look, adam kinzinger, liz cheney, these people are going to be running for their life next year. displayed great courage but the vast majority of republican voters are not with them. i think the party is the shrinking by the day. i think we don't realize it yet but we're watching a major political party die before our eyes. something's got to replace it. >> and what do you think would? >> well, i think, brianna, as the republican party keeps getting more extreme and as you and i said, trumpier every day, you've got -- you've got moderate republicans, independents, conservatives like me. moderate democrats, who don't have a home. i mean, more and more everyday people are leaving the trump-ee party. they've got to find a home. you've got a lot of people in the middle. i wouldn't be surprised in the

even adam kinzinger, even more of the moderate republicans voted against biden's first big bill, themulus package. there were two democrats in the house, jared golden of maine and kurt schrader of oregon that voted against the stimulus bill. when i look at the politics of a lot of these issues, the party that is divided is typically the party that does not have the political upperhand, that may be losing on this issue. i know democrats in the white house point to polls showing a lot of these provisions in the bill being very popular, but republicans hung together and voted against it. you had to democrats, one and abide in district, voting against their president. i think that suggests you are going to see a partyline vote on this side when it comes up, but also, this may not be quite as a political slamdunk as a lot of folks in the white house have you to believe. host: rob portman made the case for a bipartisan bill yesterday on the sunday shows. [video clip] >> covid relief has never been a partisan issue. over the last year, we have passed five bills with overwhelming bipartisan

yamiche alcindor: and illinois congressman adam kinzinger. rep.at you could see at that speech yesterday was recycling old talking points, just stream of consciousness. and i think it's obvious there's no vision from donald trump. yamiche alcindor: both men voted to impeach trump the second time, and both have been censured by local republican parties in their states. for the "pbs newshour," i'm yamiche alcindor. amna nawaz: and that brings us to politics monday with amy walter of the cook political report and tamara keith of npr. welcome back to you both, ladies. good to see you, and happy monday. let's pick up where yamiche left off. tam, i want to start with you. cpac, of course, trump's first public appearance since leaving e white house. when he left the white house, he was still saying he won the election, falsely claiming that, slamming his critics, slamming his successor. how much has changed in his messaging since then? what was your takeaway? tamara keith: almost nothing has changed, accept maybe the tense of some of the words he was say

congressman is making a name for himself in ways good and bad. >> i'm glad there's somebody like an adam kinzingert the courage to speak out. >> but some people are angry what he did. >> no question. no question. >> reporter: jeff and angie phelps are among them. >> i was surprised with kinzinger. in the future, i probably will not vote for him. >> he's looking out for himself. >> reporter: yet trump loyalties here and in red states across america run deep and many republicans don't believe their party is broken at all. >> what if it doesn't need saving or what if it doesn't want to be saved? >> and that i think is the question. if it doesn't want to be changed, that's a decision the republicans get to make. if that's the case long-term, i think we will lose elections. >> now, kinzinger says he would like to restore conservatism to the republican party rather than what he says is fear and divisiveness it's become consumed with during the trump era. some voters in his district called what he's doing brave and others found it politically calculating but his efforts and the extent to which other repu

adam kinzinger. >> joining us now is republican congressman adam kinzinger. >> he got a three syllableaid you consider that moment a badge of honor, and i understand where you are, but do you -- when you hear the applause and the enthusiasm of the crowd there, the base, the republican base, at cpac, do you ever worry that you're the outsider, that you're not where the party is? >> yeah, that is a worry. it's not a worry because i'm worried about my future and oh, heavens, i might lose an election. it's a worry because if that is where the party fully is, and cpac is a little different of a group. it may not be this year, but if that's where the party is, the party is in real trouble because what that's showing is you had 17 people between the house and senate that said that insurrection on the capitol was impeachable and removable. even if you didn't believe it but thought it was bad, that's one thing. but what they seem to be doing there is saying that we were completely wrong for actually defending the constitution. so that -- where i would be worried is not so much what it means for

