Romney the latest old school Republican to say he's apparently had enough of the modern GOP

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with the news that Mitt Romney is the latest old school Republican to announce he has apparently had enough of the modern GOP. Romney also alleges that a very large portion of his caucus does not even believe in the Constitution. Also in this episode, the Fulton County judge has agreed to sever two of the 19 co-defendants' cases, as the number of violent threats grows against officials in that county and against federal law enforcement. Our legal expert has more. Plus, we address how Kevin McCarthy is apparently doing what he thinks he has to do in order to hang onto his reportedly flailing speakership, as President Biden continues governing. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0	Tonight on The Readout.
0:05.0	Well, there's no question, but the Republican Party today is in the shadow of Donald Trump.
0:10.7	He is the leader of the greatest portion of the Republican Party.
0:14.6	It's a populist.
0:15.6	I believe, Demogog portion of the party.
0:18.7	If you don't have a MAGA loyalty card, you are soon on the outside looking in.
0:24.8	Mitt Romney, just the latest old school Republican to announce, he's had enough.
0:30.1	He says a very large portion of his caucus doesn't even believe in the Constitution.
0:35.4	I'll talk to former longtime Republican presidential strategist Steve Schmidt in just a moment.
0:41.4	Also tonight, the Fulton County judge agrees to sever two of the 19 co-dependence cases
0:48.1	as the number of violent threats grows against officials in that county and against federal law
0:53.8	enforcement. Plus, the politics of impeachment. Kevin McCarthy is doing what he thinks he has to do
0:59.9	to hang on to his flailing speakership, as President Biden goes about his business looking
1:05.2	like the only adult in the room. And we begin tonight with one of the oldest established
1:12.9	rights in American law, the right to a speedy trial. It is the first right listed in the sixth
1:19.4	amendment, but its origins go back to the Magna Carta, one of the most important legal documents
1:24.9	in the history of democracy, written by a group of 13th century barons to protect their rights
1:30.9	and property against a tyrannical king. The Magna Carta declared in English spelled a little bit
1:37.3	differently than it is today. We shall not deny or delay justice and right neither the end,
1:44.2	which is justice, nor the mean whereby we may attain to the end, and that is the law.
1:50.9	They're by protecting the right of all freemen to speedy disposition of trials.
1:55.7	The right is a cornerstone of the judicial system, meaning a person cannot be held for an unreasonable
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