i'm just going to start one of the figures as you describe in the actions i guess of the wu republican party one of the most -- party's thomas dewey of the governor of new york and attorney general who is a big crime buster. >> he was long neglected but a fascinating fellow. he was from michigan and he was an aspiring opera singer. he was a bass baritone and he had a very good voice. he came to new york to seek his career as a lawyer and through much of his time he sang in the jewish synagogue to sing to have enough money to pay his rent. originally he was very much teddy roosevelt oriented and teddy roosevelt had fueled much of the progressive wing of the party. the guy who seem to emerge as the heartthrob of this liberal wing of the party was someone named herbert clarke hoover. all these young guys like herbert rondell came to new york together mostly from the midwest and started their careers together. in the 1920s herbert hoover was deep into activism and dewey picked up that torch and do we and his classmates his friends became the standard bearers of the more moderate wing of the repu

party. alice? >> we're asking republicans, the key to winning the, quote, civil war within the republican party. due respect to both of them, they are strong republicans. but republicans are not going to win in primaries and certainly the general by voting for democrats because you can sit there and hate donald trump all you want, but it's the policies that bring this republican party together. and it's the policies of the republican party that -- >> and that's when people hate donald trump so much they let that get in the way of good policy and republicans moving forward, we need donald trump's face but we also need swing voters and the undecided voters. that is the only way altogether, not one group, not two, but all three. and voting for democrats is not the winning formula. >> this is why you're a brilliant republican strategist but the republican party does not look like the republican party that you worked in, alice. and that's the problem. because donald trump is not leading the republican party on its policies. he is leading it on the big lie. he is leading it on focusing on anti-democra

iowa and the republican party belong to trump. it doesn't matter how close he came to murdering american democracy or how eager he is to do it again. which if you are an elected republican, it's at least a possibility, more likely a probability. the national politician doesn't hold a rally in iowa. the crucial first in the nation caucus state without at least considering a run for the white house. grassley and trump know that. but the fact of the matter is even 88-year-old, seven-term senators who are in the pantheon of republican politicians in this country need trump's support. or at least the lack of his opposition to stay in power or maybe they feel like they do frankly. i think it's a little untested if chuck grassley told donald trump to go to hell, what would happen. it's hard to figure out where perception ends and reality begins. in the end, it doesn't matter because grassley was up there. he is effectively endorsing trump and that's really the calculation the entire party's making. listen to congressman steve scalise. it

there is a real effort among the republican party to recruit latino youth. in rico south texas the head of a group his mom is a national head of the republican national assembly. there is an awareness among republicans they still do have a demographic problem and that they are not ignoring the fact they also need to reach out to latino youth and that over time, among a growing population of latinos continuously winning 38 -- 35 even 40% of this increasingly important demographic. this is not good news for them. they cannot do that. that when 30 -- 40% of an demographic is going to lead to success. i think it democrats get too caught up in what they think if they only reach out to latinos. they only spent more and reached out earlier that would inevitably lead to success. but they don't understand or don't pay attention to her want to ignore the fact republicans are also organizing along these lines. so yes i think latino youths are more progressive. they are more likely to support democrats. i think that i'm trying to avoid a situation where anyone becomes to

you know, being part of the big lie is not becoming a litmus test for the republican party. even though we see new revelations almost every day about donald trump's attempt to over throw our democracy, more than 60% are republicans still supporting him and the only republican office holders that don't support him are in danger of losing reelection. liz cheney lost her leadership position in the house. there is no way i can look at the republican party and have any confidence if they win power in 2022, in 2024 that america democracy will survive. we have to vote for big d democrats. >> it kind of is like a political jonestown where you may have had some people that taught -- in my late mother's former country guyana where these americans came down there and had this cult leader and there were some people that questioned maybe this isn't right. maybe i shouldn't drink that kool-aid but they were bullied or injured or killed and in the end, most people just went along, even though they saw what was happening. there is this sort of aspect to the republican party now where it is a

