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and they're even madder at rick scott for telling voters what they would do if they got control of theecifically, scott talked about cutting social security and medicare, which resulted in scaring older voters. rick scott's not supposed to scare older voters. he's supposed to scare harry potter and his meddling friends! ( applause ) most shocking of all, some of the g.o.p. blame is going to the person who actually deserves it, former president cheatloaf. ( laughter ) according to one republican strategist, they lost because of the ex-prent's hicked conspiracy candis, "the mypilizatioof the g.o.p. hsan er." to which mike lindell responded, "use promo code 'gop-disaster' for 20% off your next pillow sham!" ( cheers and applause ) "sham, like the sham elections! sham!" especially a prominent election denier was denied his election, andfinally admitted it. i'm talkin' about pennsylvania republican gubernatorial candidate and haunted testicle, doug mastriano. mastriano believed god would ensure his victory, so it was extra sweet when, this sunday, doug mastriano conceded to josh shapiro. ♪

senator rick scott, republican from florida, joins me now.the fact that we were able to achieve through this bill essentially all of our priorities. isn't getting rid of pork and excessive spending that causes inflation one of your priorities? >> well, you would hi. but think about it, they gave us this bill at 1:30 in the morning tuesday morning. st it's three items the size of the bible. we're spaced -- supposed to vote on it today or tomorrow. no one will have read it. he's some earmarks. we're going to have money for bee-friendly highways, we've got a skate park in rhode island. we got money to promote a dirt bike culture in baltimore, and i think it'sst, like, $1.5 million to promote outdoor eating in sunny pass dean that, california, all right? -- pasadena. it's over a trillion dollars in new debt. it's going to cause more inflation. david: so why, senator, forgive me, but why is the leader of the republicans, your leader in the senate, saying that it's a great achievement? >> well, as you know, i ran against mitch mcconnell to be the l

but rick scott, of the nrsc, and mitch mcconnell clear the feel for herschel.hey could've put up a different candidate. it was obvious herschel was going to be a train wreck running into a dumpster fire running into an orphanage, whatever that was. spring of 2020, when i wrote an article for the bulwark, i think march of 2021 that this is going to be a disaster. this guy is awful. and yet, they cleared the field for him because they were all scared of donald trump. and that's what this comes down to. can these guys get the courage to now say, not just blame trump and start cycling back up to him, but blame him and say, no, we are going to beat you, we're gonna put up candidates that are better than yours, and show you how big of a loser you are? that's what republicans need to do. and i just am not seeing any evidence they're actually doing that. and i think had they done that in georgia, look at brian kemp and brad raffensperger, if they ran a candidate like that for the senate, they probably would've won. >> but latosha, they had to drag trump out of the whit

senators rick scott rick scott and josh hawley say they are stunned they haven't seen the $2 trillion spending bill just days before expected to vote on it. >> i still haven't seen it. we are days away from to vote on a $2 trillion bill and 7500 marks in it. we know it will not do anything to secure the border. we know there is nothing that i can tell that will be different other than voters. >> just like the house of representatives, and actually the budget is the most important thing congress does. they are less than a month away. we will do a year-long massive budget and all of joe biden's far left, i'm against it. >> the house noted a stopgap to should avoid a shut down into trillion dollar omnibus package will include a record $858 million in defense spending, 45 billion more than joe biden's proposal. >> todd: a team arriving home to a hero's welcome early this morning after welcome tribe from france. touching down in the capital city just a few hours ago. and still greeted by a massive crowd of diehard supporters. they will will not let the night time stop them. >> carley: heck

john. >> john: florida republican senator rick scott for more on this. as you heard rich say, no smoking gun here, and long speculated and long downplayed by the intelligence community. if anybody suggested a couple years ago this could have been the case, they would have been dispensed as an tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist, but there are questions, are there not? >> origin of covid is not a partisan issue. we need a bipartisan, whatever the facts are the facts are. sure looks like it came out of the wuhan lab, but let's get the facts out and then we can tell people you know, the truth. let's remember this. everything that comes out of communist china is bad for the united states of america. they are out to dominate the world and everything they are doing is bad for american citizens. whether it's social media, whether the wuhan, they clearly covered this up for whatever reason, so i think we have to -- you know, let's get the facts, i don't trust anything that comes out of communist china personally. >> john: rewind back to april 30, 2020, in t

