the end of the day, he is a republican and he talks like a republican, and he is republican. but he disagreed with trump on that one key area, the election. he could have made himself more appealing to democrats and independents. think it was a smart move for him and for democracy as well. host: we have jimbo in bakersfield. could you comment on the congressional district between the incumbent in the state simply men, who voted to impeach trump and made the district more democratic? guest: i'm glad you brought that up. this is one of the races we're going to be watching right now. there are 10 house republicans who voted to her -- two impeach trump. eight of them are not coming back. four of them retired, four of them are primary. because of the house primer, he was able to defeat a more maga -aligned republican. he is not guaranteed that street -- that see right now because of how that redistricting was drawn. they've been trying to get him for years to run and that see right now. i think he is the underdog in that race and we could very well have one republican who voted tw

not even the majority republicans are maga republicans. republican embraces her extreme ideology. i know, because i've been able to work with the mainstream republicans. mike: houser public a leader kevin mccarthy said the president insulted millions of trump voters president biden saying he's only blasting the extremist roots time now for sunday group, usa today white house correspondent francesca chambers. former state department spokesperson fox news contributor marie harf. former chief of staff vice president mike pence, and host of a media buzz howie kurtz. welcome to all of you. so, how would the president gave a feisty speech in prime time for the bride who did he reach? >> eat reaches base is billed as a white house event nonpolitical even after the speech so i had officials assisting it was nonpolitical but is blatantly partisan packing -- attacking trump by name i lost track of him at times he attacked maga republicans. at the same time donald trump is out there talking about for example fasting abiding as the enemy of the state,

i'm leaving the republican party.narrator: amid the transition of power, republican leaders made a critical choice. (crowd cheering and applauding) >> the republican leadership is absolutely freaked out that if trump leaves, the party will fragment. there will be no hope for the republican party. republican leaders always had that in the back of their mind, that if trump walks away, he will bring millions of voters with him, and you can kiss the idea of a republican majority goodbye for a long, long time. >> narrator: as trump hunkered down at his mar-a-lago compound in florida, it didn't take long before he was visited by a special guest. they took a photograph. >> mccarthy says to trump, "i want your help for 2022. help me win back the majority." it was an opportunity on the table, laid out for donald trump to repair himself. >> it was like a, when somebody's in cardiac arrest, and you take the paddles, and you bring him back to life. trump's political career was in cardiac arrest. and kevin mccarthy brought the pad

which republicans? the republicans attending the rally last night, yes, that's exactly what they wanted to hear. my colleague was in the crowd last night. the dispatches from the line outdoors and the mood in the arena were strongly for that messages, fo r candidates like doug mastriano, marjorie taylor greene to the movement. but outside of that rally room when you are looking at statewide level races or swing districts, no, it's absolutely not what the leadership or individual candidates want to hear and that's the main tension point inside the republican party and why you see joe biden using the phrase maga republicans to try to split the republican party. there's a real concern that not just the rhetoric and putting trump back into the center focus of the discussion, making it a referendum on the past president versus the current one, not just that but some of the candidates themselves, some of their stumbles, positions, lack of experience, could in the end come back and boomerang and hurt the repub

not all republicans are maga republicans.ears and years, i got beat up in the campaign by saying i wanted to unify the country and parties. you used to be able to do that but things have changed. the maga republicans control the republican party right now and that is self-evident. there is a lot at stake. i'm going to talk about that right now. after opposing and obstructing everything that we have tried to do in progress the last two years, that house majority leader kevin mccarthy unveiled what he calls a commitment to america. that's a thin series of policy goals with little or no detailed that he says the republicans will pursue if they regain control of congress. in the course of nearly an hour here are a few of the things we didn't hear. we didn't hear mention of the right to choose. we didn't hear mention of medicare, or social security. let's take a look at what kevin said today. he said republicans want to, preserve our constitutional freedom. that's great, i am all for that. we all are. but look at what they have ac

