spending pools, that move is gonna force desantis to file paperwork within the next 15 days. that s officially acknowledging his intentions to run for president for the first time. even though he hasn t officially announced yet, he has been acting like a presidential candid for several weeks. yesterday, travel to the early republican primary state of iowa. where he attended a pair of events and met with voters. super pac backing him had to santa s 2024 signs, merchandise available yesterday s event and during a speech, he turned his attention to the election. as bad as things are going right now, if things do not go well for us republicans in 2024 it s gonna get a whole lot worse. we must reject the culture of losing that isn t affected our party in recent years. the time for extra races is over. we gotta demonstrate the courage to lead and the strength to win. if we do that, if we make 2024 election a referendum on joe biden and his failures. if we provide a positive alt
republicans who said, no way to a clean debt ceiling. so i am told staff discussions will continue today, in a couple hours, looking to get underway. and early next week, the four leaders will sit down together, we are told, to try and get something on the table here. julia, thank you. i will let you go, but we are gonna be talking about you in the next segment, because you had a remarkable exchange with senator tommy to brown, thank you for being with us. nbc s julie tsirkin, alone, a capitol hill. all, right the former captain football coach in alabama senator tommy to berm has been trying to explain itself all week after criticizing the pentagon s efforts to rig the armed forces of right white nationalists. his predecessor, the former senator doug jones is substantially clear on his views about white nationalists. he took on the kkk as united states attorney before becoming the first democrat elected to the united states senate for alabama in 25 years. he joins me, next on velsh
understand the history of the civil rights movement, and not understand the struggles of lgbtq people. these ideas, these movements, policy, legislation. it shapes the world we live in, it shapes the schools that we attend to in the neighborhoods that we live in. it shapes the jobs that we take. it also, because, even more existential about who we hire, who we fire, or who we promote, who we think is capable, who we think has made major contributions. so, when i think about people being left out, marginalized, and he raised. i am terrified by this. which is why i m going to florida to participate in this 24-hour teach in, and to let people know that knowledge is power. and republicans are deathly afraid of other people having power. you know, i had to take everything back to slavery, but i think about the fact that enslaved people don t know how to read. it was a crime to have literacy if you were enslaved, and they are pulling from all of the playbooks because they understand that kno
a lot of people don t like abortion, there are increasingly fewer who think women should be thrown in jail and the doctors should be thrown in jail as a result of it. there may be a lot of people who really love their second amendment rights, but think that the amount of shooting that goes on web ar-15s in this country are nuts and they would like a reasonable response from the nra republicans and they are not getting. that there are some that argue that those are matters that democrats should really, really lean into going to 2024. i want my democratic friends tell us this very closely. because in 2020, the stupidest single line in american politics was ever uttered. it was defund the police. it was a poison with everybody, including african american voters. six-week abortion ban is defund the police for republicans. it pulls through the floor, everyone hates it, republicans, look. about 25% of republican women are pro-choice. moderately, or somewhat. but pro-choice. about 18% of re
narrowly smart. he is not the person with those gifts. i dislike donald trump in every conceivable aspect of his behavior, his character, everything else, but he has charisma. he engages people. he has a sense of energy about him that will probably end up in the primary debates, coming out, again the base will rally back around him. and, look i said this the other night. you watch the way that donald trump behaved in that town hall. and i thought to myself, good god. he is going to tear rhonda santa s head off and kick it around like a soccer ball. this guy will go nowhere against him. and, look, i remember in 16, a lot of republicans, jeb, monk, or ted, they would they would say my speech writers wrote me a funny zinger about trump, and they would go, out and think they re gonna beat, him and then thinking he would blow the whole room up. if you are you, former republican strategist, who might want to see a working republican party or something