. >> mitt romney takes is there to show us faith, family and politics.f this on fox news sunday. ♪♪ >> hello again from "fox news sunday" in washington. the fbi has retrieved 11 sets of classified documents about 27 boxes worth from donald trump's mar-a-lago estate. federal agents were investigating violations of the espionage act. designations used to protect the most sensitive national security information in the country. the former president and his ally sake he has declassified those materials unilaterally before he left office and said he would have turned them over the justice department simply asked him to. be it he is in south carolina vacationing this weekend. >> the white house said they had no idea this raid was coming and they refuse to wait inside the department of justice operates independently without political influence. allies and supporters of president trump believe otherwise. >> it looks very political. >> rushing to former president trump's defense. removing 11 sets of classified documents from trump's mar-a-lago estate after a court

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who brought his senate colleagues with him. >> gillian: earlier, bret baier sat down with senator mitt romneylic service. >> bret: senator, thanks for the time. >> senator romney: thanks, good to be with you. >> bret: in the shadow of this magnificent building, it's really quite something ayou look at it. if you drive down the capital beltway and there it is. it's spectacular. >> senator romney: i remember the first time i came here i was on a bus with my family and friends from boston and people told us that we wouldn't miss it. don't worry, you'll see it. we wondered, we kept on looking out the window left and right, where is it, and then suddenly there's this beautiful white building. it looks like it was in the middle-of-the-road. it's quite majestic. >> bret: for someone who doesn't get it, this means a lot to you and your faith. >> senator romney: there's no question. this building is a place where most members of my faith, if they want to be married forever, not just here on earth, not death till your part, but forever, this is where they'll come to have their marriage made permanent.

. >> the world changed tremendously. 2012 democrats told us that mitt romney was a literal monster, at romney is a hero -- >> democrats are saying if he ran, i might vote for him. >> which is insane. you would not. you'd vilify him again but this is what happened to liz cheney. this is what happened john mccain who was always a war hero but he was also called a warmon warmonger and by the left revered. this is how trump disoriented and kind of flipped the political landscape. >> it's hard to, you know, to hear all the time, you know, this is not the republican party. donald trump is not the republican party. election deniers aren't the republican party and they're winning everywhere and it is kind of hard to say, you know, maybe -- maybe the mitt romneys of the world and the liz cheneys, that's not the republican. >> you have to look at the fact with donald trump when he was in office, we lost the white house. we lost the house and we lost the senate and what we're seeing now in these primary races, we're talking about the base of the party election deniers, people that embrace trump,

now, mitt romney is a hero for many on the left. >> i heard democrats saying, if he ran, i might votewould not. you would vilify him yet again. but this is what's happened to liz cheney, this is what happened to john mccain who was always a war hero, but he was also called a warmonger by the left, but now he's revered. this is how trump has disoriented and kind of flipped the political landscape. >> it's hard, to hear all the time, you know, this is not the republican party. donald trump is now the republican party. election deniers another republican party. but they're winning everywhere and it's kind of hard to say, you know, maybe, maybe the mitt romney's of the world and the list cheney's, that's not the republican party. >> you also have to look at the fact, with donald trump, when he was in office, when he lost the white house, we lost the house, we lost the senate. and what we're seeing now, in these primary races, we're talking about the base of the party, election deniers, people that embrace trump people that did not want to certify the election results. those people are win

where people who voted for bush, they voted for mitt romney, they sort of regret that because that is not the way they wanted the party to go. it's like i was just saying -- the caller sounds like so many of the voters in my focus groups and i think it represents well the shift in the party, where there is an idea that there is a deep state that is working against trump, the fbi that just executed the search at mar-a-lago for top-secret documents that trump was keeping there, that was done by the head of the fbi, who was appointed by trump. i always find it a little bit amusing, i guess, when so many republican voters look at all the people that trump himself appointed and then call them the deep state and people out to get trump. i sibley don't think that's true. -- simply don't think that is true. host: do you think the search at mar-a-lago will be a galvanizing force amongst republicans? guest: it is absolutely too soon to say. there is a temporary rally around trump effect we are seeing at the moment, but it will be entirely dependent on what trump was doing with those documents.

