senate republicans were handing out leaflets earlier this week saying how republicans have not given into the democratic quote wind before november. republicans governing is not just about political whims. this is about making sure american families when. today because of republicans american families lost. it's been a busy and active summer in the u.s. senate. before the august work period begins let me summarize many takeaways. earlier this week we had two of the most important laws that federal laws protect their kids cope and. senate republican to the right thing here but i call on the house to keep the moment am alive. to do right by the parents who work so hard to get these bills done. it's a no-brainer unfortunately this morning house republicans reported that they will refuse to take these bills up. i hope and i pray that these reports are not accurate. one week ago speaker johnson said he would like to get copa but as cho san coppa collected dust ended gut punch to the brave wonderful parents who work so hard. these parents and kids across america deserve better. i hope hous

i was so deep in republican politics, i chose two republican members of the house and established a republican political consultancy and that spring when i decided to open my mouth and exercise my freedom of speech, i had my own come after me. so what i say is if they can't -- can do it to me, one of their own, they can do it to anyone and when i say they, i mean donald trump and all his little minions. these are people who are happy to carry out trump's will, to silence me. but when they try to silence me what happened, i found my own voice and i may not have the largest footprint but the people gathered here have given me hope and continue to give me hope so that eight years later i continue to fight the fight with the optimism i have today. i know we can take this party back from trumpism. maybe everyone here doesn't agree with me and that is ok, part of being american is dissent. i know that because my family fled a murderous dictator from uganda. deedee emin -- idi amin kicked out my family. my dad was already in america and had to take over for seven other siblings, multiple cousins and

you are just a local republican, a neighborhood republican, a state republican in pennsylvania, everybody has to publicly out themselves. and it's not easy. but you have to do it. we've got 86 days to do it. you have to publicly out yourself. i am a republican, i'm a conservative and i'm supporting kamala harris. it takes courage. but remember, donald trump is unfit to be president. final point i want to make is i talk to trump supporters every day because i used to be a trump supporter. i talked them every day. you need tools once you out yourself and you come out in wisconsin in your neighborhood as a republican whose voting for harris. you need tools as you go out there and proselytize. the two best messages i have found to encourage and convince republicans to oppose trump and vote for kamala harris are these. you're better than trump thinks you are. you are better and more decent and more tolerant than donald trump thinks you are. i have found that when i say that to trump supporters and i say that to republicans, that really resonates. the other message that really resonates as i sp

you were a republican.ccormick is running against the incumbent democratic senator, what is your feeling about that race? >> well, for me, if you have been endorsed by or endorsed trump, you are tainted with the same problem that has taken over the entire republican party. it's only a very few republicans left and they include liz cheney, larry hogan, adam kinzinger. everybody else, if you have been endorsed, just to see nikki haley endorsed trump, that made me sick. dave mccormick is tainted in my view as well. the only way to fix the republican party is to burn it down to the ground and start over. anybody who has endorsed or is supporting him or in any way affiliated with trump, we have to start over. it's like a mattress with bedbugs. you think you can spray it with insecticide, you think but you have to burn it and throw it out and start over. that is how i feel about anybody who has been endorsed by or endorses or supports or stands on the same stage with trump. >> time for a new mattress. kyle sweets

the florida republican party threw him out. police later cleared him of charges in both of those investigations. but then right on the heels of that, the state of arizona lost their state republican chair, too. that same republican senate candidate who awkwardly appeared with trump this weekend, kari lake, she released secretly recorded audiotapes of the arizona state republican chairman in which she said he was trying to bribe her to leave the senate race. she also reportedly threatened to release more tapes of him, and so he quit as arizona state republican party chairman. then right on the heels of that, the national republican party lost its chair, too. ronna mcdaniel pushed out or resigned apparently to make room for donald trump's daughter-in-law. her experience for the job included being a singer in addition to being married to one of trump's sons, the blonde one. that seemed like a legit choice for the national republican party, and so ronna mcdaniel had to go. but all of that has only happened just this year in 2024. i

