>> donald trump is now counting on those three as portrayed by "snl" in his new york fraud trial. and today he whined, leave my children alone, like they were toddlers on a playground. and today donald trump jr. took the witness stand for the first time, answering questions about his role in the alleged scheme to falsely inflate the trump organization's assets. eric and ivanka are waiting in the wings. also tonight, arizona secretary of state adrian fontes joins me on set following his testimony today before a senate committee on the on going right wing threat to free and fair elections. and to election workers. but we begin tonight with new speaker of the house mike johnson's first official day at work. now that the people's house is back in session. we've already established that johnson is an ultra right wing kris man nationalist who will probably push a nationwide abortion ban. but for the time being, the priority is recrimination and votes on dualing censure resolutions. one is against democrat rashida tlaib, the only palestinian american in congress and has family in the west bank and it's being pitched by marjorie taylor greene, of course. she accuses tlaib of, inciting an insurrection in a house office building during a protest in support of a cease fire in gaza. the other censure resolution is against a marge greene herself. the house is also expected to take up a resolution to expel republican george santos or whatever he is calling himself these days who has been dooimed on federal fraud charges. important stuff. oh, and at some point they also have to fund the government before it shuts down and deal with the biden administration's request for aid to israel and ukraine. republicans put that on a back burner while they fought over a speaker. one of the biggest components jim jordan as speaker is calling it quit. ken buck of colorado says he will not return. he will not run for re-election. buck says he's disappointed with republican's inability to do things. and offered this mouthed excuse why he wouldn't vote for election denier jim jordan but did vote for election denier mike johnson. >> i'm also disappointed that the republican party continues to rely on this lie that the 2020 election was stolen. and mike went to the supreme court with a challenge to the election. i think going to the courts is one thing. trying to move the mob from the mall up to the house flor and you know interrupting the congressional proceeding whole different issue. >> it is a sign that in this party you cannot survive without the big lie. the architect of the legal attempt to overthrow the 2020 election that buck just minimized, hits the ground running. speaker johnson's first big legislative move is a bill for stand alone aid to israel, keeping aid to ukraine separate since you know maga loves russia and paying for it with irs spending cuts. >> i think if you put this to the american people and they weigh the two needs, i think they're going to say, standing with israel and protecting the innocent over there is in our national interest and is more immediate need than irs agents. >> how very republican to look out for the billionaire tax cheats. i feel like there was a line in the bible which mike johnson says summarizes his world view about rich men being as likely to enter the kingdom of heaven as being able to fit through the eye of a needle. but you know, details. senate majority leader chuck schumer called johnson's proposal not serious and says israel and ukraine should not be separated. and in a sign that the he.l.l. is frozen over, mitch mcconnell agrees with schumer. cutting the irs is more expensive. speaker johnson's plan it's estimated will add $27 billion by 2023 and johnson didn't seem too concerned about that. >> not surprised at all. only in washington when you cut spending do they call it a -- >> are you alarmed by this at all? >> so much for the supposed party of fiscal responsibility. meanwhile, the white house has threatened to veto mike johnson's israel bill. in a statement, they said denying humanitarian assistance to 2 million pal still yan civilians would be a grave mistake adding it inserts partisanship into support for israel, making our ally a pawn in our politics at a moment when we must stand together. joining me now is congressman eric swalwell of california and mora and former aide to speaker john boehner and congressman kinzinger. congressman, where are these censure votes going, in your view? >> well, joy, look, it's pretty rich that republicans would seek to censure anyone on our side when jim jordan, who was one of their candidates for speaker, had tweeted out not too long ago just kenye, period, elon period, trump period and then like a day later kenya said we should kill every jew essentially and jim jordan kept that tweet up for about three months. so, let's think twice before we get in a back and forth censuring game about what their own members have to say. the american people for the last three weeks watched the absolute chaos that the republicans brought at the expense of getting things done on inflation, on health care, on keeping the government open, on funding the needs of the middle east and ukraine so they could pick a new speaker. and, we get right back to congress. this is the first thing they want to do. they're not serious about governing. again, we're going to show we are serious about governing. if they want anyone in this building who will help them get things done, as we have in the past, we stand ready. >> and i know you have to vote, so i'm going to let you do that. do you want to go and vote and come back? >> i'm good. i'm good. i'm fired up. i'm good. >> you're fired up. in a follow-up question on that, republicans obviously don't care about optics but attempting to censure the lone palestinian american in the congress doesn't seem like something any democrats would get on board with, even though there are democrats who have been critical of representative tlaib's position, is there a chance democrats would vote for a censure resolution against one of their own members. >> i don't think many will. what i see this is republicans recognize that their nominee is going to be donald trump. and one of the biggest concerns americans will have about donald trump is the guy kind of ran a coup on the capitol because he lost an election and it was violent and police officers were hurt and we very nearly were not able to carry out the certification. and so they must essentially erase that or at least create like a false equivalency so they'll go after our colleagues and say, oh, what a democratic colleague of mine did was essentially the same thing that donald trump did and so tie goes to the runner, make donald trump the nominee. we're not going to let them do that. we'll make sure that every single day the american people know they're more comfortable with violence than voting. and when it comes to policy, we have principles. they're absolutely bankrupt. again i think mainstream will always beat maga if that's the choice. >> at this point there's two different kind of republicans. your wing is super small. i don't know if you realize how small it is. what does it say about the party their priorities are not funding the government. we are inside of 30 days of the government shutting down. making every single republican adhere to the big lie. it's all they seem to care about. ken buck has to go. he's a far right wing republican. he's