that before he deflated, romney -- >> probably had -- he was the governor of michigan, father of mitt romney, who you've more likely heard about recently. george romney was a person who never finished college and he had been born in mexico. but he was someone who wore his heart on his sleeve and was a very passionate person, particularly about civil rights. and he was a scraper. he would wade into opposition parties. he'd jump into a trade union meeting or at the democratic board committee. so he had to strengthen his convictions. and his numbers were extraordinary. higher than anything else at the time. and he appeal to the evangelicals. he was a mormon, lds. but the faith in him was so powerful that he had very strong appeal and rockefeller did not and rockefeller, the albatross around his neck was divorce. and romney was a while for him, he was just riding high. and we had access to his extraordinary files and research. but he was always salivating. and i was one of the nomination himself. romney tripped and fell. >> you say that romney peaked too early and then he famously or infamously

what is mitt romney saying about this? absolutely nothing. what is former president george w. bush saying about this? absolutely nothing. so, hearing this, ronald reagan would be devastated. where the living, breathing republicans today who subscribe to rob ronald reagan politics in this country? >> liz cheney and maybe eight others. >> yeah. what he said. what he said. [laughs] yeah. >> what he said. mitt romney, i'm looking at you. michael steele and steve israel, thank you for joining tonight. coming up, it is really fatal but it is spreading fast. and this by where you may have heard, anyone can get it. the facts on the nation's newest public health emergency when the 11th hour continues. i'm jonathan lawson here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85, and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three ps. what are the three ps? the three ps of life insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price. a price you can afford, a price that can't increase, and a price that fits your budget. i'm 54, w

republican senator mitt romney is typical. the salt lake tribune reports that senator mitt romney did not respond seeking requests to comment. but every republican who hopes to be president sunday has had something to say about it including yale law school graduate josh holloway at harvard law school graduate's senator ted cruz. he called the fbi partisan attack dogs for democrats, that was his phrase without mentioning the fbi director christopher wray is a republican appointed by donald trump. senator cruz simply lied about the search warrant and the fbi. senator hawley offered a childish comment that merrick garland must resign and, that christopher wray must be removed from office. and senator hawley said something that has been echoed by other republicans. senator halle said quote, the search warrant must be published. the republican demand that the search warrant be made public be described as deafening by a cnn reporter online. deafening. and not one of those republicans is demanding that donald trump reveal but the fbi

it has been a brutal for mitt romney in the wake of his 47% comments. recent events in mistakes on romney's part have hurt him with specifically the 47 percent comment he made in florida and things like that. comm mad47% comment.ike that. >> they really do have pot the potential to hurt. >> but of course, for rules democrats, the rules, they're always different after callingr half of the country fascist. i mean, i'm sorry, semi fascist. bideist. is somehow able to turn aroundto and blame the right. remember what used to be the criticism of biden was running biden's too bipartisan. biden is too many republican friends. it was a lot of republican i've worked with for all the years in the senate. i got a lot done. we respected each other when we disagreed, we disagreed on principle. we never went had lunch together. not a joke. >> what in god's name has happened to that? the united states of america. >> and if you thought he might use his speech today in wilkes-barre, pennsylvania to turn down the temperature, think again. his smear campaign against his fel

you work with mitt romney you work with george bush, when they stand up at a time like this when they know the dull trump is just pushing lies? >> well, i know senator romney did numerous fund-raisers for liz cheney, and did support her. you know, i think, what we have to come to grips with here is the republican party has not been hijacked by donald trump. the republican party has been revealed by donald trump. and for some of us, that is a really tough thing to admit, because we worked to build a party. but i don't know any other conclusion. the republican party is what the party wants to be. and it keeps saying this, over and over, and showing this over and over. and we have to accept that. the reason that they don't like liz cheney is because liz cheney was willing to lose which is the essential building block of any democratic system. and the republican party, they're for democracy when they win, and they're not for democracy when they lose, which means they're not for democracy. and that's the dividing line in american politics. it's not about right or left anymore. it's about,

you work with mitt romney you work with george bush, when they stand up at a time like this when theythe dull trump is just pushing lies? >> well, i know senator romney did numerous fund-raisers for liz cheney, and did support her. you know, i think, what we have to come to grips with here is the republican party has not been hijacked by donald trump. the republican party has been revealed by donald trump. and for some of us, that is a really tough thing to admit, because we worked to build a party. but i don't know any other conclusion. the republican party is what the party wants to be. and it keeps saying this, over and over, and showing this over and over. and we have to accept that. the reason that they don't like liz cheney is because liz cheney was willing to lose which is the essential building block at any democratic system. and the republican party, therefore democracy when they want, and they're not for democracy when they lose, which means they're not for democracy. and that's the dividing line in american politics. it's not about right or left anymore. it's about, do you

