we want to get romneys and those out. but they know that we are the only ones who can stop them, the only ones. this is the greatest movement in the history of the country, in any country. even argentina went maga. you know argentina, great guy. he loves trump. i love him because he loves trump. when he called, i took the call. anybody that loves me, i like that. i said, abdul, he's still there, the head of the taliban. i said, you're killing our soldiers, don't do it. i said our terror will rain down on you. he said, yes, your highness, which was interesting. saudi arabia and russia will

romney. ms. rosen. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr.ott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. the clerk: senators voting in the affirmative -- barrasso, blackburn, britt, budd, cassidy, cornyn, cotton, cramer, crapo, daines,t, fischer, graham, grassley, hagerty, hawley, hyde-smith, johnson, kennedy, lkford, lee, lummis, marshall, mullin, paul, rounds, schmitt, scott of sulli tuberville, and wicker. mr. risch, aye.■ senators voting in the negative -- baldwin, bennet, blumenthal, booker, boozman, n, butler, capito, cardin, casey, collins, coons, cortez masto, duckworth, durbin, fetterman, gillibrand, hassan, heinrich, hickenlooper, hirono, kaine, kelly, king, klobuchar, lujan, manchin, markey, mcconnell, menendez, merkley, moran, murkowski, murray, ossoff, padilla, peters, reed,rosen, sanders, schatz, schumer, shaheen, sinema, smith, stabenow,

so romney is the first one. again, good money connected but but really makes the mistake a candidate of peaking too soon if you kind of come out too early it gives the media a chance to really feast you and really study you and do a lot opposition research against you. so romney was really had fizzled out even by the time of the new hampshire primary, had withdrawn and was was gone by hampshire. then you have and you know, we always talk about the republican party sort of the conservatives and it's because more conservative democrats are coming over to the republican party. but romney, like nixon was from that sort of moderate to liberal internationalist side of the party. i would put romney just a hair to the left of richard a little bit more to the left than that is a new york governor nelson everything. i said about romney double it nelson rockefeller new york city so prominent governor of an even bigger state. a more important even more resources to run major political brand name. a lot of republicans were k

romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz.schmitt. mr. schumer. mr.cott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. un the presiding officer: on this vote the yeas are 47. the nays are 51. the motion is not agreed to. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. a senator: thank you. in order to consider my simple and reasonable amendment,t'stal democrats blocking amendment out of the way in order to move forward with my amendment. mr. hagerty: let me caught through the procedural languagea very simple question. do you support american taxpaye illegal immigrants from countries like venezuela and haiti into america to be settled in cities and towns near you? if so, then vote against me. vote no preserve this practice of using taxpayer dollars to charter planes that move and import thousands of

ronna romney mcdaniel will not be on msnbc. and i say that and give you that level of detail because there has been an effort since by other parts of the company to muddy that up in the press and make it seem like that is not what happened at msnbc. i can assure you that is what happened at msnbc . ronna romney mcdaniel will not appear on msnbc, so says our boss since saturday and it has never been anything other than clear. and i will also say, you know, if you care what you think about this, i will tell you the fact that ms. ronna romney mcdaniel is on the payroll at nbc news , to me, that is inexplicable. you wouldn't, you wouldn't hire like a wiseguy, you wouldn't hire a made man, like a mobster to work at a da office, right? you wouldn't hire a pickpocket to work as a tsa screener. so, i find the decision to put her on the payroll inexplicable and i hope they will reverse their decision. it is not about, you know, democratic party, republican party, it is not about partisanship, it is not about right versus left, it is not

romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. firm is firm is -- senators voting in the affirmative -- blackburn, boozman, braun, budd cassidy, cornyn cotton cramer ernst, grassley hagerty, hoeven johnson, kennedy, lankford lee, lummis hawley ricketts risch, rounds rubio, scott of florida, scott of south carolina wicker and young. senators voting in the negative -- baldwin, blument, booker brown, butler cantwell capito cardin kraerp collins, durbin, fetterman, fischer, hassan, hooirn -- hooirn king kelly, lujan, markey mcconnell, menendez merkley, moran, murray ossoff padilla, peters reed sanders, schatz sinema shaheen stabenow teste warnock, warren wellch and whitehouse. duckworth, no. mr. wyden, no. mr. thune, aye. . crapo, aye. mr. vance, aye. mr. coons, no. the clerk: m

