ronna mcdaniel, chair woman of the national republican committee. on your plate lately. >> i know, it's never boring, right, john, right. >> john: and now this. so wednesday and chad pergram said might stretch into thursday, friday, even saturday, they start the votes for house speaker. trump's endorsement of jordan will throw a lot of weight behind him. i mean, i don't want to say who you would prefer personally to see, but in terms of speaker, and then heading into the elections next year, who do you think would be best to lead the house? >> i just -- i more than anything applaud patrick mchenry in this new role, created after 9/11, recognizing we should be having these discussions behind closed doors. that we shouldn't be airing our dirty laundry. once we come out, the members come out of conference have the votes ready for the next speaker. i hope it doesn't take very long. i don't think our country can afford to take too long and i think it's bad for our party and hope they get rid of the motion to vacate. we cannot have another chaotic turnove

rnc chair ronna mcdaniel made comments about the war? >> she was on fox and asked a question or the republican president a candidates responses to the attacks on israel, she says a great opportunity to contrast their agenda with the biden administration. the white house to pity press secretary slammed her comments, calling it divisive. she answered the question, it is a battle between good and evil, she has condemned the attacks in israel. this is much ado about nothing. stuart: scott show lady, is this market focused on the war in israel? >> it changed the narrative. we went home friday and had the job report, looking at higher rates for a longer and i said on your show and mine every day, if we see interest rates, there will be a big calamity. what happens in the short term doesn't happen when the market has gotten better, the fed broke something or over did it. this war in israel has changed the narratives, it has to call the dogs off of higher rates because higher oil is inflationary, higher wages is inflationary, lower interest rate

republican party obsesses too much over the question of who, kevin mccarthy or somebody else, ronna mcdaniel or somebody else, donald trump or somebody else instead of focusing on what or why what do we stand for and why do we stand for. what i would like to see is a refocusing on the substance of the issues that we actually face and neither party has done a good job of addressing and that would be the positive that i will help hopefully see come out of this. maria: one of the important issues that voters care about is a wide open border we had a startling u-turn from the white house, president biden says he has no choice but to go ahead and build 20 miles of border wall and southern texas because of funds appropriated for he took office. on the same day he said that the department of homeland security alejandro mayorkas wrote a statement saying there is presently an acute immediate need to construct physical barriers in the vicinity of the border. now he says the administrations policy against building a wall has not changed. a lot of flip-flopping going on. how do you see it? >> purposeful

ronna mcdaniel, the chair of the republican national committee, just hours after the stomach churningl and gaza began. meanwhile, it is her party that meets this crisis without a leader in the house of representatives at this critical time. and one of the house party senators, tommy tuberville, still refuses to lift his hold on at least 300 military nominees, including top officers who would command forces at the least. and then, senator paul, who has been blocking all state department nominees since june, demanding that the department first release additional information about the origins of covid, something the state department does not have. as a result, roughly 38 countries are without u.s. ambassadors, including key countries in the region, like israel, egypt, kuwait, and oman. that list does not include the three-year vacancy over usaid for the top official in the middle east, or the fact that the state department has had no coordinator for counterterrorism in two years. joining me now is joel reuben, former deputy assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs during the

the rnc chairwoman has done a fantastic job and has supported us for a long time ronna mcdaniels. thank you. a man that gets the weekend ratings. he is so good they put him on saturday night now. he was on sunday. if he did friday and thursday and wednesday i would be happy too. but he has the unbelievably highest rated show of the weekend in all of television. he started off as a great lawyer and that's how it started. his wife is a great lawyer, julie. they are both here. mark levan and julie. where are they? where are they? great. two great people. and the mother in law is better than both of them. where is the mother? she is better than both of them. thank you for being here. rick harrison. star upon stars. he is 21 years. that means he has something. where is rick? what a job. i know all about that stuff with the apprentice. to stay on 21 years is pretty good. a man that just became a great republican. he will be a star of the party. in fact, byron told me that. he said he will be a star. he said i know that. randy fine. randy, randy thank you. he loves israel. three weeks ag

