rachel: you know, one of the things i really like about liz cheney is that liz cheney and dick cheneyexcuse me, a reminder that there truly is a uniparty washington, d.c., isn't that right? >> yes. i think that really plaid out for all of the world to see this last election -- played out. they were willing to get behind kamala harris, and regardless how yo may feel about donald trump, the last four years have been absolutely a disaster, and she's had -- she's been in the front seat to have the car with joe biden. so the idea that you would support her and and try to put her in the white house is just stunning to me. rachel: you know, congressman, we just were talking on the couch about peace finally breaking out. this week we may see an end to the war in ukraine. and i think it's probably liz cheney and that uniparty's obsession with war versus trying to find peace and resolution and negotiation that really stands out for me especially at this moment. >> there's big money in war. that's why we call it the military industrial complex. and if there's been big money in all a different ki

more worried about liz cheney and my confirmation hearing then the crime in california and the crimecalifornia skyrocketing its remarkable the double standard they have been professing and projecting throughout the country. but it has ended sean let me ask a final question the doj i believe has been a weaponized. with that there are many employees at the justice department a part of weaponization. did they have obligation to not participate in it or speak out against it and if they didn't do so without be disqualifying in your mind. >> certainly you need to follow it and ethical standards of being a prosecutor and you have to follow the law that's why we've signed multiple executive orders taking us back to our core function of flattest press getting real crime and violent crime that's out the justice department will function that's a president trump wants to submit a strait and a function evenhandedly unfair restoring integrity. >> speaker-01: >> have known you for decades that's probably the word i would use to define you bringing integrity to the doj returning to its former greatn

payments, what does it do for someone that we've already seen them take security details away from liz cheney? while releasing people who attacked cops out into the public. if they are willing to do that, what might they do to someone who's on a fixed income and had the strength of their convictions? what we know is that every time we face crazies like these, inevitably the movement that have toppled tierney -- tyranny has been led by people who got to the point where they had nothing left to lose. if they can find those people who have almost nothing left to lose and say i'm going to cut off your social early, i'm going to cut off your veterans payment -- benefits payments, this is despotism. in part of our message to everybody is that fear is contagious, but so is courage. we are going to make sure that people act with courage and the strength of their convictions and that what we are showing now maybe reaches to a few folks across the aisle. >> you alluded to this with the three republicans but just to get clarity are you talking about --, and if so, could you tell me a little bit about th

open spaces, gorgeous rivers and streams, magnificent mountains, beautiful blue skies and not one liz cheneye to be found. [cheers and applause] in 2024, wyoming provided president trump with his largest margin of victory of any state in the nation and we are so proud of the job he is doing. we are ecstatic he is exposing and eradicating massive government waste, fraud and abuse we have known for decades has been happening and yet no one before would do anything about it. they are overjoyed he has tasked elon musk and his team with overseeing doge, using their skills to implement what may be the closest thing to zero-based budgeting we will ever see in the federal government. we are thrilled he recognizes we are a government of, by and for the people and its primary purpose is to protect the homeland and secure our god-given rights and freedoms. it is quite apparent the democrats long ago stopped caring about the concerns of working-class people. the truck drivers, farmers, airline employees, construction workers among others. they paid for such neglect by being shellacked in the last electi

the president also wants to jail liz cheney sitting here today.tical, and i'm not. >> going to. >> answer that. >> mark elias. >> look, i mean, this has been clear all along. >> donald trump is. >> going to have his department. >> of. >> justice and. >> his fbi engage in political. >> investigations and. >> if possible, political prosecutions. >> and there is nothing about pam bondi. >> or kash patel that. >> lead you. >> to believe they are. >> going to push back. instead, they are going to egg it on. >> and they are going to say. >> when he says jump. >> they're going to say how high? >> i don't know. >> how to put. >> this. >> any more plainly. the three people. >> who are on this screen right now, in one form or another, have been threatened, or it has been suggested that they. >> are in a class that should be criminally investigated. >> and potentially prosecuted. we are a small number of a. >> large of a. >> much larger. >> group who face that utter reality today. this is not a hypothetical. this is not a what she said in a. hearing or what,