earlier today, i spoke to republican congressman of illinois, adam kinzinger. rump and what he sees as the future of the g.o.p. congressman kinzinger, welcome to "the daily social distancing show." >> thanks. good to be with you. >> trevor: so first questions first: where do people go to find a new family? because you were famously thrust into the news when your family wrote you a letter, not only saying that you had betrayed donald trump and you betrayed them but you had joined the devil's army. quite a letter to get from some of your family members. >> yeah, it was a little surprising, you know. but, so, i look at it and i say i have a great family, some closer than-- may disagree with me that aren't going to send me a devil's army conscription form. it was pretty crazy. i didn't release it. she sent it so far and wide, the reporter was able to find it. it kind of shows people what's going on in families today. >> trevor: but your own family thinks that you have betrayed donald trump, and you are betraying the republican party, by saying that donald trump didn

adam kinzinger and, of course, the war monger, person that loves seeing our troops fighting, liz cheneyout that? hopefully, they'll get rid of her with the next election. get rid of them all. we're not starting new parties. they kept saying, he's going to start a brand new party. we have the republican party. it's going to unite and be stronger than ever before. i am not starting a new party. we will take back the house. we will win the senate. and then a republican president will make a triumphant return to the white house. and i wonder who that will be. >> now, if all that red meat sounded familiar it's in part because donald trump's former white house speech writing team returned to duty, people like his former domestic policy adviser, stephen miller, they were working on this speech before donald trump delivered this address down at cpac. one other final thing we should point out, wolf, we learned earlier this afternoon that former president trump -- then president trump at the time and former first lady melania trump both received the coronavirus vaccine back in january at the whit

>> look, i think adam kinzinger is a man of some courage.ntially is sacrificing his political career. he said as much publicly. he knows that this could cost him a loss, but he has decided that he has to take a stand, as he puts it, for the truth. and he has decided to do that in a big way. not just with a vote, but with talking to people around the country, trying to raise money to reform the republican party. and he may not be successful, but he wants to be a part of history that says, at least i tried to do it. i think that's an important point that he's making. he may lose his seat as a result. >> or he may not. >> or he may not. >> he ran ahead of trump in his district. ayesha and gloria, thank you. appreciate it, as always. >>> genocide happening right now. first independent report showing china's intent to destroy a particular ethnic group. cnn talks to the sister of someone caught in the middle. stay with us. we didn't stop at computers. we didn't stop at storage or cloud. we kept going. working with our customers to enable the kind

adam kinzinger will not say, we don't like any violence.to say, what ron johnson said is wrong. in the control room -- did adam kinzinger use his name? yeah, thank you. he did. but not on the senate side. here is my point. i have been making the point to all you guys. i don't know where your optimism is working with him when they showed opposite inclination. every chance you have given them. do you recognize hr-1 as the only way to stop this wave of legislation that will absolutely limit the voting rights of minorities across the country? >> absolutely. in the senate, we prefer to call it s-1 but it is essential that we use the constitution power. for congressional elections we have the able to lay out parameters, and it's our elections are conducted. constitutional responsibility to defend the ballot box. the journey is knocking down the barriers of the ballot, that was imposed by rights, gender, jim crow, and we made it with the voting rights act. and here we are with a massive campaign, a massive effort to attack black americans, college

. >> adam kinzinger of illinois, who served in iraq you criticized president trump, what's your take?e assumed to suggest u.s. troops will be gone by next year. >> hey, jake i think it's a difficult decision. >> i think it would behoov the president to say we're going to leave once they follow through to agreement. 50020 troops there, training, stiffening the spine of the afghan people who want us there. i think he certainly implied that he would be out this year. i have a hard time actually seeing that occurring. >> obviously he has to weigh this with the prospects of t taliban takeover in afghanistan. we can't be there forever unless you think that it should be like our bases in germany, japan or korea. >> i agree, we can't be there forever. and i think a real disservice was done by these people that call afghanistan a forever war. the reality even said, we have peacekeepers still in kosovo. while we would like a better situation there, the reality is that it stiffens the spine of the afghan services to do the bulk of the fighting. the second we leave, if that government collapses,