rick scott is mitch mcconnell's nemesis, rick scott had a terrible cycle as head of senate campaigns,cott and backup, drive it over and again. >> i'm pretty sure he knows how to do. that [laughter] >> we can still event, there james carville, jason johnson, -- coming. up >> on raphael warnock's win and what it means for democrats in d.c. right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ seatgeek presents the shoulder seat. he got a great deal on seats, and he knows the value of a great seat, because he is one. seatgeek handles the tickets, so fans can fan. for adults with generalized myasthenia gravis who are positive for acetylcholine receptor antibodies, it may feel like the world is moving without you. but the picture is changing, with vyvgart. in a clinical trial, participants achieved improved daily abilities with vyvgart added to their current treatment. and vyvgart helped clinical trial participants achieve reduced muscle weakness. vyvgart may increase the risk of infection. in a clinical study, the most common infections were urinary tract and respiratory tract infections. tell your doctor if you have a

they're blaming rick scott or mitch mcconnell. there is hands-down one person most responsible for republicans not winning more senate seats and not performing better in the house, and it's donald trump. i think it's still going to be some time before that course correction takes place. >> bakari, are you surprised to hear some republicans openly placing some of the blame on the president? john thune, he's been critical in the past, not that great a surprise. >> i'm not surprised. you see the same ones going to their respective corners. thune, mcconnell, tepid in their answers. lindsey graham, saying whatever lindsey graham believes at the time. when you see these things happen in realtime, you realize that there's nobody truly standing up and calling donald trump what he is. but i speak for most democrats when we say rana mcdaniel and donald trump, 2024. this has been the most unsuccessful duo of individuals who led a major party in american history. i don't think you've seen anyone since 2017 not win a singular cycle. that's fai

. >> florida senator rick scott, chair of the republican senate campaign committee did not like that, telling politico, quote, senator mcconnell and i clearly have a strategic disagreement here. we have great candidates, he went on to say. he added that we are all true leaders for our candidates. great candidates like election denier blake masters running for senate in arizona and backed by the former president. >> i think trump won in 2020, maybe you disagree, but you've got to admit, this election was really messed up. >> and actually the 2020 election was not really messed up. trump lost fair and square. then there was kari lake, a former tv anchor, according to those who knew her, ran for governor of arizona as a 2020 denier, who would not commit to accepting the outcome of this election unless she won, which he did not. she was backed by the former president. >> my question is, will you accept the results of your election in november? >> i am going to win the election, and i will accept that result. >> if you lose, will you accept that? >> i will win the election, and i will acce

rick scott is mitch mcconnell's nemesis, rick scott had a terrible cycle as head of senate campaigns,ve the bus over rick scott and backup, drive it over and again. >> i'm pretty sure he knows how to do. we will leave that there, james carville, juanita tolliver, read gallon, no one needed -- simone sanders townsend, michael steele -- are here again and what it means -- right now ans -- right no oh nice. kevin, where are you... kevin?!?!?.... hey, what's going on? i'm right here! i was busy cashbacking for the holidays with chase freedom unlimited. i'm gonna cashback on a gingerbread house! oooh, it's got little people inside! and a snowglobe. oh, i wished i lived in there. you know i can't believe you lost another kevin. it's a holiday tradition! that it is! earn big time with chase freedom unlimited. ♪ well, we fell in love through gaming. earn big time with chase freedom unlimited. but now the internet lags and it throws the whole thing off. when did you first discover this lag? i signed us up for t-mobile home internet. ugh! but, we found other interests. i guess we have. [both] f

crazy. >> seth: you know, if you really want to know whether or not you're crazy, maybe don't ask rick scottaughter ] "if you ask me, all of you earth people are crazy." [ laughter ] also, just in general when you start a sentence with "am i crazy" on fox news, the answer is almost always yes it would make a great title for most of their shows. although in fairness, saying the words "i am crazy" is a pretty good indication that you are, no matter where you say it. for example, right now there are a bunch of jets fans sitting around saying, "am i crazy or are we going to win the super bowl this year?" and, look, the jets are good i'm not denying that but that doesn't mean they're not still the jets i said as much to our security guard, jim, this morning and then he told me that nbc has a new policy where talent has to ride to work in the trunk. [ light laughter ] and he also told me i need to keep my [ bleep ] mouth shut, desk boy i think he's sensitive because he already bought tickets to the super bowl, and the green and white face paint [ laughter ] which is an unprofessional thing to wear

