armchair reflection when they are faced with rapidly involving encounters and dangerous situations. once the state investigation is finished, it will be turned over to the county prosecutor for decision on potential charges. thank you for watching. i m pamela brown in the situation room. erin burnett out front starts now. former president trump s defense team comparing classified material at mar-a-lago to overdue library books. that was their term. trump and the justice department square off over trump s request for that special master. plus, live pictures from philadelphia where president biden is about to deliver a rare primetime address about the attack on democracy. this as we learn trump is considering full pardons for the january 6 insurrectionists if he runs and wins the presidency in 2024. a troubling find. a dominion voting machine for
we just ended with karine. there s this early excerpt from the president s speech. in it he says, we have reassured ourselves american democracy is guaranteed. but it s not. we have to defend it, protect it, stand up for it, each and every one of us. the white house is saying this is not about trump. do you buy that? i think biden is speaking for tens of millions of americans that are afraid. it s very scary to see this insurrection being defended by big republican leaders, by big republican media officials the it s scary to see voting rights on the chopping block. this is an important conversation. i m proud he is going to help to lead it. he does have to be careful. if he paints with too broad a brush, it sounds like he is saying anybody who voted for trump is an enemy of america. there are republicans that are concerned that you do have people in their party who are trafficking in violence, trafficking in white nationalism. that has no place in either party. it s appropriate for t
tonight, karine jean pierre here tonight. what more will we hear from the president tonight? tonight, you are going to hear from the president on some core themes that we have heard from him for the past three years. the need to protect our democracy. the need to protect our freedom. the need to protect our rights. you have been showing photos where he is going to make that speech in less than 40 minutes, which is independence hall, where a lot of those rights were debated and they were drafted. we talk about the core rights that we have, those freedoms. it s an important place, he believes, to have that conversation. the president is going to talk about how for the past two centuries, america has been the beacon for the world. he is going to lay out what we have seen most recently. what we have seen for the past several years about how all of the those rights i laid out are under attack.
most incorpomportantly, he s in pennsylvania for a reason. the governor s race and the senate race as well. this could certainly determine who controls the senate so that is why president biden is here tonight. we should say in pennsylvania again tonight, because he was just there. jeff zeleny at independence hall, thank you so much. as we wait for the president s remarks, i m joined here tonight by cnn senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, eva mccann and kaitlin collins and evan osnos who has written a remarkable biography of the president. his latest point is called wildland, the making of america s fury. with us as well, scott jennings, cnn political commentator, a former special assistant to former president george w. bush. we just heard jeff give some of the things he will hit on tonight. this idea of the struggle for the soul of the nation is
our viewers understand the shift that kevin mccarthy said from what he said then to what he said later. i asked you about the president and what he will say tonight. i take it as no, the president will not apologize. you marrde a clarification that you are talking about maga republican lawmakers, not millions of maga voters. is that a clarification the president will make tonight? there are many of those voters out there that feel like he was disparaging them. we have always said that. the first time the president he didn t talk to be clear he didn t say that in these remarks. i will say this. we have to hear his remarks. you will hear from him in just a few moments. you will hear everything that he has to say to the american people. you will hear that soon enough. the first time he mentioned maga republicans was when senator a senator from one of the republican senators put out a plan that was incredibly extreme