bush on the republican side. what is different about donald trump and the influence he has within the republican party? guest: excellent question. there is no parallel for a former president to have the kind of a death grip on the political party. jimmy carter was not a kingmaker in the democratic party after he was defeated by ronald reagan. george h.w. bush was not a kingmaker. his son was later elected president. people did not go to kiss the ring. what is extraordinary about this, the republican party had a chance to take an offramp after the election. we supported the president when it came to policy, let's move on. he does not have any more judges to appoint. he does not have any more taxes to cuts or regulations to cut -- to cut or regulations to cut. the republican party could have done that after the election, a much more dramatic chance right after january 6. for about five minutes it looked like they would take it. when kevin mccarthy gave his speech already suggested the president was responsible for

bush on the republican side. what is different about donald trump and the influence he has within the republican party? guest: excellent question. there is no parallel for a former president to have the kind of a death grip on the political party. jimmy carter was not a kingmaker in the democratic party after he was defeated by ronald reagan. george h.w. bush was not a kingmaker. his son was later elected president. people did not go to kiss the ring. what is extraordinary about this, the republican party had a chance to take an offramp after the election. we supported the president when it came to policy, let's move on. he does not have any more judges to appoint. he does not have any more taxes to cuts or regulations to cut -- to cut or regulations to cut. the republican party could have done that after the election, a much more dramatic chance right after january 6. for about five minutes it looked like they would take it. when kevin mccarthy gave his speech already suggested the president was responsible for

she is now out as house republican chair. what is this -- what does this move signal to you about the state of the gop? guest: it signals to me that the gop wants to unify around a conservative movement and a populist movement and liz cheney does not fit in either. she was not able to stand message with respect to communicating the values of the people she sought to lead. the conference wanted someone who could do that. host: this is what she had to say. [video clip] >> we must go forward based on truth. we cannot both embrace the big lie and the constitution. going forward, the nation needs a strong republican party. the nation needs a party that is based upon fundamental prin ples of conservatism. i am committed and dedicated to ensuring that that is how this party goes forward and i plan to lead the fight to do that. -- i will do everything i can to ensure that they former president never again gets anywhere near the oval office. we have seen the danger he continues to provoke with his language. we have seen his lack of co

republican. caller: these pollsters that call 1200 people and anybody in their right mind does not answer a phone call from somebody they don't know, to tell all 350 million americans what we believe, i have never been asked about abortion. i am against it. especially this overturning biden has done enough trump stopping the use of aborted babies for experiments that they are doing. that is disgusting. it reminds me of nazi germany. george soros made the comment that they are in chaos. when you look at the cities where shootings have occurred, all controlled by democrats. our border is chaos. biden flew four plain fools -- airplane full of immigrants into chattanooga. host: i didn't hear about that. guest: her skepticism on polling, she's not the only one who feels that way. there has been a level of soul-searching about the effectiveness of paul's, hand how we use polls that is healthy and we should be doing that. for years, we hear people like that calle, the goal is not to call everyone but to

by republican senate the republican senate committee on market kellyly in arizona. to the tune of even releasing an addict so early in the cycle. the sad in the recent weeks from the national republican committee. >> market kelly has learned to speak politicians, washington and like on immigration. >> is a humanitarian crisis and it is tragic. >> the tragic on the southern porter is a crisis mark kelly helped to create, he defunded security and border wall construction on sanctuary cities that refused to import immigration laws instead stimulus check to it illegal immigrants and when joe biden cancel that emergency declaration of border security, market kelly - now the porter is a disaster. what is mark kelly say when he goes on to arizona printed. >> is a mandatory and prizes and is tragic . >> mark kelly says that one - just the opposite in washington. >> nathan gonzalez on market kelly immigration issue and what is the point of releasing an addict 5130 days before election day. >> couple of things, first of all db reviewers a sneak peek. if you are watching a vid

