[cheers and applause] greg thats all me thats my fault. My fault. All right, all right, all right. Happy wednesday, everybody. Tomorrow, both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump head to the texas border to duke it out on americas current migrant crisis. The sad part is only one of them will know where he is. [laughter] the other will think hes on a beach in delaware during cinco de mayo. For bidens part, this is only the second time hes been to the border during his presidency. The other time it was to pick up a package for hunter marked baby powder. [laughter] of course trump has been to the border numerous times, and its obvious why hes been talking about it for years. It just took forever for everyone else to catch up. The truth is that trump, that terrible knuckledragging vulgarian who they love to hate, shows he knows the pulse of america better than his opponent, who may not have a pulse himself. I know. Too far or not far enough . Sure, trump is a billionaire,
forces in america. from the voting rights crackdowns and assorted government plots, to the big lie attacks on election results that can stoke actual insurrections. we know the u.s. has faced many different types of crises before, but this era has been a perfect storm of right wing demagogues, weaponized propaganda from the internet to the fox news defamation we covered, and this is key, the perfect storm includes a high powered, elite driven effort to main streak attacks on democracy and try to write them into our rules. and that part of the effort is not, let s be clear, criminal activity like january 6th. it s not something people are going to go to jail for. it is what at least lawyers and others call arguably legal attacks that are still designed to hijack democracy from within. this is our top story tonight, because this brings us to efforts to bend or break current laws and rules, to try to foster more anti-democratic outcomes that would be technically legal if these pe
with anderson cooper sunday at eight every sunday one whole story one whole hour. on cnn. hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you. share your day with us explosions in the sky. spacex is largest, most powerful rocket ever gets off the launch pad, then blows up just minutes into its mission. plus mike lindell learns the hard way. don t offer to write checks. your conspiracies can t cash mediators order the election denier to give an expert $5 million they did for debunking lindell s election live and an i. r s agent says he can blow the whistle on the heart to biden investigation. the allegations are both unproven and stunning that the president s team is mishandling the investigation into his son that the attorney general eric garland, lied to congress. first, though. spacex s starship rocket exploding in midair 33 engines. you see them there. 33 engines fired at full force to get that unmanned 400 ft tall behemoth off the ground. basics c
even making violent threats outside his son s children s party. six moves in six months. running from herschel walker s violence. we are live in georgia where walker is getting an assist from two big names in the republican party. democrats currently have the majority in the senate with the vp as tiebreaker so they need to hold on to everything or make a pick up. they are looking at three other tight races in pennsylvania, north carolina, or ohio. all places where democrats are hoping to show republicans that loyalty to donald trump is toxic. here s how tim ryan put it in his debate last night with j.d. vance. i have been a pain in the rear end to nancy pelosi and i will be a pain in the rear end to him, too. i m for ohio. i don t kiss anyone s ass like him. ohio needs an ass kicker, not an ass kisser. well rehearsed line as vance said. folks, the races are tight and there is no one out there who can safely predict what is going to happen. there are just too many diff
house to capitol hill with the collision of two historic and deeply connected events. the first, the ongoing crisis over the house speakership still unfolding in the house at this moment, which just voted to adjourn until 10:00 pm tonight after 13 votes took pl. and the speaker was still not elected pickett is something that has not happened in american politics in 164 years. since before the civil war. the second event, the anniversary of the january 6 insurrection. the worst attack on the united its capital in centuries. the commemoration today took place at the white house where pres. joe biden awarded the country second highest civilian honor, the presidential citizens will to 14 people who were instrumental in making sure that american democracy survived the coup attempt by the ex-president and his republican allies. it is group that includes first responders, officers, as well as election workers like ruby freeman and shane mossberg we have a chance to speak to two of t