senator romney says join the club and i agree. let's join the club and not spend twice as much per capita on healthcare as the canadians, as the british, as the french. let's join that club and guarantee healthcare to all b people rather than making the insurance companies billions of profits every single year. senator romney says join the club, and i agree we should join the club in terms of education.r germinate today and other countries around the world make sure they are young people go to their colleges and universities tuition free so they do not have to leave school today, 50, or $100,000 in debt. let's join the club. let's do it germany and other countries are doing which makes imminentin sense in every sensef the word. let's guarantee the right of all of ourdl kids regardless of ther income to get a higher education. let's join the club. and there is another club that i think we might want to join among many others. we are the only major country, virtually the only country on earth that does not guarantee a family and med

senator romney says, join the club, and i agree. we should join the club in terms of higher education. germany today and other countries around the world make sure that their young people can go to their colleges and universities tuition-free so that they don't have to leave school $40,000, $50,000, or $1 see,000 in debt. let's join the club. let's do what germany and other countries are doing, which makes eminent sense in every sense of the world. let's guarantee the right for all of our kids, regardless of income, to get a higher education. let's join the club. heh ... and there is another club we might want to join. we're the only major country, virtually the only country on earth, that does not guarantee paid family and medical leave. there are women today in the united states of america having a baby, and they will be back at work in a week because they need the income. no guarantee paid family and medical leave. there are people getting fired today because their kids are sick. they got to make a choice whether they hang on to

the problem i have with that op-ed that mitt romney wrote, fundamentally, mitt romney hasn't addressedl problem with which is the elephants in the room. which is the gop. removing donald trump, he down in mar-a-lago, even if it doesn't show up in another election again, this election denials, denialism, and a on democracy, have become part of the republican party. so unless mitt romney says, the republican party no longer is a pro democracy party, which is it isn't right now, then he is just sort of weakly saying, yeah we don't want donald trump. but oh by the, way the republican party is fine, and the other thing that i -- that i would argue with mitt romney, if he is accessible in the republicans, and he wants to be successful in becoming part of the majority party, it puts all of those election deniers that he has talked about in power in the aftermath of the midterm. so yes, congratulate honorable, with pointy made, and he joins the pro democracy group, but fundamentally, this isn't about donald trump. this is about an anti-democratic team that now exists within the republican part

that was the work of several members including senators romney, shaheen and cinema among others. mr. president, we have before us a historic opportunity to modernize and strengthen our system of certifying and counting the electoral votes for president and vice president. january 6th reminded us nothing is more essential to the survival of a democracy than the orderly transfer of power. and there's nothing more essential to the orderly transfer of power than clear rules for effecting it. i very much hope that congress will seize this opportunity to enact the sensible much-needed reforms before the end of congress. >> i wanted to say six months this for six months starting in january. and it was 14 senators that came at that time with all of your support, mr. president, also. we have support from everybody saying something had to be done. but as delicate as this was knowing some were thinking we areo picking on one side with te other or supporting or defending one side or the other there's only one thing we are concerned about, how to defend the country andow constitution and this

you have mitt romney and marco rubio push and different ideas of the larger travelogues expanding the child taxbe credi. that's where you think you could get right and left together, republicans and c democrats. a majority of both parties. enough that it adds up to majority of both chambers. expanding cash to parents. on this scored there is an interesting division in the democratic party were there some people who say we wanted subsidized childcare. subsidizing childcare does a lot of good things but it's mores subsidizing work and subsidizing families. helping people get back to work which is good. wouldn't itt be better to get cash and allow that family to make the decision? one of those is going to stop working for the next few years. a regal back to work part-time. that would be good for some families in some families would take that check and spend it on childcare. there is division even within the biden white house and their sons does say the goal is for mothers to get back to work. should it be up to the mothers or fathers to decide how and when they want to go back to work bi

