to the republican party? or to donald trump? 62% said the republican party. 26% said donald trump. and i think we are in an instant-gratification society. anderson, donald trump dominated the political world in this country, and around the world for that matter, for five years. he's been gone now not quite ten months out of office. and we expect everything to be changed. i think that people have to start to speak out about the truth, which is what i try to do in the book. >> but other than, i mean, your speaking out but there is not a lot of other people out there. i mean, it is pretty lonely w. see what happened to liz cheney. adam kinzinger as well said he is not going to run again. >> well i think it's a little different for me because, you know, for people who say they support donald trump, they have to line up behind me. you remember i was the first one to endorse him in february of 2016 after i dropped out of the race. chaired his transition. was offered chief of staff. was offered secretary of labor. was offered homeland security secretary. a lot of things. i didn't take the

so as a whole in the republican party, we have a very rich history and republican politics. we are not used to being with that regard we would fight for civil rights and work on those issues but as a whole as a party, we are not doing enough on those issues which is why for me those are issues i've taken up on my mantle and i worked on beforeng coming to congress the one and only bill i have signed into law in the short time i was in state politics was a prison reform bill which prohibited those in prison while they were giving birth in labor and delivery and the other thing i did is allow women to have their children visit once a week and they are provided feminine hygiene products in today i continue that kind of work. at the first bill that i passed out of the house of representatives was a piece of civil rights legislation regarding due process. so if you are in a federal penitentiary or prison system and have communications with your attorney and protected by phone call but not by e-mail so we wanted to bring. i worked with jeffries on that piece of legislation. i helped

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

if he left the party republicans would lose. he has built our party and added a new base, we've become a working class party, asaw it in my home state of michigan, look at macomb county. he vocally put out that i'm not leaving it and out in the field helping to elect, and he did that in the youngkin. >> you said that it's false and the president said fake news. >> i am commented on it. >> it's false the three words of the statement. >> read the statement-- >> i've said what i'm going to say which is the president stayed in the party. this is a nonissue and we're going to continue to have him in the party. >> did he ever tell you he would leave, i've already said i'm not talking about my conversations with the president of the united states. >> and jeff early, daily mail. >> a lot of reporting the last few weeks and months about trump refusing privately and publicly, not to certify votes from states. so what does it mean for the party if-- the top of the ticket the debate coverage and stories that we write. what does it mean for t

nobody's walking out of the republican party. >> robinson deplores the goldwater party, but he remainso the party of lincoln, the party that historically been pro civil rights. >> if you were a black republican, you would suddenly see this party has been your home before the war, this party didn't want you there anymore. >> 40,000 people, half of them negroes, demonstrate against goldwater. >> those who felt unwanted took to the streets outside the cal palace, including jackie robinson. at the heart of their anger, the 1964 civil rights bill, signed into law just days before the convention began. barry goldwater was one of only 27 senators to vote against it. >> we are being asked to destroy the rights of some under the false banner of promoting the civil rights of others. >> historians say goldwater was not a racist, but most agree, he did not do enough to denounce segregation. at the convention, the racial climate is growing uglier. >> the negro race sends -- >> oh, you see me first as a negro and then a human. i'm first a human being! >> they got a core demonstrator carrying him up

[applause] era for the republican party. [applause] let me make one thing really clear, the only reason to affiliate with a political party and support a political party is to win. winning campaigns are the campaigns that look forward and not backward. if we don't get it, we are to lose. i took a victory lap. why should i vote for you this time? no one thought it could be done. what do i get free voting for you this time? what voters remember is these things are always about tomorrow. if we are going to articulate a vision for what we want to do for this country, then the voters will abandon us. we saw it happen. anybody who is a supporter of president trump, the line forms behind me. i was the first major officeholder in the country to endorse him. i chaired his transition. i chaired his opioid commission. we needed to get on that. i played joe biden in debate prep. i started that. we can no longer talk about the past. in the past elections. it is over. every minute that we spend talking about 2020, the democrats are ruling