the republican party has always presented itself as the defender of traditional american values, against an assault on those values. by liberal democrats. michael gerson, may have been the single best republican practitioner, of the arts of expression american values, as a speech writer. michael garrison is an evangelical christian who was the chief speed writer for george w. bush. the words that he gave president bush, who sometimes mangled those words, were among the most eloquent expressions of traditional american values. today in his column in the washington post, he writes, the gop is a garbage scowl of the corrupt, the seditious and their enablers. this is unprecedented in american political history, but by now we have gotten used to it. that the most eloquence, and lacerating, and accurate descriptions of the republican party, now come from, the former leading lakes of the republican party. intellectuals like george will, speech writers like michael gruesome in presidential campaign strategist like stewart stevens and steve schmidt. in the list goes on and on. including our first

like so let's start because you specialize, i would love to talk about the republican party. chool vibe and then trump republicans, that is what it it feels like to me. and it seems like its that gotten to the point where even someone like mitch mcconnell is seen as a rhino, i would love to know, is that what is happening in the republican party is or is it more complicated. >> the republican party is split between people who think of themselves at republicans first and people who think first and foremost as trump supporters. they are at the party but mostly there because of donald trump. they are less interested in the imrks op lake. you immediate to see even before trump came on the scene if you ask people, you have a favorable or unfavourable view of the republican party, there were a lot of republicans who say they have an unfavourable view of the party because they view their own party leaders to-- that is part of why done all trump was able it to come out of nowhere, surprise everybody and win the republican nomination in 2016. and that kind of stuck, even today when i a

the leader of the republican party aligned with insurrection like never before, and its followers lineup for more. if i didn't except the endorsement of a person that's got 91% of the republican voters, and iowa, i wouldn't be too smart. then why candidate for governor in texas suffering from covid is still tweeting anti-vaccine messages from the hospital. plus what new polling could say about how the midterms will be -- and the remarkable story of an engineer in the u.s. navy, caught trying to pass secrets about nuclear -- inside and being a better sandwich. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. iowa republican senator charles grassley is as establishment as in the establishment republican can be. even a significant part of the republican landscape for as long as i've been covering, politics for decades. first elected to the senate in 1980, grassley currently serving his seventh term, arguably the most powerful figure in iowa politics. when last we discussed senator grassley on the show just a few days ago, he issued a rather contentious rebuttal to the b

we should note that joe is a conservative but he left the republican party last year. g us. >> nice to be with you. >> our new polling indicates this enthusiasm gap. republicans seem more enthusiastic right now than democrats do. is that in line with what you've been hearing? >> absolutely, ali. i speak with republican-based voters, i engage with them still by the hundreds every day, and they're fired up. look, this should be a wake-up call to democrats. ali, i want to correct you on one thing. there is not a fight in the republican party. there is not a fight for the heart and the soul of the party. it's trump's party. trump and trumpism 1. i know everybody says this, but i want to say it again this morning. it is a cult. that party that i belonged to my whole entire adult life until last year is a cult. if you don't support the cult leader, you have no future in the party. my friend and former colleague, adam kinzinger, realized that. he's got no place in this party. i realized that a few months ago, a few years ago, ali, and here's the scary thing. the more you embra

and what i think, you know, we've all seen a lot of the more marginal figures in the republican party, matt gaetz, marjorie taylor greene, lauren boebert, go along with this. what has been more interesting to watch are the mainstream republicans who are not exactly saying they think the election was stolen. but saying with a wink and a nod that they think there's election fraud and that there ought to be something done about it. even though there's no evidence of that. there's no evidence of it on a widespread, systemic basis. but they're saying, well, the democrats sent out all of these ballots in the mail that nobody asked for, and we don't know what happened to these ballots. if i were advising people to look for the way the republican party is mainstreaming fringe attacks, that's what i would look for. they're basically saying the election is stolen without saying the election is stolen. and that will be our political reality for the next two or three years. >> cynthia, once and for all, is there any scenario under which a former president in a non-national security area can decla

had not died in october 1944 what influence or impact do you think he might have had on the republican party in the post-war period and would have remained a republican or switch to the democratic hearty? >> looked at those questions are quite good and they are speculative so we can't know but i think that willkie's role in the post-war period would have been enormous and i think his ability though two -- a republican might have been increasingly challenging because indeed the idea of a third-party that it they are proposed rather insincerely i think was an idea that willkie thought had merit and the authority began to meet with various progressives both republican and democrat and others with a view to running not domestically but new york city is the beginning of a return to politics in an eccentric way that might serve their public well. >> how realistic worth of plans for post-war political party that willkie -- discussed during the were? >> wilke was excited about it and they were extraordinarily clever on the part of the tiara. he didn't want certainly he didn't want willkie to be in t

