that's what house republicans are doing. oversight is a key component of our system of checks and balances and proud to work with this conference in the first 100 days and look forward to working with it. i'm going to turn over to a rock star from the great start -- state of indiana. >> we have accomplished a lot under republican house leadership in the first 100 days. one of those big things happened on the house floor with the house passage of the parents bill of rights. this bill would secure the fundamental right of parents that should always be guaranteed. five premises, the right to know what is being taught in schools, the right to be heard, the right to see the school budget and spending, the right to protect their child's privacy and updating. this bill included an important that i drafted and monitor their children's reading levels by allowing parents the knowledge if they are not reading at levels a critical from learning to read to reading to learn. the parents' bill of rights would give the power back to parents

republicans d.o.a.ct, the default on america act will cut investment, across job creation and crash the economy. there default on america act must be d.o.a.. there is no way congress will agree to 10 years of destructive caps and the biggest single cut to non-defense programs in american history. and for what? in exchange for a few months of respite before we would have to go through the debt ceiling roller coaster all over again. >> brendan boyle, top democrat on the house budget committee yesterday. janet, your turn in pennsylvania. what do you think of this back-and-forth between the two parties. >> good morning, thanks for taking my call. i don't agree with what the republicans past but i would like to say when you had nancy grace on the other day unless i misunderstood her she said there would have to be some cuts in spending and also some tax cuts. think about that for a second. she just equaled out there would be nothing. all republicans can talk about is tax cuts. i believe the committee for res

i agree with the republican house -- i gave the republican house and f.e did not send them there to do the things they are voting on. they are not acting professional at all. it is an embarrassment to the country. i am just concerned they may stick things onto the president's budget to keep from passing the debt ceiling. i think that is wrong. they need to continue doing what they have been doing in the past and come back to those other things. take the petty stuff off the table. it does not make sense. host: next is mark in northwood, minnesota -- northwood, new hampshire. good morning. republican line. caller: good morning. i think, first of all, let me put my words together. first thing we need to do is deal with china. the chinese have been undermining us for decades. the first thing we need to do for the debt ceiling is eliminate every penny we owe to china. they have been sending us poison for decades. poison cat food, poison dog food, poison sheet rock. as a retired mechanic, 50% of the parts that i put on harleys and automobiles come from china. 5

catering to the far right extreme of the republican party. reporter: thank you. this week hank johnson held a presser on rebro deucing the act to prevent rappers' lyrics being used against them in the croom as we've seen in the case of rapper young thug. in your view why is the sensual? mr. jeffries: i've supported the rap act in the past. i don't think art and creativity shoup weaponized in the criminal justice system. hopefully we'll find bipartisan support to move that forward. reporter: two democratic -- are you disappointed that if you had full attendance here you could have defeated this bill. mr. jeffries: people who are members of congress have thins that happen in life that they have to address. we maximized the attendance possible, katherine clark is doing a great job. but there'll always be circumstances, unfortunately, that because of life issues members from time to time won't be present on the house floor. we weren't able to hold together democratic unity in opposition to an extreme maga republican default on america bill that i

but extreme republicans refused to listen a finger to try to make things better. lawmakers printed by the gun lobby, throw up their hands and they say nothing can be done with a maneuver behind the scenes to make sure that nothing will be done. and in tennessee extremist republicans will literally rather expel the democratic elected to colleagues that have a conversation about how to address gun violet to legislatures expel for advocating, or debate on gun safety reforms how undemocratic is that an extreme is that will desecrate democracy and seek legislative solutions and democracy only thrives when we have a free exchange for a discussion of pressing issues of the day of this is certainly one of those pressing issues. this radical republican extremism, which uses two-tiered a democratic institution, rather than to deal with the real issues before us must and. >> you are dismissed. >> thank you good afternoon everyone. so this week, the republicans are launching yet another attack on women's freedom to make their own health care decisions without interference in

i agree with the republican house -- i gave the republican house and f.e did not send them there to do the things they are voting on. they are not acting professional at all. it is an embarrassment to the country. i am just concerned they may stick things onto the president's budget to keep from passing the debt ceiling. i think that is wrong. they need to continue doing what they have been doing in the past and come back to those other things. take the petty stuff off the table. it does not make sense. host: next is mark in northwood, minnesota -- northwood, new hampshire. good morning. republican line. caller: good morning. i think, first of all, let me put my words together. first thing we need to do is deal with china. the chinese have been undermining us for decades. the first thing we need to do for the debt ceiling is eliminate every penny we owe to china. they have been sending us poison for decades. poison cat food, poison dog food, poison sheet rock. as a retired mechanic, 50% of the parts that i put on harleys and automobiles come from china. 5