it do for, you know, someone, you know, we've already seen him take security details away from liz cheney, right? while releasing people who attack cops out into the public, if they're willing to do that and threaten that, well, what might they do to someone who's on a fixed income but have the strength of their convictions? what they know is that every time we have faced crises like these in our, in our history, inevitably the movements that have toppled tyranny have been led by people who had gotten to a point where they had nothing left to lose. the parkland students who survived, the mamie tills of the world, right? if they can find those people who have almost nothing left to lose and say, well, i'm gonna cut off your social security payments if you step up. i'm gonna cut off your veterans benefit payments. i'm gonna cut off your snap payments. this is despotism, right? and i think a part of our message to everybody is that fear is contagious, but so is courage. and we want to make sure that people act with courage and the strength of their convictions and hope that, that what we're

he received a pardon along with liz cheney. they were they were more worried about liz cheney in my confirmation hearing than the crime in california that is skyrocketing. so it's truly remarkable, this this double standard that they have been professing and projecting throughout our country. but it has ended. sean. >> let me ask a final question. i believe under merrick garland and joe biden, the doj has been weaponized. with that, there are many, many employees at the justice department that were a part of that weaponization. did they have an obligation not to participate in it, speak out against it? and if they didn't do so, would that be disqualifying in your mind? >> sean? certainly. you know, you have to follow the ethical standards of being a prosecutor, and you have to follow the law. and that's why we have signed multiple executive orders, taking us back to our core function of prosecuting real crime and violent crime. and that's how this justice department will function. and that's how president trump wants this admin

to see cash patel retweet a picture of him taking a -- to liz cheney and he's going to be in charge of the doj, none of that is normal. host: the fbi. what do you think? guest: certainly what we've seen at the pentagon is unusual. it is rare to see officers fired. it's usually with great because when you get to this level of leadership. and again, there may be because that we are not aware of, but at this point there's been no explanation on the ground that they did something so egregious they need to be removed immediately. host: walter in cleveland, ohio, democrat. caller: good morning. my question is with the savings that president trump and mosque when they make the cuts to these departments, what happens to that money, where does it go? this it go back into the government? guest: it's a great question partly because it's been a lot of questions that how much savings have actually been found. for instance, the doge group but out a list of we've saved xyz and people said those were savings that were already there or they don't actually exist. that list was deleted and updated. where

and, you know, i remember liz cheney was campaigning out in wyoming. have her own her campaign had to pay for security, even in small venues. yeah. for her. >> remember what mitt romney said? >> yes he did. >> that's right. paying $5,000 a day for the security for him and his family. and those other members hear that. they hear that. >> and if any of these people are threatened again, or if president biden is donald trump had their security clearances and they have no one to call, there is no federal 911. it's a chilling thought and people should take it seriously. david corn, thank you, my friends. much appreciate it. coming up after four decades in the senate, senator mitch mcconnell, who, by the way, voted for kash patel, today announced he is retiring at the end of his term. oh, the courage, the courage of mitch mcconnell. we will dive into how he personally laid the groundwork for trump's tyranny that he's now attempting to condemn without credibility. condemn without credibility. rebecca. businesses and communities come together on tiktok. they d

and liz cheney was was doing her job in that.ibutor to washington monthly, chris matthews. david, i have so many ways i want to go with you here, but why don't we just start? because, you know, rhetorical shots were fired there between liz cheney and elon musk. for those of us who are cold warriors, we understood the importance of hard power, the military. and yes, we understood the importance of soft power. we understood the importance of ideas. we understood the importance of aid. i will repeat it for the thousandth time this week, since u.s. aid became an issue on this show. there's a reason why harry truman, after attacking herbert hoover his entire political life, called in herbert hoover after world war two, ended and said, we've got a refugee crisis in europe. if those people aren't taken care of, we're going to have communism in western europe, go get to work. and now all across africa. yes, we i'm extraordinarily proud of what george w bush did with pepfar. i'm extraordinarily proud that his evangelical faith pushed him

if it is standing up for election integrity, if it is defeating liz cheney to unify the republican partyre we ready to make america great again? [cheers and applause] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome u.s. ambassador designate to the united nations, at least a phonic -- at least a phonic -- elise stefanik. >> hello, america first patriots. are you excited to be here? it is so great to be back at cpac with the republican trifecta. a republican house, a republican senate, and of course, president trump in the white house. we know none of this would have been possible without you, the american people, so i want to thank you for years of hard work, sacrifice, and dedication, to fire joe biden, elect president trump to save america. [applause] believe me, we know, and no one knows this better than president trump and his entire family, that this election was not easy. the left and their loyal stenographers in the mainstream media stooped to new and disgraceful lows. they tried everything. vicious smears. unprecedented attacks on his family. unconstitutional impeachments, and illegal l

