the divided mind and politics of john boehner. tell us what you think about the former speaker's comments. linda is joining us from mississippi, democrats line. caller: good morning. john boehner is speaking about the way it was, when he was speaker of the house, but he hasn't changed. republicans do not want to get anything done. they want to be allowed. nothing will ever get done, because they stand on the sidelines and throw rocks and bottles, but no legislation, no work for the people. i think someone is finally telling the truth, and that is him. host: this is from ngm, a tweet saying john boehner is better than any gop in office. he is 100% frank and honest, unlike the rest of his party. don't forget, he is no saint now that he is retired. he led crazy town. that is from edward. let's go to gary, joining us from ohio. good morning. caller: good morning. i watched john boehner back when he was speaker of the house under obama, and i compared him to who we have now and in his book, i think he is right about ted cruz and jim jo

boehner land is what my staff called our team. >> reporter: in the letter boehner urges all his staffers to speak up against the forces corroding his party. remembering that day clearly wasn't easy for boehner. >> why don't we take a little break. >> reporter: in the book you write about political terrorists leading to actual terrorism. is this the outgrowth of the mind-set you've been describing? >> yes, no question about it. this is i mean the most extreme example of political terrorism. >> reporter: would you say donald trump is a political terrorist? >> donald trump is a product of the political divisions that we've seen grow in our country over the last 20 years. >> reporter: he's a product but he also knew how to play just the system you described. >> he has a little different style than i do. >> reporter: in the book boehner is less coy. he has no problem tying trump to political terrorism. >> trump incited the political insurrection for nothing more than selfish reasons. perpetuated by the bull [ bleep ] he'd been shoveling since he lost the election the previous november. while

your view on john boehner?compared himself to being the mayor of crazy town when he was speaker. caller: hello. i just wanted to say, john boehner is speaking his truth, and i believe he is showing the republicans exactly how they are reflecting their party now, that they are standing for not the american values, that the majority of the american people represent. it has given rise to hate and division, and i'm glad he wrote this book, and i hope people really read it and wake up. thank you. host: louise is next from virginia, republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. i wanted to make a comment, not about this trivia. i want it mccook, to about -- we have a lot of things going on, from myanmar, burma and the democracy, suppose a democracy -- supposed democracy. ended up killing thousands, and now there is a military coup, and we are supposed to get involved in that. this is just ridiculous. host: thanks. that is a story that has been dominating the headlines over the past couple of days. a likely sto

he recalls an incident where fellow republican congressman don young got so angry with boehner over boehner'sks that young held a ten-inch knife to boehner's throat just off the house floor. young told politico boehner's account is mostly true. in the book excerpts, john boehner shows a particular detestation of texas republican senator ted cruz, who boehner had already spoken derisively about for years. >> lucifer in the flesh. i have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch. >> reporter: in the book, discussing the rise of the tea party while he was speaker and younger republicans who were less interested in cutting deals with democrats, boehner writes, there is nothing more dangerous than a reckless a-hole who thinks he is smarter than everyone else. ladies and gentlemen, meet senator ted cruz. >> what he detested about senator cruz was this dramatic histrionic style that wasn't about legislating but about scoring points in the media and eventually that is what led boehner to move away. >> reporter: we reached out to senator ted cruz's office for a response to boehner's book. they

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boehner's here to promote "on the house: a washington memoir."rst book to come with its own surgeon general's warning. boehner has not been shy about going after radical republicans, who he thinks are destroying the party. for instance, while recording the audiobook with a glass of wine firmly in his hand, he said this: >> that's freedom. i'll raise a glass to that, any day. p.s. ted cruz, go ( bleep ) yourself. ( laughter ) >> stephen: it's the most off-road attack in an audio book since julia child recorded "mastering the art of french cooking." >> for this quiche lorraine, you need six to eight pieces thick-sliced bacon, three large eggs, and jacques pepin can go spatchcock himself. ( laughter ) >> stephen: speaker boehner stopped by "cbs sunday morning," sunday morning, on cbs, and he sat down with america's sweetheart, john dickerson, and explained that, in the book, he reserves his ire for very few republicans-- mostly just ted cruz. >> i don't beat anyone up. it's not really my style. except that jerk. perfect symbol of getting elected, ma