but this is something that was happening when, you know, the evil mitt romney, a guy i think most ofis pre-dates trump. i think there's a whole bunch of interesting, weird things that that may say about who we are. >> matt, i remember a really interesting pew survey from 2015. it was during the 2016 campaign that looked at the divided nature of america and came up with the figure that about 30% of republicans think democrats were a threat to the nation. about 30% of democrats thought republicans were a threat to the nation. it wasn't just they disagreed with them, they actually see people from the other party as a threat to the security of the country. i'm willing to bet that that figure has grown from 30% since 2016. while trump is not the cause of this, and you're right, it's been around for a while and you can see the signs of it, i think it's accelerated, the anecdotal evidence and polling suggest it's accelerated within the last couple years. so do you think it is accelerated? what would put the brake on it? because i'm not sure at this point even trump retiring from public life

mitt romney and i, i have signed onto a bill with him it is a great piece of legislation that will force a vote on the floor. >> why are republicans so angry? [indiscernible] >> i don't know. maybe it's the politics of the day. these are all good friends of mine. they have been very irrational on so many things but on this one, way it about nobody knew because i wasn't sure. i think they felt and i went to talk to all of them and i said i didn't know we would come together so please don't blame anybody like this is orchestrated. then on the monday my staff was in final negotiation and i was on the phone continuously then it was tuesday night and they voted by wednesday on the chips act and we had an agreement by wednesday morning. then chuck schumer, he sets the calendar so he said what they were going to go to next and i'm thinking you mean you would not have voted for the chips act? that's as bad as the progressives holding the bipartisan infrastructure hostage. you don't hold the american people hostage because it's not to your political liking. >> what do critics have create -- corre

. >> going to help mitt romney popularity. >> 47% is bad enough, harming romney and his campaign. >> romney -- >> hurt him specifically the 47% comment he made in florida. >> the comment has potential to hurt. >> jason: for democrats, rules they are always different after calling the country fascist, semi-fascist and last week joe biden able to turn around and blame -- -- -- they got nothing else to talk about except killing unborn children and calling patriotic americans who love the constitution semi-facist. question along the lines of what lisa said, who is facist, the one who believes the federal government should shut down church and school, say you can't report to marine corps unless you have a vaccine, who is facist? the one wages war on gender, family, parent, every norm in society? the left are facist making your life so hard and i think the american people understand that and that is what this election is about, about the american people and a lot of democratic voters saying stop with all the woke and socialism, we can't take it anymore. >> jason: the president today is one

i think it would be great to see mitt romney run again. i'd love to see some moderates come in either party. and mark dicamillo says that it is still early and, he says of democrats keep control of the house and senate during the upcoming midterm elections that would give president biden reason to run for re election loss, though likely would increase pressure for him to sit out and let someone new step forward christina jana katsuyama in the newsroom tonight, jenna. thank you. we could learn more next week about why the fbi searched the florida home of former president donald trump. the justice department has been instructed by the judge in the case to make redactions before he decides what to release. the deadline is thursday, the justice department has warned. they're likely to black out so much that the public will learn very little from what's left. the unsealed search warrant shows that agents were looking for violations of three federal laws, including the espionage act and obstruction of justice laws. trump claims the search was po

a spokesman for the republican national committee during mitt romney's 2012 campaign and communications director for jeb bush's. 2016 presidential campaign. along the way, tim developed a reputation for being pretty skilled apple or opposition research, meaning the spreading of damaging stories about political opponents. and and to this end in 2013, he co-founded an organization that came to be known as america rising. he has since left the gop and pursued a career in media, becoming a writer for the bulwark news and opinion website host of not my party on snapchat and commentator on msnbc. he's also known, of course, as a very vocal critic of donald trump about having been immersed in republican politics for as long as he was. tim knows quite a few of those in the gop who who have stayed and gone along with trump while watching much of what they had once believed in. degraded and devalued in why we did, tim examines what makes some people abandon their principles to align with power, and he doesn't spare himself either. exploring why he got caught up in the political game and and compr