the chief strategist for mitt romney's presidential campaign and the author of the book the conspiracy to in america, five ways my old party is driving our democracy to autocracy. good morning to both of you, thank you for being here with us this morning. let me start with you. what is the call? there are different calls to matter where you are in america. what is the call to republicans for liz cheney? maybe they are truly conservative and they don't agree with a lot of the policies that joe biden and democrats have. but what is the call? joe walsh was saying that the call is that they have to deal with joe biden and deal with policy issues later. >> 100%. one or two people are going to be president of the united states, and it's not me or you. it is donald trump and joe biden. so, if you believe that donald trump is a threat to democracy, which i think is the existential truth of this campaign, you have to vote for joe biden. all this other stuff, i mean, i worked against democrats for 30 years. you go back and look at the stuff you are arguing over, like much of the capital gains ta

i will be passing the gavel over to senator romney and senator romney will be chairing this hearing while> i will be a good boy. i want to anything to embarrass you, mr. chairman. i promise. >> i have a tremendous amount of trust in you, my friend. >> we are to hear from director barnes. he is currently serving as a utah state worchester and director of utah's division of forestry, fire, and state lands. prior to this, she was responsible for the sovereign lands program interest rate. she got her masters degree at the university of idaho. a little stray from our northern border, but her undergraduate is from weaver state universe the. director barnes, we are happy to have you here and listen to test money. >> good morning, thank you, chairman peters and members of the committee. i am pleased to be here with you today to discuss wildfires. we are no stranger to the development occurring in our wildland urban unities. with urban growth comes an increased risk of devastating wildfire. many of these areas contain an overgrowth of fuels. we are seeing fires burn hotter and more severely than e

so those are haley's advantages in addition to the mitt romney factor, mitt romney of course, the retiring us senator, still a very popular figure here and has been of course, very harshly critical of donald trump for years. so will the mitt romney factor play into this and will haley support elsewhere play into this that could happen. the advantage that donald trump has here tonight is that this is they state run excuse me, a party-run caucus here. the republican party is running the caucus that tends to draw more committed republican voters and those tend to be a little bit more conservative. so donald trump may have the advantage. there tonight, we're going to see how it all plays out and we'll be able to show it to a lot of our viewers. who is live when the votes being counted here data. >> okay, i would say you're maybe runner up for best at live shot location of the day. not when you said well, you said was amazing, were just talking about the backdrop. i'm kidding. it's gorgeous there. thank you so much, brian. i appreciate your reporting. let's get back to our panel and talk more a

a couple of days ago, he said we have gotten rid of the romneys, we don't want the moderates.small slice of voter here. nikki haley, her future is predicated on trump losing the general. like, she needs -- in order to make her case, you know, if she wants to be the i told you so republican, he has to lose the general. i think she's in a awkward point in her own political career, because her political future is tied to trump's political demise. >> andrea has a question for you. >> of course. >> chuck, i'm wondering about liz cheney. i think she is a very different character. and has behaved more on principle, frankly, than nikki haley has in the world of politics, just speaking of -- she's been more consistent. what does she do now, now that you put out a strong statement against trump, saying she would do anything possible to stop him from becoming president again. >> it is interesting. i talked to some people very close to her and i know she doesn't want to be john kasich, right, and i say this meaning, kasich went and spoke at the democratic convention. and i think, you know

we are getting rid of the mitt romneys of the world. polls tell a slightly different story -- a third of republican primary voters in north carolina and virginia said they would not vote republican in november regardless of the nominee. tuesday's elections did more than just decide the republican nomination. they reflected a deep schism in the party, dividing some lifelong republicans from trump's maga faction. to discuss this, i'm joined today by two republicans: former congressman denver riggleman from virginia and strategist barrett marson, who's based in phoenix. thank you is the much for joining me. denver, i want to start with you. senate minority ader mitch mcconnell endorsed trump within 24 hours after his super tuesday wins. that is the same man, mitch mcconnell, who called from morally and practically responsible for the january 6 insurrection. does his attempt at unity reflect the reality for voters? mr. riggleman: i think it does. if you look at mitch mcconnell, it is no different then he went to mar-a-lago after blaming tru

