my heart is toward the democrats and my head leans toward the republicans. the question i have for you is the whole thing about leaning democrat and republican, one that ms. issue because of my old standing, people would consider me leaning republican. i have done a 180. now it would seem eileen democrat -- i lean democrat. it is really contingent on one or two issues whether someone is democrat or republican. thank you. guest: that is an interesting point. for some voters it can be a single issue or a group of issues that causes them to lean or identify with a party or identify with a party or even to change parties. usually what we have signed -- what we have found is they do not tend to change their party identification that much. about 8% to 10% will change from year to year. it is not a lot of change on a year to year basis. host: because the caller was on the independent line, how do you account for independents? guest: identifying means you affiliate with that party. leaning is a softer measure. about one third identify as republicans, one third as dem

the democratic republicans wanted stronger state government. they were fearful that the federal government would get to too powerful. but watch some the characteristics here. lookt that. their bullet appeal to business busisses. man manufacturing. and they opped the french revolution. so geographically whermight these folks come fm? the north business, nufacturing. these guys in the north, they trying to model this close towards this englishystem because who's still buying their product? england. so that's that's why you see them. so we're in bleeding to view the secondary attempt to impose not created be a democracy. that's the fearless party. so when we talk about the democratic republicans, jefferson, madison, now here's the thing i want you to keep in mind. madison is considered the father, the constitution. took the notes, put all this together boom. now he comes back and, says, well. did we go too far? did we get federal government too much power? all right. so he's thomas is influencing. all right. madison like robin to jefferson is bad

i'm grateful to all those in congress, democrats, republicans, independents who voted for this bill. it should have been easier and it should have gotten there sooner, but in the end, we did what america always does. we rose to the moment and came together and we got it done. now we need to move fast, and we are. over two years, russia has been responsible for a brutal campaign against ukraine. they killed tens of thousands of ukrainians, bond hospitals, literally picked them out, bombed hospitals, kindergartens, grain silos. tried to plunge ukraine into a cold and dark winter by striking the power grid. ukraine fought back, defending their country with extraordinary courage. it's amazing what they do, amazing against such a large military. ukraine has regained over half the territory that russia took from it in this invasion. one important victory is against russia's navy, but make no mistake about it. they are a fighting force with the will and the skill to win. the will and the skill to win. for months, while republicans are blocking aid, ukraine has been running out of artillery

republican party is a lost cause. the democratic party is weak and they should stand up right now, but they won't. maybe it's because they're too old, i don't know, but right now, i don't know the difference between the republican party and the democratic party because i'm watching a genocide take place right before my eyes and we're doing nothing. >> okay. mary there in maryland. when it comes to the assessment of not only the republican conference, but the speaker's performance, it was the house democratic leader hakeem jeffries talking about the speaker of johnson in light of efforts to pass a bill on ukraine. here is some of that from yesterday. >> now, i made the observation, not a declaration, the observation that if the speaker were to do the right thing and allow the house to work its will with an up and down vote on the national security bill, that i believe that there are reasonable number of democrats who would not want to see the speaker fall as a result of doing the right thing. observation, not a declaration because we

democrats, many of them, support renewing the fisa bill, as republicans do, but there are some democrats and republicans who are opposed to renewing it. "washington times" -- lawmakers derailed vote during new fisa. democrats and republicans who do not trust federal law enforcement demand the law include a new warrant requirement for when the fbi searches for american data in the pfizer database. the law allows the government to only target foreigners abroad, but sometimes american data is inadvertently captured when they communicate with a foreign target. the bill, written by intelligence lawmakers, does not include the warrant requirement. here is congressman thomas matthew, kentucky republican, on the house floor, talking about wanting to include the amendment in this legislation. [video clip] >> today, we are building on the resolution that would bring forward reauthorization of a program abused for decades, the fisa surveillance program. before we vote on that program, this resolution that we are voting on now prescribes we will bring forward an amendment to require warrants. if you

republican. kevin mccarthy resigned. both democrats and republicans teamed up to expel george santos. at the current juncture, republicans can only afford to lose one vote on any piece of legislation. to get to the finish line along party lines. the key question in the coming weeks is will mike johnson be able to keep his job if a ukraine aid package comes to the floor. marjorie taylor greene is obviously holding the vote -- motion to vacate over his head. although it is difficult for democratic strategists to make republican dysfunction in the house a campaign issue in and of itself, what democrats tell me is they hope this chaos gives the extreme message that they hope to run against republicans in districts and trying to tie it to abortion man's and -- ban and former president trump's rhetoric. host: we are told from people as particularly women in suburban districts when it comes to those issues important to them that may factor into how they vote this coming november, abortion on the top of that list. 39% expecticizing the biden administration on immigration and that he would not

