creature of the senate having served 30 plus years there. if anyone can get this done in the senate, it s president biden. of course in partnership with great leadership from chuck schumer. you re right that everyone i have talked to in the process says it s got to come from the president. he s been working hard. and it s his agenda and succeed or fail. based on that. congressman jeffreys, thank you for being with us. thanks, chris. i d like to bring in the american intersurprise institute. he s written at length about congressional dysfunction. including baner and ryan years. i thought about how long you have been ringing the alarm bell about particularly this trajectory of the republican caucus. which is now sort of moved through different it retaliations into this marjorie taylor greene and gaetz. potentially being the forces that have to appease likely be joined by another dozen.
the party s lurch to the right has also affected congress, where the gop s extreme views have led to gridlock. in fact, a recent washington post op-ed said, quote, the republicans are the problem. joining me now is the men who wrote that op-ed and who literally wrote the book on this. thomas mann, a senior fellow at the brookings institute, and norman, an american scholar at the american intersurprise institute. their new book is called it s even worse than it looks. and they say, the republican party has become a resurgent outlier, ideologically extreme, cornful of compromise, unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science. thank you both for being here tonight. happy to be with you. thomas mann, those are strong words. tell us what you found in your
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