republican party? yes, it does. even the majority — republican party? yes, it does. even the majority of _ republican party? epublican party? yes, it does. even the majority of the senators voted i the majority of the senators voted to say he was guilty and the senate republican leader said he was, he still did not vote to convict them and so, donald trump right now is emboldened and unrepentant and he will be heard as he said i think, very soon. d0 will be heard as he said i think, very soon-— very soon. do you think this processes — very soon. do you think this processes backfired - very soon. do you think this processes backfired for - very soon. do you think this processes backfired for the | processes backfired for the democrats?— processes backfired for the democrats? ., ., , ., democrats? know, does not backfire for the democrats. _ democrats? know, does not backfire for the democrats. i— democrats? know, does not backfire for the democrats. i think _ democrats? know, does not backfire for the democrats. i think it - for the democrats. i think it highlighted just how broken america is right— highlight

with witnesses 7 republicans did vote to convict truong what does that tell us about the split that currently exists in the republican party. there's a profound split in the republican party and the republicans are really a party in crisis at this point because we have republicans even even mitch mcconnell whose behavior said one thing and his words said another that represents the split in the republican party right there. which is that only republicans who are not planning to run for office again which is the majority of the republicans who did vote to convict him did vote with the democrats have the courage to vote in favor of conviction those who are absolutely steadfast in insisting on the innocence of donald trump here are primarily those with political ambitions and they to see their red and in the republican party as buttered on the side of donald trump they have fused themselves forever to donald trump he will control the agenda and of course it gives him a wonderful platform from which to run again in 2024 which you would think would be against their interest particularly people like holly and cruz who may be interested in running in that primary themselves and

the republican party? what does that mean for the republican party in. >> i think his force wanes. side the party. republicans made clear which side they are with that vote on saturday, only seven of them voting to convict donald trump. but bill cassidy stepping out and voting guilty and also saying we don't really need donald trump as much as these other senators are telling you we do. >> lindsey graham is determined to become a punching line in american history. but, look, this is going to be the defining face of the republican party going forward. i actually think that cassidy is right in the sense that when you get into the general election, if this party becomes more trumpian, they will lose the constituencies that lost control of the senate, that lost control of the house of representatives. they will continue to see an exodus of moderate, reasonable, principles republicaned. they will continue to lose in the suburbs. they will continue to lose women, college educated. and i think you are going to see donald trump engage in a revenge tour that is going to make the split in the

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the republican _ to deal with. how divided is the republican party _ to deal with. how divided is the republican party now? party now? you - to deal with. how divided is the | republican party now? you have to deal with. how divided is the - republican party now? you have the trump wing, which is in the ascendancy, isuppose trump wing, which is in the ascendancy, i suppose it is fair to say, then the traditional republicans, who probably may hate him, but think that they need him to be electorally successful? yes. be electorally successful? yes, absolutelv- _ be electorally successful? yes, absolutely. i— be electorally successful? yes, absolutely. i think _ be electorally successful? yes, absolutely. i think the - be electorally successful? yes, absolutely. i think the actual. be electorally successful? 12: absolutely. i think the actual wing of the party that believes the conspiracy theories and lies that he spreads is not that large. but there is a lot of fear of his voters. obviously it was an overwhelming turnout that he drove in the last election, but helped many of these people win their seats again.

the conservative party, thisis the republican party . what do you think of that idea the relationship between conservatism and the republican party? how do you think that relationship has shifted over the last several decades that leads us to this moment where the republican party is taking on what am would argue are the very anti-conservative views. >> .. >> external to that versus ideology which is essentially your outlook on the world. those two have pretty much always been correlated, but what we find in these last few decades the country's becoming more polarized and that conservativism is more and more being associated being a republican. just to go back to something rick said, i would even push the beginning of it, you know, further out to 1776 when part of the contention about who is american started with this idea of who's going to be granted citizenship versus not. and one of the reasons that people were able to rally, you know, potential american citizens to fight the revolutionary war was the threat of england creating an uprising among native americans and blacks. and so you have from the beginning this notion of conse