. >>> we want to begin, though, with the latest examples of the republican party's continued shift towardsremism. republican congresswoman lauren boebert garnering massive backlash after video surfaced of her at a campaign event suggesting that fellow congresswoman ilhan omar was mistaken for a terrorist. we want to warn you. the comments are inflammatory. but i think it's important for you to hear it. and hear her own hateful words. >> and he and i were leaving the capitol, we're going back to my office and we get in the elevator and i see a capitol police officer running hurriedly to the elevator. i see fret all over his face. and he's reaching, and i'm like, what? the door's shutting. like, i can't open it. what's happening? and i looked to my left, and there she is. >> oh no. >> ilhan omar. >> whoops. >> and i said, well, she doesn't have a backpack, we should be fine. >> so, congresswoman omar slammed the remarks as anti-muslim bigotry and said the events boebert described were actually made up. the colorado republican has since issued an apology to, quote, anyone in the muslim commun

we also know that today's republican party is largely a party of grievance culture war issues. embedded deeply in race and discrimination. and i think, ayman, what has pivoted in the last few years among republicans and largely through the rise of donald trump, and this is very important, where parties used to fight over the fairness or the equity of policies from marginal taxes to education to labor, which constituencies won, which ones lost, the two parties represented their own's. now the republican party is a party that says something is being taken from you, your privilege, your way of life, your culture is being ripped from you. and that gives license to people like boebert to say, look, it is all the muslims' fault, it is all the black lives matter fault, it is now all about critical race theory. because if you are telling your constituency that your way of life is being taken from you, now you have license to make jokes that are racially insensitive and stoke violence. now you're allowed, there's a culture of permission to engage in the events of january 6th or other ev

towards the midterms. >> well, this embrace of this, you know, what was a fringe part of the republican partyactually now embraced within the mainstream of the party, and what i mean by that is that not only are these lawmakers, who are on the edge, celebrating kyle rittenhouse and his violence, but there's nobody else in the republican party who's willing to speak the truth to what happened in wisconsin. and what i know, and i think the sense that i have from so many people who are saying that the system -- justice system is just not fair, there is not a part of my imagination that can imagine a young black kid walking down the streets in kenosha, wisconsin, and allowed to shoot two people and injure one. there is not a single part of our imagination that could conceive that would happen and that is a sign that this system is completely flawed and completely unjust. >> and that's why folks argue, in fact, this trial was very much about race, despite the fact that people said it was not. david jolly, donna edwards, thank you. i appreciate it. great to see you. >>> we are monitoring, everybody

i love the title of your book, chris christie, "republican rescue: saving the party from truth denierske the republicans need to be rescued from a lot of things. >> yeah, they do, and, look, the biggest thing we need to be rescued from -- or to is the truth. you know, if we don't become the party of telling the truth again, we've got no hope for anybody to trust us to do figure, and when we get all these conspiracy theories and truth denicer, it's just not going to work. what i try to do in the book is go through q anon and pizzagate and birther-ism and election stuff and say, here are the real facts, and i hope after you read them you live come to the conclusion there's no truth to any of this stuff and we need to focus on the important things going on in the country now. >> trevor: but surely you realize you are up against a monumental issue here because a lot of the republican party believes many of these things. >> that's what leadership is all about, right? i mean, in the end, if you want the to try to lead, which is what i'm trying to do which is help lead the party in another di

any presents a very authoritative overview of the liberal and conservative ways of the republican party through the 30s through - and he then also an insiders view of very of how some very tasty and substantive sausage was a mistake policy sausage was made and the west early mostse productive years of the 69 in the 70s in this for three years, everything possible and the stars were in line at the staff and nixon and even some of the congress so not much got through. but at anyny rate, and then the nixon literature. you provide a an objective but impacted you nixon and of what he was like and that is rare and you bring your own experience and the observation but you also bring your own judgment and intelligence so it is a hand, this might sound heavy but you have a way with words, you rely for the telling in the attic tote which makes it really easy to read and easy to remember. and ato phrase so you put on yo, and the most important thing is you will sell you, and signed books afterwords so let's get a book and begin at the beginning, tell something about yourself. >> i was actually the

what is the future of that wing of the republican party, at least on capitol hill? guest: they may not have much of a future. there is not a wing of trump opponents on capitol hill. there are less than a handful of republicans who are willing to openly defy and criticize the former president for his postelection behavior, and his culpability in the january 6 riots. what you are going to see in 2024, and you are already seeing this in 2022, is a party that has -- that is broadly behind the trump legislative agenda, and i think what some people forget is liz cheney voted with trump when it came to legislation, more so than her successor. liz cheney had a 80's -- 80% something voting record with the trump agenda but this has never been about the legislative agenda. it's all -- it's always been about fealty or loyalty to trump the person. since last november, about this election. you will not see republicans trying to stick in needle in the eye of their own voters by going against the former president in a way that is overt like this. what you will see and what we may se

