that's the republican record on fiscal responsibility. the same thing was done under president ronald reagan and the same thing was done under president george w. bush. that's their record. so we will evaluate any legislative proposal on the merits but there is deep reason to be concerned because my republican colleagues don't have a record that indicates any seriousness with respect to fiscal responsibility. >> can you talk about -- [inaudible] >> there's not a skin tell of that republicans have to show president joe biden has engaged in wrongdoing, an impeachable offense or in any way has broken the law. why? because there is no evidence that exists to implicate president joe biden and anything nefarious. president biden is a good man. he's a good decent and hard-working man and has his entire live in public service so this is all part of a phony effort by extreme maga republicans to distract the american people because they have no track record of accomplishment, no vision for the future or no plan to solve problems for hard-working am

to me that's a very sad thing, as someone who grew up as a republican, who joined the republican party because i view myself as a reagan republican. the party today has very clearly said if we have to choose between the constitution and trump, we will choose trump. we seen that happen again and again. there are a lot of reasons. i think the elected republicans themselves have been playing a very damaging role. i think donald trump has managed to lie to and convince millions of americans, very good people, that somehow he will be their voice. he has prayed on patriotism. the people who are elected in washington like mike johnson and many others, know that what donald trump is saying is not true. they know the election was not stolen and they know what he did on january 6 was illegal. yet they have decided to go along with it. we have sort of lost sight of the extent to which elected officials have an obligation not to be a collaborator or enabler. not to sit on the sidelines. when to many republicans have sat on the sidelines and suggested that trump will just fade away, what that means

unfortunately, republicans are trying to rehash a relitigated matter, a matter in which the republican controlled house committee of ethics decided to not proceed with any further investigation. this is an insult to the people i was elected to represent. instead of passing meaningful legislation, some republicans are using this to waste our time and money and to make you forget about all of the rights they want to destroy. they are trying to make you forget take away your reproductive rights, voting rights, health care, your social security and medicare. house democrats have been trying to address the issues that the american people care about. can we please, please, please, please adjust the affordability crisis. millions of americans are struggling to pay their rent and keep the like that on. address the issue of gun violence we broke the most mass chutings. can we address our crumbling public school and kids are hurting their ability. can we put an end to massive spending on weapons and war and invest in our communities and our kids. the number one thing i tried to do as a middle sc

but the extreme maga republicans are running away from an agreement that the extreme maga republicans themselves negotiated and insisted would be part of the discussions around preventing a catastrophic default on our debt. and so there's only one issue to be resolved here, which is for the house republicans to come to the realization that we are not going to bend the knee to the extreme ransom demands and in conflict devastating cuts to the health, the safety, and economic well-being to the american people in a manner inconsistent with the bipartisan fiscal responsibility act that house republicans themselves negotiated and supported, including the current speaker of the house of representatives. thank you, everyone. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy visit ncicap.org] >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we're funded by these television companies and more, including cox. >> koolen de vries disease is rare. it doesn't have to be. when

the republicans, this do-nothing republican congress has chosen to do knowing to solve problems for hardworking american taxpayers. nothing on the economy. nothing on inflation. nothing on affordability. nothing on gun safety. nothing on trying to improve the quality of life of the american people. but what we have seen from the very beginning of this do-nothing republican congress is chaos and dysfunction and extremism being inflicted on the american people. when it comes to this fraudulent impeachment inquiry, more than 100,000 pages of documents have been produced and reviewed. not a sin tila of evidence exists that president biden has broken the law. it's interesting to me, i wonder how my colleagues in new york and california, who were sent here to make life better for the american people explain this vote, which is not designed to improve the lives of the folks that we are privileged to serve, but it's a political hit job, a political stunt, political gamesmanship. people are tired of the brinksmanship and tired of this effort to score political points on a partisan basis as opposed to ac

guest: i think most republicans at this point support house republican inquiry. there is only one republican who said he will vote no on the resolution that house republicans are intending to vote on this. it's congressman ken buck. given the republicans in the district biden one and have not supported donald trump are supporting the inquiry at this point because it's short of impeaching joe biden. i don't think the votes are there for that but support for the impeachment inquiry is unified in the republican party. guest: the big thing that changed was that the irs whistleblowers emerged in may of this year. hunter biden's lawyers have introduced a lot of evidence last night in the delaware case to suggest that the u.s. attorney's office in delaware was willing to offer hunter biden a deal that involved no guilty plea and no charges of any kind essentially to enter into a non-prosecution agreement. before the irs whistleblowers emerged. the timeline vote of when weiss reneged on that and said you need to have criminal charges involved in a guilty plea for hunter

