mccarthy said trump s conduct on january the 6th, had been atrocious and totally wrong. he faulted the president for inciting people to attack the capitol, saying that trump s remarks at a rally on the national mall that day, we re not right by any shame or any form. during that conversation, mccarthy inquired about the mechanism for invoking the 25th amendment. the process by which the vice president and members of the candidate can remove a sitting president from office. as per mcconnell, a report on the lunch conversation with key advisers from kentucky over chick-fil-a sandwiches, debating with to do about trump, after it became clear that the democrats were impeaching trump in the house. mcconnell said, and i m quoting here, the democrats are going to take care of the son of a bee for us. now, in the intervening year, both of the men have fled right back to donald trump side. to kiss trump s ring, and earn
responsibility for wednesday s attack on congress by mob rioters. and while those words were these strongest public condemnation we saw of trump from republican leaders after the coup, and they have all largely changed their tone since, for some reason. a new book sheds light on what those two men, mccarthy and mcconnell, were reportedly saying in private. in a preview of their upcoming book, journalist alexander burns, and alexander martin report, quote, on a phone call with several other top house republicans on january the 8th, mccarthy said trump s conduct on january the 6th, had been atrocious and totally wrong. he faulted the president for inciting people to attack the capitol, saying that trump s remarks at a rally on the national mall that day, we re not right by any shame or any form. during that conversation, mccarthy inquired about the mechanism for invoking the 25th amendment. the process by which the vice president and members of the candidate can remove a sitting presiden
the lunch conversation with key advisers from kentucky over chick-fil-a sandwiches, debating with to do about trump, after it became clear that the democrats were impeaching trump in the house. mcconnell said, and i m quoting here, the democrats are going to take care of the son of a bee for us. now, in the intervening year, both of the men have fled right back to donald trump side. to kiss trump s ring, and earn his forgiveness. but here is the thing, and don t forget this. mitch mcconnell was wrong, democrats were not able to take care of trump for republicans, and that s for a number of reasons, including a seeming inability to form a functioning governing coalition in the senate. as well as, though, and let s be clear about, it republican obstruction. congressional republicans have done absolutely nothing to strengthen our laws in this country to prevent a second attempted coup from happening. there have been no structural
on. what democrats red line is they won t agree in any form or fashion to do the next debt limit increase in reconciliation as senator mcconnell suggested in his statement and democrats are kind of going around saying mcconnell caved and blinked and this is a victory. one thing mcconnell gets is democrats will put a number on this and pass it, them shelves with their votes. they ll put a number and republicans will try to say they should put a number again when this comes up again in december. it looks like as you point out, joy, we ll do this again in a couple months. again, everybody again focused. they re doing it to run ads. not because of some high conservative principle, something that matters that s deeply held some principle. they re doing it to run ads. that s embarrassing. it is embarrassing for a first world democracy. senator al franken, aaron haynes, sahill, thank you very much. up next on the reidout, have you seen this man.
and finally, republicans were willing to stiff millions of service members, people that serve the united states military would go unpaid. remind me again why this party should be taken seriously? finally, according to reports, mcconnell, the grim reaper was also worried, this is another reason he blinked that his reckless behavior might actually force senators joe mansion and kyrsten sinema to blow up the filibuster to raise the debt limit god forbid. like most things in washington, there is no deal until both parties, both major party leaders, chuck schumer and mcconnell agree to it and if they do, we ll be right back here at the poker table in december. perfect. joining me now is former senator al franken of minnesota, host of the al franken podcast who is on a comedy tour across america aaron haynes. we actually called you and we