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i in the thrust hold with the press about it, it doesn't get the credit that he deserves for the historic accomplishments and he has presided over was one of the narrowest majorities and congress that we have ever seen any united states history. and that he has gotten historic investments and infrastructure. -- >> hang on kurt, who's fault is it that you are talking about a messaging issue. why is that not getting out because we do talk about it in a granular way, the three of us has done so. i have done it with different dress. we talk about the accomplishments. why is that message not getting out to your satisfaction? >> well i think honestly this is where the mainstream, beltway media kind of gets caught in the process. so much of the narrative for the better part of the, year is what democrats in disarray? and it was focusing on figures like joe manchin and the sinema. it was about the republican with than ever materialized. that there are so much oxygen
ousted by the very part of your family helped create. >> and look, we saw last night, the tremendous routing of her, just goes to show how strong donald trump's hold is on the base of the gop. with her losing, it was symbolic of the bush cheney, romney wing of the gop is in the rearview mirror. and look, i commend her for what she did, i commend her for saying, no elected office is worth sacrificing the principles that we fought for and we were sworn to protect and serve. but at the same time, she doesn't have a constituency. who is in her corner right now? look, again i commander for what she did, right now, she has been an ally for democrats in the january six committee, she has been a willing topic for the beltway media. and she has been a willing antagonist against donald trump in the election deniers. >> and the whole republican party, really. >> so call me crazy, i don't see that as it can as a constituency for someone going for the presidency.
be reminded of her father. >> right. >> right? the -- the party her father built. the tea party and on and on. they will say well, you got ousted by the very party your family helped create. am i wrong? >> we saw the tremendous routing of her just goes to show how strong donald trump's hold is on the base of the gop and with her losing, it was symbolic of the bush cheney romney wing of the gop is in the rearview mirror. no elected office is worth sacrificing the principles we fought for and were sworn to protect and serve but at the same time, she doesn't have a constituency. who is in her corner now? i commend her for what she did. she's been an ally for the january 6th committee and a willing topic for the beltway media and a willing antagonist.
the die was cast for this long before last night. we had a sense of what was going to happen, but did you learn anything from what you heard last night from liz cheney? >> listen, she's got big plans, the speech was grand in its language, references to lincoln, ulysses s. grant. i don't know if she's lincoln on grant or both in in speech, but she talked about america being a house on fire in many ways in terms of the threat to our democracy and her being someone who wants to be part of gathering americans to see sengs alley put out this fire that she says is being set by donald trump and some of his allies. we will see. i mean, in so many ways liz cheney is a person without a party. her party in many ways is the beltway media and she might get grand profiles in the atlantic and maybe she gets a cable news deal, but in terms of having
none of it works. even nbc admitted it. >> in reality, inflation has been soaring above 5% for nearly a year and our latest nbc news poll shows just 6% of americans blame rising prices on the russian invasion of ukraine. 38% blame president biden and his policies. >> laura: the beltway media that did everything in its power to take down trump and boost biden's obvious my now very worried. this all begs the question, when will pelosi, hoyer, and schumer trudge up to 1600 pennsylvania avenue to tell biden he needs an immediate policy and staff shake-up? why does ron klain come to the chief of staff, still have his job? how about secretary of the treasury janet yellen? >> i see important transitory influence. and i don't anticipate it will be permanent. we see inflation expectations by most measures and by most measures see those expectations