they say whether the democrats doing for this country. the democrats saved america from two recessions. host: what's the third point? caller: i look around this country i see projects being built. republicans want to tell their constituents that we brought it to you. joe biden brought the restoration projects in all these changes. more than 200,000 jobs in this economy. he's produced more jobs than donald trump ever did. even more than barack obama did. [indiscernible] host: we got your point. was there anything you wanted to follow up with? guest: you will probably hear a lot of that in the budget hearings on the president's budget. every time we go to these hearings regarding the president budget, it gets into the very recent trend over the last couple of decades of democrats coming in under tough economic circumstances. you hear about that debate over job creation what the unemployment rate is at the beginning of a democratic administration. bobby scott in the house says there's supposed to be a house budget committee hearing on these

if democrats -- it will use democrat lawyers and democrat prosecutors and demose democratic hellholes to take out the leading presidential candidate instead of letting the americaopvote on november 5 we will not have a country. host: let me roll the callers in. if we want to ask our guest questions, republicans (202) 748-8000 democrats (202) 748-8001 independents (202) 748-8002. test your -- text your comments. (202) 748-8003. the former president waits a decision on immunity. what you expect from the court? caller: i expect the court if they follow -- guest: i expect the supreme court will establish that any president of the united states has immunity from criminal prosecution just like federal judges do, just like members of congress to. that is for their official acts. not for personal acts. for official acts. judges and members of congress have civil and criminal immunity for their official acts. the president just has civil immunity from a case from 40 years ago, the nixon case from 40 y ago where the supreme court established the president is immune from civil prosecution. the c

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>> democratic politics and democratic obsessions, the obsession being the climate.ing attention to politics the last 5 or 10 years realizes the democrats in the person of john kerry are absolutely obsessed with climate change. and electric vehicles, no tailpipe emissions, are the primary thing that they are going to use to reduce the climate to make the climate cleaner. paul: we don't even know whether or not this would matter a bit to global temperatures. >> that's the interesting thing about this. it is such an obsession the democrats, political parties supposed to be professional politicians are ignoring a lot of the implications, we have already seen consumer pushback against electric vehicles and eventually gas powered vehicles will be so expensive the average price of an electric vehicle, $50,000 and that is why they are not buying them. the price will fall over the next 10 years as more charging stations are built. the politics of this do not make a lot of sense but they are determined to force the public to do it. paul: what about the autoworkers, united aut

do the democrats spend more republicans?on earmarks started in 2011 and lasted about a decade. it was pushed by republicans after the tea party wave in the 2010 election. the push to bring earmarks there was definitely bipartisan interest but the first steps were by democrats who, when they won in the 2018 election come you started hearing discussions about it and after the 2020 election, there were steps taken to bring them back. they pbawonot have done that if there is not a significant amount of interest from republican legislators who wanted to include them. in couple of years, you saw a significant number of your marks proposed by democrats who led the push. en funding levels, they had tried to keep it pretty close but it depends who has the majority. there was a fight this lastsumme house majority, they set up about a 61-39%en where the money goes to the majority gets more money but it's not 90/10. republicans have abided by that level despite them submitting fewer requests than democrats. right now in the house, you s

all of those were democrats but all the filibusters led by democrats.many respects by the current president joe biden. i want to really drill down on the spirit let's start was donald trump right? he was right. "washington post" by imposing sanctions on israeli west bank settlers. he does not put sanctions on any palestinians were slaughtering jews, committing acts of terrorism, no or anywhere else in the world, on china with the uighurs? on rush out with attaching the ends and we can go all of the world. just the jews and judaism's. why? he wants him out of there but senate and conditions and latest defense snarl. the senate democrats are preparing to cut off israel as it fights for its very survival. cut off israel? does that sound like pro israel? pro-israel? here we have another and reuters u.s. senate democrats blocked republican bid to eight israel not ukraine. repubrepublican saint lester's e support for israel. the democrats in the senate following biden's lead say no. the bi administration is investigating israel, israel's possible war crimes d