or mark rubio's plan get more traction do you think >> so one of the big differences between romney and rubio is what sort of work requirements um are going to be involved and mitt romney's latest bill has more of a work requirement so this gets at a a good important tension in conservatism sort of pro-family conservatism that a lot of people might not see the nuances of but i imagine a couple getting a larger child tax credit and either saying okay now i can afford the daycare i need or now i can afford to work part-time from home or take off a full 18 months or whatever and making their own decision. what a lot of conservatives who think back to the welfare reform fights are worried about is okay we want to give money to a single mom so she can afford to raise her kids more but if the effect is to pull her out of the workforce then the children are growing up in an environment where they don't see work as part of daily life and that that can get passed down over generations and lead to intergenerational poverty. and i think both are are valid ways to think about and rubio really d

senator mitt romney says that we're in denial.in "the atlantic," he bemoans the emotional cataclysmic threats, inflation and climate change among other things, and writes, quote, president joe biden is a genuinely good man, but he has yet been unable to break through our national malady of denial, deceit, and distrust. a return of donald trump would feed the sickness, probably rendering it incurable. doug jones, barbara come stack, michelle cottle are with me. a that language is extraordinary, mitt romney in that op said. senator jones, he says joe biden is a good man but everyone's unhappy. the country is going the wrong direction. people are unhappy for a lot of different reasons. but it's a pretty universal feeling. you're very close to joe biden. i know that you are basically an eye term supporter of his. but some of these quotes are pretty tough against him. we had one democrat told cnn that the presidency is rudderless. concerns about basic management in the white house. and quite frankly that potentially opens up a path for

mitt romney's latest bill is more of a work requirement. this guy has had a good important tension and conservativism profamily conservativism many people may not see the nuances of. but i imagine a couple getting the larger child tax credit and saying now i can afford the daycare i need. our now i can afford to work part-time from home or take up a whole 18 months, or whatever and making their own decision. what a lot of conservatives thanks back to the welfare reform fight is okay, we want to give money to a single mom so she can afford to raise her kids more. but it if the effect pulser of the workforce the children are growing up in an environment where they don't see work as part of daily life. if that can get passed down over generations only to intergenerational poverty. and i think both. rubio did not want to think his bill would cause people to drop out of the workforce. i think giving people money with no strings attached is better than giving people money only if they don't work which is what extended unemployment does. yes it wi

try it for free at freestylelibre.us >>> mitt romney says america is in denial.e says return to office by former president trump would worsen the national malady of denial, decreateit an distrust. let's bring in jackie kucinich. nice to see you this morning. >> good morning, christine. >> senator romney is one of the few republicans to speak out against trump. my question is, is anyone listening? >> it is a really good question. and when you read through this op op-ed, you have heard things that senator romney has said before. he has warned about the fragility of democracy and about leaders standing back or potential leaders standing back and watching. and he is kind of a man without a country when it comes to his party. the kind of reagan republican model that romney tries to emulate really doesn't -- they are growing a smaller and smaller contingent. so not clear if this is a call to action, if he is putting himself in that position, of course he ran for president. and himself has been subjected to the winds of political change sometimes. but on this particular

thought we would talk to someone who has seen a lot of business cycles then inn business of economics, romney is executive chairman and co-founder strive asset management, which is a fascinating new company. he joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on . so you're in business. what doines you think of this new definition of a recession? >> look, it's like a george orwellt who said it bes, right? the best way to control a society is to control itsst language first. and just like diversity is , conformity include exclusion. war is peace. now,pa apparently a recession is something other than two consecutive quarters of gdp decline. now the thingng tell you, tuckel is most sophisticated investors in the market have alreadye quietlyma accepted the fact that

>> mit romney wrote this interesting op-ed.his country is wishful thinking and both sides is blaming each other. he said the prescription is leadership. not to be pessimistic. where is the leadership? he says it is in everyday people because maybe it is not there right now while people are waiting for that leader. >> we are in an election year so we'll see what the americans think come november. we are watching the primaries. mit romney makes the case that joe biden is not the president for this time. he calls him a good decent man but not a president for this time. the question is romney uses the word "denial." he lays out the big issues of america quite thoughtfully. is it denial or dysfunction? what were the issues on the table? reforming medicare and social security and immigration reform and big step in education. some of these problems have been with us for 25 plus years in this town. washington refused to reach common ground to deal with it. the list gets longer because of the political dysfunction. the challenge for sen