they have the the republicans win a. democrat stands up from kentucky and says i do not believe in quorum as present they call the clerk calls the roll. no democrat answers the roll call. they're all, you know, spitting, you know, spitting on the floor and, you know, smoking cigarets and feeling really good about themselves and reid says to the clerk, the chair directs the clerk to show mr. jones present. mr. smith president mr. winter president calls out the name of every democrat on the house floor. one you know, you can imagine. what happens? they all run for the exits. one gets out. constantine august of russell county, texas, beats -- out of the sergeant at arms and uses his cowboy boots to kick out the in the door of the house of representative and make good his escape. the guy who started it all stands and screams. it read under god in the constitution you have no right to count me present without my permission to which reed, who's about six foot three £300, looks sort of like a bowling pin with a walrus mustache

house republicans, the republican party, is the party of parents. that is very clear. we also passed an energy package that lowers the cost of energy and supports unleashing american energy independence. as the whip said, house republicans, this house majority is setting the legislative agenda and the policy pace, delivering results for the american people. every member of this conference is lazer focused -- laser focused on listening to the american people, keeping our promises and delivering those results. each week as house republican conference chair, when we update the media, we have highlighted newly elected members of the freshmen class who delivered this newhouse republican majority -- new house republican majority. and as we mark 100 days -- [applause] -- i'm honored to introduce you to a few of our members who you have heard from that you will hear more from the rest of this session and in years to come. starting with the freshmen class president from south carolina, russell fry. [applause] mr. fry: for two years americans watched their country suffer blow af

republicans are trying to flip the accusations.hat do you know about warehouse or public and's are going here? and is this a serious effort or all politics? luke: they have lined up in uniform fashionn support of donald trump. some people are a little more vitriolic than others and how they are defending him, but there is very much agreement on the republican side they need to do everything they can to support donald trump. that is because that is what the base voters want. they are making sure they are on the right side of that. whether that will be issuing a subpoena for alvin bragg, and there are discussions going on right now, whether that is just public statements defending him at every turn, or coming up with different ways. you even heard consideration of legislation that would make it illegal to charge a former president. they are discussing all sorts of ideas, but you can rest assured that they will for the most part be lining up behind donald trump. lisa: to bring it back to pure politics for a moment, it is not just hous

my book american psychosis you know makes the argument think proves the argument that republican republican relationship with extremism goes back seven decades it's waxed its waned but that for that time period throughout that time period the gop has both encouraged and exploited extremism. it didn't start. we are with with the tea party, which is kind of the period that you're talking about. it didn't start with newt gingrich, which was another form of extremism in the nineties. and it started back in the fifties with mccarthyism. and then, you know, the relationship, the republican party, some of it and and the john birch society, which was basically outright paranoia that. the government is riddled with secret enemies, communists, dwight eisenhower was a communist agent that the commies have infiltrated basically every school, every business of every part of government trade unions. and you'd have the the director of the john birch society, a guy named welch, saying the communist party controls 80% of the united states. it was basically cunanan without babies and sex trafficking. i mean,

in 2021 the republican legislator considered a map that would have preserve thstatus quo giving republicansn additional sea governor desantis disagreed and outmaneuvered h own state redistricting commiee leaders and pushed successfully for a map that gave republicanan additional four seats. obviously, republicans had a eat year and florida notwithstanding e maps. now the breakdown in florida is 20 republican and eight mocrats and that is a mimum map for publicans. another state with aggressive gerrymandering for republicans in texas. before our most recent partisanship scores, there were 14 districts and a lot of those were suburban seats that had become moreurple as democrats made advances in the subur. republicans packed more democrats into urban seats which moved those suburban seats to higher grounand now there are only two swing districts by our finition and taxes. we went from 14 to 2. there are six states thatnly have one district. there are two that have bipartisan compromises that lead to maps. of the remaining states, the only ones democrats were able to gerrymander were illinois

