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 that contributes to the debate of where our democracy should go in this country. i think he really missed something there where, look, to win, the democrats need to bring over some republicans. and biden knows as well as anybody that there are a lot of traditional republicans who might respond to such a proposition. i just think he missed it. and then his speech went into a deeply partisan tone that was
a direct line from the actions of the insurrections? those were the words that the president chose rather than being presidential, being the commander in chief, having the platform and the microphone to speak to the nation about stopping violence and actually being responsible for carrying out our laws. he chose to point his anger towards the former vice president. as that tweet went out, the world saw it. and there you saw literally one the rioters with a megaphone reading it outloud and almost immediately after that you hear these chants in the background of hang mike pence. pretty clear correlation that the words that came from the president led directly to what the rioters were doing and the violence that day. let s talk about that, about more of what we are told we are going to learn about trump s reaction to the hang mike pence chant. trump quoted as saying they had the right idea and mike pence deserves it.
correspondent jim sciutto, jim, we re learning more about russia s broader take-over plans now and those plans that apparently go well beyond a special operation as they call it in the donbas region. tell us more, what are you learning? this had been a concern for administration officials, military officials now for some time, that russians have said it outloud, and the idea of being, not taking over the entire country, not confining themselves to the land bridge between territory annexed in crimea in 2014 and territory taken over in the eastern part of the country as well, connecting just that southeastern part of the country you see on the map in red and yellow but to extend control all the way across the southern coast of ukraine, cutting off ukraine s entire access to the black sea which of course has both commercial and strategic significance for ukraine and then extending into moldova, the north eastern portion of
has no end in sight. how long is this going to go on? and who else is trying the same thing? later, more high-ranking officials are saying it outloud, ufos are real. even president obama weighed in. the truth is, that when i came into office, i asked he did? we ll venture into the unknown, i suppose, as the week continues on msnbc. [truck horn blares] (vo) the subaru forester. dog tested. dog approved. [sfx: psst psst]
right now. is the toast ready? have you done your homework? and they hear bits and pieces of what you re saying. but what trump has done successfully, i would submit, is he has flooded the zone with outrage after outrage after outrage and people are just saying, no mas, no mas. sally yates had a tweet last night which i think sums up so much of what we re dealing with. she said, trump has tried to hypnotize people into believing it can t be wrong if he says it outloud. that s right. and the question for this country to figure out the answer to that is has he done it to enough people to win again? it s interesting, i was talking in the earlier hour that s what he does. i do think the difference in this one is you can break did down to one sentence. the problem all along with the russian collusion thing was he did this and then these guys at