Spectrum, liz cheney on the right, joe biden, are warning on a near daily basis an increasingly dire terms that our very democracy is in trouble right now. I dont understand why one partys careen threatens to derail the entire american experiment, the entire republic. Can actually just look no further than what happened last night. Nikki haleys dorsment of donald trump is part of what has become a time honored tradition of Todays Republican Party in the trump era. Prominent republicans whose closely held private views about the expresident may not actually be that different from mine or that of any trump critic or any democrat. And taking all sorts of very public abuse and scorn from donald trump, including attacks on their spouses. Despite all that, despite everything he said about their families and everything they have said about him in return, they turn around and offer him their endorse the. Ted cruzs capitulation before the 2016 election after trump attacked his wife. Cruz said t
lot of information and put together this complete 9/11-style report, the definitive word. reporters can find out things that happened a year ago and put hem into the public record. but the question really is for the leadership of the party to decide whether or not they are going to repudiate the messaging that donald trump actually won and whether or not they can regain power over the messaging going out to their own base. before i let you go, i want you to weigh in on this, and i m going to be talking later in the show about this, as well. you brought up mcconnell, so it jogged my memory of wanting to talk about this. this aboutface that mcconnell seems to be making, talking about the january 6 committee as important and a wait and see as to what they actually discover. it seems like an aboutface, right, because he did not support a bipartisan select committee investigating january 6th. but the timing was interesting considering the fact that he said this after the reading of those
checks and balances, overwhelming victory, and since then they ve rubber stamped everything coming out of white house. not everything. a lot. why did mitch mcconnell go along with it and provide the vehicle to a simple, you know, majority and all? , you would have to get up to two thirds to reject the deal. he went along with that. very, very serious mistake. i don t know why he did it, but it was a very serious mistake. let s just get this straight. this president is inking a deal with no security in it for the united states at all, and none for israel, which is our closest ally. israel is the only country in the world that would actually fight. you brought up mcconnell. people hate all politicians, because you can t trust them. they re not looking out for the american people.
a lot of people in the republican caucus are displeased mitch mcconnell went there. it is a blink. it shows that the republican caucus was not seriously going to let the debt limit be hit, which as a practical economist would argue is a great thing, but from a pure political standpoint has really opened up mcconnell and by extension john boehner to criticism from their own caucus. the republican candidates for president, all of them want the nomination, and they re weighing in tonight. newt gingrich tweeted mcconnell s plan is an irresponsible plan to government. mitt romney put out this statement. mitt romney does not believe the federal debt limit should be raised without tieing it to spending cuts, budget caps and a balanced budget amend. ment. how can the president take advantage of this? he can by holding out. while it was painful for democrats and progressives to see he him propose a $4 trillion
they re not happy. i think the eric eriksson post you quoted at the top of the show is the tip of iceberg. a lot of people in the republican caucus are displeased mitch mcconnell went there. it is a blink. it shows that the republican caucus was not seriously going to let the debt limit be hit, which as a practical economist would argue is a great thing, but from a pure political standpoint has really opened up mcconnell and by extension john boehner to criticism from their own caucus. the republican candidates for president, all of them want the nomination, and they re weighing in tonight. newt gingrich tweeted mcconnell s plan is an irresponsible plan to government. mitt romney put out this statement. mitt romney does not believe the federal debt limit should be raised without tieing it to spending cuts, budget caps and a balanced budget amend. ment. how can the president take