our correspondent in brown where the tea party congress is taking place of germany's far right populist party has been moving ever further to the right since it was founded 6 years ago will we see a shift further to run through the right this weekend. well f.t.v. alexander galant wants to retire from that position does protest that are unanimous is that the continuously shifted to the right but he does protest a bit too much because the wing the extreme right wing of the party just gained some successes in regional elections picking eastern states and their figurehead. can according to court ruling be called a fascist in the so. has a rather large following but we've also heard from the stage behind me here to day concerns that the party could become less possible to particular west. if it continues on that very almost so it's absolutely decisive whether it's and a government gets his way and his favorite as his successor gets elected here today or what the somebody else potentially more further to the right gets voted in to lead this country into potential next elections 2021 and just

chief political editor from the far right a tea party congress in because thanks so much. well to iraq now where prime minister abdul mahdi says that he will resign off to 40 people were killed and the latest clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters the death cell since unrest broke out in october has now surpassed 400 people. celebrations at baghdad's liberation square protesters traded stones for songs after the prime minister announced he would resign following months of deadly protests. but his departure alone will not be enough. imo this is only the 1st step the 2nd will be parliament resigning we will not leave the square into less corrupt person steps down but the good. demonstrators see the political class as puppets of outside forces especially iran. south of the capital violence between protesters and security forces raged on. the clashes are the biggest challenge to the ruling elite since saddam hussein was ousted in 2003. poverty and unemployment have fueled the demonstrators anger parliament is due to meet on sunday. now in the region of

republicans have moved further right than democrats moved left, and that tea party congress was determinedbe the most polarized ever going all the way back to reconstruction. things have only gotten more polarized under president trump, the second republican in 16 years to win the white house despite losing the popular vote, something that didn't happen once in the 20th surgeon genery. bitter personal divides, declined in trust in the government, the media and each other. our polarized congress rooted in science like the climate crisis while ignore -- failing to take action even when super majorities support things like expanding background checks. now we see a country facing its third impeachment inquiry since this period of polarization began after only one other in our whole history before. so no, none of this is normal, and healing these divides is going to take time, and we're going to need to remember some practical wisdom from president eisenhower who said the middle of the road is all the usable surface. the extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. and that's your reality chec

all remember the tea party wave came crashing over washington, and we heard so much about debt and deficit and spending and obama was bankrupting the country. and i was covering congress time. i was covering republicans and covering these tea party conservatives who were coming to washington. and i always felt this sense of dissonance because as much as i would hear them talk about that, when i would spend time with them and i would go back to their districts and talk to some of their voters, it always seemed to me there was this cultural churn beneath the surface that was really much more, i guess, galvanizing in moving these voters and certainly animating their opposition, not just to barack obama, but to the republican party's leadership, which they perceived to be sort of feeble and weak and afraid to fight back against obama and against the cultural left, the forces of secularism, what have you. so i think what trump was able to identify better than any other republican frankly was that many of these voters on the right, sure, to some degree they care about tax cuts. they care about deregulation. they care about conservative justices, no question. but they really

charlie, there are cups kwengsz to this for republicans in congress, many who including mick mulvaney, remembers the freedom caucus and the tea party before them, who really felt that prior presidents, including barack obama were eroding congressional authority in favor of executive authority. there are consequences beyond protecting donald trump to going along with these arguments in court or going long with these defenses that the president puts forward that could make future presidents more powerful than members of congress or the american people or the constitution intended for them to be. >> well, everyone is a hypocrite in washington when it comes to executive power. when their team is in the white house they're all for it. when their team has congress but is out of the white house, they're sus spipicious of it. people's opinions flip depending on whether their faction could be aided or hurt by a stronger view of presidential power. this contributes to what i like to call the one-way ratchet effect of executive power, even though people complain when their party doesn't have the white house, each president builds on the what

>> the tea party formed around an almost fanatical opposition to barack obama. in 2010, it propelled a wave of republicans to congress>> this new hyperpartisan congress presided over a growing impeachment movement. >> when you promise that you're out to impeach the president, you can make a name for yourself. you can raise money. you can rally the base. >> impeach him. really? >> impeachment is not supposed to be used as a rallying cry to get people to vote for you. both sides played around with it. >> impeachment campaigns against presidents bush and obama never gained legitimacy or real legislative support, so one could argue who cares. it's only talk. >> if you play around with impeachment that way, over time the american people are going to misunderstand its constitutional power and its necessity. >> when barack obama left office, he was more popular than george bush. but the gap between the people who loved him and who hated him was even larger than it had been with president bush. the deep polarization of the last few years is the worst in american history with one exception -- the period around the civil war.

. >> the tea party formed around an almost fanatic call opposition to barack obama. in 2010 it propelled a wave of new republicans to congressels bad. >> this new hyper partisan congress presided over a growing impeachment movement. >> when you promise that you're out to impeach the president, you can make a name for yourself. you can raise money. you can rally the base. >> impeach him. really? >> impeachment is not supposed to be used as a rallying cry to get people to vote for you. both sides played around with it. >> impeachment campaigns against presidents bush and obama never gained legitimacy or real legislative support so one could argue, who cares? it's only talk. >> if you play around with impeachment that way over time the american people are going to misunderstand its constitutional power and its necessity. >> when barack obama left office he was more popular than george bush, but the gap between the people who loved him and who hated him was even larger than it had been with president bush. the deep polarization of the last few years is the worst in american history with one exception, the period around the civil

>> the tea party formed around an almost fanatical opposition to barack obama. in 2010, it propelled a wave of republicans to congress it feel like? >> it feels bad. >> this new hyperpartisan congress presided over a growing impeachment movement. >> when you promise that you're out to impeach the president, you can make a name for yourself. you can raise money. you can rally the base. >> impeach him. really? >> impeachment is not supposed to be used as a rallying cry to get people to vote for you. both sides played around with it. >> impeachment campaigns against presidents bush and obama never gained legitimacy or real legislative support, so one could argue who cares. it's only talk. >> if you play around with impeachment that way, over time the american people are going to misunderstand its constitutional power and its necessity. >> when barack obama left office, he was more popular than george bush. but the gap between the people who loved him and who hated him was even larger than it had been with president bush. the deep polarization of the last few years is the worst in american history with one exception -- t