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Speaker, the impeachment is over, there is too much important work to be done for the American People to continue wasting time on this charade. Even House Republicans are admitting that they did hit a dead end, colorado Congressman Buck decided to leave leave congress this week because quote, we have taken impeachment and make it a social media issue as opposed to a constitutional concept. Congressman troy meals, and abiding critic has been blunt on the gops chances telling fox, quote, i dont think we have the will to impeach joe biden. The letter also pointed to the criminal indictment of the gop star witness, Alexander Smirnov who was accused of lying to the fbi about bribes he said the bidens took. Despite the white house essentially telling House Republicans to put up or shut up, lets be real here, they are unlikely to do so. House oversight chair, is pushing forward with his plan b, according to political this includes legislative reforms like tighter Financial Disclosure and foreign lobbying guardrails, and others to the doj, potential lawsuits, and calls from some within their own conference to just keep investigating. , told the outlet that his number 1 priority has always been, not impeachment, but to pass Influence Peddling legislation, really . Because comber was singing a very different to last year when he credited his investigations for bidens poor poll numbers. Thats what his Impeachment Push has always been about, getting revenge for trumps to legitimate impeachment and of course, trying to hurt joe biden. But lets say we take comber at his word about tackling Influence Peddling. I say, go for it, because as my colleague writes for msnbc, any legislation that republicans might draft in an up attempt to embarrass biden may be guaranteed to hurt donald trump. Republicans know this so he esd actually do it themselves, quote, of course the point out the president hasnt done anything wrong but they can say that they share their republicans concerned about the need to strengthen the Goal Guardrails surrounding the white house. After all, donald trump reportedly took him at least 7. 8 Million Dollars from foreign entities while in office, and we know people in his orbit have been accused of profiting by acting as undisclosed foreign lobbyists, and of course, there is his sonin law, jared kushner, who continues to develop overseas deals as his fatherinlaw runs for reelection. But its hard to say where exactly House Republicans will take this crusade maxed but one thing is very clear, they are not going to save themselves from further embarrassment, and democrats may soon be thinking that james comer for an unintentionally brilliant idea. We have an allstar panel to break this down. Its great to have all three of you with us, i will start with you, given everything that we have outlined, where do republicans go from here, i mean are they too far in now to give up on this fantasy idea of impeaching joe biden . Well, look, they have two things that are driving them, one is the psychological need to come up with some way to rationalize what happened with donald trump. You cant see this in isolation. Donald trump is one trial after another, one scandal after another so psychologically they need to make a case, and obviously this is a political dynamic, donald trump is going to demand they move ahead. Theres no way that they simply say, we dont have anything on biden, sorry, donald. You are going to have to twist out there in the wind by yourself but between the need to find a way to rationalize supporting donald trump, by saying, you know, yes, but, look at the bidens. And Donald Trumps political necessity of throwing up all of this smoke and dust to say look, everybody is a, i dont see how they back out of this, even though, as you point out, they have fallen flat on their face. Is this smart from them to call out mike johnson in this letter and go on the offense by calling them out, for the Nothing Burger that they are chasing after . I think its always smart for them to call out the ridiculousness, just to affirm that this is a Nothing Burger, the republicans try to look you will, they try and try to say, hey its the democrats doing something crazy and corrupt thinking that americans arent going to be watching and looking at what they are doing including, their chief, donald trump. Its important that we remind people over and over that that is exactly what this is. It is a distracting tactic, with absolutely no merit. So i do believe that it is wise for the president , certainly, but for everyone, all of us, in the media, to constantly remind people that there is nothing here. They found absolutely zero evidence of wrongdoing. And so, this is going to go nowhere and the more we talk about that, i think it helps to cut into the circus that they are creating where they are really just trying to rile people up, distract them and create some crazy Reality Show Drama Thinking People would be far more entertained and looking the other way. Brian, is this the natural end for this impeachment fiasco because you have comer boasting about how this investigation helped to bring down bidens poll numbers but theres no evidence to actually support that but where else could this possibly be going for comer and his cohorts . I think they hoped all along that this would amount to something more significant. They have kind of relied on treating their own supporters kind of as ignorant as they hoped they would be, but the American People are smarter than that. Weve all been able to recognize that there is no there there. But this is a well tried path republicans, you brought up troy nehls in the earlier segment, he was asked early on in the Impeachment Effort, what the point of this was, what basis there was for this and his response was, donald trump, 2024, baby, thats what he said out loud, so the point was always to help donald trump, and this is the first time theyve done it, if you look a decade and a half ago, Kevin Mccarthy did the exact same thing with up in the select committee where he said the whole point was to hurt Hillary Clintons poll numbers, so they try this again and again, whereas it may have worked in the past, its clearly not working now. Some republicans are Going Forward with the impeachment. Watch. I would love to be able to vote on the impeachment of joe biden, for one, the border, and the atrocities that happened there every day and intentionally violating the board but also, all of these federal crimes and we now have evidence of it. Im not sure you understand what impeachment is but it seems like the border now is the new goalpost for him and his colleagues. Yeah, its clearly