[laughter] let me tell you what the republican party did for me. ey got me on my feet and got me started. make those phone calls, had a good copier. the republican women's federation -- [cheers and applause] when i first ran for the statehouse, we had had a republican since 1873, and it was the republican federation of women that came. [laughter] -- [applause] it was the republican club which was the average age of about 89-year-old men who made all the phone calls. it was a group that did my first fundraiser and we raised $12,000. [applause] so what am i telling you? without people like you, there aren't people like me. if you don't have a full-time person in this county, you need to go get one. because if we lose this county, the democrats are going to smell blood, right? i didn't about this country until a day ago. i came because of you. i read up on you and i met you. i feel really good about the future of texas republican policy. [cheers and applause] so enjoy it very much. i am going to watch election night in this county. [applause] i hope yo

anti d democratic forces fueled by the big lie and enabled by today's republican party are gaining ground and at an alarming pace. from the lowest level state offices to the halls of the united states senate republicans have abandoned whatever principles they once claimed to have and have entirely capitulated to donald trump and his delusions of a stolen election. that's it. that's the party now. and trump is marshalling those forces to seize power in 2024 whether you, the voters elect him or not. it's clear this is a five-alarm fire. it has been for months and those who choose to ignore it are putting this country in jeopardy. there just is no nicer way to put it. just yesterday, the second highest ranking republican in the house of representatives refused three times to acknowledge the simple and undeniable fact joe biden won the election. here is house minority whip steve scalise of louisiana. >> do you think the 2020 election was stolen from donald trump? >> chris, i've been clear from the beginning. if you look at a number of states, they didn't follow the state passed laws -- >> so

they lean more toward the republican party. mexican americans, or -- puerto rican learning more toward the democratic party. the cuban story is particularly unique because cuban voters are so strongly in the republican, leaning toward the republican party and have been doing so for even some time -- for some time even though there has been some shift. host: how does age factor? >> guest: a lot of the growth in the number of potential latino voters are coming from young people who were born in the u.s.. 4 million additional potential voters mentioned earlier. about 3 million of that four million would be young latinos who would be entering adulthood. younger latinos tend to be more -- lean more toward, just like we see with young people generally, younger latinos tend to lean more toward the democratic party. host: describe the work you do as far as race and ethnicity. guest: we looked at race and ethnicity and the united states in addition to the views, opinions and attitudes about hispanic and attitudes about hispanic americans

he announced that he was joining the republican party. the republican party he joined in 1995. the republican party of blue gingrich. colin was pro-choice, pro-affiative-action, all of which the republican party have been against. he joined the george w. bush administration, the very first choicef george w. bush for his cabinet because powel has the international respect that nobody else in and around george w. bush had. but he never really fit in. in the first eight or nine months of the bush admistration, well lost fight after fight when dick cheney and donald rumsfeld and others who were called the neoconservatives were really running the administration. there was a good bet that powell was not going to last until the end of the year. but then september 11 happened, powell decided to stay, but he is still very isolated. they basically saw him as a milk carton. they put him in the refrigerator and when they needed him, they would bring him on the shelf. they brought him off the shelf in 2003 to talk at the u.n. because there was no one else in thedministration who could give

trying to get a sense of where you think the republican party is? icans haven't woken up to the proper role of what the republican party should be today, and that's a smaller group. that's matt gaetz, paul gossar, myself, people like that. and then you have a liberal republican like mitch mcconnell. he's almost a democrat. they're biding their time before they're removed from the party. >> survival of the fittest. >> that's right. >> trevor: alex wagner, welcome to the show. >> trevor, always good to be here, my friend. >> trevor: i feel like every time you come here, though, you come with a slightly more ominous message for what america should expect. >> i'm a cassandra-- a harbinger of doom. >> trevor: it really feels like you will. that clip we saw, i'm sure some people are watching that and say, "wait, did that guy say mitch mcconnell is liberal." >> the word "liberal" and "mitch mcconnell" were in the same question. >> trevor: wherever mitch is, his jowls are trembling. you've been on the road now for how long? >> six weeks. >> trevor: six weeks