adam kinzinger. >> what was an honor was to be listed with such good members of congress and other senators like bill cassidy and murkowski and liz cheney and jaime herrera beutler. these people who stood up and voted their conscience despite the tough political thing they knew would come from that. and that's what leadership is about. >> dan newhouse. anthony gonzalez. that's another beauty. fred upton. jamie herrera beutler. >> my vote to impeach our silting president is not fear based decision. i'm not choosing a side. i'm choosing truth. it's the only way to defeat fear. >> peter meijer, john cat co., david valladejo. and of course the warmonger, a person that loves seeing our troops fighting, liz cheney. how about that? >> god, so sweaty and -- ech. so liz cheney, who said that there has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the united states of his oath of office and his oath to the constitution. who just last week said that the disgraced former president should butt out of the future of the republican party and the country. >> i've been clear in my views about president tru

if you're adam kinzinger or liz cheney you'll have primaries coming up next year., because if you lose those, that's another domino that's fallen for donald trump, and while i can tell you chapter and verse of how proud i am to have worked for richard burr who voted to convict, you know, he's retiring so who replaces him? this becomes a part that have challenge that republicans who do want to face or put trump in the rear view mirror have a new republican party. that's a challenge they face. what comes next after the republicans who dared challenged or crossed donald trump. >> how do you, s.e., reverse the narrative you? know, looking ahead as doug mentioned to the mid-terms of 2022. how do you get your party back? >> oh, i -- i think that ship has sailed for the immediate future. i mean, republicans had a choice in 2016. they had a choice in 2020 when they wanted to back a guy like trump who had shown us who he was, you know, in some ways 2016 was an experiment, but in other ways we knew exactly what we were getting, and certainly by 2020 the results of the experi

i want to play you from congressman jim jordan and adam kinzinger today.ptimist but every day that goes by donald trump will become less and less relevant. >> i said this yesterday, he is the leader of the conservative movement, he is the leader of the america first movement and he is the leader of the republican party. >> they can't both be right at the same time. mark, in your view who is? >> i think there are a lot more jim jordans than there are adam kinzinger's right now. theres a split, it seems to be a 90% to 10% split. i do think that one of the things that ali's reporting on cpac and my past observations on cpac it really captures where the republican party is and the conservative movement is at that very moment. i don't really think it tells you a whole lot about where politics are going to be two years from now, ten years from now and, you know, given how much rand paul and ron paul used to dom state cpacs, how mitt romney used to be the cpac straw poll winner. what went on on the 2021 cpac i don't think will tell us a whole lot about 2024. it r

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adam kinzinger broke with his party and voted to impeach president trump back in january, and he joins us this morning from capitol hill. good morning to you, congressman. >> good morning. >> brennan: we're spending a lot of time talking about your party today, when the former president takes the stage at cpac, he is expected to say that the republican party is united. is the republican party united? >> no. i think there is -- we may be united in some areas. we don't have to agree with everything that the biden administration is doing. so unity in some of that. but i think in terms of what is our vision for the future, certainly not united. i think we are a party that has been, for too long, pedaling in fear, using fear as a compelling way to get votes, and fear does motivate. but after a while, fear can destroy a country and a democracy. and we have to quit pedaling that. i think what you'll hear from the president at cpac is self-congratulations, and no ability to recognize we have lost the house, the senate, and the presidency because of donald trump, and you're going to see a lot o

same from adam kinzinger, who's another well—known moderate republican congressman.l, i would say that we have a number of leaders, but, you know, we're seeing progress... name one that people around the world might have heard of. well, you just named some. i mean, the fact that... yeah, but they say they're categorically not going to leave the republican party. look, we're not requiring that of them, so the fact is that, over the last four years, few republicans would even speak against trump and now you have a contingent in congress who are saying we've got to go in a new direction. and, you know, that includes even members of senate and house republican leadership. again, these things don't happen overnight, but we're seeing that progress. we're talking to members of congress in both chambers, republicans who tell us something new is needed. you know, give me a brand that i can associate with and still be a republican. and if that doesn't work, then we're going to need something new, separate and new entirely. i mean, these are the kinds of conversations we'll hav