first, the republican governor of georgia, brian kemp, did something very interesting. he made a request to the state attorney general asking for clarification, asking if he is governor has the power to remove members of the state elections board if it is warranted by ethics concerns and that is fascinating. we will see what the attorney general says in response to that query from the governor. i expect the attorney general's response will likely come quickly if brian kemp does decide to remove these pro trump election board members who have upended the process just weeks before the presidential election. wow. i don't know. watch this space and it would be a big deal. and it's one very big thing that happened today but also late today, a new lawsuit was filed from the democratic party of georgia and the national democratic party who say with support from the harris-walz campaign, as of tonight, they are suing the state election board in georgia to stop them from what they have been doing. the democrats big new lawsuit filed tonight asks georgia state courts to make clea

now, when faced with questions on these, republicans, maga republicans are running away, claiming theyon't know anything. maga republicans even announced they fired the guy who authored all this dreck. sorry, you can fire all the people you want. these are the goals. it was put together by lots of donald trump's former employees, and has as one of its leaders somebody who wants to slash, slash all kinds of government programs up and down the line, because the very rich people that they seem to represent don't want to pay any taxes. they don't care about the rest of us. so maga republicans, again, they can fire anyone they want. we know the goals. this revealed it. they were proud of this project 2025, until it was revealed that it had so many bad things in it. i'm sounding the alarm on this little-known project for all the members of this chamber, and pledging that under my majority the v.a. will not be depleted, veterans' benefits will be protected, and the senate floor will not consider programs and proposals that undo years of bipartisan progress on veterans affairs, health care, an

the state's republican party chairman is out. dave williams, and other party leaders, were voted out as leadership of the colorado gop today. but they've said they consider today's meeting and vote fake. the meeting started at moon and is still going. republican party members are voting who will now lead the state party. our reporter has been there all day. >> reporter: it's 2 1/2 months until election day and colorado republican party members are fighting their own leader. >> those who say don't change a rider in the middle of a race, that's a valid argument unless the rider is trying to kill the horse. >> that is a valid argument unless the rider is trying to kill the horse. that was this weekend, saturday. as colorado republican party officials met to vote out their state party chairman, who they said was destroying the party. for his part, it's a little bit like what happened in michigan. the republican party chair in colorado is refusing to recognize the validity of the vote to remove him because of course he is. he says the

every republican on the house ways and means committee voted for this bill. so i say let's help the kids and the families. let's help the small businesses. let's help those who need housing. let's be there for those who face these disasters. i say to my colleagues on the republican side, this is a chance to help everybody in america. everybody. i hope my republican colleagues make the right choice. i strongly urge t a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from idaho. mr. crapo: thank you, mr. president. with election politics front of mind, doomed-to-fail show votes have become an all-too-frequent occurrence in this chamber. but there is no more obvious showboat than the one scheduled to happen today immediately before the august recess. in today's attempt to score political points, the democrats are moving to a bill, h.r. 7024, that has been languishing for six months in the hopes of fabricating a narrative that republicans don't support small business, children, or alleviating poverty. however, if my democrat colleagues were serious abo

he said this about republican leadership. if getting things done in a bipartisan waya was an olympic event, today republicans wouldn't have gotten a medal. no gold, no silver, no wrongs. they were handing out leaflets earlier this week saying how republicans must not give in to a democratic when. governing is not just about political winds. wins. it's about making sure american families when today because of republicans and the american families lost. now as for the summer it's been a really busy and active summer for the u.s. senate for the august work period let me summarize the takeaways early week we passed two of the most important updates in decades. the federal law protecting our kids. i've called on the house to take the bills up and keep the momentum alive. it's a no-brainer but unfortunately this morning, houseep republicans reported thy will refuse to take the bills up it would be an awful mistake and i got punch the kids across americaer deserve better. they would pass an overwhelming bipartisan majority. then the