i meant to call for republicans because i am a republican. host: all right. go ahead.keep to the lines that test describe you. but go ahead. caller: again, i apologize for that. for the people out there, i want them to understand something. what businesses, what product, what was joe biden and his family selling to receive all that money? if it was trump receiving all this money from all these other countries, and trump had no hotels, no products, he did not create anything, his family did not make clothes -- yes, his family has patents in china. they produce things in china. what does joe biden produce in china for receiving all that money? and let me ask you this real quick. do you remember the contact that joe biden got in iraq to rebuild iraq? whatever happened with that money? why would dick cheney ever gave james biden a contract to help rebuild iraq? that is still, to my head, fuzzy. why would he do that? but my big question again is this -- what product? what was he selling? what was he doing to get money from 5, 6 countries that hate our guts. host: giovanni,

republicans in a general _ republican voters? republicans in a general agree _ republican voters?s in a general agree on more - republican voters? republicans| in a general agree on more than they disagree right now. that is getting tough on china, supporting israel, getting tough on iran, when it comes to foreign policy. there are a lot of issues here were there are big disagreements on the margins, such as support for ukraine, how they view allies, and you are seeing this new guard come out and really starting to openly question us alliance structures, us role in europe and the middle east, even some of these more populist side of the republican party such as ramaswamy, the entrepreneur who was running for president, saying we need to be tough on china but seemingly willing to abandon ukraine and give up on nato. he had that seemingly sexist aside, calling nikki haley more highlight policies a lipstick on dick cheney. who do you think he is trying to reach out to with that more conservative isolationist approach? is it perhaps a younger demographic of voters? i perhaps a younger

there are no fish to catch in this republican swamp.republicans who have to go home and justify a sham impeachment to their districts while telling them that we haven't passed the budget. we haven't reauthorized the farm bill. we haven't done a single thing that helps americans live their lives. instead we're wasting time on bogus censure resolutions and bogus impeachment inquiries. we have one and a half legislative business days left in the year. we should be passing bills to help working families, but that is not what we do under extreme republicans control, vote no on this new fishing expedition. i yield back. >> gentle lady yields back, gentleman from massachusetts reserves, gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. >> i continue to reserve my time. >> gentleman reserves, gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. >> mr. speakers republicans are saying the quiet part out loud. a rolling stone article from today entitled gop rep explains impeachment push, donald j. trump 2024, baby. i reserve. >> gentleman reserves, gentleman from okl

there are no republicans. the republican party is dead. they died during the insurrection. host: stick to the topic please. caller: they are projecting everything that they do on the democrats. that is all they ever do. they run and hide. i will trade every palestinian and every person who comes over the border for every one of the trump trash party. host: bradley and marietta, georgia. democratic caller. caller: good morning. that last caller -- it's hard to disagree with her. trump is working with the russians. they're trying to screw over ukraine. i never thought i would see that it where i'm the one defending the fbi and the military from these so-called -- host: what about ukraine aid? where do you fall in this debate? caller: they have to give ukraine aid. those people are fighting for us. they are saving us money. it is not about that. the republicans want to solve the border issues. they are traitors. i'm so disappointed in republicans. i cannot believe they would sell out ukraine. host: frank in kentucky, independent. caller: yes. i'm a veteran. , u.s. naval academ

the words of republicans. speaker mike johnson report lid told his own colleagues that this was insufficient evidence to initiate impeachment proceedings. mike mccall, we don't have the evidence. again buck, the evidence for impeachment doesn't exist and i don't see any evidence linking hunter biden's to joe bidens and i'm not convinceeds that the evidence exists. dusty johnson said he's not seen the evidence for impeachment. john curtis, for me it's all about is there an impeachable offense, evidence of an impeachable offense. when asked if he'd seen anything that comes close his answer was "no." the actual participation by the vice president, now president that still has to be discovered and/or nailed down. another said "the short answer is no." when asked if she'd seen nip evidence. i could be here all day reading quotes from your colleagues, republicans, who basically have publicly admitted that this is a waist of time. after a year, after a year. let's be honest, we are here because donald trump ordered u

