and tommy tubervillle is stupid. jon stewart called him, we can see it. it's worse than that.ical positioning that we have never seen before. he's the equivalent of a political suicide bomber. he's going in and blowing up everything in support of his quest, his personal quest that is a very radical, political quest. and grand standing. try to make himself this new second coming of the far right within the gop which is a very narrow group they think we need to start to call the confederate wing of the gop. the same guy who welcomed white nationalists into the military. he continues to be out of touch with reality. he's opposed by seven former secretaries of defense and people on all sides of every political aisle. he is very much in isolated place. and no doubt he is damaging our military. hundreds of officers are paralyzed. their enemies can't move. north korea loves this putin loves this. anyone who wants to do harm can only wish for something like this to happen. i think we get to the point now, joy, it's about action. a lot of democrats and republicans have been talking a g

you heard poppy talking with mark esper about this guy, tommy tubervillle.e talked about heading into the summer recess. it's still there. what does that mean? it means there is no confirmed army chief of staff. chief of naval operations. general mark milley, he's still technically in his position. that will end soon. his nominee has moved through the senate committee process, waiting for confirmation. right now that hold still stands. will it clear? it's an open question along with, i don't know, just about everything else over the course of the next month. poppy? >> we have new exclusive cnn reporting that shows the widening scope of the federal investigation into attempts to overturn the 2020 election. former president trump was charged a month ago with four criminal counts for orchestrating a broad conspiracy to hold on to power. special counsel jack smith still digging according to new reporting from multiple sources familiar with the investigation. it also raises the possibility that others could still face legal peril. jack smith is following the mone

meanwhile on the senate, you have tommy tubervillle and the senators doing everything they can to gut military readiness, too. what a long, long distance there is between the republicans we were and what we have now in the age of trump. >> absolutely. these guys don't care about anything other than just getting on tv and being able to perform. and you know, have people send them money and contributions and to get air time. and they clearly don't have any policy positions that matter to them because if they were trying to do that, they would try to work towards some compromise where they would get some of what they want, even though it's not possible to get all of it. it's all about performance. it's all about -- they don't even care about having a majority. they're willing to sacrifice those moderate republicans that you just showed on air here, that they're willing to basically jettison them because who needs them? they don't need a majority any way because they're not governing. all they want to do is throw sand in the gears. if the car keeps on going, oh, it's a terrible car. it's