alliance among them. at one point, a fight almost broke out on the house floor, but perhaps the most telling moment came at the very end. on his way out of the capital, at around two a.m. after finally taking his oath of office as speaker, mccarthy stopped to talk to reporters to give special thanks to a special someone. i do especially think president trump. i don t think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning, somebody wrote that out of what he was there, and he was all in. he was all in. kevin mccarthy maybe the speaker, but this is donald trump s house. built on the backs of trump s republican acolytes whose jobs depend on the support of donald trump s own base. but dynamics that were on display during a four-day speakership battle have continued to play out in the six months since. the chaos caucus republicans, many of whom are trump loyalists and some of whom participated in the attempt to deny mccarthy the speakership, brought the cou
As his investigation hones in on a chaotic oval office meeting during which trump and his allies discussed, among other things, appointing taboo, trump s lawyer, at the special counsel to investigate baseless claims of election fraud. joining me now is the former republican congressman from pennsylvania, charlie dent. the executive director and vice president of the congressional program at the aspen institute. also with us, steve bannon, the producer of the rachel maddow s show, and msnbc political contributor and author of the book, the impostors, how republicans quick governing and ceased american politics. congressman, i ve been wanting both of you, but congressman, they want to start with you. basically, with the title of steve s book, this isn t governing. there s no part of this is governing. on that night by mccarthy won the speakership, on january 7th, you wrote an op-ed for cnn titled, the deal mccarthy s truck wasn t inexplicable act of self destruction. in it, you wrote, qu
talk further bring in daniel rothenburg co-directs or of the arizona state of war and at the school of global politics and studies and wrote an op-ed for cnn last week arguing the u.n. should invest gays this as russian aggression quoting from your op-ed, definition of a genocide in ukraine would be appropriate if there was enough evidence to demonstrate russia s atrocities express a purposeful effort to deny existence of the ukrainian people. so let s talk further about that, professor, because, while either president biden and zelenskyy have useds the term jean gene genocide, that is very complicated. it cannot sin singularly be
Donbas region. it seems the only purpose is to fulfill vladimir putin s imperialist i can ambitions of rebuilding the former soviet union. michael, at the center of this crisis is a former comedian, the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky. he s a political novice. and you wrote in a recent op-ed for cnn that, quote, if there ever was a time for him to resist stunts and summon up a statesmanlike style of leadership this is it. zelensky gave a powerful speech yesterday in munich before world leaders. how would you rate his performance during this crisis, his leadership? sure. well, he certainly has stepped up to the plate, i would say in recent days a lot of ukrainians were telling me i just came from kyiv is that they were worried about the lack of guidance coming from the presidential administration, but i would like to highlight something president zelensky said that i m also now leaning
Likely, again a speculation on my part. but when the bishop visited in may everything was hunky-dory. what a great job we were doing, i was doing, i was grateful. and then i wrote op-ed for cnn in june about this whole issue of biden and communion agreeing with pope francis, and other major religious leaders in this country including cardinal gregory, and cardinal dolan who do not think that communion should be used as a divisive wedge. and then i went on some cnn shows to talk about the op-ed. and by august i was given my walking papers from the dioceses with no explanation. when we would ask, well, why am i not being renewed, why can we not stay, he would say it s simply the case, we re not giving any reason. so i think that was the reason because that was the only thing