but republicans not too concerned. there is a lot more to discuss and be sure to tune in tuesday and website night for cnn town halls with governor ron desantis and vivek ramaswamy. they will take questions live in iowa. >>> coming up, house republicans find their narrow majority getting narrowing amid the resignation of kevin mccarthy. how that is reopening old wounds. >> announcncer: "insnside polit sundnday" broughght to youou by. brililliantly sasafe. >>> your question is, just give up and quit. i'm the wrong guy to ask that question to. i never quit. >> what a difference a few months makes. mccarthy was the most powerful republican in washington less than three months ago and now he will no longer be a member of congress and after a tumultuous year as speaker leaving a raider thin majority in a badly divided conference. as speaker he was very chatty with the president and sometimes quite combative as i witnessed firsthand. >> the votes just aren't there. why is it so hard for you. >> you have spend any time with m

i'm sick of fake republicans calling on the republican line talking about trump. trump is a legitimate businessman. that is what he does. hunter and joe are not businessman. host: the point i would make is there are very wealthy republican lawmakers as well. he hung up. you can find out how joe biden made money after he left the white house when he served as vice president. those are public records. eric in canoga park, california. you will pose. caller: yes. isn't the whole point moot because it happened when he was vice president? hunter biden is not running for president. joe biden has nothing to do with this. just one of the point with that caller, he made his money by book deals, as many past presidents have made their money. both deals. -- book deals. and speeches. you can look at their taxes, like most presidents do who show their taxes. unlike president trump. i think this whole thing is to put biden in a bad light because he's doing a great job so far for what he was given. they are just trying to set it up for trump to take over. i just think it is an em

republicans are on the run is evidenced by the republican resistance to supporting the war effort in ukraine. it doesn't take a rocket scientist if you are serving in congress, immersed in these national security issues, to understand that if we allow vladimir putin to run through ukraine, that his next target will be a nato country, which means that american military men and women will be in the fight. not just our resources. american military men and women risking their lives, consistent with our nato obligations. my republican colleagues have suggested that they don't have any clarity on the plan moving forward or the successes of ukraine. the ukrainian women and men have been incredibly courageous, incredibly brave, incredibly effective in pushing back against the russian military and vladimir putin's aggression. heading into this conflict, all of the prognosticateors, including very sophisticated ones, were telling the world in february of 2022, that russia's military is going to wipe out ukraine and be in kyiv in about a week. we are now approximately 22 months into this confli

the coleman can vote in the republican primary here.are really looking for who is going to appeal to the republican base for president trump has a lock on part of that base. and cox, i appreciate you being here for part of a night. america. pleasure to be here. good to have you here. and we will be right back with our panel and final predictions for debate night in america. stay with us. >> welcome back. and we conclude debae night in america with final predictions from our panel, u.s. congresswoman nicole malliotakis and republican strategist chapin fay. all right. so let's get back into it. you both. congresswoman, let me begin with you here, right? when you look at the totality of who is going to be on this stage tonight between these 4 candidates who needs to perform well here and who can make a real impact moving forward in the republican race. >> well, i think in the last debate, nikki haley did really well. and i think that she has the opportunity to continue to build a little bit of momentum. as i said, it's going very difficult

the republicans refused to take his testimony. how can you sit there saying you need more evidence when you prevent the central witness in the investigation from giving you evidence? what are you afraid of? i yelled back. >> members are reminded to direct their remarks to the chair. gentleman from oklahoma is recognize. >> thank you very much. i yield one minute to my good friend this thing was gentleman from south carolina mr. -- >> gentleman from south carolina is recognize for one minute. >> americans have lost faith in the impartiality of the biden administration. we have ample evidence that the -- americans deserve to know the truth and congress has a duty to investigate. the question is simple, what did president joe biden know about his family , mental enterprises and went. that is the question. that is why the inquiry is necessary. we have already uncovered that the biden family missy 25 million dollars in payments from foreign adversaries. -- the vice president travels to the foreign country, vice president biden leverage

host: let's go to grove city, ohio on the republican line. caller: i am on the republican line. i always consider all the candidates. most elections, way back when, i felt like a matter who wins, we will have a good president. now we had two guys, who neither one of them should be on the ticket. both of them will be on the ticket. i supported the effort years ago. i voted republican. it was hard to vote for trump. i voted for him. i will not vote for him this time. i will not vote for president biden. i think that means that i will not vote because i'm throwing my vote away if i vote for a third party candidate. until they come up with other candidates, which everyone thinks that we need, i will be none of the above is my vote. unless something changes. host: does that mean you will not show up at the polls at all in november? or does that mean that you just will not vote in the presidential election? caller: i'm not going to vote in the presidential election for either one of these men. if one of the parties finds someone closer to the real world , i could support them regardle