mitt romney doesn't do that, right?ame a lot of people, who have no interest in politics going forward. if they're not doing it now is there any hope that anybody will from the republican side, because if republicans are what we need to fix this problem, i see no sign that any of them are going to do anything. >> could not agree with you more. it is the most disheartening part of this whole thing. i relate back to what i said in 2016. you had a republican leadership standing on the stage and they watched this carnival barker take them down one by one and did nothing in response, calling up their family members, calling up their wives and saying nothing. so this leadership has decided that it will not lead, and so it's going to be how americans respond at the ballot box and how we as citizens overwhelm the ballot box with democracy and that's the most important thing we can do right now because republicans aren't going to help us. >> you get someone like mike pence gets -- at the same time he says i share the concern of

but you look at mitt romney's 57%. and you look at the republicans, 31%. last night. that's pretty incredible. >> yeah. no, as i said, this is -- there are counties like this across the country. you just think of the big suburban counties. cobb county in georgia, for instance, here, they're used to when george w. bush was president, even when mitt romney was running in 2012, you just looked at it on election night, not if the republicans are going to win, but what's the margin republicans are going to get out of it and then the republicans that suffered the erosion. you look at 2018, it was suburbs, areas across the country. so when you look here in 2022, what democrats are trying to pull off in terms of hanging on to the senate. maybe having some kind of fighting chance in the house. it goes through the johnson counties of america. so that's why i paid particularly close attention to this. but it is also true that if you look at other counties, we can just look at count this in rural, you know, kansas here, this is why i say the rural republicans who voted no on this

. >> so republicans have traditionally been taken down in the republican party, mitt romney, and he'sck them a lot of republicans support i said trump had no shame any kind of broke the mold the republicans - taking over the interesting and good points you were present, republicans have to be able so that liberals can be good and how cohen gop not by think all of us see that little step, nursing that the republicans wanted to go back to fighting hard and how can we stick with i guess the trump style of not letting the -isms take us down. >> with the democrats do is they lay their opposition they label it evil and they do that because somebody running against is evil, then the end is justified the means and they can do anything. if you're running against headwear, then you can break the law and you can call him anything that you can say anything and do anything and you don't even have to debate the substance if your opponent is evil because why would you even in the conversation so that is a lazy way for them to avoid our conversation but also a really slick way of demonizing your oppo

. >> reporter: and republicans like senator mitt romney call president biden's move an attempt to attempt to bribe the voters, saying it fuels inflation and foots taxpayers with other people's financial obligations. minority leader mitch mcconnell calling it astonishingly unfair and a slap in the face to every family who sacrificed to save for college, every graduate who paid their debt. >> so, let's get to cecilia vega. president biden promising, obviously, this relief to some 43 million americans, was the number they released late today. you and i were on the air. but bottom line, when will they get this relief? >> reporter: good news right now for some 8 million people who could become automatically eligible because the department of education already has their income information. others, they might have to wait a minute for the administration to create this new form. they'll submit that and see if they qualify. but it's important to say here, this income cap, that applies to the years 2020 and 2021 and anyone who took out a loet after june 30th of this year, they are not jeleligible f

seymour, an equity partner, chief officer and -- has served as a senior advisor to wes senator mitt romney and former u.s. speaker of the house, paul ryan. dan was based in baghdad for a year, where he served as chief spokesman for the u.s. led coalition in iraq rate prior, he was a senior defense department official. for his service and his wills, dan was awarded the pentagon's highest civilian honor, the u.s. department of defense medal for service. in addition to his prestigious accomplishments, dan is a celebrated public intellectual, having co-authored the work times -- the new york times bestseller. his writing has appeared on the pages of wall street journal, the new york times, and can be heard regularly as host of the call me back podcast, which focuses on what history can teach us about what the world teaches today. please welcome, dan seymour. >> [applause] >> thank you, bob. thank you for that introduction. it is a pleasure to be at the manhattan institute. i feel like the manhattan institute the last few years is an organization perfectly matched to the moment. if you were to