democracy in america as not being the crisis of democracy proceed but the crisis of the republican party the republican party which is a big player and and and an avoidable player in the. political space of the united states what's happening to the republican party very briefly there probably can party has basically maintained a certain a certain electorate that is white and that is christian and that now faces an electorate that is growing a growing the diversity find that is coming from immigrant background as you're becoming americans from african-american and other minorities and urban minorities and as such should this christian minority that had all the power is finding itself in a position that is windows so it's stuck and because it is like the 3 b.'s in very popular not a narrative but isn't it also read that action is in the same way that in the air during the arab spring it was all about that leaders because if you actually look at the hard day care for income inequality for the at the lability office good health care good education across all strata in the united states those transit pretty appar

on the right of the republican party and indeed in the republican party itself. y for the republicans to republicans to try to disentangle themselves from trump. —— party of trump. they were even rumours that former senate leader mitch mcconnell might even vote to convict because he just did not think that trump was good for the republican party. if you look at what happened on the 2020 election, the republicans lost everything. they lost the house, they lost the senate, they lost the executive and they lost the presidency and by clinging to trump and being under tom's film it makes it very difficult for the republicans to have much of an agenda like they used to have which was more based on traditional conservative values and instead they are stuck with him and are dealing with his other impeachment trial where they are full to defend what is really the indefensible. how much you think the legacy of trump when we look back at it will be not so much what he did or did not do as president in terms of, for example, legislation, but his success, partly by the unhappy

or do republican leaders try to move the party back to the republican party it used to be? i think it will be difficult to go backwards. i think that the republicano split into two parties, one a donald trump party, the second is the old establishment business republican party.- establishment business republican party. that is a hue republican party. that is a huge and _ republican party. that is a huge and significant - huge and significant prediction. we will of course keep our eye on the internal machinations of the republican party. i want to go back to the stimulus bill itself. $1.9 trillion. what actual difference will it make for ordinary americans? it will make a huge _ ordinary americans? it will make a huge difference. i ordinary americans? it will. make a huge difference. right now we have 9 million fewer jobs than we had before the pandemic. and many people, even those who have jobs, pandemic. and many people, even those who havejobs, they pandemic. and many people, even those who have jobs, they have part—timejobs part—time jobs and want to be working full—time, there is a great deal of hunger, poverty, homelessness, at the bottom ha

party the moderates and we saw in the senate vote over impeachment that that's a pretty small remnant of the republican party only 7 members of the republican party ended up voting to convict donald trump in that impeachment trial so he thinks that he is going to be the new leader of the republican party needs essentially declaring war on mitch mcconnell in the moderates policy how that plays out john hendren there for us following biden's trip in wisconsin today thanks so much john now moving on a neon was minutes he has denied carrying out a coup and pledged again to hold elections next year a spokesman for the armed forces says they had no choice but to seize power and it's also filed a 2nd criminal charge now against the country's deposed civilian need a young son suchi which could allow him to be detained indefinitely reports. continuing their civil disobedience movement who protest in years gone block train services out of ensign ruiz station one of the city's largest. and east on the other end of the line in mala 9 protesters there also did the same in his 1st press conference since taking over the military just to justify its actions sayi

continue to be a big factor in both the republican party and in american politics but where do they fit exactly on that spectrum do they fit within the republican party and as the republican party as a result of this victory for trying today do they choose to embrace donald trump or we'd like to say that those constituents of support says more likely to go for someone representing a 3rd party is it more like how will the infighting within the republicans continue or are they more likely to break away. well senator lindsey graham is allegedly trying to convince donald trump to stop going after his enemies in the republican party to allow it to coalesce to come back together in some way where they can unify around a set of principles i don't give that much of a chance of happening you know donald trump is going to go after those individuals who voted against him who did not stand loyal to him and he's going to try and wipe them off the face of the earth or politically. i think that that you asked a really important question will the party split i don't know i think the party once the split but american politics is structured so much it's i don't want t

