modern russian jets. but i don t see that as being a likely future either for now, i think it s a sign that ukraine s close allies, close neighbors, want to help more, want to help them in this time of enormous difficulty, when, as the washington post story said this week, morale in ukraine is a little shaky as people struggle with this very long, bloody war. jonathan lemire, though, it s a step by step process we ve seen it before leading up to the tanks going there step by step process poland says it s going to give them tanks, push the germans to approve tanks. then the germans say, we ll do it if the americans do it. the americans approve sending