he joined us earlier. >> we know what congressman amash is going to do what congressman amash is going to do. he has always marched to the a beat of a different drum. the conservative principles that underpin our party can offer those solutions. carley: amash says is he becoming an independent. a patriotic florida resort celebrating independence day by building a giant betsy ross flag out of beach towels. the trade winds island resort on st. petersburg beach dying their towels red, white and blue before laying them out in the sand. they create the patriotic display every fourth of july. those are your headlines. i will send it out to fox square. pete, jed, ed? ed: what a beautiful display. pete: love it. down in florida. joe biden's support is dropping in the polls

let me read you part of what amash writes.n recent years i've become disenchanted with party politics and frightened what i see. the two-party system evolved into aexistential threat to constitution. i'm declaring my independence and leaving the republican party. one republican quick to say good riddance to him is president trump who didn't miss the opportunity to call amash one of the dumbest and most disloyal men in congress. joining me -- disloyal in congress is saying a lot. just dawned on me. joining me now is phil mattingly and doug high, former communications director for the republican national committee. phil, what is justin amash doing here? was this inevitable? what do you think is going on? >> yeah, inevitable is the right word. what this has been a continuation of a slow rolling that has turned into a very deliberate over the course of the last couple months break with the republican party. context here is important. the context of justin amash, he was never really mainstream republican. he said he associated more

let's start with justin amash. breaking the dam here? >> you know, i think his past comments, nobody was too surprised. the president's reaction is one you're going to continue to see based on republicans that speak out against the president's party. i just this will be something that leads up to 2020. i'm not sure if we're going to be taugtsz as we get closer to primaries in certain states. >> daniel, there haven't been a lot in terms of members of congress who have switched parties, a handful, really, in the 21st century. how does this read in the beltway from other republicans and democrats for that matter? >> i mean, it's a surprising fact in the sense that this is a member, a founding member of the house freedom caucus a group of republicans who are usually allied with president trump. but for a while now congressman amash has disagreed with the trump administration and made his thinking known. so it's not so unusual among observers here in d.c. for us to see amash split with trump or really spar with him, but to leave the party alt

congressman justin amash joins us exclusively in moments. >>> and back to the future. in a crowded field the democratic front-runner carves out his lane. >> look, it is center left. that is where i am. >> while his challenges try to draw contrasts. >> this is not 2016. this is 2020. and people are woke. >> cnn exclusive interview with 2020 presidential candidate former vice president joe biden next. >>> plus, women rule. the u.s. women's soccer team faces off in the world cup finals. >> we think that the game should be played with exuberance. >> a 15-year-old american phenom wows at wimbledon. female athletes are standing out and speaking up. >>> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington with the state of the union celebrating the nation's independence. we have a lot to get to. including expression of regret from joe biden. but we begin this week with a new deck lar is of independence, a sitting republican congressman announcing he is leaving the republican party. in an op-ed released on the fourth of july, justin amash writes, i've become disenchanted with party politics a

amash said a lot, didn't he?e did sigh among the powerful things, even members on committees that he shares, you know, have lost power, and that he says there are others who are critical just like he is, of the president in private, just not saying it publicly. will his now pup comments in this fax unleash or even give the green light for others to follow suit? >> well, i don't really think so. if you asked justin amash, i think he would say no as well and that is one of the reasons he's leaving the party. while it is true that when you talk to republicans privately they sound differently, they have nod been willing to break with the president even when they're not totally a board with what he's saying or doing. congressman amash has been the only republican to vote in favor of holding at manages officials in contempt when the administration has pushed back against congress's attempts to do oversight. i think he's right that he's probably going to lose that perch because of what he's done, but there's no evidence

i think what justin amash does is makes an institutional argument.ne that predates his calling for impeachment. congress doesn't do its job, period, right now. whatever is negotiated with the senate majority leader and the house speaker and the president in most cases and they kind of present a fait accompli and you're supposed to vote at the end of the year in the big omnibus yes or no. everything else is a partisan scrum you use to make money off of. the whole thing is broken whether nancy pelosi is the head of the house of representatives or something else. >> you said kromny bus, omnibus mixed with a crone na which is important, too. >> which you can get on "up with david gura" on saturday morning. >> final thought other than plugging up which is a great show. >> my friend wrote this great book about people who break ranks. why some people are sort of willing to reject a corrupt institution, other people go along. it's often the people who are true believers who are the ones who finally, the ones who kind of can't abide corruption and compromise