you write "romney was the first senator to depart the chamber. barely any of his republican colleagues even looked at him as he walked out. it was as if they were afraid that romney might meet their eyes and some acknowledgement might be called for, something they could not face." what could they not face? >> that's a great question. >> this is the ukraine call, by the way. the shakedown call. >> this was impeachment one, right. that morning i sat in romney's office and he said i will tell you ahead of time what my vote is going to be. >> you got a three-minute scoop. he said wait till 2:00 when my speech starts. i put that on, i had all the scoop and it was flying around the internet. so that went out. it was a very agonizing moment when he's telling me i am voting to convict on this charge. he was almost in tears. he was like this is really hard, there will be a profound toll on me, there will be abuse, i know it. he casts the vote, gives a very powerful speech. mike braun, senator from indiana, walks out and sees colleagues in the hallway, in

senator romney says, join the club, and i agree.e should join the club in terms of higher education. germany today and other countries around the world make sure that their young people can go to their colleges and universities tuition-free so that they don't have to leave school $40,000, $50,000, or $1 see,000 in debt. let's join the club. let's do what germany and other countries are doing, which makes eminent sense in every sense of the world. let's guarantee the right for all of our kids, regardless of income, to get a higher education. let's join the club. heh ... and there is another club we might want to join. we're the only major country, virtually the only country on earth, that does not guarantee paid family and medical leave. there are women today in the united states of america having a baby, and they will be back at work in a week because they need the income. no guarantee paid family and medical leave. there are people getting fired today because their kids are sick. they got to make a choice whether they hang on to th

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jonathan surprising, to see sen romney critical of donald trump.president trump running for president again and worry about what may be around the corner for this country. >> yeah. as someone put it to me recently, that were trump to be re-elected, to take office again after 2024, after everything he had already done, the mismanagement of the pandemic, the way he used office, the powers of the office to enrich his family, and, of course, everything that came that led to january 6th and his big lie and his efforts to discredit the electoral system in this country, were he to win again, we'd be in a new, very dangerous place. the american experiment itsel would be in jeopardy. certainly, look, there are plenty of democrats who don't like everything senator romney stands for and positions he has taken, but he is right about that, that at the moment, there seems to be a sense of real frustration and hopelessness surrounding this nation's politics. president biden, of course, you know, a decent man, his hands tied in a lot of measures, trying to fight t

. >>> back here at home, utah senator mitt romney wrote a candid new piece in the atlantic hitting onllenges facing the nation. america in denial. and he writes in part this, what accounts for the blythe dismissal of potentially cataclysmic threats? the left thinks the right is at fault for ignoring climate change and the attacks on our capitol hill system. the right thinks the left is the problem for ignoring illegal immigration and the national debt. but wishful thinking happens across the political spectrum. more and more, we are a nation in denial. president joe biden is a genuinely good man, romney writes but he has net been unable to break through our national malady of denial, deceit and distrust a return of donald trump would feed the sickness, probably rendering it incurable. i hope for a president who can rise above the din to unite us behind the truth. while we wait, leadership must come from fathers and mothers, teachers and nurses, priests and rabbis, businessmen and bis women, journalists and pundits. that will require us all to rise above ourselves, above our grievances

this was 2.0 over romney's bill. i'm sure 3.0 will be even better. he took into account criticism. he got and he made improvements. they're probably other flaws that could be improved even further in his offices willing to continually improve it. we should be participating in those discussions. we also need to be talking about adoption during the dobbs debate and the oral arguments in particularly. there is a backlash against adoption. also again safe haven laws. um, we could talk for hours more. unfortunately. we have to close in a moment, but more conversations. i'm sure we'll have more conversations about this in the coming days and weeks and months really critical to make sure that you're so often women are asked they rather have. they rather choose abortion rather than knowing that they abandoned their child mean while there are so many couples struggling with infertility. who would love to raise a child to a woman courageously, you know gave birth to and so so many human conversations we have to have and and so many stories we have to tell about the pregnancy help centers and