republican line. go ahead with your question or u comment. >> good morning.troyin when you keep repeating democran talking points you are destroying the republican party. we have a party there's evidence that the swing states violates the constitutional laws if had their states and also their state laws.arac how are you goingk toob explaiv thatot joe biden got 450 electod votes and barack obama got 960 bed he got 12 million more votes than joe biden.preme most of the cases were split decisions, the one in wisconsin should have been won. all this stuff isn't some figmentnt of donald trump's imagination. the end result, the people that voted for him, the 75 million people that voted for him, 74, supported donald trump's policies andare what this coun became under his leadership.t you on the other hand think you are the majority and you aretil not. i'd like to know how you cannot see that thehe laws were brokens but we should follow the thi constitution appointing someone who broke the laws to become pre

yeah, i have -- i am not completely republican. i have republican views. i am pro-life and i have some conservative views and some democratic views. host: you voted republican? caller: no, the last president i voted for was obama. host: we are talking to republicans only this morning. we ask that you play along. we are going to open up this conversation to everybody in our last hour of "washington journal " between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. eastern time. you can call in, send as text messages, tweets, go to facebook.com during that last hour, but let's just talk to republicans only this morning while we make her -- while we wait for more calls. we will go to the house floor and the wyoming congresswoman coming to the floor to address her colleagues ahead of today's votes and here's what she had to say. [video clip] >> today, we face a threat america has never seen before, it president -- a president has resumed his aggressive efforts to convince americans the election was stolen from him. he risks inciting further violence. millions of americans have been misled

however, republicans are rejecting that. where the rates were lower in 2017, they are suggesting user fees. even a gas tax increase for a vehicle's mild travel -- miles traveled. and rolling back some of the spending. i talked with representative fisher of nebraska, immoderate, and that is -- a moderate. that is their proposal. host: the other headline from inside the washington times has the house republican leader, kevin mccarthy, officially saying he is and/or sing elise stefanik from new york to -- and/or sing elise stefanik from new york to replace liz cheney. that taken place the same day that leader mccarthy will be at the white house meeting with president biden. the news yesterday from fox news says something morning futures with maria bartiromo, here is kevin mccarthy. [video clip] >> what can you tell us about next week? do you have the votes to oust liz cheney? >> everyone in leadership serves at the pleasure of the conference. as you know, there is a lot at stake. democrats are destroying this nation. we've watc

republicans say, mr.den, trying to appeal to middle class voters in places like the midwest like this, the republicans are saying, his staff, too liberal. >> the old nickname for joe biden is middle class joe, this is something he would normally be for. >> they may override the president on this, overrule him and that's what i -- my concerns are with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. and what is basically socialism camouflaged as infrastructure. >> back with us, cnn's lauren fox and sun min kim of the "washington post," the senator making the point that republicans have a counterproposal they think the president should love. let's take a quick look. top line numbers, the republicans are saying they have this new $928 billion proposal, it's $56 billion for airports, $506 billion for roads and bridges, $22 billion for wear, those look like big numbers. however if you learn washington budget speak and things like baseline. $928 billion is not really $928 billion. >> right, it's the keyword baseline we're watch

you know the wicked democrats republicans you know that you know we're not republicans so this was very much about showing support for the president and you know very diehard believers of the conspiracy theories and. the false claims of election fraud and they were coming down pennsylvania avenue where you had just come from right by there actually coming from all over there were people streaming in from this side as well and this this this whole area was getting filled up with people inside the capitol a number of republicans were challenging the results of the key state that biden had one building off trump's baseless accusations of fraud what does it say to the nearly half the country that believes this election was rigged if we vote. not even to consider the claims of illegality and fraud in this election. outside the crowd have become more and more agitated pushing to get inside. hoping to somehow overturn the election video you saw tonight you have to make a choice you have to. find that guy oh yeah. you know. we started getting some alerts about the cannon house office building b

when democrats accepted all the changes requested by house republicans, the senate republican leader said his conference was undecided but willing to listen. once again, the goalposts have shifted. now the republican leader believes we do not need a bipartisan commission. let me be very clear. to my republican colleagues, there is no good justification for opposing the commission. the commission is not partisan. it will have a 50-50 split of democrats and republicans with subpoena powers requiring cooperation from both sides. it was negotiated on a bipartisan basis by the chairman and a ranking member of the house homeland security committee. it won the support of 35 republicans on the house floor. the commission is not duplicate of. the -- duplicative. we need a dedicated, bipartisan commission to look at the whole picture. the fact our committee can investigate did not stop congress from establishing a 9/11 commission. a january 6 commission is necessary for the same reasons the 9/11 commission was necessary. the real reason it seems republican leaders are suddenly opposed to this

