sununu: sure. you don't think that when someone is the president, you don't think biden/harris defined the democratic party? prof. sesno: no. because you heard all kinds of criticizing from the democrats against obama and biden. mr. sununu: we can disagree on that. i would say this. the argument i have is if you think trump is a problem, find. trump is trump. there is no trump-lite. i am not trying to be overly polarizing to start but i have always argued the democrat party has a much bigger dna problem because generationally there is a gap between what this upcoming generation sees as the progressive values and socialism and all the things they want to see versus the old school democrat party which is a little more of the tradition. republicans have the same thing but we are not defined -- trump is trump, we are not defined by him. i am not saying it goes back to the way it was. but who is going to be running for president in four years? it might be j.d. vance, des antis. prof. sesno: might it be

sununu: game over. if you do that and translate to places like atlanta, philadelphia, detroit, you saw where the swing states were going to go. the mainstream media didn't want to look at that. i kept saying guys don't look at the national poll numbers, it doesn't mean anything, look at the subtext. the subtext of a conversation is working-class americans said to the democrat party we are not more conservative, we are the same families hard-working americans, but you left us. ,i would strongly argue and i think the proof is this election, the democrat party changed their philosophy far more than republicans. trump is trump, i get it, but in terms of a party and where are they now? the democrat party will fix itself. it will figure out who their leader is and what their priorities are. they are not getting there quickly i'll tell you that. why are trump's numbers going up? because americans say we might not like the guy, his approach, his approach how he talks, but damnit finally somebody in washington i

. >> former new hampshire governor chris sununu discussed checks and balances and dei in an event hosted by george washington university, this runs an hour and 1/2. >> welcome, everybody, to what i know will be another dynamic, provocative and thought-provoking evening. i wanted to give a shout out to the college of arts and sciences who talked about engage liberal arts while we will engage liberal arts tonight and than the sum and the director of the school of median public affairs which i call home. this is a series as the provost mentioned about democracy and discourse and thanks for making it possible. i've been a journalist and frontline observer in washington for a long time, longer than i like to admit and i've never seen anything like the moment we are going through. and nonstop news cycle that can't possibly keep up with the nonstop news. a president and administration that have made no secret of what they intended to do, they talked about it, disruption, illumination of the administrative state, and retribution, big changes needed and their polls show people on both sides, cons

i grew up with seven brothers. >> and sisters, and i'm a sununu. i invited you here, former governor. you want to know what. >> i'm normally called? it's one of the nicest things i've been called all week. >> it's great. no, but i apologize. no, no. >> it's not. it's. i don't know why i said that, i really do. >> we're all. >> friends here. >> no. >> i mean, i admire. i like. >> to keep it spicy, keeps it hot. >> it's post 8:00. have some fun on cnn. >> i don't want to do that. >> governor sununu, thank you very much. alyssa farah griffin and jeffrey toobin is back shortly to talk about his new book. coming up next, the new york times, tom friedman on the president's tripling down today on taking gaza and displacing the people who live there. also later, steve bannon pleading guilty to defrauding the public in the name of donald trump's wall. we'll be right back. >> have i got news for you is back for another season. that's right. more games. >> oh, i know this final answer points. >> more guests. >> how do you know everything? >> i'm smarter than

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have some fun on cnn. >> i don't want to do that. >> governor sununu, thank you very much. alyssa farah griffin and jeff toobin is back shortly to talk about his new book. coming up next, the new york times, tom friedman on the president's tripling down today on taking gaza and displacing the people who live there. also later, steve bannon pleading guilty to defrauding the public in the name of donald trump's wall. we'll be right back. >> have i got news for you is back for another season. that's right. more games. >> oh, i know this final answer points. >> more guests. >> how do you know everything? >> i'm smarter than you. >> more mayhem. >> she goes to diddy party. >> roy wood jr. amber ruffin and michael ian black are finding the funny in the week's biggest stories. >> to give you all four years of something to talk about. >> if we are live. >> have i got news for you returns saturday at nine on cnn and stream next day on mac. >> choose advil liquid gels for faster, stronger, and longer lasting relief than tylenol rapid release gels. because advil targets pain at the so

i grew up with seven brothers and sisters i'm a sununu. >> no, no. i apologize.i really do. >> we are all friends. >> laura: time to de-lete it. >> president declassified all the government files related to the jfk assassination. and guess what in the fbi just announced they discovered 2400 files files they didn't realize were related to the assassination, and, look, there is a lot that could be there including the head of the cia's covert activities in miami. his files. the alleged mob boss in new orleans, carlos marcello, his jailhouse confessions. lots there. but it made me wonder. perhaps, we'll soon have access to other government files like this one. >> protocols from removing biden from stage when he's lost. [cheers] ♪ ♪ or perhaps we will see the file on how to reboot senators in case of emergencies. >> oh, wait, i forgot to mention one thing. just a little news, last night i talked to a few of the governors. and tonight we will be on the phone with the governors. >> raymond: or one there is a lot of interest in, the government response if descrels get. >

