so take care of that heart with lipton. because sippin on unsweetened lipton can help support a healthy heart. lipton. stop chuggin . start sippin . with criminal referrals on the way, the focus now turns to the department of justice tasked with the decisions on prosecuting those responsible for the violence on january 6th, along with efforts to overturn the 2020 election. nbc news justice reporter ryan reilly has the latest on those fronts. so ryan, talk to me about what the d.o.j. is doing right now. we ve already seen some high profile prosecutions. proud boys trial has just gone to jury selection, the beginning of that. what should we expect? i guess with a football metaphor, you just passed the fourth quarter for the january 6th investigation, but on the committee side, but really, we re not even at the halfway point in terms of the justice department investigation. if you think about this sort of the five-year time line, which
he did not do that. without election in his favor, i don t, know but it seems like he was playing it safe almost like a defense in football as opposed to driving the ball down the field to use a herschel walker football metaphor, to try to score that touchdown to win the game. alex, how important has the character these days to voters? character is important, but also policies are top of mind for voters, and i find it interesting that several of these democrats in these key senate races are using character attacks against their opponents as opposed to policies that impact the electorate. and that is what raphael warnock has done in his closing argument talking, attacking herschel walker and he has a voting record that is in line with joe biden, and i can tell you being from georgia those policies do not resonate with the red state of georgia, that is going to be an impact for him as voters head out to the polls. i think this is emblematic of what we ve seen democrats across the boa
this month navarro went on steve steve s podcast to gloat about the trump team s coup attempt, using a very painful football metaphor. you re the hero on january 6, steve. as i say in chapter 21 of trump time, you were the guy who had the green bay packers sweep strategy to go up to capitol hill. pence is the quarterback. we had 100 people working on the green bay team as linemen, halfbacks and fullbacks, pulling guards who were going to make sure we remanded the results back to the battleground states. and now if you can believe it, navarro has gone into even greater detail about that effort in a new interview with the daily beast. quote, we spent a lot of time lining up over 100 congressmen, including some senators. it started out perfectly. at 1:00 p.m., gosar and cruz that s ruin paul gosar and ted
creation, now the economy does seem to have a wind at his back. but but here s my first football metaphor. the president needs this to be a long, sustained drive because in a midterm election year his approval rating is the north star and he s underwater. the president underwater. 45% disapprove. 42% approve. if you look at the economy, the unemployment rate is low. gangbusters job creation the last couple of months but he still inflation and food prices. inflation and the price of gas. he needs this to be not just a day but a week and month and more, right? that s absolutely right. and when i listen to voters, this is what i hear more than anything else is, you know what? it s great that i maybe got a raise or a new job, but it s not covering my day-to-day costs. so i am noticing things are going up at the grocery store. in the gas tank. and whatever gains that i ve gotten, whether it s through the stimulus check or whether it s
talk about these primary battles where you have candidates trying to outtrump themselves. back to those focus groups you watch closely. republicans run a risk of getting outside of what people want to talk about, too, right? that s right. and so, look, they are sitting right there, as i said, tortured football metaphor, so close to the end zone but a fumble is realistic, especially if you do get overconfident, right, and you try to push the envelope too far. spend too much time talking to your base and having a really hard time pivoting back to where voters are. yes, they are frustrated. yes, they believed that they were maybe going to get a return to normal with a new administration. it hasn t come in the way or as quickly as they had expected. but that doesn t mean they want to go back to what we had for the previous four years, which, for them, was a lot of chaos. was a lot of instability. they re desperate for some sense of, you know, tamping down,