the extreme maga republicans want to defund the department of justice. the extreme maga republicans voted to eliminate in the default on america act tens of thousands of law enforcement positions across the country, jeopardizing the public safety of the american people. the extreme ma ga republicans in this so-called resolution that will be on the floor today don't even acknowledge the capitol police officers who risked their lives each and every day to protect the american people, our staff members and members of congress and fought hard to protect us and save our democracy when facing violent insurrection uses -- insurrectionists on january 6. this group of republicans want to lecture us about law and order when they've become the party of lawlessness and disorder? get lost. reporter: just generally, what are your thoughts on republicans holding that testimony, the hearing testimony from the f.b.i. whistleblowers just generally? and i have a second question as well. mr. jeffries: again, the conspiracy theories -- theorists on the other side of the aisl

extreme maga republicans hold the nation hostage. put america's full faith and credit in jeopardy, and flirt with economic disaster. imagine seniors not getting their social security checks. unemployment spiking. small businesses closing their doors. 401k's and pensions tanking. president biden has been negotiating in good faith, agreeing to future spending caps and other concessions, but they want more. they want to cut programs for seniors. veterans. children. mr. soto: all while protecting tax cuts for the very wealthy. so i ask, will republicans make a deal? or cause a disaster? asking for a few million hardworking central floridians. but mark my words. if you break it, you own it. and we'll make sure the american people know about it. thanks, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from oregon seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. >> we ar

fire for hard working families -- >> maga republicans -- >> maga.a is or somehow connected to the bankruptcy of bed bath & beyond? even elon musk's exploding rocket ships? >> yeah, it's to the point of absurdity. but this is what happened -- what happens, liz, if you're not tethered to the truth. if you have a compliant media, guess what? you can get away with saying those things. they blamed the victims for the crime of what was going on in new york city. one of those womenned had their son -- women had their son murdered and somehow that was donald trump and the maga republicans' fault? they control all the levers of government there in new york city, and trying to blame republicans? i don't think it works because they apply it to everything, and it's just absurd. elizabeth:st the incompetent. >> oh, come on, it doesn't apply to everything. elizabeth: biden's been in office since the nixon era. he ran senate foreign relations. he's been behind a lot of government spending. do you think voters are going to see through this? because the polls show t

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 house republicans have said we will accept nothing short of their extreme default on america. >> you are saying what they put on the table is extreme here. it sounds like you are playing defense right now. the speaker came out rather optimistic saying they still have differences, think they had to resolve. [indiscernible] >> i think that any proposal that offers to freeze spending is not a proposal that has been put into the public domain by the left flank as you articulated it. that is an inherently reasonable effort to find commo

child deportation act, this extreme maga republican piece of legislation, will throw out children who are fleeing, in many cases extreme violence and persecution. it will build a medieval border wall that is a 14th century solution to a 21st century and impact the customs of the border patrol agency in stopping dangerous drugs like fentanyl from coming into our country. child deportation act is not a serious act to deal with the issue related to our broken immigration system. democrats have a proposal championed by congresswoman linda sanchez. it is a real effort to address our immigration system and make sure there is order at the border while at the same time respecting our history as immigrants. another and we had a meeting with joe biden in the white house and he has set us on a positive path forward to make sure that we do not default on america's debt for the first time in our nation's history. a default would be catastrophic. a default would be dangerous. a default will be devastating for every day americans. it would trigger a job-killing recession resulting in the loss of goo

it's democrats who opposed this maga hostage situation. it's democrats who have always been clear we will not allow this country to suffer a devastating default. the question is whether republicans today will decide to join us and do the right thing. this is a deal that speaker mccarthy negotiated when his predecessor negotiated an agreement on the debt ceiling, she guaranteed the votes from the vast majority of her caucus. nobody is mistaking speaker mccarthy for speaker pelosi. he should be able to do what he's going to do and produce 150 votes from this majority. that should be on the table. the fact that it is still an open question, the fact that we still don't know if the votes are there that he is depending on democrats to avert disaster, that is a reflection of the extremism of the brinksmanship and the ideological rot that has taken hold of the republican party. like all of you, i am eager to see the republicans' final tally. but this caucus will remain unified with the president and most importantly with the american people in th