it connects for what jean was talking about the last hour about the republican party refused to take on the responsibilities of their oath. nine voted to hold bannon in contempt. 202 members of the house of representatives in the republican party abdicated their responsibility yesterday. >>> senator sinema maybe ready to make a deal, ways and means committee chair. congressman told reporters that

it's a -- this massive madness, which is gripping the republican party and it's frightening and to bey -- it's fascinating just as an observer and frustrating as an observer just to watch it. republicans are running on the culture wars. you can see what is happening in virginia with glenn youngkin. listen to what ted cruz, how he was defending who -- what he was defending with merrick garland this week. watch this. >> during this hearing, i counted 20 incidents sited. of the 20, 15 on their face are non-violent. they involve things like insults. they involve a nazi solute. my god. a parent did a nazi solute because they thought the policy was -- is that protected by the first amendment? >> yes, it is. >> what is interesting is what he was pointing out there had no truth. what he was saying about the memo, there was no truth. it's absurd the hysteria over masks that has gone so far an elected senator is defending a n nazi solute as a form of protest and mischaracterizing the memo he's using to do that. do you understand what i'm saying? >> yeah, it's bizarre this is the ground ted cruz

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the republican party has to stick together. by stick together, what donald trump means there is stick to him, with a strong sub text of or else. we've seen a dramatic escalation this week in the former president's hold over the republican party establishment. just ahead of pitching himself as the savior of the republican party at that donor meeting this week, the former president put out this statement, implying that in republican politicians did not further trump's big lie and try to dig up fake election fraud on his behalf, the quote republicans will not be voting in 2022 or 2024. in other words, if republicans do not get in line behind donald trump and do what he says, then donald trump will be forced to give his voters their marching orders to essentially sit out the next few elections and cost republicans votes. recently, the republican fundraising arm for the house sent a message to its donors that was hard not to read as anything but an extension of that same threat. they sent the following note to donors who had yet to

is the entour republican party radicalizing in this direction? or do you think that this is turning off some people who are otherwise sort of common sense republican voters who may feel like they don't have a home in michigan politics. they may not identify as a democrat but things are getting weird enough in michigan republican politics. it's isolate something people who previously been their supporters. >> i think certainly there are a lot of voters that are turned off. but if you look at highly populated areas like oakland county or kemp county, i think a lot of the voters there that traditionally voted republican, they definitely are turned off by this. unfortunately, the members of the party and those who run for positions of elected leadership in the party are totally beholden to try. and if that means coalescing behind this message, then that's what they're going to do. and what we've seen is what we've seen all over the nation is that more moderate members of the party seem to drop off because they know that they have no hope of becoming t

he's deliberately harming the republican party because he's threatening to tell republican voters to stay at home in 2022 and 2022 unless his fraud hoax is solved first. that might seem like a hollow threat but it might not be after what happened in georgia senate races. how far are they willing will let trump push them to the streams? >> we've seen the answer, which is pretty far. there are not many limits to that. this is absolutely about narcissism and egotism. this is trump basically saying i can sabotage the republican party from within. nobody's going to do anything about it because nobody has done anything about it up to this point. and whether or not it actually results in electoral outcomes, i think that he's feeding his own ego by saying look how far these people are willing to follow me that they're willing to harm their own party by not denouncing him, by not calling him out for saying these things. it's himself feeding his own ego. >> democrats are having a challenging time with their own messaging. the big talker this week had to do with david shore. his piece contained

