first up, j.d. vance.psycho analyzing why white working class voters went for trump. all before he experienced his own trump awakening, when he ran for senate in 2022. vance is now a full blown trump believer. so much though that he has vowed to hold up all votes on justice department nominees until attorney general, merrick garland, quote, stopped using his agency to harass joe biden's political opponents. meaning he is upset about the trump documents trial. of course, not to be outdone, guess who threw his hat in the ring? senator tommy tuberville of alabama. he is up more than 250 military promotion since march in protest of a pentagon policy that provides paid time off and travel expenses for service members who traveled to receive abortion care. tuberville's actions may leave the marine corps without a senate confirmed later next month. that is a lot of sabotaging for members of a party that so-called claim to revere law enforcement and our military. joe walsh, and demi mccarr sal powell are back with

. >> j.d. vance, u.s.enator from ohio, is out there saying he's going to block nominations as long as this investigation goes on the way it is basically. donald trump last night in his speech called this a political persecution out of fascist or communist nations. what's the impact of that type of rhetoric, do you think, judge? >> well, again, people will then begin questioning decisions and judgments of not just the department of justice, but other government institutions, and that's very, very dangerous. i would say in response to people who are comparing the united states to other, you know, fascist nations, why don't you go to that country, why don't you engage in that same kind of conduct and see whether or not you get the same type of due process that you're going to get here in this country. so the comparison, again, just political rhetoric as far as i'm concerned. >> one quick question and i have to let you go, judge. when i first started covering you you were, in fact, a judge in texas. how hard w

but it is not just j.d. vance taking such steps.is oldholdinp military nominees also. as former democratic presidential candidate senator bernie sanders holds up all biden health nominees, insisting the white house has not done enough to lower the drug prices of prescription drugs. cnn's manu raju is on capitol hill. that's a lot of senators holding up votes on confirmations for people that work in the governmen government. what are you hearing from other members? >> frustration. this is one of the big things that the senate can do is confirm joe biden's nominees. particularly a lot of these nominations you were laying out. those are non-controversial nominees, approved quickly through voice vote. but any individual sender has the power to put the brakes on any nomination. if you do that, that forces the senate majority leaders to take time-consuming steps, moving through the process, forcing procedural votes to push each individual nomination through. so every time this adds up is more time for the senate to move through these hold

republican senator j.d. vanceio says he plans to hold up president biden's judicial nominations indefinitely. he wants attorney general perec gar merrick garland in what a vance calls a politically motivated law. chief congressional correspondent manu raju is up on capitol hill. what are you hearing this morning? >> yeah. some of donald trump's staunchest supporters coming to his defense trying to use the levers of power to retaliate against the justice department. you're seeing it both in the house side and they're trying to restrict funding and that's the discussion going on about whether they can do that through the appropriations process to go after the justice department and on the senate side, senator j.d. vance announcing that he would place a hold and something that any senator can do, and planning to do that on all justice department nominees other than ones who are nominated to the u.s. marshals services and in talking to vance and durbin yesterday who is the senate committee chairman and it is clear tha

senator j.d. vance. freshman senator.ntil he gets promise from merrick garland if he will not politicize the department of justice. he hasn't defined what that means yet, yasmin. >> i actually have some strategy panjshir valley to block those doj nominees. let me play that for you. >> i think we have to grind this department to a halt. until merrick garland promises to do his job. stop going after his political opponents. >> how long could he keep these nominations on hold? >>. he can do it indefinitely if he wants to. let's be clear. he can't block these nominees in the senate. what he can do. the fact that he's not allowing them to move expeditiously through the senate means that it takes several days to pass a nominee. there is only two justice department monies on the docket right now. senate republican -- senate democrats aren't too concerned for them at the moment. this is something that could continue and that's when it becomes more and more worrying. especially if this escalates. as a reference before. j.d. vance

senator j.d. vancean early supporter of trump, says that he's putting a procedural hold on nearly all nominees for the department of justice in response to the indictment of the former president. joining us now is nbc's ali vitali. good morning. so senator j.d. vance, could he be really holding up future appointments? >> reporter: look, this is something where you and i have talked about this before. in the u.s. senate, things can move as quickly as everyone decides they should or as slowly if there is even one person who says they want to gum up the process. in this case, we're now seeing this freshman senator from ohio say that he wants to do just that when it comes to doj nominees with the exclusion of u.s. marshals. vance said yesterday this is in direct response to the indictment of former president donald trump, vance, of course, a long-time trump supporter, but in reality, this is a process that it doesn't necessarily slow down something that wasn't already potentially slow. all 100 senators coul