and for the republicans, what is your - the republicans, what is your overall take?ial? in overall take? do you think she looked presidential?— overall take? do you think she looked presidential? in the words of donald trump. _ looked presidential? in the words of donald trump, boring, _ looked presidential? in the words of donald trump, boring, boring, - looked presidential? in the words of. donald trump, boring, boring, boring is a good thing this time. i would say for anyone who doesn't like vice president harris, last night's interview couldn't have changed their minds because it wasn't intended to do that. there were no viral moments and she went in knowing she had onejob to do viral moments and she went in knowing she had one job to do which was keep it steady and i think that is a political strategist is a dream. when you see a candidate stay on script and conduct an interview in a manner donald trump never has and never can, that is a win on many parts. so i think republicans watching last night to hear something new, they perhaps didn't get much in that way

republican coalition.er several find that? ruy: your over superfine it -- chris: good, i am on tv, so good. ruy: but there is a resemblance in what you are saying. obviously in how they switched working-class support basis. republicans, reliably now, get the greater share of the working class vote overall then democrat s. that did not used to be the case. the democrats -- it was a clichÉ. democrats were the working-class party. and you look at the way parties are evolving in terms of their coalition, it is clearly neither one of those. democrats are no longer the working-class party, and certainly republicans, it is silly to think of them as the country club party. chris: voter propensity is a problem for republicans, because republicans used to have this advantage -- the rule is basically more educated, more affluent people voted at a higher propensity. and when the republican coalition rested in the suburbs and more affluent people in their old coalition, they punched above their weight, and it was harde

the republican party is not a republican party.t has been commandeered by a madman, to be quite frank. if you look at all of the things , the january 6 insurrection, he's been convicted of multiple felonies. you look at all the other things, taking documents out of the white house. the list goes on. his violent rhetoric, it is no wonder that someone on the fringe of society took a shot at him. host: bring me to the dnc. caller: the dnc, you will see two people that will roll out a plan for the united states of america which includes black, white, asian, hispanic, poor, transgender, the whole nine yards. and that is what america is all about. what we are forgetting is we can't go back and just deny our values. it is the right thing to do. when it is all said and done, the folks that are really voting for the right candidate, the ones that truly have morals and values who want to see this country be what it can be, these folks are here calling in and are definitely going to be on the wrong side of history, no question about it. i thi

the republican opponent in montana has some issues but the state is so republican at this point that even a candidate who is not a great a 100 percent top-tier candidate stands a good chance of winning if they are a republican. host: let's look at a campaign and it put out. [video clip] >> montana voters know -- >> jon tester stands for us. >> to get the care and benefits we have earned. >> he delivered 12 new veterans clinics. >> he passed the act so veterans with toxic exposure -- >> finally got the help we need. >> veterans across montana. host: that is a play for veterans. are there in montana? guest: montana has a higher than average veterans. he is the chairman of the veterans affairs committee. when i talk to republican strategists about the race, they love bringing up that this is the first time that tester has been challenged by a veteran himself. he is a former navy seals decorated in afghanistan has made veterans issues and his express as a veteran front and center to his campaign. tester is feeling the heat on that issue and felt the need to do an at fully focused -- focu

you have spoken to republicans.ow do they feel when you go out there and talk to them and ask them well, what about this republican and prominent republicans are saying trump isn't good for this country. >> a question we said is why didn't bill barr find any evidence of voter fraud. i keep going back and we were in butler pennsylvania at the rally where the assassination attempt happened. we did look and he had the opportunity to pick somebody like nikki haley and widen this a little bit for the party but he picked jd vance like basically a senator and basically a subpar podcast host who gets weirder and weirder with every interview he does and current the his polling numbers are worse than sarah palin. and then donald trump says i don't think i have changed from the shooting but i have actually gotten worse. i think a lot of moderate republicans that hear that, they think this guy has gotten worse? the guy that may be wanted to go to nikki haley now and they think how can this possibly get any worse? i think modera

