i remember in the 2012 campaign when trump endorsed mitt romney. romney being a little hypocritical here, do you think? didn't he embrace some of the extreme elements of the time, the elements of the party? >> this is one of the themes of the conversation and it comes up again and again in the book. he thinks a lot about the compromises he's made throughout his political career. that dinner that you're talking about and i'll just tease that in the book i report what trump said about you -- >> oh, great. >> during that dinner. you can read about youio. >> gee, thanks. >> romney admits there have been times when he's been motivated primarily by ambition and political ambition and that's led him to cross certain ethical lines. as for that secretary of state job, he told me he thought that it was important that he thought it was important to have adults in the room and that was a common thing that you would hear right after the 'election, and i'm glad i didn't end up with that job because i wouldn't have lasted that long. >> there were plenty rof adult

march of 2016 as donald trump was on the verge of becoming the republican presidential nominee, mitt romney was outraged. romney was so distressed that he made a last ditch one-man effort to stop trump. he announced that he would be making a speech at the university of utah on his own just to issue a warning. >> here's what i know. donald trump is a phony, a fraud. his promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. he's playing the members of the american public for suckers. he gets a free ride to the white house and all we get is a lousy hat. >> romney worked furiously behind the scenes to prevent trump from winning the republican nomination. after two failed earlier presidential bids, romney considered running once again in 2016. romney was willing to wage a quixotic and humiliating presidential bid if that's all it took. but romney didn't think the gambit would actually succeed in taking down trump. romney was, of course, correct. and since then trump's grip on the republican party has not just pushed mitt romney to the outskirts, it has made him a marked man. a few days be

pnina: thank you. ♪ amna: it wasn't that long ago, in 2012, that mitt romney was the republican party'sminee. but, today, the gop he once led is dominated by donald trump. now a senator from utah, romney is attempting to make sense of the changes within the party and his own actions over his decades-long political career. for numerous hours over 14 months, he shared his thoughts with journalist mckay coppins. lisa desjardins picks up the story from there. lisa: that's right, amna. and the result of those intimate conversations is mckay coppins new book, "romney: a reckoning." and mckay joins me now. mckay, lots of headlines from this, but mitt romney here is not just reckoning with his party, but also reckoning with himself in some ways. and i wonder, can you pick a revealing moment that shows sort of this restless quality that comes through in the book, and how this affects a historic figure making big decisions throughout? mckay: yes, it's interesting. one of the things that drew me to him as a subject was that, especially in the wake of january 6, he was really going through a proces

kevin federline was never seen again. [ laughter ] you know, the fact that britney spears and mitt romneyeleased books on the same day is pretty great. so we thought it would be fun to make it a game. it's time to play "brit or mitt?" [ cheers and applause ] i'll read an excerpt from a book. you tell me if the excerpt came from mitt romney or britney spears, okay? you ready for this, guillermo? >> guillermo: ready, jimmy. >> jimmy: all right. "i was accused of being inauthentic. but in reality, that's just who i am. i'm the authentic person who seems inauthentic." is that brit or mitt? honestly, i have no idea what you're saying. that was mitt. that's right, it was mitt. "i can see now that you have to be smart enough, vicious enough, deliberate enough to play the game. and i did not know the game." brit or mitt? we're split again. we're split on brit and mitt. but that is brit. [ cheers and applause ] next. "my sister and i had matching bathing suits and matching perms. [ laughter ] now, today it's basically illegal to give a little kid a perm, but back in the nineties it was just cute a

norah o'donnell is talking with senator mitt romney of utah. >> reporter: mitt romney recently surprisedeople when he announced he will not seek re-election, and now in a new biography he tells all about what fellow republicans say behind closed doors. you were once the party's nominee, and now you're a pariah in the republican party. >> yeah. that's saying it in a gentle way, yeah. no question i don't really have a home in my party. >> reporter: coming up on "sunday morning," mitt romney on his life and legacy. >>> he was one of the most memorable composers of our times. tracy smith offers a tribute to the late henry mancini, a television and movie composer whose work was quite simply instrumental. ♪ >> reporter: how do you remake legendary record when it comes to henry mancini's "moon river," the answer is with love. >> when the mancini family asked you to record -- >> when the family calls and asks you to be part of honoring a legacy of a genius. you say thank you very much. >> reporter: the remaking of a master spees with michael buble and more later on "sunday morning." >>> our seth

