end of october. >> after years at the center of republican politics, house speaker john boehner step down in 2015. since then, he has mostly been absent from public life, with the exception of calling senator ted cruz, who suffer in the flesh. last week, and one of his peers interview since leaving office, speaker boehner talked to vice founder shane smith about the race for president and where politics had from here. >> there you go. this is the coolest why no burner ever. i do not remember the last time i didn't interview with the class of one. [laughs] cool. >> cool. in 2015, the speaker the house, john boehner, retired. being speaker the house is a stressful job in the best of times, but there was other stressors of the job that maybe pushed john boehner closer to a red wine and cigarette filled retirement at an accelerated pace. john boehner resigned from congress in the middle of a projected leadership struggle and republican politics. the most conservative wing of the party had been training to turf john boehner out of the speakership. rather than try to survive the vote, he decided to throw in the towel and take care of his lawn back in ohio. this created something of a mad scramble to see who would become the front runner to take his job. the californian congressman, kevin mccarthy, quickly announced that he would run for speaker. he was at the time, the house majority leader. that is the number to republican in the house. he was the obvious front runner until, on live television, kevin mccarthy accidentally said the quiet part out loud. >> everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? but we put together a putin gauzy special committee, a select committee, what are her numbers today? her numbers are dropping. >> even then, most critical thinkers knew that republicans were not really trying to get the bottom of what happened in benghazi when they called hillary clinton for testimony. but kevin, buddy, you're not supposed to admit that in live television. people can hear you. kevin mccarthy was ridiculed for that a mark. ultimately, he stayed for running to speaker up to and including the very moment that every member of the house republican caucus piled into a big room for the vote. kevin mccarthy was there with his family. john boehner gavel the meeting to session. every once in the pledge of allegiance. at which time, kevin mccarthy stood up and announced that he was quoting the race for how speaker. again, this was at the vote for the house speaker. the entire thing was a fiasco. he said part of the reason he decided his can this is c was untenable was because of that loose flip gap about trying to take hillary clinton's personal break. >> how much do your comments about benghazi last week play into your decision to step aside today? >> that was a helpful. [laughs] i could have said it much better. >> it was bad. it was a deeply embarrassing moment for the russian party. memories are very shore in washington. indian, kevin mccarthy climbed his way back into the good graces of the party. in particular, the fact ahead of the republican party, donald trump. during the trump administration, kevin mccarthy ingratiated himself to the president. he hand picked out flavors of the presidents candy, his favorite candy, and presented it to him in a fancy jar. he let the president parade around washington, calling mccarthy my kevin. he routinely defended the presidents reprehensible behavior, which is frankly embarrassing to watch the whole thing. but, ultimately, it was effective. kevin mccarthy is now the top republican in the house. he is, again, almost unfathomably the front runner to be the elected speaker the house republicans take control november. he almost got their speed bump free this time around. almost. >> the only discussion i would have with him is that i think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign. >> okay, that audio came out just last night. rachel played here on the show for the first time. kevin mccarthy saying that he planned to call donald trump and tell him to resign because he thought he was about to be impeached. the recording is particularly problematic for one of the house speaker because right before this audiotape was released, kevin mccarthy flat out denied that he had ever considered asking trump to resign. today, more audio was released from the same conversation that kevin mccarthy had would probably come leaders in the house in the aftermath of january six. from another conversation on the following day, this audio was first obtained by cnn and now by nbc news. listen for me. >> let me be very clear to all of you, and i am very clear to the president. he bears responsibility for his words and actions, no ifs, and sore bots. i asked him personally today, does he hold responsibility for what happened? does he feel bad about what happened? he told me he does have some responsibility for what happened. and he needed to acknowledge the. >> i know this is not fun. i know this is not great. i know this is very tough, but what i want to do, especially through here, is, i don't want to rush things, i want everybody to have all the information needed. i've had it with this guy, what he did is unacceptable. nobody can defend the, and nobody should. >> nobody can defend it, nobody should defend it. that the fine posture from kevin mccarthy was short lived. here's kevin mccarthy less than three weeks later, visiting trump at his golf resort, grinning from ear to ear. kevin mccarthy remains one of the most biggest offenders of donald trump on public. since that private call, mccarthy's public line has been that he does not think trump