republicans, (202) 748-8001. willie, republican line in texas.aller: it is very interesting to hear democrats -- with trump -- [inaudible] they say trump supporters are a cult -- [inaudible] host: you are fading in and out. can you put your mouth closer to the handset -- caller: i am sorry. how am i now? host: that is better. caller: the democrats who say that trump supporters are calleds -- cults and that donald trump would be the worse for democracy is amazing to me. you had a couple of folks who said that they are doing protest votes. to me, it is unfathomable that these folks can even think like that, because if you listen to a trump supporter, we generally know the issues and the policy concerns for each side, because we study. we study. you asked one of the callers about kamala harris, and he was able to tell you exactly where he got his ideas from as far as making an educated choice on who to vote for. again, i do not understand these democrats. i hope that the majority of the democrats are not like that. hopefully the majority of the demo

in terms of republicans staying on message and focusing let's talk about another republican, jd vancetonight, he made an appearance on fox news and i want to share just a portion of his comments. >> senator, one of my dear friends tonight said to me all the suburban women, all they care about is abortion and they don't understand the decision is with the states now, not band nationally. what do you say to suburban women out there who are marinating in this propaganda? >> first of all, i don't buy that, laura. i think most suburban women care about the normal things most americans care about. >> the normal things. so vance's opponent governor tim walz responded on x where he said it's pretty normal to respect a woman's right to make her own health care decisions, so my question to you, maria, do republicans want their vp candidate out there saying it is not normal to care about reproductive rights? >> well, they don't want to talk about reproductive rights, period. the republican party knows this is something they lose. the reason there was no red wave during the 2022 midterms is becau

republicans are slightly ahead, 211 seats safe likely leaning republican. those 19 tossup's, the house will probably go the same way as the presidential given the ties, but you could see a world where trump wins the presidency and democrats get 220 seats in the house or something. it's that closely contested that you might see a split outcome. if the presidency's flipped to the republicans with two changes in opposite directions, there is no historical precedent for that in the current two-party history of the united states going back to the dawn of the republicans right before the civil war. host: really? guest: having it flip in different directions, you know, the presidency going from democrat or republican, the house going from republican to democratic. that's part of the reason i kind of don't think it will happen, there's no historic precedent. guest: all right, let's talk to john in virginia. caller: what do you think about the young people? are they pumped out? seems to me there are so many young people coming up right now to vote, to go with it rig

>> republicans have targeted both there's a culture war going on right now with republican officials at a variety of levels of government trying to change the history of things from generations past the civil war, the revolutionary war, founding fathers. that's an important thing in terms of the culture, but there's a qualitative difference when republicans target the recent past. it's more audacious. it requires them to try to overpower our memories and bully our memories into submission over things we all saw lived and experienced. for example, we see them trying to tell us now that the trump response to the covid crisis was great. it was perfection. it couldn't have gone any better we all know better we all saw and experienced it first-hand what the trump administration's response to covid was, but nevertheless, they believe our memories can be bullied into submission and their alternative reality and alternative narratives can replace the ones we all know >> but why -- why do it, then? if as you describe, and i think you make a very good case that it requires a certain level of a

republican party.ut nevertheless, i want to point that out, because it's going to point to their self-understanding which in turn will help us better understand the nature of their critique and. in fairness, the jeffersonian faction, a sprawling dynamic force in american politics, it encompasses broad array of ideological commitments, and it endured for more than a quarter century and evolved in many ways during that time and makes it a tough group of men to pin down, but nevertheless, i want to make a few general points about of its members ideological commitments, at least in the early 1790s, the jefferson generally believe that ownership farmable land was the backbone. a prosperous republic led. ownership promoted a rough, although from perfect equality among the it encouraged personal habits like self-sufficiency, responsibility and civic. their vision for america was that of an aggressor and republic, which jefferson later termed empire of liberty, with north american continent populated by a stur