american voters here is country 1st founder illinois republican congressman adam kinzinger. the party that always spoke of a brighter tomorrow it no longer does talks about a dark future instead hope has given way to fear outrage has replaced opportunity and worst of all our deep convictions are ignored and they've been replaced by poisonous conspiracies and lives this is not the republican road and now we know exactly where this new and dangerous road leads leads to insurrection an armed attack on congress. have we just seen mitt romney's 2024 running mate let's ask a couple of my brothers from the talk radio family on the left progressive talker john elliott and reliably right we have our team is it the press host steve malzberg gentlemen welcome. even before january 6 and even before mitch mcconnell trashed donald trump after his 2nd impeachment acquittal republican senators were retiring and several republican house members were already tweeting disturbing messages and social media john in your view who is winning this civil war now painfully under way in the republican

particularly in the lead up to our 2022 midterm elections i'm looking at people like congressman adam kinzinger from illinois a good young boy in his only has early 40th congresswoman lynn cheney of course the daughter of congresswoman brown bags president dick cheney and she's the number 3 republican in the house she has shown that she can stand up on principle and speak your mind it doesn't have to be in unity with everybody else in your caucus also congressman jamie were up there and young mother in her early forty's as well from washington state she's a congresswoman who also voted with congresswoman lynn cheney they were the only 2 female republicans in the house of representatives who voted to impeach donald trump a 2nd time so i think these are the voices of the future not studies that show that the majority of americans make up the reasonable center and yet 30 percent of the extreme wings are in control of all our national conversation so that leads to a misunderstanding of reality this market of centrist has to be tapped in order for us to really build a stronger and more in the united

we'll speak to adam kinzinger. >>> republican adam kenzinger says the party must break from donald trump can do just that. walk us through this. it's a big challenge. >> the congressman is on a mission to save the republican party, no doubt about it. but there is a question about this. is the republican party interested in being saved? there is no doubt talking to members there, this party is at a crossroads. congressman adam kenzinger blo believes the first step in saving represent can party is to extract it from the grip of donald trump. >> there have been repeating visions except for now. it's just donald trump's vision and nobody has said anything else. we have a right to offer competing visions to the republican party. >> reporter: it's still trump country in this stretch of illinois where flags wave for the former president and these signs make clear not all republicans are searching for a new vision. elected to congress a decade ago with the rise of the tea party -- >> it is triime to grow up, to adults here. >> reporter: kenzinger is now one of the biggest trump critics, a lot of

on saturday in the house, they couldn't get a signal republican, not even adam kinzinger to vote forre defected against that and here's why it's not a coven relief bill. less than 9% goes directly to the fight against covid, less than 1% to vaccinations, hundreds of billions of dollars in spending that has nothing to do with covert relief at all. there is some good news for americans, $1400 direct payments, $1400 for a dependents as well although that is less than the 2,000 joe biden had promised them on the campaign trail which is in fact a campaign promise that has now been broken. there's a lot of things in there that shouldn't be in there come a lot of progressive priorities, nancy pelosi tried to get $140 million silicon valley tunnel near her district. it was bird dropped tonight by the senate parliamentarian because it didn't meet the requirements for the reconciliation. there are also 50 million in funding that go toward the epa environmental justice grants which is a thinly veiled take back for environmental groups. it includes a reparations program, it creates an aide progr

and in the house, tom rice, south carolina, adam kinzinger. dan newhouse. anthony gonzalez.hat's another beauty. fred upton. jamie butler. john catco. david valideo and the warmonger, a person that loves seeing our troops fighting, liz cheney. how about that? hopefully they'll get rid of her with the next election. get rid of them all. >> reporter: it seemed at times that president trump more focused on the republican enemies than he is democrats and trump rejected the idea that there's a schism in the republican party saying that the republican party is completely behind him and no dissession and the question is if trump plans to mount primary challenges against the incumbents in the house and the senate, how does that help them regain the majorities in 2022? republicans here on capitol hill are worried it makes the process that much harder. >> that's true. ryan nobles, thank you very much. >>> joining us now, a republican on the enemy's list, congressman kinzinger of illinois. what went through your mind hearing the president single you out as he did yesterday? >> no surpr

