. >> so as soon as mitt romney's ready to, i will eagerly accept his endorsement. >> now, senator mitt romney calls both of you friends and has said that he's not going to make an endorsement in this race. what is the significance of somebody with the stature of mitt romney choosing not to endorse the incumbent republican senator from his own state? >> well, senator romney can speak himself to the significance of that. but i'll say it shouldn't surprise anyone that a senator like senator romney, who has remained committed to his oath to the constitution, would not be supporting senator lee. and so they're just two very different senators. i'm grateful for senator romney's leadership in the senate. i consider him a close friend. i know that if we prevail in this race, i'll work very, very closely with senator romney on most matters. utah and, in fact, every state should have two senators who take the approach of senator romney. we have one, thankfully, but we need two, and that's why we're running to make a change here. >> i want to quickly go back to january 6th. then vice president pe

what do you think mitt romney is doing? why don't you think mitt romney?rse mike lee and happens to be the other senator in the state he represents? >> well, you know, mitt romney is an interesting character in this shakespearean drama going on in the republican party. one mp the very few left, liz cheney and others, who stood up against donald trump, and stood for the truth and about what happened on january 6th. that's a real point of contention with him and senator lee and could make the difference in the election. >> there are text messages between lee and mark meadows, who was then trump's chief of staff, that show how much lee was pushing trump folks towards sidney powell, pushing towards a fake election scheme and towards john eastman, in the end, though, he didn't vote to contest results of the election. do you think that saves him? >> no. i mean, i think the fact they're having this debate and that mcmull han so much ammunition, and that he has receipts of mark meadows phone. mark meadows, should have thrown that phone in the river given how much

mitt romney is one of them.is working against his fellow utah republican senator mike lee in his reelection campaign. it seems like a big story. it's not getting a ton of coverage. senator mike lee joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. your race. i haven't been paying attention but i started reading about it. you're being painted as some sort of dangerous extremist. you are not. you have your fellow utah republican senator working against you. how did this happen? >> he's explained that he's got two friends in this race. when he first told me that, my reaction was who is the other friend? wants to remain neutral. i understand it and i respected. here's what's going on, my opponent is a democrat running in disguise. i understand the commitment made by my colleague and i work with him, i like him. here's the deal. i don't think mitt romney wants chuck schumer to continue to be the senate majority leader. if i am right on that, he needs to get on board because that's exactly what he'll be producing. that's exa

let me play a clip of mike lee, and tucker carlson, asking for help from mitt romney. >> i've asked him, i'm asking him right here, again, tonight, right now, please, get on board, help me win re-election. help us do that. >> i deeply respect senator romney's leadership in the senate, for utah and for our country, and i respect and appreciate his decision to stay out of this race. >> mitt romney, as evan mclittlen has said, stayed out of this race, no love lost between mitt romney and mike lee. what is happening in utah? >> it is extraordinary to think that a republican incumbent senate candidate in utah could lose his re-election bid to an independent candidate, but mike lee is only five points ahead in the latest statewide poll that is a lead, and not really a safe lead and it is extraordinary to see mike lee begging, pleading with mitt romney with whom he does not have a good relationship, for his support, i think there is no sign that senator romney is about to endorse mike lee. he says he is also friends with mcmillan. and the independent candidates have been closer to romney's vie

mitt romney, i love the man. i would walk over hot coals for him, but he cannot win a republican primary in iowa and new hampshire. you know, it is a different time right now. we will get through this. we will eventually come back around, but it will take time. so yeah, i am not optimistic. rob portman, what an incredibly good guy and quality legislator, and he was almost on the ticket with mitt romney, but there is not a future right now in the short term in the party for him. no grades, we had dinner -- bill graves, we had dinner with bill graves the other night, and he came out and endorsed a democrat in the state. times are changing. gerald: last question, david. >> when you pull republicans on their belief in the big lie on the reading of the election, you get as high as 70% who believe that. mr. newhouse: i get 59% or so. >> is there any way to differentiate between those that believe that? mr. newhouse: that is tough. we do ask on the survey, on some of our surveys among republicans , do you consider yours