republicans don't have anybody to blame but themselves. >> let's talk another republican, j.d. fox news and i want to share just a portion of his comments. watch this. >> senator one of my dear friends tonight. all these suburban women, all these suburban women all they care about is a abortion and they don't care the decision is with the states now. it's not banned nationally. even if people would want it to be banned nationally it's with the states. what do you say to suburban women out there who are marinading in this propaganda? >> well first of all i don't buy that. i think most suburban women care about normal things that most people care about. >> the normal thing. so vance's opponent, tim walz responded on x where he said it's pretty normal to respect a woman's right to make her own dam health care decisions. do republicans want their vp candidate out there saying it is not normal to care about reproductive rights? >> well, stephanie they don't want to talk about reproductive rights period. the republican party knows this is something they lose. the reason there's no re

here is something that a republican said about the trump campaign. let's listen to this. >> she is bringing out people who are not interested in voting for either trump or biden. the entire electoral poll has changed. if it continues in this direction you have to start to consider democrats winning the senate and democrats winning the house. the actual people who are participating she has intensity now. she has an intensity advantage. she has a democratic advantage. i have not seen anything like this happen in 30 days in my lifetime. >> i think that last line is where this stands. i have not seen anything like this happen in my lifetime. the reason i bring that up is that people have suggested this is somewhat manufactured. is seems to be weirdly organic. >> it is. we are in unprecedented times, but there was a shift. let's just say in june during the debates many democrats were essentially acting like it was completed by biden would be was in there would be a second trump presidency and possibly the swift crumbling of our democracy. all of a sudden

they are pretty standard rich republicans, right, with standard rich republican positions.e. in recent polls mccormick is eight points behind casey. hovde is trailing baldwin by seven points in wisconsin. that might narrow. they are doing better than, like, robinson and kari lake. they are very tight swinging states where joe biden narrowly won in 2020. there is a deeper problem here. you see it in state legislatures, in midterm elections. it's a problem for republican candidates other than donald trump, not just this year, in the trump era. they have no real convincing argument for voters that they should want to be republicans and to vote for republicans not named trump. trump has sucked up all the value of the enterprise leaving nothing for his fellow party members down ballot. and i think it could spell disaster for republicanness chas of taking the statehouses, the house, holding the house, even taking back the senate. valencia johnson's a democratic strategist who served as a senior advisor in the kamala harris campaign. deputy chief of staff to harry reid and they jo

you vote republican.didn't turn them off with the horrible things that he said in 2016 about what you could grab, if you're famous. that did not turn a majority of white women off. something has changed, though, i feel materially after dobbs. there's a sense of lack of confidence in, you know, whether or not -- our rights are going to be continued. right? and i think that is a change. i would love to talk to you and claire about how adding jd vance to the ticket might also create a change. i'm going to play two clips from a podcast by a guy named eric weinstein, called the portal podcast. this was in 2020. this was jd vance talking with the podcast host about his mother-in-law. take a listen. >> and the evidence on this by the way is super clear. that's the whole purpose of the post menopausal female in theory. >> when your child was born, did your in-laws and particularly your mother-in-law, show up in some huge way? >> she lived with us for a year. >> right. >> i didn't know the answer to that. that was

republicans. we heard so many chants of usa. you saw on that screen so many american flags flying. republican senator jeff duncan telling the crowd if you vote for, here is you are not voting is a democrat, but your voting is a patriot. and peggy noonan wrote something the kind of quick me a little bit. she said, quote, the democrats stole traditional republican themes of faith and patriotism and claim them as their own. she wrote that in a wall street journal opinion piece, but david simon clapped back and said those things are rations, peggy, they are available to all. if republicans look around for their share they will find them in the gutter, right where the republicans tossed them. david, talk about patriotism being replaced. >> katie, remarkable. republicans of all and it did this using her patriotism kind of reflexively, the flag, they felt like they owned it. the faith community they thought was theirs. and what you saw in today's democratic party this week in the democratic convention is