this is how the maga extremists view the american people. it doesn't matter what will happen to them as long as they are winning their political game. who is at the center? families at home, workers, it's small businesses, full faith and credit of the united states and not only the recession and economic catastrophe could start here but trying erld globally. at a time when our president ace asserting the strength of our country here and abroad bringing manufacturing back and investing in infrastructure and climate resiliency, siding with ukraine and standing with democracies around the world, this is the vision of the republican conference, that you put all that at stake? for what? for what? to make that winner circle so small that only the rich and well connected continue to prosper and willing to cut off opportunity for american families who are trying to get by, recover from the pandemic, get back on their feet? it's hard to take in because it is so cartoon-villain like. like a cartoon, the american people won't snap back up when you drop

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 house republicans have said we will accept nothing short of their extreme default on america. >> you are saying what they put on the table is extreme here. it sounds like you are playing defense right now. the speaker came out rather optimistic saying they still have differences, think they had to resolve. [indiscernible] >> i think that any proposal that offers to freeze spending is not a proposal that has been put into the public domain by the left flank as you articulated it. that is an inherently reasonable effort to find commo

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the maga right is totally driving the train over there.lican party who don't stand for anything, and that's kevin mccarthy. and in the maga right, which stands for basically repealing the 20th century and dismantling all of the gains that we've made. i love hearing joe biden say this is not your father's republican party. and i was thinking, you know what, this democratic party is your father and your grandfather's democratic party. because the party of the roosevelts and lbj. it's also your grandchildren's party because the party that's invested in the future, investing in the infrastructure of the country, and investing in defending ourselves against the calamities of climate change but the measure right would bring on. because they don't believe in science. >> how important is it, though, for the president, this administration, democrats like yourself, to actually explain to the american people voters what these cuts would mean. because the average person would say, the government spends way too much money, which we could all agree on.

there is a republican party and there is a maga republican. the maga republicans have put him in a position where, in order to stay speaker, e has to agree to things that maybe he believes, but are just extreme. >> joining me now is marilyn congressman, jamie raskin. a democrat who sits on the house judiciary committee and a former member of the january six committee. congressman, i want to talk about politics but i want to talk about you and your health first. give us an update in your fight against cancer. >> well, your very kind stephanie. because of the hard work of my doctors and nurses and medical staff. after six rounds of chemotherapy they do not find any k traces of cancer cells in the. it does not mean that they do not exist, they might be microscopic, we are going to go another cat scan in the middle of may. but if that one looks good, then i'm going to be on kind of the long term checkup plan. so i've got a new lease on life here and the neuropathy is going away and the knowledge is going away and luckily i have not had to miss any

protects the american people from the draconian cuts which were included in the extreme maga republicans default on america act and protects vulnerable communities like the homeless and individuals who are aging out of foster care. i think of to president biden's leadership and confidence which -- that we will avoid a constructive all. >> -- default. >> [indiscernible] what is your message for progressives concerned about the deal? >> what i just communicated. we will continue to have a conversation throughout the day, later on this evening, and tomorrow in terms of the caucus. what we are all interested in is how many votes are the republicans, who negotiated this resolution. we heard that 95% of the housework of lincoln -- the house republican congress supported the resolution. that appears to not be the case. but we are also committed to making sure that it occurs and that the republicans keep their promise to produce 150 votes. the speaker has not asked me for a number. >> are you committed to passing it if they are unable to do so? >> i expectation is that house republicans will kee

democrats have the white house, democrats have the senate, extreme maga republicans barely in control of the house. president biden says we want to increase investments in the american people, you want to dramatically cut spending, let's find common ground and free spending at the 2023 level. that is an inherently reasonable compromise. they have rejected it. republicans have rejected putting revenue on the table. rejected making sure that the wealthy and well off pay their fair share. rejected revisiting the 2017 g.o.p. tax scam where 83% of the benefits went to the wealthy 1%. they have rejected looking at the child tax credit which reduced poverty in half in the united states of america. so president biden has been very reasonable in what he has put on the table. freeze spending, reduce the deficit by $1.1 trillion on top of the $1.7 trillion deficit he -- reduction that he has already a come. -- accomplished. through the appropriations process, let's work together to figure out how to do more to both invest in the american people and deal with our financial situation into the futu