mitt romney is one of them. he is working against his fellow utah republican senator it's lee, in his reelect campaign. seems like a big story, not getting a ton of coverage. senator mike joins us tonight. >> senator , thank you very much for coming on . so your race, which i haven'tve' you' really paying attention to ,but i just started reading about it, you are being painted as some sort of dangerous extremist, which i could seeu a first hand .t. you are not. red you have your fellow utah republican senator working against you. happe >> like, how did this happen? h when, he's explained it. >> he's got two friends in this race. when he first told me that, who my reaction was who's the other friend and therefore wants to remain neutral. look, i understand wants to remain ne and respect. here's what's going on . wha my opponent, evan mcmoon, is a democrat running in disguise. so i understand the commitmentca made by my colleague and igue k with him like him. >> but here's the deal. i don't think mitt romney wants

the fact that mitt romney is not endorsing says everything i need to know about mitt romney and senator to me now. >> i am thrilled to have the endorsement of 48 other republican colleagues in the senate. i welcome mitt to the party. he and i have a good working relationship. that will continue even after this race is over. it would be a shame if we lost the majority in the senate. the ability to serve as an effective counter balance to joe biden's excesses. his rampant inflation. in utah is at 16%. it would be a shame if we lost that because utah elected a leftist named mccullen. i encourage viewers to go to my website. i need their help. >> sean: we support you and the conservatives in utah will see through this. also breaking tonight. even in deep blue connecticut senator richard is seeing his lead splip away. this is a deep blue state. here with reaction republican senate candidate in connecticut is with us. i regret i didn't last year pay more attention to the new jersey gubernatorial race. i don't want to make the same mistake in connecticut. this is a tight rice. i know a lot of

mitt romney, all of these senators, every republican senator but mitt romney is supporting mike lee.h mitt romney? >> inexcusable. they had a debate and mike lee dominated it. mcmullen, he is the democrat in the race. he won't tell you who he will caucus with. why does he go to act blue to get 75% of his funding outside the state of utah. mike lee is strong on the constitution and works hard for utah. i don't think it will be thatcrose if republicans show up and vote like jim jordan said. >> sean: ohio. j.d. vance holding the lead there. it came out today that apparently tim ryan, who was sucking up to chuck schumer future boss, he wants to release one million people in jail and set them free and put them on the streets? >> again part of the radical left agenda. j.d. vance's campaign is going well. i think he will win in a strong way. j.d. vance is the american story. comes from a humble home. served in our military. does great with education. it's the american story. i think the people of ohio understand that. our state is a strong pro-trump state. i think j.d. vance will win. i thi

chen was an advisor to republican politicians, including mitt romney and as a fellow at stanford's hoover institution. many experts predict a tight race, so what we've done is invited both candidates to the show. chen joined us on tuesday. today, we welcome his opponent to the show. welcome. this first question we asked your opponent as well, so we want your take. a state comptroller is the chief financial officer who oversees the state budget. what in your background has prepared you for this job? >> thank, so as you heard in the introduction i spent eight years on the san francisco board of supervisors and in that role i chaired the budget committee for a number of years and at that time it was a $12 million budget. i also chaired the government audit and oversight committee, and that's important to note, i did that for a couple of years aired one of the key functions of the state controller is to perform an audit. i have in my background i'm a policymaker, so i have experience with understanding the budget, understanding how audits work, but also taking those audits and putting them in

