donald trump says. he knows he s watching, he probably sent her a text, told her good job, elise, and she felt really good about herself. that s what she s doing, and this is look, if i m a rank and file member of the house still, here s where i would be upset. because i used to be able to just say, oh, donald trump, you know, i don t know what he says. i m not paying attention. you now have the leader of the messaging branch, what you say as a republican, the conference chair comes up with talking points, now saying the january 6th hostages. here s what you re going to see. this is now going to be echoed over and over as it becomes a litmus test whether you re a true conservative or not, whether you say hostages or prisoners. and soon you re going to see more and more people saying this. i think it s so obvious, just one of the areas i think as well as joe biden did in that speech, one of the areas i think he really needs to push even harder on is there s this idea that
democracy.y. put himsmself in power. reporter: while trump is using campaign rallies to call for the january 6th rioters to be released they ought to release the january 6th hostages. reporter: boiden speaking today in south carolina as he look ss to strengthen his suppo with black voters, a key piece of his 2020 coalition, is delivering a different message about the attack on the u.s. capitol. the same movement that the mob at the capitol is trying to rewrite history erase history. and your future. this week of the unavoidable impact that weather can have on the primary process here in iowa. nikki haley on monday had a campaign event that she had to cancel because there was a snowstorm. she couldn t get to that part of iowa from des moines. and the weather for next monday looks like it s going to be
in the past, over the past several years politically, on the democratic side, are stepping up and saying his speech on friday and his speech yesterday were two of the best speeches he s given since being president of the united states. he certainly seems engaged, and he certainly seems to understand the stakes. he s on the campaign trail now saying what they are. joining us now, democratic senator chris coons of delaware. he is national co-chair of president biden s re-election campaign. i want to build on president biden s point. not only were they trying to change the truth about january 6th, but you have now trump s followers. i don t know what to call them, like back benchers in congress, but they re in congress. like elise stefanik using the word january 6th hostages for
tonight iowa voters are one week away, and looming over the republican field, donald trump has attempted to re-write january 6th, and casting those who were later convicted in court as hostages and called on president biden to release them from prison. they ought to release the j6 hostages, they suffered enough. they ought to release them. i call them hostages. some people call them prisoners, and i call them hostages. release the j6 hostages, joe. today that message was parroted by a member of the house gop leader, elise stefanik. i have concerns about the treatment of january 6th hostages. i have concerns. we have a role in congress of
your conference chair are now referring to those that were arrested and charged with january 6th as hostages. take a listen. they ought to release the j6 hostages. they ve suffered enough. they ought to release them. i call then hostages. some people call them prisoners. i call them hostages. i have concerns about the treatment of january 6th hostages. i have concerns we have a role in congress of oversight over our treatments of prisoners. i m just i m trying to square kind of your position on this, how you view things and hostage is a loaded term and you know what they re doing, and you know they know what they re doing. what do you think about the republican party right now? i ll let my colleague speak for herself, but i have said repeatedly, january 6th was wrong. it never should have happened.