Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Inaugural address, which my old boss had colorful language to describe. George w. Bush called it some crazy bleep. I was thinking about the line about carnage and i was thinking that the real carnage and it was all in motion when he came that day. The real carnage is the people closest to donald trump. The lives that are being destroyed for crimes theyve committed. I mean, you know, its not a night to feel sympathy for Michael Cohen, but the events that are sending him to jail potentially are events put in motion by the things donald trump demanded of the people close to him. It may end up ensnaring his family. But just this idea of wreckage. A source close to Michael Cohen tonight told me that everything donald trump touches is tainted by his toxic brew of lack of ethics and lack of any adherence to the law. I also thought of something that someone who advises this president said to me earlier i
in the capitol, phil? i don t believe eastman has commented on the pence s jeopardy or sort of the emotions, the daengers of that day. if he has, i just haven t seen it. but it s worth pointing out that eastman has confirmed to our colleagues in the process of investigating this piece the details of those emails that you just mentioned. the early afternoon one, and then the 9:00 p.m. one. so he s owned up to that. but i have not heard any sort of conciliatory comment from eastman about the danger of the vice president. just to stipulate i think carol makes a perfect point, that mike pence was no, you know, straight-talking sort of truth-to-power figure during the four years. he nodded dutyfully through the abdication of responsibility, through covid, people through people from both sides, through people being from bleep hole
muslims, who mexicans were rapists and murderers, black people came from bleep hole countries. he was such an uncouth and flagrant, debased there was no conversation about race under him. it was underneath people who said they voted for him. what youngkin has done, he put it in a disguise, gave it a fake name, and his candidacy is wrapped in two big lies. one is this half truth. i flew an insurrection flag at my rally. oh, trump s at arm s length, there s trump. and the second big lie is his i watched his rally last saturday. his campaign promise, and he was makinging this promise in loudoun and in alexandria, is on day one, i m going to ban critical race theory. that is like us banning the ghosts. there are no ghosts. so we can say, you know what, 7:00 p.m., we re banning the ghosts. there are no ghosts. there isn t critical race theory, but he s laundered trump s really sort of
first question that ought to be asked donald trump in any public forum is when you hear the word america, mr. president, tell us what you think it means. what do you see in that word? it won t be what this country really is all about. it s also this is far from the first time he s done this. that must be said again. this is not just a political calculus to distract from bad headlines and that may have played a role in the bad timing of the tweet. he said look at the central five park, and mexican immigrants were listed as immigrants. the way he described african nations as bleep hole countries. the fact that his entire political career was based on the racist live birtherism, questioning if the first african-american president of the united states was born in this country. what he got yesterday was complete silence from republicans. he has paid no penalty from his own party for any of these remarks. yesterday, i was there with the
we need genuine folk who are interested in addressing kitchen table moments p that s the ground level. the base beginning of standing out. i was one of those operatives not that i didn t want people to listen to me. what you re saying to is right. when they turn the camera on donald trump, they see his base instincts grab them in the bleep, we don t want anyone from those bleep hole countries. what they see in the moment doesn t have to be pretty but it has to be real. what do you like that s been real? i like what elizabeth warren has been doing. not so much the gene logical stuff but i think around the policy and responding directly to donald trump. obviously i like what kamala harris is doing. bernie sanders is being bernie sanders. how is that working out? he s doing well in places we think he should do well, and he s doing well in places we