for the liberal democrats.as they should, well, we are ready to work and to fix those things. you have also been telling us that so many people across our country are switching to the liberal democrats. people who voted conservative all their lives, so fed up conservative all their lives, so fed up with the conservative government, they are choosing liberal democrats to stand up for them. people who usually vote labour are feeling let down and taken for granted by labour locally and backing liberal democrats to be their local champions. that�*s why we have secured four record—breaking, historic by—election victories in this parliament. it�*s why we secured such fantastic local election results in the last two years. it�*s why i know, when it comes to the local election this may, people will vote for some fantastic local liberal democrat councillors, strong champions who will stand up for their communities, who will work hard all year round and never take people for granted. above all, it�*s time to get the cons

this was a democrat bill.s a chuck schumer bill and a bill joe biden can't wait to sign into law and it's a betrayal of the american people. right now americans are watching the border. women are being raped and killed. illegals are squatting in people's homes and then killing them when they come to take their houses back. that's what happened in new york. we're done. we're absolutely done. reporter: what do you need to hear from the speaker to not move forward? ms. greene: he told everyone all [8 he heard from all of us all week long. allow us to introduce amendments. allow us to do our job, allow us to represent the district who sent us here. we want a secure border. we're legalizing five million across the border every day. this is the leverage we have. also, forcing republicans to vote on full-term abortion funding in order to fund our military is a complete betrayal of all of our value and our voters don't want us to be doing that. reporter: when do you plan to call the resolution to the floor. ms. greene

do you know how many democrats are ready to support this, could it be over 200? mr. jeffries: substantial majority. reporter: can i ask you the idea of loaning ukraine money for their aid package? ipplemental but could this be a path that could actually work? mr. jeffries: i don't prefer the supplemental. the only viable path forward is for house republicans to take the national security bipartisan and comprehensive■o bill that ws ago and put it on the house floor for an up or down vote we can provide the security assistance necessary to our democratic allies in israel, ukraine, and in the indo-pacific, and at the same time meet the needs of palestinian civilians who are iá gaza through no fault of their own and surge humanitarian assistance into the region and other theaters of war across the world. we are past the 11th hour at this point in time and house stg the knee to the pro-putin faction that is growing ascendant in their party and do the right thing in terms of the national security needs of the american people. the senate bill is bipartisan, it's comprehensi

the democratic agenda is delivering.oday many americans are paying less for insulin than they did a few years ago thanks to the democrats in the senate and house and the president. seniors on medicare have a cap on prescription drug spending. no longer does a serious illness mean sen have to spend thousands of dollars on prescription drugs. that is huge. , thank you. and thank you. despite so many n who predicted a recession, inflation slowed without causing a recession 2.8% no one thought it would be this slow the inflation reduction act is projected to create another 1.5 million jobs good paying jobs over the next decade. but i wanted to point out another part of our agenda delivering beyond anyone's wildest expectations.kf the surgeon clean energy and clean energyy jobs. to quote the "new york times" quote manufacturing is booming. thanks to investments democrats made in the inflation reduction act and chips and science and yd over $230 million triple the investment levels l of 2019 just five years ago. what 230 billi

it could be a democrat and republican, it could be two republicans, democrats have picked a democrat,ial. >> we should not lose sight of the fact that in california where polls won't close until 11:00, there is some chance, a not impossible chance that a u.s. senate race you may in a -- end up with a democrat running against a democrat. because of that new primary process. the contest to replace dianne feinstein, that may be two democrat running against each other. >> and two democrats who are angry at each other. katie porter has been very critical of adam schiff supporting the republican in the race. it could be a vicious race. >> you look at katie porter and adam schiff and --, they are three titans in the house. all three of them cannot be the next united states senator. to see a contest between them is almost a shame. they are all in credible talent. >> and butler, too. >> while we have been talking, we have another call to the decision desk. in the great state of colorado, look, the winner, the projected winner is democrat president joe biden. on colorado, do you have things you

president biden won in all 15 states with democratic contests despite biden's victories, many democraticoters continue to show their opposition over his support for israel's assault on gaza. in minnesota, 19% of voters in the democratic primary choose -- cast their ballots for "uncommitted." about 12% of voters cast ballots for "no preference" in north carolina as did 9% in massachusetts. in north carolina, lieutenant governor mark robinson won the state's republican gubernatorial primary. msnbc described him as a "holocaust-denying, gay-bashing, extreme anti-abortion radical." the human rights campaign described robinson as one of the most radical anti-lgbtq+ maga politicians on the ballot in the country. last week, trump praised robinson, who is black, saying, "i think you are martin luther king times two." in november, robinson will face off against josh stein, who won the democratic primary in north carolina. meanwhile, in arizona, independent senator kyrsten sinema announce she will not run for reelection this year and will leave the senate after one term during which she left democ