announcer: republican senators ron johnson, mike lee, rand paul and rick scott discuss a government spendinghut down to avoid shutdown. the briefing runs 45 minutes. >> i want to thank you all for coming. i want to thank my colleagues for joining. this is from my standpoint pretty basic. both senator scott and i come from the private sector and business. and we're used to having financial information and having a disciplined process of reviewing it. before we agree to budgets in our business. we as congress are the board of directors of the largest financial entity in the world. and we haven't talked numbers. you got the number here but it so it is not fair to ask, but i have been asking colleagues and reporters do you know how much the government spent last year? most people i asked are pretty flummoxed. don't feel bad, because we never talk about it. what i have done is prepare this chart. it gives you basic information. i want to point out the $4.4 trillion, that is what we were spending. in 2019 the pandemic hit. we recognize we had a pandemic and congress spent all kind of money, it tot

be, coming from budget committees, top republicans, the republican study committee, or senator rick scott has their own ideas. as they work through those particular apps, we will start to see the nitty-gritty details. host: in new jersey, democrat line, this is mitchell. >> good morning. i would like to circle back to the debt also. was my understanding that the debt ceiling might be debt -- dealt with in the name duck by the democrats, as it seems like it is one of the few pieces of legislative leverage the republicans will have and when they take power in the house in january. i'm wondering where are we out and what this could mean for policy? guest: it seems unlikely democrats would do anything to raise the debt limit by themselves, and requires using the budget reconciliation process which takes weeks of floor time especially in the senate in order to get done and there's not time anymore. congress is in session officially for the next two weeks. they would be a hard deadline to do that because at the end of the year, all of legislation in congress resets and that starts at square one

. >> and this become a misinformation manipulation senator rick scott says every american should consider ditching tiktok. every parent's be question tiktok right now and it's it's toxic to your children. lawmakers say they aren't done with tiktok yet. they're waiting on the biden administration to take action. my patients as warmth and the biden administration they have over a year where they were supposed to be figuring out a way to keep the data of americans safe and to make sure that tiktok this did not become a propaganda tool. senator hawley is also pushing the president's team to take action. they need to force the chinese parent company to sell tiktok usa and keep americans data safe and both senators say if the administration doesn't do something, i think that will be legislative action will be taken next year. some in congress even suggest banning tiktok from the u.s. entirely in washington. i'm hannah brandt. and before we head to break, we have to remind you, kron 4 is the place to be on new year's eve. >> starting at 09:00pm. we're live from las vegas. ringing in 2023. across

florida senator rick scott, martha mccallum and former defense intel officer rebecca koffler.ney and company" next. ♪ i will be home for christmas ♪ >> heading into 2023, i have a lot of peer. i'm calling in the federal reserve budget because i believe there's a bubble in the stoc

reporter: rick scott, who led the senate gop campaign arm declined to say if the party needs to distancetself from trump. >> we have to have a message that when republicans run, you say this is what republicans will get done. reporter: at the white house, joe biden called warnock area. >> i am georgia. i am an example in iteration of its history. it's pain and promise, the brutality. reporter: to caps off the final race o the 2022 midterm elections and first time since 1924 that the president's party did not lose any senate seats. judy: senator warnock's win has help georgia sidify itself as a battleground state and give democrats a critical advantage in the senate. stephen fowler has been keeping a close watch on the runoff. welcome back. tell us, what made the difference from not being able to reach 50% to a two point 8% margin over herschel walker. how did he do it? >> looking at the top level results, raquel warnock improved his margins in 100 48 out of 159 counties in georgia. he improved and democratic strongholds where he run up the score. he cut into margins in conservative basti

what is great for republicans there swab real battleground state in play that is florida that is rick scottk that florida is trending away from democrats. oof the the seats you mentioned they have become very red, you have arizona and nevada. what is is about is what party is doing a better job of those wedge issues of target oning that 4% of the population -- target oning that 4% of the population, and convincing those 4% of people we're better candidates, i'll say one another thing about 4%, i think they are tired of everyone hating each other here. they are not listening to the things that we're saying about each other, because they are not believing it. they don't believe that every single battle battleground state in america is a choice between left wing anti-american socialist or maga loving hateful, you know right wing maniac. most people in the middle, they don't believe that, they are not taking the messages they are hearing and applying it to those people. which is where almost no statewide incumbents in america lost in 2022. we have to do a better job of telling people what we're