what does the decision to step down say about the republican party today. >> well it the republican partymp. he was facing a tough prime because of redistricting against a pro-trump person. and that would have been really difficult for him. it said that the republican party has decided that in order to win and in order to keep control of the house, you have to buy into donald trump's lies and everything else about him. and what makes me sort of sad is that pre-trump, adam kinzinger was the kind of candidate and i think you might agree, he was future of the republican party. he's conservator and an air force veteran and served in iraq, an expert in foreign policy and national security and on and on. with a great resume. he's going to stay in the party, he said he's going to seek office but not in the house of representatives right now. and i think, you know, you look back and you say adam kinzinger was the perfect recruit, he served six terms, but not any more. >> governor kasich, you're a republican. the former president trump responded as we saw two down eight to goo in apparent referenc

leaning towards the republican party and then you see mexican americans, puerto ricans, el salvador hearty. the varying degrees of support depends on other factors. the cuban story is particularly unique because cuban voters are so strongly in the republican party and have been doing so for some time, even though there have been some shifts there as well. host: how does age factor into how a latino voter cast a vote? guest: that is interesting. a lot of the growth in the number of potential latino voters is coming from young people in the u.s. to have come of age. of that 4 million additional potential voters i mentioned earlier. between presidential cycle, 3 million will be young latinos entering adulthood. youth is an important part of the story. younger latinos tend to lean towards the democratic party than older latinos. it depends on the circumstances, origins, and so much more. just as we see with young people generally, they lean towards the democratic party. host: our ghost with the pew research center. describe the work as far as race and ethnicity? guest: we look at the race

former presidential candidate lindsey graham was the keynote speaker at the tarrant county republican parties republican ball fundraiser for north texas. he spoke about next year's senate races and is evolving relationship with wormer -- former president trump. this is about 30 minutes. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. has anyone ever heard of the great lindsey graham.com. that is what you get for your money. thank you for the warm welcome. i want you to realize i know what you get when you don't pay. [laughter] i just wanted to say this, i'm going to donate $5,000 to this. [laughter] on behalf of john corwin, they are going to donate $5,000. [laughter] [applause] [indiscernible] [laughter] i feel like in south carolina there is a bigger version of it, we don't wear the hat, but we share the values. [indiscernible] were from south carolina. maybe you should learn from that. maybe you shouldn't let us be in charge. [laughter] he called me and said would you come and i started reading about you you are the largest republican county left. i felt like the least i could do is come to you if i c

it's this massive madness which is gripping the republican party. tening to behold. >> it's really -- it's fascinating just as an observer. and frustrating as an observer just watching it. republicans are running on the culture wars. you can see it, what's happening in virginia with glenn youngkin. listen to what ted cruz, how he was defending -- what he was defending in a hearing with merrick garland this week. watch this. >> during this hearing i counted 20 incidents cited. of the 20, 15 on their face are non-violent. they involve things like insults. they involve a nazi salute. that's one of the examples. my god! a parent did a nazi salute at a school board because they thought the policies were oppressive. general garland, is doing a nazi salute at an elected official, is that protected by the first amendment? >> yes, it is. >> what was interesting was what he was pointing out there had no truth, what he was saying about that memo. there was absolutely no truth to. it's absurd the hysteria over masks and critical race theory that an elected senat

at the same time, the republican party needs to wake up when it comes to latinos. will say, whatever you say about what happened in 2020, the republican party did an incredible job in latino outreach, for the voters that they needed to get from the latino community. that was a strategy by the trump-pence campaign, to go into miami and the border towns of texas. i have written about this -- democrats are way behind the eight ball when it comes to really engaging latino voters in the united states. arizona is a perfect example of what i would say, in 2020 -- it was not because democrats did outreach to latinos in arizona. it's because of what happened in arizona the last 10 to 15 years with sb 1070, the anti-immigrant bill, and the organizing from young people who grew up in that time. they were the ones who delivered arizona to joe biden. i think there is a sense of what is happening now with democrats. the latinos are really -- they are putting democrats and trying to hold them accountable. if you look at all the views on joe biden right now, which i think is inter

it's the reason the republican party is openly extreme is partly donald trump. command and control over the party by a small group of extremist donors. and when you have the control by extremists over a party, you have an extreme party. and we know this because we have seen the heritage action tape that showed the dark money driving volter suppression. we know this -- voter suppression. we know this because we read the "washington post" expose of the hundreds of millions of dollars of money spent on court capture. we know this because we have seen the money laid out behind the scientific journals behind the climate cooperation. it's dark money. it is the same crew. they are pulling all of these levers ask. the sooner the democrats start telling the public about this, the better off we will all be. >> explain. help me understand how the dark money interests were against what you just said, what the democrats are going to be able to do, which is to avoid our country having to default, something six former defense secretaries warned against yesterday. >> i think th