the republican party. >> the republican convention of 1964 turned into these fights. >> the governor has not had a chance to talk. he's been up here for ten minutes and he has not had a chance talk for about four minutes. >> we want barry. >> senator barry goldwater. wouchb>> senator barry goldwater. wo one of the most right-wing candidates. >> i think the mood of t the -- they'll not support the nominee of goldwater. >> that's not just any republican. >> jackie robinson is an american hero. the first black player in the major league baseball. >> there seems to be some concerns that former great, jackie robinson may lead a negro walk out of this convention. >> jackie, could you explain to us the walk out of a vote in candidacy. is that right? >> nobody is walking out the republican party. >> robinson remains to the party of lincoln. the party what historically been pro-civil rights. >> if you are a black republican, you would suddenly feel this party in your home of the civil war, this party didn't want you there. >> 40,000 people demonstrated against goldwater. >> those who felt unw

while republican u.s. senators were objecting the certification of the vote, this document is still live. you can still find it today. posted on the website, of another one of the trump lawyers who's being sued for 1. 3 billion dollars, by dominion voting systems. in this case mr. logan's document is posted on the website of the trump lawyer name sydney powell. and this document, on sidney powell's website, by douglas slogan, it spells out the whole fantasy. the core software utilized by dominion, originates from intellectual property from a company founded in communist venezuela, with links to chavez. which is hugo chavez which has been dead since 2013. and none of those allegations are true by the way. dominion is not connected to the other company that is named there. neither of those companies have anything to do with venezuela, let alone communist venezuela, let alone chavez who's been gone for years. but it goes on and on in this thing. dominion it says has significant security vulnerabilities, that

republicans like me ands. many others in the suburbs. he hemorrhaged professionals inin the suburbs. he did gain some working-class folks but he lost the suburbs. so we need to find candidates like senator scott from south carolina in response to president biden state of the union laying out what he wanted too do going forward but he did vote to certify the election on january 6 and there are many other voices and new party to come in to do much better than donald trump that we need to hear from. i don't think either party's future will be with a white man.y each party has different voices and talents to be in control of the house or the senate or the white house and you have the standard who lost the popular vote twice, you need to turn the page but as a republican there's candidates i can support on the state level, governors to do the right policy so you vote for individuals hoping they can be leaders and be positive and get us back on track that's where i am putting my hope over the next few years and we d

republicans? >> so i actually just heard from a republican source with knowledge on the hill who says that they believe the vote is going to be about 20 -- >> about 20 republicans voting in favor? >> 20 republicans for. last night we were hearing it could be 38, 40 and the source says, i think kevin spent some time making calls to anyone he heard was thinking about voting for it so we lost some from that. quote, kevin is pulling out all the stops. that would be kevin mccarthy. bottom line, yesterday donald trump made a statement that said, quote, hopefully mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy are listening. that's who's still running the show. they were listening. mitch mcconnell came out against it today. clearly kevin mccarthy has been lobbying all day against it. >> you know, governor kasich, the fbi released new video today from the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. i want you to take a look at this. watch this. >> [ bleep ]. >> [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> what does it say to you,

i'm a proud conservative republican and i will fight for the republican conference. scott. reporter: is president trump the leader of the republican party? ms. stefanik: i believe voters determine the leader of the republican party. president trump is the leader they look to. i support president trump. voters support president trump. he's an important voice in our republican party, and we look forward to working with him. reporter: how can you support a president [indiscernible] as long as you have some members who support the former president and some who don't. ms. stefanik: we are unified. republican voters are unified in their support and desire to work with president trump. we are unified as republicans, as i said, this is the slimmest majority that nancy pelosi has in a generation. we picked up a number of seats and defied expectations. we are we are going on offense and we are going to win on the issues because people are understanding that joe biden's pledge to -- of bipartisanship, he has broken that pledge since his first day in office. there has been no bipartisa