senator j.d. vanceck all doj nominations over trump's indictment, going nuclear saying, quote, if merrick garland wants to use these officials to harass, we will grind his department to a halt. of course, not discussing at all the nature of the allegations themselves and the seriousness of them. manu raju is "outfront" live from capitol hill. you've been talking to so many republicans on capitol hill over the past few days. so you've seen how they started responding. you've seen the evolution in some cases. are you seeing a change in tone now that the president's been arraigned, now that they've all had a chance to really read the indictment? >> republicans are very much divided over don erin. you did see in the initial aftermath of the news in the indictment late last week and after the indictment was unsealed, many of those supporters rushing to his defense. but after they came back to capitol hill over the last couple of days, i've had a chance to put the question directly to a number of them, asking

liberty. ♪ >>> j.d. vance of president biden's justice department nominees in protest of former president trump's indictment. >> and donald trump will be put in prison for the rest of his life. that's what they're trying to do for declassifying documents as he has the constitutional authority to do. it's crazy and we cannot continue to give the department of justice free rein to set themselves loose. >> funding. >> unlimited resources and unlimited personnel. we can effectively grind the appointments process to a halt. why don't we do it? the american people expect it of us. >> live on capitol hill this morning, i want to deconstruct that entire statement based on the difference between nominations and appropriations and actual funding and funding levels. >> but we don't have all day. >> people will be mad at me. what kind of impact tangibly will this have, this threat? >> reporter: well, he's arguing he could grind this nomination process to a halt, but the reality, phil, as you know, is that he can really on

that is j.d. vanceio, who is vowing to use procedural tools to prevent the confirmation of any justice department nominee. i want to bring in congressman jim himes, the top democrat on the house intel committee. congressman, thanks for joining us on this. i want to start there if we can. talking about j.d. vance. you said earlier this week, the gop is trying to sow doubt in a u.s. judicial system, and it is exactly what we saw before january 6th. can you talk more about this? >> yeah, sure. you know, as we saw prior to january 6th, when president trump lost the election, rather than admit that he lost and his supporters, primarily in the house of representatives, but also did admit that they lost. they decided the problem is not with a president, the problems with the electoral system. we've got all these wild accusations of electoral system had been corrupted. not a single piece of evidence that that was true. 64 cases of course, that said that wasn't true. now, the same thing is happening with the doj

you have tommy tuberville blocking army promotions, and j.d. vanceo be blocking nominations and promotions within the doj, did i get that right? >> reporter: they do. they could force schumer to take valuable floor time confirming these people. they could hold that up by objecting. if chuck schumer wanted to, he could confirm all 250 defense department and military flag officers one by one. that would take up an insane amount of time, and the same with doj, which is what j.d. vance is trying to do, so, yes, it could be done. practically, no, it would take a really long time. and this is government these days, katy. it's very irrational at times. >> jake sherman, thank you very much. >> thanks. >>> coming up next, while all of our eyes were on donald trump's arraignment in miami yesterday, another grand jury was meeting again in washington, d.c. who showed up? who these men are and what they might have been talking about. e might have been talking about. pantene's pro-vitamin formula repairs hair. as well as the leading luxury bonding treatment. for s

i spoke with senator j.d. vance from ohio outside the hearing room. he said "the fed should not be fighting the inflation battle so hard that it ends up destroying the american economy." he things they are on the edge of going a little too far. german powell said the -- chairman powell said they are trying to avoid the mistake of going too far on rate hikes. yesterday, he faced a lot of questions around bank regulation on the idea of stricter capital requirements. he was asked by senator kennedy about reports from earlier about a month ago that the fed could raise capital requirements by 20% for some banks. chairman powell said, yes, that could happen. he has been briefed but no proposal is final. he said that likely will be focused on the eight larger banks, although others could raise capital requirements. they would not focus on banks with a $100 billion asset, and there was a lot of comment on how this could have a detrimental impact. of course, there was always the fiscal question. powell reiterated, as he said yesterday, that the budget is on an

