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now neither the biden administration nor the old gop guard can say the same. and on social policy, trump led us to a huge victory to overturn roe versus wade, we know what the gop establishment failed to do, yeah, overturn roe versus wade, only 40 years. by the way, trump did all of this while facing impeachment and the fraudulent mueller investigation. so, simply attacking trump as a person or his style, that ain't going to work. if you want to win the gop nomination, you are going to have to convince the voters that you are going to do the right thing on china, on the borders, obviously the economy, on the military, and judges. i don't think that many people really believe that mike pence, tim scott, nikki haley, would really be able to stand up to the gop establishment on any of those issues. so, if you vote for them, you're effectively voting for mitch mcconnell, no one in the gop agrees with mish mcconnell. so, that leaves ron desantis who shows a willingness to think for himself and to take positions and push policy that don't match up with the gop estab

just days before his official entry into the gop primary. senator tim scott made his run official, joining a field that includes nikki haley and asa hutchinson. but early polls show donald trump still with a commanding lead among gop voter, even as some party elites insist that trump can't win the election. >> so if past is prologue, that means president trump is going to have a hard time in those swing states, which means that he cannot win a general election. >> now if trump does become the gop's nominee, despite all the indictments, potential indictments, and civil verdicts that he faces, then the nation is headed towards a 2020 rematch. joining me now is lincoln project founder rick wilson, and also -- excuse me, contributor for "vanity fair" as well as host of the podcast fast politics. rick, molly, i had to have you here to break this down. tim scott's message is the following. i choose freedom and hope and opportunity. how does that kind of sunshine and roses platform resonate with deep maga supporters who live for trump's hate-based

every gop member signs a pledge they will not raise taxes. right there they are throwing out the constitution and their duty to do that. pretty much there was a $6.7 trillion deficit under president trump. now the gop is refusing to help pay off that deficit he created. i think president biden needs to stick to his guns. tell them i want a clean debt ceiling. we can work on other things. they want to do -- the republicans want to undo everything he has done. as another caller said, it's all about making the president footbed if you're in the gop. i hope that makes sense. i have not had my coffee this morning. thanks again for taking my call. host: let's go to baltimore now. curtis is on the line from baltimore, independent line. you are on. caller: good morning everyone. correct me if i'm wrong. the united states of america is really a corporation. it is all about business. a lot of people don't realize that. we are all slaves in this country. just look at our government. they make rules and regulations that don't even consider what the peopl

house gop oversight, they're going to to have a presser this wednesday morning at 9 a.m. showing more evidence alleging this is wider and deeper than realized. we're also dilling into the biden -- digging into what the biden family was doing with those shell companies. also white house preparing for justice department charge against hunter biden as the president tells msnbc hunter did nothing wrong. david spunt has the story. >> reporter: several different tracks involving hunter biden on the hill and also the federal investigation here at doj. this is what president biden, as you referenced, talked about in that interview that aired on msnbc late friday. let's take a look. >> first of all, my son's done nothing wrong. i trust him, i have faith in the him, and it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him. >> reporter: fox news told the probing into hunter's finances and taxes, overseas business dealings specifically, began in at least 2018, potentially earlier. "the washington post" reporting federal prosecutors getting very close to the making a decision about

so what is a gop game plan here?re about debts, or deficits, or fiscal prudence. what is that they care about? >> they care about power. they care about asserting power, about showing that they have power, about diminishing the democrats, about demonstrating to the extent that they possibly can that joe biden is weak. that is their whole game plan. i mean, they never talked about deficits, they never talked about the debts. as you pointed out, if you look at the reagan and bush and trump tax cuts for the wealthy, primarily for the wealthy and big corporations. i mean, that's where a lot of today's debt and deficit come from, and you add in military spending, and that's it. i mean, this is a charade, and everybody should know it's a charade. i think the biden administration's communications strategy also should be called out as a pretty awful. again, the best thing that can be said as this was not a worse deal, but it's going to be tough going over the next week to get the 218 votes that biden needs and also kevin mcc