. >> and mitt romney the republican senator there as well has yet to pick a side in that senate race. reporting. i want to bring in the senior editor for the political reporter. you are the expert on these things and the landscapes in utah and oregon are quite different but what is the commonality between what the third-party candidates are trying to accomplish by bucking the party lines? >> they're playing a big role this year, peter. my assessment is that utah is not competitive. i don't buy that evan mcmullen is going to win a state that trump carried with 58% of the vote in 2020 and by 20 points over joe biden. the fact that democrats have embraced evan mcmullen gives the signal to most utah voters that he is more sympathetic to the anti-trump portion of the electorate. now, betsy johnson in oregon is another story. i do think republicans have an excellent chance to win oregon's governorship in part because johnson is a former democrat, splitting that vote, and the republican is running on a hard message against crime and homelessness. and then in georgia where you have a libertar

mike lee went out on a limb and he became the first member of the tea party caucus to support mitt romney's bid for the nomination to return the favor, romney is now the only gop senator who hasn't endorsed lee's re-election citing his relationship with lee's opponent. independent candidate and professional grifter, evan mcmullen. now, what does that hold out produce? a flurry of puff pieces. >> evan mcmullen is asking people from both parties to join his campaign to win a senate seat as an independent from utah. >> our democracy is at great risk right now. we will decide as a nation over the next two cycles, this cycle and the next whether we're a democracy or head down the report of authoritarianism. >> laura: now, mcmuffin is a champion of democracy. he's the plucky underdog. not the guy whose wayward 2016 independent bid resulted in 670,000 in unpaid bills. >> mcmullen says he understands the challenge but urges voters to see his allegiance is to utah, not a political party. >> i'm not running to be a boot liquor for the leader of any party or president of any party. i will work with an

mike lee is mitt romney's colleague in the senate.o this himself. but it's unusual that a senator of one party would not endorse his colleague of the same party, especially when they're in a very tight race to hold on to their seat. so i think that speaks volumes. senator romney and i have a similar vision to how a senator should conduct himself in the senate. number one, maintaining one's oath to the constitution. senator lee has failed to do that when he tried to recruit fake electors to overturn the last election. and then also working with others across party lines and with your own colleagues to get things done. senator lee is one of the least productive and effective members of the senate. senator romney works every week with republicans and democrats to pass key pieces of legislation that help our country overcome major challenges. that'll be my approach if we prevail here. and that will better serve utah and the country. >> i want to follow up with you on something you said there but before i do because we're talking about the

revenge you know and and also the outliers like liz cheney, adam kinzinger and mitt romney, not a lot of others, but, you know, there are examples of this which do me and sometimes when i speak a little bit to enthusiastic about how inspired i am by liz cheneys of the world, i kind get looked askance. you from people who say oh but about her father and the iraq war so forth or well, look what mitt romney did in 2012 when he was running against a i'm of the belief that it's never too late to do the right thing and to stand up for something as precious for it as democracy and you know i hope that things turn i have real doubts that the republican party at this moment has the fortitude and the will and frankly the courage to do anything about what they all consider privately to be the existential problem for their because it's not conservative, you know, it's been disastrous many ways. it could cost us dearly as a democracy and that sounds again i've been very encouraged that people seem to be laughing on every page. i think there's a lot of undermined ridicule, scorn towards a lot of th

mitt romney. and i think senator jason chaffetz sounds pretty good to me about now. >> here's what i do know, sean. i've got to get through this and i'm thrilled to have the endorsement of all 48 of my other republican colleagues in the senate. i'd always welcome mitt to the party if he would like to join. he and i have a good working relationship and that will continue even after this race is over. >> but i will say this. >> it would be a shame and utter shame if he lost the majority, the republican majority in the senate. the ability to serve as an effective counterbalance to joe biden's excesses is rampant inflation, which in utah, since the day he took office, has been at 16%. >> it'd be a shame if we lost that. if we elected a leftist named evan mcmullin. >> so i would encourage your viewers, viewers to go to leave for senate, .com and they're likely where we're supporting you. and i know the conservatives in utah will see through this. >> thank you. all right. also breaking tonight, even a d