ohio's j.d. vance threatened's to block all of biden's judicial nominees until merrick garland stops using his agencies to harassoe joe biden's political opponents. senator vance joins me now. joiy >> senator, any otherouef your colleagues are going to join your effort? >> ink a i think a few ofread my colleagues will. a few my colleagues are already pretty actively pushing back against joe biden's department of justice. ant here's the crazy thingrtmene is we actually have some authority and we can use it use to do something goodr the american people. what so many senators, i think, arwhat so e of doing is giving g the constitutional authority the american people have given us, the political appointees ute the department of justice. the way to look at them is foot soldiers forsoldiers turning thm into political activism instead of activel iy doing the job of enforcing the law. why should we be giving whe biden more foo t when he's using them to attack his political opponents and conservatives all acros

they want fighters, folks like j.d. vance.hink folks everybody impressed senator tim scott walking into the lions den and what used to frighten people being called a bigot or awful person like you see all the time no longer frightens people and when we are seeing things going on in our schools, seeing politicians tearing the country apart folks are getting more courageous about it and want their leaders to do the same. >> the view is not a representation of the american people. so many people ask me how can you be black and have these points of view and go back to your community any never left my community. the people that raised me have the same belief system. thanks so much, chris. >> thank you. >> so the giant canadian smoke cloud is back and heading toward the united states but liberals are more concerned with coal fired pizza ovens. that's next. >> so, the liberals are at it again, destroying fun. new york city wants to ban coal-fired pizza ovens to fight climate change. how much carbon does a pizza emit compared to canad

. >> neil: well, j.d. vanceying he could carve out some bipartisan moves to deal with issues that have been a big problem, like the franking problems we have seen, working with elizabeth warren, that's right, democrat senator elizabeth warren, to avoid future bank collapses by going after the source of the reason behind those collapses that many of them get too far and go after the executives going too far. good to have you, senator. looks plain how this would work. >> you think about the fdic taking a bank -- implicitly putting taxpayers on the hook. it allows the fdic to go and claw back compensation that executives pay themselves as they were running their banks into the ground beer but this is specifically motivated, neil, by the svb situation, where you have a bank that really was terribly mismanaged. a ceo paying himself millions of dollars in bonuses in the weeks and years running up to that collapse, and yet, when the taxpayers got put on the hook, they had no recourse. and what i am really worried about

in fact, senator j.d. vance's going to hold up president biden's justice department nominees and, quote, grind his department to a halt. trump's critics, they're not budges either. let's turn to cnn's melanie zanona on capitol hill. you have fresh reaction from lawmakers. what are they sharing with you. >> reporter: what i would say is the gop's trump divide has become clearer and clearer in recent days. that's because in the immediate aftermath of the indictment last week, were some of trump's staunchest supporters, instantly springing into action to defend the former president even before they saw the full scope of the charges. in recent days, we have heard from more republicans, particularly in the senate, who are expressing concerns over the serious allegations in this indictment and also wondering what this is going to do to their party. just take a listen to john thune, a member of senate gop leadership. >> we've lost three elections in a row now. he's been the issue in every one of those elections, and i

one of them, senator j.d. vanceall justice department nominees who are not part of the marshal service, but u.s. attorneys and the like until the justice department changes its approach the prosecution going forward. any individual senator can hold up the process and u.s. attorneys, in particular, are tip b typically confirmed very quickly and otherwise it can be a much more time-consuming process and that's what vance is aiming to do as republicans in the house and trying to undercut it by using the funding process on capitol hill, and even though some republicans are not in line, some are lining up behind donald trump and trying to defend him as this case unfolds. >> manu raju, thank you. sara? >> thanks , rahel. >> just hours after pleading not guilty to the 37 counts against him, he was in bedminster. his goal there to spew a barrage of false and misleading claims and no one can do a fact check better than our daniel dale and we are lucky to have you here now. all right. so where should we start? let's see, let'

at the top of the list, i want to talk about senator j.d. vance of ohio. a threat and i am trying to find out if he's actually put this in process yet. he is about to block every the biden administration nominee to the department of justice, while this trial is ongoing. it seems to be his implication. right now, there are two nominees on the senate calendar. one is a u.s. attorney, the chief prosecutor for a district in mississippi. the other is a woman who was nominated to head the office of violence against women act. both of those nominations could be in limbo, as could any other prosecutors that the president wants to nominate. that is one thing. in addition to that, we know some house republicans want to vote to defund the special prosecutor, make sure he cannot go ahead with the prosecution. that is unlikely to pass, but they are taking moves to censure people who have been involved in past investigations like adam schiff. there could be a houseboat against him even though he's not involved in this. but have few powers to really stop this prosecutn,