boehner went along for the ride.u have to remember, this was years, long before trump he was the house speaker, he was the leader of the party. and he engaged with the extreme elements. at times, he dewpoint like some of the freedom caucus and pushback there, but he found ways to unite and lever with them when he wasn't putting out any coups that might replace his job. all the way back to the clinton impeachment. in the book he says he was wropg about that, too, but what did he do when he had power? we all remember. >> i think there's a point here where the american people are wondering, is the president above the law? the president could have put this whole issue behind us, not put the country and the world through this misery if he would have just told us the truth in january. >> john boehner wants politicians to tell the truth. but that was him as conference chair, trying to become speaker, using his power to go along with whatever the far right in his party wanted, an impeachment that whatever some of the possibl

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cruz did joke about boehner's criticism, asking an audience, who's john boehner. wolf? >> thank you very much. to our viewers, thank you very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." follow me on twitter and instagram. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >>> at least one person dead and several others injured, including a trooper after a mass shooting in texas tonight. the shooting coming hours after joe biden announced executive actions to address gun violence in the u.s. and gripping testimony about the final moments of george floyd's life. a breathing expert detailing the second that life left floyd's body. refuting what had been one of the defense's main arguments. and the story you will see only here. we'll take you inside myanmar and the crack down on protestors at the hands of the country's military. let's go

john boehner is putting the blame on trump for the deadly attack. boehner writes in his book. "trump incited that bloody insurrection for nothing more than selfish reasons, per perpetuated b.s." again, to be clear of the significance of this. the former republican speaker calling the insurrection actual terrorism brought on my members of his own party. people he served with like congressman brooks. our ancestors sacrificed their sweat and tears and blood and their lives. in america it is the greatest nation in the world's history. af qu i have a question for you. are you willing to do this same? today is the day america's patriots start taking down names and kicking ass. that's what they did. that's brooks. the same man trump endorsed today for the u.s. seat. what he said to the trump's crowd on insurrection day at the washington mall on insurrection day. trump says today about brooks, few republicans have as much of courage to fight for. trump is not the only one trying to whitewash the event of that insurrection day. tucker carlson thinking the insurrection was no big deal.

>> does john boehner or ted cruz? i think they both have had some blame.nk though, what boehner's book presents is almost a time stamp in one of the last evolutions of the republican party. which was maybe from the boehner class over to ted cruz in the tea party and why that time stamp is important is because of this. john boehner dispute his fierce resistance to barack obama's agenda and he it and he was dogged about it and he used to tools of the house to stop president obama. ted cruz represents a different type of on governing. he was against governing. he was the had shut down leader. he was the one that said we will have an absolutis the ideology, at least john boehner understood you have to governor and ted cruz and his class don't care about that. >> he calls out michelle bachmann and calls out sean hannity, many of them where they are and john boehner gone. does that talk about the return to the pretump republican party. >> i think that is a pretty impressive tell it like it is type thing. from ohio, boehner. >> did you say you piem from ohio? >>

. >> reporter: john boehner thought he had seen everything as speaker of the house, but that was beforeuary 6th. >> it was sad. revolting. i literally couldn't watch it anymore. >> reporter: did it make you angry? >> of course it made me angry. >> reporter: coming up and "sunday morning." >> cowan: there is a funny thing about a new tv series from hollywood's jamie foxx. it turns out it is something of a family affair, as he'll tell michelle miller. >> reporter: as he grew up in terrell, texas, jamie's grandmother had some important advice for him. what is the most important thing that your grandmother told you? >> she told me to get ouout therere and not limimit myself. >> reporter: and hehe s sure heartbeats. hasn't. with movies, singing, and comedy, like his new netflix series, it is a family affair, later on "sunday morning." >> cowan: you know, of course, that nancy reagan was first lady back in the 1980s, but how much do you know about nancy reagan the person. lesley stahl will be along to clear up some mysteries. >> reporter: throughout their 52-year marriage, nancy reagan was he

as boehner did in 1995. the problem with boehner's attempt to separate himself from this new class of republicans is that he literally helped usher them into power. boehner thought he could manage and use the tea party to his benefit as one former aide of his said, he thought of himself as someone who was of the tea party mentality before the tea party was a thing, and back in 2009, boehner effectively threw in with the tea party appearing with michelle bachman, the marjorie taylor greene of her time at a rally at the capitol in front of thousands of far right protesters who were an early manifestation of the republican party's conspiretorial and dark future. boehner thought he could ride that wave, just like paul ryan thought he could ride the trump wave in 2016. for them the tea party and the trump base were a means to an end, an injection of energy that could help them stay in power, and the reason we are where we are today is because these old school republicans, quote, unquote, didn't stand up to the cr