they're not growing the republican party. in the "washington post" poll, it was 24%. they're not growing the republican party. it's hard to understand how as a party, if you are focused on things that quite frankly the majority of americans don't believe, which is that the election was somehow stolen, you're not a party of big ideals. there's a bigger thing afoot here. i don't often disagree with president biden. president biden said there's a mini civil car going on in the republican party. chuck, the civil war is over and the conservatives have lost. we've got to break down what is the big lie. we talk about the big lie all the time. what is fundamentally the big lie? it's promoting something that undermines democracy, that actually says the will of the american people is sort of thrown out and is fomenting attacks on our government. right now, our greatest national security threats are actually from this fomenting of these lies. there's something bigger at stake here than just partisanship. all this talk about civil war, i

republican votes. it is, flash there won't be any republican votes. he doesn't have to do any of those things. just put up that headline again. republicans are promising, they are saying out loud and ahead of time, that no matter what is in the bill, no matter how nicely anyone talks with that more to them, or about them, there will be zero republican votes for what joe biden wants to do. zero republican votes promised in advance. for infrastructure, the american families plan, zero, nine, no matter what. if that's being guaranteed in advance by the republican leader, there really is no reason for democrats to waste time talking about republicans on something like this. they are pledged as a group, do unanimously vote no no matter what the legislation is. which is a convenient piece of advance warning that it is not worth talking to them about it. they have already pledged zero votes. good to know. now we can stop wasting time wondering what you will do, because you've told us in advance. it also means

republicans are certain to block it. despite the fact that the justice department has arrested and charged at least 450 people in connection to the riot and five people died as a result. still, there are not ten republicans who want to choose truth over politics and donald trump. jessica dean is live in capitol hill. she is joining us now. jessica, what's the latest you're hearing there? >> well, right now, kate, we're just waiting to see how long this process is going to play out. we still have absolutely no indication when that procedural vote on the january 6th commission would happen. and the reason is a totally separate bill, a bipartisan bill that they thought was all worked out that is all aimed at making america more competitive with china is now all gummed up in the process. because senator ron johnson and a few other senators have decided to kind of drag this out. what we're now waiting to see, i was just down with senator johnson and we were listening to the other senators kind of airing their grievances about

not one-republican vote, anderson. and guess what all of those republicans are doing now? they are going back in their districts, and they are putting out these flashy newsletters that are saying look at all this money that i brought back to my district and all of you folks in my district through this bill, that by the way, i didn't vote for. it's just absurd. and the vote that kevin mccarthy is -- is allowing the caucus to take next week. where they are ostensibly going to get rid of liz cheney. is basically kevin mccarthy saying to the american people, guess what? the republican party is no longer about you or this country. it is, solely, about donald trump. >> yeah. congresswoman kathleen rice. i appreciate your time. thank you. >>> joined now by john kasich. republican who was a member of congress from ohio before serving as governor. abby phillip, our senior political correspondent. governor kasich, i mean, what do you think the consequences are going to be if and when liz cheney is ousted in favor of elise stefanik or somebody else? >> you know, anderson, they better

donald trump's n flense on the republican -- influence on the republican party is being challenge i thinkedn two fronts where house republicans are working to remove liz cheney as one of their leaders and on social media where facebook's decision to ban mr. trump on their platform is now reconsidering. in a moment we'll speak with former federal judge, michael mcconnell, one of the co-chairs of facebook's oversight board. first, let's bring in mike emanuel on where dark-with more on where the trump facebook controversy stands right glow the decision to uphold ban on former president trump for now has led to calls to break up big tech platforms with some arguing for anti-trust reform, after allegations of censoring conservatives. >> this is going to be a breakup of big tech. when you look at google and facebook, they have more power over what we read and what we see than any in the media. >> there's also significant certain from those close to former president trump, that being shut out by facebook and twitter could severely impact his fund raising power and ability to reach his base. the tr

the republican party in 2016.istory will show, was the turning point. liz cheney missed the turning point. liz cheney holds the position of house republican conference chair. if you don't know what that job is, no one else does. it is a job that has absolutely no function, never has had any function, it's just a way of giving a fancy title to a member of the party in the house. many republicans now want to take that title away and give it to 36-year-old congresswoman from upstate new york, elise stefanich who promises to continue to publicly lie as much as possible about the last presidential election. republican congressman anthony gonzalez, who like liz cheney voted to impeach donald trump for inciting the invasion of the capitol on january 6th says quote, if a prerequisite for leading our conference is continuing to lie to our voters, then liz is not the best fit. liz isn't going to lie to people. today president biden said this about republicans in congress. >> president biden, you said earlier you don't under