her name was ronna romney- mcdaniel. how does that feel to change your name to curry favor with a madman, because he doesn't like your uncle? how did you explain that to your kids? what lesson did your kids learn from that? and i mention her kids because she always mentions her kids. and that she's a mother. whenever she is speaking publicly. and then i would ask her about everything she did. to try to help donald trump overthrow the election that she yesterday, decided to say, for the very first time, four years late, that joe biden won, fair and square. there is an easy way to avoid the controversy nbc news has stumbled into. don't hire anyone close to the crimes. that's what happened to the nixon gang, the only comparable predecessor to the trump gang. only the nixon speech writers, who literally worked at a different building from the white house, far away from the crimes, were welcomed across the line. into the news media. william sapphire became a serious conservative columnist at the "new york times," in 1973, the

before trump ran for president, her name was romney mcdonald. how does that feel? to change her name to curry favor with the madman because he doesn't like your uncle? how did you explain that to your kids? what lesson did your kids learn from that? and i mentioned her kids because she always mentions her kids. and that she is a mother, whenever she is speaking publicly. and then i would ask her about everything she did to try to help donald trump overthrow the election that she yesterday decided to say for the very first time three years later that joe biden won fair and square. there is an easy way to avoid the controversy. don't hire anyone close to the -- that is what happened to the nixon guy. only the nixon speechwriters who literally worked at a different building far away from the crimes were welcome to cross the line. into the news media. when sapphire became a serious --, the year before the nixon crimes were fully exposed. a decade later, david went to the u.s. news & world report. -- where he was joined by his fellow nixon speechwriter, pat buchanan. an

but i think what what romney said is exactly how about a third of republicans feel? >> i mean, it's remarkable to hear a republican senator, someone who was once the republican nominee for president, say that about now the front runner of the republican party arguably the leader of the republican party if that is something that president biden struggles to compete with the voters who they preferred trump on the issues and be willing to overlook that. i mean, what does that say about how democrats have handled trump? >> well, first of all, over the course of the coming months, you're going to see the biden campaign very rightfully. so remind the american people of what exactly the trump presidency was like. my people and you said this earlier they are nick romney might just cut them and add in people, people have forgotten about the chaos. they've forgotten about the divisiveness, the vitriol, and the competency. and so that's why a lot of this data won't really play out. now, no one should ever underestimate donald trump's political strengths particularly as it perta

and ronna is mitt romney's niece.well paid contributor to nbc news, something that has concerned many of news this company, because ron desantis has be a major peddler of the big lie, including pushing michigan to send fake electors to congress. she did that and high pressure phone calls to state officials in michigan. according to the deteriorate detroit news which broke the story of the call, mcdaniels joined donald trump on a november 17th call while he pressured two republican members of the wayne county board of canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election. she sat by while trump told these folks that they would look terrible if they signed the documents after they first voted in opposition. mcdaniel added, quote, if you can go home tonight, do not sign it. we will get you attorneys. well, over the weekend, nbc's kristen welker, the moderator of "meet the press" asked ronna mcdaniels about those lies. >> did you not have a responsibility as the rnc chair to say before january 6th the

romney and getting huge bipartisan legislation through the senate. kyrsten sinema was instrumental and some of the biden administration's he legislative victories over the last few years, including the inflation reduction act and just massive pieces of legislation. so the concern is not only the fact that they're leaving for people who are worried about bipartisanship, but also who they're going to be replaced by right. >> and i want to play a clip from senator sinema's video where she announced that she was not going to run. here's what she had to say. >> in 2017, i warn we were approaching a crossroads. our democracy was weakened by government dysfunction and the constant pull to the extremes by both political parties. we've arrived at that crossroad and we chose anger and division i believe in my approach, but it's not what america wants right now. because i choose civility understanding, listening, working together to get stuff done. i believe the senate at the end of this year i interviewed her right after her bipartisan border bill, that she cr

romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds.Ñmr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. the clerk: senators voting in the affirmative -- baldwin, heinrich lujan, peters schatz and sinema. senators voting in the negative -- manchin, moran, and sullivan. mrs. blackburn, no. the clerk: ms. stabenow, aye. the clerk: mr. brown, aye. the clerk: mr. paul, no. the clerk: mr. warnock, aye. mrs. hyde-smith, no. mr. bennet, aye. the clerk: ms. hirono, aye. mr. wicker, no. the clerk: mr. booker, aye. ms. warren, aye. mr. king, aye. the clerk: mr. tester, aye. vote: the clerk: mr. schatz, aye. mr. merkley, aye. the clerk: mr. kaine, aye. cs the clerk: mr. fetterman, aye. mr. menendez, aye. vu the clerk: mr. budd, no. the clerk: mr. cornyn, no. mr. rubio, no. mr.

romney would have been obviously the ideal candidate with hogan and manchin out, it clearly looks tothe casual observer like it's over, but there are other people that they're pursuing and so at that point your challenge, if you go to a lower tier by a name i.d. problem, someone who is competent and could appeal, but is not rfk, jr. or mitt romney or i guess larry hogan, so it doesn't mean that it's over and i think that-- so the theory that it's in meltdown is wrong. there's an interesting kind of-- they've just invested so much money i don't think they're not going to go through with it and dick gep heart and others working against it are trying to get them to back out. no labels said they'll do this if there's a path-- and they maintained that they don't intend to be a spoiler for trump. the exit ramp for people pushing for, can you get out at the last minute if it looks like it's not viable? >> by july. >> that's pretty tricky so you get someone in and you have to work up their name i.d. and that's mid march soon early april the latest and then i don't -- i just obviously, we're

the difference between 2012 and mitt romney and donald trump in 2024 is that mitt romney was delay largelyf 2012. and the definition that took place, the defining of who mitt romney was, the notion that he was this rapacious, overlord of the multimillionaire, billionaire class. that he could be caricatured as a figure of great wealth and no human empathy -- that ended up being the image that helped rock obama win. we got to election day in 2012. when you looked at those exit polls, the one thing he outdistanced him on was cares about people like us. when it came to cares about people like us, brock obama crushed romney. that was the difference in the election and that was all stuff that was entered in the spring of that year with this massive onslaught of negative advertising that the obama campaign did. the difference in 2024 is donald trump is not an undefined care are in the american psyche. everyone who knows who he is. there's no thing not known in some sense about donald trump. but where the financial advantage is most important and most salient in this race is not in terms of remind

mitt romney as secretary of state.omething to reach across so we don't live in this world where we're just -- where everybody sees the other side as a threat. >> harris: for the box checking crowd that the left tends to be. not all of you, some of you. mitt romney as secretary of state will get it when you could put a woman of color on the ticket like nikki haley. is that bizarre? what do you think about that? >> it goes to show you there isn't a connection with the problem. the president and the democrats and their decision making and policy. you could put mitt romney and nikki haley somewhere with the democrats. even kyrsten sinema couldn't stay with the democrats or joe manchin. that is where when you talk about bringing people together, that's a trump option. sinema. this is an all hands on deck moment. people like that not in major decision making roles but influence. this country is big with people with different opinions. >> harris: it might be a major decision. he will be 86 at the end of his next term. so who

, and romney didn't respond.x-week period, biden has this advantage right now. he's going to press this financial advantage. we're going to start to see the first hits on trump, what works, what is their framing -- what is their theory of the case. we're going to learn a lot. if he wins reelection, it will be because he set the predicate correctly in these six weeks. that's what i'm curious to watch. >> he's going to figure out now what to do when everybody's paying attention. most people are not paying attention right now. >> right. you want to -- you sort of like you got to lay the groundwork for what you hope becomes your closing essentially the argument you're making for that slice of voters since september and october. it's very possible in this rematch environment that nobody tunes in until october, right? that the crucial -- the truly persuadable voters that are not looking forward to this will tune in, but they're going to wait until as long as possible. i'm not watching the entire regular season. >> righ

