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voting for. plus, after starting the year as the newly elected house speaker, kevin mccarthy will end it as a private citizen. the former republican leader announcing hes leaving congress after one of the most tumultuous reigns in american history, so whats next? and four russian soldiers indicted in america for atrocious acts of violence in ukraine. how the doj is employing a never before used war crime legislation to try to get justice for an american who was beaten and tortured ...

willie, you look at the leads in the papers today, the major papers today. "the wall street journal" talking about the white house warning that funding for kyiv to run out in weeks. obviously, a desperate, desperate situation for those trying to stop a russian invasion here. the leads on "the times," also, their lead story, of course, about israel pushing further south into gaza and approaching another large city center and the growing concerns about a humanitarian crisis. and, of cour...

moderate republicans voted in -- voted in a far right speaker of the house. with the intraparty war over house leadership resolved the idea was that those emergencies would finally be dealt with, at least that was the idea. today it became painfully obvious that the republicans new speaker, congressman mike johnson, is not really going to deal with any of it. this evening speaker johnson put every republican on the record voting for a bill that did not include any aid to ukraine, and w...

them as they recover from all of them the gravis and great to see you this morning. >> thank you very much. and new hours. cnn news central stars right now history will be made on several levels when president joe biden and former president donald trump take the stage for the cnn debate in atlanta with polls showing there in a dead heat, we have new details on the candidate strategies and the u.s. embassy in moscow fighting back as russia puts detained american journalist evan gershkov...

>> this goes to dougs point about you have that sliver of republicans who will say i dont like the language. i dont like the behavior. he certainly isnt a republican or conservative in the traditional sense, but there are certain things im concerned with. maybe its the economy. maybe its foreign conflicts. t wh whatever the case may be. there are reasons voters will fi find to justify the support. >> its also basic wish casting. what candidate is the most likely to win? the one i support. what t...

Certainly said it -- that crazy is out. the country is getting sick of crazy politics. extreme candidates, extreme election denier views, threats to topple election monitoring systems, that was out. the more sensible people in the center of the two parties were doing better. now, we have this circus with josh hawley and ted cruz with the most outrageous charges. its amazing to see probably the most mild mannered person in washington, merrick garland, our attorney general, fending off these almos...

Petition. but right now theyre all on the record saying no, that there have to be spending cuts, including the moderate republicans. there have to be spending cuts with the debt ceiling. >> i think were seeing wish casting, hoping to manifest thats the end result here. you cant make that gamble if youre them at this point. instead, you have moderate republicans who are saying theyre not going to vote for this if there arent spending cuts. john boehner in the 2011 negotiations he was able to get ...

So, what you saw when he was campaigning in the midterms, was he was trying to talk forward, talk past, talk about the future of the party, and he just cant. he is such a seminal figure in this historic attack on the capitol. in an attempt to overturn the election. so, i think, when we talk with republicans who are not either former pence aides, or not part of his team, they dont get sucked into this like this wish casting that they have around pence, and his people, in january. you either take ...

The west wing and veep as we come together for a special live streamed fundraisernd "veei laura , i watched some of this so you didnt have to. the highlight was julia louis-dreyfus invoking a certain supreme court justicee who she claimed watched her show . e clai she claimed that justices namen was antonin scalia. toshe meant antonin scalia.antoi but wen wont correct. this was you know, i think for certain audiences, these showsss have a luster, its wish casting for them. but i dont think thes,...

States. so, john, i will start with you. i listened to our podcast. i read your columns. i know you have been bullish on republican prospects in this next midterm elections. are you starting to feel any doubt about that? >> no. i think this is all wish casting. i think we havent even discussed the issue that is going against biden. we havent discussed the fact that 78 to 88% of the american people say we are on the wrong track weve got inflation, as a major political issue for the first time in ...