the democrats in the house and the senate did joining us in dog that., as we know, republicans are still on the s remind folks that when they did their tax bill, the drug companies got a 40% cut in their taxes. we are giving people a cut in their insulin cost. in their cancer drugs. in the medicines that they need to stay alive and thrive. the bottom line is, democrats are putting people first and, as tomorrow night, we are just getting started. >> good afternoove democrats are delivering on our promise to the american people to lower health care costs. for seniors insured on medicare part d have a cap on their out-of-pocket costs. next year, not one single persof 65 will pay more than $2000 a year for their prescription. folks with medicare who were why -- who rely on insulin only polite -- only pay $35 a month for this life-saving drug. the federal government can finally negotiate with pharmaceutical companies on the price of popular medications. this will bring down medications for everyone in america. pharma might not like this, but the american peo

the democrats sa democrat said .al penalties for overseeing a beast that requires dhs to create an electronic employment eligibility confirmation system modeled after the e-verify system requires all employees to use that system so you come here illegally you don't get a job and you are deported. that was past 10 months ago by the house of representatives only the republicans on a single democrat voted forward and went to the senate and died. why don't they bring that up for a vote? what essential biden asked for that? no he wants the phony bill. immigration in our time. what is the consequences of all of this? the justice department pretty much after 20,182,019 that's during the regime of a biden has stopped providing us with key statistics but when they used to this was from the department of justice that was revised and i t you to read this from the years that it mentions non-us citizens to make up 7% of the u.s. population accounted for a 15% of all federal arrests, 15% of prosecutions in u.s. district courts, no

this is where the democrat party, i argue, has driven the nation by the power and control of the democrat the allegiant tort. above all else are the objective. this is evident and that media, social sites and retainment in academia. and if that is not enough sick gets worse for the democrat party has become the political and operational organism through which the american marxism functions. just as early in our history is the party of the confederacy in slandslavery, segregation and tu klux klan. more recent times it has adapted the tailored marks ideology to governance and politics. and in so doing the democrat party is adopted what's called a passive requirement or quiet revolution of roach as the italian communist long march through americans cultural institutions. intellectuals broadly defined these institutions slowly but surely existing morals and ultimately destroy the culture and restructure society. indeed is asserted socialism as pisprecisely the religion must overwhelm christianity. and the new order he says socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture of the infiltrat

we knew■[ democrats, senate democrats, senate republicans, and the white house weren't going to tolerategnifican you harmful cuts and crazy policy riders. it was only house republicans who insisted on moving forward. with those porities. and so we ended up in the same place that we thought we would. it's a lesson moving into f. 2 our republican colleagues can tune out the crazy and work with us on funding bills on time. and i think we've guinn the thas like. even in divided government. that we can meet the needs of the american people and that's what we should continue to strive■( reporter: there seems to be a split on the republican side about how much time they should have bfn■@efore e minis but, thy have that 72-hour rule. what do you think when you have a big bill, $trillion dollar -- trillion dollars, when the deadline is friday? mr. aguilar: we'll get the bill and take a look. i think you're asking philosophical questions. every member will make their own decisions, some mens, myself being one of them, have seen a lot of this text. we have not seen the exact dollar am but text over

advocates with the border deal and democrats still voted for it.here are republicans who say that maybe democrats are a bit more effective at being unified and voting behind certain measures and some conservatives more to get behind a more conservative agenda. but at the same■2e, it at the same time i think there are compromised measures where democrats are not happy about everything in the bill and the same would be said it's an example where you can see both sides with losses against the other side they are able to make it across the finish line. >> i think the caller was talking about two different things and the it, the 12 appropriation bills on time. a 2001 is the last time that there was a balanced budget and it last time congress completed all 12 of the appropriation bills on time. does that jive with your memory it? >> it isn't going to be one bemonth after the initial deadle probably.z this is the 2025 deae coming■ up. have they started that process yet while they are trying to finish the current year's budget? >> guest: there are republic