>> this is a republican motion. those were long island republicans who led to expel santos. they were not democrats who brought that up. the second thing is, should we do a better job on researching republican candidates and those who lie, cheat, and steal? we should be. in fact, where did george santos get the idea you could lie, cheat, steal, and convert public or campaign resources to personal use? in the republican party, where did he get that idea it was ok? probably from donald trump. donald trump was convicted in new york for having falsely inflated the value of his properties, for committing a fraud against the state. he was just convicted by a jury of his peers for engaging in sexual assault against a woman. then defaming that woman by lying about her. will the republicans take the same position on donald trump that they decided to take on george santos when he was no longer

there are no republicans. the republican party is dead. they died during the insurrection.ost: stick to the topic please. caller: they are projecting everything that they do on the democrats. that is all they ever do. they run and hide. i will trade every palestinian and every person who comes over the border for every one of the trump trash party. host: bradley and marietta, georgia. democratic caller. caller: good morning. that last caller -- it's hard to disagree with her. trump is working with the russians. they're trying to screw over ukraine. i never thought i would see that it where i'm the one defending the fbi and the military from these so-called -- host: what about ukraine aid? where do you fall in this debate? caller: they have to give ukraine aid. those people are fighting for us. they are saving us money. it is not about that. the republicans want to solve the border issues. they are traitors. i'm so disappointed in republicans. i cannot believe they would sell out ukraine. host: frank in kentucky, independent. caller: yes. i'm a veteran. , u.s. naval academy

that's what is driving the republican primary. so he can have a good debate and get some zingers in against gavin newsom but the entire debate was in an ultimate dimension where donald trump doesn't exist and in this dimension where we live, donald trump does very much exist, so whether it is gavin newsom, or ron desantis, both of them are people who clearly have political futures in front of them, but it seems to me, that ron desantis, even if he did well in a debate like this, it is still a side show and still where i don't know that he set himself up effectively for four years from now. >> reihan, let's move on to the other person having a good week this week, nikki haley, she got support from the kochs on the right and jamie dimon ott left, and is she, and i know a lot of people want to see a competition on the republican side, is she becoming the serious threat to donald trump? >> i believe she has an enormous opportunity. the reason she has an enormous opportunity is how the new hampshire primary works. the new hampshire pri

republicans don't have a functional majority in the house to begin with. so i don't know if they have the votes to impeach joe biden today. to me it seems that they do not, so again, why would you -- i don't understand why they're launching this missile knowing they're not going to be able to call it back when they may not actually have the votes to impeach at the end of the day, because they have not made the connection that hunter biden's misdeeds benefitted his father financially. they have not made that case, but they're trying. again, they're trying to please the hard-liners want to please donald trump and create this distraction as has been stated and so this is -- again, it's a big mess, and again, i don't think it's helping republicans. they should be focused on the border and ukraine and getting the government funded, and instead, we're talking about this. >> and it is a little bit of a head scratcher, when it comes to the logic in some of this. congressman james comer, the head of the oversight committee, we heard him there a few moments ago talk

after they expelled george santos last week, republicans right now can only afford to lose three republicans on any party line votes. that number is going to go down to two republicans once kevin mccarthy leaves. and that is something that is not lost on members. marjorie taylor greene, who was a staunch ally of kevin mccarthy, summed it up best when she said i hope no one dies. a very grim reference to the idea that the house is so ten wous, especially when you have a c chaotic and rambunctious group of republicans. the same republicans that forced kevin mccarthy out of the speakership last month or back in october. so a huge political and practical um police indications with the decision. it was highly anticipated and long expected. my colleague reported in october it was expected he was going to step down kevin mccarthy denied it at the time. he said he was going to seek reelection, clearly that's not the case. he's found that adjusting from life as a speaker to a rank and file member has been difficult. there's been a lot of bad blood in the conference since then. it's unclear what kevin