this week, house republicans are busy replacing liz cheney, the number three republican in house leadership with an election fraud conspiracy theorist. representative stefanik doing an interview with steve bannon, where she went on and on the about how much she sports the very important audit in arizona that will of course reveal the fraud and show that trump actually was re-elected. she appears poised to get the house of representatives in the republican party. because liz cheney doesn't believe trump won re-election. she acknowledges trump lost and joe biden is the president and she must be banished and replaced with someone who will advance the conspiracy theory. that is how it's playing out in washington. but -- it's everywhere. look how it's playing out on the ground in republican politics everywhere right now. this weekend in virginia, republicans will meet to nominate the candidates for statewide offices this year. it's virginia. we have been covering the irony, the sad poetry, that republicans in virginia want to follow the fantasy about massive election fraud and they want to pass

joe biden thought that he could change republicans or republicans would change when he came into officeave changed for joe biden it seems. >> we'll fundamentally change things with donald trump out of the white house. not a joke. you'll see anef -- an epiphany. >> it seems as though the republican party is trying to identify what it stands for. and they're in the midst of significant sort of mini revolution. >> so where is his head at right now, kaitlan. >> i think he said he did believe that once trump was out of office and republicans would shift and things would change in washington and we have not seen that happen because donald trump still does still have such a grip over the party. i i don't think that is surprising to anybody. that gives him the grip over the party. and that is the question for president biden, is what this is going to look like, how they're going to experience this. and when he was talking to us there in the state dining room this week, he said that he thought that republicans would have a shift when trump left washington and they would figure out what they're i

there are democrats that many republicans, ex-republicans would feel very comfortable with. they're the amy klobuchars, the spanbergers of the democratic party who are strong on defense, moderate on economic issues. or they could try taking a stab at a third party. third parties are really hard to establish in america, but if the republican party continues down this road and continues in floating, i wouldn't rule out the possibility that a third party, at least in some states, perhaps in some state and local elections, could take hold. what they've done is handed her an enormous platform. >> that's an interesting way to think about it, that it could be more successful in certain places than in others. i'm thinking of it nationally, but you're right, that if you look at it state by state, that is a different calculus. elise, here's a little of what congresswoman liz cheney told our own savannah guthrie in an exclusive interview. >> are you the leader of the opposition in exile right now in the republican party? >> i intend to be the leader -- one of the leaders in a fight to

the republican offer has come up. your proposal went down in the republicans direction.his new republican offer? >> well look, i think there is some good news that republicans have come up in a few key areas that come up on rail, they've come up a little bit on what they want to invest on roads and bridges. it's still a little bit short, but its progress. i think there is a problem of major problems. number one, there are certain areas where they're proposing not to make any investments at all. to give you a couple of examples of that, there are 400,000 schools and childcare centers across the country that still get watered through lead pipes today. the presidents plan calls for investing about 100 billion dollars to replace those pipes to protect the health and safety of our kids. the republican proposal offers zero in those areas. similarly, if you just read we proposed investments in renovating and updating our veterans hospital, the average hospitals above 50 years old, the republicans are not offering anything in those areas and i want to know there's another big is

this will be bipartisan because it will be popular with republican voters, republican mayors, republicanht? some people call it an infrastructure plan. it's broader than that or a new way of thinking of infrastructure. transportation, sounds like republicans can support it. safer drinking water, high speed broadband. affordable and sustainable housing. may be debatable. work force development seems bipartisan. home community based care foraging relatives and people with disabilities, republicans are definitely taking issue with that as infrastructure. but the first four things on that list are entirely bipartisan. not only that, i might have thought in prior years or decades that that's a republican bill. >> right. and, ali, even to get to your second slide, things like work force development, not a single republican in the senate will disagree with this proposition. if we're going to do an infrastructure bill, we've got to do some significant training of the work force to do it. bridges and roads don't build themselves. we need to equip workers and we have a lot of adult workers unemplo

