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Institutionalist. when we look at congress as a whole right now -- and this is a very dangerous thing thats happening -- is that congress is a separate branch of government, okay? its a separate branch of government when it coms to politics as well. when you have a sitting president or former president who is trying to dictate who is going to be the leader of the house republicans or the senate republicans, it really starts to get really sticky there and really takes away a lot of the autonomy t...

Same blood temperature, as they say, as the conference as john bainer did. its going to get trickier. whether its going to be a gain or a pressure gain, that well have to see. its a question of who is going to lead the republicans. do you see a greater possibility for bipartisan cooperation after these midterms? >> thats really difficult to say. i mean, if you ask president biden -- he was asked that this week. and he essentially says, watch me. you think that i cant find some bipartisan legisla...

Chairs became household names during the trump years. some of their republican successors during the biden years could include republican mike turner, congressman mike rogers of alabama is poised to take over the house armed services committee. and meet your likely new chairman of the house judiciary committee, jim jordan of ohio. >> i dont know how you can convince me president trump didnt win this thing based on all the things you see. >> the election lies you just heard from jim jordan are si...

>> without question. john bainer talks about an unnamed member of congress that literally got on his knees in the speakers office and said, i beg you to forgive me. thats mark meadows. its a good book. >> clearly. i better go pick it up. doug, i want to talk to you about limits. you said that you were proud to take part in the brooks brothers riot, right? that was -- that was a while ago, 20-some-odd years ago. im right there with you. bush supporters entered a government building in miami to st...

What do you make of this? is this technically a problem for them? >> politically it may not be a problem. they look to have a big political year, certainly in the house of representatives, potentially the senate. obviously the republican party has morphed over the last couple of years and by and large we cant elect this guy. overwhelmingly every guy who was running for president in 2016 said this guy is terrible until they stopped doing that. and as that happened the republican party changed. on...

Party that used to get really upset about any appearance of impropriety. i mean, law and order, worried about moral decay. what do you make of this? is this technically a problem for them? >> politically it may not be a problem. they look to have a big political year, certainly in the house of representatives, potentially the senate. obviously the republican party has morphed over the last couple of years and by and large we cant elect this guy. overwhelmingly every guy who was running for presi...

Politics. its no secret that kevin mccarmy wants to be the speaker of the house. the idea of the ends justifying the means, do you see that as being a viable end result, assuming republicans are able to reclaim the majority? is the idea of that flip flopping and the revelation he had those thoughts, would that be enough to disqualify him from that running? >> i think it would disqualify him among moderates. but i think hes playing to the hard core base and freedom caucus and people like that who...

This so our service members can go in and out safely. it seems to underscore what a foolish decision it was for trump to turn his back on such useful partners who have sacrificed so much in the counter-isis campaign. >> thank you joshua gelzer. joining me now michael steele and a former spokesman for house speaker john bainer, and michael starr hopkins who serves on the presidential campaigns of hillary clinton, barack obama, and john delaney. the president, you just heard joshua address this. p...

Before he replaced john bainer? >> its the one thing that -- members came to him and said why dont you take this job? he said i dont want the job, im chairman of the house ways and means, this is my goal in congress and he had it for 10 months, but he went to all these groups and said we have got to start working together if were going to do this. obviously, thats going to have problems. but i can tell you what speaker ryan is going to do, hes going to go back, try and work with his members and ...

Completeness to her answer. she called our office today and were having somebody get with her that can provide some specifics that she was looking for. and thats the way were going to help our constituents work through this. were not going to run away from it. were going to provide the answers that theyre calling us, and that they want to get. i think that thats the responsible thing to do. >> very quickly, baugh i want to talk about mexico as well, but john bainer, the former speaker, you heard...