>> my interview with john boehner.ning me are nbc chief correspondent current kristen welker, eddie glaude jr. of princeton university, anna palm palmer founder of punch bowl news and senior eder to of "the dispatch" david fren. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. there was no shortages of big stories this week, criticism of police tactics, yet another mass shooting, this one in indianapolis. troop withdrawal from a war zone. president biden tried to flip and then flop on immigration policy. the news that garnered the biggest headlines came when federal health agencies temporarily halted injections of johnson & johnson vaccines because a small number of people suffered blood clots after receiving them. while it's not clear what connection, if any, there is between the vaccine and this clotting, the halt is likely to have profound implications, however tempor

john boehner decided to end his congressional career.d congress, a project boehner had been working on for 20 years. >> it was the happiest day i've seen. maybe i'll just do it tomorrow because it's not going to get any better than it was now, that day. >> reporter: it didn't get any better. in a new memoir, "the on house" boehner says the ideological forces he spoke with as speaker now threatened the country. ditious expletives and pay back the book is hot enough to light one of the cigarettes that were more a symbol of his speakership than his gavel. >> i got to washington and i was like oh, my god, this is biggest gavel i've ever seen. >> reporter: when boehner came to power in 2011 he found no matter how big the gavel he lacked the power to keep reactionary members of his party in line. >> you write in your book you became mayor of crazy town. what does that mean? >> by 2010 talk radio had been around for a little while. by 2010 we had the internet, we started to have apps and people really didn't need the party as much as they used

that's when john boehner should have talked about the whack jobs.ave talked about how bereft the republican party was of principle and how bad donald trump had been for the things they believe in. so i'm not totally impressed that he's speaking out now. >> so, jon meacham, john boehner was sort of pushing back from time to time and i will say that mitch mcconnell on january the 6th actually spoke out against what was happening on january the 6th. so there were some instances. we saw james langford change his vote because of what happened on january the 6th. and of course, mitt romney and a few others were speaking out. but what i find fascinating is that john boehner is criticizing this republican party, just like he was criticizing -- he's criticized ted cruz in the past and tea party -- sort of the tea party movement in the past and where it's gone. it's very interesting, when i was there, john boehner was a member of the establishment. and jeb bush, you know, it's just so interesting how the establishment itself has been pushed out of the mainstr

former house speaker john boehner, the book is "on the house, a washington memoir."ou for joining us. good to see you. >> jake, good to be with you. >>> coming up next, how comedian jon stewart could the democratic and republican lawmakers to work together on behalf of some veteran widows. stay with us. and you could be in for a tasty discount. [ clicks pen] let's roll. hey, check it out. one time i tripped on the sidewalk over here. [ heavy-metal music playing ] -[ snoring ] -and a high of 89 degrees. [ electronic music playing ] ooh! ooh! who just gives away wood? the snapshot app from progressive rewards you for driving safe and driving less. there's an app? -[ chuckles ] beth. -save money with progressive. [ tires screech ] well, that came out of nowhere. >>> in hour world lead cnn is reporting that president biden will announce by september 11th all remaining troops in afghanistan will be withdrawn. the there are about 2,500 u.s. troops remaining in the region, give or take. former president trump initially set a may 1st dead loin which biden recently signalled

i want to talk about john boehner's book in just a moment. but i have to ask you after seeing or listening to those segments we just went through what do you make of the republican party today versus the party you dealt with when you were in office? >> well, i look back with some nostalgia to john heinz, the republicans we work with democrats, we work together at that time. we don't see that now. it's tribal and i think the republican party needs to find itself. >> and you and john boehner now cochair policy institute in las vegas, but it wasn't always so friendly between the two of you. we know this. it's been reported on and john boehner writes about it in his book about getting angry after you referred to the house as a dictatorship of the speakership. and this is john boehner here saying if you think i were a dictator you'd think i'd let these members get away with screwing me over all the time. hell no, and reid knew exactly what he was doing. i went over got in reid's face and said do you even list toon all the "s" that comes out of you