on saturday in the house that couldn't get a single republican, not even adam kinzinger to vote for it democrats defected from it. here is why it's not a covid relief bill. less than 9%, tucker, goes to the fight against covid. less than 1% to vaccinations. you have hundreds of billions of dollars in spending that actually has nothing to do with covid relief at all. there is some good news for americans. you've got those $1,400 in direct payments, $1,400 for dependents as well although that's less than the $2,000 that joe biden had promised them along the campaign trail which is, in fact, a campaign promise that has now been broken. however, there's a lot of things that are in there that shouldn't be in there. a lot of progressive priorities. nanci pelosi tried to get a $140 million tunnel, silicon valley tunnel near her district, however, it was bird dropped tonight by the senate parliamentarian because it didn't meet the requirements of the bird rule for budget reconciliation. there's also $50 million in funding that goes towards the epa environmental justice grants which is thinly v

we know mitt romney, liz cheney, susan collins, lisa murkowski, ben sasse oppose trump and adam kinzinger. your reaction to that? >> i think a lot of those people oppose donald trump the person and his tweets but i would suggest to you that if you dived down and ask them what do you disagree with on the policy of making america great, i don't think they come up with anything. some of them got caught up in the cult of personality there. i think democrats have egged that on. i think they want desperately there to be a continued discussion about the personality of donald trump and his aggressive nature. i like it. i like that donald trump plays offense. i think there are a lot of republicans that don't like to play offense. they just want to sit back and maybe be democratic light, think that is the pathway to success. i happen to disagree with that approach. but policywise donald trump from immigration to foreign policy to energy, taxes, deregulation, that is the core of the republican party and it should be. it's a very conservative approach. elizabeth: yeah. you know, trump also celebrated

you, adam kinzinger, liz cheney, but honestly it's kind of a small group.so many republicans been quiet about this? >> that's a question i ask every day. we saw immediately after january 6th, folks starting to point the blame on antifa and blm to avoid taking responsibility or having the actual accountability in order to move past this moment no order to hold those who have responsibility held to account and come to grips with what happened and go from here. instead, you see a continuing refusal to acknowledge that president biden won the election on november 3rd. you see the back peddling and and starting to retreat from statements they made shortly after the insurrection in order to curry favor and it's extremely disappointing. >> i want to ask you, the head of the national republican congressional committee told politico he doesn't want president trump to try to primary you or liz cheney or other house republicans who voted to impeach him. the nrcc finance chair went as far to say that they'll help your campaign and the campaigns of other republicans who

but one who is speaking out, andy, is sitting republican congressman adam kinzinger.d this. he, about the former president, is an utter failure. no remorse. no regret. it is sick and disgusting. what is the impact of it? i just think about the impact on security for our elected officials. if the president was saying that was zero threat, isn't that something that just emboldens people to do it again? >> sure. the president is basically saying, you know, that was hugging and kissing. beating police officers with ax handles and their own shields or flag poles or poles ripped from the scaffolding around the capitol, that's perfectly acceptable to the president. so that's the message that his most violent and extreme supporters get. we know they came to the capitol on that day because he told them, come to d.c., quote, it's going to be wild. we saw that in the text messages of kelly meggs, the oath keeper leader from florida. those text messages having been released just a few days ago. so what he says, as absurd and offensive as it is, it resonates with this community. a

extremism or normalize violent rhetoric and stuff that's a threat to democracy as i see it and adam kinzinger of the world and it's older image and then there is a lot of people that fall somewhere in between. i'm really dealing with this on a case by case basis but it's hard. there is no member of congress that isn't struggling with how to deal with that right now. >> congressman jason crow, thank you for your time tonight, thank you. >> thanks, john. >>> next, president biden's decision to start naming and blaming the former president and the question of how long voters will let him do it and later, new developments in the boulder mass shooting, what we're learning how the alleged killer got his gun. d just soothing sensitive skin? exactly jen! calm + restore oat gel is formulated with prebiotic oat. and strengthens skin's moisture barrier. uh! i love it! aveeno® healthy. it's our nature.™ introducing fidelity income planning. we look at what you've saved, what you'll need, and help you build a flexible plan for cash flow that lasts, even when you're not working, so you can go from saving..

