you to pay attention to that. pay no attention to the man crying behind our curtain. let s go after joe biden s tragic son who s had troubles their whole life. many people have had problems with struggling with drugs and haven t gotten it together. let s go after him on things that may or may not have been consequential if he wasn t the son of a president. it s pathetic really. they have a very strong messaging machine that s unified that they ve created this mythology around hunter biden. that s what they re holding on to. they don t want people to concentrate on what donald trump is doing. the fact that they re running around trying to protect donald trump. january 6th insurrectionists are patriots and they should pardon them. we re in the upside down world. it s all a bait and switch to
the rev tomorrow on politics nation at 5:00 p.m. eastern, sunday at 5:00 p.m. as well. still ahead, for most, we re watching the ex-president arrive at a miami courthouse this week, house republicans at the time doing something that won t shock you but should horrify you, they were honoring the january 6th insurrectionists on capitol hill. yes, that really happened. wants and save on every perk. sadie is getting her plan ready for a big trip. travel pass, on. nice iphone. cute couple. trips don t last forever, neither does summer love. so, sadie is moving on. apple music, check! introducing myplan. the first and only unlimited plan to give you exactly what you want, so you only pay for what you need. act now and get iphone 14 pro max on us when you switch. it s your verizon.
back the support of extremists like gaetz, let it happen anyway. at the time the current 2024 gop front-runner has made pardoning the insurrectionists a litmus test for the republican nomination, gaetz and the others made clear where their loyalties lie. members of the gop honoring the january 6th insurrectionists is where we begin the hour. paul rykoff is back, host of the independent americans podcast and founder of the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. frank macclizy is here. and former congresswoman and msnbc contributor done fa edwards is here. frank, i want to start with you. we ve always watched this moving of the goal posts doesn t seem strong enough, but this slide toward even ted cruz on the day of the insurrection calling them
security enterprise, i think it makes it important that the rules apply to him as well as anybody else. democracy is a fragile and rooted interest. clint, donald trump has not been arraigned in new york and miami. today there were protesters, peaceful protesters, but in both the miami and new york we did not see any violence. are they starting to clue into the fact that they do not want to be like january 6th insurrectionists, many of whom are already in jail? there are several factors when you compare it to a january 6th. remember you have to have a cold violence or place to mobilize to. we did not see that really out of former president trump, nor did we really hear a call for it to be wild. the other part is the social media effect. the former president does not have the reach he wants. that and also we have to look at the january 6th there were organized troops that were putting to get people to the capitol on
primetime special coverage of the day that donald trump was federally criminally indicted. you are looking here at some of the images that we saw today in miami after trump had called for his protesters from around the country to come to miami to show strength in response to this. it was more sparse than i expected. yeah. going into today, the sort of scale it was, manhattan manhattan arraignment to january 6th, right? like, the worst-case scenario, of course, january 6th, was most sort of like humiliating or ridiculous being a and it is basically like manhattan. yeah. and i think there s a few things to think of. when it, is donald trump is a con man if he s anything, and it s projecting and confidence that makes him who he is. and this is embarrassing for him, as wisdom and anything. maybe doesn t have the power to just instruct people in the way that he wants everyone to think he does. number two, 1000 prosecutions of the january 6th insurrectionists probably weighs heav