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on. you know, his joking about the sexual assault -- sexual abuse libel verdict in the civil case against him earlier. his abortion comment actually probably is not -- that's not the one that i think republicans are going to be upset about. him, you know, doubling down on supporting january 6 rioters. there were a lot saying he refusing to say who should win the war in ukraine. that is striking. i think all of that is interesting. i think in ermzterms of the political context, he walked himself and caitlyn was right there with him, she knows the cases really well, he walked himself into some trouble with the special counsel investigation into why he had all the documents at mar-a-lago. i thought that was really important. i also think two things can be true at once. it's true his team was really happy. they were happy with the reaction. they were happy with the crowd. they liked how aggressive he was. the biden people also liked how aggressive he was. they think it helps him in a general election. there is a lot of time to go between now and then.
belittled and defamed e. jean carroll, a day of after a new york jury found him libel of sexually abusing and defaming her. >> i have no idea who she, is she's a whack job. >> pressed whether it would deter women from voting for him. he said this. >>, no i don't think so. >> yet, some republicans believe otherwise. like rnew hampshire governor wh is considering a presidential bid of his own. >> if you're a suburban mom, aulall the voters they're trying to bring back to the mix, it's a same old regurnlgtation. >> seven months, trump is leading the field. even as he faces multiple legal chances over interfering in the 2020 election and more. >> once again, he struck a defensive tone about that now famous call to the georgia secretary of state. searching for votes to put him over the top against joe biden. >> that election was rigged.
later. >> the final question, any of you ready to say you'll vote for him? you r one person. thank you all for joining us. all these people told us they did not feel better about trump after the town hall. they also didn't feel worse. what they heard, they expected to hear. >> gary tuckman, thank you for that. joining us now is republican congressman brian mass from florida. chair of the veterans coalition for trump campaigns and also a member of the house foreign affairs committee. thank you so much for joining us. i'm sure you watched last night. >> i think voters that gary is talking to had an interesting perspective of a lot of republicans and colleagues. just want to move forward, not back. move forward, not back. he must look back. it is something he has to do. the do you wish he would look forward instead of looking back? >> i think the president wants to look forward. he's continually asked to look back. that's what i heard other people talk about this as well in the recap of the debate. he was asked for 30 minutes
mainstream interviews. there's a reason. there are fewer opportunities for him. he is the front-runner for the republican nomination by a very wide mile. i don't see how you don't try to talk with him. i think that he is right that comparison of you're going to hear republicans say trump winning to, you know, an environment that trump argued isn't, you know, favorable to him. and that he went back and forth. i think that you're going to see them make that kind of comparison against biden over and over. that is going to basically be the frame they want this election to be which is weak versus strong. i'm not saying that's the case. but that's what they're going to push. >> thank you. >> great. >> maggie agrees with me. >> i know. >> we can all go home now. >> this is the solution at this table right here. great job, everyone. thanks, guys. appreciate it. >> the crowd at last night's town hall didn't hold back. cnn spoke to several of the audience members and got reaction and what they heard
one. a couple of them probably they got out of control. >> i thought that was cool. he caveated. >> yes. it was better than the alternative which is always tends to get looked at. to the point that you were making before though, again, this was a forum where caitlyn got a lot of news made. a lot. a lot of things we have not heard him talk about, a lot of issues that he does not push because when people are traveling aboard the plane or going to a rally, it's very different. how it plays for the team and getting cheers very different than what it might be. >> i think the point that she made. she was like a matador against the biggest bull in american history. she put a lot of knives in that are going to pay off in terms of getting in his face stuff that he didn't say on the record before. i think that was very important. >> yeah. to maggie's point, republicans got what they needed. trump got what he needed. he's tough. people like the base.
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on the war in ukraine. nwhich is arguably the most important topic in the world. >> and now we know desantis is adamantly opposed to the republic republicans in washington have takent on ukraine. desantis is not a neocona ma who knew, quote, well, the u.s. has many vital nationall intere, interests, anticipates securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness withinge nt andour military, achieving el security and independence, and checking the economic, cultural, military power of the chinese communist party becoming further entangledchinee a territorial dispute between ukraine and russia is not one of them.e ould nt question, he writes, require ouldot be the objective. the u.s. should not providef assistance that could requirengg the deployment of american troops or enable ukraine to engage in offensivee in operations beyond its borders. f-16 sixteen's and long range missiles should therefore be off the table. a hohese moves would risk explicitly drawing the united states into the conflict and drawinbetweethg us closer ta hot war between the world's two largest nuclear powers that risk is unacceptable.
cooperate? >> jake, i know you get outside of the beltway. >> afghanistan and covid, sure. >> here is what i hear in my district. the price of eggs, inflation, are we going to have a recession. what are we sss and that is what the -- the republic republicans campaigned on. they want the american congress to work to solve problems they don't want endless investigations. do they want accountable in afghanistan. >> sure. i'm on the armed services committee, fine. but don't make that the central focus of what you're trying to do. >> mccarthy made a lot of key concessions to the rebels, to get the gavel. one of them was agreeing that just one member, one member could force a vote to vacate the speaker and he did a lot to liberalize the process to make it easier for any member of congress to introduce amendments, to introduce legislation. this is stuff that you might like. as a progressive, right.
procedure. buck and west time, they had to fly, back just to get mccarthy to the cusp of victory tonight. you start getting into massive unpredictability about who's actually going to show up. it affects the math dramatically. they did not want to get into that situation at all. -- if they weren't going to get it done tonight -- the last second of the clock voting. you saw mccarthy suddenly almost running to the front of the chamber with the slit to change his vote. and clearly urging other republicans to do so as well. those are the actions of somebody who now i think thinks -- you look at, that you read the body language around folks. you see some of the other republicans. those are the actions of someone who see something big just shane. otherwise, they wanted to wait until monday at noon. >> let's listen to what's about to happen.
-- >> you have one democrat sitting in the sideline -- we saw on the other night, do the german votes -- they don't always vote for this even if they vote in the speak of. oh i don't know if that one democratic vote will come over. if it doesn't never go to 212 on the democratic side, the republicans can only afford one more no vote. or this is going to be at least 217 217 tie. and it will fail i would also know how eager just about all democrats were to get on the record and vote. you heard hallie reporting, there are some republicans who are just so frustrated with gaetz and the holdouts, that perhaps they are not eager to vote for this either. it's not a guarantee that all 16 of those remaining republicans are going to cast a vote. you don't need 218 votes on either side. this is a plurality vote right here. if it is a tie, it fails. >> all right, gang. i want all of you to stay close. jason crow of colorado has