nixon had hopes may have —- that even people that are going in the opposite directions just like mitt romney about the child tax credit and child health. so i like to think that one thing the smoke do is to say here is a battle chapter and verse that is relevant today the argument is very much the same. so i talk to myself one of the things that caused welfare reform to fail was there have been some income maintenance experiments one in seattle and one in denver. and there were very small simple so my question was , with this hope to incentivize people to work? and then to begin to say. we have the income backing. and that was opposing family assistance in the middle of a huge experiment right now. and the payments are now going out to people. if that's any part of the three.6 trillion-dollar exercise get past. in which case you will have it to through five-year expanded run his incredible amount of data generated. but to take a hard look at that policy of income support. >> thank you for writing the book and being friends of the

uh -- mitt romney. >> al: okay. >> oh, marco rubio.zabeth warren. >> al: okay, good, good -- >> amy klobuchar. >> al: you can go, you can go. [ laughter ] we're going to cut that, okay? can you name a u.s. senator? >> uh -- we have dianne feinstein here in california. >> al: okay, dianne feinstein has been around a long time. can you name your junior senator? >> alex pedia, appointed by governor newsom to replace kamala harris when she was sworn in as vice president. >> al: okay. blah. there are only two independents, name them. >> bernie sanders and angus king. >> robert menendez. >> al: veterans. >> john tester. >> al: of montana! arggh! excuse me, excuse me. where are you from? >> wyoming. >> al: perfect. can you name your two u.s. senators? >> uh -- john buras sew and loomis. >> burasso is the third ranking member of the republican party. >> al: who's second ranking? >> john thune, south dakota. >> if mcconnell ever retires, thune becomes the minority leader. >> or majority leader, of course. >> al: of course. where do i find all t

so, and then we got left with what's susan and lisa and murkowski doing, what about mitt romney?mcconnell after his great speech or as he was condemning trump, he later said i couldn't go against all the otherrepublicans . they were all, the other republicans, many of them would have rallied to convict trump if mcconnell had . and by the way, i don't know ihow rob portman and lamar alexander in any number of the others lives with their records in the last four years. thank you all. [applause] >> if you're enjoying book tv sign up for our newsletter using the qr code on the screens to receive the schedule of upcoming programs, authordiscussions, book festivals and more . tv every sunday or anytime online at booktv.org. television for serious readers. >> american history tv saturdays, exploring the people and events that tell the american story. at one and 10 pm eastern on the 150th anniversary of yellowstone national park native wyoming resident bob richards talks about the history of the park where he led tours for 40 years. at 2 pm eastern on the presidency president dwight eise

they had occurred already under mitt romney.learned a lot about what makes olympics work and what makes olympics fail. one of the most important things is something which is near and dear to my heart, which is planning and front end loading. that is an actual term in engineering. front-end loading means i'm going to get all of the work streams and predict them forward and start to solve those work streams ahead of time so i can implement. most olympics get six years. these three to four years ahead of the six when we're in full-on mode is all planning with the governments, with the organizing committee, the ioc, all of that. >> is this going to break even or make money? >> we committed that we will have netzero neutral in terms of cost to the paks payer and revenues. a $4.45 billion spend and rev raising target of which the majority of that is from broadcasting rights. i have to go rundraise $1.7 billion with my c.e.o. and my team. i'm recruiting a c.e.o. now. anyone interested please apply. it is on the website. we have an abil

he is mitt romney, he is sober and he believes in hierarchy and his country is written and he loves his hometown with his boston area, that he had been born 20 years earlier he would not have been picking between them, but he does and so i do try to widen the cast of characters beyond the first four credits in this and of course jefferson, madison, franklin and harrison. smack you also mentioned benjamin franklin. the way it almost selzer conversation, images are involved. can you tell us about this great cartoon that franklin generates very early on in the conversation. >> yes, so he sets a gene genius and he invents a lightning rod and social institutions in the first secular university and he's also someone that invents the world's first real political cartoon and it's not from britain and it's a very democratic culture. and it is the picture of a snake that is cut up into pieces and he has a slogan. it is the first viral means in which we could say hash tag join. the colleagues after work together with the mother country to deceive the french in the early stages what would become th

so and then we get left with sort of well what susan collins and lisa murkowski doing what about mitt romney? mcconnell after his great speech or as he was condemning trump. he's later said well, i couldn't go against all the other republicans. they were all the other republicans many of them would have rallied to convict trump if mcconnell had and by the way, i don't know how rob portman and lamar alexander and any number of the others lived with their records in the last four years. thank you all.

