trump incited the insurrection and there s no loophole in the constitution. to hold that there s a loophole for the president in the constitution would basically say donald trump is above the law when he engages in rebellion and insurrection. i think that s wrong. colorado secretary of state jenna griswald on trump s disqualification from her state s ballot. and now a compromised supreme court shaped by trump will decide his fate on that and his claim of presidential immunity in the election interference case. and predictable response from trump s maga allies, let the people decide, they say. after all of them tried to overturn the will of the voters last time. plus, trump s obsession with pure blood, which is now part of his increasingly fascist stump speech. but we begin tonight with the consequences of insurrection. because lately it doesn t seem like there have been many for politicians who participated in them. but there absolutely have been some. let s start
he s in culpepper virginia today pushing for bbb. it s remarkable. last week joe manchin was asked by a reporter on the hill how are what is the state of negotiations on build back better? he said what build back better? i don t know what you re talking about. what part of dead does biden not understand? why is he setting himself up for failure and focusing on flogging a dead piece of legislation? we re experiencing the worst inflation in 40 years, the worst crime wave since the 90s and the worst border crisis in history and the worst foreign policy catastrophe in my lifetime in afghanistan and we re on the brink of the worst military active aggression in europe since world war ii. that is a lot of things that the commander-in-chief and the president of the united states could be focusing on. instead, he s focused on raising expectations that he can pass a
i don t want to spoil your day but i m predicting it s going to $5 a gallon in the next four to eight weeks. look what is happening in europe right now. there s a massive energy crisis. some area of europe, they re paying 7, 8, 9, $10 a gallon because of the supply shortage of gas. by the way, do you know what the number 1 fastest growing form of energy is in europe right now? trace: what? it s coal. coal. they re having to turn to coal because the natural gas they re not producing enough. one other quick point that is not just an economic catastrophe for a foreign policy catastrophe. the pipeline, not keystone, the pipeline from siberia, russia is now fully functioning, a lead article in the times that said europe is now held hostage to russia for their energy. when we should be providing it. makes you so angry.
100% our pentagon shouldn t be broadcasting an arbitrary date for withdrawal. our message should be we ll do what we need to do to get our people out of there. however long it takes and however hard it is we aren t going to leave anybody behind. if the taliban messes with us we ll meet it with devastating consequences. instead the biden administration just keeps bungling this withdrawal. this is an epic foreign policy catastrophe. the president s speech yesterday was a disgrace. blaming the afghan people, blaming his predecessor. we ve already had a saigon moment. now we have a dunkirk moment. can we get our people out and can we muster energy to save our people? that s on open question given the incompetence we ve seen from the white house so far. harris: look, i ve had former generals, retired, tell me recently it feels like we ll have to surge our way in there.
In a scathing criticism of the Biden administration, former Swedish Prime Minister and Moderate Party leader Carl Bildt has called the Taliban takeover a catastrophe.