amash is a vocal trump critic.oday he once again called for impeachment proceedings to begin against the president. he also lashed out at the gop, partisan politics and republicans who show blind loyalty to the president. all of those factors, amash says, led him to leave the party. >> do you think it's fair to say that president trump and your fellow republicans' unblinking support for president trump was the straw that broke the camel's back? >> i think this term in congress has really shown how bad it can get. when i started the house freedom caucus, i was one of the founding members. what we were fighting for was better process. we were fighting for a more open government, a more accountable government. we wanted members to have a voice in the process so that we'd have a deliberative body and be able to represent people back home. whatever the outcome. sometimes the outcomes are more conservative, sometimes more progressive. whatever the outcome, we wanted to open it up. but over the years, i've seen that peopl

he deemed amash one of the dumbest and most disloyal men in congress.eculated that the move comes because amash knew he couldn't get the nomination to run again. we are back with our panel. so first question to you is, obviously this is principled. he wouldn't have come out and said the president should be impeached as a republican, the lone republican to do that on both sides of the capitol if it was in principle, but in terms of his decision to change parties, in my experience covering candidates on capitol hill, they general low don't change parties unless they don't see a path forward in their own election as whatever party they're in, in this case a republican. so would he have lost the primary? >> it's certainly a possibility. i haven't spoken to him since the op-ed so i can't say what his thought process was here. but the reality was he was facing a couple of primary challengers. one that had name i.d. in the state legislature. there had been a lot of rumblings from donald trump jr. that the trump operation was going to help anyone who had a legi

including one independent whoious left the republican party justin amash. only five broke from party lines essentially to support in moving

president, congressman amash is not a loser, he is not dumb, not disloyal. so why did he call for impeachment and quit the g.o.p.? joining me tonight, in an exclusive fox interview, michigan congressman justin amash, welcome here. >> hi, judge thank you. judge napolitano: why did you call for impeachment of president 4 of the us. >> i read the mueller report, and came to conclusion that president engaged in impeachable conduct. mueller presented a conclusion himself he laid out evidence said it is up to congress nov m. judge napolitano: probably spiking of volume 2 of mueller report that articulates evidence that mueller found that supports claim of obstruction of justice. we know from history, clinton impeachment and near nixon impeachment, house of representatives declared that obstruction of justice is an impeachable ofence. when you did this. how were you treated by your fellow republicans, publicly? and how were you treated by them privately. >> it was docto very different, depending on if i was speaking to them in person or watching them on tv, many wo

michigan congressman justin amash, this is new, is not ruling out running for president. in a july 4th op-ed in "the washington post," amash declared his independence from the republican party. he criticized both parties, saying the two-party system has evolved into an existential threat to american principles and institutions. now, amash had been the only republican in congress to support an impeachment inquiry into president trump. in an interview on sunday, he was asked what he's heard privately from republicans about his decision to leave the party. >> when i was discussing impeachment, i had fellow colleagues and other republicans, high-level officials contacting me saying thank you for what you're doing, so there are lots of republicans out there who are saying these things privately, but they're not saying it publicly, and i think that's a problem for our country. >> obviously, robert, president trump came out and tweeted all sorts of nasty things about justin amash and being a loser and whatever the case is. and normally nobody knows who justin amash is and runnin

listen, so, amash believes the g.o.p.hould look closer into potential impeachable offenses that are outlined in the mueller report. do these alerts by a member of the tea party or house freedom caucus raise any concerns and cause more conservative members of the g.o.p. to take a second look? or does amash's own political pedigree raise suspicion? >> i think that amash has said that people privately told him and his party that they see where he's coming from, but there -- it's very a very tough situation to be in. it's essentially become clinical suicide to be a republican who is very outspoken against the president and criticizing the president. >> arthel: then what happens to democracy if that's the case? >> i think that something the republican party needs to figure out. if the people in the party think that these are legitimate concerns that need to be investigated, than they are going to have to reconcile where the party goes from here. is that the party of trump or the party that justin amash thought of? limited gove