they push through a republican plan anyway -- and push through a republican plan anyway. they will still redo the districting the way they've done it, still gerrymander. i'd like the idea of frank's choice voting. -- ranked choice voting. >> maybe you should define that. >> you go into the polls with three or four candidates running and you rank them 1, 2, 3, 4. if somebody doesn't get 50%, they look at the choices and keep going until somebody hits. >> and divide up the lower number. >> we did it in the new york city mayors race. it was fascinating. it changes the way you campaign. as a practitioner, my first campaign i ran was 1976. every campaign, you do contrast advertising, but the way the most voters make decisions, differences between candidates. when you have ranked choice voting, people who do not like a single candidate may not give that candidate their second or third choice, and so it encourages campaigns to be more positive. the less negative you are in a more positive you are on a campaign, the less polarizing the campaign is, and the less polarizing voters

lest we forget focused nearly every senate republican nearly every senate republican party voted patient national abortion bands in 2020, in 2018, 2015. one of these about specific consent of colette handpiece the nationwide ban again yesterday, said quote these pieces of legislation will continue to be advanced until they pass. how do we know republicans up at a national c abortion ban on the floor if they control the senate? not only because technically i'm committed to doing it, they have done it before. three times and they will do it again if they get the majority. in america beware.s america beware. the truth is hard to grasp. republicans did not care about leaving abortion in the hands of the state. no way. do not care that a majority of americans supported row and support abortion rights. republicans care about deep doubt is the mid-18th of choice, across america. and they are already at work right now on legislation as we heard yesterday that will take us down that terrible, terrible path. while comments might be at the american people are not going to be fooled by republicans a

we are united house of republicans whether it is the freedom of caucus or the republican steady committeeawesome members of congress were able to provide input of the commitment to america. most importantly, shannon, the american people are constituents provided in this process. those are where our best ideas came. democrats have no plans when it comes to the crime crisis or the border crisis. these crisis have been created by democrats, unifying control of government in washington, republicans have a plan, we have legislation on each and everyone of these issues and we can't wait to get it done starting on day one as we earn back the house of majority. >> that's a big promise to potential voters out there to cast their ballots for you. there are those out there who'll remember that the gop promised to do things like rebuilding obamacare. they didn't do it. when republicans did last control congress, it was a quote, "do nothing." they were more about destruction and not delivering. how do you convince voters this time is different? >> steny hoyer is wrong, first of all, we have the most s

not every republican is a maga republican. that seems a little more nuanced in the idea that if the democrats are going to defy the odds and especially win these senate races and pennsylvania and wisconsin, ohio, they're going to need some republican votes to do it. >> exactly. you have biden trying to define the republican party in a way that benefits him. i can't work with the maga folks, but i can still work with everybody else. he still wants to be that guy that can sway moderate republican voters, and if you're calling the maga voters, it doesn't work. >> and it took him time to actually go after what he's calling maga republicans. and i was talking to the senator of hawaii and he says biden has long worked with these republicans and still considers some of them friends so it's difficult for had him to characterize them in this way. but he's not the first president to warn of domestic threats internally. >> what's the best role in the final nine weeks in the sense that if you listened to yesterday, you heard that, and the

how many republicans -- how many republicans voted for that?n elections are won, they can get together and work with the president that is in the white house. republicans, all they have to doing for the last year or so, no, no, no. they don't help the people here in this country. what american people are you talking about? nobody has done nothing to help the american people in this country other than just say no. no, no. if we had had two republicans with democrats in the senate, nancy pelosi passed everything that she should have passed. guest: let's get our panelists some time to respond. >> 20 where a politician is very frustrated to see action against you, but i think these economic policies biden is enacting, even his own people have said this is going to lead to inflation, aided did. as a republican, i don't feel bad about saying these policies are really hurting your family's budget. a strong alternative to this, i think you can look at some of the real crises we are facing right now, you have to look at what some of the democrats have e