. >> that is rick scott of florida.lican senator, and that is the story that you see in washington there is a different story that is not the joy of a state dinner that we saw, but it is still a growing tension between the president of the united states and mr. putin. in a war in ukraine. >> it is interesting that the president is open to talks, we hear from prudent. >> the spokesperson said putin was and remains open for contacts for negotiations. of course, the best way to achieve our interest is through peaceful diplomatic means. that is not the first time we print this talk, but it aligns with what we heard yesterday. i thing we'd all like to hear more of it. >> we need an update, and we do that with someone who is out of vladivostok, whatever it is and what -- russia. we are joined now with a prudent experience. we have not talked about this for ages. >> the parties. my map fail. i played risk. that's feeling reason i note the map. long ago, we had power. has the power changed over the last 90 days? >> i think incr

they always had sort of a rocky relationship and trump has decided, you know, he was backing rick scotts clearly a relationship that, on the rocks would be putting it delicately and it's not going to be repaired anytime soon. i do think, you know -- you hear certain echoes of 2016 when you hear a lot of republican leaders, you know, talking in, i don't want to say vague terms but refusing to use the former president's name when they condemn him. if republicans in washington want to get onboard with another candidate, you know, that's really going to be the only thing that is going to stop someone like donald trump with a very high floor of support among republican voters from becoming the nominee. so unless those denunciations get much more forceful, consistent and explicit and

until the first election day and it has made some republicans a little uneasy though most of them, rick scottve maintained their support. he is is campaigning with lindsey graham. he has been campaigning with some key republicans who do have a lot of support. i think it will be key to see, we saw that a lot of georgia voters, some georgia voters voted for democrat warnock and kemp gubernatorial and it will be interesting to see if those voters turn and vote for walker in the end. ashley: it is interesting, isn't it. looking ahead to 2024 incoming house democrat leader hakim jefferies saying he will support president biden for re-election, because of his quote, extraordinary record. listen to this i will get your comments. >> the thing about president biden's track record of success it includes not limited to the american rescue plan, saved the economy, shots in arms, money in pockets, putting kids back in school. i know he will have a vision for the future. i look forward to strongly supporting president biden's re-election. ashley: natalie, i wonder if this is the beginning of broader suppor

as republican senator mike lee and rick scott have noted, congress has now changed hands five times sincey changed hands have they ever passed an omnibus spending bill before a new house majority was to take power. now the question is, what are mitch mcconnell and senate republicans looking to help democrats with their massive spending spree when all they should be agreeing to is a short term continuing resolution to fund the government so the new gop-controlled house will have a say and my advice is to call up every republican senator and say no to any omnibus spending bill that helps schumer and the socialist democrats. why any republican would go along with that is madness. joining me now, gop leader kevin mccarthy. before i get to the omnibus part, how did that go? >> didn't come to me. came up to my 82-year-old mother. a little hard of hearing. recently recovering from cancer. he shook her hand and said something. i didn't understand what they said. >> sean: let me go to this omnibus spending bill. we've had since 1954 five changes in terms of power control in the house of representa

in this cycle, the committee led by rick scott, decided not to engage in primaries, allow the primary process to play out themselves. i'm hearing an effort to change that strategy, get more heavy-handed, gelt more involved, select those candidates they believe will be successful going forward. there's a problem. donald trump got behind several of those key candidates who emerged who ultimately lost, lie herschel walker, like blake masters in arizona. so some frustrating soul-searching about what's next. they thought they would not just be in the majority, but be in a comfortable one, and now they're in the minority for the next two years. >> democrats surprised by their success frankly on the senate side. manu raju, thank you very much. >>> joining us is errol lewis, house of the "you decide" podcast. good to see you as always. pick up where we left off. i thought it was interesting roy blunt saying we need better candidates. there's all this talk about what the assessment will be, there's a lot of finger pointing, this is donald trump picking bad candidates, but you have the party ge

rick scott thanks him for then suspending kanye for being an anti-semite on twitter.nk the suspension of ye. same weekdayly stormer is back on twitter. seems to be playing around with the forces in the republican party and got to decide who's in the camp and not. >> it is unleashed. i think "the new york times" had a story this week showing since musk took over twitter anti-semitic tweets went up 60%. there is a market for this and if there's a big split field aen a lot of republicans running 35 pat35% is a huge number. not saying that they are all anti-semitic or this message appeals but they will go along with it if there's strong trump supporters. look past it. there's a portion that it directly appeals to and that's the truth unfortunately. >> yeah. strikes me that the condemnation is not strong enough because it is not going away. these people are very much emboldened. >>> what does the new house democratic leader think of kevin mccarthy? we have brand new cnn reporting on that coming up next. for any party. pool parties... tailgates... holiday y parties... even

