15yearolds. Joining me now, the former adviser to john mccain, and cnn political commentator, amanda carpenter as well. Mark, you first, gop sources telling cnn, it s pretty much over for liz cheney. Schee be replaced as early as next week but a trump loyalist. If you re not willing to lie for trump, you re out of republican leadership and on the outs with the party? yeah, don, it strikes me as the entire republican party has gotten on the titanic and is going to crash on the iceberg of the big lie. If you don t lie, and you stand up for the truth, you get punished. This is a party that is promoting marjorie taylor laser beams, and punishing liz cheney for telling the obvious truth. What is happening, you have people left who support the big lie, and the party is branded adds the party of the big lie. That is what everybody is going to have to live with, and what strikes me also, is the reason they are punishing liz cheney, they know the truth. Ted cruz, yesterday, five years ago, he s
in six weeks, come in whatever, well, we ended that. now they want to go back to the levels where we cut those folks that now provide that kind of help. this amounts to $22 billion cut in veterans health care. now they dispute this. they know where their actual proposal or exclusive protection for veterans, but they say it s unusual language we use with presidents these days, they say i m lying when i say that. the truth is, why do so many veterans groups speak out in opposition to the republican proposal, they re not all democrats, they know what s going to happen. folks, that s a game republicans are playing, anytime you single out the impact of their overall cuts, they tell you, no, no, no, it s not true. but they re wrong. they want to protect something. they would have written it down and say we re protecting it. you can t cut this program. you can t cut it. so he can see it. here s another example. under the republican plan, nationwide, 100,000 teachers and support staf
redirect police funding, because they have way too much money, a big change from three years ago. when he was running last time, at the democratic convention, he campaigned on the idea that police are racist, the dnc s platform stated millions of people in our country have good reason to fear that they may lose their lives in a routine traffic stop or while standing on a street corner. really? joe biden isn t talking like that anymore. it is not hard to see why. the anti-police movement that he supported big-time has destroyed major democratic controlled cities. take, for example, seattle. they lost many officers and hit a 30-year low in the number of officers on the payroll. on top of that, seattle s state government where the senate and hougs are controlled by democrats has decided to decriminalize drug possession, effective july 1st. no state law in washington against drug possession. that is absolutely true. democrats refused a compromise bill are republicans because it i
they bear the name of his predecessor. president obama is seizing the bush tax cutted and calling for them to be extend, but not for everyone. the president wants to let them expire for the wealthiest americans. that puts him at odds with congressional republicans, as well as his rival mitt romney and sets the stage for a very heated battle with less than four months to go before the election. our white house correspondent brianna keilar is covering this for us. first of all, why is the president doing this today? reporter: well, wolf, this is certainly part of his narrative that he s trying to put out there as he runs for re-election. this is very much happening through that political prism. he tried to portray himself as really the one fighting for the middle class. now he s trying to portray his opponent mitt romney and congressional republicans as being defenders of the wealthy. so what he s calling for is for an extension of the bush-era tax cuts only for american fami