we have seen certain proposals from, you know, more conservative members like josh hawley and j.d. vance them lean into this and become more aggressive and try to claw back some of the money that is currently being owed on the part of students who were ill served bites these institutions. >> bret: i mentioned earlier hillary vaughn on capitol hill getting her steps chasing down these lawmakers including senator bernie sanders on this issue. >> is it really free if you are raising taxes to pay for it? >> well, given the fact that we have the billionaire class paying a lower class rate than working families, i think it's appropriate the wealthiest people in this country start paying their fair share of taxes thanks very much. >> do you think wall street. >> what people say that? people on wall street. thank you. [laughter] >> bret: you got to love bernie sanders. yeah, you do. but his plan and the progressives in the house plan, essentially is absorb it all. >> juan: the polls are really curious. the arguments i hear from conservatives are basically people who are truck drivers and the lik

j.d. vance is, what do you make of it? >> yeah, i'm not a big fan of special counsels.hat's buying into two more years of investigation. let's get the justice department out of investigating. that's what i'd like to do, because the tbi has that mandat. ask is we've seen time and time again where the justice department and fbi headquarters have been running investigations. these investigations will move if you give them back to the field offices. all you have to do is look at the interview of the head of the washington field office about the trump, the document raids at mar-a-lago. he was totally against it, and he couldn't figure out why florida field office, the miami field office wasn't running the investigation. he had a lot to say about it, ask people a ought to read what he had to say because he was heading up the entire washington field office, and he would know. elizabeth: you know, the issue with this too is that the fbi reportedly knew about these allegations since at least 2017. we have senator chubb grassley from the senate -- chuck grassley from the senate f

ohio senator j.d. vance is placing a hold on all doj nominees. that's in retaliation for the prosecution of the former president. he accuses the doj of harassing poind's enemies. bret? >> bret: chad pergram on the hill. thank you. let's get white house reaction now to senator grassley's accusation that there is audio evidence of bribes energy company burisma and then vice president joe biden as well as the other reaction to today. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has details live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret. officially the white house is not commenting. that's also the case with the trump indictment, but there is new reporting tonight that the president has privately told aides he is disgusted by trump's behavior but is adhering to his promise to keep the doj independent. >> senator chuck grassley's claim the fbi redacted portions of an unclassified 0:23 form detailing evidence of burisma executive bribed then vice president joe biden and his son hunter, not getting any reaction from the white house.

senator j.d. vance says he will block most nominees for the doj in response to the unprecedented political prosecution and persecution of donald trump. and nikki haley was on the radio yesterday. and she said, you know, when you think about it, i'm kind of inclined to pardon him as well. here what happens she said exactly. >> when you look at a pardon, the issue is less about guilt and more about what's good for the country. and i think it would be terrible for the country to have a former president in prison for a years because of a documents case. i would be inclined in favor of a pardon. >> brian: if donald trump doesn't get the nomination what's he going to do? run as a third party. if donald trump for any reason doesn't get the nomination and he wants to make sure that he gets a pardon should a republican wins, that's the one way for him to support the nominee because he knows if a democrat wins he will never get that pardon. if the case does go to its fruition and does play out. so, right thought

pentagon that the move is harming americans security, then this week, you had ohio republican senator, j.d. vance, vowing to put a procedural hold on president biden's picks for the justice department. impeding their confirmation, in protest of donald trump's indictment. what is your take on your colleagues on the other side of the aisle? >> i think we have a lot of work that we need to be doing here in the congress, as americans are still pushing their way through the ongoing challenges of a pandemic. as we are trying to create jobs and opportunity for every american it seems we would remain focused on our work. i want you to think about this. here we have the united states senator, holding up the promotions of key military personnel. when i think about our sisters and brothers in uniform, they are the best among us. they are the ones who have committed their lives to keeping all of us safe. and here you have a united states senator, holding up their promotions. while at the same time, weakening our military readiness. it's unconscionable. it's beyond the pale of ordinary political engagement, a

