barr s statement that the department found no fraud sufficient to overturn the election. how did that affect your perspective about the election when attorney general barr made that statement? it affected my perspective. i respect attorney general barr. so i accepted what he said, was saying. but the committee is making it clear this is not just about what happened on january 6th, or in the days leading up to it. it s about a clear and present danger to our democracy and what could happen in the next election. we ve got a lot to talk in the coming hours here on cnn. here with me, so glad you could join. first manu and ryan in washington on capitol hill with the latest on this. gentlemen, good evening. ryan, you first. stunning first night here. shocking new video. emotional live testimony. taped testimony from people close to the former president and the january 6th committee making the case that the former president, donald trump, was at the center. tell us more about
would you back out if trump backs out? no, not now. that was president biden at the white house last night answering questions about comments he made earlier at a fund-raiser. we ll go through what he said about the 2024 race just ahead. meanwhile, donald trump was pressed on his promise to use a possible second term to seek revenge and retribution. we ll bring you what he said. and then also ahead the partisan fight over the senate s foreign aid package. one contentious issue is threatening to sink the entire bill. we ll bring you the latest from capitol hill. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, december 6th. i m jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. we begin this morning in the middle east where the israeli military has now entered southern gaza s largest city. israeli forces clashed with hamas terrorists in fierce gun battles yesterday. officials describe the fighting as the most intense day since the beginning of t
specifically on the right of the political spectrum bashing her believability? because it s the same reason they like to talk about dr. seuss. i don t know. you know, so dr. seuss family will say, we want to take the books offline because it doesn t represent. they ll go, we re going to buy them because we re going to lean into the racism. the palace will say, look, recollections vary and these allegations and the questions about racism are very serious. we re going to look into them. and the right goes, there is no racism. we re going to lean into it. all of a sudden, you have the right who is always anti-royal family pretty much. now they re supporting the royal family and they have become the press release, so to speak, for for buckingham palace? it s quite interesting, isn t it? it always has to be for some reason lately the opposition party. i wonder why. they re straight-up opposition. they are. what s going on with these laws across the states being put forw
allegations and the questions about racism are very serious. we re going to look into them. and the right goes, there is no racism. we re going to lean into it. all of a sudden, you have the right who is always anti-royal family pretty much. now they re supporting the royal family and they have become the press release, so to speak, for for buckingham palace? it s quite interesting, isn t it? it always has to be for some reason lately the opposition party. i wonder why. they re straight-up opposition. they are. what s going on with these laws across the states being put forward by republican administrations at the state level it s jim crowe. it s voter suppression. just look at the bills. you don t have to believe us. there is 250 of them out there. look at the one they re dealing with right now in georgia. it is going to be a 50-year pushback in terms of making it easy for people to get to the polls. and i think it s as simple as why when trump was in the seat
of the former president and his followers, but insists his primetime address was not political. with us, cnn political analyst and journalist carl bernstein. so, carl, the white house is pushing back on criticism that biden s speech was too political. what was your assessment of it all? first of all, the beginning of the speech had a deadly accuracy in terms of picturing trump and a good deal of his movement as outside of any mainstream tradition in our politics, a radical tradition at odds with democracy. it s a fact. it is a fact that many, if not most of the republicans in the senate agree with. they won t say it outloud, but it is a fact. but then i think he missed a great opportunity, and that was to say i want to see, we want to see even in our party a republican party of its traditional conservative values