republican behavior with respect to this manufactured maga default crisis. now america should always pay our bills. and keep the promises that we've made. social security recipients, to women, to children, to families and certainly to our veterans. but republicans are driving us down a dangerous road of default or have presented the american people with another unacceptable choice which is devastating cuts to children, devastating cuts to medicaid, devastating cuts to nutrition, devastating cuts to education, public safety and devastating cuts to our veterans. that is unacceptable, unconscionable and unamerican. and we will continue to fight against it. i'm thankful that leading this fight are those members of congress who are closest to the veteran community because they are veterans themselves. and i want to yield first to distinguished vietnam war veteran who has been a champion of the veterans' community, a champion for the values that veterans have espoused and for military families throughout the nation, chairman mike thompson. mr. thompson: thank you,

enough of this manufactured maga crisis. people need to put -- we've got to put people over politics for a change and stop this karineing from one crisis too to the another. chi quays -- chaos inflicted by the g.o.p. put people over politics, get back to work, let's fix this for the people we represent. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute, ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> well, ladies and gentlemen, all over the country, welcome to the united states congress. only today while we are facing a debt crisis, all of the republicans have left to go out of town. they've gotten to their cars and limos and they're catching planes to go home while we are teetering on the brink of disaster. what kind of leadership is that, kevin mccarthy? mr. mfume: we heard the list we know what the cuts will a

they are all extreme maga. extreme maga.lorida man, he's extreme maga, and who sells running against me. rfk jr. extreme maga. i know, he's a democrat but you can't trust him. you can't trust anyone who is named after a bridge. true story, not a joke. [applause] >> i'll come to you first. obviously nobody in this room thinks biden will win but assuming he does is there any hope that the extra seasoning would make jill a better president in her second term? >> here's the truth. if i had to bet right now i think joe biden will win in 2024. i don't know if anybody agrees with me and certainly not what i want to happen but i sit around and let's consider, we live in a world right now where no one will admit they were wrong about anything. >> good point. >> how many people are actually willing in 2020 to change what they voted in, in 2020, even though biden is a disaster the best case scan their owe is either a lot of trump voters are not allowed vote because they aren't real people, right? but two as you look at it maybe they ar

okay, there was the super mega maga and now there's the black maga threat, you know, super threat.ng out of -- yeah, hispanic white nationalist tommy just reminded me. the list goes on and on. >> jason: they've called me, they've called me a sixist, misogynist, white supremacists. >> laura: congrats. >> they throw these names out there and it doesn't make sense. >> laura: tulsi great to see you tonight thank you so much. coming up we break down all the most important positions and who would handle them best if elected. that's next. hi, i'm tony hawk, and like many of you, i take a statin to reduce cholesterol, but statins can also deplete coq10 levels. that's why my doctor recommended qunol coq10. qunol has the number one cardiologist recommended form of coq10. qunol. the brand i trust. ♪ >> laura: we all know that the economy is the top issue of this upcoming election and it also happens to be bidden's a keeley's heel a nightmare under biden. but the white house wants you to think don't worry it is a all under control. >> the message from the president to the american people is th

with d damage control, the messages maga, mega maga, i cannot believe it's not maga, that's when he doesacknowledge that any republican said we will take to the streets, this is a full on insurrection mode, fences are going up, the capitol police are flooding every avenue in d.c. and that's the part that is so annoying to me when there is a double standard, if i republican drinks hawaiian punch, that is code for violence. i'm telling you, man. >> brian: by the way, it's really good but not good for y you. it's not really. so, judge, the president and kevin mccarthy in many ways. he wanted the clean debt ceiling race, nobody's getting it, getting back to 2022 spending and it's only last year, you get trillions into it. repurpose and pandemics spending. >> judge jeanine: there is no question kevin mccarthy seems like the reasonable person and that's why americans are supporting him. you do not have to get into the weeds to understand this, you really do not. it's about not spending money that we do not have. so it is recognizing we do not need to keep making money as aoc said, we can print