favorite of john boehner.ke it from me, you'll never know where you'll end up. that's freedom. i'll raise a glass to that any day. p.s., ted cruz, go [ bleep ] yourself. >> part of the book, ten years from now, or 20 years from now or whenever, when our current senate majority leader retires and writes a book, is he going to say the same things about joe manchin and kyrsten sinema? feels he's as hostage to them as boehner was hostage to the tea partiers, that's my new ring tone, by the way. that last clip of john boehner. >> the only clip you need! >> i remember that president obama used to tell a story, which is in trying to do immigration reform spent a lot of time talking to john boehner. he wanted immigration reform, pass the bill work on it. my caucus, don't like immigrants, against immigration reform if i push them on it they will oust me as speaker and elect someone as speaker more right wing than me. i want to work with you but i'm stuck. that was the dynamic, evn though a lot said goes for drinks, pla

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john boehner was first sworn into the u.s.se of representatives over 30 years ago, a lover of wine and cigarettes who made his fair share of political deals in smoke-filled rooms and seems disgusted that the g.o.p. is now the party of trump. the "new york times" says boehner was exceedingly candid when sharing what he really thinks of donald trump. he blames 45 for losing the senate and inciting the riot at the capitol on january 6th. i admit i wasn't prepared for what came after the election. boehner writes that trump incited the bloody insurrection for nothing more than selfish reasons, perpetuated by the b.s. he had been shoveling. he claimed voter fraud without any evidence, taking advantage of the trust placed in him by his supporters and ultimately betraying the trust. responding to the story 45 e-mailed the times asking was he drinking when he made the statement calling boehner another rino who couldn't do the job. john boehner served five years in the ohio house of representatives followed by 13 terms in the u.s. house

>> listen, i texted him after i heard him say that because i think it's so classic boehner.that point where i would say that because i care so deeply about our country, about my party, about my state. and there's a lot of work to be done. and any way that i can help contribute to bringing us back towards some type of civil debate in terms of the future of our country given the competitive nature of the global economy right now and the national security issues that are out there as well. we've got a lot of work to do. i look forward to continuing to try to do my part. >> on infrastructure, it does sound like the president is pushing to get at least ten republicans to join. do you think that there is a place where republicans could join with president biden on infrastructure, or do you expect and would you suggest that they take more of a page from the book of house republicans when president obama came into power when it had to do with health care reform. and they were very much just opposed in the house to anything. would you suggest that is something that senate republicans

we know boehner likes his grapes prefer particularably in merlot but claiming sour grapes now that boehnerffice in his tweet. look, boehner unleashed means he's om going to tell war stories at this point and the interesting to see if ted cruz keeps up the same energy into 2025 when he's back on the ballot and we know that he only beat beto o'rourke by a couple of points in texas. >> jennifer, you and i had this conversation about former and exiting republicans being loud, and always leads me to ask you what happens to them? do they somehow reclaim the republican party? or are there enough of them and growing numbers of them to say, let's do a different thing that's not as crazy and sort of, you know, weird as this current day republican party? >> that is the $64,000 question. about 30% of republicans according to a lot of polls are anti-trump, which is actually a large number. so these are in essence the never trumpers unlike me stayed in the party. the question is, what do they do? do they make up a significant number that they can actually affect policy, they can swing an issue or swing

. >>> the widening matt gaetz scandal is proving john boehner right.f the house, saw the danger in lifting up right wing maga media stars as the faces and the futures of the grand old party. guys like gaetz, who care more about being on tv than actually legislating. boehner rails against them on the book and excerpts have washington all aflutter. he made fox news made his life a living hell and elevated freshman congressman into rock stars and he said sean hannity was with one of the worst and this is what a lot of people have been trying to say for quite sometime. now the former gop speaker of the house is saying it. consider it the past by the pro-trump, kayleigh mcenany becoming a host and seth gorka and others on news max, the pro-trump continues to be more of a bubble and folks like cortez bashed boehner, all part of the broader attempt to create gop entertainers like congressman matt gaetz of florida who is currently under investigation by the doj for allegations of involving sex trafficking and prostitution. the leaks are stunning. leaks are sic

