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the podium to announce billions more dollars in grants for solar projects. let's bring in our panel. economic advisor steve moore and former obama economic advisor robert wald for the last time i checked, oldest government spending was causing the historic inflation. why are we not talking about ways to curb this spending? >> we should definitely think it about ways to curb the spending. get every congressman who has a line item, we should have an up-and-down vote on passing all that pork we pass. we would actually have these paid for. steve knows during the obama administration, you want some money, you go pay for it. actually, that actually was removed after the trump administration. i spent $7 trillion on their tax cuts. >> i will let steve respond to that while also asking you, steve, why is it that we are
i talked to feel like democrats have a very good shot of taking back the house. so this is his job is on the line in that regard because would be anyway. right. and so do you want to be responsible when the majority of the country and probably a majority of republicans in this country want this funding and when the implications of pulling it could have widespread implications for us democracy. the us role in the world. >> he found that moment congressman tony gonzalez republican, but in the more moderate camp, was on state of the union over the weekend on the panel, and he really came out swinging at the very, very top of the conversation. >> here's what he said about some of his fellow republicans in the house watch he will. survive. look, the house is a rough and rowdy place, but mike johnson is going to be just fine. i served 20 years in the military. it's my absolute honor to be in congress, but i served with some real scum
a small difference could make a difference. >> peter baker, great seeing you, i appreciate it. >> thank you. joining us former congressman, and msnbc news political analyst, carlos, good to see you, sir. a new nbc news poll shows trump with two points ahead of president biden, essentially, statistically tied. what is significant in the most recent polls is that the president, president biden, has actually been going up. he was down five points in january. now they're essentially statistically tide. -- tied. how do you see this dynamic changing or do you see it changing as the trial continues? >> jose, i think that as donald trump is more in the news and certainly he is, again, dominating the news. that is going to cost him with the swing voters, with the independent voters that peter was talking about. we're transitioning from the
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right thing today. i'm glad our allies will receive the support they need. >> let me get you on one more thing, congressman. you voted against the tiktok bill. why? >> i voted against that bill because my position on that has been the same. i think there are other ways of addressing privacy concerns around social media. we should treat all of these platforms equally. that has been my position for a long time and will continue to be. i think the house will move forward. i hope the senate puts in the right types of measures and protects the millions of americans across the country that use tiktok for their small business, to promote their brands, promote their restaurants. i'm concerned about the impact to the local economy across america and i'm hopeful the senate will make some of those changes. >> andrew, president biden put out a statement praising both parties were coming together at the inflection point. how much of a role did biden and his administration have in moving speaker johnson from
that means speaker johnson can only afford to lose one republican vote, one vote until a special election next month to replace the former speaker kevin mccarthy, who left congress at the end of last year. this dynamic could spell real trouble for speaker johnson, especially since a trio of far right members of his conference are threatening to oust him in retaliation for bringing a vote on ukraine eight. congressman paul gosar, congressman tom massey are cosponsors of a motion to vacate against johnson, filed by the champion of chaos, congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. today, thomas massey says he will not trigger the motion to vacate himself but hopes the pressure will leave the speaker with no choice but to resign. >> what we are hoping to do by cosponsoring a motion to vacate is to get mike johnson to acknowledge he will lose the vote and not have to have the vote. if it comes to that, there will
be a vote. >> the house is in chaos. part of the reason i'm doing this is to get us back out of chaos. >> the logic in this is all kinds of twisted. but, speaker johnson seems unbothered and unworried. well, at least that is what he said today. >> i don't walk around this building worried about a motion to vacate. i have to do my job. we did. i have done here what i believe to be the right thing and that is to allow the house to work as well. as i've said, you do the right thing and you let the chips fall where they may. >> joining me now, democratic congressman robert garcia of california. he is a member of the house oversight committee and the homeland security committee. and senior congressional reporter at "punch bowl news, ., whisman garcia, i have to start with you. how did you vote on each of the bills today? >> look, this is a good day for
the majority? >> it sure feels that way sometimes. there is no question that we have really been a consequential force, even though we are in the minority this year. i credit our leadership to that, i credit the president and the president bold leadership in leading us as a party and the republican party has been one big clown show all year. so, it is one crisis to the next and it is one marjorie taylor greene created crisis to the next. we will continue to lead. we are ready to get back to work. we have a lot of things that are important to us and we will push through. >> congressman robert garcia, andrew desiderio, thank you for coming to the saturday show. a quick programming note. sunday on meet the press, kristen welker sits down for an exclusive interview with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. you can catch that on nbc tomorrow morning. check your local listings. up next, donald trump state
disappointing. we should point out that the census just counts people, it doesn't count citizens. so it does help the democrats to have a wide open border, doesn't it? because if you've got more people in sanctuary cities, you'll get more congressional seats. so that's what we're hearing -- >> well, and, maria, we teed up a vote on that, a vote directly that said the census should not count illegal aliens in the senate. the democrats voted party line against that vote. in the house my opponent in november is a very, very liberal congressman from dallas can. he voted 100% with nancy pelosi his first four years in office. and and he voted in favor of counting illegal aliens in the cent us. -- census. he also voted against deporting illegal alien who criminally assault police officers. that that's the position of democrats. and, by the way, as the senate we had that vote, every democrat
you all at. we have a real live actual house republican congressman here tony gonzales of texas. so you voted yes. on the foreign aid package? >> do you have confidence that at this point, given that it is still possible that marjorie taylor greene will push to vacate to kick them out of the speaker's chair that he can survive. he will survive. looked the house is a rough and rowdy place, but mike johnson is going to be just fine. i serve 20 years in the military. it's my absolute honored to be in congress, but i served with some real scum bags, look up matt gaetz, he paid miners to have sex with them. a drug parties, bob good endorse my opponent. a no neo-nazi. these people used to walk around with white hoods at night. now they're walking around with white hoods in the daytime. look, i it didn't surprise to me that some of these folks voted against aid to israel, but i was encouraged to see by nearly ten to one mark that republicans supported our allies on the battlefield wow, okay. i shouldn't say that the