we both knew mitt romney's governor with that he was an okay guy. don't think they present obama's going to get reelected. my father very quietly said they are both good men we are going to be fine. i thought my father after a lifetime of some pretty backward racial prejudicess could look at president obama and say they're both good men we are going to be fine. any of us can do that. >> this is your fourth book. this is my seventh book not sure people and spent a lot of time over the holidays reading about nuclear strategy. >> it had somee academic books that be a fair statement? >> were due for general readership absolutely. >> one more reveal you and i are the same age lamenting the loss of a pleasanter time on the things like tackle in my book is nostalgia which i think is very destructive wasn't crazy about my childhood in a factory town. sure one cup frogs of my cousins and allda that stuff. there's a lot of really bad stuff in those s days. we are not wrong to remember a more bipartisan time but it worked in senate 30 years ago. we would work

is this a situation where mitt romney wants to partner we have in the hopes they can control, no billnless it goes through them? that would make the case, i would argue, for republicans to have an overwhelming majority, a mitt romney-proof majority, if you will, for the u.s. senate. >> yes, yes. that's a great point. my opponent is using this as a selling point. i'll put utah first by being the decision-maker in everything. he's not putting utah fast. that's putting evan mcmullin first. there's a difference. if it quacks like a duck, walks a like a duck, that's a democrat. >> sean: that's a pretty good saying. how do you interpret that? >> i endorse mike lee. as a matter of fact, one of the questions we should answer right now is if you want to support mike lee, how do we do that? you go to leeforsenate.com. that's leeforsenate.com, associated with win red, which is for republicans. >> by the way, we are here for adam. i'm sure he has a website too. >> we'll get to that. >> sean, think about this, in 2020, losing a single seat in georgia cost the american taxpayers $4 trillion. covid

staffer for john mccabe -- john mccain, a spokesman for the republican national committee during mitt romney's2 campaign and communications director for jeb bush's 2016 presidential campaign. along the way tim developed a reputation for being pretty skill at op-o, opposition research, meaning the spreading of damaging stories about political opponents. and to this end, in 2013 he cofounded 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 web site, a 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. n but having been immersed inub republican politics for as long as he was, tim knows quite a few of those in the gop who have stayed and gone along with trump while watching much of what they had once believed in degraded and devalue. in "why we did it," tim examines what makes some people abandon their principles to align with power, and he doesn't spare if himself either exploring why he got caught up in the

he died watching election news i said to my father because we were both from massachusetts and mitt romney as governor we thought it was an okay guy. i said i think president obama is going to get reelected and my father quietly said they're both good men, we're going to be fine. and i thought of my father after a lifetime of some pretty backward racial oprejudices that look at president obama and say they're both good men we're going to be fine, anyof us can do that . >> this is her fourth book. >> this is my seventh book but i'm not sure people want to spend a lot of time reading about nuclear strategy which was the book i will for this . >> you have more academics but would that be a fair s statement? >> that were meant for general readership, absolutely. >> one more revealed, you are not the same age and we lamenting the loss of a pleasanter tone i, are we remembering correctly or are we just dreaming? >> one of the things i tackle in the book is nostalgiawhich i think is very destructive . i wasn't actually crazy about my childhood. i grew up in fa poor working-class family in a facto

and i i said to my thought because we were both from massachusetts and we both knew, you know, mitt romney as governor. we thought he was an okay, you know, and i said i dad i don't think that's gonna i think president obama's gonna get reelected and my father very quietly said, they're both good men. we're gonna be fine. and i thought if my father after a lifetime of some pretty backward racial prejudices could look at president obama and say they're both good men. we're going to be fine any of us can do that. this is your fourth book. well, i've wrote a few this is my seventh book, but not sure people want to spend a lot of time over the holidays reading about nuclear strategy, which was the book i wrote for this. yeah. well, you've had some academics but academic books but for for general public, would that be a fair statement? yeah that were meant for a general readership. absolutely. one more reveal you and i are the same age and we kind of were lamenting the loss of a pleasant or time all this? yes, are we remembering it correctly. are we just well, you know one of the things i tackl

