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gets underway on this friday night. good evening, i m jonathan capehart in for a stephanie ruhle. the breaking news this hour, the new york times is now reporting that trump endorsed a georgia senate candidate herschel walker, urged his ex girlfriend to have a second abortion, after he allegedly paid for that first abortion which was reported by the daily beast. walker has yet to respond to this latest report. and just a short time ago, the daily beast, added to the story it s been breaking all week. reporting that walker s wife reached out to his accuser earlier this afternoon, and nbc news tonight is reporting that walker is now confirming, for the first time, friday, the identity of the woman, and, quote, in a brief interview, walker said this was also the first time, who is the mother of one of his four children, mentioned to him or his wife that she had had an abortion. we will have more on this still developing controversy a bit later in the hour. but tonight, we ....
we are only a matter of hours away now from in the house is gonna be back in session tomorrow at noon, and they will do what they did today all over again, after they failed to elect a speaker on three consecutive ballots today, leaving kevin mccarthy fighting for his political life. but there is a lot going on behind the scene as we speak, including an effort by the so-called cover never kevin republicans to turn things in their direction. that as kevin mccarthy tells cnn he spoke to former president trump tonight and he, quote, reiterated support. trump to come out and reiterate his support for you? trump has also already reiterated support. i was a call a trump? what did you guys discuss? what was the nature of it? i mean, look from my perspective all republicans get together it does not look good for republicans stronger what we went through today then becomes a focus, united this actually stay he wants you to stay in the race? meanwh ....
it was another fast-moving newsweek. and here are some of the conversations you just might have missed. m it is hard to believe donald trump was elected in the senate, when i was -8 years old. that is true. president biden was elected when i was -8 years old. i m going to get myself in trouble. yeah, you are, because they are both old. oh well. republican congressman, ryan style, in his opening act with donald trump off the rally his f thoughts on tuesday, how did go for you? totally botching an about a joke about president biden a. but by mistake totally making m fun of donald trump s age. we are one week away from the first presidential debate and donald trump appears to be lowering expectations and making excuses. during his rally in wisconsin on tuesday, he pushed the conspiracy that biden could only perform well if he is pumped up on drugs. is anyone going to watch the debate? he s going to be so pumped up, he is going to be pumped up, you know all of that st ....
Course. it may democrats all too happy to watch the dysfunction of the incoming gop leadership. but the crucial votes looming will they need someone they can work with across the aisle? to me now is kevin madden, former top aide to the mid romney presidential campaign, and also former wife obama white house director naeher hawk and margaret haaland the, director of the at syracuse university. i m sure you are all watching today must-see tv. it was must-see tv. and even some democrats brought popcorn. they were chewing it. you need a lot of popcorn tomorrow on that point i will start with you, kevin, on this point. because i am wondering how long does this really continue. kevin mccarthy could make a decision. but i was actually surprised that democrats agreed to even adjourn and sit back and say, hey, why don t you keep going? what happens next? i don t think they want ....
Building an apparatus and building a ground swell of support around somebody that is not donald trump? liz cheney last year, she looked to be that individual, but you saw only a few individuals stand up and defend her. that being adam kinzinger. mid romney here. until that sort of effort is underway, donald trump feels good about where he is at and that s why you should expect to see him tonight and the weeks ahead continuing to hold campaign rallying around the country. take georgia. herschel walker is still his backed candidate and you can expect him to be there in georgia alongside of that candidate because there s a lot of elections, a lot of elected republicans that still owe donald trump for their electoral success and understand there is a major share of the american voting electorate that still use him as the de facto leader of the party and for those elected leaders down ballot, they understand they need those for ....