one best served cold. that s tonight on news night. good evening. the former president s to-do list if he s elected again is looking more autocratic than democratic, more vengeance than governance. how do we know that? well, his own words. item number one, revenge. the washington post reports that he and his allies are plotting to take control of the justice department to punish his perceived enemies. this includes president biden and his former officials from john kelly to bill barr. it s something that trump also admits out loud. if i happen to be president and i see somebody who s doing well and beating me very badly, i say go down and indict them. mostly that would be you know, they would be out of business. they d be out of the election. he floated the death penalty for retired chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley. item number two, he s planning to purge the government of employees to install his own loyalists. axios reported that 50,000 worker
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the moves by ted cruz and others. he was building lists and out with an ad campaign saying, defund obamacare now. knowing all the while that wasn t going to happen. and other senators from republican senators said as much. this was never going to happen. it was a false premise. reporter: it s interesting about the rank-and-file. some people are saying that s the tea party. then you look at the polls which indicate not just in the country but a lot of republicans are very unhappy with what the republicans have done. i don t know how anybody could not be unhappy to see the government shut down, to see the debt ceiling approaching, and the possibility of a default, it s not just the republicans. plenty of democrats at fault, and i think the president was feeling the heat with the refusal to negotiate. that has had a backlash against them. so, there s plenty of blame to go around. that s why you see both sides scrambling to come up with something to avoid going over