that's how -- kind of how depressed he was i think it also speaks to there's something about mitt romneywas kind of derailing his campaign, he had let down his -- you know, the people who supported him, the people that donated to him he eventually pulled himself back up, and he lost the election, but, you know, that moment i thought was really revealing. >> seth: it must be a weird time for him, because he is still a conservative he has conservative principles he stands for a lot of conservative ideals, and yet, his party has ostracized him there are times where the left, you know, eats it up when he says negative things about his colleagues, but ultimately, he is no hero of the left either. one thing that i did find, you know, endearing on a human level is he has connected with president biden on just the idea of what it's like to age >> yes, he has struck up this friendship with joe biden the last couple years because he found that they actually get along on some things, even though they disagree on politics, and they spend a lot of their time commiserating about the indignities of get

mitt romney said to, me in one of our last interviews, make his point.hese last several years, he stopped thinking about trying to become president. and started thinking about his legacy. how he would be remembered. what his obituary would be. he said he thinks that there was some way to get other republicans who think less about the immediate news cycle, the next election, and more about what their grandchildren are gonna remember about them. that their calculation would start to change. that's not just a righteous idea. there is some vanity involved. all politicians want to be in the history books. >> i was it about to say, he comes across, he has a high degree of moral vanity. one of things that come across, as someone as a fair amount of moral vanity. it's a very salutary thing to have. in the end, even if it's like, you have some conception of yourself as being a good person, not wanting to fail a test. and there's some vanity that attends to that, it actually forces you maybe to do the right thing. mckay mckay coppins, where we get your books. romn

tell you what i'm gonna go into it, because i want to have a chat with you. >> that was senator mitt romneyy trump supporter at the airport on january 5th. of 2021. and it is emblematic of romney's experience as a republican and the trump era, and when the could arguably have contributed to his announcement last month that he will not seek reelection in 2020 fall. in advance of this, over the course of two years, senator romney gave expensive interviews and access to one journalist, mckay coppins, off the atlantic. mckay coppins new essential biography, romney reveals all his thoughts on trump and that republican party at a moment when both remain very much in crisis. joining me now is the author himself, mckay coppins, staff writer at the atlantic and author of the new book out today, wrongly a reckoning. congratulations on a book that is so well-timed, so deep researched, that reviews have been extraordinary. we have a lot to get to. let's get to it right now. first, the level of just profound personal animus that romney hold for other leading lights in the republican party. this is just

frank thorpe caught up with mitt romney.described it as unfortunate that he is an election denier and how johnson would square that. he said he never spoke to johnson. i think we were discussing this last week when we were doing jim jordan's speaker votes. the last speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, did not endorse donald trump. he was someone who tried to have it both ways on trump. i said at the time, and i believe it, the next speaker of the house, and more we might have between now and 2024, is probably going to be someone who endorses donald trump and supports him as as far as he or she thinks they can go. that's the direction that this party is headed. i think johnson can read the writing on the wall to some degree. i think that's what we will continue to see among republicans in the house certainly. >> since neither you nor i can carry the one or subtract, steve kornacki, you are at the big board. is the number three? >> it's sitting at three. there's been some reporting of potential democratic defections. if that

mitt romney and anne romney, his wife, had known oprah for a long time and i think that the fact thatm in 2019 shows both that, you know, she was very concerned about trump getting reelected and also apparently had been, as a report, approached by michael bloomberg about forming a unity to get and she instead kind of went to mitt romney and said, how about you do this with me? romney ultimately demurred, of course. they didn't run. and he still thinks that a third party ticket, as much as romney himself would love to run as an independent in this upcoming election, he thinks that there are too great a danger that third party ticket would end up helping donald trump and kind of spoiling the race for joe biden, and that's just not a risk romney is willing to take right now. >> okay, well mckay coppins, here's a look, everybody. romney, a reckoning. i want to thank you. planes, trains, automobiles, you've kept me company and i love reading this book. thank you so much, mckay. >> thank, you alex, thanks. >> coming up, we're going to go back to the breaking news in the middle east. the idf