senator menendez: senator romney. senator romney: thank you, mr. chairman. thank you to both the ambassador and the administrator for the work you're doing. is russia trying to starve the world? i mean, are they intent on causing pain on -- on causing pain in egypt and lebanon and throughout north africa and the middle east? is this part of their intent? or are they simply intending to starve ukraine? and willing to ignore the fact that what they're doing is starving -- in staching ukraine is also starving the world? do you have a sense of what their intent is? what they're thinking? ambassador thomas-greenfield: i can't speak for what's going on in putin's mind. i think at the start of this they thought they'd have a quick war, bring ukraine to their knees in two weeks and have them waving the white flag and that would be the end of it. and that failed. so they're continuing this effort to starve the people of ukraine and in the process starve the rest of the world and they don't care. which is why it is so important that we have gotten the support, biparti

this is rick scott and mitt romney. people do not understand stop the republicans are for less tax but they do not understand the implication this has for working people. when you have less taxes, issues like tornadoes and hurricanes, they will need the money to fix your home or fix your cities. the republicans are for the rich and the corporations and they have been trying years. the democrats did social security and medicare and they opposed it. what they're trying to do now is do away with these things. host: mr. waldman? guest: the caller points to something that is important. gallup recently measured trust in institutions, they asked people how much faith they have it all sorts of institutions, they found trust in institutions is at its lowest point since you have been asked to the questions -- that is a situation that is very good for republicans. they are part of the party that say government is bad and you are on your around. the more things feel out of control, the better that is for republicans. first because

better than romney in 2012 or mccain in 2008.losing pennsylvania because he did so much worse in the philadelphia suburbs. nonetheless, because trump decided discrediting big cities were going to be one of his false political attacks, in philadelphia trump's lawyers falsely claimed republican observers had been barred from the counting rooms. >> one of the attorneys for trump asked a judge, judge diamond, for an emergency order to stop the counting. and they're claiming that they had no people in the room. that's what they had been claiming outside the courtroom. but inside the courtroom this trump lawyer concedes that there were, quote, nonzero number of their own observers in the room. and essentially the case was laughed out of court. >> short of that lawyer lying to the judge and committing perjury, he clearly went as far as he could. we had republican observers there every minute of every day that we were operating and counting votes right in front of us. >> despite this barrage from trump and his allies -- >> we will await

beat barack obama and lied, knowingly lies and says mitt romney has not paid taxes in ten years. he admitted that he lied, and when he was asked about it, he said, well, they didn't win, did they? whatever it takes. the ends justifies the means. >> sean: sad state of affairs. something happens, they will have blood on their hands, and you know what? we already dodged one assassination plot, so you would think they would be less reckless, more responsible, but you know, i guess i ask too much. larry, thank you. gregg, thank you. when we come back, you won't believe what radical soft on crime the l.a. d.a. did this time worried even as crime is surging in his city. we will check in with lawrence jones and leo 2.0 terrell straight ahead. i was injured in a car crash. i had no idea how much my case was worth. i called the barnes firm. when a truck hit my son, i had so many questions about his case. i called the barnes firm. it was the best call i could've made. your case is often worth more than insuran call the barnes firm to find out i could've made. what your case could be worth.

mitt romney, george w. bush. party no longer have a platform that is appealing to the american people that they can only exist in the crazy zone? >> republican party, let's talk about that platform. for the first time in its history the republican party passed a platform that it's whatever their leader thought it was. i mean, with these platforms, you realize just how extraordinary that is. whatever donald trump wants. there is no conservative party in america. what does it mean to be a conservative american? they'll shoot me. there is no philosophy of governments, they can't articulate a unified theory of coherent policy. and you talk to elizabeth warren and asking her what's she believes in. even though i agree with her. but she has a theory of government, she can articulate it. but it is a failure ultimately of policy that is at the root of what has happened to the republican party and it goes back with the race. the republican party fails to attract non-white voters. they never really came up with the policie

and i i said to my thought because we were both from massachusetts and we both knew, you know, mitt romney as governor. we thought he was an okay, you know, and i said i dad i don't think that's gonna i think president obama's gonna get reelected and my father very quietly said, they're both good men. we're gonna be fine. and i thought if my father after a lifetime of some pretty backward racial prejudices could look at president obama and say they're both good men. we're going to be fine any of us can do that. this is your fourth book. well, i've wrote a few this is my seventh book, but not sure people want to spend a lot of time over the holidays reading about nuclear strategy, which was the book i wrote for this. yeah. well, you've had some academics but academic books but for for general public, would that be a fair statement? yeah that were meant for a general readership. absolutely. one more reveal you and i are the same age and we kind of were lamenting the loss of a pleasant or time all this? yes, are we remembering it correctly. are we just well, you know one of the things i tackl

