Tonight on the reidout this is a dark time in america. We have a lot of problems. And were really, really hopeful and prayerful. Prayer is appropriate in a time like this. That the evil can end and the senseless violence can stop. Prayers but no actual plan from the new house speaker. Following yet another mass slaughter of human beings. This time, in lewiston, maine. Tonight, were learning more about the far right extreme views of speaker mike johnson, among other things hes an Election Denier and wants to ban abortion nationwide. And thats really bad for republicans heading into the next election. Plus, special counsel jack smith has had enough of trumps big mouth. But will a judge agree to smiths request to reimpose a Gag Order On Criminal Defendant Trump . But we begin tonight with yet another devastating mass killing in america. At 6 56 last night, just before we went on the air, Police Responded to a report of an active shooter at the sparetime recreation Bowling Alley in lewisto
seat to lose? what s your assessment of the race as it stands right now? sure. chris, in a lot of ways, this is a battle for the identity of these two parties. you know, this primary is an ideological one. on the one side, you have john fetterman, on the democratic side, john fetterman, who s embraced running against lam. more of the a moderate. on the republican side, you have a lot of candidates who are trying to kpras the trumpian mantle. the funny thing is, though, however these primaries shake out, pennsylvania elects moderate general election candidates. so whatever this pallet of extremes produces, you may see those candidates trying to run towards the center in the general election. pat toomey, while avowed ly conservative, is no fire-breathing conservative. tom wolf who s leaving office this year, while progressive, is also no fire-breathing extremist, and those are the
out in the enthusiastic position, you know, for there to be the requisite level of enthusiasm to win the election. let me republican presidential politic, familiarity does not breed contempt. it breeds votes. in your lifetime, the republicans have never nominated a first-time presidential candidate. tough go to 1964 to barry goldwater to get the last one. a fire-breathing conservative who lost worse than any republican s ever lost. that scared the republican party about these first-timers. the democrats, the last four nominees were first time they ran for president and two of them won. chris was talking about feeding the hot hand. your hand is hot. never seen you before but go with it. one of the things that the former congressman didn t talk about was who is the candidate and what s the appeal? i mean, you ve got mitt romney, he is one of the wealthiest guys that s ever run for president, if he gets the nomination. and here is the democratic party
natural that you have to start out in the enthusiastic position, you know, for there to be the requisite level of enthusiasm to win the election. let me republican presidential politic, familiarity does not breed contempt. it breeds votes. in your lifetime, the republicans have never nominated a first-time presidential candidate. tough go to 1964 to barry goldwater to get the last one. a fire-breathing conservative who lost worse than any republican s ever lost. that scared the republican party about these first-timers. the democrats, the last four nominees were first time they ran for president and two of them won. chris was talking about feeding the hot hand. your hand is hot. never seen you before but go with it. one of the things that the former congressman didn t talk about was who is the candidate and what s the appeal? i mean, you ve got mitt romney, he is one of the wealthiest guys that s ever run for president, if he gets the nomination.
ridiculist tonight. breaking news everyone. tonight right now in that building over on the senate side according to democrat harry reid who spoke last hour, nothing is going on. the senate is now adjourned. but the clock is still ticking and the government is running out of money to pay the bills at this moment because the debt limit was not raised back in may, the united states treasury has less cash on hand than apple computer. on wednesday the government will have $23 billion in social security checks to send out and not enough cash to cover them unless it doesn t send out a whole lot of other checks. now, earlier this evening after a string of delays the house narrowly passed speaker john boehner s version of a debt reduction bill. i stuck my neck out a mile to try this. to get an agreement with the president of the united states. i stuck my neck out a mile. and i put revenues on the table. in order to try this. to come to an agreement to avert us being where we are.