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the republican party. isn't this about the future of the republican party and a disagreement about whether it is a trumpianno. this particular resolution here or censure motion would be about telling senator toomey that folks run happy with the decision he made. i did not support the vote that he made. i would have voted no. i thought the process was unconstitutional, but i was not there on january 6th. i didn't live through it. he's entitled to his opinion, and i believe that the future of our party is bright when we're able to show folks that we welcome people that may agree with us only 70% of the time or 80% of the time. it doesn't have to be 100% of the time, and i foreas we go down this path of group think or cancel culture where if you don't believe or you don't agree with someone all of the time they look to personally destroy you. i don't see that helping or benefiting our party or our country. >> i want you to listen to what the pennsylvania gop chair said over why they censured senator too maniy. >> we did not send him there to vote his conscience. we did not send him there to do the right thing

the meeting within the republican party itself, - indeed. the meeting within the republican party, which i would imagine is doing a lot of soul—searching right now about their own future, he is pretty toxic?— about their own future, he is pretty toxic? absolutely. and we have actually _ pretty toxic? absolutely. and we have actually seen - pretty toxic? absolutely. and we have actually seen very i we have actually seen very little of the former president since he left office. he has been holed up at his florida residents, apparently playing golf every day, although there are reports that he has been watching these proceedings very closely indeed. including the rather dry and at times somewhat meandering evidence given by his legal team, and there are reports as well hear that mr trump is none too impressed with the performance of his lawyers. now, unless there is something highly incendiary that comes up in the course over the next few days, as i mentioned, it does seem highly unlikely that donald trump will be convicted in the senate impeachment trial. thank ou ve senate impeachm

the republican party. and, richard, that's what i don't get. this guy destroyed the republican partye executive branch at the same time. and yet they're saying don't vote your conscious. we're not sending you up there to do that. we're sending you to be blindly loyal to fearless leader. >> joe, you know, listening to him, not a lot surprises me anymore. there is a connection between the two things we have talked about this morning, what happened on january 6th and that. and you and i often talk about budget deficits. we've got a civics deficit in this country, that people would take matters into their own hand to use violence to their own agenda, to stop the counts of the electoral votes. now this guy talking. what we do is precisely, we send people to washington to do what they think is right. we don't ask them constantly to poll their constituents. we ask them to use their judgment. and the fact that there could be these examples that people so don't understand the dna of their own political system, this is a real warning to us that the essence of american democracy is being lost,

conservativism of mitt romney where does the republican party go from here and i'm interested to get each of your thoughts because i feel that the republican partys an opposition is a deal because the republican party has always like to yell well to be more challenging to the party but this permanent opposition status we see from state parties were not bode well so i'm interested to get from each of you where do you think this goes what does the republican party look like in 2022 or 24? >> if you take a snapshot right now it's clear to the extent they mitt romney wing it is very very small but the overwhelming majority for congress to overturn the election and in the senate with the impeachment trial. so i am not super optimistic that the economic system and the way they exist? are they all pushing in the direction or whatever direction the party is headed for a while now and so doesn't want to compete with the news what on - - newsmax because you would expect the republican party to look more like the fringe members. >> predicting things never goes well. [laughter] but i really just want to point out that things will happen be cannot simply on

party. because they had many features that were sort of part of the republican party, i want to stress, the old republican party because now it is a caricature of its former self. but indian americans were entrepreneurs. entrepreneurs want less regular and, which is what the republican party wants. they want lower taxes, their wealthier, they are socially more conservative. the family value thing comes from the republican party. all of these would have nudged or slowly taken more indians towards the republican party, but two things happen. one is, since most indian americans are not christian, the influence, the overt influence of evangelicals in the republican party have made them quite rare. second, and this happened in the last five or seven years, is the very strong anti-immigrant sentiment among parts of the republican party. it is not just indian americans, all other immigrant groups have of course also been more wary of the republican party. >> what has been the trend towards indian americans seeking public office in recent years? >> that has been increasing considerably. as you know in general, the firs