. > new details about justin amash. he announced yesterday he was leaving the repubcan party in a "the washington post" op-ed. s declaring his independence after becoming frightened by the division of the party politics. amash went on to say the u.s. is beming trapped in what he called a partisan death spiral. escape. ay there is an >> i've been involved in party politics for a while and i believe very strongly that it's hurting our cthntry at point and i think people need to stand up for what's right, stand up for what they believe in and ty independent of these pa loyalties that really divide us. >> amash has been the only republican in congress to support impeacent of president trump. in a tweet yesterday, the president called amash, quote, a tot loser and said his departure from the gop was great new for the republican party. >>> they were jamming there. fourth of july celebration took place all across the d.c. region. check out party here in the palisade neighborhood. d.c. mayor muriel bowser and d.c. congressman e

to the -- pursuant to clause 5-b-1 of rule 10 i am writing to inform you that representative justin amash has resigned as a member of the house republican conference. signed, sincerely, liz chinee, chair, house republican conference. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following communication. the clerk: the honorable, elijah cummings, dear chairman cummings, this letter is to advise you that representative justin amash's election to the committee on oversight and reform has been automatically vacated pursuant to clause 5-b of rule 10 effective today. signed, sincerely, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until approximately 4:30 p.m. today.>> washington jl host: our guest as deputy erved director for the policy development services for constitutional law attorney. he is here to talk about the citizenship question. good morning. you talk about a certain approach the administration could take in getting the question on the 2020 census. what is that

keep in mind justin amash was brought into congress in a tea party way.e course of the last several months especially but really over the course of his entire career he's broken with republican orthodoxy. he far more associates himself with being a libertarian than in general. he's been a lifelong republican. that is now changing. he stated today i'm declaring my independence leaving the republican party and i'm asking for you to join me in rejecting the partisan rhetoric that divide and dehumanize us if we continue to take america for granted we will lose it. this is the next progression of what's happened the next couple of months. he tweeted out he the only republican to say this, after reading through the mueller report had met the threshold for an impeachable defense. obviously his battles with the president playing out on twitter as we speak, have played out over the course of the past couple of months. the reality is in justin amash's mind the republican party has clearly left him, and the president i think is a big part of that, jim. >> so what's

i think we have known in west michigan that congressman amash is going to do what congressman amash isd to the beat of a different donald trump. it's been a long time coming that he has been looking for a different path. none of us are that surprised. he has been moving away from the republican party for months if not years now. yesterday just made that official. jedediah: peter, have you decided instead of -- i'm sure you have had some issues with the republican party in the past. instead of leaving the party, you want to stay and you want to reform the party from within. why have you made that decision and what do you hope to bring to the party? >> thank you, jed, i believe in the future of the republican party. i think the republican party can offer solutions to the issues that americans are facing while the democrats are stuck looking in the rear view and re-litigating the 2016 election. you know, when i was in the army, we focused on a mission. we focused on what we needed to do and would didn't let any obstacle get in our way. and we certainly weren't looking in the review the en

you look at justin amash, he's constantly looking back at washington.we as a country regard our american history at the end of this week? >> it's so funny because both you and justin amash love the constitution and could probably interpret it oh, 180 degrees but maybe 165. but that's okay. it's a living document. i think everything is used just for a justification, just for an ad hoc prompter justification. that's how i i think and if we have leaders more good than bad they'll lead us to a correct place citing more justifications. if we have more leaders bad than good they'll misuse for their actions. >> justin amash is such an outlier in this because he's a straight up idelog, and what does he tell his grandchildren? like, i made sure that the government wouldn't interfere in our ways and i made the world safe for guns, and, you know, those assault rifles and bump stock, that was me. he's not talking -- >> we give out welfare to middle america constantly in hundreds of millions of dollars. we just don't call it welfare. so it's the framing of it all to

michigan's justin amash is party to go independent.republican to join democrats in calling for the start of the impeachment process. amash making the announcement in a july 4th "the washington post" op-ed titled our politics is in a partisan death spiral that's why i'm leaving the g.o.p. well as you can imagine the president had a response and did he it on twitter. here it is. great news for the republican party as one of the dumbest and most disloyal men in congress is quitting the party. no collusion, no obstruction. knew he couldn't get the nomination to run again in the great state of michigan. already being challenged for his seat. a total loser. >> i wish i knew how he felt. [laughter] >> not really clear about his feelings. dean? >> dean: speaking of total loser, let's go it dean. [laughter] >> julie: there is no introduction to this. first of all, seeing any side turn on their own party it just looks weak. that's just me. >> dean: justin amash wasn't exactly a republican in that sense. he was going to be challenged and probably

