>> we pledge to you that we will wow the communists, marxists, fascists and the radical left dogs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. data from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous and grave than the threat from within. >> calling your political opponents vermin and the threat from within, we've heard that before. in mein kampf, adolf hitler referred to jews as vermin, worthy of eradication, and benito miscellany would've referred to his opponents as parasites and reptiles. so, donald trump is following in some appalling and tories footsteps of the most violent, dangerous man of the 20th century, or at least some of them. trump did not end there. here he was in the same stump speech, talking about the home invasion and the brutal attack on speaker nancy pelosi's has been, and attack carried out by a right-wing extremists. >> nancy pelosi, who is a crazed lunatic. [applause] she's a lunatic. she is a crazed lunatic, what the hell was going on with her husband, let's not answer. let's not ask. i'll withdraw that statement. by the way, she's got a wall around her house. obviously, in that case, it did not work very well. >> nancy pelosi is a crazed women attack, that kind of glorification of violence, that call to abandon empathy, to stop seeing our shared humanity, that is no longer just donald trump. that rhetoric and behavior has evaded trump's entire party. here was trump's closest rival for the republican nomination, governor ron desantis, in a radio interview today, mocking former governor nikki haley for expressing grief over the killing of george floyd in 2020. >> you know, i remember when the george floyd writes for happening. i called out the national guard. i said i am standing with police. he was tweeting that it needed to be personal and painful for every single person, and i think myself, why did that need to be personal and painful for you or me? we had nothing to do with it. it just shows an example of her adopting this left-wing mindset and accepting the narrative. we need leaders who are going to fight the narrative. >> now, the narrative, to be clear here, according to a jury's verdict, is that george floyd was brutally murdered, as garza back the officer who pressed his knee into floyd's neck for nine minutes, as the onlookers begged for him to stop. but according to governor desantis, any pain, any perceived pain for the public murder of an innocent american means that you are somehow capitulating to the left wing and it's agenda. this is trump's effect on the republican party, a parties were shipped of white male machismo appears to be turning into something brutal and cruel, where violence is not just an accepted outcome in american life but a necessary outcome. nowhere was that more on display than in the halls of congress today. for months now, republican senator markwayne mullin has been in a feud with the head of the teamsters union, because the unions president as referred to senator mullin as a greedy ceo. today, the head of that union, shawn o'brien, testify before the senate health and labor committee, where senator mullin revisited sean o'brien's invitation to settle their dispute anyplace, anytime, coupled. >> sir, this is a time and place, where you can run your mouth, we could be two adults and finish it. here >> that's fine, perfect. >> want to do it? now >> i'd love to do it now. >> stand your butt up then. >> stand your butt up. >> stop it. >> no, no, sit down. you are a united states senator, sit down. >> you are a united states senator, sit down. the wheels are coming off here, a chain reaction started by donald trump now has republicans not just ready to bra with democrats but to brawl with each other. just a few hours ago, republicans under the leadership of the speaker mike johnson could not agree on a way to fund the government, so they had to do it now what they always have to do in the congress, which is to rely on democrats. with 209 democrats and 127 republican votes, the house managed to pass a resolution to funding government for a few more months after weeks of infighting among republicans. if you are a republican right now, this is all completely embarrassing. the party ousted its last speaker for relying on democratic votes to get something done then held the government hostage while trying to figure out, who could possibly lead the republican conference, finally electing a hard liner, who once again had to rely on democratic votes to get the thing done. >> if that all was not just shameful enough for the gop, the last republican house speaker, kevin mccarthy, is reportedly lashing out at the members who cost him that drop in the first place, and when i say lashing, i mean that literally. the day, npr reporter claudio solace was a different republican congressman tim burchett, when the congressman claimed former speaker at the house kevin mccarthy intentionally about him in the kidney. here is the audio from that incident captured by npr. >> why did you a bomey in the back, kevin? hey kevin, you got any guts? jerk. >> has he done that before? >> no. >> that's a new move. >> i'm gonna go talk to him. >> hey kevin, why do walkable me in the back? you've got no guts. you did so. they sat there and the reporter said it right there. it will kind of check movies that? >> i did. not >> your pathetic, man. >> kevin mccarthy later denied that he had hit congressman burchett, with the another display of embarrassing machismo. >> show me a reporter who saw that. >> he said he was in pain. >> oh, come on now. >> joining me now is npr's chief congressional correspondent, claudio gore salas, who was the reporter talking to congressman burchett at the time of that incident. claudia, first, just tell me from your perspective, what happened? did you see kevin mccarthy actually