we thought he's just a nice guy and then we forget this is the guy that said mitt romney would put blackple in chains. remember that? the thing about joe, look at his past, he operated on the most time so mike memorable hot take. if you said something, he go further out there and say he is going to put you in change. he says the craziest stuff. i think what we're suffering from is old man syndrome. it's when you ascribe certain gentleness to people as they age, i noticed my hair has grown grain, babies like me, they think i'm harmless. when you look at inmates, older inmates, you feel bad for them and go that guy wouldn't hurt a fly. while 30 years from now he murdered a family and of course now he's got salt and pepper hair, he looks like harold, everything's okay. that's the problem with joe. joe hasn't gotten nicer, he's gotten angrier. >> judge jeanine: dana, we talked about this yesterday. the whole idea of criticizing half the nation and basically saying that republicans, 73 million of them would vote for donald trump, maga this, maga not. planting a seed that any thing maga relate

i agree with mitt romney and trump because it's where they are on the same side. they are saying this is an expensive trip and not worth it. you don't want world war iii to be started by nancy pelosi. a congresswoman from california and her ninth decade with a face tighter than a snare drum. i guess like what the congressman was saying why he'd chinese warning when we didn't heed russia's warning about nato. that worked out splendid. >> what is china going to do now, jessica? they've made a lot of threats and they didn't carry through with those threats but now they say more is coming. >> i guess we wait and see and we are as prepared as we can be. obviously a fuse cyberattacks on taiwanese government sites. but so far these are all things that we can bear in support of taiwan i don't think were regretting this decision right now. the thing i find most interesting is what senator cotton was saying, that the biden administration was once a leak the details of this. when first heard her coming eyes on air who leaked this. it's official policy that nancy pelosi's whe

congress stupidly created to get their taxes down to 10, 15, there's multiple presidents now like mitt romney, don trump legally paying a small percentage of taxpayers and a lot of lower income business owners lie or make mistakes and they get caught up because they're lies and not working around a system that's flawed to start with from its complexity so there's a lot of easy busts at the low end. they don't fight back with a team of attorneys anyway. that's where the audits will happen. kennedy: that's why the high tax environments never work out and they have to walk them back. just look at france much the point was not necessarily to turn the irs into even more of a baa high moth, it's supposed to reduce inflation and having 87,000 new irs agents do anything to reduce inflation, jonas? >> yeah, again, i'm not against fixing the money problems at the irs but has nothing to do with inflation and in fact, hiring anybody is already inflationary and we're in a 3.5% unemployment rate situation where rages are spawning out of control. this should have been done during the obama administration wi

what are congressional republicans saying that -- have we heard from mitt romney?om ben sasse? anything from republicans that usually speak out against this sort of madness? >> well, there are some gaps in the republican party here, but what we've seen so far is a remarkable unity behind donald trump. it is just another sign of this -- you know, his overhaul, his reordering of the republican party. in such a thorough way that, you know, trump has made the political calculation here that this is going to have positive political repercussions for him. i mean, that's the world we live in right now, joe. an fbi search of someone's home can be viewed as a positive politically. >> all right. >> and so any suggestion, have you heard anything about republicans possibly stepping forward and saying something in defense of the fbi? >> well, the only kind of measured responses we've heard from the republican party have been folks like pete meijer. you know, someone who voted against trump, voted to impeach trump and paid for that byget ing knocked out of office in a primary ea

i don't mean to pick on mitt romney but he's often the only reasonable person in republican party inars but he didn't stand up and say it. now he has to go out and attack lindsey graham. republicans whatever the reasonable ones remaining have backed themselves in a corner. instead of stepping away from the lit fuse of this bomb, they all keep rushing towards it. and i say, you know, for the umpteenth time, you know, when they're ready and if there comes a moment where political violence spreads, there are going to be a lot of people with blood on their hands. this display in the last three weeks has been even by the base standards of a donald trump gop has been shocking a shocking thing to see the republican party say those things. say what they say and the others stand by quietly and not say a word. it's hard to shock me, but i'm shocked. >> mika pled, pled with people talking irresponsibly and pled with them, pled with them, please stop stirring hatred, you're going to have blood on your hands, i believe it was that day or the next day that you had someone trying to kill a lot of f