more people like rick scott and beyond. there's a lot of interest, but i suspect for different reasons. on the one hand, for republicans, it's, this is the balance of power for the committee sake, and democrats, a different philosophy. what's your take? >> i do think georgians are excited about being paid attention to. i think in every race it should always feel like that. every voter should feel like their vote matters. i also think this is some forecasting for 2024. so what happens in this runoff, 2020 folks were very sprieds -- n surprised that the state flipped blue. can it happen twice? if so, when you're starting to look at a map for 2024, you start to make decisions about how you staff up in that state, whether it's biden or whether we have an open field for democrats. i think republicans are -- i'm not one, but -- >> you're welcome to be in the club, in the group. >> well, that's a friday night invitation. are you going to take it up? i think so. >> i think i'll pass. >> she's terrific. we would love to have you. >>

rick scott, head of the senatorial committee, defending the constitution.ee of them, none of them would say that this disqualifies trump from being president. this has given some potential trump opponents in 2024 an opportunity to go after him, including his former vice president, mike pence. >> i think everyone that serves in public office, everyone that aspires to serve or to serve again should make it clear that we will support and defend the constitution of the united states. >> reporter: mitch mcconnell, the senate republican leader, has not yet weighed in. he was asked about this by our colleague, and he said to us that he would make some comments tomorrow at his weekly leadership press conference, assuming he is asked about it. and no comment yet from the top republican who wants to be the house speaker with the support of donald trump, kevin mccarthy. >> that's a shock. what are democrats saying about this outrageous call to terminate the constitution? >> reporter: they're calling on republicans to say more. that's what we heard from the white house

. >> many blame rick scott's senate campaign arm for staying out of gop primaries in 2022 with gop leaders calling on the party to intervene in primaries in the 2024 cycle. but democrats are defepding 23 seats and republicans just 11. should you have taken a more active role and tried to prop up the candidates who have been more electable? >> i think you've got to rely on the voters and their states. i trust the voters. >> the additional seat now gives senate democrats more power to issue subpoenas and breathe room to confirm president biden's nominations. >> turn left, republicans. or at least don't turn hard right. >> now i just asked rafael warnock as he came back to the capitol, whether or not donald trump had a role in helping him by propping up a weak candidate. he brushed that aside and said i think the people of georgia deserve a great deal of credit. lindsey graham told me today that it will be up to trump to prove that he can win in order to win over republican voters ahead of 2024. >> okay. manu raju, thanks. joining us now to discuss, congressman elect maxwell frost of florida,

rick scott, chairman of the committee, said they had quality candidates. he also defended the decision by the committee to not engage in the early primaries to prop up more electable candidates, something the represents want to do in the next election schedule. they want to get be at getting republicans to early vote. donald trump says, on the other hand, that needs to stop. >> these are all things that donald trump, who has been the person sounding off the most about, how balance he thought mail-in and early voting was. clyde, thanks so much, and manu, thank you. >>> the supreme court is hearing arguments in the case that's focused on the if you want -- stayed lawmakers could really end up with significantly more power. jessica schneider a following all this from washington for us. jessica, what are you hearing in court so far? >> there is actually some pushback, because, of course, if the supreme court finds in favor of the republicans, it could upend how elections are run. we heard recently from brett kavanaugh, expressing concerns that some republicans

here is senator rick scott. >> the origin of covid is not a partisan issue.ipartisan investigation and just give the facts out. they clearly covered this up for whatever reason. i don't trust anything that comes out of communist china personally. >> bret: do you think this republican effort is going to get to the bottom of some things? they certainly are putting out a lot of reports. >> i think, you know, they have been putting out information publicly today, at least they did last night. but republicans are going off of information that they have publicly available. in a couple of months in january, depending on how everything shakes out with the speakership fight, they will be having subpoena power and they might be having a much greater ability to dig into what is, you know, happened and, you know, we are also starting to see different people like elon musk sharing what they think was discussions about the covid origins, i think we are just starting to seat tip of the iceberg on that. >> bret: talking about declassifying a number of pieces of material that