and, but romney had a good point. this was all about showing that biden is fit for office, that he has energy to push back on some of those concerns around age and he did that are cleared, or it's stef kight of axios stef, thanks so much, great to have you here. >> thanks for having motion. i really appreciate it. >> all right. up next a us army sergeant charged with selling classified military information to china, plus president biden's plan to bring desperately needed relief to civilians in gaza. and congresswoman debbie dingell joins us for a live post-mortem on the president's address. and so much more central today at seven eastern >> we're building a better postal service all parts working in singh to move your business bulwark with a streamlined shipping network and new high-speed processing and delivery centers >> for more balance oh, you more of a liability. and more on-time deliveries. the united states postal service is built for how you business and how you business is with simple, affordable viable shipp

he took another shot at mitt romney, the mitt romney republican is who trump needs to come back to him 2020. biden lost because of strong turnout of his base but also because that sliver of republicans who voted for trump in 2016 said no way. and now they're reconsidering thingsreconsidering things, looking at both candidates, and not thrilled with biden, frankly. but when trump pushes them away, that's the voter he needs to -- he should be able to bring back for 2024. but his rhetoric doesn't allow it. >> no. one more quick one. we know that the idea of immigration, polls we saw this weekend saying it's going to loom large this november. right now, the issue favors the republicans and trump. president biden, we saw it last week on his trip to the border, pointing the finger at the republicans saying, look, we had tough, bipartisan legislation. you guys, mainly trump, are the ones who blocked it. what should biden's message be at the state of the union on immigration? >> i hope he announces he is taing executive action. the bipartisan deal should have gone through. donald trump threw a

mitt romney got spanked and i think is a wonderful— romney got spanked and i think is a wonderful humanit is not 2024 america. will that they are. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. bbc news — bringing you different stories from across the uk. these clinicians are plotting a route through the spine. they're taking ct scans and x—rays, which will be used to create a map for today's surgery. and now we see the white bits of the bony part of the patient, the spine and the dark bits of the soft tissue which we try to avoid. the spine belongs to geoffrey perry. for more than 15 years, he's suffered from sciatica. part of his spine is crushing the major nerves, which run down his legs. to stop the spine from crushing geoffrey's nerves they need to support part of it with a metal cage held in place with four screws. if they're out by even a few millimetres, geoffrey could be paralysed, and that's where the navigational robot comes in. it's like the navigation in the car. we've got the starting point where we're going to start in the skin and then the end point is within the

but on the day of romney's desk, there were no riots in the camp. no warnings or anything that could have alerted the troops. israel's national security agency longstanding investigation into the shooting the officer that's pull the trigger with someone for questioning. the country's national security administer personally came to the hearing breaking protocol to praise the officers actions. we had a big step. say you guys are saying he's a 12 year old boy. stop it. what is this? this is a 12 year old terrorist. it was a 12 year old boy, queen, dangers out of fighter and 12 year old boy who throws fireworks and they throw molotov cocktails. this is why i am back in our fighters also in for a flash. in the ramos, in anywhere, it is very good that he acted the way he did. the palestinians couldn't disagree more local mosques announced from his desk for loudspeakers, calling him a martyr. people were furious, fearing that funeral, turning to mass protest, israel returned from his body 6 days later, almost in secret. requiring the burial was carried out

you wrote a very good book in conversations with mitt romney about his retirement and why he no longer wants to be in congress. it feels like these people are unwilling -- some people don't want to play these games anymore? >> i go back to republican congressman who said they turned the impeachment into a social media sideshow. it is supposed to be something very serious. it is in the constitution. it is something congress undertakes when there is serious evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors by the president. now it is clearly -- i don't think any serious republican can say at this point that this is anything other than performative partisanship and i think that is why you are seeing serious minded republicans like mitt romney and buck who are saying, i can't do this anymore. >> and their lies the oxymoron, serious republicans. but i defer to you on that. >> we keep talking about off ramps and impeachment. those off ramps come with their own dangers. both politically for republicans in terms of how long shot all the things they are talking about are and they understandably want som