>>yeah, the house republicans are going to roll that out. some republicans, not so much. mitch mcconnell says this is a midterm referendum basically on joe biden. house republicans are saying, no, we want to lay out what we're going to do if we have. so there's tension between mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy, the republican leader. we've been poking around on that. i think the central themes you're going to see in that document is to make the trump tax law permanent under the rules that passed that legislation. they're going to have to renew it, and there are certain parts that are expiring. i think one of the big questions is, are they going to try to repeal obamacare? that's been an ongoing fight. back in the early days of the obama administration, it's not stopped. now, of course, they're not going to be able to repeal obamacare, even if they have the house and the senate, because joe biden would veto it. but that doesn't mean that the house republicans, especially incoming class, at least some of them are going to want votes and say, i want to get rid of that. but

republicans -- maga republicans.en: they brutally attacked law enforcement. they see their failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections. they tried everything last time, to nullify the votes of 81 million people. this time, they are determined to succeed in thwarting the will of the people. that is why, conservative have called trump an extreme -- and maga republicans a clear danger to our democracy. i want to say as clearly as we can that we are not powerless in the face of these threats. we are not bystanders in this ongoing threat to democracy. there are far more americans, far more americans from every background to reject the extreme ideology. and people, it is within our power. it is within our hands to stop the assault on american democracy. i believe america is at an inflection point. determining the shape of everything that is to come after. now america must choose to move forward or to move backwards, to build a future, or obsess about t

democrat and republicans. again, we can pick democrats who you don't like and who are caustic and you can pick republicans -- if you had someone like bob dole and even george mcgovern, both veterans, and you can pick a lot of them right now around, there's just fewer and fewer. hopefully, at some point we get back to that. >> politics, elections have consequences. voters have decisions they make in elections. and it is unfortunate, but the fact of the matter is that our politics have become polarized. it's part of the reason why our politics has become polarized, it's because of the means and ways voters get information. we have a much more knowledgeable base of voters, not a more educated base of voters. there's a difference between knowledgeable and educated. so, what is happening, i don't mean to pick on big tech, but i will, what happens is when you go online, and you look up something, you get an article. you read that article. maybe the first time you read the article you are just reading the article. th

republican party -- dividing the republican party in half.ee the republicans shy away from him. the only gutless ones are in washington, d.c., which is mitch mcconnell, cruz, mccarthy. there is a whole wagon full of them. this deal about the border, i used to live in texas. in houston. they used to have immigrant round up about twice a year. whatever happened to the governors taking care of their borders? why do they rely on the president to take care of their borders? it is there deal. i agree the president has the last say so, but that is my deal right there. thank you. host: philip mentioned splitting the republican party in half. doesn't look that way to you or does it look like most candidates out there are really aligning themselves with the former president? guest: it seems like everyone is aligning them selves with the former president. there is a recent poll that said 72% of republican voters would vote for trump again if he ran in 2024 right now. if you look at anyone who is staking out a claim against him, look at what happens to l

most recently the current republican dave reeves. and under her new unified republican control. there is just no earthly way that mississippi can plausibly describe it as quote, promoting and supporting life. the state has the highest covid death rate per capita in the country. and in turn, it has the lowest life expectancy in the country at just about 72 years. mississippi also has the highest infant mortality rate in the entire country. mississippi has the most gun deaths per capita of any state in the entire country. mississippi is also the poorest state in the nation. and to be perfectly clear here, none of this is an indictment of the great people who live in that state. rather, the abject negligence of the republicans who have been running it for so long. case in point, much of jackson mississippi, the state's capital, does not currently have drinkable water. you may have seen the story. jackson residents have been told that they have to boil their water. this is in the united states of america. in the year 2022. they have to boil their water before it is portable since ju

