eric ericson was putting a voice to what many republican officials are saying privately.r out. he's survived other scandals so far. he's survived a number of issues that would have ended campaigns for so many other candidates from georgia. even starting with lying about graduating from the university of georgia. which he never did but said on the campaign trail, or lying about serving in law enforcement. all those issues might have brought down any other candidate. they are not counting him out. he needs a very strong defense. it's unlikely we're going to see're statewide candidates rally with herschel walker standby him. they might not say anything directly about the candidacy right now. >> reporter for the atlanta journal constitution, greg, thank you for calling us at the last minute as we're dealing with this breaking political news. we'll have much more on this tomorrow. we'll see how this plays out. again, the son of herschel walker releasing a damning video about his father's campaign all being based on lies. that does it for us this morning. jose diaz-balart picks

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i talked to sean spicer, former rnc chairman, i spoke with some other rnc members as well as eric ericson, who's been following this from georgia. she's probably not the right fit still but an incumbent protection program. lee zeldin noted this when he pulled out of the race to go against her. he said, listen, i think we need new leadership but her win is prebaked by design and i'm not going up against this. so they're keeping the status quo in place even though a lot of people recognize there needs to be some big ramifications for republican party after this past election. >> that's what i don't understand. it seems more like a club. every republican party leadership fight i've seen or democratic leadership fight all has to do with wins and losses. and so what do you get from the rank and file? how could it be that a guy like lee zeldin, who did so well in new york, that actually helped three or four republicans win u.s. house seats, how would they not take a closer look at him instead of somebody that's kept losing? why does the rank and file not want to hold her accountable? >> i think

we have ericson thanking barack obama for being optimistic. >> and the whole thing represented all of it is based upon but it had cops, mothers of young men killed by cops. it was able to bridge that divide of problems that plague our country. it had people struggling to make ends weak. it realized what we need to do. think about the convention at this time last year or do we not want to? i remember saying i was pretty sure this convention was rip to shreds what happened in clooef la cleveland. i don't remember cleveland and i don't want to. >> the '84 convention, san francisco, this will be a transformational convention like 1980 was for republicans. >> what you had here this week is contrast to last week in cleveland. please, put away your tweet machines. >> this was much more a reflection of america than last week. we know there is a wide channel of frustration and some times anger about what's going on in the country. no one that i know is at the point where they are saying i got to get out of here and get to sweden. people love this country. that's why we have here. it's the only

. >> eric ericson, he's done as speaker. this is allele gacy building now. paul ryan defended the bill saying it's not just about the budget it's about the future of the republican party. >> we've been at each other's throats for a long time. look, i was part of the last presidential election. we tried defeating this president. i wish we would have. elections have consequences, mr. speaker. and i fundamentally believe, this is just my personal opinion, slightly partisan thing to say, to really do what we think needs to be done we have to win some elections and in the meantime let's try and make this divided government work. i think our constituents are expecting a little more from us. they are expecting us to not keep shutting the government down. they are expecting us to pay the bills. they are expecting us to be accountability. they are expecting us to watch how their dollars are being spent and expecting us to find common ground. >> anything sound like something you said before? something about winning. >> we got to win, no doubt about it. you just can't

christian ericson had a cardiac arrest in game.the check republic and they won. from devastation to glory. near death to life. defeat to semifinal. it's why sports is the greatest human theaters. they will face london on wednesday. >> and the other side, let's talk about the floppers extraordinary, italy is back. one of their players acted as if he had been shot in the back of the head and then fell and was not moving and then suddenly italy scores and he jumps up and races to celebrate. >> they believe in the resurrection. they didn't make the cup in 2018. they got that goal straight out of spaisx. more fans like to be declothed by their fans and left in their under pants. >> who do you like? >> the tiny bit of englishman left in me says not england, but everybody has left lockdown ready to party and have a party. nobody is more drunk than euro 2020. >> thank you, roger. >> his new book is "reborn in the usa." a englishman's love letter to his chosen home. >> anthony fauci is worried that the disparities could lead to two americas

as erick ericson said, not along conservatives because donald trump called around bragging that he hadsed this language. not among participants in the room. it seems that people that are secretaries, cabinet secretaries or people who want to be cabinet secretaries for donald trump are the only ones lying about this. >> yeah. and why? let's hear more from yesterday's hearing with the secretary of homeland security kirstjen with a silent j. she was in the room when the president made his racist comments about haiti and the african nations, but yesterday, if it's possible, she could only recall portions of that meeting. >> you said on fox news that the president used strong language. what was that strong language? >> let's see, strong language there was -- apologies, i don't remember specific word. what i was struck with frankly as i'm sure you were as well just the general profanity that was used in the room by almost everyone. >> did you hear me use profanity? >> no, sir, neither did i. >> did you hear senator graham use profanity? >> i did hear tough language from senator graham, yes,

