Cindy McCain: GOP Was Once About Inclusion, Country First, 'We Have Lost Our Way'
Spouse of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) Cindy McCain said Thursday on ABC's "The View" that the Republican Party has lost its way. | Clips
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Spouse of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) Cindy McCain said Thursday on ABC's "The View" that the Republican Party has lost its way. | Clips
Constitutional duty of impartiality and he talks about the oath of office. so, julian, is this holiday season going to serve as time for some of these lawmakers to either reconsider, reassess, hear from their constituents? might it actually change any of their thinking on their strategy moving forward in this impeachment? >> i wouldn't bet any money on that. i think the fact that this is coming from senator flake who's been very eloquent, but when he was in office he didn't really cause many problems for the president and ultimately was pretty loyal to the administration is very telling. and i...
Against republicans and say that if we're going to have this trial and come up with some sort of agreement bipartisan to push forward at trial, we need to make sure we're hearing from the people that have the actual evidence. and these emails show that michael duffy is one of those people who was intricately involved in this process. democrats definitely wanting to hear from him. some republicans may want to hear from him as well. whether they can reach some agreement will be key to what the trial will look like. >> and this holiday break gives lawmakers some time to do some reflecting. former...
You saw senator flake and corker forced into retirement. do you believe this contesting the water as some sort of challenge to the president? >> it could be but it's not really new for justin amash to be doing things like this. he has a long history of being independent minded and criticize his party. kevin mccarthy criticized him but what he left out is often when justin amash wasn't voting with him, it wasn't because he was liberal, he was coming at him with a conservative standpoint. he's a member of the house freedom caucus. he's actually quite conservative and, by the way, just as a matte...
We know the host of never trump republicans who, you know, lost their magazine and weekly standard have been meeting on a regular basis trying to find a third party person to come in and ross perot the president this time around and i think amash is doing a tryout now. >> kirsten, over the weekend a michigan state representative said that these tweets launched him to -- sitting republicans criticizing the president can be the downfall of their careers. you saw senator flake and corker forced into retirement. do you believe this contesting the water as some sort of challenge to the president? >...