put their thumb on the scale during the 2016 presidential election. putin also very ably inserts himself into our culture wars. even on yesterday when he spoke when he delivered his address to the federal assembly, he again invoked a lot of our culture issues. and i think part of it is done to insert himself into the american culture wars, talking about how the war is being waged so that kids don t have a parent number one or parent number two but so that they have a mother and a father and so that ukrainians can t push clear values onto christian russia. i think that really resonates with republicans i think especially on the far right. what s interesting is that on this part of the far-right, they re very uncomfortable taking the fight to vladimir putin because he s a white
of national embarrassment. things are different. she is part of the house majority and a member of the homeland security committees majority. a member who wants to split the homeland apart. the last thing i ever want to see in america is a civil war. no one wants that, at least everyone i know would never want that, but it s going that direction and we have to do something about it. those comments doubled down on her call for secession. she tweeted, we need a national divorce. we need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. everyone i talk to says this. from the sick and disgusting local culture issues shoved down our throats to the trader is him in america. we are done. the risk of taking marj variously is intellectual hazard. let s plan for a hot minute. first of all, the last time
honoring our presidents, as well as during biden s trip to ukraine, one of the main peddlers, and in thely anointed best friend and powerbroker. speaker kevin mccarthy, marjorie taylor greene called tweeted this, quote we need a national divorce. we need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government from the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the democrats last policies, we are done. the first intuition is to ignore her, right? brush off crazy mtg. thank to kevin mccarthy, she s the most powerful person in his caucus, and scary thing, she s
you have to agree with me, and i ll tell you what you can and can t do. it s an issue. it s not the most important issue. most people are worried about the economy, inflation and they re concerned about crime, but education is one of the things that we ve got to talk about. i guess the larger question i have for you, and i feel like you really are an old school reagan republican. right. there were three legs to the stool. strong on national security, strong government, low taxes and the culture issues, and it seems right now it s only the culture issues that unites the party. the party is actually divided on the other two issues. do you agree with that? well, i agree, and i ve been talking out about the important issues for a long time, and i was a republican governor in the bluest state in america and got things done working across the aisle with democrats. i can tell you it s not what everyone is talking about, but i can tell you some people are making calculation that base p
she said the bill was unnecessary at the time. we should see not only donald trump and ron desantis but mike pence use these culture issues here as a gateway to their presidential campaigns. vaughn hillyard, back in iowa. thank you so much. federal prosecutors investigating donald trump s mishandling of classified documents are taking an aggressive new approach to force trump s lawyer to break attorney/client privilege. jack smith wants the judge to invoke the crime fraud investigation suggesting trump had conversations that were in furtherance of a crime. how important is this as a signal of the direction jack smith is going in? it s a signal in a couple of ways. first to your point, that they are being aggressive in seeking