one with independent justin amash voting in favor. 185 nay votes. tell us what's going on. >> this is a 15-minute vote, but to give a brief house explainer, when you have a series of votes, not back to back to back, voters will often take their time coming to the offices. their offices are a subway ride away or a walk as well. they don't have to gavel in right at the 15-minute mark. you'll see the zooes at the bottom. . it's not officially closed until the democrat. you see there are six, seven, eight votes. they have enough to pass this resolution. you have four republicans that have voted with democrats, one independent that has voted with democrats as well and dana and others have laid out perfectly why they are. susan brooks, not only is she retires but she was the campaign arm. her decision to retire really jolted the party to some degree when it actually fred upton comes from a district where he received a serious democratic challenge. brian fitzpatrick as as dana noted coming from a swing district always target of democrats as and will hurd i

throw justin amash out of the party. that doesn't help you build your coalition. >> he's throwing himself out of the party now, congressman. >> yeah, i guess he quit. >> he did. thank you so much. margaret, thank you as well. >>> former vice president joe biden will personally address the back-and-forth with senator harris when he and his wife, jill biden, speak with cnn's chris cuomo. you can see that interview tomorrow morning at 6:00 and 8:00 a.m. eastern. >>> the trump administration reversing course. it will try to work around the recent supreme court ruling to get a question about citizenship printed on the census for 2020. also a look now at the statue of liberty on this independence day, just hours from now fireworks will light up the new york skyline. the city is getting ready for that. >>> and right now in washington, residents and visitors are gathering on the mall to celebrate the fourth. in just a couple of hours here, president trump will speak live from the lincoln memorial. wi network claims are so confus

and justin amash was there at the beginning.st since trump has taken office when it comes to government spending, whether entitlement should be reformed and things like that. i don't think any of this is that shocking. i do think a lot of what he seems to be worried about in terms of extreme partisan politics has sprouted at a time when the political parties are weaker. historically as much as the founders warned americans, future americans about the dangers of party politics, what the parties have been able to do over many years is sort of synthesize a lot of different viewpoints so that we don't ever lurch too far to the left or right. in order to be a governing party you have to have soft edges. parties have lost a lot of their power. candidates can go to the voters. we like these sorts of things. we don't need the parties to elevate us. they can't squash us. the flip side is, with weaker parties you can have more committed candidates to a particular point of view. some might say extreme. that's the kind of thing that amash s

i'm all for justin amash.or president as a libertarian. >> that's what i was going to ask you. >> i think he's likely to get the nomination. you know, i ran last time there and our votes came directly out of mr. trump because they were protest votes and change votes. that's what libertarian votes are. none of them were going to come from hillary clinton in the last race. and i think his votes this next time would come directly out of mr. trump's pocket. >> so you would like to see justin amash run as a third party? >> i would encourage mr. amash. i think that would be a good move for him and good move for the united states. as you know, i think mr. trump is a threat to our democratic institutions and the bill of rights. so the more votes that comes out of his pockets, the better i like it. >> there have been a handful of republicans who previously have flirted with run against the president. one of them is john kasich. every time i have him on i ask the same question, where are you in your process. in asking w

amash said, you can't fire me because i quit. two questions.is signal about his relationship with republicans and republican leadership and, two, do we know any more whether he might run for a third party run on the presidential ticket because that's what e've been hearing from people close to him for weeks. >> well, jeff, i would say this relationship with the republican party has been fraught if not broken for several months now. if we look back to just last week, the op-ed in the "washington post" on independent day, no less announcing his resignation from the party saying it was too much in lockstep and influenced by president trump spoke volumes to his relationship with the parties, so i think that's been happening for a while now. to your second question, you know, it's unclear whether he will run for president. you know, before his public criticism of president trump and the republican party, his national profile wasn't as high as it is now. it has certainly soared in rekremtd weeks, however, the amount of money he has in his congression