lots of headlines but mitt romney is noxious reckoning with his party but also himself.an you pick a revealing moment that shows this restless quality and how it affects a historic figure making decisions throughout? >> one thing that drew me to him as he was going through process of trying to understand how his party became the way it was and whether he played a role in it. he's been a prominent critic of donald trump but he told me about a moment in the wake of the election where he was openly hostile to the campaign but trump invited him to talk about joining the administration. romney went back and had some meetings with trump and said he had noble intentions but there was some part of him that wanted the job. what is fascinating is he was often going back to his career and life and identifying those moments where he was rationalizing things. it's important because those kinds of rationalizations. >> in 2012, both parties had celebrities like this, but that moment has looked worse and worse. he has regret about not just how he indulged trump but how he indulged the m

>> need to get a speakers and his possible peers >> norah: what mitt romney says about the chaos in the>> probably not the first choice i would have made. ♪ ♪ >> norah: and the new sports you will see up at 2028 olympics. ♪ ♪ good evening, and thank you for joining us. we begin tonight with the breaking news that is reverberating around the world. when president biden announced his trip to the middle east, there was hope that his meetings with both israeli and arab leaders could result in relief to gaza and the release of american hostages. tonight, that hope has faded. we are learning new details tonight about an explosion at a hospital in gaza city. the palestinian health ministries as hundreds of people killed, many more injured. take a look at some of these images. women and children in the aftermath, waiting for treatment, terrified. the hospital just hit and overwhelmed. now, hamas is blaming an israeli air strike, but israel is denying responsibility, saying their intelligence shows it was caused by failed rocket launch by the group islamic jihad. throughout this conflict, civili

turns out mitt romney was right. >> i had a case where i told mitt romney he was rather prescient in some of the things he said. this is not what with wanted. in fact, when president biden came to office, one of the things we tried to explore is whether russia was interested in having a more stable able relationship with the united states. president bide and putin met in geneva. the whole intent was to test that out. unfortunately that is not what putin wanted. >> do you think there is any purpose in ever having president biden meet with putin again or is it beyond repair? >> never say never because ultimately what everyone wants starting with the ukrainians is peace. let's see if we ever get to a point where that is possible. >> what does it look like? >> two things. just in a sense it reflects the basic principles, integrity, sovereignty. durable in the that she knows you want to make sure if you're getting to a peace you're not leaving positions that would allow this aggression to happen again, two years later, five years later. those are two things. the two guide posts. how do yo

. >>> and with chaos on capitol hill, we sat down with republican senator mitt romney, who is not seeking2024. and we asked him why he thinks republicans are having such a difficult time picking a new speaker. >> do you think jim jordan is the right republican to be speaker of the house? >> well, it does seem like the republicans in the house are letting the tail wag the dog. the great majority of the republicans in the house, i think, would like to have someone that represents the mainstream of our party. jim jordan represents a small part of the party but a very vocal part of the party, and they've been calling the shots. he's probably not the first choice i would have made, but it's not my choice. it's up to them. whether he'll get the job or not, i don't know. but if he does get the job, it will be a case of the dog catching the car, which is what happens then? i mean there are people in my party who go to washington to bark, to make noise, not to make law, but to make noise. i think jim jordan would call himself one of those who's got a lot to say and is loud and barking but actually

