Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Allegedly had affairs with, in order to conceal that information from the public in connection with the election. What i think a critical difference is, is the timing of this and how closely related it to the election and concealment of bad information. That differentiates it from the obama case. If i could just go back to the tweets for one second, hallie. Please. I prosecuted Organized Crime Cases in the Southern District of new york. I supervised that unit. The way that donald trump is talking, and i cant help but think about this, is the way mob bosses talk. When you are loyal, youre a standup guy, and you take the rap in the mob world, you get benefits. If you break and you cooperate, youre a rat, which is another term he used. It is a little jarring to see out in the open, the president of the United States using this language, and sayi
and you have to win over the trump voters and the base is still very much beholden to trump and in a general election you have to win statewide in a blue state like illinois. that s difficult, not impossible to have statewide candidates that have won but kinzinger is very conservative. people forgot. it would be hard to win, so i think his options are pretty limited but he does want to stay in the political arena. one of the ten on the screen, one of the ten republicans who voted to impeachment trump and also on the january 6th insurrection committee. this is a little interesting piece here. this is the house future speaker perhaps kevin mccarthy. after the elections talking we re the big tent party. i believe the party is a big tent and everybody is welcome. don t be pushed to do something you don t believe in because the policies are wrong. you ve been reluctant right now, but join with us. our party is open to have other people join us. let s pop the tent back up
towards the likes of defending people like marjorie taylor green time and time again. this isn t her first outburst. i saw her lash out, you know, pretty aggressively, and some might say violently approach aoc over the summer. but this is a party that continues to protect her and continues to try to throw liz cheney under the bus. i think we anticipated at the beginning of this year the group of ten republicans who voed to impeachment trump, again, ten of whom voted to hold steve bannon in contempt would band together. but we are also seeing that fall apart here. the more that we see marjorie taylor green propped up and continue to be supported by the minority leader, i think the clearer it is the direction that this party is going in. it is not a direction anymore, tim miller. it is a destination. they have arrived. and they have chosen bad-bleep
trump. that s where we start this hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. tim miller is here. also joining us, jackie al mainy, washington post congressional correspondent as well as author of the early 202 news lerl. and former congresswoman donna edwards is here. jackie, do you have any additional reporting or color about the fireworks and the anti-semitic face laser barb launched by liz chinny? yeah, nicole i don t have necessarily new reporting here. but i think we need to take a step back and just look at the year in totality since some of these republicans who voted to hold steve bannon in contempt also voted to impeachment trump and stood align in being that group of ten standing up against donald trump. from there, you have seen this party really ride a roller coaster where you had kevin mccarthy increasingly veer