streaming on peacock. alex wagner tonight starts right now with my friend, mehdi hassan, in four. alex good evening, and thank you, chris. and thanks to you at home for being with us. alex has the night off. here is a question for you, do you recognize this man. do you know who this guy is? the president bears responsibility from wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters, he should have immediately denounced the mob, when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action, on president trump. now, i know that visibly it s very clearly republican speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. but can you imagine which world which kevin mccarthy we need today, speaker mccarthy would openly blame donald trump for january the 6th? as hard as it is to believe, kevin mccarthy really did say those things about donald trump. exactly two years ago today. and he said on the occasion of donald trump s impeachment, his second impeachment for trying to overturn the election in
do you recognize this man. do you know who this guy is? the president bears responsibility from wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters, he should have immediately denounced the mob, when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action, on president trump. now, i know that visibly it s very clearly republican speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. but can you imagine which world which kevin mccarthy we need today, speaker mccarthy would openly blame donald trump for january the 6th? as hard as it is to believe, kevin mccarthy really did say those things about donald trump. exactly two years ago today. and he said on the occasion of donald trump s impeachment, his second impeachment for trying to overturn the election in 2020. he said it exactly to it s an odd mile stone to hit for our country, it s especially odd when the same kevin mccarthy who once blamed iran for january the six is now saying a speaker he d be willing to look into ways to expunge d
disney, interesting, when he was back in congress he was more of a paul ryan chamber of congress republican guy. this is evolution addictive of the republican party change more broadly? does he see this as a way to get to the top, to get the presidential bed? absolutely. the other thing as it was a complete anonymous backbencher in congress. who ran on one thing, which was complete another nauseating to donald trump. i got on the nomination. in an upset in florida and it got on the governorship. any propel themselves from the. her yes, rhonda santas is and now the strategy can be successful. again, he exists in a very friendly skate in a very friendly in very sort of box dominated echo chamber places like the village. of exploiting that to a great. and not anybody can do that. it s not necessarily a winning message and any kind of swing
very red districts, they don t seem to be talking beyond those barriers. and it becomes more of an echo chamber. and again, the cycle becomes much tighter. and again, the cycle becomes so yesterday, ron desantis tweeted, as i mentioned, his own version of the godson gadson . . ,, paul ryan chamber of commerce republican guy. is his evolution indicative of the republican party change more broadly. he sees this is a way to get to the top, to get that presidential bid? absolutely. the other thing as it was a complete anonymous backbencher in congress. who ran on one thing, which was complete and utter and nauseating fealty to don trump. it got him the nomination ended up dead in florida. it got him the governorship.
colonel and senate candidate amy mcgrath joins me now. colonel, thank you for joining us. it s great to have you on. and one thing i right up front agree with you about, it s not just the judicial nominees where he killed merrick garland. it s not that you re going to allow hearings on the guy. not even allow hearings let alone confirm him and say i will go ahead and push trump s nominee for the court next year, 2020, if he has one, if he has an opportunity. but i know that trump ran on one thing, one of the things besides no more stupid wars. he said he was going to build infrastructure. all the way from penn station to new york to l.a., out to the l.a. train station at l.a.x. airport too. right across the country. mcconnell killed that. he just said queer not going to do infrastructure. your thoughts. that s right. and he also said a lot of kentuckians voted for president trump because president trump said he was going to drain the swamp. he was going to bring back jobs. he was goi