say th problem for republicans.you just laid out is th problem for the american voters >> i agree i agree. and hopefully american voter will get the message and start turning out like they did in wisconsin on these issues an making it clear that they want their representative i governmental life with their public policy objectives and t support the majority rule, wha they believe in. >> mr. rose, weigh in. >> you know, first of all, you think about how appalling this moment is where these electe officials would say that the are more scared by their colleagues with the bullhorn than they are -- >> standing next to children >> standing next to children then they are by mass shooters and that they would engage i such blatant racist acts i opposition to those individuals, that quite frankly, even the architect of jim crow would say, i think you need to be a littl less obvious so, the question is then, wh are they doing this? >> that's the question >> right elected officials want to ge reelected, so what the hell is goin

who managed the republican campaign companies of the republican presidential and senate candidates,hey simply left the republican party because the composition of the party has changed very much and where is the place now of those republicans who are simply conservative politicians, it is difficult to even say about one , some of them simply supported biden in the 20th year, well, a small part, some of them probably did not take part in the elections. well, let's say if you and i are going to evaluate such a republican as senator krem, well, he is a classic republican, but he didn't give it. how is he alone in the hotel of the peasants, er, in an interview , he said that he will support trump in the next year's elections, that is, it is possible, it is possible on the other side to say whether he separately supports the one who is strong today, this can also be the case , well, i don't literally see republicans, even such a one . i have not seen such republicans, she has the support of her own party. they can have support among independent voters, they belong so that in order to bec

asked of republicans and independents that lean republican. trump 55% and desantis 49%, that is a you go poll -- you gov pull. >> go at. -- ahead. >> i would like to say i am a trump supporter, 100%. i do not see where he has done anything wrong. any different than any other presidents have done. there is kennedy. he had someone. at least, i will not go to the name of this, but a democrat president, a thing about it is he did not do it in the white house. he did not have a lover in the white house. he was somewhere else, what he done on his personal time and thing is his business. nobody else's business and i think is a budget crock that the democrats keep throwing this up at him. we have 4 nations against us right now. we never had that when trump was in office. i think people better wise up and pay attention to that. because, one of these days, or nights, someone is going to bite us. it will be bad. i believe that biden is not the person in office right now that we can depend on. it is hard to sleep at night knowing he is president of our un

republicans have a plan.t is time for the president to negotiate spending reforms as part of addressing the debt ceiling, just as we have done many times before. in fact, just as the president himself has done many times before as a senator and as vice president. 11 of the previous debt ceiling increases going back decades have included fiscal reforms. president biden voted for such agreements as a senator, and he negotiated them as a vice president. the president's current position of refusing to discuss commonsense spending restraints when it comes to the debt ceiling is a reckless abandonment of past precedent and in his own history. under one-party democrat rule, we got $so trillion -- $10 trillion in new spending. the consequences have been very real. since president biden took office, we've seen a spike in prices by 14.9%, real wages have declined by 3.5% and interest rates, they've increased more in the past year than the prior 15 years combined. the american people, they are demanding something to be

of republicans would blame fellow republicans.emocrats it is 19%, 32% and 38%. independence, 53% would blame both parties equally and 18% would blame republicans. but the question right now is for you, who would you blame the most -- who do you blame the most for the debt limit standoff? if you blame president biden and democrats, call us at (202) 748-8000. if you think speaker mccarthy and republicans are most to blame, we want you to call us at (202) 748-8001. if you think both parties share equal blame for the current debt limit standoff, call us at (202) 748-8002. we are ready to take more of your calls now. jerry in georgia, turned on your tv a little bit. we want you to tell us why you think mccarthy and republicans are most to blame. caller: all they care about is themselves. they care about themselves, nothing for the common man. i am so ashamed of the republicans, they do nothing for america but kiss ass, trumps' ass. host: that was jerry in georgia, let us go to joni in minnesota. you think mccarthy and republicans are m

this is an example of an extreme republican proposal. dramatically cut things just for the purpose of cutting things that would undermine the health safety and economic well-being of the american people. they had not even been able to fully figure it out. maybe this is about promises that were made -- they are determined to have this fight for the sake of having a fight. the problem is even 40 with that can do economic damage to everyday americans. who are the others in the party? >> other house democrats. >> i have not had a anything to me other than yes, we believe we have to avoid a catastrophic default on our debt. in the way to do that is the way it has been done the last 100 years, as was done during the trump administration, that we pay bills that the united states has already incurred. the american people understand that. you don't get a bill that you have already purchased items in connection with and say to yourself, no, i kind of decided that not the right thing to do at this point in time, and i want to have a fight about it.