and the democrats that democracy.] but we cannot let them. and we won't let them. [cheering] [applause] ladies and gentlemen as we enter this election season we cannot lose sight of what is at stake. america itself is on the line. we have the most secure borders and our nation's history when president trump joe biden took executive action leading to the most wide open border our nation's history with over 8 million illegals invading . an amount greater than the population of 36 states. biden halted border wall construction he endedmained in mexico policy and implement a catch and release. joe biden's america every e district is not astrict every state is a border state. the southern border is being invaded and even on the northern border in my district illegal crossings are up over 14 100% including individuals on the terrorist watch list. crime is spreading from cities to small cartels across the southern part of the zero consequences illegal immigrants come to our city assaults our enforcement officers romp our neig

would pass with substantial democratic support.ter: do you think the senate should hold the tiktok bill hostage until the house takes care of the other bill? mr. jeffries: who am i to tell the senate what to do in terms of their own agenda. they pass bills and consider it over to us for consideration and we pass bills and send it over to them. the ball is now in the court of the senators and t leader chuck schumer. reporter: so yesterday was speaker johnson and -- [indiscernible] did speaker johnson indicate any shift in his position? mr. jeffries: speaker johnson continues to maintain he understands the importance of passing the national security bill and funding the ukrainian effort which has been brave and valiant. we cannot allow vladimir putin to succeed in ukraine as it will undermine america's national security interests and that of the west, nato, and democratic allies throughout the world. we'll see what happens. i think the clock is ticking, and we have to get the bipartisan national security bill over the finish line bef

so, liberal democrat, let's get to work., 5 million knocks to bring the blue while tumbling down and sent more brilliant liberal democrat to parliament! applause. mod liberal democrats from shetland to st ives and everywhere in between, we must show people they don't have to settle for the status quo, we can change the system, give people hope, deliver a fair deal, smashed up blue wall, kick out the conservatives and transform our country for good! thank you. applause. that is the liberal democrat leader sir ed davey addressing his party's spring conference in york. it was a wide—ranging speech covering the nhs, the economy and the conflict in ukraine and the middle east. at the start of his speech he spoke about how he won his seat in the 1997 election byjust 56 how he won his seat in the 1997 election by just 56 votes, how he won his seat in the 1997 election byjust 56 votes, calling that a once—in—a—lifetime generation election. he said that the upcoming general election will again be at once in a generation election. he

she became a democratic member of congress, she was not just a democrat, she was the most famous newcomer in congress that year, and the party trusted her. the democratic party appointed her vice chairman of its national committee. in the first term in the same year. she was on magazine covers. she personified the future of the democratic party in 2013. fast forward 11 years. in early 2024, still the same man, now headlining the sipg conservative committee conference political actions, she not only spoke, but also became, perhaps, the most popular speaker there. this year, 11 years later, here is part of her speech. our democracy is under attack. behind the attack on it are those who are destroying it in the name of saving our democracy. i don't say these words lightly, each of us who love our country and cherish peace and freedom should be very alarmed by those driven and insatiable by the lust for power who are actively undermining everything we stand for almost every single day if you pay attention to the headings news, they are under more and more attacks, now the democratic elite and

this was a democrat bill. host: marjorie taylor greene on her motion to vacate, she says it is a warning to speaker mike johnson or, consider it a pink slip is what she told reporters. we want to know your view of the house republican majority. reporting, why mike johnson can't run the house without democrats help. the speaker has needed a bipartisan coalition to pass key bills amid republican infighting . take a look at the graphics they put together here. here is the average share of votes provided by each party on must, must pass spending bills. there have beeouthem in this 118th congress. 37% of the votes to pass these have come from republicans. 63% have come from emme kratz. -- democrats. these are the no votes on the key spending bills. 95% of no votes have been republicans. 5% from democrats. let me break down the republican party in the house. here is the average of how publicans voted on must pass bills. in more conservative districts 47% voted yes. in the more conservative districts, here is the por