the republican party a lost cause and the democratic party is weak. ybe it is because they are too old, but right now i don't know the difference between republican and democratic parties because i'm watching a genocide take place before my eyes, and we are doing nothing. host: when it comes to the assessment of not only the republican conference with the speaker's performance, it was hakeem jeffries talking about the future of speaker johnson holding onto his job, in light of efforts to pass a bill on ukraine. here is some of that from yesterday. [video clip] >> i made the observation, not a declaration, the observation that if the speaker would do the right thing and allow the house to work its will within up or down vote on the national security bill, then i believe there are reasonable number of democrats who would not want to see the speaker fall and the result of doing the right thing. observation, not a declaration is we have to have a conversation, and i did not necessarily mean to arrive there. but the conversation -- mean to rhyme with their,

and those of us that are democrats, republicans independents are tired of the republicans not doing anything in d.c. but causing they can't even get it together in the house. we're watching -- work together that's what we sent democrats and republicans to d.c. to do. not be there and be partisan. and that's all eve to say on this. >> helen in compton, california. proceedings in the senate right about 2 p.m. eastern time. senate majority leader chuck schumer laying out an impeachment process that included about two hours of debate and eventually vote on republican motion and vote on dismissal it was eric schmidt republican senator of missouri who objected to process calling for full trial at that point senator chuck schumer made a point of order to say that the articles of impeachment be ruled under -- ruled unconstitutional that they didn't rise to the level of impeachment under article 2 section 4. of the united states constitution, that section of article 2 reading that the president, vice president and all civil officers at the united states shall be removed from office on impeachment for

republicans. the problem is not on the democratic side. and just a handful of republicans, 20 or 25 at most, were willing to join house democrats, we can do what's necessary to protect america's national security needs. reporter: thank you. it sounds like speaker johnson, in order to win over some of those conservative critics, is looking at a plan to shrink the re-authorization window from five years to two years. is that something the democrats cowl support? mr. jeffries: i need to have a conversation with jim hymes as well as the democrat -- jim hymes as well as the democrats on the committee who have been close toast this issue, as well as chairman meeks of the foreign afairks soon to be chairman meeks of the foreign affairs committee, once and future chairman meeks. as well as adam smith and others. for, you know, before, you know, i'm going to weigh in on the length of time connected to the re-authorization. back to this side. reporter: during your conversations with the japanese prime minister, did you bring up any type of reforms to

my heart is toward the democrats and my head leans toward the republicans. tion i have for you is the whole thing about leaning democrat and republican, one that ms. issue because of my old standing, people would consider me leaning republican. i have done a 180. now it would seem eileen democrat -- i lean democrat. it is really contingent on one or two issues whether someone is democrat or republican. thank you. guest: that is an interesting point. for some voters it can be a single issue or a group of issues that causes them to lean or identify with a party or identify with a party or even to change parties. usually what we have signed -- what we have found is they do not tend to change their party identification that much. about 8% to 10% will change from year to year. it is not a lot of change on a year to year basis. host: because the caller was on the independent line, how do you account for independents? guest: identifying means you affiliate with that party. leaning is a softer measure. about one third identify as republicans, one third as democrats a

when we put this bill on the floor, you will see a record vote by republicans and democrats and republicans stand for election integrity and ask this important question. democrats have to go on record do you believe that americans and americans alone should be the ones who vote in american elections? you are about to find out their answer and that will be an interesting one for everybody to see. mr. president, thank you for hosting us today. i turn it back to you. president trump: do you have any questions? we are getting along with the speaker and marjorie. we have a speaker he was voted in and complicated process and i think it's not an easy situation for any speaker. i think he is doing a very good job. he is about as good as you are going to do. and i'm sure marjorie understands that and i know she has a lot of respect for the speaker. reporter: do you support an ukrainian aid bill? president trump: we are thinking of making it in the form of a loan and not gifts. and we'll look at it. but much more importantly, europe has to step up and give money. they have to equalize it. i'm very up

republicans, democrats, independents, everyone is invited to call in. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002. express your thoughts on our social media sites on facebook and x. if you want to send texts, (202) 748-8003 is how you do that. we ask you to put your name and city and state on that. elvin in massachusetts, independent line. hi. caller: how is it going today, man? host: go ahead, sir, you're on. caller: ok. my problem with all of this is we are talking about the law. we are not talking about anyone's presidency. we are talking about the law. if the people are breaking the -- a law is a law. that's what they say. if the law is the law, our president needs to stand in court and face it. if not, if it's not, what's the sense of the law? that's all i've got to say. trump should be proud to stand there and defend himself. host: ok. that's elvin. elvin, thanks for calling. just a reminder to turn down your televisions, so the background is clean and we can have this conversation. one of the people talking about the events in the midd