election news and i said to my father-- because we were both from massachusetts and we both knew mitt romney as governor. we thought he was an okay guy, but i said, dad, i don't think that-- i think that president obama's going to get reelected and my father quietly said, they're both good men, we're going to be fine. and i thought my father, after a lifetime of some pretty backward racial prejudices could look at president obama and say, they're both good men, we're going to be fine, any of us can do that. >> this is our fourth book. >> well, i've wrote a few-- this is my seventh book, but not sure if people want to spend a lot of time over the holiday reading about nuclear strategy, the book i wrote about that. >> you had some academics. >> academic books. >> for four for the general public. >> absolutely. >> one reveal you and i are the same age and we're kind of lamenting the loss of a pleasanter time. >> yes. >> are we remembering it correctly or are we just, oh-- >> well, one of the things i tackle in the book is nostalgia which i think is very destructive. you know, i wasn't actually

suburban former republicans that voted for mitt romney and crossed over to vote for joe biden last timeto them that maybe is moderate on issues in temperament and messaging. mark kelly is doing the same in arizona. i will cross over, tim ryan is an ohio. what worries me, when democrats won as a super liberal without trying to appeal to either of those groups. i'm worried about the and hazara governors race, the georgia governor's race, stacey abrams, both of them feel listless. i think if you think about the two types of people, the group bernie was talking about, the white working class voters who might want you to take on pharmaceutical companies, the suburban typical former republican voter. you have to try to appeal to one of those two groups. you have to have a strategy. there are certain democratic's that feel concerningly listless. >> what is your response to that? >> tim is right, democrats need a strong message and can't be listless. frankly, you have racist -- races right now. i think back to 2010, republicans should have taken the senate. they ran terrible -- including one pr

there's a little bit of -- and also the reality that john mccain and mitt romney while flawed humansre like, were very different. there were responsible people at the till and so i think the justifications in a lot of way had a little bit more merit in the, there were elements that supported it which is we can say all of the bad things that came to pass, we could've seen some of that in in 2007, that's tt it's also true that john mccain did didn't immigratin reform billl with ted kennedy, believed that climate change is real and said he was going to do cap-and-trade if he got into the presidency, told his campaign racisthey couldn't a attacks on barack obama over jeremiah wright. the fundamental different leadership of the tops i think like knowing that there was something rotten, you know, and also recognizing that there was a different time i i think those two things can both coexist. what to me like in the end like the book is about and it's one thing i hit mccain on, i'm very kind of mccain except on this one thing which is of these comforting lies. the book is about about how ea

okay you were on fox news days ago we played this clip reach out your fellow senator mitt romney also a republican course there utah for his endorsement. here's a little bit of the reaction for the "washington post" as romney aides irked by lee plea for highlighting gop divide in utah. here's what mcmullin says. >> i think it is shameful what i saw this week from senator lee. attacking our other senate we need two senators will work together. >> you did not endorse the late senator orrin hatch when he ran for reelection. you did not re- endorse sent ronnie and his primary pizza why should you get his endorsement now? >> first about i have always supported nominees for the u.s. senate in my party in the general election, always. and in this circumstance i am pleased i've got the endorsement of all 48 of my other republican colleagues in the senate. even susan collins and lisa we often disagree on a number of issues. and yet susan collins and lisa and every other republican senator have endorsed me i'm grateful for their support. look we are going to win this but we need help. we need h