have the gop no shame? plus, the texas father who lost a son in the uvalde massacre kicked out of the state capital this week for demanding some action on gun reform. he will join me to share his story and his message. and elon musk, lisa styled free speech absolutist caves to an authoritarian government demand that he censor his tweets. actions speak louder than words, elon. good evening. i'm mehdi hasan. on wednesday, the house was debating an unemployment benefit fraud bill, legislation to help incentivize states to recover funds stolen during the coronavirus pandemic. the stunning case of cosmic irony, that bill being debated on the same daisy that one of its co-sponsors found him self indicted for that very same crime. yes, that's right. justice finally caught up with now infamous serial liar and fabricator george santos. on wednesday, federal prosecutors in new york announced a 13 count indictment against the republican congressman from new york. is alleged crimes range from money laundering, wire fra

we know what the gop establishment failed to do. yeah, overturn roe versus wade for only forty years and by the way, trump did all of this while facing impeachment, and the fraudulent mueller investigation. so simply attacking trump asaint a person or his style, it's, yo going to work. the gopant to win nomination, you're going to have to convince the voters that you're going to do the right thinheg on china, and on the borders. obviously, the economy, on the military and judges. i don't think that many people n really believe that. mike pence, tim scott, nikkidt o haley would really be able to stand up to the gop i establishment on any of those issues. voting for mitch mcconnell, no you're effective early voting for mitch mcconnell. and almost no one in the gop anymore agrees g with mitch mcconnell. so that leaves ron desantis,s s who certainly has shown a willingness to think for thmself and to take positions as to push policies that don't match up with the gopn establishmenon thet. purch he's taken on the ccpass by barring their

the gop flipped its position on voting rights. and has fractured the bipartisan long-standing coalition that existed in this country in support of fundamental voting rights and non discriminatory voting rights. the robert supreme court is that great fault. they, in 2013, issued a decision called shelley versus holmes. i think it's one of the decisions that will go down like dred scott, a decision that the court and the institution of the just dish erie will regret. they were an of all of the voter suppression by knocking down a key provision which provided a set of standards at a pre-approval process with many southern states have to go through. so we have to understand, we are in a new normal when it comes to voting rights. we have become polarized with many gop saying no. them saying yes. it wasn't that way somehow -- in the state of louisiana. there were many members on the gop side, i can speak more about the senate than i can about the house, who i think should change their position and recognize that the fundamental civil ri

what is it in the current gop? you've been out of congress for a few years now that you find yourself aligning with most, and what do you find yourself disagreeing with most? well, i well, the principles again, the principle of free markets is really important. those are the things that my dad was able to come to the united, a $10 in his pocket. he found work. and the harder he worked, the more he progressed in his work, the more money he was to make it was those. it was the mom and pop shops, the small businessmen that were able to hire my dad. he had three jobs to make ends meet. one was him being a janitor, cleaning toilets in order to pay for books for me, for college, we need to be able to continue to have the opportunities to, give people as many opportunities so they can be as ordinary peers, extraordinary as they as they choose to be. but we cannot burden them with high taxes. i am still pro lower taxes. we have to be able to allow families to take care of each other. we have to be able to depend on each ot

and ron desantis is in new hampshire meeting with gop

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nobody deserves flowers on the gop. nobody gets flowers.w would you advise somebody like chris christie who does have name recognition on par with mike pence, better than asa hutchinson. how would you advise chris christie to reconcile the flip-flopping we've seen from him? >> recognize your flaws immediately and loudly, right? just as loud as he's taking shots at trump, call out himself. he loves to talk about how, okay, yeah, in 2013 when he ran for re-election in new jersey, he won 60% of the vote, but trump lost in 2020. i'm like, sir, in 2016 after you dropped out of the race, you refused to endorse ted cruz, marco rubio, any other republican still in the race before super tuesday, and you threw your weight behind trump. then you worked on trump's transition process, right? like, the reality is he needs to call himself out quickly in order to admit his own flaws, admit his own shortcomings about trump, and then he can go on offense about trump. you without doing that, he just looks ridiculous and looks like a flip-flopper. >> talk abou