republicans, democrats had proposed, and republicans have came back with potentially having a couple of votes to try to call for a full-blown trial. those those votes would have gone down along party lines. we'll see that eventually happens. and then ultimately, there'll be a move to dismiss the charges altogether. but there hasn't been an agreement on that, even though the eventual outcome is certain, alejandro mayorkas will be essentially acquitted here in the united states senate. and there'll be just these charges will be dismissed by this democratic lead majority. but since there's no agreement, dana april could be that they open up the floor and they can quickly moved to end the proceedings almost italy, we'll see if that happens is a little uncertain at this moment. now, the question two how will this play out on the campaign trail there are number of vulnerable democratic senators who will vote most likely to vote to dismiss the charges altogether and republicans say they're going to make them pay for this at the poles maybe a rare moment of accountability and that's i think

the number of people who no longer identify as republican or democrat is 50%. doesn't 50% of americans deserve other choices? polls also show it is 63% who want other choices. i would say it is undemocratic. this is the propaganda of the ruling parties and they want us to be the little boys or girls to do what they say which is to keep voting parties who are throwing aside of the bus. i find donald trump very worrisome but i also find joe biden very worrisome. to look at his policies that are driving us towards desperate war situations that are spending half of our budget, half of our tax dollars are being spent on endless wars like iraq, afghanistan, libya. these words are not making us safer or the world a more secure place they are doing the opposite and impoverishing us here at home leading to tens upon millions of people who don't have health care, housing, trapped in debt. we can fix these problems but we have to start spending our dollars for the american people not for the military complex and work contractors making out like a bandits and giving campai

" and some democrats and some republicans that bring the country back to the center. we need to come back together. that is been my biggest message so far. take our government back from the crazies. host: in congress? guest: we will mostly focus in congress. this is something i did in 2018 as a private citizen who invested in women who were running for congress. later the bloomberg team picked it up and amplified it. 16 of the 20 got elected. and in 2019 it was a freshman class of women elected. this time we want to elect people who are purple candidates who want to work across the aisle, people who come from an entrepreneurial tech background like myself. in the next week or two we are getting close to announcing which five people we will nominate as the first five and then all the way to 20. if all goes well we will have 16 of those 20 elected to congress or have helped done that. goes to my background as an investor and picker of people who are little-known, like myself. host: you live in baltimore, maryland? guest: i do. host: why not run there and why set your si

drop him like that, although what i'm hearing is that if there is an agreement between the democrats, the republicanshe democrats are ready to , let's say, support mike johnson, let's use a better word to protect, so i'm like is to say so moderately optimistic, but this does not mean that something will not change tomorrow, i have been following the congress for the last three or four months, and i have the feeling that something is happening there every day, i don't know if they take us there this example or from someone else, but politics in congress is getting more interesting and more unpredictable, you mentioned david cameron, he already wrote on twitter, i found this tweet, or rather on a social network, that he writes, he met with antony blinken, he wrote the united kingdom and the united states united in support of ukraine in the fight against putin's aggression, we stand up. for freedom and democracy when they are threatened, and blinkin and i work together to maintain critical international support for our friends in ukraine, their support is at the heart of what we both stand for, if i tra

negative impact on the democratic mood, you can say in the whole world, and this, in my opinion, is extremely markedly. it is interesting that there, for example, the republican now from missouri, eric burlison, said some time ago that johnson actually completely destroyed his reputation as a speaker due to the fact that he actually now played a game with the democrats, that is , in fact, the democrats added votes to support johnson, and that's what they think. republicans like verlison that this is a fact that cannot be forgiven at all, and he said that now i don't even recognize him as the man i once called a friend, so does this even mean that there is some new majority in congress today , relatively speaking, the split of the republicans led to the fact that a part of them is now ready to unite with the democrats for the sake of supporting ukraine, or can this have some development? i i think that... most likely the issue lies elsewhere, most likely the strategy of the democratic republican party, they realized the place of the ukrainian issue in the upcoming elections, and they understood that it is impossible to drag and imitate sloppy activity anymore,