senator rick scott says that needs to happen before they're given permanent status. to understand who came here and are they good for this country? but senator lindsey graham argues the legislation does include additional background checks and insists these refugees deserve american help. this is the right thing to do. these are the people and interpreted for us that. >> that were there when we needed them during this 20 year war and they have no place to go. if we send them back, it's a certain death sentence. and senator jerry moran says that would hurt the u.s. in the long-run potential allies in future combat zones. >> are going to be less likely to support the u.s. mission after seeing our afghan partners of and time may be running out for the refugees. but graham says the fight isn't over next year. this will be a top priority. lawmakers promise they'll keep working to give afghan refugees the right to call america home in washington. i'm hannah brandt. >> coming up on kron 4 news today, we're going to take a look at the delays and the cancellations at bay area

. >> and this become a misinformation amid manipulation senator rick scott says every american should consider ditching tiktok. every parent should be question tiktok right now and it's it's toxic to your children. lawmakers say they aren't done with tiktok yet. they're waiting on the biden administration to take action. my patient- as warmth and the biden administration they've had over a year where they were supposed to be figuring out a way to keep the data of americans safe and to make sure that tiktok this did not become a propaganda tool. senator hawley is also pushing the president's team to take action. they need to force the chinese parent company to sell tiktok usa and keep americans data safe. >> and both senators say if the administration doesn't do something, i think that will be legislative action will be taken next year. some in congress even suggest banning tiktok from the u.s. entirely in washington. i'm hannah brandt. >> coming up at 8 o'clock, a winter storm means american families are bracing for even higher heating bills. but congress is doing to try to help low i

in a moment, rick scott and rnc chair ronna mcdaniel.st to hillary vaughn live at the white house. hi, hillary. >> hi, martha. this is an opportune moment for president zelensky who will speak to congress in person for the first time. he appeared before them virtually in march. congress holds the purse strings for ukraine aid as they're set to vote on another $45 billion for the country in this spending package. >> congress is supplying a new record amount of funding to ukraine. house republicans have made some noises that they might be willing to continue to support military assistance to ukraine but might not be welling to support economic assistance. that plays right into putin's hands. >> congress passed three aid packages for ukraine this year totalling $67 billion. some republicans have questioned the billions of u.s. taxpayer dollars that are flowing to crook not because they're anti-aid, they just want to see the receipts to see how taxpayer dollars are being spent. >> it is not the soul responsibility of the united states. you h

. >> rick scott also did not spend much money. bad candidates number. but for newt gingrinch to think if they post a funny dance video on tiktok it will undue the fact that the republican agenda is so bad for young people and i see you shaking your head. >> not why the republicans lost. a lot of reasons why they lost, about you not because they were not good on climate change. >> we are staying, actually. you can't even kick us out of here. >> we are not done here. sandra -- another segment. >> sandra: i feel we could go on forever. >> sandra: and john, i hope you don't mind i borrowed marc. >> i defect, i defect. >> john: all yours today. >> sandra: great discussion. we have congressman jim jordan and lee zeldin, new york congressman who ran for the gubernatorial race in new york city and was thinking about challenging ronna mcdaniel is going to be here as well. >> sandra: it's floated around the possibility of lee zeldin, speaker lee zeldin. so, not sure if you are hearing anything about that. >> we are -- we are still here. >> interesting idea. >> jo

. >> charles, nrsv chairman, rick scott, in charge of trying to win this seat will be rallying with walker on today. >> charles: so president biden offering his support from afar. is this another sign that warnock campaign is worried that he would hurt rather than help? axios reporter emma hurt joins me now. it's an interesting piece. they have president obama down there shaking hands. but maybe better to have president biden on the phones. >> you know, it's been consistent this whole election season that senator warnock has tried to keep president biden away. he's declined whether he would endorse him in 2024. it's obvious why if you look at the results in november. there were 200,000 swing voters that voted brian kemp and warnock or the libertarian. warnock is the only democrat that was able to make it even in to a run-offer. the rest statewide didn't do so well. that is the strategy that warnock has stuck to this whole time. >> charles: what about the comments from herschel walker that maybe this massive early voting, warnock doesn't have the lead that they thought he would have. he jus

some of them have even been promoted to positions of leadership, like florida senator rick scott, the of the national republican senatorial committee. they did not have a great outing in the midterms, we should note, or congressman scott perry of pennsylvania, who now chairs the house freedom caucus. now, thanks to remarkable new reporting from talking points memo, if a window -- up to indicate a period after election day on 2020 in the run up to general six and immediately after. because talking points memo has obtained more than 2300 text messages that white house chief of staff mark meadows turned over the general six committee. keep in mind, this is important, by no means comprehensive record of what is going on at the time, not at all. this is just a snapshot. it's from one person's phone. there is a lot more communication presumably that was happening that we are still not seeing, anyone talking to each other without meadows looming. even this window pensive vivid picture. these are by large the folks that they are communicating with, is also believers, who are not adjust opport