he is attacking mcconnell, saying he is on one side of the republican party, the rest of the republican partyon the moderate side, and he is essentially declaring war against that part of the party. anchor: following joe biden visit. we will be following that throughout the day. peru's former president has apologized after it was revealed that his wife were secretly vaccinated head of health workers. an investigation was launched to find out by nearly 500 people, including senior government officials got the jab early. on sunday, the foreign minister designed. -- resigned. reporter: the way it worked is that peru got 12,000 vaccines and placebos last year for the trial. there were 3200 vaccines that were active. the director of the trial is telling congress. those are the vaccines that have been secretly distributed, among many people, from the health ministry, the foreign ministry, friends. we are learning that there is a businessman, restaurant owners. doctors who have brought not only their wives or their husbands, but their siblings, their in-laws etc. it is a huge scandal here. also, we

the republican party? john: the republican party today is not just a friend from what it had been, it is the opposite in manys. america needs a strong, responsible, conservative party. that has been the republican party. it is neither strong nor responsible nor conservative today. it is losing i think its grip on the country as a whole. it is becoming increasingly a regional party with almost no exceptions. the northeast now is gone as far as the u.s. senate is concerned. the west coast is completely gone. so we are in decline. the last two presidential elections. president trump lost in 2016 by 3 million votes, lost in 2020 by 7 million votes. we are going in the wrong direction. the worst thing is that we have become kind of a grotesque caricature of what the republican party has traditionally been. we were founded as the party of the union, of holding the country together. now we have this populist attack which is us against them. there areonspiracies out there involving liberals, corporations, big tech. they are picking on you, the american people. you should resent this, you should -- we are going to co

formed _ if the chompers want to go off and formed their own party, that is grateful— formed their own party, that is grateful to be if the republican party— grateful to be if the republican politics is _ can reconcile they will lose. politics is about addition rather than _ politics is about addition rather than subtraction and it seems to be the republicans are trying to find ways _ the republicans are trying to find ways to _ the republicans are trying to find ways to divide themselves rather than unified.— than unified. here in the uk, the labour than unified. here in the uk, the labour party _ than unified. here in the uk, the labour party had _ than unified. here in the uk, the labour party had a _ than unified. here in the uk, the labour party had a party - than unified. here in the uk, the labour party had a party within l than unified. here in the uk, the labour party had a party within a j labour party had a party within a party that wanted to pull the party in one direction. no comment on that, if you are into directions you are constantly speaking with two messages and that does not suit the electorate. ., , messages and that does not suit the electorate. . ,

the republican party. much different from what happened in the 1960s, when there were leaders of the republican party who said no to the birchers and kicked them out of the republican party. >> remember when the republican party liked to claim the mantle of personal responsibility. they felt they were for personal responsibility. the ethical pretzels they have now had to twist themselves in to support marjorie taylor greene are almost as tortured as the language that she used yesterday in trying to explain why she used such violent rhetoric. let me just play it for you so you can try to parse it. >> i was allowed to believe things that weren't true. and i would ask questions about them and talk about them. and that is absolutely what i regret. because if it weren't for the facebook posts and comments that i liked in 2018, i wouldn't be standing here today and you couldn't point a finger and accuse me of anything wrong. >> she was allowed to believe them? by whom? who's controlling her mind? >> did her mom and dad allow her to believe that? was it kevin mccarthy? or who -- who was the adult in the room who all

or do republican leaders try to move the party back to the republican party it used to be? i think it will be difficult to go backwards. i think that the republicanlit into two parties, one a donald trump party, the second is the old establishment business republican party. that is a huge and significant prediction. we will of course keep our eye on the internal machinations of the republican party. i want to go back to the stimulus bill itself. $1.9 trillion. what actual difference will it make for ordinary americans? it will make a huge difference. right now we have 9 million fewer jobs than we had before the pandemic. and many people, even those who have jobs, they have part—time jobs and want to be working full—time. there is a great deal of hunger, poverty, homelessness, at the bottom half of the labour force. we have almost record levels of childhood poverty right now. these people — americans are desperately in need of help. in mid—march, just six weeks from now, that aid is available. even the skimpy aid, relatively skimpy, relative to europe, for example, that aid stops. so it is vitally important that a $1.9 trillion bill get through qu