schiff, the senator from california is a great example asking pam bondi, questions about pardons for liz cheneymericans are worried about. fentanyl poisoning, crime, trafficking and they are worried about weaponization of his institutions against political opponents and you hear a lot in the media the wasn't a big deal for the election, it was a huge because white people turned out in favor of the president. they are very concerned about the institutions corrected from one political side versus the other because if you do it on one hand, it can be done to anybody else and that's not the way america is supposed to function or the way the system was set up. equal justice is there for a reason so they said they are going to reestablish that and that something americans deeply care about and people come from other countries, legal immigrant's care about the rule of law because the whole reason, one of the big reasons is because the country they came from doesn't adhere to any of those principles. >> we'll be right back. ♪ if i had to start college again from scratch, i probably wouldn't have made i

. >> i also think liz cheney is very heroic. >> wait, what? where did that come from?ith a message about fighting democracy with a former republican member of congress was the right strategy. >> democratic donors are having serious regrets about giving carla to bill just to have it all disappear in a landside. some are threatening to send cash again against the party gets a major overhaul. with the cash trot, liberal activist groups are laying off 20% of their staff. one adviser is moving to canada. he says the coup was a big mistake, he called it bite inside. the golden age is giving them high anxiety. "democrats are lost politically culturally, spiritually. many them, privately felt that the current president is executive leave producing a massive shift in the zeitgeist club. trump's popularity has never been higher. and democrats get nervous. they sing. >> ♪ trupp is not a king ♪ ♪ never turning back ♪ ♪ never turning back ♪ ♪ stop the cash-strapped ♪ end in the grassroots resistance not what it used to be. between songs and some guy dragging a trumped up with a noo

he had always talked about liz cheney when he attacked liz cheney, he would talk about liz cheney andoing less overseas, doing less outside the country. so i'm curious, this appears to have just cropped up postelection when we hear about greenland, the panama canal, canada, on and on and on, any, any, any reporting on when that began developing and his strategic approach. >> yeah. >> it's a great. >> question, joe, because. >> i went back. >> and looked at. all of his public remarks. >> his speeches. >> and rallies. >> and. >> interviews and. >> so forth during the 24 campaign. >> guess what? >> the word. >> greenland never came up. not once. and when he mentioned the panama canal, it was only in the. >> context of. >> how. >> you know, jimmy. >> carter made a. >> bad decision. >> not that he was going. >> to. >> go take it. >> back with, you know. >> a naval fleet or. >> something. >> like that. and i. >> didn't find any reference to canada becoming the 51st state, much less. >> the idea of taking over gaza. >> remember. >> that's the. >> thing he floated just. >> last week. >> hard

we're going to need some republicans, frankly, who are willing to lose, who are willing to be a liz cheneye my seat to do the right thing by this country, not the right thing by donald trump. i haven't seen it yet. let's hope. >> democratic congressman dan goldman of new york. [laughter and applause] >> jon: that's the sales pitch. "we just need someone on their side willing to lose everything for progress! like a russian dog being shot into space!" you can see the democrats' backbone in our new show, "america backslides," starring dan goldman as hopeful loser! ♪ ♪ [applause] but fine, we have to rely on republicans in congress to be a check on trump. how's that going? >> republican senator thom tillis says that while he believes trump's actions run "afoul of the constitution in the strictest sense," he believes "nobody should bellyache about that." >> you're comfortable if he shuts those down without getting congressional approval? >> well, congress will be involved at some point, but i think the country's comfortable. >> they're using that authority right now in a way it hasn't been used

