religion. and so, this is now so distorted and contorted to mean what i want it to mean for me applying to how you live your life. right. who you love and how you experience the world. that s moment freedom 400 times is ringing that bell to that very narrow group of people who want to see america look, sound and feel the way they do. so it was deliberate. it was deliberate. it was in one sense retro, old school. but the meaning of the word is far different today than what it was 50 years ago, hell, even 20 years ago. that is so smart. i m glad you pointed that out. let me just i want to play a difference between biden and huckabee sanders in just a second, but what you said i want to drill a little more because the republican party has really they ve put aside all policy ideas. and they ve wrapped themselves
suggestions. there was a suggestion that we look at providing some bills around maybe what members are allowed to do, those government actors because it doesn t make sense that we had a former twice-impeached president that was inciting nothing but fear, hate and obviously violence. and so he should have had a higher level that he was going to be held to along with the likes of a boebert or marjorie taylor greene. they talked about that. they didn t want to talk about real issues that are pressing right now in this country even as it relates they didn t want to go to bullying. we can talk about bullying in social media. we can talk about a lot of things. talking about this new york post link was not really one of those. they can t be taken seriously. and i think that they recognize that they won t be taken seriously because we made sure that we redirected the conversation to things of substance for the american
delivered. this was three dimensional. he was interacting with the audience, he was using them as a foil. i think the presidential speech writers and presidential staff into the future will look at video of last night as how a president uses the occasion. you know, we heard it so many times, this is probably more people saw him last night and listened to him last night than probably will at any time this year. it s hard to think that he could have been more effective. yeah. and the polls show that the speech was overwhelmingly viewed positively. it does show the kind of benefits of letting biden be biden. the line, stand up if you love social security. stand up. that was in the script. we had the script in front of us. we had the speech in front of us. those rachel and nicole and i and the team. we could see that this was scripted. the parts that were unscripted were the parts where he got republicans to either not stand up for things that were very joy americana, stuff you would
biden in the election now in this case it s both potentially a little bit of a sin veer desire to be seen as abiding by this impartiality of the justice department, but also a shield, as we see the briefing room right now with reporters. those have been largely unsatisfying for those of trying to get additional details, including an important question going forward which is would president biden be interviewed himself as part of this ongoing investigation. the doj is investigating a sitting president. and separately a former president, what are we learning about the new special counsel and how he will be handling the specific case with president biden? the white house doesn t have to be silent. it s a legal strategy under investigation, but if you think you re innocent, you re free extoex plain the facts to the public. they have choezen got to do that. but in terms of rob hur, he s a
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