sally's 2018 senate campaign, and working on the presidents of -- campaigns of john mccain and mitt romney. the format for this debate has been agreed to by both campaigns. each candidate will have two minutes for an opening statement in two minutes for closing. responses to the questions by our panelists, will be held in 90 seconds. however, my discretion is -- as moderator, an additional 30 seconds may be allotted to each candidate for rebuttal. all times will be strictly enforced. all the questions are devised by the panelists who submitted questions to w bia for review prior to tonight's debate. i as moderator have the option to ask a question. we moved to the opening statements. and as determined by a coin toss, earlier this evening, mr. cartwright will begin. mr. cartwright: thank you larry and wi, partners and panels for taking part in this evening. i ran for congress 10 years ago to become a powerful, effective voice for northeastern pennsylvania, and we need that now more than ever. i made it to the top of the u.s. house appropriations committee, add to that gives any p8 the kind

i mean, it's pretty pathetic.mit and mitt romney is , you know, l all these senators, every republican senator, but mitt romneyomney is is supporting mi what's wrong with mitt romney?g wiinexcusable. ine >> i tell you, they had a a debate and mike lee dominated that debate. this guy, mcmullen, he is theth democrat in the race. as far as i'.m concerned. he will tell you who he's going to caucus with . i wonder why he goes to actbluec to get nearly 75% of his funding, according to his latest report outside the state of utah, the guy is a chameleone . mike lee is strong on the constitution, works hard for utah, highly successful. thatcros i don't think it's going toe be that close if republicansd ve show up and vote likean jim jordan said. let me ask you about ohio. jim jordan, jd vance holding a lead there. t it actually came out today thatt apparently tim ryan , who , by the way, votes was up to chuck schumer's future boss. >> but he wants to release one million people in jail semstreets? free and put the on the streets again. >> part of the radical leftical agenda is to hit his stride.

to support mitt romney's bid for the nomination. now to return the favo nr, romn re now the only gop senator who hasn't endorsed lee's reelection, citing his relationship with lee's opponent, independent candidate and professional grifter evan mcmullen. now, what does that hold>> outproduced? well, a flurry of puff pieces of mcmullin is asking voters from both parties to join his insurgena t campaign to win a senate seat as an independent from utah. g riour democracy is at great rish right now.e cycles, this cycle and th and we will decide as a nationee over the next twxto cycles this cycle in the next, whether we still are a democracy or whether we're going to head red towards authoritarianism. >> now, mcmuffin is a championhs of democracy and a maverick. t right? but wait, he's more he's thee wa plucky underdog, not the guyyw whose way we're 2016. 670,pendent bid resulted in six hundred and seventy thousand bucks in unpaid bills.l >> mcmullen saysle he understans the challenge, but urges votersi to see that hitis allegiance is to

i'm the, it's for the dental candidate mitt romney describes american leaderships expectations of i'm team of the sanctions on the russian economy. he was the here, the latest hearing of the senate foreign relations committee. i had the same sense that i'm hearing from both the chairman of the ranking member that we, that we have in our own minds overstated the impact of sanctions. the rubel is actually trading higher than it was before the, the war in global markets. if we cut off access to certain technologies that russia would want to purchase, they can find ways around it. and particularly if their friends are china and india . as we just heard romney singled out rushes, increasing opportunities with china on thursday. china is military defense. suppose 1st and announce and deepening of fatigue communication between the 2 countries. while trade between the pair is expected to have an old time record this year. at least for us to tell them longo, a do political and market. analysts says that ever since the 1st us sanctions was issued in 2014, they continue to boomerang. i felt this

they did it to mitt romney. he put this dog in a crate. so he was an out of touch eve athlete. they did it to trump. whoever is the nominee, whether it's donald trump or someone else, they will get the same treatment. i think they are priming the pump to hit desantis very hard. i think we can expect to have it get a lot hotter and a lot more vicious. brian: if you talk to laura ingraham off camera, you are not about a party, you are about the country. brian: it's going to be about the issues. and you are going to vote. and right now things have changed since july. it's no longer about abortion or donald trump. it's about in any order. crime, the border wars. it's about education. it's about everything else going on in this country that matters. the economy and inflation. having said that, do you think that red wave will be reprimed? >> i never bought the argument that joe biden had the wind at his back because gas prices toggled down a bit because he used the strategic oil reserves to flood the market. i never thought that. i think it's all bull. people are not going to be goin

