Good evening from Washington DC. I'm Michael Steele. Chris Hayes will be back here tomorrow

night. But tonight, I'm your host. Now, normally, I'm on the other side of the desk as a guest,

because, you know, I ran the Republican party and all of that and have a little bit of political

expertise. So tonight, I've got a message for anyone looking at this current Republican

party. If you're waiting for it to get better, it's not going to happen. The Republican

National Committee is trying to rein in Donald Trump and missing the point completely. R&C

chairwoman, Rana, Rana, Romney McDaniel, once Republican presidential hopefuls to take

a loyalty pledge in return for a spot on the 2024 debate stage. Now, the policy is aimed

at making sure Donald Trump doesn't tank the party's chances by running as a third party

spoiler if he loses the primary. But getting Donald Trump to sign a loyalty pledge is well

of fools errand. Donald Trump isn't loyal to anyone but himself. This is a man who turned

his back on his oath of office, by the way, that led to a deadly insurrection against his

own government. And Trump has been very clear about what he thinks of these loyalty pledges.

Earlier today, Larry Hogan, who's going to run, told me that if you are the nominee,

he will support you. My question you, Mr. President, if you're not the nominee, will you

support whoever the GOP nominee is? It would depend. I would give you the same answer

I gave in 2016 during the debate. The first question I was asked by Red Bear. I was asked

to rather interesting questions. It would have to depend on who the nominee was.

And that right there is the issue. The RNC is trying to run the same playbook from 2016.

Instead of tackling the Trump-shaped monster, they've created head-on. Now, the problem

with the MAGA Republican Party is not that Donald Trump might run as a spoiler next year.

The problem is that Trump's movement within the party is right into the core. So tonight,

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