not good enough. >> that's so jarring to see someone who is really, really conservative drop out because of a stance that he took against jim jordan who he didn't believe was fit to serve as speaker of the house. and now he can't stay in congress? i mean, it's telling of where we are in our party but also our politics and how we're -- i hope some of these members who endured some of that hate and vitriol and really just the maga mob, maybe they have a little sympathy now for their fellow colleagues, former colleagues adam kinzinger and liz cheney. it shouldn't be this way. it's a real problem and says something that we have gone too far. >> what do you make of the fact that you still have tommy tubervillle on the senate side continuing to block promotions inside of our military at a time when we're watching a war going far away. the marine corps doesn't have a leader, the person should have been the commandant had a medical issue. he is saying republicans should hold off on to aid to israel until the u.s./mexico border is addressed. what does that mean? republicans don't have a bill for the border but now he added on top of ban abortion on all -- don't let anybody in the military have an abortion also do the border or he's not going to yield. what do you make of that? >> nothing more infuriating one, someone who doesn't know what being a senator is, should not be in congress, than decide to hold up the job of being a senator. i mean, it's beyond frustrating. again the republican party i belong to, we're for our military, for our veterans. we support business, we support a strong foreign policy. we support an economic, fiscal conservative. that's where we're at as a party or where we're supposed to be at. what tubberville is doing is showing his lack of experience on full display and being an obstructionist just for the sake of being an obstructionist. >> yeah. >> having a nationwide abortion ban and having this say over what the military men and women who are fighting to defend and protect us -- >> which he's never done. >> he has not done. how can you stand there and block all these promotions and things that we need for a stronger military. >> congressman swalwell, let's go back to the issue of funding republicans want to separate and cleave off ukraine. this is how mitch mcconnell tried to frame the argument as to why ukraine funding should happen. take a listen. >> it requires a worldwide approach rather than trying to take parts of it out. it's all connected. the chinese and the russians said they're now friend forever. iranian drones are being used in ukraine and against the israelis. let's talk about where the money is really going. significant portion of it is being spent in the united states and 38 different states replacing the weapons that we sent to ukraine with more modern weapons. so we're rebuilding our industrial base. >> i mean, i'm not sure that saying let's fund the military industrial complex is the flex mitch mcconnell thinks it. what do you make of that argument which apparently is what the white house strategy is, no, fund ukraine because it's good for the u.s. economy. >> fund ukraine because it's good fur our economy and leadership and security in the world. but republicans for the longest time, i gave them the benefit of the doubt that they would talk tough on china but now i see that they're soft on russia. and so if you're going to talk tough on china, you have to stand up against russia for what they're doing in ukraine and you have to be able to draw the straight line between iran who funded so many of the drone attacks that happened in kyiv and funded the attacks that happened in southern israel to help hamas. so if you don't understand there is a through line here and our ally's security is at stake, our security is at stake and by the way what are republicans doing, pulling out the israel aid and saying we're going to fund israel but the way we'll do it is add $12 pl billion to the deficit and allow the richest people on america to skate on their maxes to do it. it's absurd. missing the opportunity to have a bipartisan vote to address our needs and the innocent needs in the area who need leadership and collaboration on this issue. >> i want to let our audience know that the house has now voted to table the censure resolution against congresswoman rashida tlaib. we'll waiting to see what will happen with the rest of the censure resolutions. 23 republicans i will note for you, mora, did vote to table a resolution. at least 23 who didn't want to play the sort of censure game. i want to let you comment on that. >> the political aspect of this is pretty apparent here. we saw with marjorie taylor greene bringing it up, that doesn't give it a lot of credibility. >> fair. >> that's a big part of it. thooes i would think so. and so i'm not surprised that it got tabled. i'm curious to see what happens with the george santos measure. because it really should be -- the congressional committee on ethics is an independent, bipartisan organization that looks into these things. they seem to have a lot on him. and really want to have the chance to do it. so, kind of let them do it and i think that's it. >> one last question before i get one last in for the congressman. what is this things about putin that so -- i understand that for on the israel side, you have a lot of christian nationalists like mr. johnson, speaker johnson, who they've got their own sort of world view reasons for saying, yes, we're willing to send money there. there's that part of it. what is this republican affinity to putin? what's funny to me, one i don't know to answer your question. i don't know aside from the fact that former president trump was president he admired him. >> that's all it takes. >> we have all seen the impact he has and his words have. his word have an impact on voters. that's part of it. but, i would say another part too if there are going to be pro-israel, which they r but then how you cannot be pro-ukraine. russia is still player in both situations. >> can you answer this question, congressman? i don't know how much conversation you have with people on the other side of the aisle, but this -- i don't know if it's adore ration. i know for trump it's adoration. the republican party will not do anything they don't think putin won't like, why? >> son of two republicans who was raised in the ronald reagan era, believed we had to be strong in the cold war to defeat russia, it's very simple. the simplest explanation is the correct onecome is putin likes trump. trump likes putin. russia helped trump in the 2016 election. okay. we have to help russia. that's as simple as it is. now as i said with the hamas attack on southern israel, and iran's role and iran helping russia as well, it's not so clear, to me, as why they wouldn't want to help ukraine defeat russia when iran is a common enemy in all this. i'm going to go vote on the next one, joy. thank you again for working around this crazy schedule. >> thank you for working around our schedule. we really appreciate you kochkman. congressman eric swalwell, thank you. more ra, thank you. our new friend of the show. we appreciate you. coming up next on "the reidout," the judge in trump's civil fraud trial must have missed donald's 2:00 a.m. warning to stay away from his children because he went ahead and dragged poor don jr. into court to testify today. 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