eric ericson, says this of his tweets about jeff sessions. trump said not to pursue clinton. crystal said, well said to anthony scaramucci's tweet, a.g. jeff sexes is a stand-up guy. he always said he would recuse himself from any case in which his impartiality could be questioned. brent hume, stinging criminal. potus at his worst and most disloyal talking about the tweets this morning. matt lewis brings up a great point f. are you a senator on the fence about today's health care vote, how does trump's early morning tweets impact your thinking? rich lowrie, obviously the editor of the national review, what trump is doing to sessions must be unprecedented in the history of american government. matt lewis, back again, saying the revolution eventually devours its children and ross says pushing out sessions poisons well with republican senators, cabinet members and a key block of ideological conservatives. other than that. it's fine. >> good day. >> yeah. >> i don't know if it's his purse -- to conservative points of view, it's pretty rough tweets undermining his attorney general

carolina s great irony of this race is, if you believe "the wall street journal," if you believe eric ericsonbetter that you leave with 17 percent in new hampshire and you're now known to the party and you can prepare for 2016 than losing in south carolina with single digits, losing in florida with single digits. now seems to be the best time for him to get out of the race. i will just tell you on a personal note, because he is one of the few true conservatives in this race. we are now left with big government conservatives. >> i thought he would have really added to the conversation, but it didn't take off. and willie geist, one of the reasons for what happened was ultimately what was happening at the end which is an important way too early is that he was being outpolled for the daily show or "the colbert report," which doesn't hop. . >> it wasn't going to be pretty in south carolina, we have got the latest ppp poll, you've got romney in first place, john paul in third percent and now he bows out. at 11:00 eastern time he will have a news conference and throw his support behind mitt romney.

i remember 2012 being in south carolina standing out in front of a hotel with eric ericson, we're on woman walked up to me and said here's the keys to my car. i looked at her and said who the hell are you talking to. eric said wow. big time conservative. he said roland for years i've heard these stories and i thought black people were overestimating these stories. the eric garner case, folks got to actually witness what they have been hearing and that's what changed the same way birmingham changed. >> i couldn't agree more. that's what i was thinking this week, mika, especially with eric garner that i wonder if you had a case -- you had the birmingham church bombing which jolted white america and made them look at what was happening in alabama and across the deep south back in 1963 and i wonder, matt, if that's not what happened now in the eric garner case if this isn't the case, if this isn't the video, if this isn't the decision that doesn't wake everybody up. >> i think you're exactly right, joe. i'm seeing a lot of conservatives, it's universal, people speaking out condemning wha

i want to get to mitt romney's response to eric ericson.en president obama and french president nicolas sarkozy. according to journalists nicolas sarkozy shared thoughts about benjamin netanyahu calling him a liar saying he could no longer stand him. president obama replied, you may be sick of him, but, me, i have to deal with him every day. >> wow. >> the remarks were confirmed by the associated press and reuters whose journalists overheard the conversation. the white house had no comment on it. >> yesterday, abe foxman and other jewish leaders very concerned about the statements. that doesn't help the peace process. what else? >> for the first time in this year's ongoing debate in washington, republicans have signalled willingness to co compromise on new tax. republicans on the debt reduction super committee offered to raise federal tax collections by some $300 billion over the next decade by rewriting various portions of the tax code. democrats rejected the plan saying the offer doesn't get the job done. the rejection of the republican p

you know, when you have eric ericson insufficiently conservative to go speak at this conference, you have a problem. national review, i mean, people were talking about how national review i read in some article attendees were saying it's too liberal. it's crazy. >> look f you look at the straw poll results, trump did so well it could be a dictator in a third world country, right? so he is very popular with actual voters and activists. what you find is the conservative intelligencea the writers, the thinkers, somewhat horrified. look, joe, out there in the country for this party, he is extraordinarily popular. now, on the other hand, he is hated by two thirds or a third of the country, hated and opposed by a second third. what won the 2010 fights for republicans was not a desire from the tea party to help republicans. it was a reaction to president obama. it was a desire to defeat president obama and give him a black eye. we're seeing now this dislike of president trump could have the same effect of people coming out to vote to hold him accountable and in the process destroying the ma

and, jonathan, it seems as eric ericson said on twitter, the president's calls for civil war and warnslicans in washington, d.c. >> and it is reflective of the extraordinary pressure the white house is feeling. they are unable to change the narrative of this story. they are watching these poll numbers creep up in terms of people favoring impeachment. there is no real game plan here to sort of turn the tide on this story. there is great frustration from the president at his own staff, according to our reporting he's been frustrating with mick mulvaney and press secretary stephanie grisham to get to spin the story in his favor. and, yes, this is not just a norm that he is broken or another guardrail that he has pushed past, this is pretty extraordinary and frankly dangerous material to call for civil war and to call for the arrest of a political opponent to charge for treason and a charge which technically called for punishment by death and that is a dangerous and unprecedented move from this president right now. >> and this is something again, mika, that republicans have a responsibilit