. >>> utah senator mitt romney has a new book out this week. it's called "romney: a reckoning."t be seeking another term in the senate, claiming the republican party has passed him by. he sat down for a chat with norah o'donnell. >> i have a call with the president. [ laughter ] interview that gets interrupted by a call from the president of the united states. >> do you have to be on a secure line? >> reporter: but that's what happened when we sat down with senator mitt romney and his wife anne. president biden phoned last week on the eve of his diplomatic mission to israel. the republican had just returned from his own visit. >> it was heartbreaking, particularly to meet with families of the hostages. their lives are entirely different. one of the people said you don't understand, we live in a different world than you do. >> reporter: at age 76, mitt romney says he still cares deeply about what is happening around the world. and here at home, he worries deeply about the future of his party. >> you were once the party's nominee, and now you're a pariah in the republican party. >

utah senator mitt romney's village or shirt in that new book titled romney: a reckoning.tes from romney's journals hours of private conversations with him. romney was brutally honest about key republicans, saying, donald trump is, quote, unquestionably mentally unstable and he is racist, bigoted, misogynistic, enough of, it vulgar, and pro violence. he called my pants, quote, a lap dog to trump for four years. and mitch mcconnell, quote, he's not crazy. mitch knows the election wasn't stolen. referring of course to 2020. romney also explained part of his motivation to retire in 2024. coppins writes, quote, his time and the senate lift romney or. not just about the decomposition of his political party but off the fate of the american project itself. mckay coppins joins me now. staff writer at the athletic and author of the new book, romney: a reckoning. , congratulations, good to see. you elaborate on all this, what is romney's biggest concern here? >> i would say his biggest concern is what he considers the creeping authoritarianism within the republican party. i started

mitt romney saved his stinging words for the former president. e-mail to chris christie, romney said, quote, trump is unquestionably, unstable, he's racist, zxenophobic and prone t violence and someone with those characterist beings, will his peers respond to him in kind or ignore him altogether? we shall see. that's it for "inside politics," state of the union is next. see you next time. nice footwork. man, you're lucky, watching live sports never used to be this easy. now you can stream all your games like it's nothing. yes! [ cheers ] yeah! woho! running up and down that field looks tough. it's a pitch. get way more into what you're into when you stream on the xfinity 10g network. you're probably not easily persuaded to switch mobile providers for your business. but what if we told you it's possible that comcast business mobile can save you up to 75% a year on your wireless bill versus the big three carriers? have we piqued your interest? you can get two unlimited lines for just $30 each a month. there are no term contracts or line activation

utah senator, mitt romney's, thoughts are shared in a new book titled romney, a reckoning.romney's journals, and hours of private conversations with him the. romney was brutally honest about the republican saying, quote, donald trump is unquestionably mentally unstable, racist, bigoted, misogynists, enough of, it vulgar, and prone to violence. he called mike pence, quote, a lapdog to trump for four years. and said that mitch mcconnell, quote, is not crazy, and knows the election wasn't stolen. romney explains part of his motivation to retire in 2024. coppins writes, quote, his time and senate left romney worried, not just about the decomposition of his political party, but of the fate of the american project itself. mckay coppins, joins me now, a staff writer for the atlantic, and an author of the new book, romney, a reckoning. mckay, congratulations, so good to see you. elaborate on all this, what is romney's biggest concern here? >> i would say his biggest concern is what he considers the creeping authoritarianism within the republican party. i started interviewing him fo

mitt romney and ted cruz.ou've got one guy with the personality of a blowup doll and another who's definitely having sex with them all the time. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] there's a lot of interestingly stuff in this book. romney says when they were dating, britney spears cheated on him with another senator. did you know? oh, wait, i may be confusing my books, i don't know. [ laughter ] donald trump had yet another legal setback today. one of his former lawyers turned co-conspirator, sidney powell. [ laughter ] this weird human lady pled guilty to six charges in georgia in the case related to trump's efforts to overturn the election results. among other things, powell hired people to barge into a voting location in coffee county where they broke into the voting machines. turns out, that's not a very lawyerly thing to do. as part of the deal, powell gets six years of probation and appears to be cooperating with prosecutors in their case against the others, which includes trump. oh, man, the chicken mc