and go to washington, dc to hear any kind of dissenting voice within the republican party, not we're going to hear from republican partyter today as an attack on those dissenting voices within the republican party, he is going to call them just in a handful of establishment political hacks and try to diminish their influence within the party and lay claim to the entire republican party. claim to the entire republican .a . ., , claim to the entire republican party. that is the point, isn't it? eve one party. that is the point, isn't it? everyone is _ party. that is the point, isn't it? everyone is talking _ party. that is the point, isn't it? everyone is talking about - party. that is the point, isn't it? everyone is talking about the . party. that is the point, isn't it? i everyone is talking about the battle for the soul of the republican party post trump, i wonder how much cpac reflects the mainstream republican movement? you reflects the mainstream republican movement? ., ~' ., reflects the mainstream republican movement? ., ~ ., , ., movement? you know, this has always been the grassroots, _ movement? you know, thi

he will be off to a block of cable television and that is when the republican party will move on. �* , :, is when the republican partymove on. but you still have people like marjorie taylor— move on. but you still have people like marjorie taylor green, - move on. but you still have people like marjorie taylor green, the - like marjorie taylor green, the representative for georgia who has endorsed conspiracy theories. you shake your head like that. she was elected. why the other the republican party take people like marjorie taylor greene more seriously? perhaps they should of taken president trump more seriously instead of saying it is just trump and tweeting and ignore him. what we have seen over the last couple of daysis have seen over the last couple of days is a lot of people did believe and they did believe it. how does the republican party stop that happening again? 17 the republican party stop that happening again?— happening again? ? we have extremists _ happening again? ? we have extremists on _ happening again? ? we have extremists on both _ happening again? ? we have extremists on both sides. . happening

the republican party? what does that mean for the republican party? >> i think as force wanes, the republican party is more than just one person. the republican party is about ideas. we were the party that was founded to end slavely, preserve the union, we were the party that passed the first civil rights law, we were the party that ended the cold war. we're the party that before vid had an economy that had record low unemployment for everyone that's able, the high school dropout, the veteran, the woman, the black, the hispanic, you name it, that was the party of the ideas. now the american people want those ideas but they want a leader who's accountable and a leader who they can trust. i think our leadership will be different going forward but it will still be with those ideas. >> one of the questions on accountability, should the president face some kind of criminal accountableability? leader mcconnell suggesting that that was possible. do you think criminal charges should be pursued against former president trump? >> i'm not an attorney. i'll leave

those in the republican party who again to their credit want to at least stay on this side of that line, to stay loyal opposition, they have no affirmative argument for what the republican party should be that has any appeal whatsoever to republican primary voters, forget other voters. senate minority whip thune had a condemnation of greene. quote, asking the house gop did they want to be the party of limited government, fiscal responsibility, pro-life or do they want to be the party of conspiracy theories and qanon? i got news for you, senator thune. no one wants those first things that you listed as a republican party. the republican party doesn't stand for that. the trump years were not free markets handing out tens of millions of dollars to farmers and limited government with end runs to stop them from funding the wall and adding a whole new space force and deficits to -- corporations. no one is buying what you're selling, chamber of commerce republicans. you cannot win the battle for the soul of your party with that platform because no one actually wants it, no one in the base wants it, swing voters don't want it. the people in the base of the republican party want to de