bears any responsibility for january six. neither donald trump nor kevin mccarthy have issued any kind of statement, well donald trump has issued one tonight, but the two reportedly did speak today. get this, nbc news reports that mccarthy called trump to repel justice for what he said on the recording. he told trump that he did not actually mean it, and that he was just telling liz cheney what she wanted to hear. according to the washington post, donald trump reportedly told his kevin that he is not upset, in fact he is glad that his kevin had never falter and asked to resign. the post reports that trump interpreted this as a sign of his continued grip on the republican party. according to the post, other house republicans are waiting for marching orders from trump, any kind of smoke single about how he might feel about kevin mccarthy. so they can decide whether to support him for speaker, if republicans win the house in november, or ditch in for a more pro trump member of congress. as i mentioned, the former president has now spoke to the washington journal about the phone call in reporting that just came out. donald trump confirmed to the journal that he is not magic mccarthy. he said mccarthy said all the things in the audiotape before he had all the facts. and that mccarthy has since embraced him fully after he, quote, find out the facts. as for republicans who criticized him in the wake of the riot, trump told the journal tonight, quote, they realize they were wrong and supported me. trump also denied ever taking responsibility for what happened on january six, contradicting mccarthy's recollection. he told a journal, quote, now, that's false. i never claimed responsibility. the fallout from this whole episode raises a ton of questions, like, which republican is so quick on the draw with the voice memos up? and will kevin mccarthy's bid for the speakership go up in flames, not just once but twice? but all of that is inside the beltway politics. importantly for the country, all this raises the important question of accountability. the farther we get from the insurrection, the less likely it becomes the any republican politician will face any kind of consequence for their actions up to and including donald trump. watching kevin mccarthy twist himself into a pretzel today to apologize to trump comes amid new signals to any hope of accountability for generous six might just be a fever dream. today, the republican congresswoman, marjorie taylor greene, appears to have wiggled out of a court challenge that would bar her from reelection for supporting the insurrection. the congresswoman and her lawyer spent the majority of a court hearing on the matter today, deflecting and obfuscating her role in supporting the attack. she insisted today that she had no recollection of whether or not she discuss the rally planned for january six with anyone in the white house, the rallied that ultimately turn violent. i mean, we all talk to the white house all the time, who can remember who said what do whom and when? he also has no memory of whether or not anyone mentioned her the threats of violence that day. today, a federal judge dismissed a similar attempt to remove three arizona republicans off the ballot for their ties to the insurrection attempt. it is likely that all members of congress that supported the insurrection will be allowed to run for reelection. there is a more than decent shot them most of them will win. leaders of the republican party continue to carry water for the former president, with members of congress sympathetic to the president's big lie continuing to burrow into our institutions. the list of ways to hold anyone accountable for what happened on january six is growing shorter by the day. but we have not got to the bottom just yet. the january six investigation in congress has been quietly, diligently continuing its work. public hearings are reportedly expected to take place in june, where the committee will lay out to the american people what they learned about what happened that and exactly who was responsible. now, one of the members of congress participating in that investigation, the maryland, jamie raskin, i said some pretty high expectations for what we should expect in his public hearings. he said, quote, the hearings will tell a story that will blow the roof off the house. how is that for 80s. joining us now is congressman jamie raskin, he served as the lead impeachment manager during donald trump's second impeachment, he's the member of the january six investigation, thank you for being here, it is good to see you again. i want to ask you, sir, about these audio tapes that have been released of kevin mccarthy. they dominated the news cycle, they got potentially clear political implications, but that is not what you do. your investigation is not about the politics of it. how do those recordings, what kevin mccarthy said at the january six about and possibly to donald trump have an impact on investigation? >> they are a vivid reminder of what was clear to everybody that was caught up in the violent insurrection in the attempted coup against congress and the congressman order. which is that the president was deeply involved in this event. he was at the center of these events. everyone believed at the time that there were constitutional crimes and statutory offenses committed. people had the right sense at that moment that nothing like this had ever happened in american history before, and we had never had a president who had actually gone to the lengths of inciting a violent insurrection against the union and attempting to overthrow our constitutional system. minority