them would try to recruit me. one of them came and said are you my brother? there are many many known organizations with ties to white supremacy had a presence there. like 3%ers, oath keepers, than kind of thing. everyone i ve ever people who associate with donald trump find more likely to subscribe to that kind of belief system. let s bring into our conversation eddie glaude, chair of the african-american studies at princeton university, lucky for us an msnbc contributor. matt dowd is still with us. eddie glaude, your reaction to what we saw today. well, it was powerful testimony. like you, i was moved in every
we want trump. all of them were telling us trump sent us. one man tried to start a chant of four more years. another shouted do not attack us, we re not black lives matter as if political affiliation is how we determine when to use force. a man in a qanon hoodie exclaims this is the time to choose which side of history to be on. a man who wore a shirt that said god, guns and trump stood behind him holding a trump flag. they were addressed in clothing adorned with political slogans, make america great again, donald trump 2020, things of that nature. they were wearing military-style clothing, kevlar vests, kevlar helmets. many of them had gas masks. quite a few had shields which they had taken away from law enforcement officers.
one, donald trump thinks the best candidate is somebody that s been under multiple indictments for the last five years and still is under indictment and has not gone to court yet. that s his kind of republican. two is, george p. bush went out of his way to bootlick donald trump, throw his family under the bus, and this is what he gets in return. people forget in a devil s bargain, not only are you dealing with the devil, and not only do you not get what you wanted, the devil ultimately does exactly what the devil is always going to do. so it s amazing to me, republicans still think pursuing donald trump s endorsement in this and going after it is going to somehow benefit them. donald trump is an albatross and they have not figured that out yet. my colleague jamie gangel says sources close to george p. bush warned him that this is what would happen. i said this right off, but
the bus. it should be a reminder, i think, to other republicans that loyalty is a one-way street for the former president? well, you know, it s fascinating to me. what s happened in the attorney general s race tells me two things. one, donald trump thinks the best candidate is somebody that s been under indictment, multiple indictments for the last five years, and still under indictment and has not gone to court yet. so that s his kind of republican. two is george p. bush is, you know, went out of his way to boot-lick donald trump, throw his family under the bus, and this is what he gets in return on that. people forget that a devil s bargain in a devil s bargain, it s not only are you dealing with the devil and not only do you not get what you wanted, the devil ultimately does what the devil s always going to do. it s amazing to me republicans still think pursuing donald trump s endorsement in this and going after it is going to somehow benefit them.
not be erased from the story of america and that was ensured today with that testimony. where does the committee s work need to go next to sort of stay on this high ground, adhering to the truth, relying on firsthand witnesses? i think harry dunn said it best. who hired the hit man? that s the question that needs to be answered. you know, those individuals, as we pored through the fbi statements and as we prepared our case for the impeachment trial in the senate, it was so obvious that to a tee they all said they were called there, they were aimed at the capitol by donald trump. and so understanding was donald trump the one who hired the hitman so to speak and what other individuals helped him. what did donald trump not do as the capitol was under attack? so much more that needs to be answered. but contrast what happened today with democrats working with