rodney: they are not really republicans, they are ex -republicans.that's not what they would say, though. rodney: when you're speaking of the democratic national convention, a democrat into thousand four spoke at the republican convention. after the convention, everyone called him a republican. there is personal animosity with former president trump, with some of the speakers. if anybody should have personal animosity toward the prep -- for the former president, it's me. in the end, there is a binary choice as a republican to say, do we want policies like lower taxes and more personal responsibility and more freedom and liberty? that is what being a republican is all about. it is about the free enterprise system. caitriona: this is a very close race. are there many republicans who fit into that category that they would be prepared to flip? rodney: there were a lot of republicans that flipped to democrats in 2018, during the midyear presidential -- midyear nonpresidential race. caitriona: physically in this race this year? rodney: many of them stayed

structure among rank- and-file republicans to say i am a republican, i am not a democrat. i don't share attentive use of democrats, but there is a permission structure now for me to say i am voting for harris now, because of some dangers of donald trump. does that do anything do you think or do you still think it doesn't mean much? >> i think having someone up there saying it out loud is important, and look, i can't tell you how much i admire jeff duncan and adam kissinger. these are people that had a lot to lose and politics. rising stars in the party, and they chose to do with the rest of the party should have done but very few did, which is actually stick by what they said that they believed in. it is tremendously courageous to do this, and so rare in politics, so you know, i think it helps. the lincoln project we focus on these voters, the soft republican voters, the soft democrats. these are the last to join trump in 2016 and usually the last to join are the first to leave in politics. i think that gap has widened a good bit since dobbs. just the sort of anger and ugl

the area has gone heavily republican and is currently represented by a republican congress and donald district both times. donna from michigan, go ahead. as a republican, what do you think about the harris-walz ticket? caller: i think walz is a person i don't agree with and i don't agree with harris on any policies. my granddaughter joined the guard like walz, and my brother was in iraq at the same time. it seems to me that anybody who really loves their country would not have used it, the system, to get an education and not go over when the call was for him. thank you. host: david is another republican from st. petersburg, florida. caller: i've been listening to this -- the democrats just forget everything that's happened to this country in the last 3.5 years. it's revolting to me to see kamala harris even on the ticket. the democrats stole this election, and gave it to kamala harris into told all the democrat people in the united states, we don't care what you think we will insert her in this election. by the way, there will be a terrorist attack and there is no one to blame but the

arizona has a rich tradition of having a strong republican party and a healthy republican party, andase. folks like kari lake and donald trump literally has taken over the republican party and told us to get the hell out of the room. people like john mccain are what attracted us to the party. i worry now that the young people looking at the party of donald trump and jd vance -- why would they want to join that party? >> you are the tip of the spear in arizona in terms of the crazy stuff some people have decided to do but they are across the country. michigan has a good share of them, too. what do you want to happen? what does success look like for somebody like you who says we've got to preserve this republican kamala harris is the right answer. when will that stop? when you get your party back and how does your party come back? >> we desperately need to help the parties. i continue to identify as a republican because it does more accurately describe where i'm at in terms of my policy beliefs. i'm a strong supporter of kamala harris in spite of the fact that we do disagree on some po

no help from republicans. thanks to the tie breaking vote of kamala made it possible. >> in a video released by the harris campaign, vice president harris and her running mate tim walz of minnesota discuss the programs republicans want to cut social security, why they are so important. >> after he died my mom was a stay at home mom. she was our rock and had to go out and get work. we had no boots. that's the boots. so, programs that are just fundamental to keeping people from dropping into poverty. >> we can't have a country and policies that let people fall through the cracks. >> vice president harris will release her own economic policy agenda tomorrow in north carolina. elsewhere today, jd vance agreed to debate tim walz on october 1st. the debate will be moderated by cbs news but other networks will be able to air it. every day since donald trump chose him as his running mate, more of jd vance's weird and archaic views of women have come into focus. he suggested caring about reproductive rights isn't norma

