i m alycia menendez in for nicolle wallace. from the president, a reminder of the stakes in the next election and an existential question, the president asking all americans, who are we? cited valley forge and on the each of the third anniversary of the january 6th attack, the president describing democracy as a sacred cause and the central issue of the 2024 election. this is not rhetorical, ak dem academic, or hypothetical, but the democracy s question is the most urgent question of our time. the choice is clear. donald trump s campaign is about him, not america, not you. donald trump s campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. he s willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power. our campaign is different. for me and kamala, our campaign is about america. it s about you. it s about every age and background that occupy this country. the speech today another episode in what has become one of the biggest themes in the biden presidency. president biden ha
was richard nixon right when he said when a president does it, that means it s not illegal? well. a judge may have just said in one very specific and important way that, yeah, he might be right. tonight sara wallace says that donald trump gets to stay on the pilot in colorado. this despite the judge finding and saying in pretty plain english that donald trump engaged in an insurrection. during the january 6th attack on the united states capitol. now, the court found that trump intended to incite political violence, that trump wanted to direct it at the capitol, and that trump s plan was to stop the peaceful transfer of power. and that trump was not, in fact, protected by the first amendment when he said that. we are going to walk down to the capitol and we re gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and we re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. because you ll never take back our country with weakness. you have to show strength. w
tonight cnn is learning that rosalynn carter has now entered hospice care in her home in georgia. the first lady had been diagnosed with dementia and a new statement from the carter center we found that she and her husband former president jimmy carter are spending time with each other and their families. former president is 99. he transition ed to hospice care nine months ago. they are the longest married presidential couple in u.s. history. we are thinking of them and their family tonight. thank you so much for joining us, each and every night this week, cnn news night with abby phillips starts now. did a judge just suggest that donald trump is above the law? that s tonight on news night. good evening, i m abby phillip in washington and we start the hour with a question. was richard nixon actually right when he said when a president does it that means it s not illegal? well a judge may have just said in one very specific and important way that yeah, he might be
unquestionably this election is about preserving democracy in the united states, and he said again that is the central issue at stake in 2024. second, he just repeated trump s own words. he didn t even necessarily need to make an argument so much as repeat what trump has said, that he would be a dictator on day one, that he would terminate parts of the constitution, that his opponents are vermin, and importantly pointed out that trump s implication of the phrase poisoning our country with reference to immigrants harkens back to language you heard in nazi germany. third, i thought the president did a good job of telling people why democracy matters. it s about freedom and who we are, that we are decent to one another, how it matters in our daily lives. finally, the president was alive, passionate, articulate, everything that the character trump tries to paint of him is not. he is disproving that character. i thought it was a terrific
about education policy record spending, record inflation, record debt and a government weaponized against we, the people come against the very people we represent. [applause] so, we need to pass legislation to address all of that. and i hope my democrat colleagues will join me, i really do, but i have my doubts. if they don t and if chuck schumer says no we would not take legislation that we pass and if joe biden will not sign it, so be it. they will have to answer to the people in 2024. second [applause] second, we can never ever let a bill like the one that passed 12 days ago $1.7 trillion spending, we can never ever let that kind of legislation pass again. [applause] we have to pass a budget that makes sense and that is good