almost every democrat i talked to about this wanted to see the democrats take first and second place because the top two democrats face off in november and there would be no worries because a democrat would win. i knew some voters that had their minds made up easily for adam schiff, katie porter or barbara lee. my daughter loves katie porter so it was easy for her, of course most democrats always want to see republican candidates crushed at the ballot box in california, they did not want to see steve garvey in the top two but that is not what happened. adam schiff who had nancy pelosi's endorsement and by far the most campaign money came in first and steve garvey the republican came in second. so it will be adam schiff versus steve garvey in november which means in reality tonight, the campaign is over. no republican has been elected statewide in california in over 30 years who did not fully support the weight of established rights to reproductive freedom, the last republican governor arnold schwarzenegger fully supported wade. the three candidates introduced themselves to california

like it was independent democrat, democrat independent democrat democrat, and then when republican finally came on it sounded like a democrat. how come i am not getting replies? anyway, i appreciate your time and show, and allowing us all to have our voices heard. host: andy in arizona, on the front page of "the washington times," and on other front pages, a picture of nikki haley announcing yesterday that she was suspending her presidential campaign to a crowd of reporters and supporters. it was during the course of her final comments as a candidate talking about the future of the campaign and particularly comments to president donald trump read here is a portion from yesterday. >> i am filled with gratitude with everyone from across our great country, but the time has come to suspend my campaign. i said i wanted americans to have my voice is heard. i have done that. i have no regrets. although i will no longer be a candidat ist voice for the things i believe in. our national debt will eventually crush our economy smaller federal government is not only necessary for our freedom, it is nec

democrats line.ler: good morning. i wanted to talk to your previous guest, but if they got rid of medicare our county -- our hospital is the largest employer in our county. i'm sure many other hospitals would go under too. i just don't understand the reasoning. that is all. thank you. host: can call the lines there. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. republicans, (202) 748-8001. and independents, (202) 748-8002 . as always, you can post on our sites during the day, even after the program is over. facebook.com/c-span. if you want to text it is (202) 748-8003. thisn chicago, independent line. caller: hi, good morning. i thought schumer'sterly shameft reflects the disgraceful biden foreign policy, including his activities in afghanistan. i think all fair-minded christians and jews and your other listeners should all support israel. rael struggled to defend itself against a terrorist state, which is primarily most of the gazans■ the the defeatist biden foreign policy. we need to remember that hamas is the ene

but i was always a democrat. but with the dds program boycotted sanctions for israel, i, in good conscience, i cannot be a democrat. but i do lean democratic. my state, i am scared to death of what is going on. that is why i independent -- i am independent. we have phil murphy who i think is doing a fantastic job, but i think both parties have problems. for the sake of the future, i know this sounds corny, but for the sake of the future, we have to compromise. there has never been something good where people do not have to give up something. i feel like with this climate that it is just all the extremes. extremes to the right and left. i think that joe biden, i am voting for joe biden because i feel like he is the middle. i do not understand -- all these third parties are dangerous. i'm not trying to sound corny or anything, but i am from jersey, from atlantic city. i have seen what donald trump does. he is the man behind the curtain host: --behind the curtain. host: what did you think about what kyrsten sinema s

the democrats will never crossover. it is always 5-3, 44-. but democrats never crossover.rossing of the aisle. guest: i think it depends on who you talk to. i expert but i definitely know there were a lot of democrats who were very upset and advocatesite border deal and democrats still voted■c for it. at the same there are republicans whodemocrats are a e effective at being unifiedd cers and some conservatives feel like the pay doing more to get behind a more conservative agenda. but at the same time, it depends . measures particularly in government funding wherevernmeny happy about everything in the bill. ■j be said for republicans. governnt fng is always an example where you can see both sides have wins declaim and also losses against the other side. ■host: i think the caller w talking about two different things, a balanced budget and the last time congress completed all this 12 appropriations bills on time. time there was a balanced budt it was 1996 the last time congress completed all 12 appropriations bills on time. does that jive with your memory of it? guest: that s

we knew that house democrats, senate democrats, senate republicans, and■ the wren't goy significant,s and crazy policy riders. it was only house republicad. with those priorities. and so we ended up in the same place that we thought we would. it's a lesson moving into f.y. 2025. i hope our republican colleagues can tune out the crazy a on funn time. and i think we've guinn the template of what that looks like. even in divided government. that we can meet the neat we sho strive for. reporter: there seems to be a split■■p on the republican side about how much time they should have before the minis but, they have that 72-hour rule. what do you think when you have a big bill, $trillion dollar -- trillion deadline is friday? mr. aguilar: we'll get the bill and take a look. i think you're aevery member win decisions, some mens, myself being one of them, have seen a lot of this text. we have not seen the exact dollar am but we've seen a lot of this text over time, either in prior years or in committee work i do on the appropriations committee. so there aren't a lot of surprises within this.