these are republicans.t -- this is a top- down plan from donald trump and the rnc and their allies to cast doubt on the outcome of the election in 2024 so they can engage in the kind of election denial is the we saw after 2020. to the good, kudos to the dnc and lawyers for bringing this lawsuit. whether it is my firm and my folks are many other lawyers at organizations keyed in on this, we will fight to make sure that voters have the right to vote on the election results are protected. >> what are we to make of this on again, off again contentious love affair, hate affair between the governor and donald trump. we have governor kemp on fox news on thursday saying this. >> there was a little distraction obviously on their site when it came to georgia, but to me that is in the past. i have been saying that for over a year now. that i would support our nominee and we had to win georgia. the road to the white house runs through georgia. i still believe that we cannot afford two more years of kamala harris and jo

from the trump campaign and from republican surrogates. trump had the greatest economy ever though his economy was not as guide as either the economy of obama or biden. his claims he completed the wall which he did not do. why are they doing all these things? what purpose does it serve? his book is called ministry of truth. it is out tomorrow. if you are an audio book person, i think this book is important enough that i voiced the audio book so if you would like to not just read the book, but have me tell you about it, you can also get the book that way. but i did that both because i love steve and i think this book is brilliant, much needed and well timed. joining me now is steve benen, author of the excellent new book, ministry of truth. democracy, reality and the republicans' war on the recent past which comes out tomorrow. steve, congratulations on this. i know that you almost killed yourself writing this thing. thank you for doing it. >> i'm glad to have done it and i'm glad to be here. >> you concede in the first pages of the book th

according to republicans, tim walz isn't the dei hire.i actually stands for the same thing: black, black, black. which means the real dei candidate is kamala harris. >> she's a diversity hire. >> of course she's a dei hire. >> 100% she was a dei hire. >> an incompetent diversity hire. >> this woman, this disaster, whose only quote "qualification" is having a vagina and the right skin color. [audience reacts] >> [laughs] that's right. having dark skin and a vagina is an instant path to the oval office. if you don't believe me, take it up with ronald reagan's black pussy. [laughter and cheering] listen, man. this argument is so stupid to me. if being a woman or a minority was the golden ticket to getting ahead in politics, then president andrew yang would have already done universal basic income, and president kanye west would have already changed the national anthem to "gold digger." okay? i mean, i've looked at pictures of the last 46 presidents, and it sure seems like there's one identity in particular that gives you a leg up: [whispers]

caller: -- host: pier, your, republican. -- peter, new york, republican.aller: i would like you to address things that i have been hearing on c-span that i think are not true. i know you are a fan of president trump and i understand your criticisms about the comments in -- about governor cap and he needs him to -- governor kemp and he needs him to be on his side. there are two things, president biden keeps talking about charlottesville. it has already been proven that what president trump said in charlottesville, he condemned the skinheads and the people on the radical right and he said there are good people on both sides are there because they didn't want to see the statue of robert e lee taken down and president biden keeps saying that he was venerating people on the far right. and what happened in georgia, he called mr. roethlisberger and said see if you can find 11 votes. he didn't say create them, help me out and see if you could find them. and also regarding vice president pence, the vice president did have the option under the 1887 act to send the d

caller: -- host: pier, your, republican. -- peter, new york, republican. caller: i would like you to address things that i have been hearing on c-span that i think are not true. i know you are a fan of president trump and i understand your criticisms about the comments in -- about governor cap and he needs him to -- governor kemp and he needs him to be on his side. there are two things, president biden keeps talking about charlottesville. it has already been proven that what president trump said in charlottesville, he condemned the skinheads and the people on the radical right and he said there are good people on both sides are there because they didn't want to see the statue of robert e lee taken down and president biden keeps saying that he was venerating people on the far right. and what happened in georgia, he called mr. roethlisberger and said see if you can find 11 votes. he didn't say create them, help me out and see if you could find them. and also regarding vice president pence, the vice president did have the option under the 1887 act to send the