of course, that notion is all that the most popular figure in the republican party cares, about he said it again just yesterday, releasing the statement quo. if we don't solve the presidential election fraud of 2020, republicans will not be voting in 2022 or 2024. and so glenn youngkin has tried to pull this trick off, where he needs to distance him self from the ugly authoritarian movement that that's heart of his party, but while also harnessing the energy from those same folks. in this down race surreal scene last, night is what that looks like in practice, glenn youngkin did not show up to the, event one of his running mate, it's a candidate for lieutenant governor left early with no explanation. but the former president called into this richmond restaurant livestream, as he regularly dozen right-wing tv, and predictably delivered iran's about guess, what the election being stolen. >> we won in 2016. we won in 2020, and the most corrupt election in the history of our country, probably one of the most corrupt anywhere, but we're going to win it, again will take it all back. >> imagin

. ♪ >>> hi, there, everyone, 4:00 in new york, signs, that the riff within the republican party is blowingopen in the wake of the insurrection and the decision by a tiny handful of republicans to recognize the threat posed by the disgraced, twice impeachmented expresident and the big lie of a stolen election with their votes yesterday. that riff made itself apparent on the floor of the house of representatives during that vote to find steve bannon this contempt of congress. the vote that all but nine republicans refused to uphold the body of the institution in which they serve. this video was seen between marjorie taylor green and two members of the january 6th select committee, jamie rask skpin liz cheney. quote, this is a joke, green said on the house floor, presumably about the vote. why don't you care about the american people, she asked raskin. at that point, cheney said something unintelligible. greenery applied, you are a joke, liz. to which cheney responded green was the joke and asked whether she needed to be focusing on her quote anti-semitic space lasers, according to a source f

a private speech at the donor retreat for the republican national senatorial committee, trump cast himself as a gop xavier, saying he had brought the party back from the brink of disaster, and helped republicans hold seats on capitol hill. according to a recording of the event obtained by the washington post, trump then railed against republicans who had spoken negatively about him, naming senators mitt romney, and ben sasse, and urge the party to stick together with trump as the de facto leader. they cheat like hell, and they stick together, trump said of democrats. the republican parity has to stick together. >> by stick together, what donald trump means is stick to him, with us strong subtext of or else. we've seen the dramatic escalation this week of the former presidents hold over the republican party establishment. just ahead, of pitching himself as the savior of the republican party at that donor meeting this week, the former president put out this statement, implying that if republican politicians did not further trump's big lie, and tried to dig up fake election fraud on his behalf that, quote, republicans will not be voting in

, but he's said that there is no republican party, only the party of trump. so everyone in the republican party has to pay loyalty toim, basically, and lip service to anything he says, including the big lie, that he won the election in november 2020. and if they don't pass through these loyalty tests, then he'll make sure that, as he said, they'll be primaried and maybe replaced by loyalists. and you see that in russia, as well, that, you know, putin has loyalists around him, that people pay lip service, you know, to him, that there is no party that he's part of, which is, you know, basically the idea that trump is putting forward, as well. >> based on your experience, dr. hill, do you believe that donald trump believes in american democracy? >> i don't believe he does at all. i don't think he actually knows what american democracy is. you know, in my interactions with him, it was very clear that i don't think he really understood the way that the government was structured. i don't think he really cared. he didn't think that he needed to actually unrstand all

tragedy, of the republican staff report, is that it shows you, how deep the cancer is, in the republican party. it's not just spread to men in their seventies and eighties, like donald trump and mitch mcconnell. and it's now completely consuming republicans in washington. who are half the age of those men, and younger. there could be future senators, working on that republican committee staff. future members of the house. future white house chiefs of staff. we -- worked on the staff of the senate judiciary committee. there could be a future republican president on that staff, future republican attorney general. and we now know tonight, that the republican staff, that committee, has contempt for government, contempt for the constitution, contempt for the justice department's ethical standards, that were established, after republican president richard nixon corrupted the justice department. senate staff, as the same oath that senators do, that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states, against all, enemies foreign and domestic. that i will bear true faith and allegiance to