leader mccarthy's words that were captured on that tape in a discussion with the republican conference just reinforced everything we are finding, which is that this was an orchestrated, premeditated assault on our system of government. we have what will be a very riveting story to tell america about how this came about, what were the causes behind it and what we need to do to fortify our institutions in the future against coups and insurrections. >> that last sentence is really the reason anybody should care about this because a lot of people make the argument that this is history, it might be in aberration, it is anomaly, donald trump is an anomaly. we have learned, in fact, the institutions that we have, strong though as they are, we are not strong enough to prevent and authentic. >> yeah, this is a democracy. in a democracy, the people have a right to the truth about their own governing institutions. we came very close to losing it all on that day. had mike pence succumbed to the extraordinary pressure and coercion campaign being brought down upon him by donald trump and his lieutenants, what would have happened is that pence would have returned to senator dozens of electoral college votes, lowering joe biden's vote total from 3062 below to 70 electoral college, if you had filed trump's orders and rejected arizona, georgia and pennsylvania electors. at that point, it would have shifted the whole election to the house of representatives, where they understood, they would be voting up by one member, one vote, but one state, one vote in the gop-controlled 27 states, democrats are 22. that's when it was put down the middle. even if they lost a vote of wyoming with liz cheney as the representative, they still would have had 26 votes. they would have declared donald trump president for another four years. he likely would have followed the advice of michael flynn, he's disgraced former national security advisor, who is urging him to invoke the insurrection act and declare martial law. at that point, he would have called in the national guard to put down the insurrectionary chaos that he had unleashed against us. it was really only mike pence refusing to play ball with the president that he had served in such a way for four years. the valor-ism and hiroshima the officers who stood between members of congress and the mob and insurrectionists that saved us that they. that is as close to fascism that i ever want to see america come to. the people of the country need to understand how close we were to losing it all on that day. >> that picture you just drew would be bad enough on the face of it, if this were donald trump and maybe some people around him. i want to ask you about, this because more important based on something he said on a panel of unless they, you said that the committee, the january six committee, will provide evidence that proves there was coordination among then president donald trump and his inner circle and his supporters who attacked the capitol on general six. that is a big deal. camille little bit more about the. >> there were two streams of activity. one was designed to overthrow biden's majority electoral college. they used different tactics for that. first, they went to court, in more than 60 courts, including eight judges who had been nominated but to the federal branch by donald trump himself, rejected every claim of electoral fraud and corruption of the gop advance. in a civilized democracy, that should have been the end of it, but they refused to take no as an answer from every federal state judge that they brought their cases before. at that point, they tried to brown b and intimidate election officials, as they did infamously in georgia. you will recall that he was the one that trump said to, just find 11, 000, 781 votes that was not donald trump trying to stop election fraud, that was donald trump trying to commit election fraud and being caught red-handed. they tried a bunch of other things, but it all came down eventually to january six, where they wanted pence to declare unilateral, constitutional, unlawful powers to consider and nullify and reject electoral college votes, something no vice president had ever dreamed of asserting before in u.s. history. it is something that all of the lawyers were telling donald trump that he could not do. even had the attorney, william barr, telling donald trump that his arguments are bs. although he spelled it out. it was very clear that they were trying to perpetrate a fraud against the american people with their counterfeit electors, their lies about election fraud, which he knew relies. and then their attempts to chorus mike pence and to mobilize the second stream of activity, which was insurrectionary mob violence, which left more than 150 of our officers with broken jaws and next and vertebrae and ribs and arms and legs and traumatic brain injuries, concussions, post traumatic stress syndrome -- they stormed their doors, shattered our windows, shut down the counting of electoral college votes for the first time in american history, they interrupted the peaceful transfer of power. they left the capital a bloody mess. those two streams of activity came together. donald trump was being begged and besieged by members of his own family, by members of his own administration, by members of congress from both parties to call it off, and he refused to do that for more than three hours. he was absolutely a wall because he, i believe and this part is uncertain, but i believe he was trying to turn up the temperature on mike pence by continuing to unleash and incite this mob against them. even when donald trump understood that vice