president of the united states call his predecessor a threat to this country. that s exactly what we heard tonight from president joe biden about donald trump and trumpism in his renewed battle for the soul of america campaign, this time ahead of the midterms. what is happening today in america, he says, is not normal. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. they promote authoritarian leaders and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country. they look at the mob that stormed the united states capitol on january 6th, brutally attacking law enforcement, not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger at the throat of our democracy, but they look at them as patriots. and they see their maga failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2
every generation has opened the door of opportunity wider. what we have not heard a lot of him since he became president, the speech he s talking about lowering prescription drug prices and rebuilding the country. i think that is a crucial, crucial message. i would bet for the next 60-some days we re going to hear quite a bit more of that than the straight, full-on, double-barrelled, anti-trump stuff. kevin mccarthy delivered this pre-buttal from west ping ston, pennsylvania. let s listen to a little bit of that. when the president speaks tonight at independence hall, the first lines out of his mouth should be to apologize for slandering tens of millions of americans as fascists. what joe biden doesn t understand is that the soul of america is in the tens of millions of hard-working people, of loving families, of
been at this tip of the spear on the anti trump stuff, he is with jaime on the january six commission, so there would ve been no room for him. possibly him in the democrats cut a deal where he runs as an independent, but now we re getting to left-wing fantasy a little bit. there is no room for something like this in the party anymore. and i think to you intro, the additionally relevant part is it s not just the courageous people like kinzinger, it s the uncanny just republicans who went along with trump on basically everything, except for overturning the election, those guys are retiring. your portman s, and your roy blunt s, and they re being replaced by the your mauve josh menzel s, and you are pro insurrection maga republicans. when you have your concerns gone, and you re not courageous normal republicans, and they re all been replaced by maga republicans, that s a very different caucus. it s a great point, and it s like there s a bunch of different things at play here, michelle,
brian: yeah, i don t think so. [laughter] steve: all right, thank you very much, grif. we re going to talk to kellyanne conway, she s going to be with us just about a half hour from now, we re going to talk about taxes and all sorts of stuff, because it was another busy weekend with. we re also going to talk to her about this, how the president of the united states is taking on the fbi after it was revealed over the weekend that apparently one of the top investigator fbi agents, a fellow by the name of peter stroke, was involve in the hillary clinton private e-mail server case. he was one of the agents who interviewed her. he was also in on the russia collusion rachel: the dossier. steve: and as it turns out, he s a trump hater because the inspector general at the department of justice found some of the text messages he was sending to his, the woman he was having an affair with rachel: his lover. steve: anti-trump stuff, pro-hillary. you can t do that when you re supposed to be non