but i think the big question here is can desantis still win the gop primary? i think so.hat still remain true for desantis is he has brought appeal within the gop base. a lot of the issues that matter the most to gop voters he had stood still on, anti—wokeness, anti—covid restrictions. it's very early, we are six months away from the iowa caucus. a lot still remains to be seen. francis, your take? first of all, it's great that the governor tried something different. not the traditional announcement speech... perhaps it didn't work perfectly but he did use technology to show he is a young guy and and a leading big guy, but at the end of the day, he is a formidable alternative to trump. you get conservative policies without the baggage of trump's behaviour. and debbie, i can see you shaking your head, what did you make of what your colleague had to say, and also the announcement? well, i have to say, i guess. if there was going to be a less surprising announcement, you would be hard - pressed to find one. ron desantis is the mosti distant and unpersonable candidate and elec

base _ that matter the most to the gop base but — that matter the most to the gop base.ave to say. how is he going to _ question we have to say. how is he going to prove that to the voters? _ he going to prove that to the voters? six months out from the primaries? — voters? six months out from the primaries?— primaries? debbie, your take? desantis's _ primaries? debbie, your take? desantis's stop _ primaries? debbie, your take? desantis's stop woke - primaries? debbie, your take? desantis's stop woke act i primaries? debbie, your take? desantis's stop woke act and l desantis's stop woke act and the bill he just sighed, desantis's stop woke act and the bill hejust sighed, what it's resulted in is amanda gorman, the poet who spoke at barack obama's inauguration, that has been banned in a school in south florida as a result of the parent's complaint and the law now allows that under the policy of desantis. they have banned african—american history, the holocaust, the diary of anne frank... it is draconian and extreme, and what ron desantis is trying to do is whitewash histo

president biden is breaking his silence on the growing gop field. listen. >> president biden: i haven't been able to keep up with it it is moving so quickly. i'm not being fish -- a lot of candidates. >> they're confident in a trump rematch but also prepping for a wild card candidate to emerge writing biden's campaign are looking to -- driven by the fear their job may be tougher if trump's name is not at the top of the republican ticket. senior national correspondent rich edson in des moines this morning and joins us live from there. hi, rich. >> good morning, gillian. there will be a slough of republicans coming to iowa this week. governor ron desantis kicking things off tonight with his campaign kickoff. first event as a declared candidate in the des moines area. then he moves to new hampshire and south carolina and comes back to iowa. all early republican primary caucus states. desantis aide says he will stress the country needs what he calls energy in the executive as he contrasts with former president donald trump and poll leader. >> if i'm the

i never, ever hear gop saying you know what, don't pay us, we'll take a paycut.a matter of fact, i don't hear fellow democrats do that either. americans i think are sick of this, what we are seeing in reflection of polls, 500 days from general election, i am not real worried, they buy into the doom and gloom of the headlines. the problem is this is dÉjÀ vu. we come to the edge of the cliff, they do a stop gap measure, there's a debt ceiling increase. kevin mccarthy knows he is going to do it. he has done it before. he thinks americans and voters have short term memories. there's audio, video, and signatures out there that prove otherwise. that's what's going to happen this time around. the president doesn't need to be in the room to have a conversation with them, especially in the age of technology where so many of us meet online. >> i guess we have to wait and see. here's another story making headlines. target basically losing more than $9 billion in market value in one week. it is all about the backlash over pushing pride month merchandise for children. this is

but gop activists in the state insist there is still room for someone other than mr. trump >> allie, thank you. >>> abortion continues to be a major issue in the 2024 presidential race. gop candidate nikki haley is breaking way from some of her fellow republican stance on the issue. tim scott, who is exploring running for president next year has recently endorsed a federal 20-week abortion ban haley was asked about this on cbs' face the nation, and she declined to endorse a federal ban, saying it was unrealistic when a senate filibuster would likely stand in the way of passing it >> why not talk about the fact that we should be trying to save as many babies as possible and support as many mothers as possible i think the media has tried to divide them by saying we have to decide certain weeks in states? yes. at the federal level, it's not realistic. it's not being honest with the american people. >> republican candidates have struggled to find consensus on abortion >> the people of turkey on sunday went to the polls to cast their vote for president but with the winner

the state's gop chairman hit back.again 100% of new hampshire democrats voted against parents knowing what is happening with their own children in our public schools. according to a conservative parents group at least 168 school districts nationwide governing 6,000 schools have guidance on the books to block parents from knowing about their child's gender identity. that covers more than 3 million children. i want to bring in kat timpf. you feel so strongly about this topic and every time we get together there is a new darker chapter. >> yeah. i don't understand how it is a controversial opinion to say that they are your kids, the parents' kids. kids do not belong to the states. you should know what is going on in your child's life. to make it -- you should be able to share is that with the kids' parents. parent/teacher conferences, aren't you supposed to say my child is going through this at this school. i want to know about it. what do those look like anymore? it is wild. >> harris: many of them are on zoom. so i can

