i want to promise you this, i am going to make sure that in no way do i enable donald trump to ever be president of the united states again. and that s more important than my own personal ambition. [ applause ]. breaking news from the presidential race, trump s most persistent critic on the campaign trail, chris christie, announces he is dropping out. also tonight, trump often claimed to have unlimited power as president. now his pitch for absolute power. and his claims of immunity from any legal consequences should be setting off alarm bells. and yet, all we re hearing from republicans are the sounds of silence. good evening, everyone. we begin tonight with breaking news. just one day since the attorney for the former president of the united states argued in federal court that a president has the authority under the theory of absolute immunity to murder their political opponent. only one republican, one, reacted to that insane idea. former new jersey governor, chris
i can go march on the capitol. i can go use a hammer. that s what s being created here. it s not just trump himself. it s the movement. here is the question for you, jen, i ll let you in. i ll let you in. how does joe biden fight that? because joe biden does traditional politics. and it seems to me that traditional politics is not appropriate for the fight against pure fascism. yeah. so talk about the messaging and communications challenge for the incumbent president who is a politician in the traditional sense but what he s fighting is so asymmetric, how do you run that campaign? well, i would say first f you look at if we had this conversation a week and a half ago, i would say there needs to be more of it. but the two speeches he gave last friday and last monday are part of that. right? that is making a very clear argument about what s at stake. some of the language and comparisons he used in that speech on monday, they were pretty historic in how bold they were. and str
never unsee the women, some look liked grandmothers, wearing t-shirts on their bodies saying trump can grab me by my right, right. well, that is the progression. and that is part of the ethos of wanting to be a part of something, one. number two, defending the thing you want to be a part of. because if you are articulating something, a value set or principle or set of ideas that i like and jen attacks me or i attack you if you re articulating that, what s my natural response. i m going to go after her. i m going to defend you. uh-huh. and so you see more and more of that progression as we get. what used to break that progression within the rank and file were political leaders. oh hell no we re not doing that. right. we re not doing that today, boo. back up. right. so when the john society tried to join up with the gop in the late 50s and 60s.
to demock smich democracy as we know it. our institutions. our political culture. all those things that make america great and defined us as the oldest democracy on this planet. jen, the seeds of republicans for trump are there. yes. there are republicans who are willing to say that. that guy is a republican. these are not liberals. these are not people who are liberal these are conservative republicans who worked for trump. yes. is president biden s campaign prepared in this moment to take full advantage of this, whether or not these people endorse him out right, when are they cutting these ads. they don t have to endorse him right out. they may not be willing to appear on ads. they have all sorts of channels. they talk to all sorts of people and they know how powerful mark esper s voice out there and a lot of these voices. frankly what he just said for i used to work in the national security world. people who are not political, consider themselves republicans, that s
esper was secretary of defense, he said he wouldn t shoot americans. donald trump s lawyers said he should have been able to shoot americans, kill them dead and trump should not have to pay a price for that with no consequences. this is madness. this is madness. we re not going to stop talking about this today because this is madness. we cannot let this stand. jen and michael will be back with us in a bit. but first, history has not been kind to fascist dictators and their enablers. so how do we explain, how do we explain trump s ability to turn so many of today s republican voters and elected officials away from democracy and towards increasingly open, outright, violent fascism? please make it make sense. the reidout continues after this. make sense. the reidout continues after this parodontax blood when brushing could be the start of a domino effect of gum disease. all of these signs could lead to worse. parodontax is clinically proven to reverse the signs