al gore ran around forever. mich, a mitt romney actually. but look, it's, it's hypocritical. but it's also stunning in how brazen it is. hillary clinton spent about a year and a half saying donald trump was an illegitimate election. hillary clinton's campaign spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to promote the ally that russia somehow interfered with donald trump and helped him when the election. hillary clinton has been proven to be a, you know, a really fraudulent actor in the russia hoax. i mean, it's proven, it's not and it's not up for grabs. so when she looked at the camera and says, oh, trust me, 2024 is going to be bad. there's a couple things that come to mind 1st. why is she talking about 200-2004? the answer is cuz she wants to run. but the real problem for the democrats is 2022 is what's at stake. and here's the 2nd point. hillary clinton is a loser. and when the democrats trot out a loser to be the focus like they are right now, it's not going to help when any retention with s t u. s. republicans as right wing extremists or sorts of response could that spock

as far as the mitt romney component, i'm sure mitt romney finds it hilarious that this guy who used to torch him, how dare you not endorse? the advantage of being a quarter billionaire is not caring. he's been diligent here of ron. -- he's been just diligent here, right here. >> do you get the sense that there is a silent majority out there in the privacy of the voting booth may infect reject the doctrine? >> i didn't hear the last part. >> i guess the democratic anti-dobbs. >> in kansas there were 220,000 voters that didn't vote on anything except the referendum. what's going on? >> i am skeptical there is a big group out there. on the very high side for historically, there is not a lot of people out there that are not coming to the polls. more people are coming to the fold then we expect. i guess i am broadly a believer to the extent that there might be something out there that is moving and we see the movement in republican direction. maybe because it's an election where the president of the democratic party is not doing so well i don't see a big silent majority with dobbs. >> there

as far as the mitt romney component, i'm sure mitt romney finds it hilarious that this guy who used toorch him, how dare you not endorse? the advantage of being a quarter billionaire is not caring. he's been diligent here of ron. -- he's been just diligent here, right here. >> do you get the sense that there is a silent majority out there in the privacy of the voting booth may in fact reject the doctrine? >> i didn't hear the last part. >> i guess the democratic anti-dobbs. >> in kansas there were 220,000 voters that didn't vote on anything except the referendum. what's going on? >> i am skeptical there is a big group out there. on the very high side for historically, there is not a lot of people out there that are not coming to the polls. more people are coming to the polls then we expect. i guess i am broadly a believer to the extent that there might be something out there that is moving and we see the movement in republican direction. maybe because it's an election where the president of the democratic party is not doing so well i don't see a big silent majority with dobbs. >> there

wrong trajectory there is a little bit a navy today and then also the reality that john mccain and mitt romneywere very different so i think the justification had more merit and more elements that supported it which we can sayd all of the bad things that came to pass that's true but it's also true that john mccain to the immigration reform bill climate change was real and then you are going to do cap and trade until the campaign staff they cannot do racist attacks on barack obama over jeremiah wright. there is a fundamental difference knowing there was something rotten and recognizing it was a different time those candles coexist so to me the book is about this one thing which the book is about how easy it is to tell yourself a story that is convenient and comforting and how hard it is when you're faced with a tough situation to look at yourself and say now i need to be responsible for this right now. palin crazy and now that's okay. that's a convenient thing we needed to do. and that makes sense to people and over time that you can see a connection from what people still say now. what are you

