Trey good evening, and thank you for joining us. It i am trey gowdy and this is Sunday Night In America. In the world at a precarious state by the house passed a series of aid package for ukraine, israel, taiwan. E coukraine continues to fight foi its life against russian invasion and israel was attackei by Hamas Last October and last week by taiwan and threatened by china. It ch is not just the need for help that is obvious but so too, thea anger among the republicans they had Package Product for a vote. In tthe final tally overwhelmind bipartisan and yet still deeply contentious. A majority of republicans actually voted against providing aid to ukraine. T wotwo doesnt republicans voted against providing aid to israel. Some republicans threaten to get rid of yet another speakerus e because of these aid packages brought to the floor. Joining us now is someone who served two stands in the house of representatives including chairingommi the committee on oversight and government reform, d
Democrats will be valeri vulnerable because they refused to take up this impeachment y trial. Soes yeah, trey, i think this wl weigh heavy on them in the elections, as it should. Trey as you say, i was in your beautiful state of iowa. It is not a border state, not a southern Border States to the best of my geographical recollection. Neither a South Carolina and montana, which there is ave competitive Seat S. C and pennsylvania competitive seat, Ohio A competitive Seat S we shall see. President biden seems to be able to find power and when it comes to student loan relief, guncontrol, covid mandates, but he claims he has powerful to do anything about the border via executive action. What h is the truth . Can he do what he is doing without congress. . Oh, yes, Trey Him and you s
it became law in 2011. we had an election. we won. did republicans whip in the house? they lost seat s in the house. democrats actually increased in the senate. and we had a supreme court decide this is the law of the land. sean that was never going to be a point of negotiation. ar are i fleischer, i read the constitution. we have separation of powers, checks and balances. i thought the house had the power of the purse. they uh do for practical but it s the job of the president to lead and all presidents to negotiate. no one party can say my way or the highway. leaders bring people together. the president says i will not negotiate. it s the absence of leadership. a negotiation is about you get something, i get something. the president has said most of what s in this current package, the republicans approve of it in