weekend, my friend. thanks to all of you at home. one of the biggest news stories of the century with the january 6th attack on our and capitol the congressional investigation that followed. there were ten public hearings in which the committee presented damning evidence showing that former president trump not only riled up the crowd, within sat back and watched as a violent crowd try to steal an election. it was dramatic. and it was reveler tory. and it was hugely compelling. but we now know, thanks to polling conducted by monmouth university, that those january 6th hearings did not shift public opinion at all. about the same number of people would call it a riot. about the same number of people would call it legitimate protest. in every way, the monmouth poll, the members were basically the same, before and after the january 6th hearings. now there are a lot of reasons why that might be the case. but a huge one a reason that cannot be ignored is this one. fox news did
one of the biggest new stories of the, year of the century, with the january 6th attack on our capital, on the congressional investigation that followed there. we re ten public hearings in which the committee presented damning evidence showing that former president trump not only riled up the crowd, but then sat back and watched as a violent crowd tried to steal an election it was dramatic. and it was reveler tory. and it was hugely compelling. but we now know, thanks to polling conducted by monmouth university, that those january 6th hearings did not shift public opinion at all. about the same number of people would call it a riot. about the same number of people would call it legitimate protest. in every way, in the monmouth poll, the members were basically the same, before and after the january 6th hearings. now there are a lot of reasons why that might be the case. but a huge one a reason that cannot be ignored is this one. fox news did not cover the hearings. every
act. and, of course, president biden also nominated the first black woman to the supreme court, justice ketanji brown jackson. but as biden marks two year anniversary today, there were storm clouds, storm clouds in the form of the classified documents investigation. today, the new york times published a new report on the 60 days between the first discovery of the documents and when the public learned the news. here it is. the handling of the documents case has eroded his capacity to claim the high road against mr. trump, while also raising questions that his team s ability to navigate republican attacks from capitol hill. joining us now is peter baker, chief white house correspondent to the new york times and one of the reporters bylined on his very these. peter, thanks for joining me tonight. tell me a little bit about how complicating the documents scandal has been in terms of how the white house sees its agenda writ large. because they have accomplished so very much. two years of la
entrance onto the national stage, or at least ripe for minimization, shall we say. it seems to be that the potential leading contenders for the nomination, and i say that with a big asterisk because i still think donald trump is the front runner have found pieces of trump s message that they want to co-op, right? like mike pence is going for religion which, granted, was not something that trump necessarily at all these the evangelical base was with him at the end in 2016. pence is going for that. ron desantis is going for the culture warrior stuff, whether that s anti vax or see artist of, all the things on lgbtq trans community marginalization. nikki haley is trying to bring us back to america as a global power, this foreign policy piece that trump largely advocated on, but was a core part of the america first message in its first iteration. do you think that there is one part of the puzzle or trump s
we love mr. trump, we love mr. trump s voters, we might need to move on to a new direction to try to win. that s a meaningful difference. that the barefoot the party was six months ago, but it s not a move from the maga movement that trump started. it s not a move away from trump voters, if anything, it s doubling down on reaching those people. the rnc chair race has been taken place on steve bannon s podcast, which was the leading part costs at the insurrection stop to steal movement. ron mcdaniel was honored today. that s where they re arguing. those are the people that listened to the, who they are speaking to. none of that is a repudiation of trump or sense of people want to move from away from him in any meaningful way. he is just not the standard bearer. i think there s a big distinction to be drawn between trumpism and malcolm-ism, which is to be in full flower, and trump himself, who seems potentially a little bit bruised since his first