rhetoric possible. i m not sure that is transfer ablg. we ll see. i was thinking trump himself, he s the your fired guy and he was able to parlay that so the white house into kind of creating his own story that isn t always rooted in fact. and, again, parlayed it all the way to white house. he s been indicted twice so far and he may be back in the white house again. you know, there is a previous iteration of what we considered d.c. politics that said this would never happen. but now he s really normalized things. and i think like melanie said, particularly on the right, it is become kind of par for the course now. yeah, i mean, just nt owe the question of people being under criminal investigation, trump has made that sort of like just another day in washington. it is happening so much ben, thank you so much.
but in the moment, they really weren t sure how to play it and they just sort of held their fire and they did strengthen mccarthy. and in some ways they weren t aware of what was happening in the negotiating room because they read the bill like the rest of us did, a lot of things that they got, were rainbows and butterflies an not all that real here in washington. but coming up next, two is a party and three is a crowdch that is what many democrats are shouting from the rooftops, hoping that one particular group will take the hint. that is coming up. (upbeat music) - [narrator] what if there was a hearing aid that could keep up with you? (notification dings) this is jabra enhance select. it s a smart hearing solution thatakes hearing aids more convenient and less exnsive. it connects with your phone so y can stream calls and music. with jabra enhance select s premium package,
stranger city. take a look at this new washington post piece that might blow youmind. what do a democratic socialist and a republican veteran and a lo haired lobbyist from montana have in common? they want the government to relax mind alters substances and that is hardly the stranget bit of news in washington today. ben terrace is here with us now and the author of the big break, at true believers trying to win washington while america loses its mind. ben, it also seems like washington might be losing its mind a little bit too. but this is a interesting piece in a good way because it was about these strange bedfellows, but also about the triumph of real policy over craziness here in this town. yeah. i mean, for a long time nothing has been able to get done at all. you have to have a hostage crisis just to be able to fund or pay bills that we already had to pay. and this is a you know, a piece of legislation that could
book here when you say trump became a candidate he was just a side show, it kaz quickly becoming clear that the side show was moving to the main stage with trump in the white house it was boom time for weirdness in washington. and not just i mean, it is fascinating that now so much of the story, we were just talking about marjorie taylor greene and lauren boebert which is in another era, there would be no reason to talk about members of congress who have basically no sort of official position in washington. but they are in the headlines. i was also thinking about congressman steve king. he s a former member of congress. he had a long history of racist remarks and he was really a pariah in the party. they ended up abandoning him and striped him of his committee assignment which he said why is white nationalism so offensive and if he would have come in the class of greene and boebert, he would have been one of the members influential within the
come together because a lot of people believe in it. and what is issuing to me about, you know, the aoc and the crenshaw and the matt gaetz of the world, these are all characters who have come up in a washington where the performance is a huge part of how you make your name around here. i think so. and i think that they all kind of have a reputation for playing to populist in different ways. matt gaetz being more libertyain yap when it comes to drug use, and medical marijuana and same thing for aoc. what i thought was interesting about ben s piece is it shows a generational divide. aoc and matt gaetz much younger than people like president biden who has been way more resistant to the marijuana use. you have marijuana being the gateway drug versus the new school that is looking at states