run up on the congressman, as you are interviewing him? >> great to be with you, alex, i was focuses on burchett. he was coming up his hallway, a distance from the meeting room where republicans were meeting, and he had just come over to my side of the hallway, we were speaking, so i was fully focused on him. he maybe set one sense to me before he lunged towards me. we are about two feet apart. i would say that he came about a foot towards me, and it was such a shock, i remember burchett yelling out to mccarthy initially joking, saying, hey, kevin, did you mean to elbow? and then he switched and said, why did you above me in the back, kevin? i start to look at that point, i realize that it's mccarthy and it's detail, they have walked by. and usually, i had thought it was a joke, maybe a joking shove of some kind. but from what it looked like from my perspective, mccarthy had shoved into burchett and appeared to be an elbow, as perchick claimed. >> you know, you think about the incident that you captured, both in audio and on social media, and we're not talking about it, with a quote from former congressman, republican adam kinzinger, who in his book, writes about once i was standing in the aisle that runs on the floor to the park at the chamber. as mccarthy passed, with a security man and some of his boys, mccarthy veered toward me, hit me with a shoulder and then kept going. is body checking fellow republicans run afoul of him, like a thing for speaker mccarthy? i know you're a congressional reporter, claudia, how much the something that he does? you have you heard about this before? >> not before today. it is -- it has been a concern for me in terms of how high tensions have been running, especially with that in the house republican conference, especially since mccarthy was lost it. i have been worried about physical alteration between members. i wrote a piece last week about members and the public infighting, but i was worried that it would build up to a moment. it was surreal that happened to play out right in front of my eyes today. but in terms of mccarthy's history here, no, i was not familiar with it. i heard about kissinger's experience just today from his book. and it's quite shocking to hear both, to hear that case and see what i saw today. >> any talk a little bit more about the sort of tenor, the temperature, actually, inside the republican conference? we're seeing, you know, the explosions of anger in the senate and house, the front runner for the republican nomination makes anger part of his brand. what has been effective in all of that in terms of the legislative body? how does a feeling congressman? >> i think we're seeing a play out. this is a perfect storm. it has been building all year. how speaker mike johnson spoke to him earlier today, before i had shared what i had seen, and he's talking about this pressure cooker in the house, and something that we had been wondering about, especially since october, when mccarthy was speaker, he canceled two weeks of recess. and the work, the struggles, the tensions, the fighting that we saw in the house republican conference go through in october, i just exacerbated a lot of sore feelings that were there earlier, from earlier in the year, they played out. now, republicans were worried about the threats from fellow republican constituents. so, it is very worrisome. in some ways, it is not surprising to see this play out now, but in others, it's very shocking. >> claudia grisales, may i suggest elbow pads, shoulder pads, whatever you need to keep doing your job with this essential reporting. claudia grisales from npr, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> joining me now is jamelle bouie, new york times opinion columnist. his latest piece of today is titled trump wants to know that he will stop at nothing in 2025. jamele, thank you for joining me. i can think of no better person to help sort of break down what exactly has happened to the grand old party here under the tutelage, if you will, of donald trump. first of all, what did you make of the fireworks, i guess, is the most euphemistic term that we saw in congress today, in the context at the age of trump? >> on one hand, you can attribute some of the aggression, maybe to trump. you can attribute the real anger and the stain that appears to be the republican conference. on the other hand, i remember 2010, 2012 cycle with the tea party and everything, i remember the sort of -- set to those members were up a polak and aggressive, and so forth. i think the difference between now and then right is that now, there are no, no really moderating in the conference. not to say that there were some prior, but there are none now. there is nothing to bring the temperature down, and you have a new crop of members who don't seem to be interested in governing whatsoever. so, all of that together means you have the kind of situation where you're going to have the fireworks that we saw today. >> i do wonder, totally agree with you that there is no moderating influence, but it seems like it's a step beyond the when you talk about 2010, and of course, joe wilson says you lied to president obama. a purse has been the gop thing, but this almost -- we seem to be in a moment where violence and anger and outbursts are incentivize. i'll go back to the piece he wrote today in the new york times. >> it's not there an acceleration or hyperbole to say, it looks like an awful lot like trump's planned could have been reelected. it looks awful like a supplants meant to give the former president the power and unchecked authority of a strongman. i feel like having a sort of idol who is a strongman or wants to be even more of an unchecked strongmen, almost gives license and encourages footsoldiers to be their own miniature happy meal version of strongmen. >> one