the key is a political cocktail of democrats and gop members to pass the bill. no one is happy about it but could pass with a wide swath of members from both parties. house speaker kevin mccarthy says it was a compromise and the best the house could get. >> we only have the house, the president said he would not even negotiate with us. but we were able to get in there. this is the biggest cut in american history that we vote for and i'm not sure where in here -- no new taxes, no new government programs. >> but that did little to satisfy conservatives. they were on fire railing against the bill, ralph norman serves on the rules committee. the bill must get out of the rules committee before it goes to the floor. that showdown comes at 3:00 p.m. eastern today. >> i'm on rules committee. it's a great committee. we know everything coming through. but folks, if we can stop it there, i will stop it and now all of a sudden at the last minute it's an insult to get 100 page bill and be asked to decide on it on the spot. >> note mccarthy told his members for days he would

it's the key first test that has growing opposition from the gop.nst the deal and he just got out of a meeting with speaker mccarthy. congressman, thanks for coming on. we appreciate you rushing to the camera. what did you and the speaker talk about, if we can ask? >> well, we were talking through a lot of the elements of the deal. things that were concerned of myself, some of my colleagues here on the hill. and also just trying to figure out really what comes next. at the end of the day, this is a bill that i'm not going to be able to support. i know there's members on capitol hill that won't support this deal. we'll see where it goes from here. let me just go ahead and jump to the next question before you get there. i do understand that many americans, frankly, are concerned about our nation's dealt and also concerned about what happens if we do not raise the debt ceiling here. my position is very clear. if we're going to raise the debt ceiling, we have to have sizable cuts in order to do so. because whether we're $32 trillion or $35 trillion or 3

but hard line conservatives like gop virginia congressman bob good have accused mccarthy of too many concessions, writing, quote, no one claiming to be a conservator would justify a yes vote. president biden is looking to get moderate democrats on board, which will be crucial if there isn't enough gop support. the speaker and i made clear from the start that the only way forward was a bipartisan agreement, and i strongly urge both both chambers to pass that agreement. the first test of this new legislation will be on wednesday when the house votes. if it passes there, it could head to the senate the same day one top gop negotiator called the bill the most conservative spending package since he's been in congress. but president biden insists he did not make too many concessions. and now to davenport, iowa, where crews are working through the night at the site of a partial apartment building collapse. at least six stories on one side of the building came down yesterday afternoon. you can see it here in this video. as of now, there are no reported deaths, but there are still some people

big dichotomy between what the gop tells voters and what they do in congress. is the reason why this debt limit, it will pass with democratic support, i imagine there is fighting within the conference or this agreement. >> todd: you have nuanced answer, kevin mccarthy says not enough, you say too much, you have nuance answer with kevin mccarthy, if you were in congress, would you vote for this deal? >> the answer is no, there is a better deal to be had there, is a reason why they didn't put a dollar limit on the deal. we are raising to 35 trillion, that would be a bad headline, now they just have to support the date, january 2025. congress is handing themselves unlimited credit card and no one can see the statement until 2025. if we raise the debt limit, which in theory i'm not opposed to, give a hard number and say, okay, we're 31 trillion in debt, we will be this much in debts, congress will not pigeonhole themselves to a number, that would hold themselves accountable. >> ashley: jake, you served, you are a veteran, what is your message to the younger people

they still have support from the gop become a law enforcement, right-wing media. those other elements pull their soldiers out of the street and rebuff them, which they have not done since before january 6 or after, we will see this kind of thing continue. we will see men in makeshift body armor and weaponry outside of all sorts of american civic events. going forward, we are looking for an entire culture shift, not just prosecutions. amy: talk about who testified in the trial, from police officers who were attacked defending the capital, to fbi agents, to some of the proud boys themselves. andy: there were a number of police officers who were testifying in the trial, and a police officer who was expected to testify on behalf of the proud boys, an officer that had a relationship prior to january 6 with tarrio. he was gathering information from the extremist groups amassing there. that relationship ended up being a little too close, so this officer ended up pleading the fifth and did not help the proud boys at all. but the government also secured some key testimony