their party's presumptive nominee in november which includes the gop 2012 presidential nominee mitt romney who some say he has not gone far enough. but has to some degree put his name and reputation on the line to warn about the dangers of tropism. >> the same cannot be said about many other republicans including those in mitt romney's on family who pledged blind loyalty to the former president. those are publicans have discredited themselves in the eyes of the american public but continue to support trump's many lies, big and small including trying to rewrite the history of january six itself. but some clear eyed republicans understand how trump is leading this country into autocracy and those republicans are worth listening to. joining me now is jennifer rubin, an opinion writer for the washington post and an msnbc political analyst and author of the book "resistance" how women saved democracy from donald trump. and joe walsh, a former republican congressman from illinois and 2020 president a candidate and host of the podcast "white flag with joe walsh." thank you for being with us. you

i want to thank senator romney foamcommittee and signed up as part of the infrastructure law.part of a sweeping review of what our government does to respond to wildfires. it was co-chaired by the department of agriculture of the department of interior. they released their 150 recommendations this past september. the report outlines ways you can fight fires, modernize the tools we use, and adopt a proactive approach so that our communities can be better prepared to face this problem in the future. our committee has taken some key steps related to the warts recommendation. last year, the senate passed the disasters of a vacation act, which makes it easier for people to get help they need after other serious natural disasters. this congress help? when the workforce and expand firefighters all across america. this community has also passed the wildland firefighter protection paycheck act by senator cinema to establish a permanent needed pay scale for federal firefighters. we will continue to advance this bipartisan legislation to prevent a pay cliff for wildland firefighters at t

you know, i'd love to see list cheney, mitt romney, somebody like that do., you know a lot about mccraney if they could do anything. >> he's not going to do it. i asked him about this. this is the thing. i feel like as long as i've been covering politics, there have been these kind of long shot, well organized, well funded efforts to put together some kind of third-party that people might remember in 2012, americans elect, they secured ballot access in a bunch of states, got a bunch of donations that they couldn't find volleyball candidates and it imploded. 2016 you had people like mitt romney and bill kristol never dropped republicans were going around desperately searching for a standard bearer, to run a third party. they ended up settling on this no name guy. mcmullin. he didn't really make a dent. >> from utah? >> from utah. he made it done in utah nowhere. else but i think this is the problem. no labels has what seems like a possible case, right? >> in theory. >> in theory. on paper, americans are very dissatisfied with the two choices. but the problem

and mitt romney. and mitt romney did see a partisan speech but he also understands that there are deals to be had here. and the most recent deal around the border which the president did talk about last night and kind of teased republicans about, that's going to be used certainly by the gop but democrats think they have an opening and think they have a gift here from donald trump on that parrier. then you look at the senator and her talk and the republicans have to neutralize this democratic advantage. related to ivf and reproductive politics and the appeal particularly to suburban women. i don't know if giving a speech from your kitchen and that delivery does that. but look, the response speech that's given by just about any politician usually falls flat. she's young enough to not fall into political obscurity. i'm not sure the delivery russ necessarily the best. >> fascinating to look at especially on national women's day and the positioning there of that speech and what it has to say strategically.

luckily, we ar not going back to the good old days of the romney's and the cheney's [applause] >> they is much bigger than that now. we are filled with blue-collar workers, many cultures, perspectives and viewpoints. but most importantly, we all love america and we realize what a gift this country is. this country is the greatest experiment in humankind. if we lose it on our watch, where will we go? where is there another country that is better or offers us more opportunity? for me, there is no going back. i am all in. and you need to be, too. [applause] >> we need to look for our leaders outside of the swamp. nobody turns to d.c. for the solutions. nothing meaningful gets governors have had to leave and i have seen governors make bad decisions in devon eight their states and we have governors that did the right tng. i put my foot on the gas and promoted freedom, personal responsibility and our constitution. today, south dakota and are happy. they are making decisions for the jones education and pursuing the american dream. margaret thatcher where she said god needs no faint hearts fo

i think he's probably going to emily a marco rubio, much like he did mitt romney. you recall that dinner where he invited mitt romney out to talk about whether or not he was going to be secretary of state and we had all of this conversation and he just ameliorated mitt romney is it not you. i think that's what's happening with marco rubio and was outside the palm john, if i could just really quickly go ahead. if i couldn't really quickly, i love my dear morehouse brother of a car, but i'm happy to push back here. i mean, kamala harris wanted the base state he just sensually said that joe biden was a racist because of busing and she sure enough, became vice president. so i mean, i think there's a lot of people in politics who all of a sudden work with someone who they form your criticized. >> there are there are policy disagreements which she had a policy difference about busing. and then there's criticizing the size of the man's hands. and then saying, you know what that means. so their personal attacks and their policy disagreements, you've never had those persona

