bye. victor blackwell, vicky lawrence. thank you, everyone for joining us. this is don lemon tonight. president joe biden in a major prime time speech, did you see it? saying he is battling for the soul of america. that is the former president is battling america s institutions in court, and we just heard from president biden speaking in philadelphia in a fiery 24 minute speech calling out donald trump by name and warning that what he calls maga republicans are a threat to america, while making it clear that when he says maga republicans, he doesn t mean all republicans. too much of what s happening in our country today is not normal. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. now, i want to be very clear [ applause ] very clear upfront. not every republican, not even a majority of republicans are maga republicans. not every republican embraces their extreme ideology. i know because i ve been able
my cholesterol is borderline. so i take garlique to help maintain healthy cholesterol safely and naturally. and it s odor free. i m taking charge of my cholesterol with garlique. it has been a big night, however you look at it, and they re still more to come, with that in mind, i will hand it over to don lemon. this is don lemon tonight. and we have two big stories to tell you about. president joe biden in a major primetime speech, did you see it? saying he s battling for the soul of america. that is the former president is battling americas institutions in court. we just heard from president biden speaking in philadelphia in a fiery 24-minute speech, calling out donald trump by name and warning that what he calls maga republicans are a threat to america, while making it clear that when he says maga republicans, he does not mean all republicans. too much of what is happening in our country today is not normal. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism t
documents if she appoints a special master. how important is it to keep that process from being interrupted, phil? i m going to say the wrong thing, i don t think it s that important. i know i m not supposed to say that, but let me explain why. no, say whatever you want. the fbi has already gone through a triage process. i can tell you and you can see that in the photograph that appeared the other day, the triage process isn t that hard. here s a top secret document with an orange cover. how hard is that to discern from, for example, a photograph from a time magazine cover. not that hard. the justice department has to say we don t want this to happen because they can t say you shouldn t trust us. what does trump have to say? i can t trust the justice department. we have to appoint somebody independent. don, 30 seconds cut to the chase. let s say they appoint a special master who reviews the documents recovered by the fbi agents. guaranteed, what is that special master going to sa
deniers to undermine democracy itself. so obviously we have a lot more to come on all of this, but then there is team trump fighting the justice department in court today over the fbi over that search of mar-a-lago that netted 33 boxes of material including more than 100 classified documents. the judge hasn t ruled yet on trump s plea for a special master, though that could come at any time now. this line from the hearing was really stunning. one of the former president s lawyers actually comparing the battle over classified documents to a fight over, his words, an overdue library book. now, i just want you to think about that for a minute. just kind of the cynicism of that, the fbi found multiple documents marked top secret, some with markings indicating the material came from human sources like spice or informants, and he s comparing them to overdue library books. i don t know about you, but i have never heard of an overdue
in some kind of color blind world. he was just saying that we couldn t be so color conscious that when we see people have difference we subscribe stereotypes or any kind of negative or discriminatory behavior towards them. and by the way, really since dr. king has made that speech and since we ve had the mlk holiday starting in 1983, conservatives have used the content of our character phrase to push back against any kind of racial justice public policy from affirmative action to voting rights to desession gas station desegregation of public schools and neighborhoods. so they re utilizing dr. king who s really one of the co-architects of american democracy during the second reconstruction, they re utilizing his words to contravene the direct message he sent to all of us. listen, when someone uses that color blind phrase, it just