what we need to understand about this republican party is that they are not going to come out againstt base because this is who they are. they are a party of white nationalists. you have marjorie taylor greene trying to get a congressional medal of freedom for a murderer, kyle rittenhouse. you have paul gosar threatening to literally murder one of his colleagues, which wouldn't be able to happen in a department store if you were a worker there and tried to do that with one of your colleagues, let alone doing it as a member of congress. but this is who these people are. and this is -- the bar is so low, we're in the gutter right now with this congress. and i'm really worried. i have to say this -- very worried for the people who continue to be singled out by this republican party. do they have security? does ilhan omar -- does representative alexandria ocasio-cortez -- or are we going to be wait for there to be an actual attempt on their life in order to recognize just how vile and violent the republican party has become? >> adam, what was your read on this statement? was she trying to

the republican party was more business centric than the democratic party. st: where your parents republicans? caller: my parents were democrats. they were very liberal, but that was not my thinking. host: what did they say about you going to work for the young republicans in milwaukee? caller: they were concerned, particularly my father my because he owns a democratic journal in philadelphia when he was young. he could not understand why i wanted to be a republican. i just expanded to him that the republican party was more in line with the way i wanted to live. host: what did he say to you? why was he a democrat? caller: he wrote a journal during the mccarthy era. he fought for democracy and he just felt the republican party was -- was not for the people. i try to expand to him that as a business person i am employed people. i employ 35 people. i wanted to speak out for other businesses that were responsible as well. host: thanks from the call from new york. independent russell is here in washington, d.c.. what makes you an independent? >> i am an independen

>> well, to me this isn't a preview of how the republican party would lead, this is exactly how they tinue to lead. donald trump's presidency was just that beginning. als for the dark extremist underbelly of the party to come to life. all of these things that we're seeing, currents around vaccines, black lives matter's, this is all again a continuation of what we've seen for the last four years. but really has been existing within the republican party for a very long time. it just never really had a platform. this racist, sexist, violent rhetoric, it has a home within the gop for, now in this foreseeable future. they've proven that time and time again. with or without trump, this is the future of the republican party and everybody should be on notice right now. this really isn't surprising, because the gop machine capitalizes on division and they've always been labeled as the outrage machine. it's dangerous. it's wrong. and as you pointed out, it stands -- all of these political tension. it's always been labeled the outreach machine for this reason. >> ferdinand, i'm curious about thi

the ripen side set out with this grant pretension to try to be something like that within the republican party. upon side with this grant pretension to try to be something like that within the republican party.pon this grant pretension to try to be something like that within the republican party. >> and it was the group of liberal implied republican students entirely? >> yes, grad students -- >> and then graduates -- founded in -- >> it was actually started to percolate in 1962. and finally, really clicked when kennedy was assassinated. we really looked at ourselves and well, what are we all about? what should we do? and we found a name for ourselves. which is the name of rippon wisconsin, which is where the republican party is founded out of a whole bunch of different prior organizations like the whigs and the no nothings and such. but, so it had specific reference to the founding of the republican party. >> we have -- we're at a disadvantage not being able to really see but i showed it to you earlier. a group photograph. >> and this is when the vanity fair. >> somehow managed to position mys

racists have always felt comfortable in the republican party. why does that happen and what can be done now to change that? >> well, republicans use that, some republicans choose to use that strategy because it works. i hate to say it but that's the ugly part of what we're talking about and erin and you both said something very important. it's not up to women of color or white women or anybody to be the savior or to be the blame. this is how we are operating as a country, and i think one of the take aways from last night's election results is that i think that democrats may have been over ecstatic about their positioning this past january. it was a 50/50 senate and three or five majority in the house and biden was -- did win but that nbc poll that came out this weekend showed something really important. i think that's where democrats and frankly republicans are going to play on and that is the 36% of the people voted for trump because they liked him or his policies. and 6% voted for trump because they didn't like biden's. only 27% of the people

the republican party is the party of hope. and aspirations and the american dream. if you all are willing to join with leaders all across this country to do that, then we are going to see a greater day not only for our republican party, not only for each other and our children and grandchildren, but everyone around the world who is dying once again to stand within america that stout -- that tells the truth and we can believe in. when we give them that we will once again be that shining city on a hill. thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] >> coming up today on c-span we will have live coverage of president biden's remarks from the port of baltimore. the president is expected to discuss the impact of the 1.2 trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill at 4:10 eastern on c-span. tonight, nasa launches a spacex crew to the international space station. live coverage begins on c-span

susan, can the republican party be savaged? and what should the rest of us be doing while these people hold positions of power in our country? >> well, can it be salvaged, not in its current enforcement it literally needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt. that is the only way you're going to see a principled party come back. and again, we're not talking about -- juanita doesn't have to agree with me on tax policy, but she needs a governing partner or someone who's willing to have a conversation to get things done, and that's where that simply does not exist in leadership in washington or, frankly, in many other places right now. >> when you say burned to the ground, you're talking about

