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Often is run desantis, but i know that there are people out there who are always trump, so we change the way we were screening for focus groups to find people who viewed trump very favorably, and when we started talking to those folks, they are still dug in, ride or die for donald trump, and i really wanted to figure out, how big is that group of people. we commissioned a poll, which they released today, and we asked a question that i have been dying to know the answer to, if donald trump ran as...

And its really a question for charlie. do you really think, if republicans had a 20 seat majority right now, hed still be in congress? >> no, i can answer. that >> right, right. but congresswoman -- >> her name is also charlie right now. >> congresswoman alison, thats what i mean. >> ive been involved -- i was on the ethics committee, i was involved in members being forced to resign. its not a pleasant task. but usually what happens, is the members who had resign, because they brought discredit ...

These give the eu and china more leverage over and yous thats exactly what the re-seem wants. regime wants. during trump when the middle class was getting stronger and real median income was rising, the dc cabal, the swamp, they were miserable. why? because they loathe an america whose model is obviously superior to anything any other country could offer. living on our knees waiting for the crumbs our government throes and yous thats the angle. joining me now is missouri senator josh holly. sena...

Shame. and thats why he is not resigning right now. he should. he should get out. i think the leadership does have more leverage they can pull to force this guy out. >> but the thing is they dont have to get rid of him, because they need his seat. >> even if the dems were in control. >> yes. >> and it was a slim margin, i think they would still push him out. this is literally a play about politics. and stefanik saying let the process go, its about the people is not being truthful and not being h...

Day in and day out a work on a deal between a republican speaker of the house and a democratic president, you had barack obama and john boehner at the time. it seemed to be one of boehners big regrets they never got a big deal on debt. your thoughts? could 12 years later be different? >> brit: well, you know, on paper you would say that there is leverage here because, you know, we have to eventually raise the national debt and if you dont, there is all kinds of problems. but republicans have a t...

More okay with spending more money. they, of course, ran the government, so they actually had to take responsibility for raising the debt ceiling. trump signed three debt limit increases, and the debt increased by nearly $8 trillion. how uncomfortable is this switch back to suddenly being much more interested in fiscal solvency, shall we say? >> reporter: we didnt hear much pushback from republicans during the trump era when it was suspended three separate times. weve seen it a number of times, ...

Use this as leverage. in talking to republicans today, they blame the white house for the current situation, and republicans, moderates, on down to conservatives are on the speakers side on this part of the debate. they say its time for the white house to negotiate. >> its part of the democrats political agenda. joe biden knew when he signed the omnibus bill we were at 99.9% of the debt limit. chose not to include it in the omnibus bill. >> a debt crisis will undermine everything in the federal ...

At the moment and theres no real sense of order groundswell process because kevin mccarthy is this extremely narrow 5% majority, it you straight naming specifics, a lot of democrats expect the republicans which just not be able to agree on them and instantly started to their own civil war saying that youre going too far or not going far enough which are pretty much destroyed any negotiation that kevin mccarthy has because we do the speaker, your leverage is i can deliver a majority to pass on so...

Certain portions of the business community, all of whom are committed to an agenda that empowers the super rich and various international organizations. now, on the other side, there is a growing populace conservative movement thats determined to use power and leverage of the united states government to empower working class americans. and they are going to do that by bringing up living standards and ensuring that they have more control over their own lives. now, the stakes for the country could...

In far as furthering the abraham accord, relations with saudi arabia. you said there is no pathway out of this cul-de-sac. >> they are in a strategic cul-de-sac and i think that, you know, you have a perfect storm here. you have a 56-year-old israeli occupation, a palestinian authority thats weakening, losing control, youve got arms groups tied to hamas and palestinian still planning attacks and you have the new government. netanyahus key priority, tip owe nile was right, all politics are local,...