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Institutionalist. when we look at congress as a whole right now -- and this is a very dangerous thing that's happening -- is that congress is a separate branch of government, okay? it's a separate branch of government when it coms to politics as well. when you have a sitting president or former president who is trying to dictate who is going to be the leader of the house republicans or the senate republicans, it really starts to get really sticky there and really takes away a lot of the autonomy that these 100 senators have and the 435 members of congress have in the house. the bottom line is ...

Same blood temperature, as they say, as the conference as john bainer did. it's going to get trickier. whether it's going to be a gain or a pressure gain, that we'll have to see. it's a question of who is going to lead the republicans. do you see a greater possibility for bipartisan cooperation after these midterms? >> that's really difficult to say. i mean, if you ask president biden -- he was asked that this week. and he essentially says, watch me. you think that i can't find some bipartisan legislation. he said, watch me, and he listed off legislation he was able to pass with senate republi...

Chairs became household names during the trump years. some of their republican successors during the biden years could include republican mike turner, congressman mike rogers of alabama is poised to take over the house armed services committee. and meet your likely new chairman of the house judiciary committee, jim jordan of ohio. >> i don't know how you can convince me president trump didn't win this thing based on all the things you see. >> the election lies you just heard from jim jordan are significant because the likely next speaker, kevin mccarthy, will be quite different from the previo...

>> without question. john bainer talks about an unnamed member of congress that literally got on his knees in the speaker's office and said, i beg you to forgive me. that's mark meadows. it's a good book. >> clearly. i better go pick it up. doug, i want to talk to you about limits. you said that you were proud to take part in the brooks brothers riot, right? that was -- that was a while ago, 20-some-odd years ago. i'm right there with you. bush supporters entered a government building in miami to stop the vote count back in 2000. everybody remembers 2000, the hanging chads and so on and so for...

What do you make of this? is this technically a problem for them? >> politically it may not be a problem. they look to have a big political year, certainly in the house of representatives, potentially the senate. obviously the republican party has morphed over the last couple of years and by and large we can't elect this guy. overwhelmingly every guy who was running for president in 2016 said this guy is terrible until they stopped doing that. and as that happened the republican party changed. one thing i take issue with is this is exactly the mark meadows i met in 2013 and dealt with in 2014....