Michelle Cottle

But they were not given an inch as far as her kind of distractions and deflections go.

All she was doing was name-calling and...

bringing up former votes they had taken on completely unrelated things.

She accused Representative Becca Balint of having forwarded some kind of anti-Semitic agenda.

And to her credit, the congresswoman, who is Jewish, went nuclear.

And so, David, I wanted to get you in here to talk about what you are seeing in response on the right or also just how you view the whole spectacle.

Well, you do wind up with this cycle where the good people leave who have a moral core or who have a respect for our kind of government and the Constitution.

And so then the Trump administration can continue its hiring of people who, let's just say, have a certain ethical flexibility and whose guiding star is the political whims of an autocratic leader as opposed to any kind of actual values.

So it's pretty clear Trump's not going to pay a price for this directly.

I mean, in part because he's a lame duck.

His party, however, could take a beating for enabling and in some cases encouraging this sort of nonsense.

If you were talking about electeds, the midterms are coming up.

But even before then, do we think there's any chance, speaking to your point about, you know, Pam Bondi was performing for an audience of one and her performance is getting...

pretty roundly trashed, do you think that her days are numbered?

Do we think there's any chance she'll maybe pass some point where she's such an embarrassment that they start thinking about getting rid of her?

Or do you think that just because she's loyal and she'll dig in and make a fool of herself, then she just keeps on keeping on?

Oh, my God.

Could it be that this is Matt Gaetz's big moment for a comeback?

Okay, so I want to go to a different kind of swirling chaos on the right, and it speaks to what kind of damage could happen in the next few years.

And that is, you know, the fight over control for the Senate, whether we're going to get some guardrails back on this administration, and we've got the midterms coming up, and already we've got some primary action going on.