latest taking in new people and losing the figures who have been members in the past like liz cheneyzinger. amna: people disagreed with president trump. >> correct. that means a new coalition has formed. trump is the singular figure. he is magnetic personality, an american original and genius politician. amna:amna: does the coalition hold without him? >> that remains to be seen. i don't think there's going back to bushism. if anyone can pick up the standard of trump afterwards, we have to wait and see. the republican party is a different -- different and stronger thing because of president trump. amna: michael knows -- knowles, thank you for being here. geoff: latin rock, afro-cuban funk-and many other names have been applied to the music of cimafunk. the 35 year-old star is now making waves around the world -- earning grammy nominations three years in a row, and being called a global ambassador for cuban music. in the final piece in their series from havana, senior arts correspondent jeffrey brown and senior arts producer anne azzi davenport show how cimafunk is blending genres to p

like liz cheney or adam kinzinger or those kind of figures. amna: people who disagreed with president trump? >> that means a new coalition that's formed. trump is the singular figure. he is a magnetic personality and an american original. and i think he's a genius level politician. amna: so does the coalition hold without him? >> that remains to be seen. i don't think there's really -- going back to bushism. and if anyone can pick up the standard of trump afterwards we'll have to wait and see. but the republican party is a different and stronger thing now because of donald trump. amna: michael knowles, host of the michael knowles show on the daily wire. thank you for being here. appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me. geoff: latin rock, afro cuban funk and many other names have been applied to the music of ce many. a funk. the 35-year-old star is now making waves around the world. earning grammy nominations three years in a row and being called a global ambassador for cuban music. in the final piece in their series from havana, senio

and he has succeeded in cleansing the republican party of people like liz cheney and adam kinzinger anditt romney and the people who would actually stand up for historical fact, for reality, and for the rule of law and for the constitution. and so this vengeance tour, this mass political vendetta, suddenly has become the overriding agenda of the government. and the republican party is allowing his fantasies, his mania and his pathologies to define public policy in the country. >> congressman jamie raskin, as always, thank you so much for being at our table next. >> you bet. >> trump trying to fire ellen weintraub, the chair of the federal election commission. but she says that move is illegal. we're going to talk to her right after this. you're watching the after this. you're watching the weekend. we're still going for that sweet shot. and with higher stroke risk from afib not caused by a heart valve problem... we're going for eliquis. eliquis reduces stroke risk. and has less major bleeding. over 97% of eliquis patients did not experience a stroke. don't stop eliquis without asking you

but i went over and i'll never forget liz cheney gave me her 20 minutes of time because no one else would. and and i use that time and i split it with my friend josh gottheimer and i gave speech that night, tears in my eyes, honoring the blood of people like john lewis and people like my father. and went across that aisle, across the dial, which is a no no in this town, as we all know the chamber and stood there arm in arm with my brother josh to maybe try to just learn the lesson and pass it on to the next generation like john did to me. so, you know, there's moments in your life you got to do the right thing. and that was one of them. and that inspired me. and i'm just grateful to part of this journey and being able to share a brief moment of his life that know he's touched so many individuals in the same way. so i'm grateful. i'm just going to give you all one quick chance for a last word. it's pretty crowded in here. a lot of statues, but it seems like maybe could be room for one more. why? what's the best reason to have a statue to john lewis in the statuary hall in the years to come

. >> think liz cheney is very heroic. >> wait, what? >> how did that. wait, where did that come? we are. here we are. >> but i don't think closing the campaign with a message about fighting democracy with a former republican member of congress was the right strategy. >> democrat donors are having some serious regrets about giving kamala to bill, just to have it all disappear in a landslide. some donors are now writing trump's name on their checks. others are closing their wallets completely or threatening to send cash again unless the party gets a major overhaul with a cash drought. liberal activist groups are laying off 20% of their staff. one democrat advisor is moving to canada. he says the coup was a big mistake. called it biden's side. the golden age is giving them high anxiety. democrats are lost politically, culturally, spiritually. many democrats privately fret that the current president is executive, producing a massive shift in the zeitgeist. trump's popularity, at least during his first three weeks in office, has never been higher. when democrats get nervous, they sing

he went and spent the midterms of 2022 going after people like liz cheney.. and so it was it only made sense that once he got into power, he would use his power to go after people that he didn't like. and so you talk about people like john bolton. you talk about people like general milley. it really only made sense that he would find he would use his power to find ways to get back at them. and so in that regard, in that respect, his decision to strip their security wasn't all that surprising. >> alex isenstadt molly jong-fast john heilemann, thank you so much for being here on this day with us. alex's book is called revenge the inside story of trump's return to power. it's available for preorder now. available for preorder now. quick b with hotels and vacation rentals, booking.com has something for everyone. seashells! you got anything more boutique? oui, oui, oui. right this way... now we're talking. what about something more family friendly? oooh! maybe a resort with a waterpark... [water splash] or somewhere less family-friendly? yep! one vegas hotel for