he reminds you of anyone else it undermine his own voters once he gets in office, he sounds like mitt romneytch. >> senator romney worked hard over the past 3 years. i think it's important. he works with republicans and democrats, senator lee, to deliver for utah and voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill you voted against. >> tucker: right. if voters in utah want to elect a liberal democrat, another pete buttigieg and think that pete buttigieg's politics or mcmullin's represent the politics of the families of utah, do it. but don't lie. say who you are. you are a liberal democrat. that's the update from utah. we go to new york where something equally surprising is happening. something surprising in a good way. new york is an overwhelmingly democratic state. no republican will get elected governor of new york obviously. but this year a republican looks like he may be elected governor of new york. zeldin is running against kathy hochul. he was not elected but appointed. kathy hochul has made new york must more dangerous. robberies are up 34%. murders in the subway system are as high as

don't want to vote for me and said about barack obama the first clean articulate black guy and mitt romney you all back in jail. pot the cattle. it is incredibly -- stuart: the la city council president has resigned about the others involved in the conversation have not. >> that is correct. wouldn't resign for the city council but the other two have not. city council paid the highest of any city council person, one hundred thousand dollar slush fund with discretionary funds, free healthcare and retirement healthcare and large staff paid for by taxpayers. what a great job which is why these people have not resigned. stuart: they are all democrats i believe. >> there isn't a single republican on city council, with one independent the rest are democrats. stuart: that is california and the president must be embarrassed visiting los angeles the very day this happens. sorry i'm out of time. i could talk about this all day, see as soon. larry elder. california just approved digital license plates, the displaced screen is controlled by apps the let's drivers and personal messages to the plate. tha

ask mitt romney. remember what they did to him? we'd be remised to not mention glen youngkin. he won the virginia governship by focusing on the campaign and no failed trump controversy. in that fleece vest, sure. when he rolled up his sleeves to campaign for gop gubernatorial candidates across america, the media target it is and drew out to arizona to campaign for carrie lake, he became enemy number one. now, youngkin embraces carrie young and has them fooled with a lot more. there's a lesson here . the time for appeasement is over. and it's something that carrie lake turned into a huge plus during her primary battle. right now she's offering kind of a master class in how to put the media back on its heels. >> talk about election deniers. 150 examples of democrats denying election results. this is from joe biden and they stole the gubernatorial from georgians and stacey abrams and hillary clinton, trump is an illegitimate president. is she an election denier? it's okay for democrats to question the election but not for republicans? it's a crock of bs and every one of you knows

. >> right.tt is this a situation where mitt in romney wants to partner with evan mcmullin and the hopes that they can control nothing? no bill will get passed unless s it goes through them, whichi that would make the case, i would argue, for for republics to have an overwhelming majority, a mitt romney proof majority, if you will . >> yes., yes. for the u.s. senate. and i think that's a great point. >> and my opponent is oddl.y using this as a selling point. i look, i will be putting utah first. the i'll put utah first. decision-maker in everything by being the decision maker in everything. it's not putting utah first.h f. that's putting evan mcmullin first. there is a difference. we have a saying where i come from.a di if iffert walkences like a duc.k and quacks like a duck, if it l has webbed feet like a duck. >> in this case, it's a democrat. that's a pretty good saying. du, it wouldn't work in new york . ? >> what do how do you interpret that? questions we shoulse, i endorse and as a matter of fact, one oft the questions that we should answer right now is if you want to support mike

just as bad as segregation, and he refused enforcement and ended up removing romney's father, mitt romney's father, as head of housing and urban development because romney's father wanted to be proactive in anti segregation efforts right. and so it was both the sort of coded racial appeals and the recognition that a lot of racial inequality would continue through inertia in our systems, through, you know, as segregated as the city of chicago is. and many of the problems that were created during the era of formal apartheid and in saying we refuse to dismantle that formal apartheid, we created, but we will say now the laws are neutral. i think you would call some of those euphemisms maybe euphemisms dog whistles, coded racial appeals, which you know, makes me realize even more how beautiful language can be, but also how it can be used in ugly, ugly ways, in certainly the words that we use use matter, but in in structural races, some words have been strategically used because people who use them understand how the receiver will receive them. and then, you know, continue to. play out whatever r