msnbc s politics nation, r reverend al sharpton president of the university and historian, jon meacham joins us. and founder of the conservative website the bulwark, charlie sykes. jon meacham, people criticizing a political opponent, it is not progressive democrats, it s not people that served in the obama administration that are out and criticizing donald trump, it is his former national security adviser. it is his former secretary of defense. it is his former attorney general who was so loyal to him, he was willing to purger himself in front of the house and the senate judiciary committees. yeah, no man is a hero to his valet or his attorney general. apparently what i think we are seeing is
with america s secrets because he will put servicemen and servicewomen s lives at risk and he is dangerous when asked directly, can donald trump ever be trusted with the nation s secrets again, he said no that sound bite, side by side with bill barr, is really extraordinary. i hope we keep, you know, drawing a line under it. this was somebody that donald trump chose. he was the secretary of defense. these are the voices coming from within the room. in many ways, his comments are more damning than bill barr s comments, because he specifically is talking to one of donald trump s strengths, that he is in favor of the military, in support of the truth and supports veterans. mark esper is saying, no, this guy put them all at risk again, i agree with mika, we can go back and say, you know, why didn t you see this earlier? you d been warned about this. but in the moment we re in right
been, you know, intimate parts of the administration, saying, this guy shouldn t be president of the united states bill barr, you need a healthy gag reflex to accept him but, you know, coming from bill barr, this is not on my bingo card for 2023. no. that he would be the most vociferous and effective critic of donald trump. in terms of how do you break donald trump s hold on the republican party, i don t know whether it s possible or will happen, but it has to be something loike this, other republicans saying, he s not really conservative. he didn t deliver his promises, and he is a petulant 9-year-old child. you re seeing what s in the national review, what are the headlines of drudge every day, what you re seeing from other conservative thought leaders and people who have been
he s outperformed all expectations consistently. yet, this democratic party, which, actually, let s face it, they said he was dead on arrival after iowa, after new hampshire, before south carolina. he s proven them wrong time and time again and, yet, i m sure you ve heard it, too. i ve heard it i m glad you brought it up so we can deal with it and debunk it the fact of the matter is, the choices you have right now is a president that gave us infrastructure, gave us dealing with the question of where we are dealing with the inflation, where we re dealing with covid and we re deal winning a guy tha - dealing with a guy that s indicted in the federal courts and the state courts. twice. they re four years apart. i mean, let s really talk about what we re talking about here. the end of the day, who do you want to give the country to? joe biden is old we knew how old he was when we
asia there are so many things. so many bragging. that s one side of the story. peter, the other side of the story, none of it, none of it i showing up in the polling. i m sure you ve heard from democrats like i have. they all say, well, most of them say, almost unanimously, i love joe biden. joe biden, i ll forever be grateful for what he did in 2020 he s been an incredible president. we need to find somebody else to be president everywhere we go, it upsets mika very much. yes, it does. it upsets her very much, but everywhere we go, even the most loyal person to the democratic party in joe biden will say that this is a this continues to be a question hanging over the white house in the summer of 2023 it does of course, president biden is heading out to california today to start doing some campaigning. he ll do some campaign