a maga person. >> do you agree with that assumption? >> i agree that we should not be characterizing trump supporters as white nationalists. >> and scene. a white nationalist is a trump supporting republican. thank you, tommy tuberville. >> he called the thing what it is. >> and by the way, some anti-semites who praise hitler, are going to be at donald trump's doral property giving a speech at which eric trump is going to be. i don't know if he's going anymore, but the reality is, that's where we're at, michael steele. your party that has you in it. >> yeah. >> also now has open white nationalists. >> you're still in it? >> still there. >> color me fool. >> and tommy tuberville, not joy reid that's saying that white nationalists are trump maga supporters, tommy tuberville said they are. your thoughts, michael steele. >> thank you very much. >> it's with love that i ask. >> can i get a drink? >> yes, you can. as soon as you go off the set, cocktail time. >> here's the deal. yeah, no, i have had this conversation about four times today. b

maga, maga, that's just anti-trump stuff, it has no meaning whatsoever. john was right about veterans. we don't know anything about that because the appropriation has not allocated yet. there is going to be -- >> sandra: you and both john said that. >> john: here i am. >> larry: look, if we can't slow spending down, it's -- it's been growing at 8 to 10% for years. during covid it grew even more than that. we did create a lot of debt. trump created a lot of debt, biden created a lot of debt. the problem is, mr. biden then went and increased it in 21 and 22 when we didn't need it. and that was the source of the inflation. and that's a very important point. inflation is still running over 5%, the economy grew at 1.1% in the first quarter of this year, the last five quarters, 15 months, the u.s. economy has grown at 0.9% with 6.5% inflation rate. that is failure of policy. why? because they spend too much. the other point i want to make, i always do this, because unfortunately mr. biden, presidents don't lie, i'll say it's an untruth or cognitive dissidents,

driven by maga republicans in congress. instead, we should be debating a vision of our country's future. their vision versus our vision. totally legitimate. said we like their vision better than ours. debate the vision. whether or not we are going to take our country backward, certainly not whether we are going to default again. and i remind you, under the previous president, republicans voted three times to increase the debt limit. no one has ever not voted to increase the debt limit. a lot to discuss today about our vision for the country, investing in america is the core of what we are all about. to build our economy from the middle out and bottom up. i know it is not very appropriate for my friends on the other side of the aisle, but decide what is a fair tax system. raise your hand if you think the tax system is fair. no. and maybe you don't like the way that we tax, how we tax. this is about everyone beginning to pay their fair share. i understand it is about cutting taxes. but we should have the debate in the open. n

the president, he put up a twee with your picture calling you a maga republican.o wonder in your head, being praised, do you wonder about a primary challenge at all? >> i took the opportunity to go there because it is who i am to be bipartisan, to be willing to engage in conversation in i talked to the president privately before his speech and told him in no uncertain terms he needs to negotiate with speaker mccarthy to lift the debt ceiling in he needs to wor with us on the migrant crisis impacting our southern border and communities like mine where migrants are being shipped from new york city to my congressional district because of the crisis that's been created at our southern border. i took the opportunity to be very direct with the president and obviously i guess he appreciated my candor. >> what did he say back to you? >> he acknowledged certainly th migrant car crisis we are dealing with and agreed that we need to secure our border and that we need to do more to get border patrol down there and folks to handle these asylum cases. but come up with respect t

we've heard from the maga republicans that they don't want to move. i think that mccarthy understanding that he's given away a lot of discretion that he has to those extreme republicans are concerned about -- he's concerned about getting an agreement that he can then sell to his conference. i think ultimately, mccarthy is going to have to stand up and put country before politics. >> do you think he'll actually do that? >> well, look. as the president said, every member of the leadership, i know how hakeem jeffries, even mcconnell, chuck schumer and the president has said that defaulting on our debt is not an option. why is that? not because of politics. because of what it means to our nation. the question is does mccarthy agree that we're going to put the nation first and defaulting on our debt is not putting the nation first. that's what's important. sounds >> to me like you doubt he would make that choice. >> look, i am putting the challenge out there basically. country first. country first. under no scenario does anyone except for some of the maga

there is a republican party and there are maga republicans.o things that maybe he believes, but are just extreme. >> you've made it clear to the american people that you want to stay in this job. you have officially announced that you are running for reelection. in your first video, you featured vice president harris ten times. when obama was in that position he did not mention you, sir. what are you trying to tell us? >> well, president obama and i became very good friends. , we just had a slightly different style of how we do things. as we recall, every major initiative president obama had, i was the last guy in the room deciding that with him giving, him advice on what we should do. . he is committed to help anyway can this time around. look, i just think that the vice harris has not gotten the credit she deserves. she is attorney general of the state of california, she has been a united states senator. she is really, very, very good. and with everything going on, she has not gotten the attention that she deserves. >> critics would say that