we know that mitch mcconnell and liz cheney and adam kinzinger, ben sasse and others are pushing backut most of the others are totally supporting him, why? >> far too many -- it's fear! i mean, many -- many are fearful. now, many of them know better, too. i think many of them would prefer that he go away, but it's all about fear of the primary. they know that donald trump can make their lives miserable in a primary, and that's what their political calculation must be. it's not because they like him. it's because they are simply afraid of what he can do to rile the base against them. >> to that point, you know, we're already seeing the effect of retirement and some republicans who fear a tough race, right, or can't quite stomach it anymore? you talk about a fear of a primary. how big of an impact do you think trump would have on the 2022 mid-term republicans. >> >> the best thing is for donald trump to stay down in mar-a-lago and keep his mouth shut. the republicans want this mid--term to be a referendum on joe biden and by historical standards they should do well, but if donald trump

some congressional leaders on the enemy list reaches >>trump also attacked republican lawmaker adam kinzinger who didn't speak at the conference but tweeted about the former presidents of end that included a life-sized images of him golden statues the congressman wrote idol worship is a conservative hashtag restore our gop inside trying to solidify the conservative movement. as donald trump's movement which is ironic because donald trump is quite honestly one of the for the saints from a conservative any speakers at this year's conference orlando included possible 2024 hopefuls who encouraged the fracture party to rally around the former commander-in-chief despite the fallout from the capitol insurrection is the leader of the conservative movement, he's a leader of the america first movement and he is the leader of the republican party. >>and i hope and you know i hope and like i said, yes, i hope on january 20th 2025 the seas once again will be the leader of our country republicans were the only target of trump he slammed his successor. >>president joe biden telling this energized crowd at t

adam kinzinger. dan newhouse. anthony gonzalez. that's another beauty. fred upton. jamie herrera beutler. peter myer. john catco and the warmonger a person that loves seeing our troops fighting, liz cheney. how about that? >> those of course are the 17 republicans who voted to impeach or convict the former president and would not validate his election falsehoods. they are also tiny minority in the gop, the vast majority believe the former president didn't incite the crowd or too afraid to say otherwise. there is also an explanation from chad wolf that spoke to cnn right after the ex president spoke. >> i think what the president has talked about and what i think the vast majority of americans see there is some fraud inherent in our voting system and it needs to be addressed before the next midterm or certainly the next press idential election. >> this guy. if you're keeping track, the former president isn't saying what he seems to be saying and turning the gaslight up a notch, despite the trump flags and oath keeper slogans with the mob on january 6th, none of that

some congressional leaders on the enemy list reaches >>trump also attacked republican lawmaker adam kinzinger who didn't speak at the conference but tweeted about the former presidents of end that included a life-sized images of him golden statues the congressman wrote idol worship is a conservative hashtag restore our gop inside trying to solidify the conservative movement. as donald trump's movement which is ironic because donald trump is quite honestly one of the for the saints from a conservative any speakers at this year's conference orlando included possible 2024 hopefuls who encouraged the fracture party to rally around the former commander-in-chief despite the fallout from the capitol insurrection is the leader of the conservative movement, he's a leader of the america first movement and he is the leader of the republican party. >>and i hope and you know i hope and like i said, yes, i hope on january 20th 2025 the seas once again will be the leader of our country republicans were the only target of trump he slammed his successor. >>president joe biden telling this energized crowd at t