i want to read for folks, mitt romney, his response.he was kind of in this category which you said, i thought we settled that one already. he said this, given the fact that the laws settled on this, i don't think we need to lose sleep over it, unless there were a development that suggested the law was going to be changed. i'm wondering how it is that senator romney could say something like this, considering where we are today with roe and everybody believing and thinking that in fact that was a settled law. and yet, here we are. >> well, the important point to know is that this basis for marriage equality that was decided seven years ago in obergefell v. hodges, it's the same privacy right, the same constitutional bases that formed row. you have justices from all sides noting that it was sort of hypocritical for the court to say, oh, we are going exclusively to undo this constitutional right and not that. so, yes, they should know that this is under threat by this court potentially, based on what was written in dobbs. at the same time,

romney, as he confronted josh hawley in the speech, saying, you did this, with your lies, you did thiste a bookend that picture of the fist, and can i say, no senators run in the capital ever win. it is not what you do in the capital, if you are a senator. you walk slowly. you do not run for your life. and that's what he was doing there. he is afraid, and he is showing that he's afraid, and i hope that sears into peoples memories, that he is the one who began this whole mess. >> and the contrast between riling them in that moment, when in that moment, he's protected from them, and then, once they close in on him, he takes off. but >> will there be consequences? because the people who are watching fox news tonight, they didn't see that. they are not going to see it tomorrow, and that's what matters to holly. just like sarah matthews bravely testified, and the house gop caucus tweets, calls her a pelosi bond. and you know who she works for? the gop on the hill right now. so we can fact check them all night long, and alex said earlier, josh hawley is all the internet, there's memes of it.

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might beatgh barack obama and liend knowingly lies and says mitt romney has not paid taxes in 10 years. years later, he admitted that he lied. when he was asked about it, he said, well, they didn't win, did they ? whatever it takes, the ends justify the means. sad state of affairs. something happens. they'll have blood on their hands. and you know what? we already dodged one assassination plot. so you would think they'd be less reckless, more responsible. but, you know, i guess i ask too much. all right, larry, thank you.ou great..e thank you. when we come back , we won't believe what radical soft on crime the l.a. d.a. george gascon did this time, even as crime is surging in hisi city. nd we'll check in with lawrence jones. and also to point out taurel straight talk to to you and spread. it's time to start using funny name maximum strength on e-mail and so powerful to us and prevent fungal infection. plus, it has aloe and tea tree oil to restore skin health. say goodbye to toe fungus with fungi. why are so many people turning to superbeets crystal? because it would crystals give you t

their eyes. >> mitt romney who is better on the stump, too. >> sure, yeah. to your second point, is there really room in a primary for glenn youngkin, anybody who is not donald trump, if donald trump wants to, in fact, run? is that a spoiler campaign? does it get a handful of votes in the suburbs? isn't donald trump at the driver's seat of this party if he wants it? >> donald trump is always going to be in the driver's seat at the outset if he wants it. he has the name id and money own money. he was president. when you've done the job, that is a big hurdle. we haven't seen a campaign like this before, but we've seen when you're running for a second term. you're automatically presidential because you've been president. but there are a lot of republicans that are going to run anyway. republicans that have worked for donald trump, not worked for donald trump. not every candidate wants to be in their late 70s when they run for president or possibly become president. so you have republicans in their late 50s to 60s, early 70s by the time the campaign starts that

i'll just say that i arrived with the clarity about this while working on romney and i feel the same way about his moral. you know, if you're watching a tv show to teach you about religion, you know you've already lost like, don't go get your religion from religious people and get your entertainment from t v people and never the twain shall meet i think be a really beautiful thing. i can understand with the i can understand what the criticism is here, but then i'd like to counter and say, i think the beautiful thing about this model is that it depicts different kinds of muslin. we live on a spectrum. there's not one way we're not a model of the community. i'm muslim. i don't vail, and i know plenty of muslims that don't fail. i know plan muslims who do and then muslims who bail in different ways. and i think what's really beautiful and well done about the series that it displays different ways to show up in your islam. and there's not a right and wrong way. we want the show to be accessible to everyone and also where to pick the muslims in america. that something i think that might i

