today says kevin mccarthy, trying to be speaker, got a standing ovation after making a call for unity. other members are raising concerns. do you think the house republicans will pick mccarthy to lead them and will there be any sort of unity? i think the first question is easier to answer than the second. i think mccarthy s great advantage is there s no obvious replacement for him, and it s not clear who would even want this job given how difficult it s going to be to run a narrow house. as for whether there s going to be unity, i think the answer is probably not. i think there are continuing recriminations among republicans, and i think there should be. when you do have an election that goes as disappointingly as this one did for the republicans, it s fine to take some time to argue out what happened and what should happen next. was it really disappointing, though? congressman barr in your interview today said it doesn t
ask you about. we know that when president biden is doing anything in public he bidening. he s doing bipartisan things. it s what he does. it s innate in him. he has been over the past since this summer. he s talked about the maga movement pointedly. he s named them and named them as what s endangering our republic. are you surprised that he didn t do that tonight? we re so close to this election but the message he was giving was to essentially give a lot of grace to the republican party and say i know this is not the majority of the party and to say we need to come together. we need to unify around these ideas. america is an idea. this was a call for unity. were you surprised he didn t make some of the points you heard congressman raskin make. look, if you want to empower the people in d.c. who don t have a vote you need democrats to win. if you want to give women rights