to your point earlier, about the pat toomeys and ben sasses, those retiring, the mitt romneys who arece that, with no sacrifice involved? liz cheney seems to be operating in a very small universe. we thank god for liz cheney, and history will show there's a few heros today, and she's one of them. >> anand, we certainly, about the problems of the republican party, the sickness that has infected the republican party. let's talk about the democratic party for a moment. you're a proud progressive. i'm curious what you think about this bill that's about that pass and about the deal struck between chuck schumer and joe manchin and, well, 49 other democratic senators. >> it is interesting that we're talking about the two together, because when you're living through an extraordinary threat to democracy, you kind of have to do two things. first, you have to resist that threat to democracy, which is sort of what we've been talking about. you have to fight for accountability and defend your institutions. the second, very important thing you have to do is show people that democracy is actually be

i didn't see john cornyn, mitt romney, lindsey graham going after the department of justice but i did see kevin mccarthy doing so. attorney general garland preserve your documents in clear your calendar. andrew, clearly some members of the republican party are trying to go after garland and threatened him. he knew going into this how closely he would be scrutinized. is it safe to say this entire operation will be by the book? >> yeah. look, i was working for robert mueller when the same thing happened. this is right out of donald trump's playbook, just to attack anyone who's threatening his power whether it's the press, or the justice department. merrick garland's seasoned and has a strong background. he's gonna do this entirely by the book. >> and we are watching. thank you all, mark put, on andrew weissmann, i appreciate you as staying up late with us. frank and barb do not go anywhere, we've got more to cover when we come back. more on the search from mar-a-lago from two people who have inside knowledge of the former president and how he's likely taking a news tonight. and later, d

things you don't want to miss, you want to catch bret baier's interview with republican utah senator mitt romney. be sure to stay tune right here on fox news. salman rushdie off of ventilator after being stabbed ten times in what prosecutors are calling a premeditated assault. his attacker you probably know by now has actually pleaded not guilty, he did so during arrangement yesterday. nate foy live in new york with more on this horrific story. nate: kevin, good afternoon. positive update albeit difficult situation. they are extremely relieved he's breathing on his own and they say he's able to speak but they also say injuries are life-changing. take a look at this. we have the brand-new mug shot of the man accused of attacking him. this is the 24 years, hadi matar, he's being held without bail. matar pleaded guilty to attempted murder and assault charges. the prosecutor in the case calls the attack preplanned. take a look at this. you see the moments just after the attack here. rushdie was getting ready to give a lecture in western new york when matar attacked and stabbed him. rushdie's agent s

the utah senator mitt romney says states can have a positive effect on that huge divisions within thea segment that will air on fox news sunday. >> there's a lot of threats that we faced as a country. the social fabric and family, import religion and faith talk about a lot, where do you see that threat for the country? >> the founders of my religion and the leaders of my religion have said that the constitution was inspired and of course, the freedom of the election -- religion being central to our constitution and so i think at the same time, we believe that having people who recognize that one another not just citizens, fellow citizens but also fellow children of god, that we are in the same human family helps bring the temperature down. >> gillian: you can see more of the interview with bret as well as a lot more when i anchor fox news sunday. this sunday. i hope we will join. coming up next, china's growing influence in our corner of the world at rapid means for how the u.s. deals with beijing and america's neighbor. >> try not would like to replace the united states. is their goa

my analogy would be he's mitt romney, harvard educated, sober, a traditionalist and believes in hierarchy. he loves his country but his country bitten and he loves his hometown, boston. if he had been lucky enough to be born 20 years earlier, he wouldn't have had to pick between them but he does and ends up picking his cane so i do try to widen the cast of characters beyond the big fix, the first four presidents, washington, adams, jefferson, and franklin and hamilton. >> you mentioned cartoons and benjamin franklin so away your title almost sells the conversation short because it also images involved. tell us about this great cartoon franklin generates early on in this conversation. >> he's such a genius, he invents bifocals, the franklin stove. he invents the lightning rod. he invents social institutions, the first secular university, a lending library, philosophical illustration but also invents the world's first real political cartoon. it's not from britain, it comes from america, early on america's democratic culture is simple, 1754. the picture of a snake cut up into pieces and he h