Really good right now. they have a very strong chance of taking over the congress this fall. joe biden for all the forceful speech that he gave yesterday, he s going to continue to go after donald trump on issues of democracy. he went very hard at republicans on economic miblissues today tag about republican obstruction is to make people poor rather than reduce the cost of things that burden them like child care for example that he wants to deal with and build back better. but he is his rankings are low. he is in a fairly weak political position at the moment so as weak as republicans are in terms of what they re saying, the honesty of what they re saying and conduct, they have a good chance to win the election and that makes the stakes of 2022 and 2024 so high. let s talk about his tone a
Like that so watch what happened when senator cruz went on t tucker s show to clear things up. a master class flip-flopping. the way i phrased things yesterday, it was sloppy and it was frankly dumb. i don t buy that, whoa, whoa, i ve known you a long time since before you went to the senate. i wasn t saying that the thousands of peaceful protesters supporting donald trump are somehow terrorists. i wasn t saying the millions of patriots across the country supporting president trump are terrorists and that s what a lot of people misunderstood hold on. what you just said doesn t make sense. i was talking about people who commit violence against cops and you and i both agree if you commit violence against cops, you should go to jail. yeah, but you re not a terrorist. you know? you re not. you re a guy who assaulted a cop. okay, so there is a legal difference as you well know. i ve used that word for
Those i have a lot of friends still that think you can save this republican party. it doesn t want to be saved. it like someone drowning if you go to swim, they will try to attack you. the republican party is what it wants to be and we keep trying to think it s going to revert to something. no, it s not. this is what they want to be. hey, stewart no desire to change. you said something to me that i think was very important. you said this isn t about donald trump. what donald trump did, this is more about the republican party. donald trump gave them cover to be what they wanted to be, right? to make this pivot. they wanted this. it wasn t explain what you meant by that and how you said it. i think their republican party was revealed by donald trump, not changed. just as i think fox didn t create the republican party, the republican party created fox.
Outlook, he was at least principled. that s a totally different person than today. ted cruz got bullied on national tv and i actually felt bad for him. because tucker carlson literally just bullied him. it was down right, i mean, you know, it was like an anti bullying campaign that could have been the commercial but you have to actually look at the full context of who ted cruz has become. we remember we cannot forget, we have to remember how donald trump talked about this man s wife like a dog. and his dad. what did he do? and his dad with these myth kill fantasies and he ran back to donald trump and said please, please take me in. donald trump laughed and took him in. we remember this whole escapade so watching this now, the only thing that s apreppropriate thi to say is ted cruz doesn t have what it takes to stand up for
What do you think when you hear people who are elected just as you were elected, and some of whom were elected in the same election with donald trump and who don t question their own elections, when you hear people from the republican party talk like that about an election they know was legitimate, i don t know how that strikes you, if you could just tell us. it s wild. that s how it strikes me, and i think you hit it right. they talk about ballots and integrity, but those are the same ballots that elected them. but i think what s more important now is just the deafening silence from house republican leadership when it comes to today, the january 6th anniversary. it s cricket, you don t hear anything from them. as you mentioned at the top, you have congresswoman cheney, the vice chair of our committee there with the vice president but they would choose not to. other house republicans would