. >> that today, from the party that jettisoned liz cheney from her post in leadership and turned her into a pariah. for her part, liz cheney posted this on social media today, quote, trump with his devotion to putin, abandonment of ukraine and lies about history is the antithesis of everything ronald reagan stood for. he is aligning america with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend. history will not be kind to those who are helping him, especially those who call themselves reagan republicans. while they pretend not to see what is happening. siding with america's adversaries over america's allies is where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. ambassador michael mcfaul is here, former ambassador to russia and msnbc international affairs analyst. also joining us, new york times diplomatic correspondent michael crowley, and joining us as well, retired four star general, msnbc military analyst, general barry mccaffrey. general mccaffrey. i remember in the days before the invasion, you were looking at open source intellig

liz cheney.etweeted something that elon musk put up and she says, quote, i'm proud of what america did to win the cold war, defeat soviet communism and defend democracy. our nation stood for freedom. you may be unfamiliar with that part of our history. since you weren't yet an american citizen. now she's taking a dig at elon musk there. but this piece of it, i mean, talk a little bit about what china is doing in this way and whether this means that the u.s. is ceding ground to china in this kind of a back and forth. >> it's that history is so interesting. when i grew up, you know, in the 1980s, and so it was the reagan era and still the cold war. and so there still was this sense that we needed to have friends in the world because we were in a global contest with the soviet union. now, you might think moving into the 1990s, you know, 2000 and then, you know, coming all the way up to 2025 that the world has changed. do we really need those friends in the world anymore? but the fact is, we still do

joe biden pardoned his son, liz cheney, adam schiff, adam kay and others. doj under biden was so corrupt, pot calling the kettle, says dorothy metzger. why? why do we always have to play the what about ism game? the what about ism in this instance is the what if biden had tossed the prosecution of a red state representative who agreed to be acting now in a more progressive fashion? okay, just just conjure up an image of a progressive, a liberal. uh, acting red state, all because the indictment had been thrown out against people. the complete reverse of who's upset now would be going back blank. um, apply it on a case by case basis. it's good for eric adams, in my opinion. good for eric adams that he's now decided to be more aggressive relative to our poorest borders. but to have an indictment tossed in return for that kind of a pledge, allegedly. and i don't even know that i need to say, allegedly looking at the paperwork that i've already shown you in this case, it's not it's not the way it should be done better that president trump should have just pardon

anthony fauci, former republican congresswoman liz cheney, and the wind. [ laughter ] according to new president biden is leaving office with the lowest net positive rating since former president nixon. though i'm guessing a lot of nixon's records are about to get broken. [ laughter ] former republican congressman matt gaetz said in a new interview that he is, quote, "starting to think about running for governor of florida." well, you'll have some pretty weird shoes to fill. [ laughter ] the ceo of panera bread announced yesterday that he would be stepping down after deciding he can no longer in good conscience refer to macaroni and cheesese in a bl made of bread as soup. [ light laughter ] according to a new report, thounds of pet owners are ach t animals to speak by having them press buttons that play a word. and if it works, women are going to try it with boyfriends. [ laughter ] who the [ bleep ] is ts guy? [ light laughter ] take your [ bleep ] hood off. you're on tv. [ light laughter ] more than two dozen people in england were trapped in a pub over the weekend due to a snowstorm

. >> liz cheney. >> every now and then i rinse it out. >> fights over in. >> just one wash. >> cookbooks, corporate fat cats, swindling socialites, doped up cyclists then yes, more crooked politicians. i have a feeling we won't be running out of those anytime soon. >> a new season of united states of scandal with jake tapper march 9th on cnn. >> at least 11 deaths have been connected to a listeria outbreak linked to frozen supplemental shakes. the infection has also put 37 people in the hospital. the fda, tracing the illnesses to products distributed in hospitals distributed in health care facilities across 21 states. those shakes have been recalled and officials are investigating the outbreak. the fast moving measles outbreak in west texas has now reached 90 cases. that number is expected to rise. measles is highly contagious. it can be deadly, but there is a very effective vaccine for this. cnn's dr. sanjay gupta traveled to one texas hospital and has more now on the efforts to contain this outbreak. >> so many of the people who. >> get infected. >> with measles, who get sick. >> and n