. >> in washington republican senator rick scott who led the gop campaign arm the client to say ifhe needs to distance itself from trump shared >> we do have to have a message that when pre--- that when republicans run, this is what republicans are going to get done. >> at the white house president biden called warnk last night to congratulate him. >> i am georgia. [applause] i am an example and and iteration of its history. of its pain and promise. >> the wind caps off the final election and the first time since 1934 the president's party did not lose any senate seats. judy: senator warnock's win has helped georgia solidify itself as a battleground state and gives democrats a critical advantage in the senate. stephen fowler of georgia public broadcasting has been keeping a close watch on the runoff. he was in the room for senator knox victory speech. welcome back to -- having a 2.8% margin over herschel walker. in the runoff. how did warnock do it? >> looking at the top level results, rafaelarnock improved his margins in 148 out of 159 counties in georgia. he improved in democratic

blaming it explicitly on rick scott, who runs the reelection arm of the republican party. mitch mcconnell, let's not forget was full steam ahead on the herschel walker train. >> he admitted that he had had some troubles in his life. he's been an exemplary citizen in recent years. a hero in georgia. almost every candidate has had troubled periods. i think walker is completely electable. he is ahead at the beginning of this race. we are fully behind him. every candidate has flaws. and assets. this candidate has a lot of assets. is very competitive. and has a great chance of winning. >> listen to mitch mcconnell. mitch mcconnell was behind herschel walker. mitch mcconnell, while donald trump owes qudus here. no, we have the tape. and that is part of what made this entire enterprise such a bizarre spectacle from the beginning. of cynicism in american politics for all these people. with large and influential platforms. graham, mitch mcconnell, sean hannity, just day after day, night after night, to the cameras, with a straight face, herschel walker is a great candidate. hersche

>> top surrogates rallying voters to the ballot box and rick scott laying out the case for walker. >>about this state. he'll be beholden to georgians. he cares about what will happen to georgia. what we have to do is get him the votes. >> former president barack obama returning to georgia hoping another democrat will be seated in the chamber. >> what's the difference between 50 and 51? it prevents one person from holding up everything. >> guys, president biden throwing his support behind the democratic senator, but he did so from afar. more than a thousand miles away in boston, that is where he held that fund-raiser. eva? >> the president now proposing a new schedule for 2024 primaries that would move up certain states like georgia and south carolina and sideline states like iowa. yeah. eva, followed by new hampshire and nevada, then georgia and finally michigan. democrats have long criticized that the current schedule favors smaller states and they say this move would reflect the diversity of our country. >> all right, ellen, thank you. >> we turn to the economy. the white house call

when i asked rick scott, the chairman of the committee why he didn't get involved, he said it was up to the voters and he defended his approach. should you have taken a more active role and trying to prop up the candidates to be more electable. >> you got to rely on the voters in the state. it's their state. i trust voters. >> think in an election year when it should have been a referendum on the current administration and their policies, the democrats in many cases were able to kind of turn it into a choice election because of trump's presence. >> do you agree with that? >> no. i think we're losing close elections, not because of donald trump. >> reporter: so lindsey graham saying it was not donald trump's fault blaming democratic fund-raising instead but all of them agreed on this, they need to spend more of an effort to try to prop up early voting, prop up mail-in voting even as donald trump has democrat ma golged that and change it in the next election cycle. pat toomey retiring said it was the trump obsession is very bad for the party and mitt romney said it is a kiss of death t