republicans, not all, but extreme maga republicans are threatening to undo all this progress. >> folks, you've got to ask yourself, what are maga republicans in congress doing. >> contextualize that for us, jake, how important is it for this president to keep hammering that contrast between what he stands for and what the other side does. >> it's clearly they think it's effective because chuck schumer also sings from the same song sheet, and i think it's, you know, tieing anybody to former president donald trump who is broadly -- because biden beat him -- unpopular nationwide is a pretty good strategy but let's break this down a little bit number one, i don't think maga republicans are the minority in congress, i think they're the majority in congress the minority of republicans in congress want to work with biden, a very small majority, which is why he was able to get things done last congress and perhaps this congress, but the idea that he's going to be able to stay above the fray and just give speeches and i'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, but just give speeches and h

on the one hand, they have threatened a republican debt default. you heard from ranking member boyle, the consequences, catastrophic consequences. unemployment doubling. hundreds, millions of jobs across our country lost. stock market crashing. prices rising as seniors lose social security benefits and veterans lose benefits. and the other side of that coin, what do they offer us? a ran some note. legislation that would kick millions of americans out of their homes, cut food benefits, layoff hundreds of thousands of first responders, teachers across our country and again increase costs on working families. that is not a choice that the american people should be forced to make. and that's why the default on america legislation, as america boyle articulated is dead on arrival in the senate. and at the end of the day what we expect from our colleagues is to get serious to not hold our economy hostage. so, with us today we have one of our co-chairs, co-chair underwood who will articulate the work we have been doing while republicans threaten the americ

wind should've in th republican sales not the democrats.by the very, very far right. especially the political entertain industrial complex, do not see a path out of it fo them, other than losing a lo of elections to the point wher they decide they need to d something dramatically different. >> and it's not hyperbolic t say that this was a high stake election, especially wit someone like kelly who a portably advise republicans on legal efforts to overturn th 2020 election. i want to actually play th sound of charlie kirk, conservative host, reacting to this reach results >> and there goes th wisconsin supreme court, and i decreases our chance to be wil win the white house in 2024. >> what do you make of that? is he saying the quiet part ou loud >> frankly, it's the loud part a bunch of these people, alexander who is a gym insurrectionist, he says h does not see a path to 270 electoral college vote anymore. their whole plan was to try to get people in place that could overturn another electoral los in 2024, that was a nationwide strategy so p

last night republicans barel eat out a victory.at county, about five points catch this, in 2012, republica presidential nominee mit romney won ozawkie by 30 points in 2014, incumbent republica governor scott walker won it b 40 it now seems completel possible that could flip blu in a matter of years none other than ann coulter who, of course, it's recklessly offensive and cruel, it's th nail on the head seriously, listen to this. when she tweeted, quote, the demand for anti abortion legislation just cos republicans another crucia race pro-lifers, we won abortion is not constitutional right anymore please stop pushing strict limits on abortion or ther will be no republicans left. she is right that is the problem. the base believes it, they didn't want to just get rid of roe v. wade, they want t outlaw abortion everywhere they demanded nothing less tha a full abortion criminalizatio everywhere look at florida. again, all eyes on trump and the arraignment, right we got wisconsin, chicago, loo at florida, ron desantis i about to be one

keep in mind there are 18 republicans that hold seats the joe biden carried in 2020. there are five democrats that hold seats that donald trump in those will be at the top of the target list the next time around. part of that is that republicans despite underperforming what history might have suggested they should do in the midterms, they managed to do quite well in california and new york. in new york state alone, you have six republicans who represent democrat seats in the past they only had two. democrats see their route back to house majority running through those six seats in new york, seven in california and other states. part of the challenge for democrats is that republicans could go back and redraw maps and other states. at the same time, democrats pick up seats in north carolina and ohio last fall republicans took back control of the state supreme court and that is important because state supreme court's were the ones to invalidated the republican gerrymandering is the last time around. if these new state supreme courts agree in my legislatures to go back to