republicans, 202-748-8001. s democrat, 202-748-8000 -- democrats, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. let us go to roger. republican line. raleigh, north carolina. caller: early in the program you talked about the problem with public schools with a dangerous and so forth said shooting and all of that. but if i think about that comment, i think in our constitution we are to provide for the common good of the people. so i understand if you have money you can put children in a private school how about the other people? guest: i do not believe that public schools are providing for the common good. education has gone down the toilet. do not produce children who can read and do arithmetic at the same level. test scores are an all-time low and there is too much testing. they are violent, dangerous, demoralizing and full of bullying. it is not a good system. it is a loaded bureaucracy where we have way more administrators and teachers. if we are providing for the common good let us get rid of failing public schools so that children can have a better chance of educat

although what i hear ... in the event that there is an agreement of such a thing between the democrats and the republicans, then the democrats seem to be ready mike johnson, let's say, support, let's use a better verb, protect, that's why i'm so moderately optimistic, but that doesn't mean that something won't change tomorrow, i've been following the congress for the last three or four months . and i have the feeling that something is happening there every day, i don't know if they are taking this example from us there or from someone else, but politics in the congress is becoming more and more interesting and more and more unpredictable. so you mentioned david cameron, what he already wrote on twitter. i found this tweet rather, in the social network that he writes, he met with antony blinkin wrote: united kingdom and usa. in supporting ukraine in the fight against putin's aggression, we stand up for freedom and democracy when they are threatened, and blinkin and i work together to maintain an important inter'. popular support for our friends in ukraine, their support is the basis of what we both stand f

he was more popular among democrats than he was among republicans. tional democrats and maryland democrats are going to want to nationalize this races much as possible, whereas so far larry hogan is campaigning as a third term for governor even though he will serve in the senate, so democrats are going to want to point toward abortion as an issue. maryland has a law protecting the right to abortion. there will be a constitutional ballot amendment question this year, but democrats will make the argument if larry hogan is elected to the senate potentially a national ban is in play. likewise they will say hogan joining the senate help support republican positions that may be hogan does not hold himself, so that could be renewing the trump administration tax cuts that will be up again. that could be the future of the affordable care act. if you could be a lot of different issues that democrats are going to use the positions of national republicans to try and drag down support for hogan. >> thank you so much for your time and expertise. host: a look at hig

democratic strategist, juanita tolbert, and republican strategist, susan dell presque isle. th are msnbc contributors. wanita, biden and the democratic party raised $90 million in march. you heard the biden campaign communications direct from michael tyler, talking about it earlier this show. that total includes $26 million from the be three big president's' fundraisers in new york city. but also, small dollar donations, 96% of the nearly 2 million contributions were less than $200. what do these figures tell you about the health of the re- election campaign? >> they tell me that team biden has to be riding high around these numbers, rev. these are great numbers to put up in a quarter. i also think it tells me two specific things about the people contributing. one, you have voters who are absolutely believe biden, think he is doing a good job, then you have voters who are highly motivated to keep trump from ever reaching the oval office again and that can expand beyond democratic voters to some independents and republicans. so, those voters were enamored by biden's state of t

the donkey and the elephant are traditional symbols of the democratic-republican party telling the boy, you have a monster under your bed.” on the paws with claws it says tiktok. bob gorel continues to pump up. a cannonball painted with a chinese flag, the design is called a time bomb . tik tok, tik tok, tik tok. in one of the state department offices, one of the officials says to another: “listen, what is the fastest way to tell everyone that we want to ban tiktok?” i’ll record a tiktok video now, another replies. what do they represent? what is the relationship between the us and china and what does this mean for russia? let’s talk to a wonderful specialist. sergei goncharov, outstanding. kitaev, who worked in china for many years, is now a leading researcher at the institute of historical studies of the russian academy of sciences. sergei nikolaevich, hello, good afternoon, the relationship between the usa and china is so mysterious. all the enormous achievements that he achieved along this path, as a result of the incorporation of the bourgeoisie into the power system , corruption

this package has already passed the senate with votes from both democrats and republicans, and we can send it to the president for his signature on monday night, said the appeal to johnson, which was signed by more than 90 congressmen. johnson said this week the house of representatives will again try to approve the necessary aid to israel and ukraine. we'll talk with kateryna lisonova, who joins capitol, to learn more about when congress will consider aid for ukraine. congratulations, katya. congratulations, maria. katy, please tell me if we can expect congress to speed up the consideration of aid to ukraine and israel after this attack by iran on sunday. and when can we expect some developments in aid to ukraine? yes, in fact, maria, it looks like this. that the events in israel really move forward and help ukraine, because, in particular, the democrats refuse to vote for an aid package for israel without aid to ukraine, in particular in the senate, as you know, if such an aid package for israel is voted on in the house of representatives and not voted on in the senate, it will not

