conversation, we ll wait for that to happen. you jean, i want to talk about kevin mccarthy. he was on fox news, the only place they ll go this morning talking greasy about the january 6th commission. take a listen. we ll talk about it on the other side. the committee that is not a bipartisan committee for the first time in hitstory, nancy pelosi picked who could be on this committee. what they re trying to do, they re missing the two main points. why were we so ill prepared on january 6th and why to make sure we will not be in this position. it s purely politics. congress does not have the right to go after my or your fine e phone number records. the supreme court made this ruling. it s interesting how far they want to control and where they want to go. you think this is so clear. first of all, we know the reporting that according to reporting, concern mccarthy had that exchange with donald trump where he asked him who the f do you think are you talking to?
ditch, now they said we will call the tow truck in the last six months they said we don t need a tow truck. that s the situation. the question then is, did they listen to them? what did they do? i was in arkansas they were giving away big screen tvs. they still couldn t get the high school kids to come in in any real numbers. you jean, and that same column, if you want to throw a tailgate party at a football game, for the love of lynn vince lombardi, get a shot. they re actually where more than a few people have suggested that if it was a requirement in football crazy places like texas, arkansas, where vaccination rates are, no you ve got to get vaccinated to see your kid play. maybe that would work. that absolutely would work with a lot of people, i think. of course it won t happen, the governors are not going to do it. yeah, but let s call them what they are, mandates.
the mayor s mansion would have been the leading candidate in the democratic primary. yeah. wow. that s big news. all right. thank you so much, sacha. we greatly appreciate t a lot do think about here. you jean, i remember during the middle of last summer when defund the police, the debate really was exploding, very interesting that that leaders that represented the south bronx, leaders that represented parts of brooklyn were saying, wait a second, do you know what, if park slope wants to defund the police they can defund the police. we want more cops in our schools, with he want more cops on our streets. and it just, again, it sort of went to what i kept hearing from reverend al leading up to the south carolina primary where he s going, boy, biden is in trouble. he goes, hold on. just wait. just wait.
about trying to do something like this in the fall. they decided that they couldn t. there is no guarantee that even if they were to hold the house, in november that they would be able to pass such a thing when they came back for all the reasons that you say. it s expensive and not paid for. shepard: but that s the idea. i mean, that s the idea. you say we have got to keep us in here in the midterms even in the house or you won t get a tax cut that s. you raise the stakes of the election. i always wonder if they might have been better off holding off on kavanaugh. elevation would have been in the midterms. they decided they couldn t risk it. they got it done. now they have created a new stake in the midterms good of you jean. always appreciate you and everybody at the wall street journal. always happy to do it for you, shep. shepard: continuing with tax cuts. gerri willis is here. this is more b. more than politics. even within his own party.
corner of the gop that s behind you no matter what, but as you noted with his friends telling him, you re bigger than that. the world is bigger than that, and you now have to speak to significantly more important group of americans, and that s all of us. and soing that the president is having a hard time squaring that, and it shows on a day in and day out basis. he still needs he has to do and be a reality tv president as opposed to just being president. you jean, we ve all talked about the people around the president who say the best way to reach him is through the media, the media you know he says and reads. the top bar rack interview was so interesting in that respect. do you think it s a ways in? do you think he s doing a favor for people who are trying to prevail here? you know, i have no way of knowing what sort of conversation he might have had with people who wanted him to get a certain message to the