hello, everyone. as we begin next hour, the next gop contest, it is taking shape. new and familiar republican faces jump into the 2020 war contest, selling themselves as the next and best alternative to donald trump. speaking of, incriminating evidence as we get in the classified documents case, and that is just one of trump s legal headaches. also tonight, legislating in action, president biden racks up another big win in washington post by delivering on a key campaign promise. it is pride month, the love story that triggered a movement for equality in chicago and beyond. this is american voices. we begin this hour in iowa, a crucial stop for gop presidential candidates as they work to find footing in a to be defined by trumpism. this afternoon, a republican 2024 hopefuls go to them one at a fund-raiser hopes to by iowa senator, joni irks, noticeably absent, front-runner, donald trump. the chief rival, at least for now, met florida rhonda scent is what he was there. desa
another thing that struck, me david, about some of the sound we played from the president was this idea of optimism. i had never been more optimistic about america s future, and the sort of loop back to the conversation we were having about the gop field, it is all doom and gloom, right? it is all america headed off a cliff, and this dark storm cloud. no one s evening attempting, as far as i can tell, to own the lane of brighter, better, american future. so if he s owning them on freedom and he s owning them on a better tomorrow, than i don t really know how much is left for them. joe biden presenting himself as an aspirational figure on a political landscape, at a time when kevin mccarthy, though he has tried so hard this week to declare victory and present republican priorities as so important to the nation to the house republicans were practitioners of doomsday-ism throughout this debt ceiling debate and i find it amazing i really do the strategic
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i better be honest. i better tell the truth about the circumstances regarding the situation. actually, parker, you wrote this story, we were quoting a minute ago about what s taking place behind the scenes, the mov mood of the president, what people are seeing there, so in relation to this issue of the tapes, it looks like this grievance trump had in mind, fbi comey told him you weren t under investigation. he thinks he got him to say it. i don t know if that s true or fought. that seems to be where he is coming from on that. but in terms of your report, that sour mood, a more sour tan your associates, his friends can recall seeing, those venting sessions, give us a sense beyond this issue here of what he thought comey did to him, what itself the bill of grievances? what are the things he is venting about, in particular? sure. well, broadly, he is venting about russia, and he basically feels it is this dark storm
russia. and he basically feels that it is this dark storm cloud that hangs over his entire administration. he thinks the press automatically believes comey s side of things, not his. he thinks that comey urged a friend of his to like the memos to the media and comey s reputation hasn t been tarnished because of that. he is frustrated that there is a special counsel. that the spounl s probe has been widened to include possible obstruction of justice. he is just generally frustrated this russia thing that started with reports of possible collusion during the election, which he says are not true, not only will not go away but seems to be snow balling by the day. somebody who has written about donald trump extensively, you have a pretty good read on him. a get sense of who donald trump is. this mood around him, this mood that is defining him in ashley s