that's because the maga base isn't focused on the here and now.aking control of the once mundane races like school boards, local government, and election positions. and also taking over the political infrastructure inside each of the states from the ground up. cornell belcher and matthew dowd are back with me. so gentlemen, i want to start with donald trump bragging about overturning roe v. wade. just take a quick listen. >> i'm the one that got rid of roe v. wade, and everybody said that was an impossible thing to do. i put on three supreme court justices, very few people have had that privilege or honor. and they are terrific people, and they happen to believe that roe v. wade should not be there. >> so matt, we know >> but the party, that is a problem. when the leading candidate is like yeah, i did it, and we have other candidates trying to downplay or trying to soft pedal a national ban, talking point on oh yeah, getting the power back to the states. how do they navigate that space on this issue given how voters feel. 70% are like we do not li

this cruel, inhumane and unworkable bill was written in an extreme maga republican ecochamber -- echo chamber. consider h.r. 2 today. under a closed rule is a cynical move on the part of republicans to exploit the operational challenges associated with the lifting of title 42 public health restrictions. republicans have a short memory. just in february, they voted to lift title 42 when they voted to lift the covid-19 health emergency. it sets customs and border protection up for failure by shifting all processing to ports of entry without providing any additional resources. to make matters worse, it would bar c.b.p. from leveraging technology to process migrants in an orderly way. h.r. 2 doesn't fund a single new officer at our ports of entry, where authorize -- more than 90% of fentanyl is interdicted. in committee we tried to get an additional 1700 officers to build greater capacity, but republicans refused to do it. furthermore, this xenophobic bill would strip d.h.s. funding from any community or religious organization that helps migrants. the language is so broad that an organiza

>> never underestimate the maga ability to grift.ve shown is they have no problems separating fools from large amounts of their money. as long as desantis can lift that -- i may not be there now. it's about iowa, new hampshire. he's going all in. we've seen reporting saying his whole strategy here, the desantis strategy that is, is to set up an organization in iowa, which trump did not win, by the way, in 2016, and try to make the run in new hampshire. he's got a story for eight, nine month he can sit on it again. waiting for that bomb to drop of the indictment, which he's hoping will cause a lot of folks to say, all right, this is not palatable. we're got to figure out a way, and trump stolen documents indictment is not there. that's whooes banking on. >> chances that ron desantis even makes it to iowa? 50% or lower? real quick. >> oh, no, i think he's in it between now and iowa. again, he's well funded. he can certainly -- even if we're just putting the operation after what he's raisesed so far in the first two states, he can wait

it's just maga and it does not make any sense. you know that.id he not even bother to look at the 9-0? >> i mean that is a really low level drive it. >> i don't trust the guy who only wears half glasses. always rushes out. the result for farmers and ranchers are trying to figure out what the source of water is a. of rain are connectable domain two. government overreach. >> what you think. >> schumer i feel sorry for him you always in the oval office meetings would you look at him from the side, he sits like this . he looks like it mr. burns a. it's a very sad be met there is there is a limitation. >> want somebody in an intervie to alex just eschatology brown jackson about her maga background. you just do when i so on her face. see early action. either way bottles are not safe if i'm the one washing them. i mean very lazy and doing the dishes. they do not get clean. >> i never liked the idea of yo want to make sure they clean ou the bottles but i think a coupl of years ago we all agreed to the bottles were not good. what is the stuff at bpa when

he can say all he wants about maga republicans but let's be serious about this maga republicans are the only people talking about systemic ways about getting our nation's spending under control. we are going to have do that here in washington, dc. the american people expect no less. so if it takes republicans and maga republicans to make that happen, then sign me up, because that is the job that is in front of all of us. >> and you're right, democrats do seem to like this deal and we will get to that next. congressman roy and donald, thank you very much >> now that you've heard why some republicans oppose the deal, we'll find out why some say this is the way to go. joining me now is one of the negotiators of the deal. you just heard your colleagues say this is a bad deal. what is your response. >> i love byron and chip but i don't care where they're coming from. seems like the argument is the deal isn't perfect, come on fellows, welcome to real life. nobody gets what they want in negotiations, four big wins though kayleigh. this is the largest ever spending reduction in american history