justin amash announced he's quitting the republican party. this was after taking on trump on the mueller report. trump has since called him disloyal n disloyal. no surprise there! we've seen these short bursts of right flight. steve will, joe scarborough. they really only result liken like a one-day headline. not much happens after these people announce they're quitting the party. i want to know your thoughts on leaving the party versus maybe staying in it to fix it. >> well, i think it was the right move for justin amash to do. i hope he druoes run for president. bill clinton used to say, it's rather to be rigwrong and stron than right and weak. and jeff flake, for example, who stood up to trump, but did so in a way that was not very strong. i think amash is tough and, look, is he going to beat donald trump? no. can he create a beacon of hope for young conservatives and libertarians and maybe a pathway forward after donald trump? i think he can. >> kirsten, your thoughts on amash quitting? >> first of all wing he's an incredibly principled p

justin amash, he just threat republican party.g so he was the only house republican who was pushing the idea to call for an impeachment of president trump. he's now saying he's not ruling out a potential 2020 run. if and how does that complicate things for the president's re-election campaign? >> i think it doesn't complicate it at all. what it will do is help him. republicans have scenemens left over from 2016 who define themselves as never trumpers are looking for associate else to vote for. if joe biden is the nominee they might be able to vote for him. they won't vote for aft elizabe warren or a kamala harris or bernie sanders. >> why not harris? >> she's too far left. >> in what regard. >> where do i start? >> tell me. what policy is too far left? to say bernie sanders, kamala harris and elizabeth warren, i get -- >> bernie sanders is too old. >> but i get bernie and elizabeth warren. i just want to under -- >> you think there's that much separation ideologically between the three of them. i mention them they are the three fr

but i think there may be a couple of republicans who cross over, justin amash from michigan who was a republican who is leaving the republican party. he's probably one who is likely to. otherwise i can't think of many others who are going to. but the reality here is this is going to simply just not advance the argument about what this is all about. republicans in the house of representatives are up for re-election in 2020 and afraid to stand up against the president and many think that these democrats have been wrong and some of the comments that they've said as well here. so i'm not sure at the end of this if the vote actually happens this evening what this is going to accomplish other than unify the democrats probably and make the country think that washington is even more of a mess. but how you view this is how you viewed it coming in. >> because this is clearly the white house watching this vote, especially the republicans, kaitlan very closely. today the president tweeted republicans should not show weakness and fall into that trap. >> yeah, the president is watching all of this

amash went on to warn that the u.s.s becoming trapped in what he calls a partisan death spiral, but he says there is an escape. >> i've been involved in party politics for a while and i believe very strngly that it's hurting our country at this point, and -- and i think people need to stand up for what's right, stand up for whatbe they lieve in, and be independent of these party loyalties that reallyus divide >> reporter: now ahash was the only republican in congress to support impeachment of president trump. in a t tet today president called amash a quote, total loser and says his departure from the gop was great news for the republican party. >> security concerns in the district tonight ahead of saturday's planned alt-right demonstration at fedom plaza. known white supreme strists groups could be attending the rally and counterprotesters are also expected. the d.c. police chief says the biggest w ry is a possible clash with the two sides. >> we have staffed up. we've worked collaboratively with our federal partners so

congressman justin amash is leaving the republican party and the only g.o.p. member to call for the impeachment proceedings. reaction? >> well, you know, i don't know what the breaking news is. political parties have been amiss for a while. i left the democrat party in 2012. because of this. this is the reason why trump was able to win. people are sick of the political partisanship. i don't know his reasons. i don't know him personally. he feels like it's split seised but welcome to the party. welcome to the independent party. there should be more independents and not everyone should be a democrat and a republican. i don't know why he is taking this messaging route. i'm not a republican so i don't know what is going on, on the inside. but there are plenty of democrats like myself who left the party and became independent. >> mike: do you think it sets the stage for amash to launch a presidential run as an president? >> presidential run would be more viable than a congressional run in that seat, as i understand it. congressman amash said it himself that running

brendan, let me start with you on justin amash.s a pretty scathing op-ed, the two party system has evolved into a threat. a lot of these remarks are aimed at the republican party. he has been pretty tough on this president. he has always been a loaner. >> i read the op-ed and agreed that partisanship and tribalism is a real problem and we need to think about more traditional things. my problem and what was missing from this was a my bad. justin amash had been one of the front runners of the freedom caucus in the house who drove us to partisanship more than probably anything in the last five years. it's hard for me to read something from him talking about needing more compromise and people to get along more where anything that had a scent of democrat he wasn't voting for. >> we would end up being forced to take positions or run bills that we knew would never become law and we would get trapped in ditches or stuck or they would be upset. it's a cycle that we kept going through. i appreciate a lot of what he is saying. i wish he would