he's a democratic candidate. perhaps he could win the nomination there on the republican side, there's a governor, the governor jim justice, expected to be the nominee, leases the front runner for the nomination there. chuck schumer brought up the idea to joe manchin that consider running again, consider designed not to entire, especially if this primary turns out the way that they fear and the democratic side and mentioned would point i asked him about it. he didn't quite rule it out >> that's going to happen. i think that's a long, long long-shot scenario. >> there's i've heard that then you've had conversations with chuck schumer, been we'll we're tracking have conversations about everything. and i understand the scenario which have to see what unfolds relabel this primary after the primary may i think the second tuesday at mayors? the primary. i'll tell you a lot more. it's just it's been brought up to me many times on that. yeah. but i have no i haven't given serious thought. let's put it that way. >> it sou

at what point do the democrats say a discharge petition is the way to go? how long do you keep saying put it on the floor when you hear him saying in public that we are considering all options, but the border has to be dealt with first? rep. jeffries: the most effective way to secure aid for our democratic allies including but not limited to ukraine, is to take the bipartisan bill that is pending before the house right now and put it on the floor. all legislative options remain on the table, but the clearest path towards making sure that we support the ukrainians who have bravely fought against russian aggression and not allow russia to succeed, which will only result in dragon the american people into a potential conflict with nato that will involve american american servicemen and servicewomen on the ground, the only way to ensure that that doesn't happen, is to make sure we provide immediate assistance to ukrainian people so they can continue their successful efforts to push back against russian aggression. at the same time, we will continue to explore t

democrats do not hate trump.inal behavior. with trump as president, how can anybody justify disciplining children on bad behavior. it was when trump became president. lastly, for the love of god, stop watching fox. they were sued for lying, and it was not done by the democratic party. host: let's talk to in st. petersburg, florida, republican. caller: good morning. i believe our country is in big trouble. i think a lot of us know that, and to me, it is more important now to have a moderate lead our country forward because we talked about courageous leadership. i am 65 and voted in every election since 1976. you cannot make decisions when we are do left and right, and the world is getting ahead of us, so in my whole lifetime, there has never been a more important time to have a third-party candidate than right now, and so -- host: do you have a candidate in mind? caller: know mansion -- manc hin did not go, and i know put himself back there, and there are a lot of people that i don't even know about, but i think w

fr a workers democrats to get something done if the democrats would get in control.a. he ain't got no respect for the law. like russia.■l like the low what he says going to go. it doesn't matter what the court, nothing say. he said he will be that meant it's got to be what he says goes. and the people■ worrying about the border and trafficking in things like that if they could work together they could solve it but the republicans are going to work with the democrats. but youecause if he gets in there the united states is going. it is going to be a mess ain't nobody going to have -- there will be no laws. and i know what he has said he likes putin and we know that's always going to go for graduate joseph con from tennessee one of the super tuesday states mentioning the former president likely to win there. he won in 2016 the primary contest there with-x 39%. florida came in third place. for the democratic side theplac. ticket in 2020, president biden winning tennesseend that primary contest 41.7% of the vote and bernie sanders coming in second the average joe in stanf

if there was another democrat in that seat and in west virginia or another couple of democrats in the senate, it might not might not be drastically changed. so the governing dynamics, the campaign and political dynamics have changed drastically. >> can we talk about the filibuster for another moment. if sinema's not in the senate. say lake is the senator. how good are the chances that the republicans overturn the filibuster now that mcconnell is gone? he had some fealty to it. if it's a democrat-run senate, the way the elections look across the map. if gallego wins does it stand to reason that democrats are going to overturn it? >> i think the basic fact is that almost no matter what, there's a decent chance the legislative filibuster will no longer be in place. if democrats win a couple of seats, have more than a 51-seat majority, have a couple of seats cushion, they could easily overturn the filibuster. i think that's a fair thing to surmise after last couple of years in which we saw big roadblocks put up. and there's a strain of thought in the senate republican conference that the