. >> liz cheney is rising in the white house, and a man has declared himself our king. so i would like to know whether the people would like to know who you, congressman and your fellow congressman, are going to do to rein in the megalomaniac in the white house. >> when you talk about tyranny, when you talk about presidential power, i remember having the same discussion with republicans when biden was elected. the funny thing is, the funny thing is, the funny thing is you're sitting here and a lot of you would probably say those january six's who are yelling just as loud as you, who are upset, just like you. >> but i do wonder what your reaction is, but a noting, as i think we should, that tia mitchell of the ajc pointed this out earlier. he is in, yes, a pretty red district. this place where he was. it's a it's a slight it's a bluer part of it in fulton county. how much stock then should democrats put in something, a scene like that? >> well, they should understand, my colleagues, that people are scared. they're off. they don't want us to be nice. they want us to use t

liz cheney, thank you, john. >> all right. this morning, one couple is celebrating 72 years of wedded bliss. joe and hutch davis of phoenix, arizona, have been married since the year the first color television was sold. although that picture was in black and white. we're talking about 1953. dwight eisenhower was president, and they say they were looking forward to many more years together. >> no challenge. we just did it i remember. a few challenges. >> hutch. >> well happy anniversary. they say their deep friendship is what makes it work. sarah. >> that reminds me of you and your what? you're going to be like that you and your wife. >> we've been together basically 72 years. >> look, look at that. look at that smile. look. >> does it feel like a day more than 71? >> oh, come on, you are so cute together. all right, coming up. inflation has risen and prices still high. so what's the president's plan to keep his promise of bringing prices down? that story in moorhead. >> the good stuff brought to you by viking. exploring the wo

. >> how do you put i mean, you look at the success that liz cheney and adam kinzinger had when welcomed to work with democrats in the january 6th select committee. do you think there's a scenario where any republican is interested in hearing from danielle sassoon about what went awry at s.d.n.y? >> it's going to be interesting to see. we certainly look forward to providing any opportunity that we can for her to present her story, and the information to the american people should be a very compelling individual. i think that what we've been saying to our republican colleagues is that on any issue that the american people are concerned about, it only takes three republicans to break with the other side of the aisle, join the 215 democrats, and we can stop them in their tracks. it only takes three. meanwhile, they're in the witness protection program as it relates to the things that are taking place. don't want to take a stand, don't want to offend elon musk. don't want to offend donald trump, but they're really offending the people that they were elected to represent. >> are you starting

we want it not imperialism per se, because this is not dick cheney and liz cheney showing up and talking's saying american power epitomized by donald trump is what the entire world needs. >> you and i have attended many of these cpac gatherings over the years, and i think you and i have had a front seat to watch the way that cpac has turned into tpac, to the point where the organizers have even called it that. but i wonder, as we look ahead, there are some questions of, you know, is this the way to figure out who's next in the pipeline? but you hear bannon there. i mean, how seriously are people taking this idea of a third term? they can't do it. but is it a troll or is it more than that. >> it a lot of it is a troll. there are a lot of things said at cpac and republican politics that they know will get a rise out of the media and will fix it the media's attention for a day. bannon is very good at that. that's part of what he was doing. there was one group there that had a side room that was unofficial, saying, here's here's a caesarean, caesarean trump third term project. but that's van

liz. >> cheney. >> but not only that. >> this is exactly what russia and china have been saying. it's all about the land, and basically nobody watched what the chinese said tonight. they said, we know exactly what they want. the americans gaza outside the gaza shores, they discovered oil and gas. so it's not only. >> this, isn't this, this. >> isn't a new this isn't a new concept. i mean, in march. >> one second, it's about colonialism. donald trump today he proposed a new vision for america, and it's colonialism. and he's been proposing this for other areas, panama and other places. but tonight he went further. he said, palestinians, we will send them, you know, left and right, whatever. and palestinians, by the way, the millions of palestinians, they have families in the west bank. they have families in jerusalem. i have families in gaza. and i my family lives both in haifa, in jaffa and in the west bank. we can move them there. why not allow the women and children to move actually to where they have relatives? why not allow the orphans? there's 38,000 orphans in gaza. we have