amash: thank you, mr. chairman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. amash: the 2012 national defense authorization act authorized the president to order the indefinite detention of american citizens arrested on u.s. soil without charge or trial. the ndaa says that the afghanistan aumf empowers the president to detain any person who, quote, substantially supported associated forces, end quote, of terrorists. substantial support and associated forces are not defined. who could this cover? an american citizen living in michigan makes a one-time donation to a nonviolent humanitarian group. years later, the group commits hostile acts against an ally of the u.s. under the 2012 ndaa, if the president determines the group was associated with terrorists, the president is authorized to detain the donor indefinitely and without charge or trial. this compromise amendment gives -- guarantees that persons arrested on u.s. soil under the afghanistan aumf or the ndaa will be charge

good for justin amash. >> you wrote one as well when you left the party.ver trump and be a republican and that's the clearest and unequivocal conclusion to which i regrettably arrive. to fight for the heart and soul of the republican party has been lost to darker angels and a darker leader. on this network and other networks there are never trump republicans who sit around the table and talk about the party and talk about where things are and a number of them have not left the republican party and i wonder how much thought you're given to why that is. if we so closely associate the republican party to president trump, why have so few people left the party the way you and now justin amash has? >> i am so glad you asked this. justin and i come have very different ideological standpoints. he thinks the party is not rigid enough and he's a libertarian, down the line constitutionalist and i represent the purple state thinking that it is too ridge id at times, but on the fundamental issue on how the party has dealt with trump. they have not just tolerated him, t

. >> program spoiler, michigan congressman amash, who just lift republican party. will congressman amash jump to 2020 race as a libertarian, i will ask him tomorrow night, when he joins me mere for his interview on fox. at 9:00 eastern. the panel returns later but first, trump pushing for the citizenship question on the census. will it work? reasons nick galespi knows more about that han most lawyers did will join me next. hey, who are you? oh, hey jeff, i'm a car thief... what?! i'm here to steal your car because, well, that's my job. what? what?? what?! (laughing) what?? what?! what?! [crash] what?! haha, it happens. and if you've got cut-rate car insurance, paying for this could feel like getting robbed twice. so get allstate... and be better protected from mayhem... like me. ♪ judge napolitano: trump administration is not letting up in push for a i citizenship question next year census, attorney general barr telling associated press, he agrees with president trump. supreme court got it wrong when they blocked the census question. thes i citizenship question, ba

i think that's why we're going to be talking later i think about justin amash, i think there's goingeal question now is there going to be a viable third party candidate because that may really in such a close race between the democrat and president trump, that may be the decisive factor. will there be a third party candidate this siphons votes away from either president trump or the democratic candidate? arthel: we will go there with justin amash, he talked about that very subject on cnn with jake tapper. let's listen to that. >> is it possible you would run for president? >> i still wouldn't rule anything like that out. i believe i have to use my skills, my public influence where it serves the country best, and i believe i have to defend the constitution in whichever way works best. arthel: to your point, is it possible -- let's back up for a second. the reason congressman amash was on with jake tapper this morning because he left the republican party. he feels like nothing is getting done. this is a little bit ironic from someone who was one of the founding members of the tea party

the independent of course justin amash.his as top republicans leaders rushed to president trump's defense insisting the he and the attacks aren't race zblieft were the president's tweets that said go back racist yes or no. >> no. >> the president is not a racist. >> president the president is not a racist. >> outfront now white house correspondent for american urban radio networks april ryan. keith boykin a aide for president the clinton and a member of president trump's re-elect advisory council. april you covered the president. you have the kevin kbhaergt and the mcconnell saying the tweets are not ratesist the president saying i don't have a racist bone in my body. >> do you agree. >> what constitutes racist to senator mcconnell? bottom line, if we look at in happening right now in congress, these resolutions are not going to do anything to the president. they are just in perpetuity. they have no teeth. but they are fighting so feverishly why are they doing it? one, because they are trying to galvanize those who pleef th

