Hey, everybody, a great one today, you know, for a change.

Political analyst Amy Walter joins me.

Amy is the publisher and editor-in-chief for the Cook Political Report, and she's been doing this for about two, three decades.

No one knows a sweep of politics around the country better than Amy.

And she has a lot of great insights in what happened in the midterm and on the shit show in the house and looks into the future to 2024.

Now, I usually tape these earlier in the week. So when Amy and I

talked, they were just on the third vote in the house. As I record this, it's Friday, January 6th,

so by the time you listen to this, things will have changed. I don't know what's going to happen,

but whatever it is going to be bad,

my guess is that McCarthy will finally get it

and will have made so many concessions to the nut cases,

including that any one member can call a vote on replacing him at any time,

which that's crazy. What we've seen so far,

and again, this is Friday, January 6th, what we've seen so far is just how fucked up the Republican

party in this country is. This is a party that doesn't believe in democracy, doesn't believe

in doing the work of government. Last year, the Republican National Committee

declared that the insurrection on January 6th was legitimate political discourse. Two years ago,

147 Republicans voted not to certify the election. They won the House back, barely, and this week has been pretty sad.

The Republican Party we now have in Congress, they don't want to legislate.

They don't want to do the work of government.

They want to be on TV and do social media and raise money.

When I was finally sworn in in July of 2009, I'd come off

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