desantis and the others challenging him for the gop nomination. no doubt about it, it's inching closer and closer. >> and there's in headline in "the new york times," biden and me, desantis telling trump donors that he can't win. based on the data, it doesn't look for to former president and insurmountable because people won't change their view of him. i want to bring in sarah bedford. that was the general prevailing thought a few months ago when many were handing over the gop to ron desantis. and then all of a sudden, trump started to move up in the polls. i'm not sure exactly why it happened but all of a sudden he's rocketed ahead with gop voters. that's who desantis has to convince first, right? >> that's right. there's two very different races here, the primary and then the general. desantis has a strong case to make that he is best positioned to defeat biden in a general election contest. trump has a math problem about getting to an electoral college win. he's not polling high in the battleground states that he would have to win over. he has

how much does the gop bear blame for what we're seeing now at the border?, first of all, shannon, good to be with you. under the trump administration we never saw anything like this. we actually had the border under control. it was secure. we're still trying to figure out some other side pieces of immigration policy overall because with democrats would never work with us on common sense immigration policies. the democrats have always wanted this massive surge to the border with no checks at all, no balances at all. so the house republican position is a border security package if that would secure the border, and it was my if position as well as chairman mccaul's, that's when we'll be moving when we win back the white house in 2024, and i do stress when. now that being said, what's happening now is because of joe biden's recklessness, his desire when he became president just to rip up all the trump era policies that actually had our border secure. and now they're scrambling to find a solution to the crisis that joe biden created. shannon: so democrats will s

the house passed the gop border security act. some republican senators are demanding immediate action at the border. washington correspondent john breaking that down for us. good morning, basil. >> over in a good morning, it's a landmark change to immigration policy as officials in it. excuse me as officials prepare themselves for what they expect will be a massive surge at the border. >> why president biden not here with the expiration of title. 42, texas republican senator ted cruz is concerned about what will happen to migrants at the border. we're witnessing modern day slavery and maddeningly with the biden administration has decided is they want more. cruise says there are a number of migrants dying at the border as well as women and children being assaulted. he wants a sea change from the administration before it's too late. we are clear eyed about the challenges we are likely to face. >> in the days and weeks ahead, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas expect large numbers of encounters at the border, but they ar

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are you worried these cultural issues are heard in the gop?e than democrats are using book banning that the light republicans are doing to protect her children parental rights sink a five year old should not be reading sexually explicit materials but ron desantis in front of cameras and read some of these books the new stations had to go away because the auteur was so explicit. now another game play on, right question rick we could have a conversation about issues what it's about his parents should have a say what's happening with our kids. i think most americans support that is good to know the democrats playbook were going to push back, especially coming from a democrat party that is banning freedom of speech for that is canceling people that destroying your life if you don't think with their orthodoxy per this is a democrat party missing if you think outside the box of everything we're dictating to you will make you lose your job it will destroy you. so they are banning people there banning freedom of speech and freedom of thought but repub

gop leaders call the house back into session to get ready to vote on that tomorrow. today in the house we'll see a number of votes on suspension bills which are various bills lawmakers will come back to washington to vote on. i think why gop leaders decided to bring members back today is so they can whip on this bill. so leadership on both sides of the aisle can speak to leadership and republicans and sell this bill to them. as mentioned the house rules committee is set to meet on the debt limit today, and there's a little friction there with some questions whether or not the bill will actually pass out of the committee. there are three hard line-curves on that panel, two of whom have voiced strong apesition to this debt limit bill. there's some questions whether or not they'll vote to advance the bill. if the bill is advanced from the rules committee, the full vote will be in the house tomorrow, and if that passes, the legislation goes onto the senate. we have some conservative lawmakers who are vowing to drag out this process in opposition to the bill. senator mike