that's a demotion from being oprah. [ laughter ] and why would she pick mitt romney as a running mateaccording to the book, the idea was to get a powerful democrat and a powerful republican to join forces to give the american people something none of us want. [ laughter ] that would've been great. they could've been ebony and what's whiter than ivory? anything? [ laughter ] of course, some people don't believe oprah has what it takes to be president, but as far as i'm concerned -- if you can grow a cabbage this size in your yard, you can do anything. you know who could use an oprah-caliber running mate? mike pence. mike pence is running out of money. he's down to the last penny in his loafer. [ laughter ] the pence campaign is reportedly $620,000 in debt. i guess his rock 'n roll lifestyle finally caught up with him. apparently, pence has been having trouble winning over republican voters, especially the ones who tried to hang him. [ laughter ] his campaign is facing mounting debt, but he won't admit it. mainly because mother won't let him use the word "mounting." [ laughter ] just ou

. >> you remember mitt romney, talk about russia as the main adversary and it turns out mitt romney was right. is that fair to say? >> some of the things he said. >> was he satisfied? >> i will let him. liz: that. one president biden took office, one thing we tried was russia was interested in a more stable printable relationship. president biden and president putin before aggression against ukraine, all of that was tested. tragically in many ways, that's not what he wanted. >> to remember any purpose and president biden meeting or is it beyond repair? >> never say never because ultimately what everyone wants starting with ukraine is justice and peace so let's see if we get to that. t >> what does that look like? >> just in the sense that it reflects basic symbols of integrity, sovereignty and independenceri for ukraine. durable in the sense that you want to make sure you get to a piece it would not allow this aggression to happen again a year or two years later or five years later so those are the two guideposts so how you define that, ukrainians had to make fundamental decisions about

mitt romney looked around one day and thought that the party that stood for promoting democracy and freeof the sudden to see all the leaders of that party rally around a by who was the embodiment of everything the party was supposed to stand against. >> yeah. >> you know, he looked around and he realized one day i don't fit here anymore. i'm not -- i don't have a home here. and these people that i used to respect have sold out their principles to back this guy who manifestly doesn't believe in the constitution, doesn't believe in democratic values. and i think the reason he talked to me for this book and gave me such an unvarnished account of these last few years of his career is because he wanted to issue a warning. he is worried about not just his party, but the fragility of american democracy and what he has seen inside the senate has made him very alarmed. >> there is some echos to mark salter's last book about his old boss john mccain who in some ways, the death bed confession of what he saw, and what has collapsed. but what's so amazing about romney, let me show you what he said an

>> i think mitt romney is the most honorable man in the united states senate. i think his politics and mine are exactly in sync, when he says that about tucker carlson, i don't know what tucker carlson believes. he says one thing in secret text messages than he says on the air. i don't know what is in his mind. in terms of republican party and totalitarianism and all the rest of that we need some sober moderate patriotic people to put aside their own malignant narcissism to get going with the business of the nation. now, two existential crisis, ukraine invaded by russia has to fight against the hugely superior foe, and then, of course, in israel, where you have so much going on that you need the country to be united, not have -- >> i want to say this about matt gaetz i have known a long time. criticism does not come naturally to him. i think he feels the need to speak the truth because he feels the republican party needs to be rescued from itself. >> not running for re-election and certainly can speak his mind. thank you. >>> up ahead we have a lot more to talk

but with tim scott, could i see him beating mitt romney in 2012, but the problem is it is impossiblego against the a prommer president who got -- former president into got 74 million votes and many believe he was wronged in that election, and they think that donald trump deserves a second chance at presidency or reelection, he could run the best candidacy in the world but in the end, donald trump gets all of the media attention and tim scott i could see as a vice presidential selection, but at-this-point not a nominee, because of the conditions on the ground unfortunately. >> joe, a little bit less than a minute. we'll end on a note of optimist, congressman phillips has an interesting life story, but, you and i have the same chance of winning the democrat nomination as he does. and we're not running. why is he running? >> i think he is running to kind of send a message at-this-point. i think he doesn't believe that he can get the democratic nominee. but he will be reminder, as far as an overwhelming number of democratic voters think there is a better option than the 80-year-old presi