. >> later today, former republican new hampshire governorhris sununu discusses democracy and trump administration policies at an even hosted by at george washington university. watch live at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. it is now our free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. >> democracy is always an unfinished creation. >> democracy is worth dying for. >> democracy belongs to us all. >> we are here in the sanctuary of democracy. >> great responsibilities fall again to great democracies. >> american democracy is bigger than any one person. >> freedom of democracy must be constantly guarded and protected. >> at our core we are still a democracy. >> this is a massive victory for democracy and freedom. >> here is the gallup poll from last week taking a last look at questions asked about members of the political parties and changes they would like to see within the parties. one of the questions was when it comes to preferences saying if you had to choose, would you rather see the democratic party become more liberal, stay the same, or become more moderate commit if you had to choose what you see

cooper was losing his debate on musk and doge, and fema so he personally attacked governor crist sununu. tonight i'll show you what he said and what cooper did not tell viewers that the congressional committees and investigators already reported the government literally is wasting trillions of your tax dollars over the last generation. plus you won't believe what fema's own government watchdog just revealed about mismanagement and waste at fema. coming up congressman greg stuebe we're excite today talk to him but first let's get to this. the trump white house declaring war on government waste as keeping your taxes, inflation, and things like mortgage rates at record highs. the doge sub-committee held an explosive hearing on downsizing the federal government. let's take you now to hillary vaughn standing by live at the white house with the details. hillary you had quite a day. reporter: hi, good evening, liz. democrats have really gone off-script. they've moved on from calling what doge is doing a constitutional crisis to using four letter words. >> donald trump and elon musk. >> [applau

>> i got great respect for governor sununu. and i think there needs to be a lot of reform. there are a lot of wasteful payments. the government makes the government's computer systems could be modernized and upgraded, but that's no excuse for abandoning the rule of law. that's no excuse for allowing the president to do what the supreme court rejected. when richard nixon did it. in terms of just cutting off payments, that's no excuse for not vetting, uh, the people who are doing it. that's no excuse for politicizing positions that have been held as, uh, nonpolitical positions for the last 75 years. so, uh, look, i, i'm not saying there isn't an objective here that we would all want to pursue, but when we allow, um, a complete breakdown of what have been traditions for who gets to be appointed, uh, to jobs in terms of politicized people. when we allow things that federal judges are calling direct violations of their orders, something that really didn't happen, uh, appreciably, even under president nixon, who was impeached, then we're in a different place. and so what we need

>> no, i was listening to governor sununu say that he was he's an engineer. and, you know, elon musk is an engineer. i'm from detroit. i'm not an engineer, but i know something about cars. and if you the engine out and you the brakes out, that car is going to crash, right? that's not a way to actually fix a car. you don't go around just grabbing things and throwing them away. i have always spent my career in government worried about american competitiveness, american strength, what they're doing right now is putting americans at risk. i've got a friend whose brother was in usaid. i can't say his name because they asked me not to. they can't say what country he went to because they asked me not to. but they were in a country owed people money because they had staff. they had vendors that they were supposed to pay. money dried up. they weren't going to be able to do it. they had to basically scuttle this guy out of the country as fast as possible to make sure he wasn't going to be held accountable and maybe kept in detained in the country because the american g

gretchen carlson, scott jennings, chris sununu and valencia johnson americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here they do. good evening. i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what america is talking about. the battle of the branches. tonight we are watching a fight between the president and the courts that could lightly shove the country into a constitutional calamity. >> it's a shame what's happening, mark. it's really a shame. but judges should be ruling. they shouldn't be dictating what you're supposed to be doing. >> judges should be doing exactly that ruling about what is legal and what a president can and cannot do. at least since 1803, and marbury versus madison, which quite literally says it is emphatically the province and the duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. the president, as you heard, doesn't believe that when a decision defies what he believes, the law should be. this is really important, though, because judges do keep telling trump no. and there are some clues that donald trump and his people are saying, don't

