Are looking great. ashley: smiling. todd: almost taking a victory lap shows on one hand his unseriousness and two to your point this has to be purposeful. they want this to happen. james clapper the former director of national intelligence sit in closed door meeting to discuss his role in the push to discredit the hunter laptop story. do you remember when he said this comment that he s going to have to explain away? listen. i will tell you that my dashboard warning light was clearly on and i think that was the case with all of us in the intelligence community, very concerned about the nature of these approaches to the russians. todd: congressman, how can james clapper justify those comments there, his attempt to discredit the laptop story with all we know now about its truth and ve veracity? you know, he really can t.
Administration and congresss have not addressed. now, it is exactly comments like oh, i would arrest him, that create the air of unseriousness from congress. harris: i don t know about that. that s where i started was what they are looking at. a criminal case, a young woman autistic and raped and murdered. that kind of emotion when you see a mom testifying before the border crisis hearing yesterday who lost two sons, two of her babies to fentanyl. they thought they were percocet and they were laced with fentanyl. i don t know if strong words are what we would expect. it s the actions that have been taken that illicit such pain. certainly you and i and the rest of us can be incredibly sad and angry. you have a serious body in the house, representative that has the role to write a bill and pass it with seriousness. i think it just takes away from that when a congressman is
ridiculous. that s like me giving christmas presents to my daughter and then flushing them down the toilet in front of them. you re giving data and video to somebody who did some stupid documentary like the patriot purge. and looking at everything this week, mccarthy giving the video files to tucker carlson for unbelievable. also the bizarre comments from marjorie taylor green. she was talking about this national divorce, or tucker carlson talking about diversity hires being part of hitler him. it seem like there s some moron intelligencia. it is just incredible to me that these decisions are being made. but it is a scary time. you would think in what? the 2000s that that wouldn t be true. this unseriousness is turning to this violent i t i don t thinks. it is coming out of their
And called on beyonce and lizzo, to help with civil rights against the taliban. unserious, todd and this is unseriousness you get when you prioritize dei overmirit. todd: send lizzo to afghanistan, that is what people need. from fox and friends coverage last week, we covered super bowl last week and this week the super bowl of racing. live from daytona all year long and you are talking to people. the diner looks packed, guys. rachel: it is super packed, i walked in, i couldn t believe how many people were here. everyone is in daytona. will is jealous, it is not daytona 500 without a flyover by the thunderbirds, yesterday i
Washington where there s a level of unseriousness when it comes to all of these fiscal issues that i think is really an indictment of our leadership class. i interviewed congressman patrick mchenry who is the chair of the house financial services committee the other day on my fox podcast and i asked him what is the possible justification that there can be to taking entitlement reform, medicare and social security off the table as opposed to talking about it given the cliff that it represents? and his answer to me was simple one word, power. and i think that that s true. it is simply an indictment of a political class that is about power as opposed to responsibility. bret: jeff, both party have dropped the ball on the fiscal responsibility. i mean republicans and democrats have spent a ton. on a political aspect, campaigning on fiscal responsibility, it doesn t appear like it s making a comeback any time soon. no. and i mean i think you can see that based on the democratic side. pre
Justice department, for example, which has investigated scott perry. what could go wrong? joining me is kurt bardella, a former spokesman for the house oversight committee, and stuart stevens. you re in the hot seat first because you were saying quietly that you re having post traumatic stress disorder. you worked for darrell issa. you saw the unseriousness with which the committee could descend. what are your expectations now given the fact that scott perry is tell us about working there. what was it like? it s interesting because in the very beginning, the oversight committee was not supposed to be this partisan stomping ground. there was a time where they did serious and legitimate oversight, things like the bp oil spill, investigating the financial institutions. totally perfect use of oversight authority. and then it got hyperpartisan. remember, at the same time this was going on, this is also when we were hearing all the noise
It s almost like we ve reached maximum idea si and he s such an example now of people that will do anything to win. it speaks to the unseriousness of the gop conference. to let somebody run through the field like this guy does. and for me, it s an embarrassment to our country. maximum idea si. for all of the hard to follow twists and turns in the mind-blowing web of lies that is the george santos story, those two words, maximum idea si explains it very well. denver riggleman, a veteran of the republican party, knows just how much of a new low the santos story really represents, and as a former adviser to the january 6th committee, riggleman is uniquely positioned to speak to just how insidious this information and bold-faced lies are in the hands of elected officials. how what george santos would have us believe are
And his name is byron donalds of florida. he s been there a hot minute. he s never been in leadership. i think he ran for a leadership position before and lost and was defeated by elise stefanik. there s an unseriousness to the idea of saying he should be the speaker just because, and it looked like, i will say what it appeared to be, was trying to match hakeem jeffries who is african american, and longtime in leadership, to match him with another black person even though republicans have four african american members and democrats have about 50. exactly. you spoke out about that. you tweeted about it. a guy named dan bishop got incensed about it, called you out on the floor. he didn t name you by name. he got angry because you called yron donalds a prop and he said he s not a prop. he called it the tired, old, grotesque rhetoric we have seen for far too long. and he cannot ever, ever,
That s what this vote will begined to. we ll get a sense is it four or five or ten and then is that really breakable? and garrett haake, do you know whether the three missing republicans are mccarthy supporters? he s kind of gone off the reservation a little bit to float alternative theories that might have made the allies nervous. wesley hunt, a new member from houston, who just had a baby is on his way home to see his wife there. and and and apparently tending afuneral in oklahoma this weekend had to get back. three mccarthy votes. one in nomination himself, which speaks to the kientd of unseriousness of the fact that he was placed in nomination. he was not intending to be here. as we watch this and break