let's give a big warm welcome to the ronna mcdaniel. ♪ >> thank you.be at the republican jewish coalition national meeting. it's an honor to be with all you. there is no place i would rather be. i want to thank what a norm -- thank norm pullman. what an amazing man chairing the organization. i want to thank matt broke. the our jc has been an important part of my life. i have fun with the republican jewish coalition to israel where we opened an embassy in jerusalem. i was there this year in israel as well as saudi arabia, bahrain, and the uae celebrating the abraham accords. i'm thrilled to be with you here today. my heart is heavy is -- as all of your czar and i want to extend my deepest sympathies to those of you that lost loved ones or have family members that are missing or have been called into the idf. i want to share prayers to the innocent people being used as human shields by the terrorist group hamas and to our leaders in our country that they do the right thing during this pivotal time in our nations history. when america is weak, the world i

rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel. political things, obviously, this is the story of the day. always great to have your insight. thank you, ronna. >> thank you, we stand with israel. thank you so much. griff: all right. general jack keane on the surprise attacks from hamas, and we have him coming up and we have his insights. stick with us. when you take it again the next day. so betty can be the... barcode beat conductor. ♪ let's be more than our allergies! and for fast allergy relief with a powerful decongestant, try zyrtec-d. ♪ no. ♪ -no. -nuh-uh. ♪ yeah. oh. yes. ♪ oh yeah. yes. isn't this great? yeeaahhhh!! ♪ yeah, i could do a cartwheel in here. oh hey! would you like to join us? no. we would love to join you. ♪ when my dad would go to work i'd be in his toolbox trying power tools. the only time i got in trouble was when i took his skill saw and wacked the hedges in front of the house. ha ha ha. he didn't like that. like him, i've become a union carpenter and so have my sons. 36 years in the field, and i've never

rnc chair ronna mcdaniel joins me now.this, i i want you to respond to harrison's comments there that the democrats are the adults in the room. >> with uh, yeah, i think he's delusional. i mean, the democrats are the ones who are allowing crime to run rampant, allowing our border to be open. they've caused this rampant inflation which is killing middle income families across this country. they abandoned our kids with their education, so the democrats is have created a disaster in this country, and the republicans are bringing common sense solutions to the american people. ashley: but the optics of this, ronna, are not good at all. what implications could this have for 2024 especially among independents who have not been swayed one way or the other and look at all this chaotic in-fighting within the gop? >> anytime we're fighting with each other, we're taking away from our message is -- with joe biden. we're about a year out from a great election where we've got to hold the house, and we can win the white house. and the hea

ronna mcdaniel said i don't know, shock therapy?d have reached out to the team for clarity, we have not heard back. the former secretary of state is its comments remind many of what she said in 2016, when she called former president donald trump supporters deplorables. >> so many of those extremists, maga extremists, take their marching orders from donald trump who has no credibility left by any measure. when do they break with him? because at some point you know, maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members, but something needs to happen. >> clinton did not stop there, john. she said this about why president trump is the leading republican candidate for president. >> maybe they don't like migrants, maybe they don't like gay people or black people or the woman who got the promotion at work they didn't get. whatever the reason. it's a classic tale of an authoritarian populusist who really has a grip on the emotional psychological needs and desires of a portion of the population. >> don, jr. posted this woman is

tweeting about trump on today, they are also trying to get as much outrage as they can against ronna mcdanielant to know, mr. president, 11 americans were killed. are there any americans being held hostage. do you have this? are you on top of it. if you are on top of it we will feel better. a at the tow release is not going to cut it. >> what advice would you give him. >> i think he does better when he talks more. i know people who don't like him feels it doesn't help. democrats feel like it does. he knows about foreign policy, his area of expertise, maybe you didn't need to call the lid it was meaningful to see bb netanyahu thanking president biden and united states for our unwavering support and biden statement on saturday when he did come out right away and gave that address, which you notice, a number of democrats didn't like this, pointed out he didn't mention palestinian, he talked about israel and that we stand with israel. >> what advice would you give? is. >> i want to complain about something. you know, first of all, there is one thing when you talk about the $6 billion. let's talk