that's senator j.d. vance of ohio, freshman republican, someone close with donald trump, who announced just yesterday that he would put a hold on virtually all nominations to the justice department until the justice department takes some steps in his view, enough steps, to not pursue prosecutions that they would consider -- republicans would consider political. now that is something that could have broader ramifications. at the moment it only would affect two nominees pending, but vance is warning this could affect even more. this could be indefinite and drag on, all part of an effort by trump's staunchest allies to use the power of congress to fight back. now i've had a chance to talk to some democrats as well about this effort, including senior democrats who sit on the senate judiciary committee and they are pushing back. >> these senators and their strategy are defining the republican party in the united states senate, unfortunately. i think a majority of republicans want to work with democrats to solve pro

senate, ohio senator, j.d. vance, said. about the current case, the second set of indictments this, is one of the willful retention of classified defense information. he said, maybe you disagree, maybe think you should look at the top incentives safe. fine. go vote against him. some familiar? i don't understand the last respectable on this question, throwing trump in prison over political issue, they pass the rubicon, there is no going back. do you think that is what this is, trying to throw him in jail over a political issue? >> not at all. i think that the president clearly broke the law. he had numerous off-ramps to get himself out of trouble, but he refused to take them for a variety of reasons. i think the rule of law in the united states, really, has been sunburn if the department of justice had not pursued the case. remember, there was an air force officer only weeks before who was sentenced to years in prison, in florida, for having taken classified records home with him. real people pay serious penalties when they

a a new headquarters, that seems certain, mccarthy soupports tha and j.d. vanced targeting chris wray and defunding jack smith, less likely but this is a major focus of house republicans right now. >> absolutely. and this is how they are going to defend donald trump. they have this road map of how to punish jack smith and the department of justice and the fbi. now it is interesting to just take a step back, lack of support increased for the fbi and the department of justice during trump administration and now this is a common theme that republican base voters tend to support that the fbi is collapsed and so this is -- could politically for the base but also it is interesting where mccarthy has stood. he's saying that yes we will take back money for the new fbi headquarters but not calling for the defunding because that could be treacherous. >> and john thune told me he would not support efforts to defund. but mccarthy has a narrow majority and that outspoken flank on his right pushing to move to his right, including defending trump and mccarthy has come out in tr

at a tweet from j.d. vancefolks were kind of bringing up these conspiracy theories about what was in this thing. i said it is obvious that none of these individuals have even picked up a single page of this indictment. kind understand within it. -- it wouldn't be saying this. michael steele, we appreciate you as always. thank you. we'll be right back. flying insects with no odor and no mess. they work continuously, so you don't have to. zevo. people-friendly. bug-deadly. age is just a number, and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein. boost® high protein. now available in cinnabon® bakery-inspired flavor. learn more at boost.com/tv (tap, tap) listen, your deodorant just has to work. i use secret aluminum free. just swipe and it lasts all day. secret helps eliminate odor, instead of just masking it. and hours later i still smell fresh. secret works. ohhh yesss. your best defense against erosion and cavities is strong enamel- no

when you look at what holding up the department of justice nominees, what j.d. vanceby senator sumy because of this. you see senator tuberville holding up military nominations right now. these things hurt our national security, they hurt our country, they hurt our democracy, and a lot of that stuff so is not just into americans, but also around the world. i mean, there are hurting our reputation around the world and, frankly, our enemies are cheering about this. and it is shameful. >> the truth matters, but only if you hear it. david there are all sorts of republicans arguing that there are two justices systems and don't ramp is not getting special treatment, but he did get special treatment today. no rest, no mugshot, no bond, no bail, did not have to surrender his passport, and he does not have any travel restrictions of any kind he would not see anyone else facing these charges with that kind of special treatment. >> stephanie i'm not sure there is a case for why he was released pretrial. if the notion is that he could be a danger to himself, the community, or the

freshman republican senator j.d. vancetweet president biden is trying to, quote preemptively steal the 2024 election. and meanwhile senator josh holley responded in a televised interview. >> if the president in power can jail, we don't have a republic anymore, we don't have a rule of law, we don't have a constitution. no one should be in doubt of what's happening tonight. joe biden and his cronies are trying to take out their chief political opponent. this has never happened before in american history, laura. we are in dangerous, dangerous waters and it is because of joe biden. >> now, republican presidential candidates are taking different stances on trump's latest indictment. florida governor ron desantis, his chief rival within the gop, tweeted last night that he'd hold the doj accountable if he were elected president. writing in part this, why so zealous in pursuing trump yet so passive about hillary or hunt snr the desantis administration will excise political bias and end weaponization once and for all. now, former n

