the budget and energy and labor and so forth. otherwise, you will see a healthy amount of investigations. they want to use investigations, jim jordan said it s all about beating joe biden, was his words at cpac a few months back. but the one things they have to do, and lawler might say they re not going to be held hostage, but they will. they have to pass an annual appropriations bill to keep the government funded and they re going to have to raise the debt ceiling. there s no way that they re going to be able to keep their entire caucus to give them 218 votes to do either one of those. so here s the problem for mccarthy and others, whoever becomes the speaker, they re going to have to work with democrats to keep the government open and that is a death nail for their future because these 20 are going to try to pull the rug out from underneath that speaker as soon as they can whenever that happens. there s so much vitriol around this too. you had matt gaetz say that
claire, what is the beginning of the beginning of getting out of this? are we nowhere near that? well, it s a good question. you know, i think what really is going to be the death nail for trumpism is in fact kevin mccarthy leading a razor-thin majority in the house because crazy is going to be on parade every day. he is going to elevate and amplify those parts of the party that he must have to get that title that he s yearned for for decades. and he s showing that he is not a leader right now. i mean, what would really be the end of this is if the leadership of the house and the senate and republican governors from all over the country came together for a joint press conference in washington and said, we ve had enough. we ve had enough.
what that tells me is that republican messaging on three core issues, crime immigration and inflation is bringing women voters into the gop tent which spells a death nail for the democratic party in three weeks from now. well, obama, back to him being back to the rescue, i will think he was trying to have kind of a sister solja light moment. let s watch this. not being a buzz kill, and sometimes democrats are. it s like, you know, sometimes people just want to not feel as if they are walking on egg shells, and they want some knowledgement that life is messy and that all of us at any given moment can, you know, say things the wrong way, you know, make mistakes. laura: talking about cancel culture there. he s a little rusty, little
threaten our personal rights and economic security, they re a threat to our very democracy. they refuse to accept the will of the people. they embrace, embrace, political violence. they don t believe in democracy. sean: and that wasn t even the worst of what he said. moments before he accused of republicans of embracing political violence seemingly forgetting about the summer of 2020 when liberal and blm activists burned down cities across america, biden said this. what we re seeing now is the beginning of the death nail of an extreme maga philosophy. it s not just trump. it s the entire philosophy that underpins the, i m going to say something, it s like semi fascism. semi fascism? that s what the great unifier thinks about you? and if he s willing to say that in public, think about what he s spouting off behind closed doors. this is who he is though. a president who doesn t respect half the country he was elected to lead. joining me now is steven miller
get free air time for it. but, jackie mentioned this idea of alienating or criticizing half the country, when the president came up with the ultra maga label, a lot of people rushed to embrace it but the president said this last week, he said what we are seeing is the beginning of the death nail of the extreme maga phil philosophy, it s the entire philosophy, underpin, i m going to say something, almost like semi fascism the way in which it deals. katie, those are fighting words. we ll see if there is policy in the speech but it s certainly political given labor day weekend is this weekend, voters pay attention to the midterm elections after labor day weekend. timing on thursday is interesting going into a long weekend, people are not exactly remembering what he s saying, but looking at the topics for the segment and the battle for the soul of the nation, i said, that sounds very familiar and it was the campaign slogan for president biden during the 2020