we're getting rid of- the romneys of the world. not the clip i was expecting, but i think what we should talk about, given that we have played it is what he said on the weekend in virginia. it is one thing to attack the candidates commits another to attack the voters of that candidate. does he really not want those who are not maga who might vote for mitt romney? i think at this point trump is an entertaining person from it entertains that he is, it entertains the crowd. there's talk of this 30% anti—trump boat, but the reality is we have these numbers demonstrated in 2016 and helped elect president trump in november. so is entertaining, people can talk about it, there is a proven history of the anti—trump and never trump vote actually voting for trump and the 2016 election and it did have a positive impact. we prefer he not say it. it sounds very similar to what hilary said about trump voters being deplorable. don't insult the voters. but at the end of the day, people go to these rallies to be entertained and i heard a lot of peop

also, you've got the mitt romney factor, the popular us senator who's retiring, obviously a very harsh critic of donald trump over the years will mitt romney's influence so it's maybe influenced some republican voters here to swing to nikki haley. here's what i can show you about the caucus site. this is very dynamic caucus site in about five-and-a-half hours, the caucusgoers will arrive here at alto high school, newly renovated, massive high school here at the foot of the wasatch mountains here, beautiful view of the mountains behind me. you can see but we've got hundreds of voters who will start to converge here at about five-and-a-half hours. they will caucus here. they'll hear speeches, then they'll all vote at one time. and the one thing that could help donald trump hear that there will be a strong pull donald trump's way is that the caucus system here was adopted in 2016. it's run by the republican party, not the state. and that tends to draw more conservative voters that may favor donald trump. so that could be where he really picks up support here tonight, we'll known a few hou

we have heard from senator lisa murkowski as well as mid-route but romney who said they will not vote for donald trump either. this is unusual for lawmakers to not vote. new of the former rnc chair. put yourself back in the driver seat. how do you deal with this issue when there is this very public fracture of your party going into an election that you want to win but you have members of your own party saying i am not supporting the nominee. >> in a normal circumstance it would be a problem because you think that would have a lot of sway and impact on how not just folds within the party see these events unfolding but certainly those outside. the problem here charles is that it doesn't matter. those three voices are just three voices in what is a wild hurricane of noise by republicans were falling all over themselves to endorse and support trump. as a part chair as we just saw with the handover in the capitulation of the rnc competing takeover by donald trump by installing his daughter-in-law to be a co- chair of the rnc. governor of new hampshire, was in africa -- an advocate. if the

romney, no. vote: the clerk: mr. braun, no. the clerk: mrs. fischer, no. mr.k: mr. peters, aye. the presiding officer: the yeas are 51, the nay are 48, and the nomination is confirmed. mrs. murray: mr. president. the presiding officer: under the reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action. mrs. murray: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: io proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all those in favor say aye. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mrs. murray: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: i ask the chair to lay before the senate a message from the house of representatives on h.r. 4366. the presiding officer: the chair lays before the senate the following message from the house of representatives. the clerk: resolved that the house agree to the amendment o 4366, entitled an act making appropriations for militar

. >> she's not partially not just a mitt romney is not right? serve it enough to be nominated in his state. she's not far-left enough. the democratic party has moved so far left that kyrsten sinema, who came from the left part of the democratic party, which she went to the house. she no longer has home. >> and if you take her at her word that the reason why she's leaving is not necessarily just because she's in third place, but because being in the senate is not the most fun place to be these days, or the place where you can actually get a ton done and you're seeing all sorts of retirements from folks in the political center. the pragmatic types who are looking at the environment, washington and saying, i don't think i can actually do anything positive here. >> in >> elected office, so i don't think this is the last of the big retirements that we may see over the company? yeah. that's your right. and the reality may be that to sort of be there in the senator me, in the senate, in the center, in the senate, or anywhere means you are going to be i