finally, over in the senate, you have j.d. vancennounced today he is going to be blocking all doj nominees from biden going forward in retaliation for how the agency has been dealing with donald trump, although that is likely to have a minimal impact because of the number of nominees that are actually in the pipeline. but wolf, all that really amounts to, an extraordinary effort to intervene in an ongoing criminal probe. and not everyone in the gop is on board. just take a listen to senator lisa murkowski. >> we cannot take this lightly. so to kill the messenger does not account for the gravity of the indictment that is out there. we have to take this seriously. i don't care whether you are a trump supporter or a trump opposer. you have to take this seriously. so to just say that whoever has delivered the message needs to be taken out? i'm sorry, we don't do that. >> reporter: and meanwhile, senate gop leader mitch mcconnell has continued to remain silent about this federal indictment, which is a stark been hearing from the former i

republican senator j.d. vancet announced that he's going to put on hold all of president biden's nominees for the justice department because of this indictment. he said, quote, if merrick garland the attorney general wants to use these officials to harass joe biden's political opponents, we will grind his department to a halt, unquote. >> so here is a supporter just doubling down and someone with power to do this in the senate on exactly what john just said. you know, to add to things that trump has said, he called the special counsel also a terrorist, a slime ball. he has called the justice department the ga suest stop po. we are seeing from the republican party, republican senators undermining the justice department and rule of law. >> i want to get your reaction elie and andy to this comment from a trump lawyer, she is not involved in this current case but she's acting as a spokesperson for the former president and spoke outside the federal courthouse in miami. take a listen. >> in recent years we have seen the

republican senator j.d. vance, another trump loyalist, has announced that he's going to hold all nominees to the department of justice. he's going to block them. like no votes will be allowed on them. he says indefinitely because of this indictment. i mean, is washington just going to shut down, do you think, ultimately? because you describe the schism already occurring that's stopping the house from doing its business. >> well, i do think that that is a real question that cuts at the core of a decision that the republican party is going to have to make. if they are going to try to survive as a political party in the united states, we just saw that they experienced much lower gains than they thought they would last year in the 2022 midterm elections. we are also seeing the ramifications of an extreme supreme court that has several members that were appointed by president trump. and additionally, with the erosion of the legitimacy of the court with the conduct of clarence thomas, brett kavanaugh and others, the rep

senators who are going to be speaking up soon, and i imagine, senator mcconnell, and some like j.d. vance who is coming out to do what alyssa alluded to, but a good number of republican members in the senate and the house who probably are just keeping powder dry at this point in time, and when are they going to do it is the question. you should challenge this and say, you should be able to say, this is looking bad facially, and let the system play out, and we will see what it is said, and not be called a rino and unpatriotic for saying so. >> this is a precedent now, and now every president is going to be going after the president before, and we will be in a banana republic situation, and that would be bad, that would be bad, but think about the precedent it would set if nothing happened. if no charges were brought forward, basically being the president of the united states means that you have a license to steal, a license to do whatever you want, and no one to hold you account, and it is not like he is saying, i am wrong, and i will give it back, and it is still that he is trying to hang

i talked with tim ryan, who lost by a decent major in an ohio senate race to j.d. vance.leground states that in 2020 donald trump turned out a record number of votes on behalf of a republican nominee in each of the battleground states, more than any republican nominee ever. >>> coming up, president biden is expected to deliver a major speech on the economy during a trip to chicago this week. presidential adviser anita dunn joins us on that. - this is our premium platinum coverage map and this is consumer cellular's map. - i don't see the difference, do you? - well, that one's purple. - [announcer] get the exact same coverage as the nation's leading carrier. starting at $20. consumer cellular. - this is jabra enhance select. it's more than just a hearing aid. it's a smart hearing solution that makes hearing aids more convenient and less expensive. with jabra enhance select's premium package, better hearing doesn't have to start in a doctor's office. it starts with our free online hearing test. you can fine tune your settings with your remote audiology team. with jabra enha