chuck schumer, mitt romney, five senators from the u.s. in tel aviv yesterday at a tail -- at a television conference delayed by an air siren. chuck schumer said there's been no demand, no ask for any direct military involvement from the united states by israelis you also have antony blinken here today and he's been to egypt, to the uae, saudi arabia, qatar, rain, jordan, talking to the leaders, trying to back channel with the iranians as well and trying to prevent escalation as one of the main concerns but also get aid into gaza and to deal with a hostage situation, or than 150 people according to the numbers we have. we understand we may get an opening at the border to egypt that would allow some aid to come in and allow some foreigners to come out. but we should say, mitt romney in his speech last night here in tel aviv saying all of the consequences of this and the horrible images out of gaza are the fault of hamas. that might be his perspective, that will certainly not be the perspective of iran, hezbollah and many neighboring states,

what makes the difference, to respond to mitt romney, two words. donald trump, election denier, and also, that his colleagues like him. congressman ken buck sat here last week and said he would not vote for an election denier. he just told our colleague dana bash that he had not gotten that promise from mike johnson but he voted for him. not all election deniers are cede equal. >> ao point out, mike johnson is getting closer and closer to being elected speaker of the house of representatives, we are getting live pictures from the white house as well. president biden will be holding a joint news conference with the prime minister of australia. we'll bring that to our viewers live as well. it looks like mike johnson is going to be, it certainly appears that he will have the magic number and be elected speaker of the house. all the republicans who voted against the earlier republican nominees are now standing in line behind mike johnson. >> and that will be a credit to the republicans. if they do it unanimously, it will continue this good mood we're s

senators, majority leader chuck schumer and republican senator mitt romney and to bomb shelters.er says they were rushed to the shelter to wait out hamas rocket fire. israel also reported taking rocket fire in the southern city of sderot. israeli strikes were unrelenting, pounding the gaza strip. >> there you have some new video showing an explosion during rescues following -- and then desperate searches for survivors following a strike on yet another refugee camp. then in central gaza, watch this. [speaking in a global language] >> extraordinary dramatic rescues on a strike on a residential building. [sirens] >> those strikes sending hundreds to hospitals along the strip. the world health organization saying orders for hospitals to evacuate northern gaza are in death sentence for the second and jared. doctors say conditions and gaza hospitals are already dire for patients. >> we have around 55 patients. they depend on machines to preserve their lives, they need oxygen. they're on ventilators. we have these machines, around 60 patients. this number is a danger. [inaudible] we nee

mitt romney getting out of dodge just in time to not have to deal with all of this stuff.honestly, the fulfillment of the things that it seems like he's been warning about for a really long time. what is he looking at this thinking right now, as somebody who is probably spent way too much time in his diaries and parts of his brain? >> i've talked him about what's going on in the house. you know, when he first arrived at the senate a few years ago somebody told him early on that here in the senate, 20 senators do all the work and 80 of the rest are just here for the ride. they want to make noise, they want to get on tv, that's it. i think the proportions are even worse in the house. the dysfunction is one saying, but it is rooted in a cynicism, right? i think we heard some of that in that interview that you just had where there is this idea that the consequences of this, they are not going to be remembered. nobody can remember this in a few weeks and i think that belief that it doesn't really matter, what we are doing day-to-day, has been internalized by a lot of people in

chaos, the mage republic -- maga republicans and everything, i don't think anyone whether it is mitt romney or anybody else could go in and get the votes to be speaker of the house. the other thing is i would not be surprised if jim jordan has been in conversation with donald trump. he is going to keep running. it is wasting time when some other way of getting the house in order -- he is waiting time. host: let's pick up on that point because how does that help the republican party the 2024 election? are there republicans concerned about that? guest: there are republicans that are concerned about speaker jim jordan and swing districts with trump at the top of the ballot. house republicans are nervous heading into next year and there is fear that speaker jim jordan would cause some headaches to them when it comes to the campaign trail. host: aaron in huntsville, alabama. independent. caller: i was putting together this week how international bankers helped establish israel. host: tori, missouri -- troy, missouri. democratic caller. caller: this is a big joke. the guy behind all of this is tr

