on the republican party. new york times puts it like this, republicans are putting trump out to pasture. that dynamic was on display the final hour for the battle of speaker, with republican members of congress playing not it, not me, as margorie taylor greene tried to get them to take donald trump s call. then there s the global condemnation for the insurrection in brazil, tragically similar to the attack on our own u.s. capitol, but is straight out of trump s playbook. that is all a very bad look for the ex-president. now today, the walls are closing in on donald trump, even more legally. legal one-two punch, if you will. first, a district judge has ordered trump s deposition in a defamation lawsuit to be unsealed. it s a deposition trump fought for years to avoid giving. now comes news that it is pencils up for the special grand jury at a fulton county, georgia. the 26 jurors spent eight months examining potential criminal interference in georgia s 2020 presidential elec
[ cheers and applause ] greg: i know, i know. grade, great, to greg, greg. greg: enough i know it s hard to want what you can t have. happy wednesday. as a heat wave continues in the east so hot in dc biden s temperature got into the single digits. the ap claims at a fundraiser president biden didn t freeze on stage but that he paused first 7 seconds. that s another way to say the same thing next time i get ice cream at the supermarket i go to the paused food aisle. most hispanic support deportation of illegal immigrants that s 1 way to get rid of your mother-in-law. a study ranked san fran as the worst run city so awful that alcatraz is offering tours of san francisco. james carville says he bets trump is a no-show at the debate if he loses the debate he pays a hundred dollars if he wins he gets his ring back from frodo. nationwide insurance dropped coverage for 100,000 american pets not my problem said 1 woman to climate activists desecrated the stone henge monument w
campaigned on in the 2018 midterms to great success. and it s something that scares a lot of voters and makes it difficult to trust those same people on their plan or lack thereof for the economy. but these investigations as you mentioned are taking away from any sort of real legislating or governing. and we re also seeing clearly how these culture wars are impacting policies and policy outcomes. that s reflected in republicans who are saying they want to go over so-called woke practices within the military, kind of using that to justify their cuts to spending. but that s really not what people care about. we heard this in our focus groups last year for axios. we hear this when we re on the road. voters are not looking to investigations of this sort of type. they re looking to people who can help them move forward. all right. so we ll keep watching. interesting plan. interesting opening act. ryan nobles, for your reporting today and all week last week, thank you so much. alexi, same