the republican party or donald trump. 62% of iowa republicans said the republican party. 26% said donald, my point, is everybody wants instant gratification in our society these. days donald trump dominated our political lives for five years. he's been gone from the presidency only a few months. and yet we think all of that's going to disappear overnight, there is significant movement in places like iowa, where they say not that they're rejecting donald trump, but if they had to make a choice as to where their loyalty was, it's with the republican party. that's the party that i write the book about, that i am attempting to get support on. -- doesn't look in the rearview mirror. it looks forward to provide an effective, truthful counter to the policies that joe biden and kamala harris are putting forward to the country. >> i want to rewind briefly to your choice to use donald trump dominated the party. what evidence have you beyond the anecdotal polling information in iowa, that leadership of the republican party, through mcconnell, through mccarthy and on down, are all trumpers. you woul

becoming -- well, we quote offend governor minnesota, tim who said we are not the party, he was republican set were not the part of the country club, where the party of sam's club and that wasn'tsn completely true when he said and still isn't true completely now, there's a lot of rich people in a brother publican coalition has become much more working class and is extending beyond the white working class right now so the biggest trend is white americans without a college education have become more likely to vote republican but in the top era, we are still waiting to see but quite plausibly in the elections post- trump iraq, urc minority voters, african-american and hispanic, especially hispanic move toward republican party and likely to be middle to working-class voters who are sort of following this polarization happening o across racial lines so american politics slightly less racially polarized but more class and education polarized than before trump came on the scene. that was what we foresaw. what we wanted was a republican party that leaned into this transformation with an aggressive

it is not surprising given all the headlines in the news about the republican party right now, but itss of whether you are democrat, republican, independent, must act better and must set an example for the rest of the american people, and it is unfortunate this trumps republican party is not doing that. and it's quite disgusting how far right this republican party has gone and what they'll do for power. >> yeah. all right, you guys. sit tight because i have a few more questions on the other side of the break. and for all of you just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it does. from one school board voting unanimously to ban books to talk of burning those books. the panel's going to tackle that headline and another alarming one about the teaching of racism. ♪ there are beautiful ideas that remain in the dark. but with our new multi-cloud experience, you have the flexibility you need to unveil them to the world. ♪ tums vs. mozzarella stick to when heartburn hits, ld. fight back fast with tums chewy bites. fast heartburn relief in every bite. crunchy outside, chewy inside. ♪ tums

i've never been a member of the republican party. nd i look at it and i say why is my friend that was a highway patrolman so eager to be a republican and why are these committees along the southern border so eager for the first time in my life why are people of different races and ethnic backgrounds saying they are republican and they see themselves as an agreed middle class and they feel that they have more in common. i know that a mexican-american person that they share more in common with a wide child in bakersfield than they do with their elite representative studies professors at stanford so very slowly this class that has a lot in common but doesn't trust the open borders mentality. it doesn't trust identity politics. it wants things for the middle class it doesn't trust of these bureaucrats we talk about and certainly doesn't like these revolutionaries that want to change the filibuster and they really want a place here. i'm very happy when i talked to so many people that i grew up with and they say things to me like if anybody

the interview with governor christie, a lot of prescriptions about the way forward for the republican partynce, he is tying himself in a bunch of knots, trying to figure out like so many republicans are how to navigate a republican party where donald trump is still a dominant force. he is trying to speak truth to trumpism. at the same time, he can't reject trump because he can't be a never trump are because then he would lose all credibility with the people he claims he is trying to persuade. it is a quandary that many republicans who could see themselves running for president in 2024 find themselves. amna: it is a quandary? >> an enigma. amna: maybe eight or dokken? >> very appropriate for this time of year. >> in essence, trying to find trumpism without trump's what he also seems to be saying. you can keep the policies that everybody loved, let's just leave the conspiracy theories and the tweeting and all of the behavior stuff that people didn't like, leave that on the cutting room floor, except that that part of who trump is is what made trumpism appealing to a lot of voters. so that is

university, thank you so much for your time. >> thank >> woodruff: debate over the future of the republican partyway ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. and while both parties are formulating their midterm strategies, former new jersey governor chris christie has some advice for the g.o.p. he says it's time to do away with tactics like focusing on grievances and believing in conspiracy theories-- strategies that also helped to propel donald trump to the top of republican party leadership. governor christie's new book is called "republican rescue" and he joins me now. thank you very much for joining us. the book is a prescription for the republican party, as you put it, to recapture its glory. and win elections again. but this is a moment when the republican party looks to be doing well, analysts are saying it is probably going to pick up, the house of representatives next november, pick up speed in the national,-- seats in the national, president biden's poll numbers are down, at this moment are you trying to save the republican party? >> we lost the house of representatives, the united states s