mitt romney and angus king same.ave heard from some democrats who have floated other names like people currently in the house and hakeem jeffries himself the top democrat said there are members of this republican party who they could find to be palatable and almost partners. they're not talking about this as a coalition government, at least not in any real kind of a sense. what they're likely talking about here is giving speaker pro tem patrick mchenry some extra powers that he may not have right now to actually just run the floor. i'm not talking about this for the next year and a half or through the end of the congress. i'm talking about this through maybe november 17th, the day the government is set to shut down or maybe through the end of the year. then they would come back and actually try to figure out what a new speakership would look like. democrats are not under any illusion that they're going to get a democrat here. they don't think that. that's not what they're pushing for. they're pushing for a republican

we saw that, for example, in mckay coppins talking to mitt romney, and mitt romney saying that his colleaguessaying that they wanted to vote to impeach, but they could not afford the -- i can't remember -- millions of dollars the -- in personal security. and they were worried about people going after them. and so that has been the sort of m o of the far-right republican party, not to make these threats themselves. but when they say that they are going to unleash the base, they know very well with that entails. >> release the kraken, in the words of sydney powell. i do think there is also a difference between the death threats issued from trump and his followers, and that was issued by jim jordan, a man whose support is only declining here. the question is -- and i ask you this as someone -- i know you don't know the answer. but do you think -- how do you think this jordan saga ends. i should not say jordan saga. the speaker saga ends. >> i don't know. my guess -- i think that it will probably end with someone like patrick mchenry -- >> drawing an extension? >> yes, because it just does not se

so that's the author of the story writing about what mitt romney said. you know, in hindsight now, when you read that i thought to myself, well, that's kind of weird that that would happen. now we are realizing that there is a basic thuggery that seems to exist among the supporters of donald trump in the united states congress. >> and it's worse than that, ali. it has gone around the country and it affects not just politicians who are cowardly in what they have done, fearing personal safety but also their political careers. but of course we have seen it with violence now against muslims and jews. it has become a culture of violence in the country, and you're right, we can take some of it to donald trump and some of it to talk radio, social media, and other things. i want to put this into a little bit of other historical context though, ali. let's go back 30 years. newt gingrich pushed aside bob michael, the last great republican leader. four years later, new greenwich was pushed aside. he is successor, it appeared to be bob livingston, couldn't make it b

stuart: there's a new book, and it reveals oprah winfrey pitched a white house run with mitt romney.hter] did that ever have a chance? >> no, it didn't. but what i love about this story is it really shows you the transactional nature of the trump era. oprah winfrey had trump on her she all the time. she celebrate trump when he went from bankruptcy in the early '90s to back on top of the business world. he was a part of the fabric of polite society in show biz. mitt romney, who wanted trump's endorsement until trump was running for the presidency himself and tried to get the secretary of state and didn't get the job and then he ran for senate and said i'd like to be the guy who opposes him on the ticket? do you get how much of this is performance art? there has been a manufactured mister ya around donald trump. i don't cosign every word that the comes out of his twitter account, but you understand everybody telling you he's this and existential threat to all of us was hanging out at his house an hour ago. they were taking his money, appearing on his reality show. i'd take you a lot mo

delegation of senators, including democrats jackie rosen and mark kelly, along with republicans mitt romney and bill cassidy. schumer is the first jewish senate majority leader and the highest ranking jewish elected official in the u.s. his great grandmother and several of her children were killed by nazis in europe. schumer said the visit is meant to show solidarity with israel and its right to defend itself but yesterday the group was rushed to a shelter in tel aviv to wait out rocket fire by hamas. the senators are set to meet with prime minister netanyahu along with israeli president isaac herzog. ann marie? >> hopefully all of the diplomatic work will make a difference. thank you. >>> well, the israeli military says 155 hostages are being held by hamas in gaza while the u.s. state department says 13 americans are unaccounted for. imtiaz tyab asked about freeing those hostages. >> why don't you just release the people who were -- >> look, okay, what we want first of all, we want daily killing to stop. to stop killing, the officials to stop killing and this is genocide here. it is genoci

