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Leader. one thing working in his favor is there does not appear to be a consensus choice yet for who might take him on. he cant be denied the speakership if theres not someone else to elect as the speaker. and hes stayed close with the people who could be his biggest rivals in that space. first and foremost, jim jordan, who is in line for an important leadership position in the new majority. >> i found this interesting when kevin mccarthy asked if he was going to support former president donald ...

I will give you good example. you notice the flap of tulsi gabbard lately were hillary clinton makes this wild accusation that she is a russian agent or russian accent and that she is referring for a third-party run, thats a way to punish sanders to hurt her. it sanders comes out and defends her, warren keeps her mouth shut. she says nothing good i think they have a nonaggression pact and that once you are in with te clintons, once you are compromising yourself to that extent, it is very hard to...

Democratic party -- thats what it appears. i will give you good example. you notice the flap with tulsi gabbard lately were hillary clinton makes this wild accusation that she is a russian agent or a russian asset and that she is preparing for a third-party run, thats a way to punish sanders to hurt her. sanders comes out and defends her, warren keeps her mouth shut. she says nothing, i think they have a nonaggression pact and that once you are in with the clintons, once you are compromising you...

Then he moved up and ran to be a state senator. again he won and was re-elected and re-elected and re-elected again. he served a whole bunch of terms in the senate. he moved up again and won for state pressure -- treasurer. and then he moved up again and won the race for secretary of state. this guy was totally unbeatable. by the time he was running for re-election as secretary of state, he did something that no other statewide elected official had ever done before in the history of that state. ...

History of that state. he won all 102 counties in the state of illinois in that race. nobody had ever done that before in any statewide race. but he was al the pal. who could be against him? he was the consensus choice. no matter what he was running for, for decades from these little municipal posts all the way up through everything in state government, he was totally absolutely unbeatable. and in a sort of methodical way, as he was working his way up to higher and higher office, it ultimately b...

In any statewide race. but he was al the pal. who could be against him? he was the consensus choice. no matter what he was running for, for decades from these little municipal posts all the way up through everything in state government, he was totally absolutely unbeatable. and in a sort of methodical way, as he was working his way up to higher and higher office, it ultimately became sort of inevitable that he would end up being a u.s. senator from illinois. in the united states senate, alan dix...

Point in the economic cycle where you wouldnt do that. the economy is strong. if it heats, you get investment bubbles, people think that happened in the 90s. so the fed is naturally going to respond to that by raising interest rates to try to kind of pull back. and so powell, who is a consensus choice, respected on both sides of the aisle, run the fed for 40 years. the alternative for trump is he could have picked a name like a lot of conservative republicans would have wanted. that would be a p...

Republicans love ronald reagan and they love talking about how they love ronald reagan. donald trump last night invited ed meece, reagans attorney general to be there. he paid tribute to justice scalias widow, who he has consulted in some of these supreme court decisions. so he talked about reagan, he talked about keeping up president reagans tradition of not asking candidates about their specific views on policies. so this was an effort to unify republicans and by the way, if there had been a p...

Too, because i think the conventional wisdom, if you will, is that if the president chooses judge barrett, then hes angling for a fight during the midterm election year because it would create a lot of controversy, a lot of democratic wringing of hands. but whos the judge he would choose if he was trying to get a couple democrats to select someone as a consensus choice? >> thats exactly the great question, right, because judge barrett, shes had a lot of writing on religion. so maybe some of the ...

Law students their legal career should be viewed as a means to an end in building the kingdom to god. and another person being interviewed has never been a judge at all. today a spokesperson for republican senator mike lee of utah confirmed the president spoke with lee about that job on monday. but no matter who gets picked from the presidents short list of conservatives, they most assuredly will not be a consensus choice. according to a new poll from nbc news and survey monkey, 44% say it shoul...