you know, from our first president to abraham lincoln to john mccain, to mitt romney.the time and i admit that but i entered someone that would lay down their life for the country. and that's you know i believe that when you swear an oath to the country you you swear that oath your to upho that and it's sort of sad that we've divulged so far that as a society where it's seen as courageous to come forward and r that's unfortunate aspect of what we're experiencing now. but )2to■ back to what your saying about working with■" mar. did you feel a tension between loyalty to him and that that of to your job? yes. and where i had a i was i didn't do a lot oft in that job. and when i took the job with mark, i wasthat i wanted to work as the chief of staff, and to me, there was a very important distinction. there. was thqlere to ser■dve the offie of. the chief of staff of the white house, not the individual. and you had some hesitation. i did have yes, i did have hesitations. of taking that job, because i you know, i covered was just sort of getting i was well positioned in the

he worked on the mitt romney o8 campaign like you. the fact he is there, does that give you any sense of security? how do you feel about all this? >> well i think charlie is a real lawyer. i have a lot of respect for charlie. he wasn't a big lie guy. he accepted what the election said. the person running it will be chris. the problem republicans have is not that too many dead people are voting. it is that not enough live people are voting for them. and, you know, i worked in the elections for decades. voter fraud does not exist on any serious level. it is sort of like saying elephantitis is a bigger problem than cancer so we will replace the national cancer institute with the national elephantitis institute. it's just crazy. the problem we have is getting people to vote when it is legal. not illegal. it is not a felony that people wake up and want to commit. >> by the rnc doing this, doesn't it pave way to sow doubt in elections where you have a whole lot more fired up americans headed into a january 6th and not accepting election res

, mitt romney, the senator, to the state, these are ugly statements that i don’t even want to quote,rrorists, so this is an information campaign, they are working on these , i agree, well, the kiev regime, in fact, despite this monstrous terrorist attack in crocus, continued the open official terrorist activities against russia, this night according to the ministry of defense. 12 ukrainian drones were shot down on russian territory, and these drones tried to hit the kuibyshev oil refinery and the novokuibyshev oil refinery, despite the fact that the united states seems to be calling on the kiev leadership not to hit russian oil refineries, anyway, they still continue to hit, over belgorod 11 vampire rszo shells made in the czech republic were intercepted in the region, that’s what’s happening now... slight progress, but nevertheless, in the ugledar direction we have progress north of novomikhailovka, in the village itself fierce battles continue, in marinsky this morning there are no changes yet, there are battles in georgievka on the outskirts of krasnogorovka, in the avdeevka direc

followed by cena romney. >> thank you very much chair white house.dget is a statement of values president biden's value tells working people and family very clearly and simply we have your back and will be building a stronger future together. president biden protects and strengthens the medicare medicaid and social security while former president trump goes on to be to say he thanks you can quote do a lot in terms of cutting these programs. but while the leader of the republican party was to pull the rug out from under families and seniors president biden understands a source of her nation strength is our people investing and working families does pay off in a major way. this budget offers a roadmap for progress on tackling the housing crisis that is crunching america's pocketbooks and we are in my home state of washington. tackling the childcare crisis like i've long challenge.wide cd care they need for about $10 a day. continuing our historic work rebuilding our nations infrastructure including the project in washington state which i thank you four

romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr.a. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. senators voting in the affirmative -- butler, coons, hawley, lujan, schmitt, and wyden. -- mrs. blackburn, aye. senators voting in the negative -- cornyn, cramer,s kennedy, paul, and wicker.éÑ the clerk: mr. merkley, aye. mr. grassley, no. the clerk: ms. sinema, aye. the clerk: mr. crapo, aye.u vote: the clerk: mrs. gillibrand, aye. the clerk: mrs. fischer, no. mr. peters, aye. the clerk: mr. marshall, aye. the clerk: ms. rosen, aye. mr. rounds, aye. the clerk: ms. cortez masto, aye. the clerk: mr. moran the clerk: mr. tester, aye. ms. klobuchar, aye. the clerk: mr. blumenthal, aye. mr. ossoff, aye. the clerk: mr. welch, aye. mr. hagerty, aye. mr. whitehouse, aye. the clerk: mr. schatz, aye. thlee, no. mr. heinrich, a