guest: the house republicans are going to roll that out. some republicans, not so much. mitch mcconnell says this is a midterm referendum basically on joe biden. house republicans are saying, no, we want to lay out what we're going to do if we have. so there's tension between mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy, the republican leader. we've been poking around on that. i think the central themes you're going to see in that document is to make the trump tax law permanent under the rules that passed that legislation. they're going to have to renew it, and there are certain parts that are expiring. i think one of the big questions is, are they going to try to repeal obamacare? that's been an ongoing fight. back in the early days of the obama administration, it's not stopped. now, of course, they're not going to be able to repeal obamacare, even if they have the house and the senate, because joe biden would veto it. but that doesn't mean that the house republicans, especially incoming class, at least some of them are going to want votes and say, i want to get rid of that. but

trump and the maga republicans. and that is a threat to this country. for a long time, we have told ourselves that american democracy is guaranteed. but it is not. we have to defend it, protect it, stand up for it, each and every one of us -- this comes as his approval rating is on the rise. 40% of americans approve of the job he is doing, a level not seen since september of last year. and his party seems to be seeing a boost as well. the same poll found registered voters give a slight edge to the democratic party when asked, who they would want to see win control of the house come november. although the party in power normally braces for losses and a midterm year, democrats have seen some unexpected election victories, including alaska. the momentum on their side -- one progressive congressman seems to think so. last month, representative ro khanna of california -- he met with local officials, factory voters -- to talk about how to rebuild -- perhaps, just perhaps, say the democratic party in the midwest in the pro

we are republicans.republicans. >> he made a distinction about republicans. listen, i hate doing this because it makes me seem like it's political, but if you're gonna come on and distort the truth, he did not say all republicans. he is not talking about the 75, all of the 75 million people or 70 something million people who voted for donald trump. and it is plain as day. he went out of his way to say i am going to make it very clear. and even when he gave the speech, earlier in the week, he talked about a maga philosophy. as semi fascism, of maga philosophy. he did not say republicans were fascists. so why are we playing this word game and pretending that the president did and said something that he actually didn't say? i cannot let that stand, alice. he did not say that. >> don, as a republican, i'm telling you what republicans heard. >> how exactly did he attack all republicans? where did he say all republicans are maga, or all republicans are fascist? or i'll republicans are banned? what was his exac

republicans are ruling the republican party right now.e have seen president biden's approval rating ticking up recently. he's at 43% approval, the highest since march and now has democrats with a three-point lead over the gop. what are the lessons learned for the democratic party? what is behind their momentum? >> they're really fighting history right now at this point. to something gloria said, democrats are hopeful the dobbs decision and the fact a number of voters, the base is animated. we're seeing higher registration among women in key states. they are hoping that could potentially defy the odds particularly in the senate. in the house a lot of democrats i talked to aren't exactly hopeful and in the white house aren't exactly hopeful they can hold on to the senate because again that would be really in defines of history. the last time the party in power in the white house gained seats in the house when it was a midterm election was in 1998 when bill clinton was president. a lot of democrats aren't really expecting to keep the house e

how many republicans -- how many republicans voted for that?n elections are won, they can get together and work with the president that is in the white house. republicans, all they have to doing for the last year or so, no, no, no. they don't help the people here in this country. what american people are you talking about? nobody has done nothing to help the american people in this country other than just say no. no, no. if we had had two republicans with democrats in the senate, nancy pelosi passed everything that she should have passed. guest: let's get our panelists some time to respond. >> 20 where a politician is very frustrated to see action against you, but i think these economic policies biden is enacting, even his own people have said this is going to lead to inflation, aided did. as a republican, i don't feel bad about saying these policies are really hurting your family's budget. a strong alternative to this, i think you can look at some of the real crises we are facing right now, you have to look at what some of the democrats have e

the end of the day, he is a republican and he talks like a republican, and he is republican. but he disagreed with trump on that one key area, the election. he could have made himself more appealing to democrats and independents. think it was a smart move for him and for democracy as well. host: we have jimbo in bakersfield. could you comment on the congressional district between the incumbent in the state simply men, who voted to impeach trump and made the district more democratic? guest: i'm glad you brought that up. this is one of the races we're going to be watching right now. there are 10 house republicans who voted to her -- two impeach trump. eight of them are not coming back. four of them retired, four of them are primary. because of the house primer, he was able to defeat a more maga -aligned republican. he is not guaranteed that street -- that see right now because of how that redistricting was drawn. they've been trying to get him for years to run and that see right now. i think he is the underdog in that race and we could very well have one republican who voted tw

as to say there is a different brand of republicanism inside the republican party. that's what biden is trying to get to and give independents and republicans a permission structure to split the ticket. vote democratic or stay home. that's what he's doing in states like ohio, states like pennsylvania, states like wisconsin. what he's saying is, hey, centrist voters or center-right voters or republican voters who don't want to be a part of the last six years you don't have to be. will it work? what's the right way to calibrate it? this speech, the third time in pennsylvania a week part, there's a handful, like three states, this message is super potentially going to matter and it will decide control of the senate and will decide -- >> the governor's race potentially. >> that and the abortion message will be joe biden and the democratic party's counter argument to inflation or the perception of economic woes. and this is him beginning to test that. >> the counter argument, also, folks looking at their pocketbooks, i may cross the aisle or i'm an independent and i may

the republicans controller -- ma ga republicans control the republicans.'s a lot at stake and i will talk about that. earlier today, after obstructing -- opposing obstructing to stop everything. kevin mccarthy went to pennsylvania and unveiled a commitment to america. that is a thin series of policy goals with no details that he says republicans will pursue if they regain control. in the course of an hour, here are the few things we did here. we did not hear him mention the right to choose, at we did not hear social security. -- and we did not hear social security. they want to preserve our constitutional freedom. i am for doing that. look at what they have done. they cheered and embrace the first decision in our history that did not fail to preserve our freedom, a took away a fundamental right that had been granted by the court. the constitutional right to choose, and near half the states in the united states have either passed a ban or abortion, or welsh -- will shortly. and in some states it is banned in terms of rape or incest. 166 republicans signed o

not every republican, not even the majority of republicans are maga republicans. not every republican embraces their extreme ideology. i know because i've been able to work with these mainstream republicans. but there is no question that the republican party today is dominated driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans. and that is a threat to this country. >> the president's speech from philadelphia's independence hall came just 68 days before the midterm elections. they are also some development today in the justice department investigation into those classified documents that were seized at mar-a-lago. lawyers for donald trump and the department of justice came face to face in a federal courtroom, arguing over trump's request for an independent third party or special master to review what was recovered. our own peter alexander has more. >> mr. trump's lawyers arguing the judge needed to help restore public confidence. by allowing more transparency into the government's actions. and dismissing the investigation into the former presidents kee

the result of that informal survey but one that looks at several republicans, most republicans said even if kevin mccarthy asked them to vote for an omnibus pending bill they couldn't see themselves doing it it's going to be a hard job as he gets ready to assume that role. >> deep dive into kevin mccarthy path to power available at the wall street journal. wsj.com. you can also find a pin to her twitter page at ask natalie wsj. let's chat with a few colors. lines for democrats, republicans and independents as usual . this is barry, i democrats in williamsburg virginia. >> i'm looking at the next election coming up i was just thinking. i'm a democrat. ireluctantly voted for biden. i wanted sanders in there . i guess that didn't happen. but i'm just afraid to vote again because if you vote, it's like you're putting a stamp of approval on this like daytime drama jerry springer show that's going on right now. t i just don't want to put no more stamps of approval on it . my best bet, i don't want to invite anybody to do anything . if the republicans win because democrats don't vote, it's no b

those are the extreme of republicans. yamiche: lindsay graham introduces a bill to federally ban abortions. >> the american people cannot afford another year of democrat one-party rule. yamiche: as the battle to retain control of congress heats up, next. >> this is "washington week." corporate funding is provided by -- >> consumer cellular's goal has been to provide wireless service that helps people communicate and connect. we offered no contract plans and our u.s.-based team can help find one that fits you. visit consumercellular.tv. >> additional funding is provided by the ewing foundation. committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities. rose herschel and andy shreve's. robert and susan rosenbaum. the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> once again, from washington, moderator yamiche alcindor. yamiche: good evening and welcome. it was another busy week of news about multiple federal investigations into former president trump an

biden: i don't even want to get into it -- every single republican in the house and every republicansenate voted against it. every single one. look, here this america, every single republican voted against lower infrastructure and drug crossed -- prescription drug costs. everyone voted against lowering health care costs. everyone against tax premise -- tax crisis. and against low energy cost and against good paying jobs. in the fair taxes. every single one. not every single american needs to return -- now every single american needs to return the favor and vote them out of office. [applause] pres. biden: look, every election is a choice. my dad used to say do not compare me to money compare me to the alternative. just take a look at what has happened since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. in 14 states, abortion is not available beyond six weeks of pregnancy. and most women do not even know they are pregnant. most of these states, there is no exception for rape or in cest -- another 13 could put this out between now and the election in november. just in weeks and months more

i want to be very clear up front , not every republican is a maga republican. not every republican embraces their extreme ideology. i know because i have been able to work with these mainstream republicans. the republican today is driven by donald trump and the maga republicans and that is a threat to this country. these are hard things but i am an american president, not a president of red america or blue america, but of all america and i believe it is my duty, my duty to level with you into tell the truth no matter how difficult, no matter how painful. here in my view is what is true, maga republicans do not respect the constitution. they do not believe in the rule of law or recognize the will of the people. they refuse to accept the results of a free election and are working right now as i speak in state after state to give power to decide elections to cronies to undermine democracy itself. maga forces are determined to take this country backwards to an america where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to mar

not every republican, not even the majority of republicans are maga republicans. not every republican embraces their extreme ideology. i know because i've been able to work with these mainstream republicans. but there's no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans. and that is a threat to this country. these are hard things, but i'm an american president, not a president of red america or blue america, but of all america. and i believe it's my duty, my duty to level with you to tell the truth, no matter how difficult, no matter how painful. and here in my view is what is true. maga republicans do not respect the constitution. they do not believe in the rule of law. they do not recognize the will of the people. they refuse to accept the results of a free election. and they're working right now as i speak in state after state to give power to decide elections in america to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself. maga forces are determined to take th

that's the extreme magaca republicans.ants to lower inflation, one party wants to lower inflation and help families make ends meet. to tackle the generational challenges we face. and that's passed major legislation to that effect. now law. thehe other party apparently was to eliminate o women's autonomy over their own bodies. here's how you know republicans are dangerously out of touch. months after women hadho their freedom of choice taken away by the maga supreme court, a nationwide abortion ban was actually attempt to seem more mainstream, can you believe it, to see more mainstream? heaven help us. heaven help us. shows just how extreme they are. the core problem is far from being mainstream, a large portion of the republican party harbors truly extreme views on a women's right to choose. in a few months since the dobbs decision, republican state legislatures and plays like indiana and south carolina and others have either introduce or enacted new abortion restrictions with alarmingly few exceptions of rape or incest. i

the entire republican party.o you agree with him? do you think there is a delineation? what was your reaction to that? do you support a president trump candidacy in 2024? guest: do i think that the interjection of fear and intimidation that president biden is trying to do to split the republican party, do i think that is going to be effective? the jury is still out. most americans are incredibly concerned about the last two years under his leadership. they are concerned about the prices, concerned about the border, concerned about inflation, concerned about covid, what is happening in their schools. a lot of potential on what is broken down in our society. who should we have represent us in 2022? i am not surprised that the president would try to interject fear and intimidation but moderate republicans are different from what you might call established republicans. ronald reagan says if you are with me on 80% i am with you as well because the alternative is worse in have seen the worst. host: let's go to howard i

this you go back to november 2021 republicans plus three. march of this year republicans plus five.lus three. most of our democratic strategists would tell you they need to get that above five. you get that above five, above six, you get toward seven, then maybe they can even hold the house. but in that position right there democrats feel much better about potentially keeping the senate, doing well in governor's races and maybe either somehow keeping the house or at least not getting wiped out. >> at least stemming their losses a little bit. now, i think you can see those numbers also help explain the president's performance. he seems to be sort of newly reinv reinvigorated. and these themes that he's hitting that you were just discussing, they're things that he truly really believes that really animate him. and that's great ground for any politician to be on, right? and he feels like he can make those arguments in a way that's actually going to help his party at the polls. and i think all of those things combined together really have energized democrats. obviously it's a combinatio

it's not just republicans. republicans are like 34%. democrats are 20%. my favorite group, npr listeners .4% of npr listeners set may be time to take up arms against the government. these are ridiculous numbers. and i think it just, it's just another measure that our democracy is facing a real challenge right now. >> we just watched on january 6th people take up arms against the government. this is not hypothetical. we watched people come i never thought i would see it in my lifetime storm the united states capital, desecrate the building. i mean, people died. and so it's very real and very scary. i would agree with neil that it's not just, i mean, i don't think political parties necessary is driving this. i do think they contribute. it is the 24/7 cycle that has to create conflict and has to create shock value or they get tuned out. also social media which is no regulations at all about information and disinformation and misinformation. they are notan accountable. i do believe that is a piece of this puzzle that regulators are going to have to look at ve

by the way, not all republicans are maga republicans. i want to make that clear. for years and years, i got beat up in the campaign by saying that i wanted to unify the country and unify the parties. you used to be able to do that. but things have changed a whole bunch. the maga republicans control the republican party right now, and that's self-evident of. there's a lot at stake here. i'm going to talk a little bit about that now. earlier today after opposing and obstructing everything we tried to do to stop progress for the last two years, the house minority leader kevin mccarthy went to pennsylvania and unveiled what he calls a commitment to america. that's a thin series of policy goals with little or no detail that he says republicans are going to pursue if they regain control of the congress. and the course of nearly an hour, here's a few of the things we didn't hear. we didn't hear him mention the right to choose. we didn't hear him mention medicare or social security. so let's take a look at what kevin said today. he said republicans want to preserve our co

when republicans -- attack democrats democrats rally and when democrats attack republicans the republicans rally. you do not see that at election time, but throughout a legislative session and all points of time during the cycle. i look at numbers, we cannot keep track of. march are the length -- an election year. generally, we have a large number of undecided, republicans would not decide who with a vote for. this was two decades ago. if you pull in an election year, republican candidates are winning 90% and democrat or when getting a percentage democratic. there are no other side or in the mall. it is that polarization that has that intensified over the past 20 years as a result of not just campaigns, but there is nobody in congress who is crossing party lines. >> i am more of a practitioner than pollster. i cannot have the data lens that neil has. i go back to mount personal experience. my father and father-in-law were in politics. we got married in 1974, and they did not know each other. frankly gary and i were worried about that. one was very liberal democrat into the other was conser

if you're a republican, it's a good place to be because he's very popular among republicans. emerson college, not exactly, you know, a right—wing polling firm, has trump up in pennsylvania and some of the swing states, so this election coming up in 80 days, they want to make it about trump. republicans want to make it about a failed presidency of biden and we will see where it shakes out. but no, the truth of the matter is that president trump and the republican party is seen as successful on issues that matter to the country, to conservatism, the court, the border, strong national security. so he's in good standing with republicans. i'm going to stop you if i may. because it seems to me politics isn't just about polling, it's not just about appealing to your core base and activists. you're right. that's where i was headed. it really is about also showing respect for principals, for institutions, and for the democracy that you live under. and right now it really looks as though there are very serious questions about whether donald trump is respecting the laws of the united st

but this maga republican agenda, this hate-fueled agenda, this maga republican agenda that we saw incite violence on our nation's capitol has no place in our democracy. if we're not intentional in calling it out our country, which is what the president did, everything that our country is built upon is in danger. >> how has president biden bridged the divide? what has he done really to unify this country? the latest quinnipiac poll has some really remarkable numbers, 69% of both democrats and republicans believe democracy is in danger of collapse, but the republicans blame joe biden and the democrats blame donald trump. again, how has joe biden help bridge that divide? >> we saw it this summer when the president was able to work in a bipartisan way to get gun legislation passed. the president has always stood on the fact that he can work with mainstream republicans to get things done on behalf of the american people, but it's also going to take for all of us to stand up to hatred and what the president again continues to say it's this maga agenda, the president has not called out all repu

this is a part of the republican party that has taken over the republican party. but there is a part of the republican party that is authoritarian, talking about violence, talking about civil war. >> yeah. donald trump released this idea into the atmosphere that the 2020 election is stolen, and now it's spread throughout the country and has almost gone beyond him. as one republican said to me, you know, donald trump needs his supporters almost more than they need him now. they have taken this idea of the election being rigged, and they are running with it. it is leading to talk of violence. i was really struck, as i was traveling around the country this summer, that was the thing that struck me most. how often i heard people speak about coming violence. i heard it both from the left and from the right. joe biden is absolutely right, american democracy is in a moment of peril. the very fact that an american president had to use a primetime address to defend democracy in this country tells you an awful lot about the state of america in 2022. but, curiously, i heard

the other thing is my opponent, ran republican but she didn't tell everyone she was a republican. was a republican. my campaign, we didn't have a lot of funds, we didn't have a lot of support so we couldn't reach out and really expose, you know, the true-ness of her candidacy versus my. >> for sanchez, the race came down to support from the national parties, most of all, money. [speaking spanish] >> when she won, you said you had a little to no support from the national democratic party and the democratic congressional campaign committee. you said that. you had little to no support from the doc. explain that. >> well they have hundreds of millions of dollars and they've got money to spend all over the country on different campaigns, they sent about $100,000 a week and a half, two weeks before election day. so, when they sent the money and they control that money on whatever it is they are doing that is not a lot of support. >> how much money was your campaign able to fund-raise? >> i'm gonna say more or less about 100, 150,000. >> how much money did mayra flores raise. >> i think

the republican party and many other republican party, let me say that, not every single republican.ere are people in the party who are denying the 2020 election results are as they were, which is that president biden is the rightful president of this country. the republican party, many members of the party are installing secretaries of state all across this country to make sure that results are, you know, being favored in the way that they personally or as a party determined that they should be. and that is some of the things that president biden spoke about. this extreme election denying, the 2020 election results, the january 6th attack. all of those things are characterized by the maga movement, and it is inciting violence in this country, i think that the president was right to call it out. >> you know, suzannah, crystal there is echoing the sentiments of president biden who made clear that not all republicans are maga republicans. earlier today democratic congressional campaign committee chair, sean patrick maloney, doubled down that idea. take a listen. >> this is not republic

, not even a majority of republicans are maga republicans.nstream republicans. >> mike: house republicans leader kevin marthy saying the president insulted millions of trump voters and president biden saying he's only blasting the extremists. it's time now for our sunday group, "usa today" white house correspondent francesca chambers, former state department spokesperson and fox news contributor marie harf, former chief of staff or by mike vice president mike pence marc short and host of media buzz, howie kurtz. welcome to all of you. if so, how we, the president gave feisty speech in prime time, the broadcast networks did not take it. who did he reach? >> well, he reached his base. this was billed as a official weight house to vent, nonpolitical. even after the speech white house officials insisting it was -- i lost track of how many times he attacked maga republicans, and at the same time though, donald trump is out there talking about, for exam example, blasting biden now is the enemy of the state, which is interesting. enemy of the people