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will he talk about justin amash, will he talk about people criticizing him for having tanks at the ende so many things running through his mind we know from twitter that -- that's likely what we'll get. >> he's someone that a cares about optics. moving this to the lincoln memorial, obviously he was thinking a lot, thinking about this as an inauguration day do-over. we know how obsessed he was with the images of sparsely attended crowds at the inauguration. certainly he's not going to get the images of the packed national mall from this event, in part, because it's the politicalization of the event. if he's not getting the images he wants, those are the conditions he's more likely to go off script. as ryan mentioned, there are a lot of bad headlines right now. robert mueller is going to be testifying soon. serious questions about the census. sort of the disastrous performance of his daughter at the g20 last week. those are the precise conditions under which he might go off script. >> i'd break this down. he can be boring which is the script or he can be divisive. as soon as he gets away

caucus and then going against donald trump, he is sort in no man's land, so he is an independent, amash declaring an independent leaving the republican party. is this a precursor to a primary run against donald trump? >> he's been preliminarily homeless fhom politically hoemless f lly home time and i don't see that his candidacy would get anywhere beyond where gary john can son w was. you can make the case either way, whether he would siphon votes from the anti-trump. but i don't see that he will be much of a fact about tore when it comes to the presidential race. he hasn't been a factor in the house really.comes to the presi. he hasn't been a factor in the house really. >> and robert, if you want to get in on this. >> real cloquick on congressman amash. hard to see how it would play out if he ran as an independent candidate for president. but if you think about the narrow margin president trump had in five to six key states in 2016, if justin amash as congressman running for president even got 5%, 10% in a state like michigan, pulling away republican voters, that is why the white house

amash, a republican, also voted with the democrats. steve scalise, a republican and john had some words to say. >> the american people expect us to be spending our time up here fighting for the issues they care about. >> i know racism when i see it. i know racism when i feel it. and at the highest level of government, there is no room for racism. as a nation and as a people, we need to go forward and not backward. >> we should probably add the obvious, john lewis is an icon of the civil rights movement. this afternoon's vote was precede bid a raucous floor session which erupted after speaker pelosi openly called trump's remarks racist. republicans immediately removed to have they are words stricken from the record. along a party line vote, her words remained. hours earlier at the white house, trump continued his attacks on the four members of congress for a third day, repeating his grievances during a morning cabinet meeting. >> it's up to them. go wherever they want or they can stay. but they should love our country. they shouldn't ha

i don't think nancy pelosi is going to listen to justin amash really as she decides her strategy forhis. she's sort of set her sights on what she thinks is the right approach. and it's not going to be diverted by him. >> michael shear and aneata kumar, good to see you both. >>> coming up, senator kamala harris is speaking to voters in florence, south carolina, this hour. these are live pictures here. she speaks to the crowd there. hear how she's responding to joe biden's apology about those comments he made that we just discussed. that's next. the nation's largest and most reliable network. the best network is even better? best, fastest, best. enough. sprint's doing things differently. they're offering a new 100% total satisfaction guarantee. i mean i think sprint's network and savings are great, but don't just take my word for it. try it out and decide for yourself. switch to sprint and get both an unlimited plan and one of the newest phones included for just $35 a month. stimulant laxatives forcefully stimulate i switched to miralax for my constipation. the nerves in your colon. mi

plus one new independent who is justin amash.ou were hoping this would pass on a bipartisan basis. that didn't happen. why not? >> well, i'm grateful for the four and for congressman amash. look, you read parts of the resolution. and thank you for reading the quotes from president reagan. this was one of the points that we wanted to make. we wanted to give every single member of the house a very simple decision. do you stand with president reagan's open, confident, hopeful vision of america? or do you believe in president trump's closed and fearful vision? and well, i guess we saw the party of reagan doesn't really believe for the most part in president reagan's vision anymore. or at least they're so afraid of trump they're not willing to say so publicly. but i'll build on the four plus justin who voted with us and make something of that. >> you were born in poland. the president isn't using the racist trope go back to your country to you. he is saying it to your female colleagues of color. that's intentional, do you think? >> ye

amash of michigan. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote the yeas 236. 7 and the nays are he amendment is not adopted. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment 375 printed in part b of house report 116-143 by the gentleman from colorado, mr. tipton, on which further proceedings were post he poned and on the -- postponed and on the ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 375 printed in part b of house report 116-143

