the folks that were part of the riots, in fact, the assault on the u.s. capitol have to be held accountable. there is a rule of law. i don t care whether you were part of burning cities in antifa in 2020, you were storming the capitol in 2021, everybody needs to be held fairly accountable. i don t think it s appropriate. i don t want to reinforce the capitol was okay. i want to deter people on january 6. those who did it, i hope they go to jail and get the book thrown at them because they deserve it. all right. let s bring in cnn political analyst and washington post reporter. nice to have you this morning. do trump s comments over the weekend give republicans at least some republicans the opportunity perhaps they were looking for to distance themselves from him, or are they all going to just move on by tomorrow? it does give them an opportunity, but they ve had
now the problem has become if you are a republican running for office, this could become a maga litmus test issue and you really don t want to be talking about this. you are talking about the past. this horrible day. you d rather be talking about the future and the democrats and what they ve been doing or not doing. that s really where you want to be. donald trump is making life much harder for republicans in the midterm and certainly if he decides to run for president. i can t think of anything just a crazier thing that donald trump could have said yesterday. more destructive to the interest of republican candidates. david, you got more than 761 people who have been charged in the january 6th insurrection. a bipartisan house committee now has its hands on documents and eyewitness accounts of what happened before, during and after the riot. do trump s words, his pledge, have any potential influence on where these cases go or perhaps even the congressional probe goes? hello, fred,
those being two very different risk populations. there is no discussion about testing negative, no discussion about wearing high quality masks such as a kn95 or n95. the biggest issue i have with the cdc guidelines is it is causing divide and discourse among physicians and medical professionals who up until now have been the biggest supporters for the cdc. at times where misinformation and mistrust is already high that is exactly the fire conspiracy theorists need to ignite their falsities and rumors i asked dr. fauci about the mask issue among other issues earlier this week why wear a cloth mask when it does almost nothing compared to an n95? thank you so much. thank you. former president trump s latest plea to the u.s. supreme court, read the washington post he says. we ll tell you why, next.
the ap is reporting republican candidates who engage in trump s big lie about the election are running for office in states that could have a key role in the next presidential election. this was stark language for the associated press. quote, while the effort is incomplete and uneven outside experts on democracy and democrats are sounding alarms warning that the united states is witnessing a, quote, slow motion insurrection with a better chance of success than trump s failed power grab last year. that certainly is the nightmare scenario that next time trump tries to undermine an election he has people in the right places and they are able to actually steal it. i think that is at the heart of the investigation of january 6 not only understanding what happened that day but also the climate we are in where there is a broad sense where democracy is very muc the january 6 insurrection was the beginning. you do have as you point out a lot of these election deniers on
deal with this. thanks so much. appreciate it. let s discuss this with our august panel. trump and his lawyers are arguing that this whole case about submitting white house records poses a unique conflict between a sitting president and former president. you. he has a point. of course that doesn t necessarily excuse him from consequences if he broke the law, right? right. that is certainly correct. what is important to remember, too, is that a previous court, the reason this issue is at the supreme court in the first place, is that previous federal courts at a district level, the circuit level, have agreed with president biden s position that the public and by virtue the committee has a right to these records. president trump is certainly not the only person being targeted by this committee that have looked to the courts to try to throw sand in the gears and slow down the process. certainly, he is the most prominent one but you ve seen so many others in his orbit for example one