journalist kate poppins is relieving a book on the political career of retiring utah republican senator mitt romney called romney:a reckoning. two books about the media are coming out soon, both about fox news, journalist michael wolf is releasing the fall:the end of fox news and the murdoch dynasty september 26th and former cnn anchor is relsing network of lies:the epic saga of fox news, donald trump, and the battle for american democracy, that comes out november 14th and here are a few other nonfiction books to keep an eye out for this fall, journalist walter isaacson is out with a book about tesla founder elon musk, h w brand will release his latest book on november 7th entitled founding partners in:hamilton, madison, jefferson, adams and the sprawling birth of american politics and journalist jim alberta is releasing the kingdom, the power, and the glory:american evangelicals in an age of extremism, that comes out in early december. it is on november 14th that journalist garrett graft's latest, uso, the inside story of the ugovernment's search for alien life here anout there will be available.

senate majority leader chuck schumer and mitt romney in tel aviv, along with others, to meet with israeliials as well as families americans taken hostage by hamas terrorists. >> when you got off that plane, what was the first thing wanted to tell israel's leaders? >> i wanted to tell israel's leaders we have your back. >> do you think there's hope to rescue american hostages? >> of course there is. that's why they were grabbed, a hamas wants to see if they can get something. >> hope is all this something this family has. >> hope isthey haven't heard frr loved ones, keith and adrian segel, since saturday, when neighbors say hamas terrorists march them from their home. >> you met with united states senators. what did you tell them? >> we all told him that we want our families back in israel, and now. we haven't got time. we need them to bring them back to their homes, back to their children, back to their grandchildren. >> just some of the americans who have law ones that are now hostages being held by those hamas terrorists. tonight, we have reporters fanned out all across the region. firs

new book about the life and political career of mitt romney. mr. coppins gained extraordinary access to roey's private journals, texts and emails and was granted hours of interviews with romney over two years. janet hook writes many readers will come for the juicy scoops and score settling, but the book also tries to do something more important. coppins raises probinguestions about how much republicans like romney were complicit in the rise of donald trump. now, that book comes just weeks after senator romney announced that he won't seek reelection in 2024. now, the books we just talked about in reviews and new releases, you can watch for them in the near future. on booktv. well, coming up, it's our weekly afterwords program. this week, martin baron talks about his leadership at the washington post under the ownership of jeff bezos and during the presidency of donald trump, he was interviewed by npr's david folkenflik. here's a preview. what i wrote about was my own personal experience with him. what i personally observed at the washington post is

as mitt romney says come at they do not believe in our constitution. i do not think they do because right now we do not have a functioning house of representatives. what they have done to kill this -- i think they are going the way of authoritarianism with the republican party. they seem to only go after whatever their leader wants. that is what they do. they cannot seem to think for them selves. i believe this man is also one that does not believe that president biden's president, so i do not think it is working out at all for us. host: patty in connecticut, republican line, you are next up. caller: i have to say i agree with the last woman that called and i am a republican. the republican party is a disgrace to this nation. the crazy eight, as they are called, seem to be running it because they are running it at the behest of trump. he seems to be running congress. the joke is always they are going to elect him speaker. this country is in shambles because of these republicans. everything that biden has tried to do, they have voted against. they have

and i remember watching the first debate and listening to former president barack obama and mitt romney go back and forth and i it wasn't one particular issue. and i wish it was, but it wasn't one particular issues that stood out to me as much as i liked what mitt romney was saying about the party agenda as a whole. and it made sense to me. yeah, at the time, too, i was i was, i think 15 years old. i know it is. i mean, it is hard to, you know, keep reminding myself how young you are, but you're exactly the age of our youngest daughter. you're 26 now, right? yeah. and i mean, and what's remarkable is when a lot of these events were taking place, and when you're 24 or 25, you were by far the youngest person in the white house, and you were also the adult in the room most often. but let's just one i've got another question about your childhood, because you describe, i think in a very delicate way, a childhood that had some chaos and instability in it. and i think it was when your mom decided to move to indiana and you went with your brother jack, and your mom. i think your dad had not com