boehner, mr. mcconnell, help us -- >> i think the republican voters are going to have a lot to say about whether we get a lot of this done. >> while most democrats are praising the president, some have concern. >> i'll be sensitive to any tax increases that hurt the families in my district. >> it's not clear whether the white house can unite progressives and moderates around the plan. >> we need to go way higher. we can do $10 proceed. i told them i will not vote to proceed until we try. >> you believe you can get ten republicans on an infrastructure bill? >> i sure do. >> joining me is the secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg. mr. secretary, welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you. good to be back. >> i want to start with yourself and senator wicker i have later, define infrastructure as this administration sees it. we're already having a debate of bridge, roads, that's infrastructure, elder care is not. define infrastructure view in your view. >> infrastructure is the foundation th

boehner knows this mean was the speaker.rity, democratic senate and democratic president. we had to make agreements and these people turned on him and people like me and threw us under the bus at every opportunity to advance themselves. and one of the reasons i became outspoken as a member. i was one of those guys who had my head down for most of my time just trying to do my job. when i saw some of these more exotic members, the whack-a-doodles going out on television, defining all of us. i felt it was important for folks like me to stand up and say something. in fact, the leaders, boehner and others encouraged me to get up and speak, not just in the republican conference but publicly because they needed support because these other guys are going on another network and making a lot of noise and hell for everybody. >> that other network has aided and abeded the whack-a-doodle contingent. and john boehner says besides the home-grown talent at fox with their choice of guests, they were making people who used to be fringe charac

. >> john boehner has a new book out. wait a minute, who's john boehner?sentatives. are you sure about that? was it recently, or in my life time? it was within the last ten years. boy, i must have been washing my hair that week. gee, it's almost like he was never there. but look at that, there he is. he wears orange before orange men were cool. then bad. all those years in congress working on his tan. anyway, john boehner's new book, you can find it in all new bookstores in the back propping up the third leg on the sales table. it includes michelle bachman who represented minnesota's 6th congressional district since 2007 and made a name for herself as a lunatic came to meet with me in late 2010 after the election. she wanted a seat on the ways and means committee. there were many members in line ahead of her for a post like this. people who had waited patiently for their turn and who also, by the way, weren't wild eyed crazies. the wild eyed crazy herself is here. michelle bachman is a former presidential candidate now dean of the regent university school

boehner's book, boehner says quote, "trump incited that bloody insurrection for nothing more than selfishention trump by name but referred to the misinformation given to people who later stormed the capitol. >> a little bs of what they want to hear. >> reporter: misinformation of extremist groups say still poses a threat. >> it is been viewed so many times and continued to be shown. there are groups of individuals will use that information in order to delegitimatize the current president. >> reporter: a trump's spokesperson responded to boe boehner's criticism by calling him a quote , "swamp creature." >> the capitol police officer injured. what are you learning? >> reporter: cnn obtained surveillance video from that store where noah green purchased the knife, the owner tells cnn green entered the shop at 11:06 a.m. on friday and left at 11:28 a.m. about an hour and a half before the attack, he was looking at knives and he buys one for about $300. >> ryan todd reporting for us, thank you very much, more news right after this. dignity. this thing you can neither see nor measure... ...but t

john boehner summed up the reaction clearly.irst caucus is one of the nuttiest things i've ever seen. listen, america is a land of immigration. we've been the world's giant melting pot for 250 years.

john boehner is a free man., and i would have gone with what's beef on this one because he clearly has beef with a lot of the gop, particularly ted cruz and he's probably going to ask ted cruz to start his jeep. >> can i get in on that? >> yes, please. >> was it not biggie who said, what's beef. beef is when you need two freedom caucuses to go to sleep. >> so and speaking of which, no, i don't think he has a lot of credibility on this, ari, because you remember 2011 with a guy whose campaign i worked on. the obama white house thought they had a grand deal on the budget. and these same characters that john boehner is now accusing of hijack and of the party and for terrorism on the party, he caved into and didn't move the country forward on a grand deal when obama was putting a lot on the table talking about cuts to a lot of programs that, quite frankly, democrat constituencies did not want to cut. >> yeah. >> and john boehner backed away from that grand deal. >> yeah. and i just have 20 seconds. but he also says

