but of course as most things still do in the republican party things revolve around the former president, donald trump. of course he has a big announcement on tuesday. i m told kevin mccarthy still speaks very regularly to the former president. he has over the weekend as wem. we will see if any signal from that are coming. he had a narrow shot at the speakership several years ago, did not get that. certainly on the house and senate side this week big election leadership elections, so we do not know, of course, how this is going to play. but he s just trying to keep his base happy and all these questions at bay. one of the things these hard liners want is the right to depose their speaker, vote him out. of course mccarthy doesn t want to hand them that power, but does he have any choice? we ll see. that s one of the concessions
prisoner exchange. that is my intention. my intention is to get her home. do you really think there s any chance that putin would be willing to play ball this time? well, what i learned from that comment is that the russians haven t been serious up until now in their conversations with the administration to the extent they ve been occurring at all about brittney griner. unfortunately, as i have, you know, said from the beginning of this she s a hostage. she s a hostage of the putin government because she s the most high profile one they have, not one to be let go of lightly. and i think the fact they just transferred her to russian penal colony this week is obviously grim news and doesn t suggest any kind of release is going to be happening anytime soon. agreed. susan glasser, thank you so much for joining us. thank you. the wave turned into a trickle, but former president
actually to jason miller a few days before he said he was sure trump would announce the same fellow was saying he shouldn t, he should delay. and i think that what miller decided was that the old trump method isn t going away so you re either with him or against him. and if you re against him, he s going to run over you. so this is the same donald trump we ve always known. well, it is a little bit different. and let s talk about what does a white house run look like for the former president now, who we all saw what happened in 2016. the world was watching. now he s walking in potentially a third time running but many of his candidates have lost their mid-term elections. he now has a record that can be assessed. doesn t that make a difference this time around? oh, i think you re correct. the context is completely different now, and he does have