The way the sort of House and Senate have broken down among Republicans in the last two years is that there are just more Senate Republicans with the benefit of having six-year terms. There's a large number of very, very rabid conservatives who genuinely believe in a lot of what Donald Trump has to say,. And there's an even larger chunk of House Republicans that do not believe those comments, but simply are afraid of their own voters back home.
The Fox News host aired a splashy exclusive this month about the January 6 insurrection. Some Republican senators saw his coverage — and publicly called “b******t.”
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah with help from Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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