but i don't know any conclusion to come to but that was wrong and the republican party is what the republican wants to be. it's very comfortable becoming an autocratic white grievance party. there is no platform. let's don't forget that. we've kind of like glossed over that. the first time in modern politics a party's platform was whatever donald trump wanted it to be. and that's how autocracies work. that's how it works in russia. it's not a democratic institution. >> in the vein of talking about -- my question about people making excuses for him and the fealty to him. chuck grassley appeared with the former president at a campaign-like rally this weekend. listen to it. >> if i didn't accept the endorsement of a person that's got 91% of the republican voters in iowa, i wouldn't be too smart. i'm smart enough to accept that endorsement. >> it's funny. i hate actually running those rallies. but i mean, it's important to hear from the people who are actually in power right now. you used to make campaign ads for chuck grassley. this is him now, 88 years old, running for his eight-year term. do y

adults say they republican party rather than the democrats party can better handle whatever problems they name as the most important problem facing the country. last year, 47% said the democratic party and 39% said the republican party can better address the problem, back when the pandemic, the government, and race relations were named the top issues. those identifying the coronavirus as the most important problem widely said the democratic party can better handle it. by contrast, those naming the government as a top problem are more inclined to say that republican can better handle it. this morning, in this first hour of the washington journal, we want to hear from you, what you think the most important problem facing this country is right now. doris is up first out of worcester, ohio. good morning. line for democrats. caller: good morning. i think the most pressing problem is the attempt to suppress the vote in state legislatures across the united states through gerrymandering and limiting access to voting. host: in which party do you think is best equipped to handle that? caller:

the republican party has got to get a grip on itself. ght now, republican leaders and members of the congress in the senate and house are holding back because they are terrified of what will happen. will they lose a primary? i don't know why that is such a disaster. they need to get a grip. when they see things that are not right, they need to say something about it. our foreign policy is in shambles right now. i see things happening that are hard to understand. a couple weeks ago, the president put a circle around southeast alabama saying it was going to get hit by a hurricane. he put it on top of the meteorological production. the meteorologists said no. in my time, one of us would have gone to the president and said you screwed up, so we have to fix it. we need to put out a correction. you know what they did? they ordered the commerce department to go out and back up whatever the president said. congress is one of the institutions that should be doing something about this. the media has a role to play. we all have a role to play. [appl

the chair of san francisco's republican party says there is no way the party plans to cancel an upcomingn marjorie taylor greene. >> green is the highly controversial republican congresswoman who has blast been blasted in the past for her support of conspiracy theories including qanon. she is set to appear in san mateo county since she won't comply with san francisco's proof of vaccination requirement for large indoor events. kron four's catherine heenan joins us now here in the studio with more. catherine. now, this is we talked to both the chairman of the san francisco republican party today and the san mateo county supervisor who says that congresswoman greene should not visit the bay area period board supervisor. david canepa says that greene has spread misinformation about covid. he argues her parents could turn into a security problem. he says progressive protesters will likely show up. things could escalate. he says he wants the event shut down. here's how gop chairman john dennis is responding. >> for some councilman in san okay. now no one showing anything down really begin to w

in a new interview this week she has changed her tune saying, we need him in the republican party, i o go back to the days before trump. they're all doing this because, as jonathan che points out in new york magazine, there is no middle space anymore. all republican politics now, is now functionally authoritarian -- [interpreter] . the problem with pursuing the names of the publican party is returning power to this man, who killed it in a heartbeat. that's the consensus view of the republican party, that he should be the leader, there behind the man who attended a coup, and try to destroy 240 years of democratic traditions, and will do it again the next chance he gets. and they will help them to. it senator amy klobuchar is a democrat from minnesota, she serves on the senate judiciary committee, who released that report today, she joins me now. senator klobuchar, moments ago, it looks like enough republicans voted to move forward on the debt ceiling, so let's just start with that. is that correct? >> that's correct, literally emma few yards away from the senate floor. because we have