congress needs to do their constitutional duty and if you think about it maga republicans have played out how they see the vision for the american people when it comes to the budget so we have been very clear about that. that 22% cut that they want to do to health care and talk about the 21 million americans and the cut they want to make to veterans at and all those things are complications that his team and the teams of the four congressional leaders have been having for the past couple of days on the budget, on how we move forward with the budget. >> vice president harris was not in the room last week on the president was meeting with congressional leaders but she will be there today but can you tell us why she was -- whether or not she will step in over the next couple of days when the president is traveling overseas? >> the vice president, this is not about the person's trip to asia. want to be very clear and i said this last week she's been a partner in this and she has been consult said multiple times on the budget on preventing to fall. this is something the president expects f

there is going to be electoral hell to pay for republicans who play into this maga strategy. this is much worse, you know, than a government shutdown, joy. i mean, we're talking about millions of jobs lost crashing the stock market and plunging us into a recession and will the american full faith and credit in the eyes of the world ever recover from what they want to do to us? and i know chaos is a great strategy for an authoritarian arc ward for people who want to appeal in a democracy. >> they'll hurt their own voters and their voters will be paying more attention to the fake investigations of biden than the fact that they didn't get their check, right? which is a wild idea, but it literally could happen. i do want to ask you about an incident that happened today that was fairly scary where you had someone crash a car in d.c. there was overnight, sorry, that had swastikas displayed. there is so much more anti-semitism that's happening visibly and extremism and to be blunt the people on the other side of the aisle from you are not dissuading with the rhetoric. are you concer

i mean, not technically he's not part of the maga wing of the party but he does help them find a home of the house and is supposed to be above some of this petty political mudslinging. did his comments surprise you? >> nothing he does surprises me. it's the same guy the gave surveillance video to tucker carlson. he will do whatever trump wants him to do and i i am sure trump glories in mccarthy and house republicans going after me. it's about satisfying his boss in mar-a-lago and the crowd loves donald trump. so it doesn't surprise me. mccarthy has also made it clear he wants to do everything he can to stop me from being elected to the senate where he knows i would be more effective at pushing back against these efforts to tear down the rule of law. i think this is what is part of what is at work here. >> i'm not going to ask if you think it's a coincidence, but this is the day this is a move to expel george santos the cereal fabulist from congress. that failed. but do you think this is a naked clay to basically seek an eye for an eye, if you will? you, if george santos is gonna kicke

it is driven by mag republicans --maga republicans and the congress.nstead we should be debating the countries future. totally legitimate. we may even like their version better than ours. but debate this. and whether or not we take our country back forward is not whether or not we default on our debts. i remind you, under the previous president, republicans voted three times to increase the debt. re-times. they voted to not increase the debt limit. there is a lot to discuss today about the country and investing in america is the core of what we are all about. to build our economy from the middle out and the bottom up. and i know it is not very appropriate for mine and many of the friends on the other side of the aisle, but decide -- tax system. it is -- raise your hand if anybody things the tax system in america is fair. maybe we do not like the way we tax or how we tax. this is about everybody beginning to pay their fair share. i understand public safety is about cutting back from the wealthy. but we should pay out in the open not whether or not we wi

tending up to the rule of law, standing against trump and maga world, leading the first impeachment,ut. and alex, i'm convinced that when this dark chapter of history is written it will reflect that those republicans who lacked courage to stand up to the most unethical president in u.s. history, donald trump, consoled themselves by attacking those who did. and that's what this is really about. >> are you surprised that speaker mccarthy's invoking your name? i mean, not technically he's not part of the maga wing of the party but he does help them find a home in the republican conference. but he is the speaker of the house and is supposed to be above some of this petty political mudslinging. did his comments surprise you? >> nothing he does surprises me. it's the same guy the gave surveillance video to tucker carlson. he will do whatever trump wants him to do and i i am sure trump glories in mccarthy and house republicans going after me. it's about satisfying his boss in mar-a-lago and the crowd loves donald trump. so it doesn't surprise me. mccarthy has also made it clear he wants to

