carolina, where all eyes are on the primary race for freshman congressman, madison cawthorn. cawthorn has come under attack from his own party, in the wake of multiple scandals. polls have just closed across the state of pennsylvania. we are watching some key races there where, frankly, the future of american democracy is on the ballot. pennsylvania republicans will decide if they will run to insurrectionists for senator governor this fall. in the senate primary, far-right candidate, kathy barnett, has seen a late surge in the polls, putting them, essentially, neck and neck. celebrity doctor, mehmet oz, it is david mccormack. new images emerged in barnett, and seen in the gray hat, and coach, marching to the capital building. this is after the ellipse rally, coming to the building. and this photo, she is seen walking next to members of the far-right gang, the proud boys. these two men, later, arrested, and indicted, on federal charges for, allegedly, breaking into the buildin
chris? edwards of course state legislator has a history there and a base in the district and been elected in terms of tony hilton thank you very much. michael c is as a chairman of the republican national committee, formal 26 congressional district, as a republican from 2015, 2019, and former congressman jolly for his liking congressional district as a republican for the 20 to 14 to 2017. he is no longer affiliated with the republican party. he now chairs a save america. michael all start with you. i think the cawthorn story as fascinated and bizarre. for a number of reasons. one is, like i thought he was not telling the truth about the coke orgies, but then when i saw the republican establishment come down on him so hard. i was little k maybe this is a fight club situation? we accidentally spilled the beans. this is the real thing? and also just, watching the coordinated effort to take this do down. who i have no dog in this fight. was wild when you consider with other members o
after january 6th. there were a lot of reports floating around. some turned out to be true, some. not so, as you are having private conversations, commenting on those things, ultimately the concerns i had were that there were members getting death threats. that was something that i surely wanted to be vocal at pushing back on. but he and i talked about that. you know, i am thinking here the distinction between when they are doing here, and what they are doing in madison cawthorn. guns are policing. they are out. they were tweeting about the insider creating, and his son was telling a podcast about coke orgies. that he says he has been invited to, and that members in congress are participating in. and it is like, they are in some ways, it is like they are showing how they can go after someone if they want to, i guess is my point. and they are not really going to do that with marjorie taylor greene, or matt gates, even if they roll their eyes. yes, chris.
listen. so i share that with matt, i am sorry that those comments caused him problems. because it was things that were conveyed to me from a number of places. you can go back to those days after january 6th. there were a lot of reports floating around. some turned out to be true, some. not so, as you are having private conversations, commenting on those things, ultimately the concerns i had were that there were members getting death threats. that was something that i surely wanted to be vocal at pushing back on. but he and i talked about that. you know, i am thinking here the distinction between when they are doing here, and what they are doing in madison cawthorn. guns are blazing. they are out. they were tweeting about the insider creating, and his sin was telling a podcast about coke orgies. someone if they want to, i guess is my point. and they are not really going to do that with marjorie taylor greene, or matt gaetz, even if they roll
let s discuss, and bring in former republican congressman from texas, will hurd. he s a former undercover cia officer, and the author of the new book, american reboot, and idealist guide to getting big things done. will, today you had to be thinking, man, of all the days that madison cawthorn accuses his colleagues of orgies and cocaine use, you have to go on tv, but alas you do. when you left congress, you said, the republican party needed to find a principled vision for the future. are they doing that? with things like this. no, of course not. again, i don t know madison cawthorn, i m not a lawyer, but i d probably say that in the legal world, they d say he s not a credible witness. you weren t attending coke orgies with fellow members of congress? no, in my six years of congress, i never heard of such things, never had such hints of such things. but again, this is obviously, if it was it would be a bad