performative at this time but again, this is something that theyve been pushed to you know, by donald trump. He understands he is the twice impeached president. If he can have joe biden impeached, if everybody is impeached, then nobody is impeached. If everybody is corrupt, then it becomes a wash and that is the drive. How do you bring attention to some other issue that has nothing to do with high crimes and misdemeanors . The problem is they just dont have the votes. But id like to go back to something you said earlier, this idea of turnabout is fair play. This is really, i mean, i think we do need to step back, republicans who are supporting donald trump are concerned about conflicts of interest, concerned about ethics. Lets talk about what donald trump did in the white house, lets talk about ivanka and jared, this has been hanging out there, and part of me is thinking weve gotten so normalized to the graph and the grab of the trump years that we kind of assume that that is you know, that people understand that but i dont think they do. And i think if republicans do want to spend valuable congressional time talking about this, lets do that. Lets have hearings, lets have legislation, they would target the kinds of things that trump did in the white house that his family continues to do and hes likely to do whenever he gets back there. When it comes to Influence Peddling, you are not really a member of Congress Unless you had some form of influence and progressives have wanted to get special money out of politics. Do you see that actually gaining momentum or is this the tricks and performance . I think that way to answer that question is to look at what happened at the border. Republicans have spent months, years, decades wailing about the border and joe biden came in and he proved himself a will for participant in the negotiations and said fine, lets do a border deal, we will get conservative republican James Lankford to negotiate it and when he did exactly that and handed a border deal, that didnt have any comprehensive Immigration Reform which it always been the quote unquote, poison pill, still republicans box, so in terms of taking them at their word and believing them when they say they want some changes, i think their reaction to the border bill explains it all. Aisha, what do you think, in terms of whether or not this actually has any substance to it or is it just purely performative at this point by republicans . We know all they are is performative. There hasnt been one real piece of legislation to solve problems for American People that they have been eager to move, to discuss, to hear comment on, and then to actually try and pass through the congress. At the end of the day, they are not really interested in legislating, in a way that benefits the nation. They are using their roles in congress right now, to create, to open up, political opportunity on the ground for elections, and that is that there there. That is why we are in this nonsensical conversation over and over about trying to persecute, prosecute biden and impeach him for something that just isnt true, like the facts are clear, right . They are full of lies and deceit and yet, it doesnt matter because at the end of the day they dont want to pass any type of legislation that is meaningful. They want to use it as a political football. They are too busy chasing after tiktok. Everyone, please stick around. 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Authoritarians romanticize order, imagining a society where everyone falls in line without coral, and in the real world however, its hard to communicate much less organize, without some tolerance for disagreement. When authoritarians get together, its a clash of the egos of people who all think everyone else should unquestionably obey that. Its not just that they fight, they have no capacity to work through disagreements, skills like listening, empathizing or compromising run counter to the maga mindset. My panel is back with me. Charlie, what do you make of this disconnect between maga and i guess i will say, congressional republicans, will the Disarray Lead to doom, come november . It certainly could, look, this is what you get when you have a party that doesnt have any coherent ideology. I have nothing that binds them together except loyalty to donald trump. You have a lot of egos, who are performative, and dont see any reason to work with one another. Its interesting that the two narratives are true at the same time, this is a party wholly owned and controlled by trump but its also at war with itself, the coast you have so many egos, and so little intellectual or principled coherence behind the party. Speaker johnson clearly has an issue angling his congress, they dont care about attracting nontrump republicans, where does this go next . Ultimately this was their plan all along, the whole point of what Todays Republican Party is doing is to break government and point to the government that they have just broken as evidence that government cant work so they can go and tell voters out there, that you have to elect small government republicans because clearly the government cant work and we are the only ones that want to go in there and deal with the government that should be shrunk to as small as possible, so this is their plan in action, and as a minority party, that could work but in the majority, we are seeing no legislation, even their own professed priorities fall by the wayside. I think it is probably a boring situation for them. Aisha, how does the Biden Campaign leverage this disunity among republicans to voters . Does it even matter for them . Perhaps its an opportunity to pull some independent voters or people who are really tired of the reality show, name calling, lies and deceit, Celebrity Culture that is based in something really sinister, as opposed to real values and passion for supporting people. Perhaps theres an opportunity for this administration to hold those folks off. Because this is what is interesting about the way the party is combusting. You used to be able to kind of point to the conservatives and the Republican Party and say they are all in alignment, right, that is what made them powerful. Now, they are not. So they are fracturing themselves and its putting some of the voters off. You have representatives like matt gaetz campaigning against colleagues who are facing primary challenges despite speaker johnsons challenges not to do so. Is this another sign of the chaos in the caucus that they are willing to primary each other in this way . Absolutely, this is scorpions in a bag, to watch them go at each other and of course there are the grownups in the caucus that are just retiring thing, i do