, traditional republicanism? and the organization. and they're taking a multipronged attack to the situation which is to say there is no simple solution. we have to keep fighting for our principles and go where there's opportunity to either grow with that philosophy or perhaps get involved in races or other things. but it is important to keep having that voice heard, because it resonates with others. and there is a group on the ground that doesn't buy into trumpism but feels they don't have a home at the grassroots level. so this organization i think is going to do something tremendous by offering people a place to go and using their vast network. >> and to what effect, david? how successful can it be, this group? >> i applaud what my former colleagues are doing. but ultimately i don't think it will be successful, because i don't think the numbers are there. even if you get to a post-donald-trump gop, it's still the party of kevin mccarthy and josh hawley, and marjorie taylor greene and ted cruz and the large maj

he wants to work with republicans. but the message from republicans today is pretty clear, they are very much united behind former president trump. they are going to make a lot of these things very difficult and it remains unclear if they can really come together on something like infrastructure. and what this means for the rest of his agenda going forward. >> and it is important in the moment, in the moment, because it tells you a lot about today's republican party because senator schumer, i know he's a democrat, so republicans roll their eyes, but republicans are showing feelty to trump. leader mcconnell reprimanded, said what the president did on january 6th was reprehensible. then he did the math. he saw the support of the former president in the republican party, 50/50 senate, i want to be majority leader again, i don't want to make donald trump mad. and steve scalise saying let's have congressional committees have much more aggressive investigations of the origins of the coronavirus, looking into the lab theory.

republicans voted in favor but it still fell short of the 60 votes needed.four -- 35 with 11 senators not voting. they debated science and technology bill this week but were not able to finish. the elbow on that when they come back from the memorial day recess june 8. follow the senate coverage here

eight of which were led by republicans. so it's hardly the democratic majority is only doing what we want. three republican amendments were adopted by voice vote last night. i mean, who would have ever thought that the senate would adopt an amendment from senator rand paul by voice vote? we did it. so, look, we're moving forward in a very bipartisan way. we'll consider at least another three amendments of the bill today and if both sides continue in good faith to schedule amendment votes and debate and there are no 11th hour decisions to delay or obstruct, there's no reason we can't finish this bill by the end of the week. that's my intention. taking a step back, the depth of bipartisan on this bill reveals two things. one, members want to work together if given as can chance. this bill came through the regular order, senate committees drove the process and here on the floor members have participated in robust debate and a robust amendment process. but, second, and maybe he even more importantly, it reveals that democrats a

one republican telling me he says matt gaetz is a rising tar in the republican party. that's sort of what the thinking is here in the village. we'll see. last time he was a headliner at the doral country club, the doral club in doral outside miami, and he spoke there just a couple weeks ago and said -- he addressed them head on, so we'll see if he takes it up tomorrow night. >> thanks very much, randy. the news continues. let's hand it over to chris. >> appreciate it, coop. i'm chris cuomo. welcome to "cuomo primetime". do you want to avoid another terror attack on the u.s. capitol? if so you need to start paying attention to what is passing at leadership on the four-month anniversary of the insurrection in the party of trump. >> i fully support the audit in arizona. we want transparency and answers for the american people. what are the democrats so afraid of? >> you got the answers from the republicans in that state and the other ones. you don't want transparency because the republicans in that

republicans are -- donald trump may help in a primary, but it's going to hurt republicans in a generalecause there are still -- this is convention, right, there are a lot of delegates that are very just hard core on donald trump's side. you want to ask any delegate how conservative they are, the first answer they'll say is, you know, i supported donald trump. where the rest of the world, the majority, i think, center right, center left, you name it, they're like, look, we've got some policies we have to live by and the president has not lived up to those policies. i think that the republican party really has to do a better job with stopping this infighting and starting to talk about the policies that they can capitalize on, especially when it comes to all of the things that the current president is trying to bring forth, and how we're going to pay for that. >> it's an excellent point, except phil mattingly i'll close on this, in the sense you can have principle and talk about policy or you can think the democrats have a five or six vote margin in the house and if we have a good year ne

that is where the republican party is today or what is left of the republican party.k that we all should care whether or not there is a functional, coherent republican party. i certainly do not agree with their views when such a party re-emerges. but i do think the two party system is a good system and results in healthy competition, a push and pull. orderly transition of power and worked quite well for us over the decades and centuries, really. so i think that we should care that this republican party is a cult of personality and not a party at all. >> we saw it coming. i mean we have talked for the last few years about it. you have warned about it. you wrote today to donors, business associations and others. call them. call the republican members of congress you've supported. do you believe that there is any currency in that advice that you wrote today and do you think calling anyone in the republican party works right now? >> you don't know until you try. i think that the voters are where they are. they are more pro-trump than i would like. the members cater to tho

