challenge, pick your person, who could dethrone him at the top of the republican party? not at this point. you need a certain amount of collective courage among the leadership of the republican party to have any chance at doing this. we just stripping trump of his power within the party and we haven t seen that. they simply refuse to do anything other than put their personal prerogatives and personal careers above the country, above the constitution and even above their own party because at the end of the day it is destructive of the republican party. and, you know joe, you look at the quotes from mccarthy, i ve had it with this guy, and from mitch mcconnell, democrats will take care of him. and it calls to mind lindsey graham saying enough is enough, i m walking away and they all
crazier members of the republican house caucus. that s saying quite a lot. so the question is does all of this add up to donald trump and some of the craziest members of the house gop caucus supporting somebody else after republicans take retake control of the house? i don t think so yet, joe. part of it is you have to beat somebody with somebody, and if mccarthy is able to lead how republicans to victory, if they pick up, you know, 20 or 30 or some big number of seats, i think he will probably get the credit from his caucus for the win. when i read this story, i see the different ways that these two leaders feel like they still need or don t need donald trump. look, if i see j. mart hanging around mitch mcconnell s office, i know i m about to be scooped. in this case he goes further than we ve been able to go with how frustrated and angry mcconnell was with trump.
league east standings. could we put them back up again? i know yesterday i said the boston red sox, it may be the greatest red sox team of all time. now after last night s loss i think we are headed to a repeat of 1965. yeah, we will lose 100 games. we will see what tomorrow brings. let s get our heads out of the american league east and talk about ohtani. just extraordinary. are you are looking at rye now, ohtani, a pitcher, an outfielder, a hitter for the california angels, los angeles angels, who last night threw five perfect innings of baseball with 12 strikeouts. that s upside down in order, 5 in a row. he lost his no-hitter in the sixth inning with a bloop single, actually a sharp single to right. i would say this about him, joe, he is certainly one and maybe the only one in major league
out what putin is doing there is gruesome. he wants a scalp. he does want the city but it has been a high cost for russia. and for zelenskyy, nipping he can do to either reinforce, and i think, joe, you asked a question earlier about why not flex or flow other forces from the region down there and break that siege, that s a terrific question. some of that may just come down to a gap in communication. jane harman, president biden is supposed to speak at 9:45 eastern time during our fourth hour. we ll probably take it live. what are you hoping to hear from him? i want him to be the biggest, boldest leader he can be. he has forged an amazing coalition with europe, with nato, with the eu. he has to be crystal clear that if putin you know, if there s a wisp of contact with a nato country coming out of this thing, nato will respond, including the u.s. but also i think we are missing a few pieces. what happened to the u.n.? why isn t the u.n. it has the
has lost troops there, he has lost time, he has lost momentum. for the ukrainians it is about spirit, it is about will, as you mentioned and raf mentioned. watching what happened in bucha, they have no sense of giving up. vladimir putin is going to try to run this out, but what he said was really face-saving theater because this whole campaign has gone south for him. jane harmon, based upon your past experience in the congress and your access to intelligence i realize you don t have as much of it today as you did then would you believe vladimir putin about anything at this stage? not a chance, mike. let me make two points. first of all, on the french election i m still holding my breath with ed luce. there s 72 hours left until voting on sunday. joe knows how long a time that is in politics. we have lived through these campaigns, and actually so have you. russian interference, russian disinformation, russian meddling