what he's doing now is trying to signal to that maga base there's this kindred spirit between donald putin. i do think putin is not only trying to send a message to donald trump, but also sending a signal to maga base that he vladimir put written is somebody they should continue to respect and admire. unfortunately, i find it hard to believe in the day and age, particularly after the bloody assault on ukraine that any american would look favorly upon a putin. >> it's shocking, but true. here's donald trump rather than embarrassing cnn town hall. being unable to simply say what should be obvious that ukraine ought to win this war. >> do you want ukraine to win this war? >> i don't think in terms of winning and losing. i think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people. >> can you say if you want ukraine or russia win this war? >> i want everybody to stop dying. they're dying. russians and ukrainians. i want them to stop dying. >> my fear is, it doesn't matter, well, there are a couple of republicans that are running that don't seem as bad but the main maga ones

apparently extreme maga republicans, house republicans, even more specific. their bill would cut 81,000 jobs from the v.a., reducing outpatient visits by 30 million, and increase the disability claims backlog by an estimated

he's not technically part of the maga wing of the party, but he is a speaker of the house and appears this political mudslinging. >> nothing he does surprises me. this is a guy who gave surveillance, you know, of tucker carlson. he'll do whatever trump wants him to do, and i'm sure this is about satisfying his boss at mar-a-lago and satisfying the because watching crowd that loves donald trump. it doesn't surprise me. mccarthy has made it clear he wants to stop me from doing whatever he can. >> i'm not going to ask if you think this is coincidence because it's clearly not, but this is a day there was a move to expel george santos, the serial fabulist from congress. that fail. but do you think this is naked play to basically seek an eye for an eye, if you will? you for if george santos is going to get kicked out then so is adam schiff? >> i think a lot of what is going on is what we've seen many times in the past, which is when democrats do something for the right reason they usually use the precedent to do something for the wrong reason and attempt to draw some sort of false equivalen

how horrible is it to be called a maga republican right now? we're going beyond that.ent is right about is if we default on our debt history books will record that joe biden was the president when we defaulted on our debt and be a one-term president. the highest inflation rates, afghanistan debacle and open border and potential default on our debt. i don't think it will happen. >> dana: what do people in kansas, you have a diverse group of industry but especially the farmers. this would affect them. their bottom line. >> what's impacting farmers is the drought and interest rates. when they have an operation that went from 2% to 8% because of joe biden inflation, that's what's killing them. they are concerned about the price of doing business than the national issue. >> i think june 1st is an imaginary line. i don't think the real negotiations start happening until june 1st. >> dana: another topic. president biden blamed the silly spy balloon, his words, not mine, for derailing communications with china and he is seeing a shift in relations shortly. what do you think ab

a maga person. >> do you agree with that assumption? >> a white nationalist is a trump republican, you say, senator? speaking of naziism, earlier this week, it was reported that the trump national doral resort would host two anti-semites who have promoted pro-adolf hitler propaganda. they would share the stage alongside trump personalities like devon nunez and eric trump. alan dershowitz relaid a message from eric trump on his podcast. eric claiming he didn't even know these guys. funny, right, how maga folks just keep accidentally hanging out with anti-semites and nee onazis, they always seem to be around. eric also told dershowitz the nazi speakers were disinvited. joining me is christina greer, political scientist and host of the blackest questions podcast, an antiracist activist tim weisz. tim, you have long history of dealing with people who launder white supremacy and white nationalism into khaki pants, namely good old david duke from the past. what do you make of the fact this is a thing now and it's quite common with tommy tuber

with that, i urge a no vote on this extreme maga bill and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the gentleman from tennessee is recognized. mr. green: i yield myself the balance of my time. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record an exchange of letters between the committee on homeland security and committee of ways and means and committee of homeland security and committee on george bush area regarding this bill which comprises division a of h.r. 2. the speaker pro tempore: without objection mr. green: thank you, mr. speaker. the american people cannot wait any longer for secure borders and safe communities. securing the border should not be a partisan issue but an american issue. and it is the federal government's responsibility to do so and congress should step in. that is what we are doing here today. the biden administration produced the catastrophic human tragedy we are seeing today. dismantling law and order and saying our border is open. we have all seen what has been happeni