the republican senators have not gotten there yet and there is more opposition in the republican-ledse. >> that's just ukraine on biden's list. is also dealing with israel and he told supporters today privately that he thinks global support for israel's war against hamas in gaza is slipping in the prime minister netanyahu needs to change his government in some ways because it's difficult to arrive at any sort of state solution with the current government and he also agreed with netanyahu's plans for gaza after hamas has been destroyed to be at his satisfaction. >> i'm curious to see if he gets asked about this, jake, because this is the most public break that we've seen between president biden and from mr. benjamin netanyahu since october 7th and the thinking at the white house has been, if present biden is very strong with prime minister netanyahu in public that he can use that as leverage behind the scenes to get him to do or to at least listen and be receptive to u.s. pressure. right now what we are seeing is those quotes that you just cited there from present biden warning about

republican.aller: good morning. my position is that we shouldn't tie external funding for external ongoing wars to domestic political issues. the reason we support external wars is so that my children and your children and your grandchildren do not have to participate in these horrible pictures we see today. that's the reason we support these countries. that's why they say politics should stop at the water's edge. we want to prevent our sons and grandsons fighting in a future world war. that's why we don't tie these together. as far as the border, that's an important issue but it's a political issue. the word to the democrats -- if you like donald trump, if you want donald trump as your president, then don't do anything about the border. that's how you come into 2016. we need to stop the open borders and the fentanyl coming into this country. it should not be tied to emergency funding for ongoing wars. as a conservative republican that has voted republican all my life. if the republicans tie up t

but it's incorrect to say this is just a republican view.gn relations, this is his view also. he said this repeatedly. this also was henry kissinger�*s view. he said this a few months ago. the dynamics of the war in ukraine are changing, and most republicans want to find a way to help ukraine win the peace, end the war, get a ceasefire, start a peace process, arm ukraine to the teeth so russia does not invade again. but biden�*s strategy of sending weapons endlessly without a strategy, that is a loser and that may mean ukraine will get no more military aid. fred, two things on that — what about an alternative in which more weapons are sent in a timely manner to ukraine so that it can kind of turn the tide on the battlefield, and actually win? and secondly, how do we even know president putin may be willing to agree to come to the table for negotiations on a ceasefire? nothing that he's done so far seems to indicate that. the trajectory for ukraine doesn't look good. it's running out of troops, russia has dug in. it is preparing more troops,

republicans with trump.rump times does not want him to come back and be their standard bearer. they know it's going to be a mess. just from a legal standpoint alone next year, putting aside the implications for the country and our democracy. but, no, they don't speak up. in part because they don't -- they don't think it'll do any good. in part, yes, they do fear the voters. that's the big point here. it's not trump, it's the voters that they're scared of. i think a lot of republicans had paul ryan's instincts initially about trump. willie, once they saw their voters don't care he's not really a conservative, their voters don't care about his conduct, they had to fall in line. that is the real underlying issue here. the leaders are bowing to their voters and have been doing so the last seven years. >> the new piece is online now for "politico" magazine. the great jonathan martin, i'll see you in baton rouge november 23rd when the commodores come to town. >>> democratic congressman hakeem jeffries of new york

republicans know this, and i was really struck by what republican senator jb vance of ohio, who is a big trump supporter, very conservative, said to jake tapper about this issue. >> we have to accept that people do not want blanket abortion bans. i say this as a person who wants to protect as many unborn babies as possible. we have to provide exceptions for the mother. that is a basic necessity. if people see republicans not as the party whose -- then we are going to lose. >> yeah, he is pretty clear eyed and practical about this. i remember being in pennsylvania last year, talking to young democrats, who were otherwise not really engaged, not really happy with the job the democrats were doing but were really concerned about reproductive rights. it is a hugely motivating issue, it is an issue that also wakes up independence and republicans realize that they have to change course on this. >> that is clearly what he was trying to do there. and it's one of the issues that donald trump has been kind of different from the other republicans on, because he's trying to take the long-term gen