that was from j.d. vance, a senator.is saying she will try to defund jack smith's office. how do you see this all playing out? are these real threats or empty threats? >> i think these are deeply tragic threats, frankly. this is a question of national security. and national security issues shouldn't be partisan. the fact that there are documents that might outline u.s. capabilities and that they were treated inappropriately, they were placed at a hotel in florida, and that they were not returned to the u.s. government at the time they were supposed to, and now as the indictment lays out, the former president engaged in a potential conspiracy to conceal them, the fact that any member of congress would be saying anything other than, you know, we need to have the case go through the court system. we need to understand fully what happened, the fact that they would defend this treatment of classified documents is deeply detrimental to our national security. and notably, as laid out in the indictment, some of the documents wer

like j.d. vance who will put a hold on biden's doj nominations in retaliation.ngtime positioning as the party of law and order. they target the doj and the fbi. cracks are beginning to show. according to new reporting by nbc news, republicans are masking private worries. the gop consternation that they could have a nominee convicted of crimes came through. the concern was widespread. trump latest indictment could cause further pain for republicans at the ballot box. a person on the call said, is it the movement or is it the man? if the man perishes, what happens to the movement? republicans on the call, this person added, were fearful this group is going to be the face of what it means to be a republican. "the wall street journal" editorial board called trump self-destructive, saying he is hurting republicans' chances in 2024. if mr. trump is the gop nominee, he is unlikely to defend joe biden. if he did win, the document fiasco is what a second term would be like. he wouldn't be able to delivery conservative policy victories republicans want because he can't co

greene, lauren boebert has posted messages speaking against the company, and republican senator j.d. vanceah kay ellis. today is the first day of pride month. sarah kate, it is great to have you on with, us so much to talk about as we begin this pride month. but let's start there on your reaction. to not just the rhetoric that we are seeing against target, but the decision by target to then sort of cave a little bit, and remove some of that pride merchandise. >> yes, i think what's really important is to add the word extremists all of this. this is a minority voice, that has a loud megaphone right now. and target, they said it, they've laid out their playbook. they want to make pride toxic, which is supposed to be a celebration of our community. and a lifting up of our community, they are trying to poison the waters. and what they're doing, targeted had a display for years, decades probably, at least ten years. this year they're targeting these. what's interesting, though and often horrifying, is that they're using violence. this is not less boycott, here's a sign on letter. this is a k 15

love every reporter that's camped out on capitol hill on the senate side in particular after what j.d. vancethreatened to do today to just every republican who walks out in front of a microphone, do you believe that a former president is allowed to keep and have national security information? or a former senator. right. do you believe that? do you think a president could have information about the placement of all of our nukes, the placement of all of our troops around the world after they're president? because that's the only defense that is possible for trump, that a former president is entitled to have that. does that mean that obama can have the nuclear codes? because that would not be a very secure place to live if every former president is allowed to pick and choose and take anything they want after they leave office, no matter how much it could jeopardize sources, method, people's lives, our operatives around the world, people who are helping us in foreign country, and also our nuclear secrets. >> reportedly the indictment deals with this. say you're right and the president did want t

host: what about j.d. vance and his holdout? that is another response we were talking about the effects of the trump indictment rippling through capitol hill. he said he will hold up doj nominees and there is no sign he is backing down that just began last week. host:, independent. -- pat, independent. caller: my problem with the congress is the right wing of the republican party isn't turned to a commish anything except for havoc. what is jim jordan trying to do, legislate for the people or promote fox news? i really have no idea. where is it coming from? people have died for the three branches of government. it seems to me the republicans don't really care about that. it bothers me. guest: when you take a step back on the big picture and talk about governing philosophies, democrats believe that the government is something that can do good and help people and impose different regulations and rules that help advance the certain policies. pumpkins generally want the government to be as small as possible so they have less come in

for great states where you have people like j.d. vance and others like him are nuts.m. >> claire, as you point out, once again, you have idiots that think they are trying to own the libs where not only are they hurting themselves, but in this case hurting americans, this whole deal about we are going to try and cripple the doj and defund the fbi. drug dealers cheer and celebrate, and drug gangs celebrate, and terrorists organizations just absolutely -- international terrorists organizations absolutely thrilled. these republicans that are trying to cripple america's law enforcement, they are not owning the libs but hurting themselves and their district and hurting americans. >> yeah, it is -- for a party that pretends they are all about supporting the police. they don't support the police when they are being attacked by trump's insurrectionist mob at the capitol, and they say defund the most premiere law enforcement organization in the world. it's phoney. they are phoney about wanting to be fiscal conservatives and also about supporting the police. >>> much more coming