many of the hard-edge gop positions these days aren't popular either.le those trump-related problems are often discussed, discussed at length, some of the wider implications are not really confronted as much, like what is the future for a republican party that not only underperformed in those recent races in a row that i showed you, but a party that got fewer votes in these seven of the last eight presidential races. go back to '92. that's a generation. americans preferred the democratic option for the white house every time but '04 during war. a drubbing so severe, it's hard to believe for some people when you see it laid out. what's the future? what does the republican party stand for? what do its leaders believe in other than trying to survive a long running trump era? what's the future for a party that has abandoned some of its best past case studies, like reagan or eisenhower? the examples they used to say were the gop's core starting framework. i will tell you something tonight. the answers matter to the republicans, obviously, if the gop ever wan

joining me now late carter gop pollster.ee, thanks for being here for 8 million bucks in 24 hours. that is a pretty good haul. it suggests desantis as viability as a candidate. it certainly does it's a good bit of money. i wasn't as bad as any thought. i thought always the money that wins for 2016, look back at that. jeb bush and quite a bit of money. think also it hillary clinton versus obama. she out fund raise him five -- one not always the monies certainly money is a show of enthusiasm. jon: senior pound gorilla in the room is former president named donald trump. i want to put the lady us results from the law school p poll. this is former president trump at 46%. more than double desantis numbers bind up nikki haley vivek ramaswamy and scott at 1%. it is early we all know that. but given his name recognition. his previous service in the job in any republican beat donald trump? practice would be really tough frankly. look at 5:30 eight did an analysis of past elections you basically said you are about 30% when you're out y

there is the gop primary for the nomination to challenge joe biden and then there's the gop primary to challenge donald trump and right now desantis is receipting that gop primary, and they have to fight it out, one person has to emerge to challenge trump or else it's like 2016 all over again when he presided, one with the plurality, never reaching above 50% until the new york primary. desantis is leading in the primary and a reason for that. after the 2022 midterms, republicans were told essentially you have to choose between two different types of republican candidates. forward looking, reform-minded governors who deliver results for their people and appeal to swing voters and the populus who appeal to the maga base and maybe they don't have to choose. desantis is kind of both. populous, taking on disney and the woke agenda and delivering results for florida citizens. since he won re-election, he's passed a raft of bills, including the most expansive school choice bill in the country, taken on lawsuit reform, taken on the trial lawyers, dei in schools, a whole list of accomplishments

the gop has to start with.— senate, that is the dichotomy the gop has to start with.s but then we can anticipate some heavy and thundery showers. a few showers close to the east coast perse few showers close to the east coast per se on wednesday. for many a lot of early sunshine. no pressure swirling rental at compressed mean serves even aveyron they run for scotland and northern ireland but some of these home—grown scrums across east having it as we work densely with the sunshine come wednesday happening that will produce the most dramatic scenes. temperatures up to 18. showers are likely to be accompanied by thunder and hail and lightning and gusty winds. low pressure centre just swirls south across the uk through thursday. organised bands of showers wrapped around it but also once the sun comes outjust warming up the quite unstable atmosphere with showers. there are state slightly lighter winds will slow down her quickly showers move across and good main some of us seeing significantly higher rainfall totals. that load sinks south on friday. by friday it looks like

john, one gop source says there is too much daylight between the sides, that's why there is a suspension of the talks, fox has told the discussions did not seem to go anywhere, conservatives in the house only want the house passed bill. >> we've got to get moving for the white house -- yeah, we are going to pause. >> the dispute stems from steep cuts demanded by the gop and the push by democrats to reduce defense spending. republicans want to increase defense money for the pentagon, why some liberals are advocating the use of the 14th amendment. >> it's not an option, it's a requirement and it has not been raised before because no congress has ever tried to push the president to this point of essentially committing an act of legislative extortion saying if you don't accept our legislative agenda, then we are not going to allow you to pay the debts of the country. but it's not up to congress. the constitution says the validity of the public debt shall not be questioned. >> word of the impasse forced markets to cause up gains from earlier. there is tension on wall street as the debt ceilin

paul: little most election results could signal trouble for the gop.o retain their one seat majority in the pennsylvania state house. the gop last two of its urban strongholds with a democrat winning the mayor's race in jacksonville, florida and independent local businessman prevailing against a well-known republican in colorado springs. normally you would think these races are of no great national account but what they do is continua trend of republicans losing support in suburban districts and areas. what is going on? >> they don't have the message down especially on abortion. the people who had a message and could articulate and defend it like desantis or rubio did fine. desantis signed a 6 week band that was presented to him, he defended it and did fine but a lot of these guys can't defend the message. they have to get their act together. part of it is a reaction to donald trump in the suburbs but some of this was going on before. in new jersey, my town used to be republican when i moved in 20 years ago. it was regularly featured in the new york ti