, as far as a republican opinion.s the republican party that is trying to scare the voters and to essentially, saying, if you deviate from us, he will essentially be putting a black woman in charge of the nation. so, the biden harris administration needs to just stay the course, and think more about policy, and what we've provided for americans to hold him accountable. >> nbc news is reporting that the white house wants to elevate harris's work getting into 2024. a person familiar in the white house said, quote, they know that she is the target, and the attacks have always been intense. the anti will be upped. they want to make sure that she is the best possible footing. how do they do that? it seems to me that the times are doing that, between attacks on reproductive rights, the small d democratic things that are happening in tennessee, and in montana, mass shootings, and the times are meeting. is that how they do that? >> the biden harris administration, and vice president harris in particular, just to stay on track

five of six republicans voted to keep the law on the books in the year 2023. it is absolute madness but what we saw with dobbs is once the dobbs decision came down, you could no longer have this conversation in extremes because previously there had always been a back stop, so republicans could use rhetoric that was extreme because they knew there was always the protection but once dobbs came down and the protection went away, what we saw here in michigan is a republican-airs, democratic areas, rule areas, women were having real conversations about all the many ways that a pregnancy can go wrong, that your birth control can fail and you could no longer just message based on fear because this was suddenly real. in michigan we had an abortion ban about to go into effect if we didn't act. republicans are on the losing side of this issue, and the same is true for lgbtq issues once we reveal the reality and we connect it to the facts that they're just distracting, again, from running more anti- transads about inflation, we've got to show people this is just to make

but the vast majority of republicans do not want.falling into the tra that a lot of politicians ar trying to do, have it both ways he wants to make sure that h gets the evangelicals, interchange, 20 can't afford t lose anybody right now you need to remember, he's losing by 20, 30 points right. now, so he can't afford to write off anybody. it's become a place in republican party were six-week ban, that's the new norm the new. standard if you aren't, ther these to be 15, weeks and that was a vulnerability for him. he feels like he has to do it. he needs to get to the primary the general election but here's the problem, if you're - you need to do things that are electable. and the other problem, shane's written about, this i don' know that voters actually vote based on electability. they vote for people to make them feel something, get excited. in doctor donald trump get them excited -- so, i guess he thinks passing bunch of conservative things through the house and privatel communicating that to people i how you get it done. but right,

the republicans elected a republican president who put justices on the court, specifically for thatat's the thing. i understand that donald trump is trying to have it both ways, but he's the one who appointed the extreme justices who ripped away this right from the american people. >> i don't think he's trying to do it both ways. he says it's a state's right issue. he's not been out advocating for a ban. he said, i appointed these judges. i don't think he's in the right place. >> i think that the republicans will rue the day that they appointed these justices and they will be paying for it for generations. >> quick turn. you were in congress, you dealt with these debt ceiling negotiations before. we have like 30 seconds. do you think this is going to end well for the economy and the american people? will the u.s. default? >> i'm really concerned about it. in 2011, we were a much saner majority and we came really close. we had a credit downgrade for the first time in american history. it was right for the republicans to pass this from a messaging perspective. there has to be negotiat

is this all republicans have t offer for now?th th republican strategy of seeking power at all costs whether o not voters want them to have i in the reality is that i wisconsin if there is an impeachment and a vacancy gets filled by no point made by the governor which saw - its oh they are just throwin this around to fire up their base and they already starte retreating from it ever sinc the numbers came in so clearly with a landslide for janet protasiewicz republicans are kind of out of options at this point. they have flirted with the ide of trying to make a tiny, tiny gesture towards moderating o their total abortion ban and then immediately the decided no, they couldn' possibly do that and frankly, they have reape the whirlwind. the idea that you can rid th state in gerrymander the masse to give yourself a supermajority in the state senate and near supermajorit in the - rip away a basic human right t bodily autonomy, of freedo people of catch don for half a century and then not face an consequences, well, the whol idea just c

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, but the republicans elected a republican president who put justices on the court -- specifically forng to have it both ways, but he's the one who appointed the extreme justices who ripped away this right from the american people. >> he said it's a state's rights issue. he's not been advocating for a ban. i appointed these judges and they decided it correctly. i think he's in the right place. >> think that the republicans will roo the day that they appointed these justices and they appointed these justicees. >> quick turn. you were in congress and dealt with the debt ceiling negotiations before. we have 30 seconds. do you think this will end well for the economy and the american people? will the u.s. default? >> i am really concerned about it. in 20 le11 we were a much saner majority and it was right for the republicans to pass this just from a messaging perspective. there has to be negotiations and i don't know how we get through this. eye am really concerned about the debt limit when we approach it. >> that will end this on an up note. >> sorry. >> negotiations, that's important. th