. >> congressman adam kinzinger, thanks for your candid thoughts with us this morning. great to talk to you p. he's approaching like full bullwart there. >> i don't think he's on the josh hawley christmas list anymore. >> he did say he's one of the smartest guys. >> if josh hawley saw that and not the other part. he might not like that as much. >> "new day" continues. >>> this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >> this is "new day." we begin with a sober warning from the cdc director. >> please hear me clearly. at this level of cases with variants spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard-earned ground we have gained. now is not the time to relax. >> here's why she's saying that. after falling for weeks, new coronavirus cases are plateauing at a very high level. this could be caused by the highly contagious new variants. this as a lot of states are easing their restrictions. reopening restaurants, theaters and entirely removing some indoor dining restrictions. meanwhile, johnson & johnson's newly approved single dose vaccine could start going into

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as republican congressman adam kinzinger works to rid the gop of donald trump's influence, he's throwingveteran michael wood, one of the 11 republican candidates to replace the late congressman ron wright in texas's sixth district. and michael wood joins us now. michael, thanks so much for getting up way too early. we appreciate it. you're the first non-incumbent member of the house to get this kind of an enforcement. let's be real, it seems like it's an uphill climb for liz cheney, kinzinger, others trying to add more people like them to the ranks of house republicans. why do you think it might work? and why do you feel that it's important to push back against what we saw happen with the former president? >> well, good morning, kasie. it's good to be here with you. you know, i think that the republican party is at a cross roads. and it's time for those of us in the party who have been concerned about the direction they've been going since election day and especially since january 6th to stand up and say as much. i do think the republican party core that of about 30 to 40% of republicans

party in his own image, and that has caused a riff and a split in the party as you're seeing adam kinzinger is now raising money for those incumbents who voted for impeachment, and that's just going to drain resources from the party as a whole the second part is donald trump appears to be wanting to recruit and endorse candidates and he doesn't seem to be working with leader mccarthy, and i doubt that he'll be working with mitch mcconnell on recruiting the type of candidates who they work very hard to try to get candidates who fit districts. districts vary idealogically across the country, and you want to be able to recruit the right kind of candidate who can win those districts. but if trump's litmus test is simply loyalty to me and they like me, that doesn't bode ver well for the republican party because what you'll do is you'll end up losing general elections by nominating the wrong candidate, the statewide elections and you will win some red districts, gerrymandered districts like marjorie taylor greene has so you'll get more marjorie taylor greene like candidates who will be in the con

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then, you have the adam kinzingers of the world that are really standing up and trying to do the right thing. and rebuild the republican party. and, you know, and -- and -- in its older image. and then, there is a lot of people that fall somewhere in between. so i am really dealing with this on a case-by-case basis. but it's hard. i don't think there is any member of congress, certainly on my side of the aisle, that isn't struggling with how to deal with that right now. >> congressman jason crow, thank you for your time tonight. thank you. >> thanks, john. >>> next, president biden's decision to start naming and blaming the former president. and the question of how long voters will let him do it. and later. >>> new developments in the boulder mass shooting. what we are learning about how the alleged killer got his gun. with custom gear from custom ink. we've developed new tools to make it easy for you. custom ink has hundreds of products, including masks, to help you stay connected. upload your logo or start your design today at customink.com. new projects means new project managers. y

[crowd booing] and in the house, tom rice, south carolina, adam kinzinger -- [crowd booing] dan newhouse, anthony gonzalez, that is another beauty, fred upton, jamie herrera butler, peter meyer, john katko, david valid ao, and of course, the warmonger, a person that loves seeing our troops fighting, liz cheney. how about that? [crowd booing] the good news is in her state, she has been censored and in her state, herbal numbers have dropped faster than any human being i've ever seen. [crowd cheering] so hopefully they will get rid of her with the next election. get rid of them all. democrats are vicious remember this. , it is true, democrats are vicious. he said people, well, there is people there. they are vicious, they are smart. and they do one thing, got to hand it to them, they always stick together. you don't have mitt romney's in the group. they always stick together. fortunately, for the republican party, the democrats have horrible policies like open border, sanctuary, defunding the police, and the ridiculous gray new deal. so, they stick together, they are smart, they are vicious