>> yeah, this is something that we've been asking the moderate republicans and quite frankly all republicans, the idea that thunde taking this vote, if they don't vote on impeachment articles, it is kind of saying hey, we did this investigation, we didn't find anything, he is off the hook. let's move on. and republicans have been insisting that there is some wrongdoing, they are just looking to find it. essentially these moderate republicans have said this is not a vote on impeaching the president. they have really been trying to differentiate between voting to authorize the inquiry which is bolstering the legal weight behind the probe, expanding their investigative powers saying this is by no means a vote on impeaching the president, this is a step that comes far before voting on impeachment articles. they are really trying to draw a line in the sand between voting on the inquiry and voting on articles. but you see democrats are saying look, if you take this first vote, it is probably likely that we'll see votes on articles later on. >> so i want to put up a handy little graphic that we mad

democrats go after republicans, republicans go after democrats. as someone who lived through this without a trump, and i remember covering this, there are some parts of the democratic caucus that wanted to attempt to impeach donald trump early on. i think even some colorable constitutional claims, for instance, the violation of the -- class. it just did not happen until the ukraine focal, because there was a sense that we don't have something that rises to the level of an impeachable crime. there really is a difference in the way that democrats conducted this with donald trump, and what the house republican majority do. >> you are absolutely right because, at this point, in the eyes that the republican on crimes, like what we're talking about with biden, become crimes, because they want them to be -- and the real crimes, like inciting a violent insurrection, that wounded and hospitalized a 150 hostages, killed people atop the government, it's not a crime, not an event, it was a normal tourist visit, as you know, which is why american tours are not

>> republican leadership at the last minute chose not to do the right thing. >> republican leadershipt the last minute chose not to do the right thing. but this is really what happens about restoring integrity of the house. this is about ensuring that this house was in a way about truth and justice, and the full house did the right thing. including the republicans that came. >> were you surprised -- >> it's a shame that it has taken 11 months. it's a shame there were 115 votes to protect george santos, including all of the republican leadership. elise stefanik in new york was george santos' biggest supporter. and she still is wrapping herself around george santos. but the resolution passed. and i think that today at least democracy prevailed. >> you're from new york, you represent new york just like congressman santos. your take on what you just saw happen today. >> my take is new york has been broadly, beyond just the district three, has been clamoring for george santos to be removed from congress since january. we had members of new york 3 come down this morning and talk about how t

it is potentially one republican no vote, ken buck of colorado. they can't afford to lose more than three votes, and we don't expect that to happen. still, there's a lot of questions about where this investigation goes, what evidence they will get and whether it will lead to the president's impeachment. all questions for the new speaker as he grapples with the members who want to push for impeachment. others saying where's the evidence? >> yeah, good question. meanwhile, house republicans are moving forward with putting hunter biden in contempt of congress. >> reporter: yeah. we expect those proceedings to continue on in the new year. it's coming from james comber, the house overnight chairman in the aftermath of hunter biden's decision to defy the republican subpoena today. they said they plan to move forward with those proceedings, but they will take time. first, it has to be approved by the house committee, then referred to the u.s. attorney before deciding whether charges can be placed. that will take time. republicans still plan to press ahea

you were the only republican candidate to has a china plant. you've is a long record tough on china. >> strength in the world of chaos. >> time in his china will not just lose. timing is china will end up on the ash heap of history. >> florida governor ron desantis and his wife also on the campaign trail this week. she talk with a number of talk radio shows based in iowa including this one which he talked about the experience of taking her children to campaign events and how she reacts to criticism of her and her husband. >> and i guess come after that is probably used to by now but they are coming after you. if you search in them, i'm not going to go through the stories, casey desantis problem come somebody once said, knives out for casey desantis. i could go on and on and on. they had come for you. these are seven-year-old aware of that? >> you know what, they are still so young. they are not on electronic devices, they do not have social media. they need to be out of the house before they are ever on social media according to me and the bett

this of course, is a very important, a republican voting a priority. now there are even polls that say that, especially in republican voters minds that the border has moved to the 2nd position in order of importance. so right after the economy, but up what is going on. but the fact that remote, the fact remains that there is a lot of daylight between everybody understanding that there is a problem at the southern border and the solutions that the republicans want to see implemented. many democrats see the solutions as a draconian and mac symbolist and this is going to be, this is going to be a key sticking point. and you know, this is a, a long entrenched problem that, of course, so it might spill over into getting ukraine a past as we've been seeing. so our congressional republicans willing to risk ukraine falling over us immigration policy in the southern border as well as the messaging that we've seen. and none of them will, of course, will, will say it quite like that. but it is quite noticeable that we are seeing more talk of especially from the r

