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The leader may feel differently than say your average rank and file member out there who may represent a different kind of constituency. so i think it really might be very dependent on who they are and what their responsibilities are. i think overall what you re hearing out of republicans is happiness with the court. you know, really these 6-3 decisions are exactly what conservatives had envisioned when donald trump got his appointments, and they re thrilled basically overall with the direction of it today and throughout this last couple of weeks, so i m not surprised they re shying away from a couple of them, but on the whole i think you re getting republicans frankly euphoring about what s happened here. karen finny, let s get your thoughts. take a listen to president biden s defense when asked if he gave borrowers of these student loans false hope now that the supreme court has blocked his forgiveness program. listen to this. i didn t give any false hope. the question was whethe ....
Afford to pay its debts, putting the nation at risk of a catastrophic default for the first time in the history of the united states. hoping to avoid that cnn has learned that house democrats have taken a key behind the scenes procedural step that could be used in case of fire break glass to bypass house republican leadership to force a vote to raise the debt ceiling, a clean bill. although they would need some republicans to go along with it. gyning us now republican strategist kevin madden along with cnn political commentator karen finny. just to bring people up to speed on that, there s a thing called the discharge petition. very nerdy thing, but what you can do is if 218 members of the house go and sign this petition they can force any legislation on it the floor for a cleanup and down vote. so haulm democrats are there, 210? you would need a handful of republicans to go along. correct. and the assumption here is that putting it on those 18 ....
On january 6th. if he does have presidential ambition it s going to get challenging for him how do you get out of it? civility is a tough message for mike pence to sell. not because mike pence is a civil guy. he is. the contrast between mike pence in that town hall and donald trump is fast. but he literally stood behind donald trump for four years whether it was satisfying or not he talked about the idea, you know, he criticized in private, where he had those personal moments yes, sure. go ahead, karen. i was going to say, sure, but now you re not the vice president to donald trump anymore, and now you can say, look, then i was doing my duty. i ll make the message up. let s do it on the spot. then i was doing my duty, i had agreed to be his vice president, but now let me tell you who i really am and what i really care ....
Facing our democracy still. that progress makes democracy a whole lot more complicated. for one thing it s easier for people to agree on stuff when the majority of the people look the same and worship the same way and share the same traditions. it s harder as society s become more diverse and everybody is at the table. and we re going to have to figure out how to live together, or we will destroy each other. i want to bring in cnn politics reporter and editor at large crist eliza, and cnn political commentators karen finny. i m glad you re here and thinking about this. without the tie. i love it. look, my mom may be watching. she may be asleep. every time i go on tv without the tie she s like did you ....
Their fear of crime, republicans talking about the idea of being unsafe. and for many although it s lower on that cnn chart we pulled out in the poll, this is still part of the biggest talking point in the country, right, crime. absolutely. karen, i know you worked on the north carolina senate race. i m from north carolina. if you watch a college football game north carolina is playing nc state or something like that. that s in a couple weeks. you re going to see a lot of ads on crime. and if he s not talking about crime he s talking about the economy. it s why i watched the biden speech today some sort of mystified sense about why he was doing this and doing it today. i thought it was a good speech politically. i thought it was a good speech how it was delivered. i agree with a lot of what biden says on these election deniers that are taking over county boards and obviously states. but politics is about people, and people are concerned about what s happening to them every day of the ....