is donald trump becoming a dragon republicans? >>> what we know about how kamala harris is prepared to debate trump. >> wrong. >> that is proved wrong over and over again. >> the new hire from the harris team to stop the election subversion before it starts when all in starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. allow yourself to imagine what kamala harris or tim walz or any other american politician traveled with her entourage to section 60 arlington national cemetery, stood on the graves of the american soldiers, marines, soldiers, airmen killed in afghanistan and get photographed grinning and giving the camera a thumbs-up then cut a campaign at out of it? republicans and reporters i think would've gone insane. yet donald trump did that monday and at first it didn't really seem to register, it made a little wave in the media tuesday, but yesterday became a tsunami as we learned more details. how it fits with trump's vision of how america and its institutions so -- should serve him. a vision that's become t

michael knows this, when you are at a republican convention, republicans are always the rara usa, patriot, american flag people. they don't have ownership over that. they don't. this dnc demonstrated that. there were more tears of usa, america, all of that, then i have seen in a long time, where people embrace america, what makes america great, even with our flaws. you are not seeing that from the other side. kamala harris is really embodying that now, which is why you are seeing her do so well in the polls. people want that again. it is hopeful. it is joyful. that is what we want for our future. >> i am really struck by the u.s. a chance and the flag- waving. mrs. obama said this this week, jason, she said, no one has a monopoly on what it means to be american. then, you have got peggy newton, but when tara said that, it made me think about this, peggy newton wrote in the "wall street journal" this week that democrats stole patriotic symbols, they stole the flags. since when do republicans own the flag? i'm very confused, jason. i thought we were all americans. >> that is kind of what i

republican. hi, lee. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. hope your day is going great. host: it's just getting started. reserve judgment on that. caller: more coffee. any howe -- any how, my whole thing i don't do facebook, any of the social media stuff. i don't watch that kind of stuff. but all i have to say is if you consider yourself a christian, how could you vote for kamala harris and tim. they are both running on abortion. that's pretty much it. which freedom of choice. they are running on abortion. and you have a guy that is putting tamm ponce in a boy's locker room. i don't know where the crazy started, but i tell you when trump gets in that's when it stops. thank you guys. have a great day. host: and dennis in north carolina, democrat, hi. caller: hello. good morning. i don't depend too much on social media. you have to decipher which organizations bring you the real news and you listen to those. of course there are lot of organizations that bring you your high percentage

in the republican primaries., they have obtained two dozen endorsements from governors, members of congress, and former trump administration officials. mesa mayor john giles joins me now, good evening, mayor giles. this is not your first rodeo with maga, i want to make it really clear to the audience. you know what you're doing here. in 2022, arizona republican party censured you for not backing blake masters. talk to us about your decision to take a stand against this current iteration of the republican party. >> sure, well, it is something i don't do lightly. i am a registered republican, i do identify -- i think the republican party more closely aligns to where i am at on most issues, and i really enjoyed serving in what is essentially a nonpartisan position as mayor. i have progressive democrats and conservative republicans on my city council and we all get along just great, because we focus on solving problems and we focus on the issues that are in between the 20 yard lines. and so, i don't look for opportun

years later the republican party adopted and eerily similar approach to describing the details of key events from the collective history based in part on the expectation that americans will just believe them. and he said these stakes couldn't be much higher and the foundation of democracy rests in large part on a shared understanding of current events and when that is deliberately collected by brazen partisans the consequences can be dire. and if you're interested in this as a tactic again just making stuff up about the very recent past we lived through, he writes about how they applied to everything from the russian investigation and 2016 to the elections in january sick and it was the fbi who did it and january 6 didn't happen and a normal tourism visit and then now it did happen and they are all patriots. what about antifa and he had the greatest economy ever when he was present although isn't as good as either the economy of biden and obama but he said he completed all which he didn't do and why are they doing all of these things? what purpose does it serve? and his book is called