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an extremist portion of the republican partv _ extremist portion of the republican partv 0h _ extremist portion of the republican party. on the other hand, marjorie taylor— partye has talked about how she has had phone conversation with donald trump, how she is— conversation with donald trump, how she is going _ conversation with donald trump, how she is going to visit him at some point, _ she is going to visit him at some point, so — she is going to visit him at some point, so republican party and mccarthy— point, so republican party and mccarthy particularly is grappling with how to handle this without alienating the base but also a way to steer— alienating the base but also a way to steer the party away from this kind of— to steer the party away from this kind of conspiracy minded extremism. here's _ kind of conspiracy minded extremism. here's the _ kind of conspiracy minded extremism. here's the competition in this story, though. here is marjorie taylor greene, a conspiracy theorist, sitting on two congressional committees. one of them is education, ok, so if he decides that he leaves her on those committees, the democrat leader in the house steny hoyer ha

attacking mitch mcconnell and it's actually saying he is on one side of the republican party the rest of the republican party is on the moderate side and he is essentially declaring war against that side of the party john hendren then in wisconsin following joe biden's visit for us we'll be following that throughout the day thanks so much john. peru's former president has apologized after it was revealed that he and his wife was secretly vaccinated ahead of health is an investigation has been wants to find out why nearly 500 people including senior government officials got the job. on sunday the foreign minister resigned she had also been given a secret around a sanchez and with more details on that scandal. the way it worked is that peru got 12000. vaccines and the. last year for the trial and all and there was a $3200.00 vaccines that were active. now the director of the trial is telling. congress and so those are the vaccines that have been secretly distributed among many people from the health ministry the foreign ministry friends there we are learning that there is a businessman there is a restaurant ow

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the republican party. donald trump still, if you look at the most recent quinnipiac poll, has significant power over the party. only 20% of the republicanays that the gop -- the republican party should leave trump, move away from trump and be more like established republicans. imagine that. so trump does have a hold on the party still, and that's what steve scalise and lindsey graham and those others are -- continue to cower to. >> yeah, i would only add i'd reject that framing, whoever thought of the polling question. the choice isn't between trump and the establishment, it's between truth and lies. this is a stupid civil war. this is not about the party. it is in many cases whether we can have two functioning republics in the public. if steve whip can't answer the straightforward question whether joe biden is a legitimate president, he is either a fool, afraid, or a liar. and i don't think he's a fool and i don't think he's a liar. so i think he's afraid. and it makes him a liar, and that is simply unacceptable in american politics for this many people to -- to be afraid of a tweet at the expense of our fundamental democracy. >> i wan

of that was focused on the top and he also made another point about the republican party saying despite reports of the republican party is disunited he said the republican party is unified and that there are only a couple of in his words political hacks on the other side well. the other side is really what we used to call the mainstream republican party a lot of people are now calling them moderates because they are essentially the anti trump party but here it's packed the conservative political action conference this is that part of the party that is very much aligned with donald trump who spoke on a stage in the shape of 45 which was his number as the 45th president after all the discipline talk the president man into a classic trump kitchen sink or rambling at great length on his election defeat in 2020 he did at least refer to the biden administration is the new administration acknowledges that he didn't win but then went on about how unfair the election rise in a number of ways so he's also talked as you as you mentioned about liz cheney a republican congresswoman who was critical of him in and voted to send his

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. >> margaret, i've got to imagine for you, not only a member of the republican party, the republican party is in your family's bones and history. it's got to be sort of like gut twisting to see this happening. and especially compounded by the fact that 61 republicans in the house, 30% of the house, voted to oust liz cheney from her leadership role simply for voting her conscience. >> that's right. poppy, you nailed it. look, i think actually if anything, history can bring republicans and people who have long identified with the conservative tradition in american politics, not conservative populism, not the conservativism of today, but go, if you want to go back to the modern american conservative movement. william f. buckley kicked out the conspiracy theorists, the kooks, the anti-semites and made a good point of it. the paranoid style in american politics is not new. what's now is it co-opting a party and the party not having a backbone to stand up to it. you are seeing a real difference between the base of the party that has been co-opted by this cult of personality around donald trump,