i think it's up to the republican party, you know, republican party that i grew up in that house. still there. i agree with your previous guest who was saying that, you know, voting rights is the death knell for them, but for the republican party. i've had a prominent historian tell me in the run-up to the 2016 election, the historian said it's the end of the republican party. which, for me, you know, started when they tried to get sarah palin through a heartbeat away from the presidency. they've just been off the rails, and i think out in the midwest, where i live, in michigan, we're not stupid. we know b.s. when we see it. and i think at least the people i'm around, and yes, there are those who are very pro-trump and flying the flags and still, you know, singing the songs, but there are a lot of people who are just over it. and they just want somebody to tell them the truth. like in mccomb county, this swing county in michigan. you know, they were reagan democrats or biden republicans, and trump came through michigan in 2016 and promised these guys, these men and women of all ra

and the republican party which has this traditional image of the affluent and the country club was becoming -- well, we quoted the then-governor of minnesota tim pawlenty who said, he was a republican, and he said we're not the party of the country club, we're the party of sam's club. and that wasn't completely true when he said it, still isn't completely true now. the republican coalition has a lot of rich people in it, but the republican coalition has become much more working class. and this is extending beyond the white working class right now. so, you know, the biggest trend is that white americans without a college education have become more likely to vote republican. but in the trump era and, you know, we're still waiting to see but quite plausibly in the elections of the post-trump era, you're also seeing some minority seat -- voters move toward the republican party. and, again, they're likely to be middle to working class voters who are sort of following this kind of polarization that's happening across racial lines. so oddly, american politics is slightly less racially polarized bu

the republican party is the party of hope. and aspirations and the american dream.f you all are willing to join with leaders all across this country to do that, then we are going to see a greater day not only for our republican party, not only for each other and our children and grandchildren, but everyone around the world who is dying once again to stand within america that stout -- that tells the truth and we can believe in. when we give them that we will once again be that shining city on a hill. thank you very much. [applause] ♪

party? >> well, he's a republican that lives in florida. i mean that's it. i mean as far as new hampshire is concerned, the only thing that matters for the party, what are the republicans doing for new hampshire? what's our senate and house doing for new hampshire? for our citizens, that's what defines the party. that's the example and accountability i try to live up to. it's not about party politics and platform and what's being said in the national media. it's what we're delivering. if we can do that every single day, we'll be successful. >> are we supposed to consider you a president candidate in 2024? >> people have asked me about that. look, i suppose that would be on the table, but nothing i'm thinking about right now. if i went to washington, it would be more of a management aspect because that's just what i do. we'll cross that bridge or jump off it, you know, down the road. >> well, maybe that's a cabinet secretary, or maybe that's one of the two elected jobs. governor sununu, thank you for coming on and sharing your perspective with us. >> you bet.

and that's not to say the entire republican party, certainly not. invited into the republican coalition under donald trump's leadership largely right, largely male right-wing sympathetic extremists that the department of homeland security and our domestic intelligence agencies have identified as a domestic violent threat. and so what you see in those conversations with jonathan, carl and otherwise is not simply just a former president making it about himself suggesting there are constitutional scholars who wrongly think that the election was stolen from donald trump, but what you see is somebody refusing to condemn that potential hanging of the vice president, and in doing so extends this permission structure towards further violence. and i think that's the greatest concern is what our federal agencies have identified, that we could see additional violence and perhaps even the loss of life as a result of rhetoric and the permission structure created by donald trump. >> right. maria turesa, i don't want to, you know, down-play what donald trump is doi

that scenario is now inconceivable, now that the republican party has sunk below even the nixon level of honor and decentsy and become the trump party. as long as the republican party is locked in its worship of donald trump, it is inconceivable that a republican vice president would participate in certifying the electoral victory of a democratic president again. the house select committee investigating the attack on the capitol is at its most ambitious attempting to prevent such an attack from happening again, but it might simply be an investigation that shows us exactly what we should expect to happen the next time a trump republican loses a presidential election. today the house select committee investigating the january 6 attack on the capitol issued five more subpoenas to witness involved in planning and organizing the trump rally on january 6. two prominent trump allies are targeted in this batch of subpoenas. they are roger stone and alex jones. roger stone avoided serving the 40-month prison sentence that he got for his previous crimes on behalf of donald trump when donald tru