and republicans talking about republicans. [ laughter ] all right, here we go. government is part of the republican party's fundamental duty, and they can't even do that so now here we are at the 11th hour with the clock ticking, and they can't even seat a speaker, which says volumes at first it was somewhat comical, now it's bordering on the absurd for more on this it's time for "a closer look." ♪ nancy mace, what grade do we get for that bit yes! [ laughter and applause so republicans have by their own admission paralyzed one chamber of congress because of their ineptitude and dysfunction they're admitting to the world they're not a serious governing party. and still no one can predict when this pointless melodrama will end on the bright side, maybe they'll finally have enough down time to read that book they love about a woman named -- >> scarlet letter. [ laughter ] >> seth: this has been "a closer look." ♪ we'll be right back with reba mcentire! [ cheers and applause ♪ >> for more of seth's "closer looks," be sure to subscribe to "late night" on youtube. ♪

we'll see how republicans respond to this. i expect they will likely bring up the criminal charges that hunter is facing from the biden justice department and then likely talk about how they wanted and subpoenaed him for a closed-door deposition which is not what he did, but it will probably take him a while to figure out exactly how to respond to this unexpected move. >> absolutely. paula reid there. thank you so much. stick around with us. we are hearing from a ranking house member right now, jamie raskin hearing and i think we'll go to him to see if we have reaction. >> -- their own republican witness are, from what he has seen there are not grounds for an impeachment inquiry or rather, impeachment in general of president biden, but that has not deterred the republican side from continuing to try to force through a completely groundless and unsubstantiated and i won't even call it an investigation. i just call it an exercise in futility. when we've seen from this deposition, chairman comer himself told hunter biden, you cho

host: let's go to grove city, ohio on the republican line. caller: i am on the republican line. i always consider all the candidates. most elections, way back when, i felt like a matter who wins, we will have a good president. now we had two guys, who neither one of them should be on the ticket. both of them will be on the ticket. i supported the effort years ago. i voted republican. it was hard to vote for trump. i voted for him. i will not vote for him this time. i will not vote for president biden. i think that means that i will not vote because i'm throwing my vote away if i vote for a third party candidate. until they come up with other candidates, which everyone thinks that we need, i will be none of the above is my vote. unless something changes. host: does that mean you will not show up at the polls at all in november? or does that mean that you just will not vote in the presidential election? caller: i'm not going to vote in the presidential election for either one of these men. if one of the parties finds someone closer to the real world , i could support them regardle

but, you know, richard, we should look at the republicans, the republicans holding support for israel hostage, holding support for the ukrainian soldiers hostage, we should look at through the lens of what donald trump told zelenskyy, he said i'm not going to send you any defensive weapons until you get dirt on my political rivals. so they're impacting -- donald trump is impacting u.s. foreign policies for his own personal purposes. you have republicans who claim they want to support israel and ukraine but they're holding it hostage for border security. here's the rub, biden has let them know he wants the deal. he's gng to get tougher on border security. he will meet them more than halfway and the republican response, we're not going to do a deal. we're going to make it impossible for joe biden to get a deal done by the end of the year, all for just naked political reasons and they're willing to leave israel and ukraine hanging out there. >> look, if that's the case, joe, i's bad for border security and america's reputation in the world, bad for america's security. i was with j.d. van

to your point, a lot of republicans are not thrilled with what is happened out of new york, republicane decision opens the door for democrats to read our congressional district lines so that elections are decided not by the voters, but by politicians in a back room, that is rich, your response? >> so, last night i don't drink up all but last night i kicked back and celebrated with a glassful of her tears, it was quite a wonderful cocktail. but look, republicans have been denying minority voting around the country, that is what develop alabama was out and with louisiana and georgia are about, they have also been relying on unfair maps in states like new york, not only new york, in ohio, for example, now what they have done in north carolina is --, so republicans are in no standing to complain about fair maps coming to new york, and it is important that, as people say, both sides do it, both sides don't do it, what we asked for the courts in new york to do was to be bipartisan, equally divided, independent redistricting to submitting a new map, that is a far cry from what you hear about

but the extreme maga republicans are running away from an agreement that the extreme maga republicans themselves negotiated and insisted would be part of the discussions around preventing a catastrophic default on our debt. and so there's only one issue to be resolved here, which is for the house republicans to come to the realization that we are not going to bend the knee to the extreme ransom demands and in conflict devastating cuts to the health, the safety, and economic well-being to the american people in a manner inconsistent with the bipartisan fiscal responsibility act that house republicans themselves negotiated and supported, including the current speaker of the house of representatives. thank you, everyone.an.org.