hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. the trump davidians, that is how trump ally steve bannon sums up a movement that has swallowed whole one of our nation s two major political parties. a movement led by an ex-president currently facing 91 felony counts and on a third run for the white house on a platform of damaging democracy. that quote is from jonathan carl s brand-new book tired of winning: donald trump and the end of the grand old party. it reveals this dramatic collision of efforts to hold the ex-president accountable for his alleged crimes and misdeeds and a candidate who has no hesstation stoking the fires of right-wing extremism and sees winning the presidency as the only way out of his legal troubles. in an essay in the atlantic that is adapted from his book, john karl writes this about the decision by the trump campaign to hold its very first rally in waco, texas. the site of a standoff between far-right extremists and the fbi that ended in dozens of dea
a holiday visit in from the vir islands. some dem kratdemocrats. one ally saying he understands he needs to make the decision relatively early in the process. his brother saying today. i certainly wouldn t want him to even dream about running if i didn t think we could annihilate trump. he has been at this cross roads before. unfortunately i believe we are out of time, the time necessary to mount a winning campaign for the nomination. after making two failed bids. but it is no longer biden s democratic party and oall potential rooifr
to progresses. it is a really important point. if i m running for president my advice to any democrats would be a, don t shut down any idea. don t be you don t have to buy into what cortez says. you to run your own race and have your own ideas. you got to have vision. c cannot be about i m the alternative to trump. it would be a huge mistake to let it be about trump. he will loom large across this no matter what. i think if the candidates are trying to fight trump rather than put forward their own clear vision it s a huge mistake. one other thing i want to bring up is there is a threat of outside interference not just from foreign countries but also bad actors. it is an alarming report where democrat were reportedly behind
look like? we would have every democratic senator and spokesman of the country quoting about how it is just fine. they had one. we had one for a year. the country went on perfectly well. all of these issues. yes. . i don t think democrats will say we can t make that argument because it is 2019, not 2020. you think we ll all have wild cards out there in terms of trump presidency, the parties, the fights within each party. one or two supreme court vacancies. and some of the most important battles are head into the supreme court. we have some of the cases including immigration and dreamers reversal. the 2020 census citizenship question, the transgender
another $5 billion. we have a huge defer sit and we throw it at a time when people are saying we merged from chaos to chaos i think there starts to be political pain who have to defend why they agreed with the president. and take a listen. somebody asked president trump the federal workers will be paid at least the back pay about the pain that they feel because of the shutdown. can the president relate? here is what he said. i can relate. i m sure that the people that are on the receiving end will make adjustment. they always do. and they will make adjustment. people understand exactly what s going on. but many of those people that won t be receiving a paycheck, many of those people agree 100% with what i m doing. now, earlier today we asked julie about this. she is a federal contract