meanwhile democrats in texas are trying to unseat democratic congressman ted cruz. allred was first elect today the house in 2018 and has been viewed as a strong senate candidate and also posted robust. cruz has long been a top target for democrats especially with texas having the most restrictive states that holds the senate this year. allred has focused a large part of his early campaign messaging on reproductive rights. democrats hope the issue could lead them to victory in a state the party has argued is slowly turning blue. trump won texas in 2020 by nearly 6 points, but that was down from his 9-point win in 2016. in 2018 cruz won a close re-election beating democrat beto o'rourke by just 2.6 percentage points. joining us now national politics reporter for the hill julia manchester. julia, thanks for starting us off early this morning. i know you like many of us were up late last night watching these results. let's start with the presidential contest on the republican side. trump cruised to victory almost everywhere, though he did drop vermont, so he was deny a

look, ronald reagan, i'm a democrat, i never thought i would suggest to suggest that a democrat do a ronald reagan did, but in 1982 he told bacon stop. he said this looks like a holocaust and people are seeing it. he suspended cluster bouncy suspended f sixteens and begging stuff. joe biden has to do at least that much showed how, how does the president then navigate that this, this growing abandon byline campaign standing from his hesitancy to go for as far as well as one goes into a dozen and to a, to what extent to, to to vote is particularly younger and of arab americans feel that finding has betrayed them. i do want to respond real quick to this, james and rina. i talking about my home state, vermont, or i thought i was not surprised that nicky healey got such a huge portion of our boat. vermont isn't the bernie sandra state that you think it is? we have a republican governor. we've re elected numerous times is actually when most popular governors in the state there is maybe not, there's not a whole lot. there are opportunities for republicans to get votes out of even places lik

the democrats have a humongous problem. well, just treating a minority voters like a good girl on a saturday night and they look like it was always pull up at 2 am and they'll always be there for me. that's about the way you keep voters lawyer. we think about the things that they promised to the african american community in the 2020 election. we are a problem with a door from adjusting to policing, yet never got past number got to a vote. we've had problems with john lewis, right. the voted protects him for voting rights. never got to vote, never passed. we're probably try re, nickel, do be the intervene. that will wake up the criminal justice report. never even voted on and never had a hearing on it. and we were almost a passive inter 40 the est conditional reparation of a johnny ponders. been working on for the last 50 plus years. never even voted on it. so the reason you're here we're doing support is a lack of batch. and you can talk about all the great things you've got done during your 1st term is a long lot of great

full schedule on your program guide or watch online at any time on c-span.org/history. >> house democratic leader hakeem jeffries called the president smokin' joe biden speaking to reporters and saying the president was on fire, he was lit in last night's state of the union address and later he took questions on the port in gaza that was announced the u.s. would be building for assistance and the status of funding for ukraine. this is about 15 minutes. mr. jeffries: good morning, everyone. smokin' joe biden was on fire during the state of the union address. he was lit. he delivered a compelling vision for the american maga extremism. questions? reporter: one of the more notable parts of the speech is when biden discussed laken's death and said he murdered him as an illegal and people weren't happy with that term. mr. jeffries: president comprehn for fixing our prone immigration system and addressing the challenges at the border. he also acknowledged the naturer and of course emphasized the need more generall to keep our communities safe. reporter: for a follow-up, there members of the cauc

■democrats line. caller: i am a democrat. i am not a trump fan at all.ver be able tohe brn the united states and he tried to overturn the government. i never saw this country divided like it is now. i do not understand the people voting trump. thank you. guest: i cannot agree more. congress had the opportunity to ensure trump would not be able to run again. he broke a lot of laws, including very serious ones around causing an insurrection. when the second impeachment happened there was a real opportunity, there was a moment when mitch mcconnell cld have used his vote and the power he held as the leader of the republican senate to get us to the two-thirds majority required to impeach the president and that would've prevented him from running again. mitch that. it has not gone well for him since. the fact that trump has rebounded as a leader of his party and now mcconnell is on his way out tells you what you need to know. i am with the caller. however trump is going to be the nominee and will be on the ballot in right now he has a pretty good chance of win