boehner writes that trump incited that bloody insurrection for nothing more than selfish reasons.m by his supporters and ultimately betraying to that trust. 45 e-mailed the times asking was he drinking when he made that statement calling boehner just another rino that couldn't do the job. he never lost an election. donald trump lost the only re-election campaign he ever has been in. that is our broadcast for this wednesday night. thanks for being with us on behalf of all of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. >> we start tonight on the republican side of politics and politics in the news where things are a little bit of a three-ring circus right now and it is starting to seem like the circus tent could come down in the wind. starting in georgia tonight, the national bull's eye and the focus of so much anger and upset and controversy over republicans rolling out new restrictions on voting rights, today in a surprise georgia's republican lieutenant governor admitted that the impetus for these

like the cover of an old crooner's greatest hits collection, but boehner is offering up his greatestr spends a considerable amount of time blaming donald trump for the current state of the republican party, mostly ignoring his own role in things, aside from a very late apology of sorts for supporting the impeachment of bill clinton. the former republican leader says the president incited the insurrection at the capitol he used to preside over, saying his party has been taken over by, quote, whack jobs. he also recalls trump screaming at one of his aides for not remembering the name of their golf partners but not even trump gets the scorn that ted cruz receives from boehner. boehner uses an expletive to describe the texas senator and he adds even more colorful language in the audio book. and he's keeping up the anti-cruz offensive as in this just released clip. >> going to beat anybody up, that's not really my style, except that jerk. perfect symbol. you know, of getting elected, make a lot of noise, draw a lot of attention to yourself, raise a lot of money, which means you're going t

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i heard john boehner make many of these comments while he was speaker.out 40 minutes who routinely did everything they could to undermine him and weaken him and his effectiveness. john boehner often said if he didn't have 218 votes, he didn't have crap. he used a more flowery word than that. he was alwayin a weakened position because many of his members really didn't come to washington to govern. they came there in many respects to blow things up. there was a merry band of destroyers that sought who harm him and his leadership. he was pretty angry about it at the time. he was absolutely right, but this all preceded donald trump and in some respects laid the groundwork for donald trump, who was an accelerant, not the cause of these problems. >> it's quite entertaining, i guess, to see his thoughts on ted cruz too. wow. he did not hold back on that at all. speaking of new books -- go ahead. >> real quick, pam, boehner to me embodies one of the biggest questions in american politics for the next few years. there is no doubt that the trump wing is the dom ni

speaker boehner, i have to say, i've covered -- i've read a lot of memoirs in my life.y the funniest and probably the most candid. thank you for that. we have a lot to talk about in the book. i first want to start about the moment we are in, in this country. we've had yet another mass shooting. thursday night, a couple overnight, eight people in indianapolis. that's the one on thursday killed. 47 mass shootings in the united states in just over the last month. and i know you know this, polls show the vast majority of americans support at least some new gun restrictions. when you were speaker, there were 20 first graders killed in newtown, connecticut. looking back, do you regret not passing laws then and do you to see republicans come to the table now at least to pass something? >> well back when newtown happened, we couldn't find common ground with the other side and i heard the earlier segment. hopefully, there is some some common ground to be found. i know that senator pat toomey has been working on this across the aisle trying to come to some agreement. hopefully, t

for the for the most part boehner has done a thing when 80 at this point in terms of calling out the ridiculousness of his party which existed while he was there and he had absolutely nothing to say any actually leading on it and we iterated a lot of that what they were saying while he was in leadership but to bush's comments the the question that i have is that it seems he has more of a problem with the rhetoric and told him that he actually has with the lack of policy moving forward in immigration reform and even in his ideology about immigration reform it focuses almost solely on doctor recipients he has no real full or forceful plan of action or idea for undocumented immigrants who don't fall under the the doctor program do you think there's other do you think that like the reason that they're suddenly getting in gage is because what bush was probably the seventy's barriers probably will push an eighty's you think it's just they're fearful they're going to die soon and want to leave could leave somebody that i like that and the legacy right yeah yeah their record after the insurr

leaders are putting on quite a show when their post political lives former speaker of the house john boehner is making a full 180 and calling out the kooks in the crazies in his own party how their belief systems made it difficult to move any bipartisan legislation forward and the hurdles they pose today due to their white supremacy racism and a penchant for conspiracy theories then use you couldn't pay them to call these folks out while he actually was in a position of power to do it instead he allowed their beliefs their toxicity and their isolationist ideology to move forward needless to say boehner has also a large back to installing progress on landmark health care reform gay marriage rights gun reforms he would like us to forget while he pursues the number one slot on the new york times best seller list and in that same vein former president george w. bush wants us to reinvigorate his leadership as well in his retirement bush is doing a lot more than painting he's lobbying for bipartisan immigration reform this comes on the heels of calls for current u.s. president joe biden to do more