ja jason, will there be other justin amashs in your opinion? >> we will see more members.azing, out of 435 elected representatives in the people's house, there now is only one independent. we hear all the time about how at least 1/3 of the country is in fact independent yet there's one out of 435. go forward, and this applies to both parties. unless these are coalitions of policy demanders start to respond in their bases, on the brand i think we will see more individuals declaring tharp independence go forward. >> last question for you, dean? >> they might. he got a standing ovation. let's be honest. the gop is about loyalty to donald trump only. it stands for nothing. the gop is trump and trump is the gop. it's a party of not team red, it's team trump. not one republican stood up for justin when trump said he's disloyal. the dictator in chief demanded he be gone. >> i recommend everyone reads justin amash's piece. it's very good. >>> coming up, the freak out over a teenage mermaid and what it tells us about america's culture wars next. with tough food, your dentures may s

they can understand that when they look at their former colleagues, jeff flake, mar sanford, justin amash, who just left the party and some others, if you cross trump, it is likely a political death sentence in today's republican party. take a step back from this. traditionally, republican versus democrat, this was about the size of government. there? philosophical and intellectual debates to be had. even within the republican party for a very long time, as i try to document in the book, this was really about the outsider conservatives versus the establishment figures. there was ideological warfare that can be healthy for a party. in today's republican party, trump's republican party is a very different set of fault lines, it's a binary choice. are you with donald trump or against donald trump? >> this is not conservative versus liberal in the traditional sense. this is something far beyond that and something far more dangerous. he was asked if it bothered him white supremacists find common cause when he tweeted. he said no. this is a quote because "many people agree with me." is he talki

michigan congressmember justin amash announced thursday he was leaving the republican party to become an independent. in an op-ed for "the washington post," he said that we are caught in a partisan death spiral, writing -- "the two-party system has evolved into an existential threat to american principles and institutions. i'm asking you to join me in rejecting the partisan loyalties and rhetoric that divide and dehumanize us." in may, amash became the first republican lawmaker to express support for impeaching president trump. in a cnn interview sunday, amash said high level members of the republican party thanked him privately for speaking out in favor of impeachment. he also did not rule out a 2020 presidential bid. billionaire hedge fund manager jeffrey epstein, who has long -- is set to appear in federal court today in manhattan facing sex trafficking charges. he was arrested on saturday. "the new york times" reports epstein is accused of running a sex-trafficking operation by luring underage girls -- some as young as 14 years old -- to his mansion in manhattan. epstein was previ

amash and i do. she's the conductor of the symphony. and she has to make sure if we go toward impeachment that all of the instruments are tuned and every performer in the symphony is playing from the same, you know, pages and in sync with each other. so it's a different responsibility for her. and she hasn't taken it off the table. and we have a big hearing coming up next week with bob mueller coming in to testify. and i think that will be illuminating for the american people. >> congressman swalwell, i know this was a challenging day for you on some level. but i thank you very much for coming on and talking with us. thanks. >> the work goes on. thank you, erin. >>> and next, biden sticks by obama on the campaign trail. >> barack obama and i -- >> barack and i. >> barack and i. >> barack and i. >> so how come barack isn't saying joe and i? plus a leadership crisis in the pentagon. 19 temporary positions. no permanent appointee. former secretary of defense ash carter responds. and nancy pelosi calling out alexandria ocasio cortez dismiss

amash was the only congressional public to argue that the president has engaged in impe h impeachableefore announcing he was leaving the party last week. >> from a plan -- if she believes there's impeachable conduct in there, she should say so. when she says oh, i think we need to have the strongest case when she goes forward. what she's telling america is she doesn't think there's a strong case. if she doesn't think that, she shouldn't open her mouth in the first plais. >> amash tells cnn high level officials have thanked him privately for his stance on impeaching the president. >> people sending me text messages, people asking for another one. i had fellow colleagues and republicans picking it up. so there are lots of republicans out there who are saying these things privately but they're not saying it publicly. i think that's a problem for our country. it's a problem for the republican party. >> michigan congressman not ruling out a thirteenth third party presidential run. could present a problem for 20 in to to. >> it's the end of an era. deutsch bank is unveiling a radical upgrad