, the republican governor there, doug vetoed a republican sports bill. republican-held senate upheld the veto. josh holly was the only republican to vote no against lunatic hyper politicized hate crime bill which of course h kansas republican senator jerry moran was instrumental in putting together. moran recently got endorsed by trump, by the way. republicans also took the idiotic position of condemning the left and maxine waters' intimidation of the chauvin jury and then celebrating the outcome of that trial and promising more soft on crime policies which is the same exact thing the democratic party wants. and i don't think it was an accident that on wednesday night when tim scott responded to joe biden, he had one short insubstantial throw away line about immigration because congressional republicans right now are talking with thede democratic party about putting together an amnesty deal. >> tucker: it's also stunning to me that at a time when corporate america -- not all corporations but the biggest ones for sure -- have aligned as one against republ

a republican loyalty test. this morning two republican lawmakers, senator mitt romney and congresswoman liz cheney feeling the heat for daring to cross former president trump by stating the truth about the election. over the weekend, romney barely escaped a censure by the utah republican party for his votes to convict in trump's impeachment trials. listen. >> what do you think of president biden? >> this is notable. in his home state, the former republican nominee for president shouted down as a traitor for that vote to impeach the former president. >> yeah. and congresswoman liz cheney, that name cheney, a significant name for decades in the party, but now one of her own republican colleagues say she may not even survive the month in her third ranked leadership position. also this morning, president biden in virginia as we get new reporting that there are on going behind the scenes bipartisan talks in congress about trying to get an infrastructure deal done. more on that in a moment. let's begin with our repor

it revealed a republican party rot edge to its core, but why stay a republican?t now in the republican party lying is a litmus test to leadership. not just lie to go yourself, but lying to the country about something that happened in our election. number two, i think we learned that the civil war and the republican party is not ending with liz cheney ace ouster. a civil war within the party is just beginning. number three, that civil war within the party is going to have enormous consequences for this country the last person to fight a civil war in this country, ulysses s. grant said the next time there would be such a contest for america's existence, it wouldn't be north and south over the mason/dixon line, it would be between patriotism and intelligence on one side and ignorance and superstition on the other. the question for every republican in america today is, where do i stand? >> where do your former colleagues stand? somewhere does your former boss john kellie stand or jim mattis? where do your former colleagues who nose better than any human beings on the

it got just 35 republican votes and now goes on to the senate, where it needs the support of ten republicans to survive. minority leader mitch mcconnell will not be one of those republicans. house minority leader, kevin mccarthy, voted no on the bill, tonight. in the house. and went so far as to lobby senators on it earlier today. seems both of them got the message, from the man who incited the rioters, themselves. the former president's statement, late-last night, reads, quote, republicans in the house and senate should not approve the democrat trap of the january-6th commission. it is just more partisan unfairness and unless the murders, riots, and fire bombings in portland, minneapolis, chicago, new york, are also going to be studied, this discussion should be ended immediately. republicans must get tougher and much smarter and stop being used by the radical left. hopefully, mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy are listening. well, they were. it was a call and response. just over-12 hours after the former president sent out that statement, i guess. mcconnell said he'd oppose a commission if

states and republican led states.acies don't die at the hands of generals anymore and military coup, democracies die at the ballot box. the biggest threat we face in 2022 if the republicans retake the house, which they very well might, you could very well imagine a 2024 election no matter who the candidate is, no matter what the results are, the state legislatures will throw the election to the house of representatives and you have to wonder will a republican trumpfied house of representatives vote in favor of a democratic nominee for president even if the democrat won. >> steve, has there been another point in american history where democracy was as threatened as it potentially is now? >> so, beyond the civil war, no. certainly in no one's livineing memory, not nixon, not roosevelt, democracy has never been under threat in this way. we do not consider ourselves particularly alarmists and we are now convinced that there is a serious chance that the republican party tries to steal the 2024 election. i think 2020 ended