it's simplistic what boehner calls the chaos caucus took over the party. they are with government spending. i think if you look to why republican owners, you got to go to the immigration and republican elite came out of touch with the rank and file and trump drove a truck through that gap. >> i think that is very well put there rich. >>> coming up, covid changed the look of easter services for a second row in a week. there are signs some of the changes may be interesting. s so changes may be interesting [♪♪] life is busy, and sometimes odors can sneak up on you. for a convenient life hack. try febreze unstopables fabric refresher. with 2 times the scent power of regular febreze, unstopables fabric finds, neutralizes and eliminates tough odors trapped in hard-to-wash fabrics, like couches or smelly sports equipment; leaving an irresistibly fresh scent. and for a tropical burst of freshness, try new paradise scent. stop sneaky odors from lingering in your home, with febreze unstopables. you're not using too much are you, hon? charmin ultra soft is so soft yo

, who's john boehner? brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> and this quick programming note, former senate majority leader harry reid joins cnn's jim acosta later on today for a one-on-one interview. you can watch that right here on cnn at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. >>> hello again, everyone, thank you for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield. we begin with new warnings from the cdc as cases of the coronavirus are on the rise and michigan is seeing the worst of it. the governor calling on the white house to provide her state with more vaccines to help stop the spread there. michigan leads the nation in cases with a positivity rate now of 18%. and there are new keshs this morning -- this afternoon, rather, about the johnson & johnson vaccine. the cdc saying it's aware of adverse side effects now being reported in four states -- dizziness, rapid breathing and sweating the most common complaints and now some johnson & johnson are being put on hold. despite that, cdc is not recommending the health department stop admin

we heard how boehner feels about it. why are republicans still flocking to mar-a-lago to hear him speak? >> there are several reasons for that. if you look at the surface, three big standouts for this past weekend, certainly with regard to fund-raising, with regard to sort of a family reunion, but also a way to build the base. but, jim, the underlying current that we are seeing here is the new reality. it is not the reality show of the apprentice. it is the fear factor. fear by many that they will get on the wrong side of trump. fear that they will suffer in unz fun raising if they do so, and fear that the president will come out and speak out against them. and some fear they could lose their position within the party. that's a big factor. because the president, with all the faults, he does have strong support from the base. and republicans understand the goal to winning moving forward is to keep that base on board, but also to reel in the people that we lost in this last election. >> but he still sounds the biggest lose

when john boehner was in charge there. as house speaker. he has this new book or coming out. we're seeing more and more excerpts of it. the new one released this morning is a doozy. he's talking about the former president and john boehner says, i'm going to read the whole thing on your last day. it involves swearing. this is my gift to you. john boehner writes, trump incited that bloody insurrection for nothing more than selfish reasons, perpetuated by the bullshit he's been shoveling since he lost a fair election the previous november. >> that was your gift to me? >> because you don't like it when i swear. lauren, that's, a, that sounds like john boehner, but this is a guy who was the republican speaker of the house not that long ago. >> well, certainly. as more and more excerpts from this book have come out, it becomes very clear. and we kind of got some glimpses of it at the time i covered boehner when he was speaker of the house eight years ago. but one of the things that's becoming very clear is his disdain for misinformation that really grabbed hold of the republican pa

i wanted to know if it is boehner himself. >> and he put it in the fireplace.eer, right? that's what you need you got to go back to the old days where people had beers. except ipas. they have ipas now maybe some turning leaf. i don't know >> jim, a beer >> probably not allowed to say it. >> exactly >> let's have a spac with them let's have a couple of spacs >> all right cramer, have fun with ed bastian. delta ceo ed bastian will be live on "squawk on the street. stay tuned we'll be right back. ready to shine from the inside out? try nature's bounty hair, skin and nails gummies. the number one brand to support beautiful hair, glowing skin, and healthy nails. and try advanced, now with two times more biotin. lately, it's been hard to think about the future. but thinking about the future, is human nature. at edward jones, our 19,000 financial advisors create personalized investment strategies to help you get back to your future. edward jones. keeping your oysters business growing has you swamped. you need to hire. i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponso