republicans, 202-748-8001. republicans, 202-748-8001.ndependents, 202-748-8002. ♪ >> this week on c-span network, the house and senate are in session. the housework so legislation to reauthorize the faa program created the synod on his version of the 2024 defense program and policy bill. wednesday, israeli president will address a joint meeting of congress in commemoration of israel 75th anniversary. wednesday two irs whistleblowers ll testify before the house oversight and accountability committee on the pluralization and misconduct in doj and the irs. thursday senate judiciary committee will vote on a bill that requires the supreme court to adopt a code of conduct and improve conspiracy and explain refusals to the public. then 2044 democratic presidential candidate robert f. kennedy, jr. will testify before the house judiciary committee on allegations that the federal government and big included in censoring american speech. watch this week live in the c-span networks or oh c-span now premium will -- c-span now, free mobile video app o

the republican approach to the economy is top down. is the republican economic philosophy. tax cuts for the rich, deregulation for wealthy corporations, and wage stagnation for everyone else. as compared to the democratic approach of growing the middle class and building an economy that works for everyday americans. and it's working. questions? reporter: the last 24 hour, the committee hearings have included r.f.k. jr. yelling at dems they're defaming him. and naked pictures yesterday at the committee hearing on whistleblowers. what do you make of how the committees have conducted themselves over the past week and past few months? mr. jeffries: the republican hearings that have unfolded over the last few days and throughout this entire congress are a malignant clown show. that are not designed to address issues that in fact the health, safety and well being of the american people. but instead peddle outlandish and out of control conspiracy theories. the notion that republicans would give a congressional platform to robert f. kennedy jr., who peddles anti-semitic tropes and

then thishi weekend the same republican party, the michigan republican party went back to the same p hotel in claire, michigan, for another statewide republican partyhe meeting, and apparently there was yet another punch up. craig mauger at the detroit news was first to report on what happened thisrs week. it's one of those reports i can't improve upon.ca i'm just going to tell you as reported in the paper. a republican man from wayne county, michigan, quote acknowledged that he wiggled thd knob of one door leading into the meeting while the meeting was underway. the s chairman of the clare couy republican party heard the he wiggling of the doorknob and walked overf to the door whereo says he saw someone through a small window in the door flip himth off. quote, the clare county republican party chairman then opened the door and says, quote, he kicked me in the balls as soon as i opened the door. the scuffle intensified, and long story short the clare county republican party chairman provided this account to the detroit news in a phone interview from an emergency room in clare, michig

republican line.aller: yeah, i think the reason we are having this discussion at all is because of the 2020 election. it never really was trashed out in the courts. i remember rudy giuliani when he was on the case before he was taken off of it. he had over 1000 affidavits from coworkers, republicans and democrats that sell all sorts of irregularities, and they were never allowed to be heard, such as the truck driver who publicly came out and said he drove a truck load of ballots in the middle of the night that night from new york to lancaster, pennsylvania, and there was a wonderfully researched book called "rigged," which documented thousands of footnotes about the irregularities of the election, and there was a wonderful film where they used pings off of cell phones, the same used to locate missing persons, of people going back and forth in private homes to drop boxes, dozens and dozens of times of mailboxes. the gateway does wonderful reporting, and i see many of the films they have on cameras on d

the republican party -- i cannot even recognize this as being a republican party anymore. i don't even know what they are. it just continues. and what are we hearing from joe biden? well, when we all work together, that is when we get things done. how about a little bit of passion, joe? if you said, if we all work together, that is when we get things done. that is when america comes to its best and when we really get things done in a logical way. anyway -- host: all right. a lot of criticism there of joe biden on the left. guest: a lot of passion on that call that apparently joe biden needs. this is going back to what we said about some criticism from the left of joe biden. his approval ratings are underwater even in the democratic party. part of that criticism is he's not taking the fight enough, not talking about expanding the court, not saber rattling like former president trump did, but that is not his style. that's never been his style. he has been in washington for 50 years. he's a dealmaker and a back slapper and everything and he knows how the sausage is made. if y

is this a republican -- is this as republicans would like us to believe, a sweetheart deal, or not?want our country to be trump appointed attorney, trump appointed judge. but we have to be because of the conspiracy theories out there that everything is a deep state, democratic conspiracy against donald trump. >> yeah, ayman, on this one, i agree with andrew weizmann. look, the critics of this plea deal only have themselves to blame. they live in a right-wing echo chamber where hunter biden's doctor evil. you know, he is the mastermind of some international crime syndicate, an investigation comes up with minor offenses and probation, they go nuts, and they blame it on deep state prosecutors. that's why it's important to say, this prosecutor was appointed by donald trump and allowed to continue the investigation within the merrick garland department of justice, to see if bill barr would have ever done that if he was on the other front, right? you know, equal justice under the law, ayman, means that hunter biden should be treated no better and no worse than anyone else, if it was david

the problem is, of course, the exteam republicans -- extreme republicans, the maga republicans and evene in charge now in the congress republicans in the house, their attitude is that if you -- if it's a democratic idea about a nonpartisan commission to investigate electionmo fraud, tn if it's a democratic idea, then it's probably a scam. so if you're a republican and you go for that, then we're going to penalize you for doing that. anyway, i'll hang up. but keep up the great work there. >> guest: thanks. yeah, this actually have been a lot of republican and conservative reviews of the election. i think the best one is one called lost, not stolen, which you can find at lostnotstolen.org. and it was written by several prominent conservatives, people like ben ginsburg who was campaign counsel for president george w. bush and other presidential candidates like mitt romney, people like bush-appointed judges, jay michael ruddig and thomas griffith who wrote this report and came to the same conclusions that the trump-appoint judges did, that others did, that there's no evidence that the elect

i also do look to our republican leadership because if you talk to most republican leaders and i know many of them in washington very highly place, they will tell you privately that we are better off without trump. they will. busy will say all these things that you know, that we are saying now and yet publicly, they're unwilling to make that stand. so i also looked at republican leadership and say it, you know, it's time to step off if you, if you, if you feel this because because republican leadership that is quiet. so give us, give way it gives way and gives us sort of tacit agreement. but to trump as the leader of the party, the better they don't innocent until proven guilty, but how can a stablished political policy even consider uh, having a nobody. if a president, someone who has all of these legal threats, hire him right now. as, as amy was saying, some more credible than others, but nonetheless, there's a very big chance that that, that he could be convicted a may even go to jail. yes, adrian, there's a very strong likelihood that mr. trump will be connected and go to jail. th

caller: any republican. any republican other than donald trump.annot support a guy who has done the things trump has done. i am a former dod employee and a former contractor. the stuff at mar-a-lago amazes me that anybody could think that is the right thing to do and anybody could believe he did not do that deliberately. i would not support donald trump -- i will vote for joe biden before i will vote for donald trump. that is a really hard thing for me to say. host: what are some of the other candidates that are starting to appeal to you, or you like what you are hearing from them? caller: well, i like mike pence. i like chris christie, i like nikki haley. i like most of the other -- i still think a lot of them are totally gutless and will not cut out what is an obvious wrong and that is the reason i leaned more toward -- mike pence actually stopped some of the wrongs, that is one of the reasons i support him. christie is doing everything he can to point out exactly what trump is, will heard did a good job. that meeting in iowa. i am a republican,

guest: republicans have a unique opportunity.hey are playing with the territory with a bunch of red states. you have virginia, and the same in montana and ohio. it is gotten more red over the years. it is a prime opportunity in those seat for a pick up where they think they probably should take majority. in the last cycle, and a host of democratics also said that they think this could be the year. host: 49 and -- one independent. democrats making of the razor thin majority. and joe manchin is at the top of the list, why? guest: a couple things unlike esther he is a little more vulnerable this time around. he has not announced that he is running for reelection. his numbers are not fantastic. when you look at the approval ratings, they are not doing too great given his work for [indiscernible] last year. but that is the main thing for mansion right there -- joe manchin right there. and chief justice is running for the group of republicans. he is in really good shape there and one of the voices of the primary challenge. they are fee

a target for republicans for quite some time.emocrats definitely jump on things like legacy admissions and student loan debt. host: stephen neukam on the senate side, it was senator schumer sending out a letter, talking about supreme court ethics coming into the scope of the senate before they leave. guest: this is something they want to do, especially after the reporting about justice clarence thomas's relationship with republican donors. i think it is well documented now. this is something that democrats have really pushed. it is more of a messaging thing than anything else. it is not something that will get through the house that is controlled by republicans. but, to the extent that republicans can do messaging in the house, democrats want to be able to do that. and the supreme court is something you can hold hearings about. that is something i think majority lead schumer has in his sites. host: in texas, your next up. caller: it's baseball season, everybody going along. as far as the supreme court is concerned, i wonder if ja

which is what the republicans are trying to accomplish.eporter: going into the presidential campaign season now and president biden wants to get his messaging out there. it appears his son's issues, whether -- dress down the campaign and he's not act knowledging that he has a grandchild. should he acknowledge his grandchild? and do you think that his legal issues are bringing down his campaign going into the 2024 campaign cycle. mr. jeffries: i have no idea what you're talking about in terms of the second part of your question. as it relates to the first part, president biden's track record of success on the economy speaks for itself. more than 13 million good-paying jobs have been created because of the leadership of president biden in partnership with house and senate democrats. unemployment at historic lows. wages are going up. inflation is coming down. stock market is going up. gas prices are have come down. economic growth and development in the second quarter exceeded expectations. and so by any measure, president biden has led the c

it has to appear that republicans believe in them as well.has become a plank in the republican party platform to sow distrust in institutions in the government. how much hope do you have that there are efforts they can even be taken to mitigate this, given this absolute silence, the deafening silence, at best, from the crop of presidential candidates that are now running to lead the nation, and of course, the republican party? >> the trends are not good. and as you say, in the three bipartisan. national security and law enforcement, these have always been traditionally very strong bipartisan issues. so both sides of the aisle can come together. when i see how these republicans are misrepresenting the facts and truth, and really trying to tear down these institutions, that we, as american citizens, rely on. i am hoping that we are going to find a way to get past this very difficult period of our national history and put donald trump, and others like him, behind in the rearview mirror, and move forward. but it is going to take some very strong,

he is still the clear front runner in the republican primary. some of his republican rivals in the 2024 field, they haven't really shifted their posture amid a potential third indictment. in the longer term, a third indictment, or we could see -- we are getting a better sense of when his previous two indictments, windows trials will occur. one will be in march of 2024. a judge last week said that the trial relating to his classified documents case will be in may of 2024. if those dates stick, we are seeing mr. trump potentially campaigning, navigating a campaign and balancing at least two trials on the trail. host: there were stories over the weekend about the campaign, not the front runner but the second place republican, florida governor ron desantis. reports about him retooling his campaign. can you tell us any more about that? guest: we've been seeing over the last week to 10 days, florida governor ron desantis sort of having a reboot with his campaign. ever since the reports last weekend, we saw that desantis had gotten rid of a couple memb

and what he stands for is what most republicans support it. the question is, are the course your next questions are going to be ours legal difficulty drive and personnel is going to be yeah, the i factor. exactly. i wondered how, what whether or not we will see an erosion of that reticence to criticize donald trump, if things legally don't go his way as well. i don't think so. and of course, the latest bowling in iowa, for example, over the weekend president trump increased his support to 59 percent on the morning. consul paul, which is what was done, right. what are constantly, what's going on it's, it's a remarkable number that fits you in a crowd and speak of that 59 percent. it was had been at $5456.00 and was kept up to $56.00 after the announcements of the indictment. so last week, so every time one of these things happened, it increases. now you might ask, why that is. there's a political reason which is the, the sense of 81 percent of all republicans, not just trump supporters who feel the by now ministration is weaponized. the justice

and the fact republicans are doing this is really just so surreal because republicans for so many yearswn as the law and order party, the ones that were defending the law enforcement officers, the fbi, the intelligence professionals and others. and now the tables really have been turned and it's the democrats coming to the aid and to the rescue of the fbi and intelligence community as a way to protect these institutions so that they're able to do their work despite the fact they're being so roundly condemned unfairly by these republican members of congress who only have their own very hyper-partisan agendas as their goal. >> yeah, i mean my concern is that institutional integrity has to be bipartisan, right? it is good democrats are trying to rush in and preserve these important institutions of democracy, but if it -- that in and of itself is a problem for the country, right? it has to appear republicans believe in them, too, and yet it has become a plank in the republican party platform to sow distrust in institutions of the government. how much hope do you have there are efforts that

host: you are calling on the republican line. do you identify as a republican?aller: i am a republican but a vote for joe biden if he runs. host: why? caller: i will not vote for donald trump. he is causing problems for our country. host: did you vote for him in the last election? caller: no, i never voted for him. i have never voted for him. i have been a republican for years. host: are there others you would prefer? caller: i would vote for -- what's his name? do used to be in the senate. host: is there anyone alive he would vote for? caller: no. i would vote for a democrat. it's joe biden. he is bringing our country together. donald trump is spoiling our country. he's the only man who knows everything and knows nothing. just a liar. host: this is karen and alabaster, alabama. republican line. caller: two things. to me, trump is a third party candidate. number two, how come you are not talking about robert kennedy junior? newsweek says he has 31% of joe biden's supporters. i think he would be a big contender for biden and you guys are not talking about him. i

he's calling on republicans to fight. clip that you played yesterday, that was one of the biggest applause lines in his speech yesterday. >> i want to pivot to his chief challenger, amy. ron desantis and i keep thinking about one of my quotes, good gets better and bad gets worse, and we've been watching desantis, and i want to put up this tweet from congressman john james, african american republican from michigan where he points his out and says, first owl of all, slavery isn't cte. one thing he pointed out. there are only five black republicans in congress and you are attacking two of them. my brother in christ, put the shovel down. is it even recoverable for desantis? >> he's got the money, so that always helps. for how long? we don't know, but he has a super pac with a great deal of money to help him. to me, this debate will be fascinating on august -- >> without trump -- >> there is an actual contrast, scott versus desantis. >> the fact that you see the pile-on right now on ron desantis suggests that those people who

republican states have pulled up.the republican states that have pulled out will lose some of the information they have gotten about voters who have died or moved across states. i think the program did some good but i do have an argument about what the balance of that program do that would have republican states pull out of the program. host: on the independent line, from minnesota, john. whatcom. -- welcome. caller: thank you. i agree with the voting rolls and your contributor, john. there are ways at least in wisconsin, they have like 40% extra residents on the voter rolls then there are in wisconsin. that sounds weird. two, the 2020 election was a debacle. but we have never had drop boxes. they were not passed by the state legislatures and people just put them there. there is proof, i've seen in the news in arizona and detroit of people pulling out ballots from under tables. there are affidavits from poll workers. so to say there is no proof is an incorrect statement. it is all your opinion of whether it is enough

republicans, 202-748-8001. republicans, 202-748-8001.ndependents, 202-748-8002. ♪ >> this week on c-span network, the house and senate are in session. the housework so legislation to reauthorize the faa program created the synod on his version of the 2024 defense program and policy bill. wednesday, israeli president will address a joint meeting of congress in commemoration of israel 75th anniversary. wednesday two irs whistleblowers will testify before the house oversight and accountability committee on the pluralization and misconduct in doj and the irs. thursday senate judiciary committee will vote on a bill that requires the supreme court to adopt a code of conduct and improve conspiracy and explain refusals to the public. then 2044 democratic presidential candidate robert f. kennedy, jr. will testify before the house judiciary committee on allegations that the federal government and big included in censoring american speech. watch this week live in the c-span networks or oh c-span now premium will -- c-span now, free mobile video app

this is carrie in minnesota, republican. caller: i think a third party would be great but i don't think it's possible. money, bureaucrats and the fact that the press is so biased that people don't believe what they are being told. people think that money, how would you set up a major party to compete without taking billions or trillions of dollars to set something up. the press has advocated for one party or the other and i think that is clear to see because the american public doesn't know who to trust and when we talk about bringing people together, look at the show we are watching, call in on the democrats line, republicans line or independence. we are divided by press and iraq receipt that has decided. the fbi and doj have decided they are going to influence elections. no matter what you think about trump or anything else, they got caught trying to influence an election. guest: so you are making an important point we are divided, particularly there is a real division in media environment, the press, publicans have very l

that is not what the republicans wanted. they knew they needed to pass something, even if it was not the ideal piece of legislation. they needed something in order to be at that negotiating table. and they did it. i think even though there was an article every week, how mccarthy is losing control of his caucus, he's going to collapse, it hasn't happened yet, and i'm not so sure it is going to happen. i think the members know that if they are not unified, then they will not be able to get anything done, and it is really going to be the democratic white house and the schumer/mcconnell senate leading it. ms. nellenbach: i do want to talk about the shutdown threat, because we had the debt ceiling battle. i think part of whatever one hope was that we had this bipartisan agreement, and it would both extend the debt ceiling, but also would fund the government. now we are faced with this potential for a shutdown because the house is reporting lower numbers than the senate is. typically in the past, when these have happened the perce

, republicans who support him or republicans who still need his support, as they move forward. >> i thinkwoman nancy mayes earlier. she was saying that they were under pressure publicly to impeach the president and essentially they've gone on a hunting expedition to figure out whatever they could get that would validate a potential impeachment vote and so far, everything has been unproven or unsubstantiated and not corroborated. their motivation, because they are hopeful that it could hurt the president in his re-election campaign. >> so fascinating. thank you all for that really important context in reporting. >>> the white house has not so new and not so secret weapon she's been deployed as the one person who can give rapid response. she's a one-person rapid response team and raging war against republican rhetoric. new reporting on this, next. so they cacan stop the spread of wildfires. now's the time to see whatat america's lalargest 5g network can do for your business. >> woman: why did we choose safelite? we were loading our suv when... crack! safelite came right to us, and we could

three republicans. the bill provides nearly 875 billion in funding. 300 million in aid to ukraine and pay increase for militar personnel. members considered hundreds of endments. it is now being sent to the consideration. senate lawmakersl work on their version nextk and watch it on c-span 2 and line coverage of the house on c-span. >> c-span's ""washington journal" a live forum to discuss the latest issues in government, politics and public policy from washington, d.c., and across the country. coming up saturday morning, david becker founder and executive director for the center of -- talks about election integrity in 2024 and spotlight on podcast. c-span's ""washington journal" 7:00 a.m. saturday morning on c-span. next week the house will re-authorize the f.a.a. and the senate will work on its version of defense programs and policy bills. wednesday, israeli prime minister will address a joint session of congress, on wednesday, two i.r.s. whistleblowers will testify before the house oversight over the

his brand is solid within the republican party, within the republican base. any debates. these candidates cannot attack him because then they will lose a huge portion, if anything were to happen to donald trump. let us remember, we still have six months before that primary in iowa. so much can happen between now and then. donald trump is facing multiple indictments. i think that that is what they are counting, on including round desantis. they are waiting to see if it gets so complicated for donald trump, that they start gaining ground. now, rick wilson knows. i don't want desantis is going to go anywhere. he continues. he's a failure. he continues to go down in polls. maybe chris christie will start gaining ground because he has been the only one to attack donald trump directly. we shall see. >> so, yeah. i don't know, rick. i'm hesitant to go here. i'm going to go there. you have referred to desantis as having a bit of a problem as we watch his campaign sputter this past week. having to fire staffers, et cetera. you called it electable dysfunction. >> my qu

are doing in georgia and say, well, that's republicans in georgia, or republicans in texas and say that's a number of well-funded right-wing organizations. it is -- involves the leadership of republicans at the congressional level, at the rnc, at the state level, in state legislatures. and it is all aimed at one thing. it is aimed at making it harder to vote and easier to cheat. because that is the only way republicans believe they can win the election in 2024, when they know and you know and i know that whoever their candidate for president is, joe biden will receive millions of more votes. and so they have to figure out how to rig the rules to undermine fair election administration, because that is their only chance. and so i'm thrilled to be here today with such a great panel and the work you're doing in shining a spotlight is so important. >> well, mark, what is the answer? i mean, what is the response, short of you winning all of your legal challenges and voters realizing that it's the democracy, stupid? >> so i think the solution is first of all to acknowledge the problem and to rec

in this particular republican primary, maybe not in the entire republican party, but with the people who voted republican primaries right now, in particular those who are supportive of donald trump and maybe ron desantis, which is now close to three quarters of the primary voters, compromise doesn't help. being able to work across party lines doesn't count for what you think it should count for. >> yeah, it reminds me of yoga bear a lot, dÉjÀ vu all over again. i remember 2016, i had a similar conversation. there's a massive field of candidates with extensive experience, people like jeb bush and others, who, as i recall, didn't they are especially well when they went to voters with exactly this kind of message. they would say, i know how to govern. i know how to get things done. i know to compromise. i know how to strike deals, and there was donald trump saying, i can't do any of those things, but for me, and the republican base rallied right behind him, and that we're seeing it all over again. there is no reason to believe they're going, in the current landscape, anything is likely

republican line. don, are you with us? caller: yes ma'am. i am. i will have to agree with the caller talked about the people. i live in florida most of my life. i can tell you that it seems like a lot of the liberal types, they destroy where they live and then they want to come to florida and bring their ways with them. the lady was right and has nothing to do with race. as it with class -- it has to do with class. these folks just don't respond to logic. we live in a tough time. host: what would you want the governor, state legislature to do about this overcrowding you say you are seeing in florida? caller: for me seeing that democrats and sanctuary cities, i think the democrats you have to stay where they are. it seems like wherever they go, trouble and disruption follows. that is my opinion. i lived in conservative and liberal areas all over the country. that seems to be a reoccurring thing. democrats control everything and it is being destroyed indicating. rather rapidly. host: let's move on to jo

republicans. many of you may have thought that takeover of our educational by anti-american marxists happened overnight. it didn't. it was five decades in the making for conservatives and republican chose not to notice it. and when they did notice it they were reluctant to fight. if you want to understand. and the disasters that have befallen our nation, you have to begin with the failure of republicans and to aggressively wage the political war necessary to defend. the anti-american attacks. patriotic americans as white supremacist, racist domestic terror is and is insurrectionist. and we respond by calling them liberals. there is nothing about them that is liberal. they are vindictive. bigots, determined. demonize and destroy us. their intimidation been working like a charm. while senator andrews able to get republicans to support principles of my academic bill of rights. they were only prepared to support a resolu, not a law so it lacked any teeth. enforce it. the democrat were happy with this

>> unless republican leaders change course, it means nothing for the republican party. it will mean a lot in the general election, i think, you know, energize democrats, a lot of disgusted independents and swing voters are just going to have had enough of donald trump. trump fatigue is a real thing. for good reason. i'm sorry to say, millions of americans, being under federal indictment, soon to be under indictment for what it looks like to overthrowing the government of the united states, it doesn't mean anything to them. look, i'm from massachusetts. where the guys that once elected a guy who was in jail. this is old tradition from the 1930s. i just don't think it's going to matter much to republicans no matter how many indictments there are. they take that as a signal that trump's doing things right. >> jonathan, we have a minute left. i want to get your thoughts on ron desantis who's floating this idea down that if he's made president, he becomes, president he's going to pardon trump. is this a missed opportunity for desantis yet again to actually carve out that spa

we have seen what happens to republican, after republican. they are quickly run out of office or sidelined in the party. so, i would fully expect them to rally around donald trump, no matter what this indictment says. and in fact, they will probably shift the conversation to a myriad of accusations against the biden administration and not even try to entertain the facts around the indictment. >> let's look at this low, in the midst of all these developments with donald trump, some republicans are hyper focus on an impeachment of president biden. what are the latest on that effort? how are they justifying this? >> right, yeah. speaker kevin mccarthy gave someone his strongest comments supporting an indictment -- sorry, an impeachment inquiry. but he gave them no timetable for that. so, we are expecting that to be -- if it does get launched sometime in the fall, there's still a lot of debate on the hill among republicans. i talked to a number of centrist republicans and they don't like this idea. they think that there needs to be stronger evide

two years ago, republicans in the house, 102 republicans voted in secret to join it nancy pelosi's democrats and bring back this earmark, the currency of corruption. last year, before mccarthy was elected speaker, they again today secret vote. this time, 158 republicans joined democrats to bring back remarks. in december of last year, the bilby's -- the bill signed between christmas and new marks, many earmarks were stepped into that year end budget bill. $16 billion worth of projects. just seven republicans earmarked $3.1 billion in that bill. host: we want to open it up to the phone lines. i want to give our viewers the numbers to call to talk about earmarks, government spending and your opinions on whether there is waste and fraud. democrats, your line is (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. you can also send a text message, (202) 748-8003. representative mike simpson, a republican from idaho, put out what he calls a defensive earmarks. they call them community project funding. i want to read you an excerpt of what he said in that defense posted on bs

republican 's next nomination. fly are circulating at his last campaign rally, secure a permanent white majority. things are also a little weird right now in the ohio republican party. the former republican house speaker in ohio was just sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in a mass of 60 million dollar private bury's green that he apparently ran while serving as republican speaker of the house. the former state chairman of the ohio republican party was also convicted at the same bribery scream, he got five years in prison. this is apparently not put a hitch in the step of the state republican party of ohio. you think that you're speaker of the house and state party chairman both getting sent to federal prison for a gigantic prison terms on corruption charges might lead to a little bit of a wall boy moment in the state, but not so in ohio. ohio republicans are plugging away, they've just announced that they no longer want and a independent voters to be allowed to cast votes in republican primaries. it shows you

republicans talking about what ey call woke but we also heard republicans on the floor use the term coloredeople. he said he misspoke. it was stricken in the record. but nia, you wrote about senate tuberville who repeatedly saying white nationalists are americans and this week he did say they are racists. it was after continued questioning. what do all these lines tell you about the direction of the republican party right now and their gentle? nia-malika. i think this tells us that in 2024 we're going to have a republican party that runs very strongly on values. a party that in 2024 returns much further to the right on lgbtq issues than they did in 2016 and you see some of this rhetoric i think in this bill around transgender folks and whether or not they should have a right to get care. whether or not women should have equal access to abortion if they're in a southern state. that's what it tells us. everyone someone like donald trump. he was fairly moderate, ihink, on issues of lgbtq in 2016. and now he's some place different. partly he was pushed there by people like ron deisn't a ill thi

caller: any republican. any republican other than donald trump. cannot support a guy who has done the things trump has done. i am a former dod employee and a former contractor. the stuff at mar-a-lago amazes me that anybody could think that is the right thing to do and anybody could believe he did not do that deliberately. i would not support donald trump -- i will vote for joe biden before i will vote for donald trump. that is a really hard thing for me to say. host: what are some of the other candidates that are starting to appeal to you, or you like what you are hearing from them? caller: well, i like mike pence. i like chris christie, i like nikki haley. i like most of the other -- i still think a lot of them are totally gutless and will not cut out what is an obvious wrong and that is the reason i leaned more toward -- mike pence actually stopped some of the wrongs, that is one of the reasons i support him. christie is doing everything he can to point out exactly what trump is, will heard did a good job. that meeting in iowa. i am a republica

it's a failure but the republicans continue to double and triple down on this approach. you know what trickle-down economics means? for everyday americans? you may get a trickle, but you're guaranteed to stay down. that's what trickle-down economics is. bidenomics, middle-out economics, is focused on everyday americans, on growing the middle class. and we have a track record to prove that we mean it. we're not just saying it. and we're going to continue to move the country forward in a positive direction. questions? reporter: thank you, mr. leader. i have two questions. what do you make of congressman eli crane referring to black americans serving in the military as colored people on the house floor? mr. jeffries: it was an unfortunate statement. his words were taken down and that was the appropriate thing to happen. reporter: second question here. i spoke with c.b.c. chairman horsford yesterday about the c.b.c.'s push to abolish the jim crow era blue slip process. do you agree that dick durbin should do away with the process? mr. jeffries: i agree the senate should do a

listening to him detail his vision for a broader, multiethnic republican party. he made that case on "firing line", the original version with william f. buckley jr., in 1987. take a look at it here. - there are no problems in this country that we can't resolve working together. there really are no limits to the future of this country, and we can't see a better life for each and every american, not only here, but from the inner city to the rural areas of america, by not only working together, but recognizing those ideas that made this country great. the inalienable rights of people were not written by jefferson for some people, but for all people, and not for just this country, but for all countries. and i want the republican party to be that type of a party. - given trump and the rise of figures like marjorie taylor greene and george santos, how does the republican party find redemption? - that is a really good question. note the contrast in that language we just saw, which was quite universalist in the sense that, "i want to make life better for all people. i wa

and in fact, many of these candidates on the republican side, part of their pitch to republican voterst there is no such thing as systemic racism. >> it's the exact pitch that tim scott is making. as you know, eva, you've been covering him. we've been watching him on "the view" and other places. the republican primary electorate is much more aligned than the clarence thomas school of things. looking at the fact that many candidates, there always was an allen keys running or someone. so, it's not been -- you know, without diversity. but this is an entirely different thing because you have a mayor, a governor, a former unm ambassador, a senator. so, it really is striking compared to this is my seventh presidential campaign -- i hate to date myself. but it's remarkable on the republican side how the field looks different. >> what you're hearing from conservative activists of color is they really like this. they feel as though this is promising for the party. and while democrats say, listen, they should not be getting so much credit for diversifying the field, that if you speak to voters o

republican line. don, are you with us? caller: yes ma'am. i am. i will have to agree with the caller talked about the people. i live in florida most of my life. i can tell you that it seems like a lot of the liberal types, they destroy where they live and then they want to come to florida and bring their ways with them. the lady was right and has nothing to do with race. as it with class -- it has to do with class. these folks just don't respond to logic. we live in a tough time. host: what would you want the governor, state legislature to do about this overcrowding you say you are seeing in florida? caller: for me seeing that democrats and sanctuary cities, i think the democrats you have to stay where they are. it seems like wherever they go, trouble and disruption follows. that is my opinion. i lived in conservative and liberal areas all over the country. that seems to be a reoccurring thing. democrats control everything and it is being destroyed indicating. rather rapidly. host: let's move on to jo

as republicans keep pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election being rigged against republicansvoting power in alabama and beyond. joining me now to break this all down is anemic mullin, she's a deputy executive director of -- bucha. full disclosure, i know so much about voting rights because i'm used to advising the voting rights people, and that is how i met and isa. all right, so let's talk about these maps. the alabama map is going to be reviewed by a panel of judges in the coming weeks. how likely do you think that they'll be redrawn? can they just ignore the supreme court? >> they will likely be redrawn. so that is something that there is -- it -- what will happen is that that panel of judges will review the maps, folks on the ground have until july 28th to submit their objections to the maps. and then then the court will likely bring in a special master to help them to redraw the map so that they're in compliance. as you laid out, they're completely not in step with what the supreme court required of the state of alabama. >> so i think a lot of folks have been focused on