nothing happens with joe biden. imagine what the republican party is going to say. of course. but, see that s it doesn t really matter. i mean, it really doesn t matter. and that s the thing, people were talking about politics. i just think that at some point republicans are going to say we really wish we had just given merrick garland the seat. because at the end of the day i think he s the guy that goes by the book so much, he s not going to what are they going to be thinking about me on the hill? despite all the nasty things that progressives say about him on twitter, i think he s interested in justice. and at the end of the day doesn t give a damn what republicans on the hill are going to be saying about him on twitter. and that s not going to accrue to the benefit of donald trump. he s offended that justice is anything but justice. you know, i tend to agree with you, that that s the way he goes. if he believes he has a case
country. the fighting there is very slow and incremental right now and there s no sense that putin is going to stop. the major offensive isn t going to be something that resembled last february with, you know, suddenly a drive for kyiv, but rather just more russian men, more russian men, just trying to make slow progress, joe, it s going to be this stagnant thing and the hope is, though, is that ukraine would be able to launch its own counteroffensive to try to repel that and maybe get some sweeping gains and at the end of the spring offensive, there s a sense that both sides will look at where things stand. maybe then we start having thoughts about a negotiated settlement. that s a long way off. but you talk about the meat grinder, you see the images from world war i, you see the movies, read the books about world war i and you just wonder how russia is stumbling into this again. but it s exactly what they re
republicans to try to split the republican party. there s a real concern that not just the rhetoric and putting trump back into the center focus of the discussion, making it a referendum on the past president versus the current one, not just that but some of the candidates themselves, some of their strumables, position, lack of experience, could in the end come back and boomerang and hurt the republican party. and are republicans more concerned about trump and what he says and getting back on the trail or the abortion decision and that galvanizing democratic voters at this key moment? trump, himself, has expressed concern privately about the abortion decision. he was sort of the sole person responsible for dobbs by nominating the three concern justices during his white house, but at the end of the day doesn t want to talk about it. if you looked at a transcript of his rally last night you would see only passing mentions of roe v. wade and abortion made it into his remarks.
his white house, but at the end of the day doesn t want to talk about it. if you looked at a transcript of his rally last night you would see only passing mentions of roe v. wade and abortion made it into his remarks. he didn t talk about it. he hasn t been talking about it. and a lot of these republicans candidates are running away from the issue. doug mastriano is an example. he has said in debates abortion is his number one issue and yet we haven t heard him give a speech about abortion, mention abortion on the campaign trail other than just in passing, celebrating the dobbs decision but not going deeply into what that means for voters moving forward. it s not a politically positive issue for republicans right now and i think they re very much aware of that. they haven t figured out how to message it. even though it s very real it s happening all across the states. take a look at the map here. the states here you see in deep red on your screen, states like texas and along the so
midterms. democratic leaders telling us it s time to target big oil. welcome, we ve certainly heard democrats talk about the possibility of a federal gas tax holiday, or offering oil companies a incentive to increase production. tell us about the democrats plan? lawmakers in at least 20 states have already proposed cutting a gas tax holiday to some extent, now lawmakers on capitol hill are climbing on to this legislation. they re helping people ease the pay the feeling, ahead of the summer seasons, as travel picks up. as everything in washington, there is division. some democrats saying they want to tuck cut this tax. which would cut 18 cents off a gas bill. others don t support that, they say congress at the end of the