president pence was in danger, even when there are mobs chanting, hang mike pence, he continued to send out messages inflaming the mob against him. it seems clear to me that he wanted to continue all the way to complete whatever calling, the green bay sweep, which i am calling, a coup. that is what political science this call it, a self coup, when the president decides to attack the constitutional system in order to prolong his stay in office and set aside the electoral process. >> wow, congressman, he said the testimony will blow the roof off the house, we are looking for to hearing more of this. thank you as always for joining us, congressman jamie raskin is a member of the january six investigation, as 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these are the tears of an old man. if mariupol is any indication of what putin wants to do next, the world should be alarmed. and i think we know that that is. russian officials said today that the goal of the russian invasion of ukraine is to take quote, full control of southern ukraine. and the eastern donbas region. that ambition russian plan, that same officials said, includes a corridor to transnistria which is in moldova. it is a russian occupied strip of territory in moldova. it is a country to the west of ukraine where putin already has 1500 toasters which he calls peacekeepers. his rationale is that they are to russian-speaking civilians, they are being oppressed. given the military and strategic failures that we have seen from russian troops thus far, one can't help but wonder how they are planning on doing all of this. but joining us now is the former ukrainian minister of defense. he is the cofounder and chairman of the security think tank center for defense strategies. andré, thank you for being with us tonight. i want to ask you about these comments from russian officials today. openly stating that they are eyeing a road to transnistria by it southern ukraine. this is in moldova. this is the argument that ukrainians have been making, and a lot of eastern europeans have been making. that russia is going to use this excuse of russians being oppressed anywhere else to justify going in. as a military expert, what do you make of this? >> first of all, let's define what does it mean russians oppressed? there are russian-speaking people all around the country. my family is russian speaking. it has many families like a huge number which are russian -speaking. and nobody was ever oppressed. so this is totally nonsense. our wars against russians, we have the representatives of all possible international representations and you can for all of these, years and we never had any single report that anyone was oppressed during this. the recent history of ukraine, since independence. so essentially, we are just saying that he needs some kind of excuse, and that is the one. or even not an excuse, but something to just say. and then, the question is, what is the real goal? the real goal is to -- of ukraine, which are our strategic importance. and the south of ukraine is important because it is the coastline of the black sea. and from a trading perspective, it is a big deal. yes, they will be trying to do that. but it is easier said than done. because they were heavily fortified. the next city to the east is very heavily fortified. so one thing is to say, one thing is to say, it but another thing is to achieve it. they are not going to be successful, i don't think so. >> this is what i was going to say. a russian official also said today that the goal is to take full control. i will stick that map up again. of eastern and southern ukraine which does mean as you said, odessa, but it also means mariupol, kharkiv, and to do that russians are going to have to travel through open ukrainian roads, deal with some of these heavily fortified cities if they have not been able to take, and circle ukrainian troops. tell me a little bit about. this this was supposed to be done and 5.6 days, and it is ten times that, and it hasn't been done yet. >> yes. russian ambition so far has been huge. but the problem is, for them, they are not that much ready for this. and they have a very serious problem, the quality of their personnel. they still use -- they have issues, and severe issues of the doctrine which is essentially improvised soviet doctrine. so, they are doing not that well for themselves at all. they are feeling in all of the operational objectives. so the only thing they can do is use the advantage in the air, and bomb cities out. that is what we are seeing in a number of cities. mariupol obviously is the worst example, because they simply destroyed it city which was pretty much almost 100 percent russian-speaking. so, it is an extremely perverted way to protect russian-speaking people by destroying their cities. and of course, they try to do this with the other ones. that is why ukraine's enhancing its capabilities, including partners from the west, in order to resist, and to counter attack. with the russian performance so far on the ground, i firmly believe that the counter defensive is very real. >> andre, thank you for taking time to speak to us again. we learn a lot from you. former ukrainian minister of defense andre, we appreciate your time. all right, coming up next, i will talk to authoritarianism expert about what she thinks a florida governor ron to sentences antics, including the bill he signed just today going after disney for speaking out against the states don't say gay bill. stay with us. stay with us i had periodontal disease, and i just didn't feel well. but then i found clearchoice. 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