and their constitution, one of them stretched so much that i'm a part of this conversation that liz cheney at the democratic convention, that danielle sassoon stepped away from the justice department and was embraced by andrew weissmann and chris christie. one party right now has space for bush cheney defenders. you know, federalist society prosecutors, a cheney and every member and facet of the democratic party, traditionally from from labor, you know, every aspect of it. the other one is literally got bill barr in an enemies list. >> right. >> and so i think it might take a minute, but i don't think there's a single example in history where the party that's entire retribution strategy. i mean, kash patel's list doesn't just have republicans on it, it has trump cabinet members on it. and so there's not an example in history where that side prevails in the long run. and so i think i think about the health of the parties and sort of the health of the body politic. and i think a lot about the democratic party, and it's so different from the republican party in every, in every single way. one

. >> liz cheney was out reminding us of that. she said, hey, elon, you might have forgotten you weren't a u.s. citizen in the cold war, so you might have missed it. >> but even more to the point that cobalt in your tesla battery came from the democratic republic of the congo, probably. and odds are, if the united states isn't providing foreign aid there, china is. that is not good. >> marco rubio said that we're going to continue the programs that advance our foreign policy, though. that's that's that's that's the thing that comes after the. >> comma, not one, one employee per mission in the field around the world. marco rubio also said in 2017, foreign aid is not is not charity. humanitarian aid is not charity. and that's that is it is it's not. it is leverage around the world against our adversaries. it's helping prevent diseases from coming to our shores. >> to these people. that have to be the ones doing it. people who are not aligned with foreign policy. i think the answer to that question is no, they don't have to. >> you'v

. >> he sounds like liz cheney. >> but not only that. >> this is exactly what russia and china have been saying. it's all about the land, and basically nobody watched what the chinese said tonight. they said, we know exactly what they want. the americans gaza outside the gaza shores, they discovered oil and gas. so it's not only. >> but. >> this. isn't this isn't a new this isn't a new concept. i mean, in march. >> one second, it's about colonialism. donald trump today, he proposed a new vision for america, and it's colonialism. and he's been proposing this for other areas, panama and other places. but tonight he went further. he said, palestinians, we will send them, you know, left and right, whatever. and palestinians, by the way, the millions of palestinians, they have families in the west bank. they have families in jerusalem. i have families in gaza. and i my family lives both in haifa, in jaffa and in the west bank. we can move them there. why not allow the women and children to move actually to where they have relatives? why not allow orphans? there's 38,000 orphans in gaza. we ha

been witnessing of the department of justice and the fbi and the ridiculous select committee with liz cheneyatory evidence issuing subpoenas without signoff by courts. acting as law enforcement agencies without all the guardrails that our constitution law enforcement agencies. people said, why don't you just look forward and leave it alone. if we don't get to the bottom of what they did and hold the people who did it accountable they will do it again they will do it again the first opportunity they get. i've been thrilled with all of president trump's nominees but i think the one next to be the most relevant to this fight is the one that got confirmed yesterday the wonderful cass patel. .. file the complaint against me in california they are designed to go after all the lawyers trying to help trump. they were the ones hired by the attorney general of arizona to prepare the prosecution memo and co-conspirator trump. i told media like hiring fox to do the safety memo for your chicken coop and the people doing that need to be held accountable and if they spent some time in prison, maybe the nex

acknowledge when we have a president who is basically saying a political enemy whether it is have or liz cheney or adam schiff should be prosecuted, that is doing damage to the mutual goal we have about not weaponizing the department. i yelled back -- yield back. . chair grassley: thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate it. mr. patel, thank you so much for being here. i know this is such an incredible moment. thank you for being a part of this with all of us. i have been diligently listening over the last few hours and what i have heard you say is this, that your duty is to protect american citizens that suck it you will work to uphold the constitution. you will focus on violent crime. you said, i want children to have parks too play in, not needles to walk on. you said "i will let cops be cops. you said we got to get back to having full transparency. is that all requests will be responded to. for all the members of the judiciary committee, for that, we say thank you. you said you will have the backs, as you always have, of law enforcement. you reminded us about being embedded in seal team 6 and

