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Still ahead, republican congressman dan crenshaw takes on the far right members of his party, calling them performance artists and grifters. well have more on his comments. plus, the chairman of the intelligence committee, democrat mark warner, joins us on the efforts to de-escalate russias military buildup on its border with ukraine. and retired u.s. army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, who blew the whistle on former president trumps phone call with the president of ukraine, will be o...

In michigan or other places would feel, folks who have experienced gun violence about that photo but i can say as the son of a pastor who spent a lot of chris ntmases and christmas eves listening to the nativity story, i have never heard the christmas story be linked with explicit political acts like this, and the need for guns and weapons. this is their own version of christmas, and their own version of a story that just suits their political interests. >> speaking of political interests, i wan...

Essentially professional trolls. talking heads, podcasters, content creators. which again, dont get me wrong, i dont have anything against content creators and talking heads, but you are in government. there are much more concerned with posting on twitter then they are doing the work of legislation or running amendments. an observation that to that and came from an unlikely source last night, take a look at republican congressman dan crenshaw during an event in texas. >> there is performance art...

Of empathy gene there. and there is no humanity there. there is no civility. and even though for a lot of progressives and a lot of democrats, that is a huge issue in terms of governing that it shows that republicans have no interest whatsoever in actually governing. its tough to make that an election-time issue. >> i dont know -- it certainly shows that some republicans arent interested in governing. republican texas congressman dan crenshaw, before a lot of this, said something about this and ...

See him that way. tonight, mr. crenshaw from the air to the suit, hes back in the news for criticizing this right-wing freedom caucus. >> theres two types of members of congress. theres performance artists, and legislators. performance artists get all the attention. we have grifters in our midst. not here in this room, i mean in the conservative movement. lie after lie after lie. >> while crenshaw sees himself in the legislative group, he has made some performances like the ad, and is drawing pu...

How to say slogans real well. >> performance artists. christine calls them bit players often because they do take up all of the oxygen. but is he simply just screaming into the void here? the bottom is the fact republicans, the vast majority of them, are still not willing to confront facts, like january 6. what are statements like that from crenshaw really do? >> not much. in part because theres not much legislating going on, especially bipartisan legislating. if youre in the minority in congres...

It came from an unlikely source last night and take a listen to dan crenshaw during an event in texas. >> there are two types of members of congress, theres performance artists and legislators. the performance artists are the ones that get all of the attention. the ones you think are more conservative because they know how to say slogans real well. they know how to recite the lines that our voters want to hear. we have grifters in our midst and not here, in this room, i mean in the conservative ...

Cutting off the talks. he seems to be a man on an island because former president donald trump is not happy with his former chief of staff for cooperating or entertaining the idea of cooperating with the january 6 committee. and now that hes cut off talks hes trying to work his way back into the trump camp, but its not clear that thats going to be able to work. and for the committee, without having, you know, some of these key voices, people who are in the room with the former president when he ...

Theaters hit the one-year anniversary of shutdown. How are artists keeping afloat? Read full article Oops! How are artists keeping afloat? Clockwise from top left: Lars Jan, Richard Maxwell, Culture Clash, Daniel Fish, Annie Dorsen and Dael Orlandersmith. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times; Mike Nagle / For The Times; Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times; Tei Blow; Nagle; Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) No sector of the performing arts has been unscathed by the COVID-19 pandemic. But Ive been espec...

Robbie Harris has more. Since the pandemic means you can’t perform inside most public spaces, Courtney Surmanek and Steven Licardi decided to create a new kind of show to be performed by players outside a building. Their audience, inside, sees the show through a window. “So, yeah, ‘Theater Through Windows.’  That’s what they now call the show.  We came up with the kind of whimsical name. I dont think we came up with a name first…" “No, it was a work in progress. Licardi pointing...