proxies like hamas, and you have some new reporting on that $6 billion we heard earlier in the show ronna mcdanielrnc chairwoman, talking about the $6 billion given to or unfrozen for iran in the hostage deal last month as possibly playing a part in this. what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, griff, i've spoken to senior officials who were involved in that hostage deal, and they explained to me where this money came from and where it is currently sitting. and what i can tell you is that from talking to them, none of that money has been released into iran's hands as of yet. here's how it worked. basically, the money, the $6 billion, was set up, there were accounts set up urn the trump administration -- under the trump administration for iran to sell, they got a waiver to sell their oil to four countries, india, turkey, south korea and another country. the $6 billion in the south korean bank account was iranian money for those oil sales. it was not u.s. taxpayer money. the money then that was exchanged to the, to the iranians is now being held in a qatari bank. the qataris, the u.s. treasury has

. >> rnc chair ronna mcdaniel also frustrated and saying this on fox business. >> i don't know how thisight now has to wake up everyday and say, how does this help us beat the democrats in november? we can't do this next year. we cannot do this and win. if this happens again, we are jeopardizing a very small house majority. >> so, this is not the kind of messaging that fox viewers usually hear. it's a sign, though, of just how deeply this chaos is rattling conservatives. joining me now is former republican congressman from virginia, riggleman served as a senior adviser to the january 6th house select committee and also a best-selling author of "the breach" about the january 6th investigation and he's currently working with hunter biden's legal team. denver, it's always so good to have you here. you and i always talk about how our currency, our facts, evidence, science, the hard stuff, right, the data. that's what we rely upon. none of that happens in the gop usually. but you used to be a member of the gop and used to be a member of the kind of very right of center kind of group. so your

think it's a mistake for the party near term and long term to do that, and i expressed that to ronna mcdaniel when we had our conversation earlier this week, but let me be clear, george. she made it clear to me if i did that conversation i would be banned from future debates by the rnc. >> george: we don't know how long it will take to find a new speaker of the house. do you have a favorite candidate? >> i don't have a favorite. i don't know jim jordan well at all, so i can't really speak to him expect for what i see publicly. i know steve scalise and i like steve scalise, and i respect him, but i won't weigh in and endorse somebody, but i know steve and i think he's a responsible and good guy. >> george: if this continues to go and donald trump gets the nomination, you said he can't win. any doubt about that? >> none in my mind, george. to get back to your other question, i believe he'll show up at the debates. i think it will happen at some point. i think when it gets narrower, but the rnc is trying to kick people off the stage too. they increased the number of donors you need by 40% betwee

we heard from ronna mcdaniel saying the violence in israel was a, quote, opportunity for republicans.ng the president is not working. he didn't have public appearances. arguments could be made whether or not he should have made a statement yesterday. he is doing so today. the white house pointed out, his busy schedule of calls and the joint statement with european partners, that came forward because of the work the president put in yesterday. this is, like ukraine before it, joe and mika, right now, this issue in israel has become a political football, even as lives are in the balance. >> well, and, by the way, i mean, so the white house has its rapid response team. if you or a family member of yours has a google machine at home, you can google this. you can find out the truth literally in 60 seconds. google about trump, waivers, oil, iran. you will find out that iran's revenues from oil spikes from 2016 through 2019, and donald trump gave a waiver, this waiver that led to this $6 billion from south korea. plus billions and billions and billions of dollars that he allowed the communis

. ♪ ♪♪ >> as now let's welcome republican national committee chairman ronna a mcdaniel. new hatch. i'm excited to be here. you know who doesn't want to be here, joe biden. he has walked away from new hampshire. joe biden and the democrats walked away from new hampshire and the republicans are here because we value new hampshire as the first in the nation primary, did you get that? how amazing was that panel with those veterans and thank them for their service and state party chair all the great work he has done putting this together. and thank you tore all you do. we have a all table of r.n.c. members. ok. i think i got everybody. all the r.n.c. members. let's thank the r.n.c. members who came here today. i think they voted to make new hampshire the first in the nation. you are going to hear from great friends. joni and suzanne butterfield. he he he congresswoman cammack. and we want to thank our governor. you know republicans just passed democrats and more republicans registered in new hampshire than democrats. i don't know. joe biden, maybe new hampshire got the hint.