come with us. we re heading for the valley. going where? did you say? mexico. all the way down. you going all the way to mexico tonight in this old heap of junk? reckon the town will get along without us tli monday? oh, i reckon. i was young enough to bounce that far, i d go with you. the last picture show was a movie that, however old i was when i saw it, i said, oh my god this movie is about me. this movie is about us. this movie is about america as we are right now, here in the mid- 70s, not as we were back in the early 1950s. do you think the last picture show is a john ford type movie? no. i think it s a peter bogdanovich type movie. peter bogdanovic loved movies, had a sense of movie history, but had a very strong sensibility. he spoke to a new generation, both visually and emotionally. orson welles read the script. and i said, i d like to get that depth of feel, everything being sharp, the way you did in citizen kane, touch of evil.
and the big questions are, can the democrats somehow defy history, and hold on to the house, or are republicans poised for a big win? high inflation, gas prices, is the continuing covid pandemic, president biden s parties facing voters in a very bad mood this year. all republicans need to do to win the senate is to pick up one seat. it sounds easy enough, but are they actually in the process of shooting themselves in the four? how about, former president donald trump, is he helping or hurting the gop effort? and he does end up hurting it, will he end up hurting himself, when it comes to 2024? what about the end of roe v. wade? is it mobilizing democrats? and then, there is that major shift that we saw in 2020. hispanic voters abandoning democrats, and voting republican. it is accelerating even more this year. 99 days to go. let s get to it. let s start at the place where at least, for me it s all gonna and in 99 days from now, or i should say, it will start two and 99 days fr
stepped in it again. and how they can blow their case against trump. the dems told us walls wouldn t solve the border crisis. biden makes plans to built a wall of his own. it s not at our border and you are paying for it. it s serious time now. things are bad right now. i know that, you know that, the republicans know it, biden knows it, the dems know it. democrat voters know it too. so why do some voters still support this administration. when i was in the secret service we stayed in hot zones. that was me with obama. i got sick there, that was trinidad. i think i had like 101 fever. there was no place on earth i would rather not be than there. here is me, too, tooking miserable in indonesia. i got that eating grit. but i was embracing the sock. that s accepting the circumstances around you sometimes operating within them with no expectations things will get better until it s over. does that feel like the american economy? i think some non-conservative voters are starting
stepped in it again. and how they can blow their case against trump. the dems told us walls wouldn t solve the border crisis. biden makes plans to built a wall of his own. it s not at our border and you are paying for it. it s serious time now. things are bad right now. i know that, you know that, the republicans know it, biden knows it, the dems know it. democrat voters know it too. so why do some voters still support this administration. when i was in the secret service we stayed in hot zones. that was me with obama. i got sick there, that was trinidad. i think i had like 101 fever. there was no place on earth i would rather not be than there. here is me, too, tooking miserable in indonesia. i got that eating grit. but i was embracing the sock. that s accepting the circumstances around you sometimes operating within them with no expectations things will get better until it s over. does that feel like the american economy? i think some non-conservative voters are starting
trump backed challenger. here is a part of her concession speech. two years ago, i won the primary by 73% of the vote, i could easily have done the same again, the path is clear, but it would require that would go along with president trump s lie about the 2020 election. it would require that enabled the ongoing effort to a rival democratic system and attacked the foundation of our republic. that was a path i could not and would not take. liz cheney s demise is not unique here. of the ten house republicans that voted to impeach trump this year, only two will be on the ballot come november, the other eight have either chosen to retire or were knocked out of the primaries, like cheney the gop is losing what little moral compass has left. . i want to know that liz cheney is a hard-core conservative, there is nothing moderate about her. she and a handful of republicans have set themselves apart when they stand on the side of democracy and against donald trump. we can disagree