he has gotten people who would not give me or romney or anybody else the time of day.y believe that he is on their side what happened with me and trump? we found common ground was one of the 16 guys that ran against him if you don't remember it's not your fault it didn't last that long on my part. [laughter] >> i interviewed you. i remember that you are moving toward redemption. >> i am. [laughter] i'm trying to move toward a strong america and he will get us there. so after i lost i took my loss he beat my brains out who mind to give him advice and then we started to play golf at the white house we found something in common i have come into like him and he likes him. [laughter] and that gives us the 18 holes and plenty to talk about. [laughter] so we will come out of this election stronger that steve scalise is in a dominant position along with kevin mccarthy take back the senate and the key figure is donald trump. what i ask you to do is lay out to hopeful for america tell us how to make chips without spending all the money tell us how we can be safer you don't have

. >> remember the 2012 election it appeared that - - met romney would beat barack obama and on the floorhe senate says he hasn't paid taxes in ten years. he lied and years later when he was interviewed he admitted that he lied and said how do you feel about that? he said he didn't win did he? nobody felt bad. he was radioactive and still went on television and got a good obituary on the floor of the senate to lie about the kennedy to change the election and bragged about it years later. >> and the media cheered. steve: editing change the election. the whole idea. that double standard we will talk about later in the show. you are all here today. postscript on the recent supreme court rulings. with the new conservative majority not to make policy itself but instead applying with the constitution says where policy should be made climate change is not the unelected bureaucrats who could decide that congress and state legislators can't ignore the united states constitution on abortion it was given back to the states in the absence of allotment by the u.s. congress and assigned by the presiden

and mitt romney where is the democrats voice and that?s a lot of things people do not understand. republicans offer less government, less taxes but they do not understand the implications this has for the working people. when you have less government, less taxes, when he issues like tornadoes and hurricanes, therer will be no money to fix your homes, because the republicans are for the rich, the corporations, they have been trying for years. the democrats gave us social security, medicare and they opposed it. so what they are trying to do now is do away with these things be. >> thank you amelia, thank you, mr. waltman. >> the color points to something that i think is important. gallup recently found trusted institution they ask you how much faith you have in all kinds of different institutions the government, the military, the church. they have found trusting the institutions is basically at the lowest point since they have been asking the question for decades. and that is a situation that's actually very good for republicans. they are th

the pew research people showed a poll ages ago, mitt romney-barack obama, a massive divide and policythe haves, the wealthy, and the have nots. the have nots are being crushed by a set of inflations. does your washington knew there is a middle-class out there? annmarie: both sides are trying to talk to the middle class. they say they have the better policies to try to make sure they can rejuvenate and boost the middle class. it is true, there is a bigger socioeconomic divide. you really saw it during covid. it grew larger and larger. those that have investments in the stock market or have good jobs, they were saving even more. their wealth was rising while others were losing jobs, did not have a lot of money in the stock market and were struggling. inflation hits everyone. everyone feels price pressure, inflation. it obviously hurts lower income individuals and the middle class much more. tom: is it like bush saying long ago, it is the economy, stupid? is this how odd it is what the debate of the middle class with the haves inside the beltway? annmarie: poll aftre poll, it is inflatio

senator romney, you are recognized for your questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. how do you avoid the failure of imagination that obviously was part of the experience from 9/11? how do you have within your organization that the kind of creative, out-of-the-box thinking to imagine what possible threats might come our way? >> i appreciate that question, senator. it goes to the atmosphere that you set up in the office. i think that cwmd is an unheralded gem within d.h.s., the best and brightest work there. they are so dedicated to the country and so willing to think out-of-the-box and think about what is going on. one of the things i always ask them, what should i have asked you that i did not think to ask you? what are you thinking about besides the question i am asking? we try to probe and think about, ok, maybe that is how we help always done it. but how is somebody else who may be isn't dedicated to the cause that we are, thinking about doing it. i am sure you are familiar with one of our predecessor offices, the domestic nuclear detection office, they had a proc