boo sununu boo. political ads.e on behalf of political. >> consultants hall boos. >> a political consultant. >> i live. >> in your state, would want to have a word with you about that one. >> hey, i won four terms. who cares. >> without political. >> ads? >> well, i would get rid of the armchair quarterbacks who like to give their $0.02 on how jalen hurts should play, or whether or not kendrick lamar is a creative genius. because, quite frankly, jalen hurts is one of the best players. and i'm a cowboys fan. i can say that jalen hurts is one of the best players, and kendrick lamar, whether or not the halftime show was for you, that is a pulitzer prize winning creative. so these armchair quarterbacks, they can keep their $0.02 to themselves. >> that's true. >> what about their $0.01. >> they keep that. well they don't have one. >> they're not going to have. >> them anymore. >> all right i'm going totally in a different direction because this is one of my pet peeves. you know, when you go to get a coffee and you pay l

. >> later today fmer republican new hampshire governor chris sununu dcusses democracy and trump administration policies at an eve hosted by george washington university. watch live at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. [applause] >> next, hawaii governor josh green delivers his 2025 state of the state address before a joint legislature in honolulu. he comments on ongoing recovery efforts after the 2023 maui wildfires. governor green was first elected in 2022 after serving four years as lieutenant governor. it is 35 minutes. gov. green: first lady, lieutenant governor, madam speaker, senate president, chair, chief justice, colleagues, members of the cabinet, distinguished guests, all the people of hawaii, a loja -- aloha. jamie, i could not do this job without you. your support, thoughtful perspective, hard work, you are truly valuable to me. thank you on behalf of all the people of hawaii. i love you very much. [applause] sylvia, thank you for your tireless work to improve hawaii. specifically your efforts on early education and broadband technology. you are a gr

. >> later today fmer republican new hampshire governor chris sununu dcusses democracy and trump administration policies at an eve hosted by george washington university. watch live at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. [applause] >> next, hawaii governor josh green delivers his 2025 state of the state address before a joint legislature in honolulu. he comments on ongoing recovery efforts after the 2023

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joining me right now is the former republican governor of new hampshire, chris sununu. i'm still going to call you governor. you were governor like since i was born. basically, you've done so many. >> i'm only 50 years old. i'm kidding, i'm kidding. the gray hairs are coming in. >> it's good to see you. thank you for coming in. let's talk about this because executive orders an extraordinary number of executive orders has resulted in generating an extraordinary number of legal challenges against them. and the senator from connecticut, chris murphy, he was on last night, and he said, if the president moves to openly declare publicly, like, openly declare he is going to defy judges orders, he says, then we are in the most serious constitutional crisis in the last 100 years. do you think this is what a constitutional crisis looks like? >> no, no, there's no constitutional crisis here. the the white house has known that all these executive orders would be challenged. and for those who don't know, this is conservatives do it and liberals do it. they judge shop, right. it's no

visit ncicap.org] [indisrnible chatter] >> ler today, former republican new hampshire governor chris sununu scusses democracy and trump administration policies at an event hosted by george shington university. watch live at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now, our free video app, or online at c-span.org. >> democracy. it is not just an idea. it is a process, a process shaped by leaders elected to the highest offices and entrusted to a select few with guarding its basic principles. it's where debates unfold, decisions are made, and the nation's course is charted. democracy in real time. this is your government at work. this is c-span, giving you your democracy unfiltered. this is scott paul joining us the president for the alliance of american manufacturing to talk about the state of manufacturing with the new initiatives. morning. guest: great to be with you. host: how do you describe who you represent to people? guest: we are unique. we have the united steelworkers union which is north america's largest industrial union and investigation and you are or who have steelworkers in their pl

and then this evening 6:00 former republican new hampshire democrat -- former answer governor chris sununued by george washington university. if you want to wat that on our main channel c-span you can do that. as always you can follow along on our app that you can download and c-span.org there available to you. in tennessee from a republican line you are next up on this open forum. go ahead. caller: remembering what trump campaigned about. he said on day one that he was going to have the border, the immigration problem and he also stated he would do something about the groceries. trump talking about the groceries are so high in the stores and he said he would have that on day one. he promised to lower the prices of groceries and the -- three times more that we are having to pay for utilities and every -- everything else. so he should keep his promise like he said. he said he was going to do it on day one. the immigration take care of the immigration problem and he was also going to do something about lowering the prices that we have to pay for for groceries and everything. host: dave in la