the republican party. frankly, she's the best case scenario future for the republican party. there the alternative. a close friend of mine argues that i'm wrong to say nikki haley, that i'm too optimistic. they want pure, uncut, trump again, some other figure. nikki is yesterday's news. >> [inaudible] she thinks the best case for the future of republican leaders was someone who wasn't to figure during the trump era. if you look at the last two presidents, barack obama was not really a public figure for years out. state senator and then-president. donald trump was a public figure but not really a serious political figure in every way -- in any way before he won. >> a pete buttigieg. >> exactly. if things broke differently, he could have been the nominee. you are hopeful that somebody can avoid having to navigate all of the muck and scandal and controversy of the trump era and take the posture. [inaudible] we need to care about democracy. not banning people for their religion. somebody could emerge like that, that isn't stained by the trump era. now they are outsiders. >> focus groups with trump voter

the republican _ air? no, i do not think so. the republican party _ air? no, i do not think so. the republican party is _ air? y . air? no, i do not think so. the - republican party is still very much divided, and they cannot decide what that path forward is going to be. is it going to be following donald trump whatever he does, allowing him to have that influence over the party, ortaking to have that influence over the party, or taking a different route. the party members themselves cannot decide. members of congress cannot decide. members of congress cannot decide. a lot of it depends on exactly what we were just talking about, which is what does he... how much influence does he try to exert in these coming months? once the impeachment trial was over, he was going to come out and be more vocal and start talking and to events. we have not seen that since january 20. we had 07 republican senators who did vote for his impeachment and they will obviously have to deal with what reaction they get from republican activists. what about the intervention that came on friday, just after the president's defendants had s

republican leader, about bringing the conference together, that you can have liz cheneys and you have marjorie taylor greens. but the problem is, there are many other people in the republican party, many senior officials in the republican party, believe that the republican party should not have amore jair taylor green in their ranks. that the gop disavowed those kinds of remarks. and that's why you've seen such a different, you know, tact from, you know, kevin mccarthy to mitch mcconnell, who, as we heard multiple times earlier this morning, has called her views a cancer on the party. but mccarthy is making a clear political calculation here. he wants to win back the majority. he wants to be speaker in the year 2023. and he's making a broadly political calculation then perhaps a moral one for the future of the republican party. >> until she makes a public apology or a public clarification, this is basically the girlfriend in canada, right? we don't know it exists other than the word behind the scenes. and it's more important than that, also. because of the people who believe in these things. they need to be told it's not true. else, we see what can happen. we see the dangers and the threats on people's lives that emerge from

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the republican party. he's excited about 2022. and so to the republican party, if you want to win and stop a socialist agenda we need to work with president trump. we can't do it without him. and to you, president trump, you need to build the republican party stronger. i'm into winning. and if you want to get something off your chest, fine. but i'm into winning. >> reporter: let's ignore for a moment that so many other republicans like liz cheney and senator ben sass and adam kinzinger do not believe the republican party can win with trump given the fact that he just lost the white house, republicans lost the senate, they couldn't win a majority in the house of representatives. but let's point out, the obvious hypocrisy here from senator lindsey graham. listen to what he said shortly after the riot trump incited on the capitol. >> trump and i, we've had a hell of a journey. i hate it being this way. oh, my god i hate it. from my point of view he has been a consequential president, but today, the first thing you'll see. all i can say is count me out, enough is e

the republican party stronger. >> i think the final chapter of donald trump and where the republican party goes hasn't been written yet. i think we're going to have a real battle for the soul of the republican party. >> i'm a strong advocate of teachers receiving their vaccinations. but we don't believe it's a prerequisite for schools to reopen. >> i don't really understand why we're even having a debate about this. of course teacher vaccinations are essential. >> i'm pamela brown in washington on this sunday. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." and we begin tonight with the fallout from donald trump's acquittal in the senate. today the lead house impeachment manager jamie raskin is defending the democrats' decision to skip calling witnesses. >> you know what? we have no regrets at all. we left it totally out there on the floor of the u.s. senate. and every senator knew exactly what happened, and just go back and listen to mcconnell's speech. everybody was convinced of the case we put forward. but as the defense lawyer said, just pick any one of the