protecting our democracy. the president is expected to address threats from maga republican election deniers to not accept the result thofs year s vote. and the growing embrace of political violence in the aftermath of the hammer attack on house speaker pelosi s 82-year-old husband. joining me for the hour are jen saki, matthew dowd and david plus. jen i start with you. you ve been talking to white house officials. what should we expect to hear from the president? joy, it s six days until the election and this is the big closing argument for the president. there he s doing this because at this point it sless about convincing people that you have a better plan. it s about lighting a fire under those democrats and people who are going to support democratic candidates to get them out. the other piece they are focused on is saying to democratics and other people voting for candidates hang with us. it may be a long week. it may take time to count the votes but stick with us and
are not political comb commentators or operatives. they have a bigger responsibility. biden, obama, both bushes going back trump is aout liar. we respect the rule of law and institutions. when you lost an election you conceded. i think a president has to speak to what the country has been and what it needs to remain. obviously, it s an imperfect union but i think that the threat is so pronounced right now, joy. if we are a democracy on january 20, 2025 my humble opinion is we will remain a democracy. that s very much an open question. look what is happening now. matthew is a former pollster. the republicans may have a good night next tuesday but what is it up by some of these republican polls, i m sure some are done to the letter of the industry. others i think are garbage. you see knock and other networks
that are going to be sort of driving the caucus no matter who the leader is. i think we have seen that on display. what do you think? you re absolutely right. when we wrote almost ten years ago the republican party was in out liar. we called them a political party. i don t believe it s a party anymore. it s a cult. it s a cult that is now moving to glorify violence. we not only saw kevin mccarthy and the caucus almost uniformly try to protect paul go sar. who had done this horrific animation video. but kevin mccarthy said if he becomes speaker. they will give back the committee assignment. but he and marjorie taylor greene who is also basically threatened her own members or democratic members of congress even better committee assignments.
enemies, comey, fitzgerald. the question is is it illegal the sending of the message? i don t think we re there yet. jason, is a message being sent snc sent? no. i think that s silly. jack johnson has been dead for 70 year. he s an out liar. look at martha stewart who served her time and done with that. trying to say it s sending a message to trump associates is silly. every president pardons people. some of their supporters say great. others will hate him. i have remember when those are at the end. the mark ridge pardon was a mistake. even chelsea manning s sentence was a mistake.
two for the best of my knowledge et, one for bush and obama. what say you, courtney? what s your number one story this week from the perch at the pentagon? i always feel like i m the out liar. it is niger and the continuing investigation into what happened a little over two weeks in niger. when about a dozen u.s. military soldiers came under ambush from militants, we think from this new isis affiliate, isis gs. there has been a lot of confusion both in the immediate aftermath of the attack and then in the ensuing days over what exactly happened. and it s become just a cringeworthy political debate this week that has taken an emotional toll on a lot of people who have been watching it. we saw it in the briefing room at the white house when general john kelly came out and gave this very personal, emotional