i would note the delta between the democratic yays and republican yays, 209 democrats voting for thismbassadors of the problem for mike johnson where there are a lot of conservatives who never wanted to help ukraine to put this bill on the floor. he might say this is the house of representatives working gets will because there's a bipartisan coalition of democrats and republicans in favor of this. we will gamble this down in a minute and ukraine aid is on its way to the senate. you might notice all these democrats in the house chamber waiving ukrainian flags which you are not supposed to do under the rules of the house. to demonstrate like this, the other number of people supporting ukraine, without their voting card in the house of representatives. what happens after this? you have a vote on the aid bill for israel, i talked about how more democrats were supporting this, democratic support for israel because they are upset with the israeli government, how palestinians are being treated and what's going on in gaza so i talked to a senior house democratic source an hour ago when they i

republican party in the nation. i, i don't know about that on the democrats side. i do not know they're better about getting people in line. republicans are not quite as good at that. well, i'm gonna keep you on here because there is a picture that circulating along it's about. it was actually a donald trump, and bologna is wedding. you have and you had bill and hillary, great conversation. they were good friends, even part of that point. do you think that actually helps or hurts donald trump to be that tied close to the claims? is that something that continuously they bring up that he was the democrats as well? i mean, and that's just, it was one of those things where i, when donald trump was running in 2016 and every democrat was a disclaiming any donation that they'd give it to him. i would have taken that much, much more seriously. had they given those donations back, right. they, they kept the money which, you know, that's, that's what, that's what politicians do now. i mean, i don't think any of the salt water they, they tried this way, way back when in in 201

a few minutes ago, democrats and republicans struck a deal that allows it senate to complete work on the aid with the first vote on tuesday afternoon. the house of representatives has taken action, now it's the senate's turn and we can already see the finish line. i want to say to our friends in ukraine, our allies in nato, our... in israel and civilians around the world who need help. rest assured, america will do everything, as always. the house finally approved this important investment in strengthening our alliances and partnerships, the confidence in our commitments, and the ability of our own armed forces to defend america and restrain aggression. the house decision brings this critical assistance one step closer to helping america and our friends counter the most dangerous threat to the recent generations. we have an urgent task before us. it was not the turn of the senate to make history again. and already in the senate there are also far-right republicans who oppose this aid and already one of them, senator meeks mike lee, has proposed to review this bill, take it out of con

democrats, many of them, support renewing the fisa bill, as republicans do, but there are some democratsnd republicans who are opposed to renewing it. "washington times" -- lawmakers derailed vote during new fisa. democrats and republicans who do not trust federal law enforcement demand the law include a new warrant requirement for when the fbi searches for american data in the pfizer database. the law allows the government to only target foreigners abroad, but sometimes american data is inadvertently captured when they communicate with a foreign target. the bill, written by intelligence lawmakers, does not include the warrant requirement. here is congressman thomas matthew, kentucky republican, on the house floor, talking about wanting to include the amendment in this legislation. [video clip] >> today, we are building on the resolution that would bring forward reauthorization of a program abused for decades, the fisa surveillance program. before we vote on that program, this resolution that we are voting on now prescribes we will bring forward an amendment to require warrants. if you w

right now, republicans have 26 state majorities, democrats have 22. are two states that are tied. minnesota and north carolina. but it is going to be the next house, not this house that would be doing that vote in early january. republicans would have a little bit of an advantage, all that don't know exact what will happen in the house. north carolina is not likely to be a tie since the map has been redrawn in of the kids are likely to pick up two or three seats. this thing, i'm absolutely not saying that president biden can't win reelection, but it is a both uphill and a fairly narrow path. he doesn't have much room for error here. host: and polling isn't just looking at who is ahead, per se at that particular moment. it also looks at other factors. some polling is showing the president biden is making ground younger voters. others are showing he has recently lost ground with african-american voters, hispanic voters. how important are those building blocks? guest: free democrats, he's going to win the african-american vote by a wide margin, but it is

say so, that is, it is another option , which may find support from democrats, because obviously with a shaky majority... republicans't get anything serious unless they get their side of the democrats involved, and that 's the dilemma, by the way, because the previous speaker, kevin mccarthy was removed from his position precisely because he went to agreements with the democrats, they then continued funding the government, and actually this aggressive minority at that time was matt gates, one of marguerite tele's friends and colleagues. who launched this process, and unfortunately, at that time , the democrats decided to support such an idea, and in fact, with their votes, they ensured the removal from office of the previous speaker, this speaker is afraid that as removal from office, it is clear that this can be bad for his career er, and go against trump himself, because if you don't have trump's blessing in this election, not only the presidential election in november, but also the full house of representatives, he just might not get into the ... that body, of course, that's a pressure on him personally. please t