kevin mccarthy, steve scalise, rick scott, josh hawley, and lindsey graham all want some major maga playersion campaign. in fact, just one gop senator has publicly endorsed trump. former football coach tommy tuberville of alabama. you may remember mr. tuberville for some comments he made earlier this year about reparations. the alabama senator claimed democrats only support reparations for the descendants of enslaved people because, quote, they think the people that do the crime are owed that. yeah. not quite the starting lineup mr. trump may have hoped for. instead of a swell of unity for trump, republicans seem to be uniting against him. asa hutchinson called a trump biden rematch in 2024, quote, the worst scenario for republicans. hutchison has even hinted he may throw his own hat into the ring. here's what he told chuck todd this morning on meet the press. >> what is your timeline, and what would make you decide not to run for president? >> the fact that president trump has already announced accelerates everyone timeframe. so, the first quarter of next year, you either need to be in or

there are folks like senator rick scott who dodged answering the question, basically said we need toour laws, saying he believed mr. trump who said he was misunderstood. >> i would say the former president did put out another truth today on truth social and centered around saying, i never said that, that's not what i said, which this year's word of the year for merriam-webster's gas lighting. that is what that is. that is what the former president is constantly. he says something that may be is a little unclear but seems to imply something and then he says i never said that thing as soon as people react. that is the danger republicans find themselves in. if they react too strongly before he says i never meant to say that. let's just be very clear that although in this post over the weekend he talked about terminating articles of the constitution, what he was arguing for on january 6, what he has been arguing for since, which is either a rerunning of the 2020 election or reinstating him as president, all of those things are out of line with the constitution and would amount to termina

you have more people like rick scott and beyond. there are a lot of interests.hink for different reasons but on the one hand for republicans, it is, look, this is the balance of power for the committee's sake. democrats have a different philosophy. what is your take? and what i do think georgians are excited about being paid attention to and being thwarted for their vote. i think every senate race. it should always be like that. every voter should be like their vote mattered. i also think this is some forecasting for 2024. what happens in this runoff, 2020 the roads were surprised that the state flipped the blue. can it sustain? can warnock do it twice? when you are starting to look at a map for 2024, you start looking at some decisions of how you stack up in that state. whether it is biden, or whether we have an open field for democrats. i think republicans are, i am not one, -- >> you are welcome. you are welcome. >> that is a friday night invitation to you going to take it up? i don't know. >> she is terrific. >> i love that. >> i am flattered. if you want to

graham as well as rick scott until this is released.re are at love democrats that are dug in on this? >> certainly the administration is. i haven't talked to my colleagues here in the house about it. but, when we take the majority back, these are things that we can demand when we pass the nba and will package. you can't force evenings on service members. if they file religious exemptions they have to be approved. >> brian: congressman "studio by," thanks so much. i appreciate you being here. hopefully people are seeing, this clear-minded people and will take action. congressman greg steube. >> good to see you. >> brian: reached out to the u.s. naval academy for a statement. we have not heard back. you have plenty of people there, pick up the phone. the president and freedom fighter out on paperback. thanks so much for getting it and new information in it. i will will be live on stage with some of my fox friends at the new jersey performing arts center. it's now one day away. pete hegseth, rachel campos duffy, one person, three names. ca

senator rick scott says that needs to happen before they're given permanent status.ed to understand who came here and are they good for this country? but senator lindsey graham argues the legislation does include additional background checks and insists these refugees deserve american help. this is the right thing to do. these are the people interpreted for us that. >> that were there when we needed them during this 20 year war and they have no place to go. if we send them back, it's a certain death sentence. and senator jerry moran says that would hurt the u.s. in the long-run potential allies in future combat zones. >> are going to be less likely to support the u.s. mission after seeing our afghan partners of and >> time may be running out for the refugees. but graham says the fight isn't over next year. this will be a top priority. lawmakers promise they'll keep working to give afghan refugees the right to call america home in washington. i'm hannah brandt. >> coming up, president biden putting pen to paper which means some workers could expect a bigger paycheck i

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conference later this hour, senator mike bram, lindsey graham, panned paul, ron johnson, ted cruz and rick scott. do you support what the breakfast club is doing? >> we actually had a very good conversation of all senators, some of you just mentioned asked to have a full conference meeting. all 50 senators here and the 49 senators in january have a lot more in common than we do with any of our liberal democratic colleagues. we may have slightly different ideas about how to get to a good positive result for the american people, whether it's stable prices, a growing economy, energy abundance, or protecting our borders, and protecting america around the world, we are more aligned to work with the democrats in the senate. we want to find solutions to bring together the entire party and the new republican house majority. >> john: what mike braun said about the need, he said mostly folks concerned about a broken process that has no participation and no transparency and politically fraught, it has not been working in recent elections. lindsey graham says republicans need to match democrats in picking i

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