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Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity.

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Speaker 2: He raised some of the questions, and I think this

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is an interesting discussion about what Democrats should be doing

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in the chamber and actually also for people who are

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watching who are running for office. You've run the R

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and C before, how should they be watching this speech

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and what do you think they should try to pull

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from what could be a lengthy rambling at times bananas speech.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, first off, they should probably have a very

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very tall drink with them as they're watching.

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Speaker 2: Coffee of coffee. You can't do that, coffee.

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Speaker 1: Very tall drink of coffee with you before you go

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into the chamber, since they can't do that. But no,

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I think people, look, there are two types of folks

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that are going to be in the crosshairs here, particularly

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on my side of the aisle. They're the folks who

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are in the room, who have the office, who have

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the title of the position, who have given countenance to

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all of this. They put their personal impromater on everything

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that's happened since January of last year, and so now

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they are coming to a moment where they have to

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confront real time what they've wrought. Then there are the

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people sitting outside the chamber, who can have that tall

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drink with them who are sitting there calculating very much

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to Chris's earlier point, What the hell am I going

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to do with this? How the hell am I going

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to run a race when this guy is putting kids

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in jail, using them as bait, when he's out here

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saying all these things. You look at the map of

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this country. Yes, you can see a lot of red

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on top, but the veins coursing right through it now

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are blue. How do we know that? Because Republicans have

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lost every race they've been in since Donald Trump has

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gotten back into office. And if I'm a county chairman,

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which I was, if I'm a state chairman, which I was,

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and certainly if I'm the national chairman, looking at this landscape,

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I'm looking at a combo meal of two thousand and

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six and twenty ten. Ooh yeah, and that is that

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is not a good day at the office. And so

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candidate's running right now, which we'll kick it all off

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right here at this network next Tuesday night, right primaries

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unfold and the races begin. We're talking about Congress of

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Massey's race in a couple of months for his reelection.

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He gonna be fine because the reality of it is,

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there's still this group of emerging Republican voices inside the party.

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I've had enough, and they're going to be outcome determinative.

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I think in a lot of primary elections coming up

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over the next few months because of what people will

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see tonight and the nervousness that's already beginning to fester

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inside the ranks of the Republican Party.

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Speaker 2: You know the sign Congressman Massey thinks he's going to

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be okay. He's bringing his wife because Trump has criticized

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his wife as his guest to the State of the Union.

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Or that tells me something.

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Speaker 1: Catch Michael Steele on the weeknight Monday through Friday at

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seven pm Eastern on ms NOW.