Christie . I dont. Youre even more expressive. I admire it in you. I dont have that chip. But i admire it. Thank you, nicolle. Good to see you. Thanks to everyone for joining us on the beat. Were all returning from this holiday weekend. I hope youre ready to dive back into the news. We have Breaking News nicolle was just reporting on. We also have lots to cap up on. Reports of trump allies turning on him in the rico case. Where seinfeld meets legal accountability. Really. For all the talk about whether defendants believe their own lies, we will break down that costanza defense and its problems. Also tonight, Chai Komanduri back with us on a chai day for the data one Talking Point is turning into a loser. Right now, Breaking News, a reckoning for the militant violent lead earth of the January 6th Insurrection. Breaking news in the last few moments, a judge handing down an extraordinarily stiff and historic Prison Sentence for insurrectionist and proud boyce leader Enrique Tarrio. 22 yea
president obama has outlined a second term agenda that requires changing minds in washington. on gun regulation and immigration, the president has to turn some intangible political capital into results on the hill. first off an upbeat inauguration, the president not only has high favorability ratings. that has made some conservatives pretty nervous. i don t know that there s any stopping this. it s up to me and fox news. and i don t think fox news is that invested in this. but there s not i don t think there s any republican opposition to this of any majority consequence of size. we ll have to wait and see and find out. so far so good for immigration reformers, but today some card carrying members of the conservative media establishment came to rush s rescue. national review released a major
frum said, the conservative entertainment establishment. i mean, the conservative media establishment. they lied to the donors. they lied to the base. they lied to everybody about how romney was ahead and things were looking good in the senate. the pollsters everybody lied. and so guys keep writing checks and nifind out the reason they went to minnesota and pennsylvania is all these people were saying romney was going to win ohio, they knew he was not going to win ohio. they knew all along. you know what i like? i like that the focus is not so much where it is and i m curious to get your view on this that it should be on the issues. that you re beginning to have a debate in republican circles not only about where money was spent and when but on issues, for example, on immigration, whether the republicans got it wrong, or this or that spending issue. that s actually healthy. the sooner we get over the tactics of the campaign and we get into whether republicans made a mistake by
sense on the right, they re making millions of dollars talking about all the incendiary aspects where we need solutions. if i were a donor, my biggest problem would be that i was laid to. the conservative media establishment, they lied to the donors. they lied to the base. they lied to everybody about how romney was ahead. now, victoria, can these more moderate voices at least moderate compared to the tea party, can they gain traction and influence in the republican party? i believe there will, but it will be a long road because these moderates are very frustrated. not only did they lose this election, because they also lost a huge business investment. there s millions of dollars thrown down the drain and their
but in terms of a president, we need a leader. will this media blitz change the coverage as romney tries to catch gingrich? plus, we ll meet the 22-year-old college student who unearthed a devastating old romney video. it was a risky move when abc hired christiane amanpour from cnn last year for the sunday morning program this week. but now she is out. continuinging as an abc correspondent while launching an evening newscast for cnn international. what went wrong, and is bringing back george stephanopoulos the answer? tim tebow is winning all kinds of praise as the denver broncos quarterback. the entire team believes in him. the city is captivated by him how about the country. the country is coptivated by him. okay, so why are the media harping on his public displays of christianity? i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. it s been a very long time, more than a year and a half in fact, since mitt romney appeared on a sunday show. he was the republ