but on the other, this is why everybody from liz cheney to adam kinzinger to jeff duncan to kamala harrisbout what do you think of this moment politically? >> yeah, i mean, look, i everybody maybe not everybody. maybe there's some people with the better angels than me out there. many of us could have can understand the schadenfreude element to some of what angela was talking about, people kind of getting what they voted for and what they were warned would happen. but like once you move past that, i think the more important insight that angela is offering is that there really is tangible political consequences to the stuff that they want to do, right? like a lot of what is in project 2025 is unpopular, their whole agenda isn't unpopular. there's some elements of their immigration agenda that i don't particularly like that is popular. you know, like there are some things that they want to do that are popular, but much of their agenda is unpopular. and i've always thought that the sweet spot for trump politically, if he wanted to, you know, just get his face on mount rushmore and stay out of

and former republican congresswoman liz cheney added this.acy. our nation stood for freedom. you may be unfamiliar with that part of our history since you weren't yet an american citizen. what is your theory of the case? is it is it simply the millions that went from elon's checkbook to donald trump's as a candidate? or what is your theory on why trump is, for the first time, so willing to be eclipsed in terms of attention? >> it probably has something to do with the hundreds of millions. but also it is a kind of malign neglect of the way government works and the way that it serves people. that reference to the faa is particularly timely, given the tragedy that we saw recently, perhaps partly due to the understaffing of the air controllers, perhaps due to the antiquated technology that the faa uses and perhaps due in the future to elon musk recommending slashing the faa or undermining its work. so this kind of power grab unaccountability has real impacts on real people's lives. and those powerful statements by my colleagues on the house side,

the courts have replaced robert mueller and jack smith and liz cheney and the january 6th select committee save us. and i just want to sort of a reality check as to whether or not that is one accurate and two healthy. >> is it healthy? i'll do. >> the second one first. >> it's not healthy. >> there's supposed. >> to be a three legged stool, as michael says. and congress has sort of curled up in a ball in. >> a furry. >> little ball at the president's feet. >> and that's. >> the end of that. so we only have one entity. >> now that. >> can check both. >> the legislature and the. >> executive. >> and. >> that's the courts. >> is that enough? >> look, i think it's useful to remember. >> that in. >> the first. >> trump administration, right? we remember. >> what it. >> was like. >> in the first. >> few weeks with the. rollout of the muslim ban and the courts that leapt into. >> action, and not just federal courts. >> right. >> we had. >> all sorts. >> of, you know, we have to remember, this is a. federalist system, and we. >> have state. attorneys general around the country who. are leaping. >>

he has said folks ranging from liz cheney to adam kinzinger to former vice president hairs should be investigated and criminally prosecuted. if you were to order you to open an investigation into any of these individuals let's say vice president harris, would you? mr. patel: this question speaks to my ability to leave political bias and allow independent behavior to be the only guiding light. as a public defender, i learned that in the harshest of arenas. any law enforcement investigation if i'm confirmed at the fbi will only be launched on the following qualification, a factual legal basis to do so. the president has said publicly he will allow the fbi to remain independent and i have said as much as well. sen. coons: so if fbi agents brought to a factual, legal basis and you are about to refer it to a prosecutor and you get a call from the white house saying do not proceed, this is a major donor, someone close to the president, this is inappropriate, what would you do? mr. patel: i think you answered it partially in your question. the agents trained to bring investigations on behal

wildlife galor and open spaces and not one liz cheney anywhere to be found.se] in 2024, wyoming provided president trump with the largest victory. we are so proud of the job he's doing. we are - we have done nor decades it has been happening and no one before would do anything about it. we are over joyed that he has task elon musk with overseeing doge and using their skills of maybe the closest to 0 based budgeting that we'll ever see in the federal government. [applause] >> we are thrilled that he recognizes that we are a government of by and for the people and that his primary purpose is to protect the homeland and secure our god given rights and freedoms. it is quite apparent that the democrats long ago stop caring about concerns of working class people. the truck drivers, farmers, airline employees, minors, and construction workers, among others. they paid such neglect by being slacked in the last election. they are engaging in kabuki theaters while standing in front of agencies and generally making fools of themselves. the agency that they have chosen fo