i m grateful you ve put these clips on because i think it s important to think about the connection between the distance we still have to travel between a former attorney general, a former secretary of defense, a former would-be chief of staff, governor christie, seeing what they see, saying what they say now, and what that view, how that view can translate. i m going to torture the metaphor of the hijacking a little bit right now, the first class cabin seems to be against the hijacker but there is a huge part of the plane that s still with him. that s a hugely that s the hugely important point here. i have a theory, and don t hold me to the numbers exactly. but 34% of the country still
listen to what he says he s a petulant child when someone disagrees with him. for tomorrow, alex, we should get donald trump s quotes when he is appointing these people and line them up with what they say right now. donald trump right now will dismiss them as losers or whatever that s not what he said. his judgment, his judgment is horrific if he believes, in fact, that they are this twisted now. jon meacham, you and i were talking, and you had said early on in 2016, as donald trump was tearing the republican party to shreds, tearing the republican establishment to shreds, you said that this was like a hijacker taking over a plane and the passengers cheering on the hijacker it looks like at least a few of the passengers now are having
power. a guy who actually supported the overthrow of the election results. spurred on an insurrection against the united states of america. all of these riots, people in jail because of donald trump republicans are, that s fine. that s fine. it reminds me, back in 2016, jon meacham said that donald trump was like a hijacker that got on a plane, the republican party in this case, and everybody that was on the plane, the passengers on the plane were cheering for the hijacker they still are, despite the fact he took the plane down in 2017, 23 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 we ll show polls, reverend al, that says that, yeah, people aren t excited about joe biden people aren t excited about donald trump but if you match biden against a