the entire gop is repudiating that language in the 14th amendment. either way, the choice that the president has to make is whether it comes to it, if he invokes the 14th amendment or allows republicans to repudiate existing law. the appropriations that they want to unravel have all been passed by previous congress. it's the law. so, we all support the president's ability, if he decides to invoke the 14th amendment to save this country from economic ruin. thank you. >> any questions? >> do you think president biden should stop talking to speaker mccarthy? senator sanders: all of us are aware of what's happening. what the president has insisted from day one, that there be a clean debt ceiling approach, and i think we all support that. i think it's premature to respond to our information that we just don't have. >> do you think it's necessary, have you all ruled out voting for this package? the debt ceiling package? >> you have the details of that package? >> if only i did. >> again, i don't think we are here to speculate, we don't know what that packa

ritical of the gop's negotiation tactics. >> that is a conversation i will at the white house have. what is clear to me is they -- house republicans have rejected that because they want to impose draconian cuts on the american people. >> the speaker has said they want to go back to before the june level. will house democrats reject any proposal that reduces spending low this year's level? >> the proposal as i understand it that president biden has offered house republicans is to freeze spending at current fiscal year levels. that is an inherently reasonable place to be and the extreme maga republicans have rejected it. >> will you accept it? >> what i would like to see is what is in president biden's budget proposal which is to increase investments in the health and safety and economic well-being of the american people to protect and strengthen social security, to build an economy that works for everyday americans but the extreme maga republicans have rejected that. what has been reasonable is what president biden has put on the table and that has been rejected because apparently ho

gop candidates are so discouraged they might leave the race.e're headed for a repeat of 2016 if that doesn't happen. neil: these early states, doug, how do they shape up to you? a god ground game obviously matters in iowa. matters in new hampshire, south carolina, some other states, advertising does as well but does advertising lose its oomph, impact this much ahead of the game? >> no, neil, i think you need advertising to make your case as hadley was suggesting. you need to tell voters through ad, direct mail, online, why you're running, why you're different, from the other republicans, trump and rest of the field and most of all why you will be a change from joe biden. but then the ground game gets the people to turn out in the caucus because there is no point in having a great advertising campaign if you don't get people out who say they're supporting you to actually participate. neil: you know, hadley, it's interesting the way this whole debt talk thing is going on the campaign trail. donald trump was famous for saying a couple of weeks ago

and texas gop is holding its impeachment hearings for its attorney general.ins me to discuss what this signals for the red state's future, we have that later on politicsnation. but first, my colleague richard lui, with today's top news stories. richard? >> thank you, rev. but saturday to. ukraine's top military commander signaled its forces already to launch their long anticipated counteroffensive against russia. this was months operation including recently escalated attacks on logistical targets. citizens rallied in turkey in the final push ahead of tomorrow's high stakes won of election. it could potentially see the country's first new leaders indicates. authoritarian president erdogan is the strongest favored to win the performance in the first round. and memorial day weekend already has seen a record surge of post pandemic air travel. 10 million flyers are expected to go through tsa checkpoints this week and. thursday alone, seeing 2.4 million travelers and with good weather, fewer than 1% of flights were canceled yesterday. more politicsnation for you wi

particularly for this gop primary election, those voters in the course states, the delegates, by and to the general election we will see how this plays out but that is a long way away and a lot can happen stop is unlikely this is not going to have a major impact on the former president's political race coming up here in terms of his candidacy for the presidency. but that is where we are at. what about an republican primary is, we saw what about an republican primary is, we sanohn gorton say today, i don't think he can get a let, you can't win a general election with just your base, so responding to this verdict. ., , verdict. certainly in particular— verdict. certainly in particular for- verdict. certainly in| particular for those, verdict. certainly in l particular for those, i verdict. certainly in - particular for those, i think particularfor those, i think many would argue those potential or current candidates that are declared and running in the primary for president will likely point of this kind of events and make the argument that former president trump may not be as electabl