thing you see, throughout the republican party is the rejection at the idea of persuasion, rejection of doing any kind of way of attempt to speak to someone who disagrees with you on an equal basis and try to bring them to your side. within the republican party, i think we're focusing on that right now, where it's not just a rejection of anything like dialogue or persuasion with democrats, but even amongst republicans, no attempt to do anything to reach out for people to persuade people. but more broadly, the republican party nationally, there's trump, obviously, the entire notion of trying to seize power is in some sense of rejection at the idea that you're doing the work of democratic life. there are state legislatures who create these intense gerrymanders and try to overturn and nullify the actions. again, this idea that there is no democracy to do anymore. we're just going to dominate over everyone around. does this really does seem to be the dominating ethos of so much of the republican party, and it's hard to know what to do about it, about this observant, and hope that it burns itself out. >> i will also say to the point of, like there is no working across the aisle, no democracy worth preserving. the recent that republicans are not shutting down the government, because democrats dug up and save their butts. like, the irony here, as trump vilifies the fascist left, the fastest left is actually saving your butts in congress. with asking nothing than a functioning government. i gotta ask you, jamele, this is so indicative of where the republican party's head is at today. this is senator markwayne mullin, again, senator markwayne mullin on newsmax today, sort of making a historical reference as to why it's totally fine to come to blows in the u.s. senate. let us take a listen. >> could you guys go barnacle if you want to do? >> you know the rules, and he smelled the cane. you can remember president henry jackson challenged nine guys to a dual, and won nine times. and a guy one-time, jackson jumped up, ran across the table and knock the guy out. so, at the end of the day, there is precedence for, if that is something with someone wants to do. >> just a word on precedents, andrew jackson, if republicans are taking their cues from the presidency of andrew jackson, houston, we have a problem. secondly, they got he was skating, i believe was abolitionists charles sumner. talk about two chapters of american history that are probably not where you want to be drawing your marching orders from, jamele? >> yeah, i don't know if i would want to -- i don't know if i'd want to compare myself to president brooks canning of charles sumner. it really was this major event in the history of congress, really galvanized a lot of forces. this glorification, this willingness to speak privately, to act properly, again, it speaks to this -- not just immaturity or aggression or rejection of the base and premise of democratic life, which is that we're going to talk to each other. persuade each other, an attempt to engage each other as equals. saying, i would burn out in congress. in a statement, indicating of seven or, there was a statement. i don't feel any obligations, and that is just not. you can't run a legislative society like that. >> yes, i think that is the takeaway, it's not just congress. you cannot run a society like that. jamelle bouie, thank you, my friend, for your rhythm and thought. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we have a lot to get to this evening, including president biden, who is strong a serious contrast with his predecessor, donald trump, on making the most important, the most urgent issue of our lifetimes. plus, the leaked tapes of jenna ellis and sidney powell telling georgia prosecutors what they knew about the conspiracy case and what trump knew, that is next. hat is next (pensive music) (footsteps crunching) (pensive music) (birds tweeting) (pensive music) (broom sweeping) - [narrator] one in five children worldwide are faced with the reality of living without food. no family dinners, no special treats, no full bellies. all around the world, parents are struggling to feed their children. toddlers are suffering from acute malnutrition, which stunts their growth. kids are forced to drop out of school so they can help support their families. covid, conflict, inflation and climate have ignited the worst famine in our lifetime. and we're fed up. fed up with the fact that hunger robs children of their childhood. fed up with the lack of progress. fed up with the injustice. help us brighten the lives of children all over the world by visiting getfedupnow.org. for as little as $10 a month, you can join save the children as we support children and families in desperate need of our help. now is the time to get fed up and give back. when you join the cause, your $10 monthly donation can help communities in need of life-saving treatments and nutrients, prevent children from dropping out of school. support our work with communities and governments to help children go from short-term surviving to long-term thriving. and now thanks to special government grants, every dollar you give before december 31st can multiply up to 10 times the impact. that means more food, water, medicine and help for kids around the world. you'll also receive a free tote bag to share your support for children in need. childhood without food is unimaginable. get fed up. call us now or visit getfedupnow.org today. meet the jennifers. jen x. jen y. and jen z. each planning their future through the chase mobile app. jen x is planning a summer in portugal with some help from j.p. morgan wealth plan. let's go whiskers. jen y is working with a banker to budget for her birthday. you only turn 30 once. and jen z? 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