any welfare reforms republicans would support?would you do it by unanimous consent? there could be four votes. would you only do it if it's by unanimous consent or would you use? >> look, as i said, i hope the republicans will join us in making sure this happens. it's the only right and fair thing to do. that's the correct thing to do and we hope they will do it. yes. >> have you had any conversations with mcconnell over? >> well, he's just back today and so, um, i would like to talk to him about it. >> what you haven't discussed? >> i happened, i was respectful of his time away. >> oh. [laughter] >> you are the first one up. garrett? >> you said president biden will meet with mccarthy after he has a plan. does he have to pass his plan to the house or does he just have, to present a plan? >> let's see what the plan is. the first step is to come up with a plan. let's see what it is. let's see if it has a realistic chance of getting 218 votes. yes. >> is it still your plan though this week to put forth a resolution to replace feinst

and republican states. people have preserved the right to abortion, but now, legislatures are continuing to try to turn it back. i think that we are in a grave crisis, i never thought that my daughter would have fewer rights than i did. the idea that we are going to, and you know, symone, as black and brown, indigenous, poor women across this country, that are going to be particularly disproportionately burdened. if, you know, i'm glad that the supreme court kept mifepristone available, but i don't know for how long that is. i think we have to be very clear, this is an attempt, by republicans, to strip away our economic freedom. this is about freedom. it's about family. it's about being able to decide when we had want to have a family, and take care of our families. and it's fundamentally about our freedoms. and republicans are against all of that. >> congresswoman, i continue to ask, where are the bills that regulate what men can do with their bodies? thank you for your time today, ma'am, very good to see

republicans, these trump republicans, they love this whole "they're after us. they're coming after our way." they are they are not the ones making 10-year-old girls who have been raped flee the state of ohio to not have a forced birth in the state of ohio. they're not the ones, democrats, that are sending little children to school in fear of their lives instead of reading and writing and arithmetic they have to worry about ar-15s. they have to worry about shotguns they have to worry about being killed because, now, and it's not democrats doing this, it's the republican party, now, they're the ones that are passing crazy legislation that allows the killings of little children to continue to where, now, it's number one cause of death among children, guns >> i mean, what you're talking about is just what grievance politics, that the rev was discussing, half wrought it's not about delivering anything real to the american people, it's about stoking old hatreds. that's a sad day because what we have now is a slate of poli politicians, most of them in the republican p

with the republicans, mind you, republicans should be condemning this. and they are not. and so this is larger than what we are seeing today. this is a moment in time where we must understand that this fight that they waging you know is a fight that the whole country understands must be waged to first save lives and secondly, to protect our democracy. >> there is also something that smells. i had representative gloria johnson on this show. i will show you a little bit of what she said 24 hours ago. she revealed that hr had come to see her and hr told representative gloria johnson if she resigned yesterday before this national and internationally televised debacle led by and produced by republicans in the state of tennessee, if she resigned quietly and went away, she could keep her full health care. but if she faced a vote and were expelled she would lose it. i think that there is some reptilian instinct in the gop that know this is horrific optics for the gop not just in tennessee but all across the country. >> well they ought to recognize how horrific it is. and it is pu

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

that's almost 50% of republicans, self-identified republicans.ot of work to do yes. we can do some in 2023 we have elections right now. we had a great big win in wisconsin. we have a ballot initiative in ohio and we have a governors race in kentucky, pro-choice democratic governor in a red state and we have a legislature up in virginia these are big activities and actions to take now. >> clair, i know people say if your life depends on it. if you're a woman or school child, it literally does decisions on health care, on guns have made it so tangible what the stakes are in the next election there's something just unbelievable about mitch mcconnell who has more fingerprints on the remaking of the federal judiciary being in a political cage of his own making he'll probably never see the majority again because of the unpopularity, the political dead weight that's the supreme court and other judges i how do you see the political landscape today heading into '24? >> well, first of all, we can't be complacent about it whether it's weapons of war with hi

yet, republicans stay focused on the base. >> they do it is a shrinking base in the republican party the overwhelming majority of nra members, the overwhelming majority of republicans, the overwhelming majority of americans, almost 90% of americans support universal background checks. almost 80% of americans, maybe over 80%, support national red flag laws. there's one gun safety measure after another, that if you put it up for a vote in any state, like colorado did, as bill clinton was saying earlier, colorado in 2000 had a referendum on, i believe it was universal background checks. the year that george bush easily won that state it passed overwhelmingly i dare say, charlie sykes, from last thing that any extremist on gun issue wants would be for states like florida, states like wisconsin, to have a voter's ref remembe referendum on universal background checks. if there was, it'd pass in all 50 state, which shows you why republicans on abortion, on guns, on all these other issues that they've taken such extreme positions on -- and we're not just talking about the second amendment. y