deep divides over the u.s. role are growing. house republicans are in chaos. and the former president is preparing to take the stand. i m going to discuss all of that plus new polling on the presidential race with the chair of the congressional republic per mila jayapal. plus, his two adult sons testified in new york last week, and donald trump himself will be under oath to new york tomorrow. the in-house law firm neal katyal is standing by for a full preview. and later, stacey abrams hasn t spoken extensively about the indictments in fulton county until now. i asked her about the strength of the case, the stakes for her home state, and yes, her own political future. okay, i hope you re sitting down for what i m about to say. because you might find it a little disorienting. here it goes. we are exactly one year out from election day of 2024. one year, exactly. look, i know that for the better part of this decade, we ve heard a lot of talk about certain elections being the
they wanted to do everything to get rid of me. certain people and i ll discuss that more next week. what about the timing of this? i think what happened is the president said he s going to have more troops in afghanistan, the base went crazy. this was a bone thrown toward the base to say were looking out for you. the problem for the president as he makes these announcements and put senators in a box. the wall street journal had an editorial saying the congressional republic needs to treat the president like an independent. so you re starting to see this cleavage between republicans and the president. how are we gonna get legislation passed? the congress need some wins before the election. clearly the president is looking at the base in congress is trying to pass things. i don t know where it will end up. it doesn t seem to be us sound legislative strategy. thank you for your time.
give the congressional republic answer credit, they quickly reversed themselves, the vote yesterday was obviously an error, paul ryan and leo mccarthy of the times were against the vote. it became a big deal overnight and they were quick to correct it this morning. that was kudos to them for recognizing it, fixing it quickly, now let s move on with the rest of the agenda we can ee night behind and win the support of the american people. simon, alex, thank you for joining us and sticking through. that appreciate it. let take oh look at other big political dates. mark your calendar. it is happening. president obama, vice president-elect pence holding dueling capitol hill meetings with party members on obamacare as republicans prepare to repeal it. on january 5, senator john mccain will hold a hearing on russia s alleged hacking of the past election. you remember that story. and on the tenth, president obama will deliver his farewell
nancy pelosi right here, said likening obamacare to a china shop, if you break it you own it. implying it s still in good shape. and sort of saying, be careful, if you touch this we re going to hold you accountable down the road. do they respond to that dare and go forward anyway? they have to have some trepidation. well, look, it s not really a dare in my view. her analogy is wrong. what she s saying is wrong. it s not actually picking up a piece of fine chien and breaking it. the piece of china is in at that timers. look around the country, the statement of the u.s. healthcare system now. i think if you gave people the option of going back to the pre-obama healthcare system, or going forward with obamacare the way that it s been carried out so far, people would choose the former. i think republicans have to make a case what we have seen from obamacare has fell short of many of the promises that democrats made and the dire predictions that republic answer made in the debates before
themselves. we ll listen in in here when they get ready to speak. meantime, they had a bit of a dustup. donald trump come out and tweet that republic answer should leave things the way they are for now. that wasn t the first order of business. they seem to respond. so there you guy, right, steve? trump had to speak out on that, given that he s the candidate that got e leekted on drain the swamp. there s a good argument to be made against the ethics panel they were talking about dissolving. but think about the message that sensdz as one of the things that the new corn gres does to dissolve this. you knew the media would take the story and run with it, blow it up. it was an unforced error? he barks and republicans seem to jump on that. so it seemed like they were listening to what he had to say even though it went against how they said they would come out. interesting back and forth when you say they seem to be together on one hand.