the january 6th capitol riot. whwhite house correspondent jaci heinrich has the latest on the north lawn. president biden is making the case that america s answer to january 6th, 2020 won t come until november 2024. the first election since his message is trump s past attempts to hold on to power have democracy hanging by a thread. donald trump s campaign is about him, not america, not you. the opening salvo to president biden s 2024 campaign was not about conjuring voter excitement over a second term agenda but calling up fear about what could happen if he doesn t win. he is willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power. biden detailed trump s effort to overturn his 2020 loss in the courts and then his failure to call off the violent mob of supporters who tried to stop congress from certifying the election. it was among the worst derelictions of duty by a president in american history.
used. freedom, liberty, democracy. we re here to ask the most important of questions, is democracy still america s sacred cause. reporter: biden accusing trump of using violence to cling to power. trump exhausted every legal avenue available to him to overturn the election, every one. but the legal path just took trump back to the truth, that i had won the election and he was a loser. reporheresident reminded americans what trump told the crowd on january 6th. he told the crowd to fight like hell, and all hell was unleashed. the whole world washed in disbelief, and trump did nothing. it was among the worst derelictions of duty by a president in american history. reporter: the president warning if trump wins re-election, the worse could be yet to come. trump is not concerned about
that we don t have a full sense of exactly what jack smith has. but if he can develop that, and believes that it is beyond reasonable doubt, remember, very high standard, then seditious conspiracy would be an appropriate charge as has been charged with respect to many other people as tim notes. and so remarkable that this conversation is even possible. i come back to liz cheney s presentation about derelictions of duty. and again a political term, but it feels like what we re seeing in the parallel world of a cell investigation that there may have been crimes committed. i deepening wouldn t it be great if one person came in and asked trump too call off the insurrection.
hill. and for all of our derelictions, for all of our faults, we have ultimately applied that sentence for generously. for right now, i think that the institutions are holding, if by their fingernails, and i think that if i were in elective office right now or thinking about elective office, i would really be thinking really hard about what i wanted posterity to say about me. do i have the guts to stand up and say, this will not stand, when it comes to much of what the president is trying to do. jon, is it possible and perhaps this is i mean, republican leaders in washington, d.c., republican politicians in washington, d.c. may say, oh, well, this is a question asked by an msnbc host. i think it s a fair question, considering i spent my lifetime as a conservative, a small government skprve, thconservati believed in nato, that believed in pushing back against russia,
of their sins for all of their omissions for all of their derelictions, the journey they put us on toward a more perfect union is vindicated exactly by this particular moment. the reason treason is the only crime specifically defined in the constitution and the second part of that article of that leapt is that it requires witnesses to an overt act or a confession in open court. so why so spec? because they were afraid of kings or monarchs doing exactly what the president s doing because they had done it. it was based on experience. it was based on anxiety about the worst parts of the english experiment. the other thing to remember is all the folks who were doing the framing in philadelphia in 1787 and the debating most of them over the ratification, could have been accused of treason by exactly by the you know, king