i want to bring in writer and editor of protect democracy, amanda carpenter. amanda, what do you make of trump starting with nato as we started the show laying out not just his return to this conversation about nato, but his upping the ante of it and the republican party, the party of reagan, simply saying, well, that's just the way he speaks. >> yeah. i mean, it's really hard to watch, but it's not something that is new for trump. he's had this line of being very soft coddling up to putin's since the 2016 alive oxygen. and i think it's actually much worse than that and they alliance has growing among the maga republican wing with a towel words for strong med abroad and total, you're talking about viktor orban, you're talking about putin, et cetera. there's a really worrisome trend happening and you see republicans like marco rubio trying to dance the line in the say that in an interview with jake on sunday where he says essentially don't that's just rhetoric from donald trump. you don't have to listen to what he's saying because that's a story in us republica

so we are back now with amanda carpenter, david plouffe, claire mccaskill, and doug jones. al polls seem to back it up that she would fare better against donald -- against president biden, than donald trump, so why doesn't that argument seem to register with these voters? given what the starting number jen just read. >> maybe because there's a good chunk of them that still believe donald trump won the 2020 election. -- >> two thirds. >> the kayleigh isn't the first major national republican that has tried to make the case to voters that donald trump is not electable, therefore, chews me. the argument is that he's bad for the party, as evidenced by the midterms in 2018, 2020, 2022. that doesn't really change voters minds, because you are not actually explaining why he's bad for the country. saying he's bad for the party, for people that believe that he did a good job on policy, that everyone told lies about him, the world's just out to get him, doesn't fly. there needs to be more honest arguments to voters that treat them like thinking adults that they are, about how donald t

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amanda carpenter joins us, writer and editor from protect him a chrissy. we turn to you first. president biden recently changed his campaign leadership, and now we are seeing a whole lot more on the trail, especially in those battleground states that count. has his campaign done a strategic shift or is it now in 2024 and it is game on? >> we are in 2024 and it is game on, obviously. he's been in pennsylvania, michigan, south carolina repeatedly, that is of course the site of the first democratic primary. not that he has too much to worry about but he wants to show he is paying attention to that. then, what you are seeing is more of these pictures that you are showing now. they want to get him from outside, behind the podium, but it may not play, they think, to a strong campaign. that biden has historically been a retail politician with a real eq, with voters and the opp is better off if he was mingling in groups like you are showing him here today in michigan. so there is a lot more of that in the weeks to come. the podium speech will still be important, as we try to reconnect

amanda carpenter congressman matt gaetz is out there celebrating this news about mcconnell. he posted on twitter, now known as x. we've now at six mccarthy mcdaniel, mcconnell, better days are ahead for the republican party is of course, talking about former speaker mccarthy, former rnc chair ronna mcdaniel and and mcconnell are a lot of people in the party celebrating the news. you think? >> well, i think certainly the trump wing of it as, but listen mitch mcconnell is leaving the party in a much worse place than he found it originally in the blame i think there is a special category for mitch mcconnell book cuts. perhaps me hen more than anyone in the republican party after january 6 was in a position to put trump behind the party in leading the senate to convict him. >> mitch >> mcconnell tried to walk this line where he said that trump is morally and practically responsible for january 6, but he wasn't going to do anything to hold him politically countable. and so i look at mitch mcconnell retiring without actually having sacrifice anything personally, politically for pr

joining us now, editor at the nonpartisan group protect democracy, amanda carpenter.back with us as well. i'll start with these comments about nato. jon meacham, just as it pertains to -- well, there is no precedent, is there? >> no, no. the post world war ii order which for all of its imperfections maintained a basic peace, has maintained a basic peace, has tended to check the appetites and ambitions and designs of dictators, is under threat from within. this is abraham lincoln's birthday, which i'm sure you'll be having a cake later with the great man about this. but lincoln said early in 1837 that if america ever falls, it won't be because of a foreign force, it will be because of an internal enemy of the constitution. that's what's happens. it's very clear. the question before the country could not be clearer. do you want a president who defends the constitution and an order that has proven successful, creating american prosperity and security? or do you want someone who was irrationally and for his own purposes trying to tear that down? that's the question we fac

this guy is a carpenter, you don't understand, he was sent to him from a guy who was building something and there was some hijinks in the shop. who send you the photo, to in that to amandabout it. is it the carpenter? or is it like the combination of an episode of home improvement and some episode from kimn allen's wikipedia page? if you know, you know. >> tyrus: it is really because of client confidentiality. he can't speak. of course, everything is filtered through the psychiatrist. much like that cheap wood right there. listen, o god, i always feel like i'm telling on the brotherhood every time i do t this. god, i hate black history month. okay, look, men are -- greg, you kind of know this. we put that signals out when we want the fellows to do something. apparently somebody was planning sent out the bat signal. there's three lines for everyone. bring your wood. is going to be a party. so that is what that was. that was the bat signal because at least one of the guys and the crew had a wife. i'm not saying it was me. i'm just saying that when your friends try to help you escape these so-called wingmen scott mason you random pictures that are like, it is like a puzzle